Crime in the 1920s

Crime in the 1920s
The 1920s also known as the Roaring 20s or the Jazz Age was a time of flowing money, also a time of great crime through which this money flowed. Prohibition had been declared but somehow alcohol was still available. There was the illegal producing and distributing of alcohol. Cops were easily bought. You did not have to pay the time for the crime if you had the money. Political scandals also occurred such as the Teapot Dome scandal occurred. And most importantly in the 1920s organized crime flourished. Organized crime was, in many cases, responsible for the other crimes committed.
Bootlegging, as it relates to the 1920s, is the illegal distribution or production of liquor. So how is this a crime if in America it is legal to make and sell Alcohol? Well in the 1920s the Eighteenth Amendment, the National Prohibition Act, or the Volstead Act, was passed. This act outlawed alcohol except for religious or medicinal purposed. Prohibition was meant to...