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Did prohibition work? (1920-33)
- Prohibition agents and
corruption
- 67,000 arrests by 1929
- Isadore Einstein and Moe
Smith made about 4,400
arrests
- In short supply and
under financed
- Public displays of
alcohol being seized
and destroyed
- Detroit Police Court shows 7,400 arrests
but only 500 convictions
- 280,000 homemade stills seized
- Don't know how many not seized
- Don't know how many not seized
- 1/12 agents dismissed for corruption
- Big breweries stayed in
business by bribing
officials
- 67,000 arrests by 1929
- Consumption
- Average alcohol
consumption fell by 30%
from 1920-30 = 20-->13
gallons
- Alcohol consumption was
already decreasing and fell
more from 1910-15
- Alcohol consumption was
already decreasing and fell
more from 1910-15
- More speakeasies by
1925 than saloons in
1919
- 60% more distilleries seized and
x2 gallons of spirits seized 1921-29
- A lot more people were making their own alcohol
- A lot more people were making their own alcohol
- Isadore Einstein said it took less than
30 min to find a drink in big cities and
only 40 seconds in New Orleans
- Illegal stills sprung up
everywhere
- Average alcohol
consumption fell by 30%
from 1920-30 = 20-->13
gallons
- Gangs
- Bootleggers like Al Capone made
$60 million/year from speakeasies
- About 2/3 of illegal alcohol came
from Canada
- Good at stopping US alcohol
- Good at stopping US alcohol
- Some illegal alcohol came from
overseas- Captain McCoy's scotch
- Bootleggers like Al Capone made
$60 million/year from speakeasies
- Popularity
- Prohibition only lasted 13 years
- Very popular in western rural states
- Maryland (right next to
Washington) never even
introduced it
- Maryland (right next to
Washington) never even
introduced it
- Prohibition only lasted 13 years
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