sexta-feira, fevereiro 14, 2025
A mais original celebração do Dia de São Valentim foi há 96 anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
09:06
0
bocas
Marcadores: Al Capone, Bugs Moran, lei seca, Máfia, Massacre do Dia de São Valentim, Massacre do Dia dos Namorados
sábado, janeiro 25, 2025
Al Capone morreu há 78 anos
sexta-feira, janeiro 17, 2025
Al Capone nasceu há 126 anos
A Lei Seca (norte-americana...) entrou em vigor há 105 anos
Organized crime received a major boost from Prohibition. Mafia groups limited their activities to prostitution, gambling, and theft until 1920, when organized bootlegging manifested in response to the effect of Prohibition. A profitable, often violent, black market for alcohol flourished. Powerful gangs corrupted law enforcement agencies, leading to racketeering. In essence prohibition provided a financial basis for organized crime to flourish. Rather than reducing crime it seemed prohibition had transformed the cities into battlegrounds between opposing bootlegging gangs. In a study of over 30 major U.S cities during the prohibition years of 1920 and 1921, the number of crimes increased by 24%. Additionally, theft and burglaries increased by 9%, homicide by 12.7%, assaults and battery rose by 13%, drug addiction by 44.6% and police department costs rose by 11.4%. It has been speculated that this was largely the result of “black-market violence” as well as law enforcing resources having been diverted elsewhere. Despite the beliefs of the prohibitionist movement that by outlawing alcohol crime would surely be reduced, the reality was that the Volstead Act led to worse social conditions than were experienced prior to prohibition as demonstrated by more lethal forms of alcohol, increased crime rates, and the establishment of a black market dominated by criminal organizations.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
01:05
0
bocas
Marcadores: álcool, lei seca, Máfia, USA, XVIII Emenda, XXI Emenda
quinta-feira, dezembro 05, 2024
A Lei Seca norte-americana acabou há 91 anos...!
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognized. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.
quarta-feira, fevereiro 14, 2024
A Máfia teve a mais original celebração do Dia de São Valentim há 95 anos...
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
09:50
0
bocas
Marcadores: Al Capone, Bugs Moran, lei seca, Máfia, Massacre do Dia de São Valentim, Massacre do Dia dos Namorados
quinta-feira, janeiro 25, 2024
Al Capone morreu há 77 anos
quarta-feira, janeiro 17, 2024
Al Capone nasceu há 125 anos
A Lei Seca norte-americana entrou em vigor há 104 anos
Organized crime received a major boost from Prohibition. Mafia groups limited their activities to prostitution, gambling, and theft until 1920, when organized bootlegging manifested in response to the effect of Prohibition. A profitable, often violent, black market for alcohol flourished. Powerful gangs corrupted law enforcement agencies, leading to racketeering. In essence prohibition provided a financial basis for organized crime to flourish. Rather than reducing crime it seemed prohibition had transformed the cities into battlegrounds between opposing bootlegging gangs. In a study of over 30 major U.S cities during the prohibition years of 1920 and 1921, the number of crimes increased by 24%. Additionally, theft and burglaries increased by 9%, homicide by 12.7%, assaults and battery rose by 13%, drug addiction by 44.6% and police department costs rose by 11.4%. It has been speculated that this was largely the result of “black-market violence” as well as law enforcing resources having been diverted elsewhere. Despite the beliefs of the prohibitionist movement that by outlawing alcohol crime would surely be reduced, the reality was that the Volstead Act led to worse social conditions than were experienced prior to prohibition as demonstrated by more lethal forms of alcohol, increased crime rates, and the establishment of a black market dominated by criminal organizations.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
01:04
0
bocas
Marcadores: álcool, lei seca, Máfia, USA, XVIII Emenda, XXI Emenda
terça-feira, dezembro 05, 2023
A Lei Seca norte-americana acabou há noventa anos...!
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognized. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.
terça-feira, fevereiro 14, 2023
A mais original celebração do Dia de São Valentim foi há 94 anos
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
09:40
0
bocas
Marcadores: Al Capone, Bugs Moran, lei seca, Máfia, Massacre do Dia de São Valentim, Massacre do Dia dos Namorados
quarta-feira, janeiro 25, 2023
Al Capone morreu há 76 anos
terça-feira, janeiro 17, 2023
A Lei Seca norte-americana começou, oficialmente, há 103 anos
Organized crime received a major boost from Prohibition. Mafia groups limited their activities to prostitution, gambling, and theft until 1920, when organized bootlegging manifested in response to the effect of Prohibition. A profitable, often violent, black market for alcohol flourished. Powerful gangs corrupted law enforcement agencies, leading to racketeering. In essence prohibition provided a financial basis for organized crime to flourish. Rather than reducing crime it seemed prohibition had transformed the cities into battlegrounds between opposing bootlegging gangs. In a study of over 30 major U.S cities during the prohibition years of 1920 and 1921, the number of crimes increased by 24%. Additionally, theft and burglaries increased by 9%, homicide by 12.7%, assaults and battery rose by 13%, drug addiction by 44.6% and police department costs rose by 11.4%. It has been speculated that this was largely the result of “black-market violence” as well as law enforcing resources having been diverted elsewhere. Despite the beliefs of the prohibitionist movement that by outlawing alcohol crime would surely be reduced, the reality was that the Volstead Act led to worse social conditions than were experienced prior to prohibition as demonstrated by more lethal forms of alcohol, increased crime rates, and the establishment of a black market dominated by criminal organizations.
Postado por
Fernando Martins
às
10:30
2
bocas
Marcadores: álcool, lei seca, Máfia, USA, XVIII Emenda, XXI Emenda