Al Capone – Why are people fascinated with gangsters?

The gangsters turned Prohibition into a million dollar industry. The 1920's saw a rapid increase in the American crime rate. This was mostly due to the illegal liquor trade that had been developed to overcome Prohibition, led by the gangsters. There were the bootleggers, smugglers, moon shiners and gangsters. They were all fighting to supply the public with what they wanted. The most famous gangster was Alphonse 'Scarface' Capone. In 1929, Al Capone's income from his businesses were $60,000,000 for illegal alcohol, $25,000,000 for gambling establishments, $10,000,000 for chief and $10,000,000 from other things. He had many expenses and it’s said that he spent $75 million bribing politicians and policemen. Capone and his group were fighting using the new formula, using the weight, power and fear of weapons tried and proved in the Great War. They used pistols, machine-guns and shotguns to get rid of anyone that got in their way and were hardly ever arrested. The most fam...