Doc F reflects crime data related to homicides that show steady increases throughout the period of Prohibition. In fact, the data indicates a 45% increase from 1920 to 1933! To make this worse, the intended benefit of reducing alcohol consumption was not even being achieved. Data reflected in Doc E shows that by 1923 alcohol consumption was already higher than what it was in 1918, two years before the constitutional amendment was ratified. Doc E shows consumption continued to grow throughout the period of Prohibition. A lot of normal jobs were shut down during the time of prohibition and new jobs related to the illegal activity surrounding the manufacture and distribution of alcohol were created. Doc B, an excerpt from “The Rumrunners, a prohibition scrapbook” makes the case that Prohibition was a great success for “the bootleggers, the rumrunners and gangsters, the roadhouse proprietors, the police, the magistrates, the spotters, the boaters and armies of others.” All these new jobs were illegal which increased crime in many areas. Prohibition failed to reduce consumption, created a lot of illegal jobs and led to an increase in
Doc F reflects crime data related to homicides that show steady increases throughout the period of Prohibition. In fact, the data indicates a 45% increase from 1920 to 1933! To make this worse, the intended benefit of reducing alcohol consumption was not even being achieved. Data reflected in Doc E shows that by 1923 alcohol consumption was already higher than what it was in 1918, two years before the constitutional amendment was ratified. Doc E shows consumption continued to grow throughout the period of Prohibition. A lot of normal jobs were shut down during the time of prohibition and new jobs related to the illegal activity surrounding the manufacture and distribution of alcohol were created. Doc B, an excerpt from “The Rumrunners, a prohibition scrapbook” makes the case that Prohibition was a great success for “the bootleggers, the rumrunners and gangsters, the roadhouse proprietors, the police, the magistrates, the spotters, the boaters and armies of others.” All these new jobs were illegal which increased crime in many areas. Prohibition failed to reduce consumption, created a lot of illegal jobs and led to an increase in