The prohibition was an effort to try to curb America’s
desire to drink alcoholic beverages. However it was not successful and it only created a crime wave including dramatic growth in
organized crime. Different organized crimes operated their own alcohol
distilleries and bribed local police and politicians to look the other way. With
so much bribery and corruption, there was a considerable decrease in the
respect for law enforcement.
With the arrival of
the Democratic Party to the White House in March 1933 led by Franklin D.
Roosevelt, the failed experiment in Prohibition officially ended.
Due to this, the
government was able to acquire a lot of tax revenues earned from alcohol
production and sales, there were creation of jobs due to rise of distillation
plants, and the decreased costs of law enforcement.
