... mischief and vagrancy, but these were all minor and didn't really affect most of the population. There was such an increase in the crime rate because, prohibition destroyed legal jobs and created a black market by which violence occurred. One of the main contributing factors to the sudden ... legally the public turned to gangsters who readily took on the bootlegging industry. Crime became so organized because the criminal groups organized around a steady source of income, which was provided by the law against the victimless crime of consuming alcohol. As a result the money involved in t...

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