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Organized Crime in the 1920’s

“I make my money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers, who number hundreds of the best people in Chicago, are as guilty as I am. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman.” Bootlegger Al Capone. Organized Crime in the 1920’s. The Untouchables.

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Organized Crime in the 1920’s

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  1. “I make my money by supplying a public demand. If I break the law, my customers, who number hundreds of the best people in Chicago, are as guilty as I am. Everybody calls me a racketeer. I call myself a businessman.” Bootlegger Al Capone Organized Crime in the 1920’s

  2. The Untouchables • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIF_WdPUBFo • Perfect representation of Prohibition-era crime

  3. Organized Crime • The systematically unlawful activity for profit on a city-wide, interstate, and even international scale • These organizations kept their illegal operations secret and instructions were spread by word of mouth • The groups gained power through the bribery, blackmail and cultivation of mutually dependent relationships with police, mayor, and other city officials

  4. The Mafia“La Cosa Nostra” • Consisted of several covert operations in Sicily and USA • Origins go back to the vigilantes who protected the villagers during the Spanish occupation of Sicily • Mafia started in America because Sicilians were scared of the racism towards them and the lack of police protection • The word ‘Mafia’ has transformed over the years to represent any significant racketeering organization.

  5. Why?Opportunity • Government did not give cities and states enough funding to enforce new prohibition laws • People wanted liquor… the tea party evolved into the cocktail party • Crime evolved from something that happened in rural or far away places to the urbanites’ doorsteps.

  6. WHERE? • Liquor was transported across the Canadian and Mexican -good clip of this is in the movie The Untouchables Put link for movie here • Urban centers across the nation: • Most Well-Known • Chicago • New York • Detroit

  7. Major Gangs • North Side Gang led by Dion O’Banion • “The Outfit” Chicago Mafia led by Al Capone • The Notorious Purple Gang- All Jewish Gangin Detroit • Owney “The Killer” Madden Ring of New York

  8. St. Valentines Day Massacre • An example of the numerous gang battles that were widespread throughout the country • South Side Italians led by Al Capone vs. the North Side Irish led by Bugs Moran • Chicago, Winter of 1929 • Seven dead • These types of conflicts were rampant and so well planned that convictions were nearly impossible to come by.

  9. Aftermath • Prohibition repealed in 1933 • Gangs shifted their focus to other illegal operations of gambling, narcotic trafficking, and labor racketeering

  10. Bibliography • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1596.html • http://www.westmount.ci.yrdsb.edu.on.ca/1920s.html

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