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3 minutes ago, Capt.Storm said:

don't let them side track you!

I'm not....their cute little nigger pile won't deter me.:superman:

The original point dealt with poor economics and the rise of crime to which Moto brought up Prohibtion which is a complete different deal than The Depression but they morphed them together and called me stupid....fuck 'em.

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6 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said:

Tuck tail my ass....the mob no doubt gained power during prohibition for obvious reasons but it didn't create it and the depression did not create it either and the original point was about the depression and crime not prohibition.

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The big winners from Prohibition were, of course, the nation's gangsters. The law had only been in operation for an hour when the police recorded the first attempt to break it, with six armed men stealing some $100,000-worth of "medicinal" whisky from a train in Chicago. From the very beginning, criminals had recognised that Prohibition represented a marvellous business opportunity; in major cities, indeed, gangs had quietly been stockpiling booze supplies for weeks. Legend has it that the first gangster to grasp the real commercial potential of Prohibition, though, was racketeer Arnold Rothstein, whose agents had been responsible for rigging the baseball World Series in 1919. Establishing his "office" at Lindy's Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, Rothstein brought alcohol across the Great Lakes and down the Hudson from Canada, and supplied it – at a handsome profit – to the city's gangsters.

 

 

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1 minute ago, motonoggin said:

From the link:

The big winners from Prohibition were, of course, the nation's gangsters. The law had only been in operation for an hour when the police recorded the first attempt to break it, with six armed men stealing some $100,000-worth of "medicinal" whisky from a train in Chicago. From the very beginning, criminals had recognised that Prohibition represented a marvellous business opportunity; in major cities, indeed, gangs had quietly been stockpiling booze supplies for weeks. Legend has it that the first gangster to grasp the real commercial potential of Prohibition, though, was racketeer Arnold Rothstein, whose agents had been responsible for rigging the baseball World Series in 1919. Establishing his "office" at Lindy's Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, Rothstein brought alcohol across the Great Lakes and down the Hudson from Canada, and supplied it – at a handsome profit – to the city's gangsters.

 

 

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Kinda like cocaine and heroin today...

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6 minutes ago, Anler said:

Kinda like cocaine and heroin today...

Yup

6 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said:

Yeah we get that Dan....the original point was The Depression and Crime....fuck man pay attention.

The crime rate did spike after the crash of 29. The effects of the new deal are also reflected in the chart above when they began to fall.

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