... be brought forthright. To many people's dismay, the opposite resulted. The Prohibition act of the 1920s was ineffective because it was difficult to enforce, it caused an explosion in the crime rate, and it increased the amount of alcohol consumption. "The act was condemned by a large number of the American population who considered it a violation of their constitutional rights" (www. ... much easier to perform illegal bootlegging and smuggling in numbers rather than alone. Not only did the number of serious crimes increase, but crime became organized. Criminal groups organize around the...

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