How Did The Capone Influence In The Roaring Twenties

Yes, in the Roaring Twenties you may have heard of Lindbergh’s’ flight through the trans-Atlantic flight. But surely just by a quick glance you would’ve heard of the boss named Capone. The Capone the public of knew of him was a highly well known and charismatic mob boss of Chicago. At one point, this very Capone would even reached national news through the costs of lives taken involving him. Of course that would make him disliked by the government, but that didn’t changed that some liked him and was influential enough to changed the views of the public to gangsters and the such.
The very early Capone (high-school) had a seemingly clean record ‘till his involvement with Torrio (friend of Capone) and his gang. (FBI) Capone then worked with Torrio until Torrio killed the current mob boss to claim what he had, which Capone then started working cooperatively with him. They worked initially to make connections with plenty of organizations. Eventually they stopped when they saw the economic opportunity within prohibition. Because of the equally illegal consequences, Capone and Torrio would have to had many influences to avoid any harsh sentences. (FBI)
Prohibition was passed in favor of the temperance movement to prevent alcohol abuse and prevent fathers from ruining the family under the influence.
However, this act was absolutely useless since many went out of their way to make their own drinks. go to secret bars, often called “speakeasies”, or just have them smuggled in. The Capone-Torrio bosses of course jumped onto the opportunity and made it very profitable and somewhat under the radar as he’s never been charged with illegal production of alcohol. With the addition of Capone’s preference to letting bar owner’s run them, they would profit even more and would collect their cuts.
(Schoedenberg)
Although they did experience trouble with rising gangs, it became more dangerous than ever for them once they were targeted for multiple assassination/murder attempts. Though Torrio managed to live just fine throughout these, he decided to just leave the mob all for Capone to managed while he would leave for Italy with his wife for a vacation. (Schoedenberg). Now, although Capone mentioned to the public quite a bit that he wants to handle these situations peacefully, some events such as the St. Valentines Massacre (Capone had a group affiliated with another group executed) said otherwise. (NPR) His involvement with others prevented him from even changing his area of operations because other cities rejected him. (NPR)
At this point authorities of the state needed to find a way to put him under bars for good without making them look bad over charging him and failing in the Supreme Court. They decided to go with tax evasion when they found out that he was assisting his friends in avoiding taxes. (Mike) In Oct. 17, 1931, he was charged with 11 years in prison in Alcatraz for tax evasion. (FBI) After he served his years, he had changed completely since he suffered from paresis derived from syphilis, which had deteriorated his mental state to that of a 12 year old. He then lived out on Palm Island with his family until he died of stroke and pneumonia. (FBI)