... of Prohibition. By 1925, there were over 100,000 speak-easies in New York City alone. With only 1,550 federal agents over 18,700 miles of vast unpoliced coastline, it was clearly impossible to prevent immense quantities of liquor from coming into the country. A whopping not even 5 percent ... of obtaining alcohol, liquor was actually very easily obtained. The bootlegging business was so immense that customers could easily acquire alcohol by walking down the block or almost any street. Replacing saloons, which were all shut down at the start of Prohibition, were illegally speak-easies. T...

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