organized crime
...the gang wars and maximize profit. During prohibition, LCN concentrated on alcohol and on drugs and bookmaking by effective payoffs and blackmail, by the 1950’s, the mobsters became “respectable” businessmen, and moved into labor unions. During the 1960’s due to repeated assassinations of other leaders, Carlo Gambino ran the mob until his death in 1976. In 981 there was a major crackdown by the FBI and its still continuing. Ethnic succession is the rule for transition in organized crime. As one group starts to lack, another group stands ready to take its place. Today, other groups have forged a loose confederation of organized crime. During the 1980s and into the 1990s, black gangs left their inner city isolation and adopted the “franchise” model known as the Crips and Bloods. Al Capone is America’s best known gangster and a symbol for the downfall of law and order during the 1920’s prohibition era. He gave Chicago its reputation and a lawless city. As a kid he was in two gangs, “Brooklyn Rippers” and “Forty Thieves”. He was a very bright man although he dropped out of school n the 6th grade. He took jobs in bowling allies, and was a clerk in a candy store. He later became part of a notorious gang called Five Points. He was a bouncer and bartender at a Harvard Inn and there is where he got scars on his face and got the nickname “Scarface.” Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale. He also murdered two men while in New York, but there wasn’t enough evidence to prove it was him so nothing happened. Capone went to work for Yale's old mentor, John Torrio. Capone helped him mange his bootlegging operation and became his full partner in the nightclubs, saloons, gambling houses and brothels. Torrio got shot and decided to leave Chicago. Therefore, Capone controlled speakeasies, bookie joints, gambling houses, brothels, horse and race tracks, nightclubs, distilleries and breweries at a reported...