... the pre-prohibition period. In the cities the homicide rate went from 5.6 per day to nearly 10 per day, a 78 percent increase. Serious crimes such as homicides, assault, and battery, increase nearly 13 percent, and other various crimes rose by 9 percent. Some crime rates did go down though, such as swearing, mischief and vagrancy, but these were all minor and didn't really ... 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 ...

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