Existing comment:
Booze=Crime, or Crime=Booze
The argument that alcohol causes crime was turned on its head during Prohibition. Gangsters supplied speakeasies with smuggled booze, and violence escalated. Illegal bootlegging of liquor became commonplace, and without governmental oversight, the safety of bootlegged whiskey was questionable.
Manslaughter?, political cartoon by Clifford Berryman, March 8, 1922, Records of the U.S. Senate |