Al Capone was an Italian criminal working the streets of
America. He started his life with petty crime in Brooklyn, New
York. After escalating his way up in Brooklyn, Capone moved to
Chicago for bigger and better things. There Capone had prominence
supremacy as one of the giant bootlegging forerunners. His
collected and composed ways, made crime into a business that we
see in today's mafia. Capone changed crime into a profession,
which in turn made it a business.
The word mob or mafia is a title that is often heard. When the
name Capone is associated with the title, most people think of
Capone as the true influence of the mob or mafia today. Capone
was a man who of the many prohibition leaders, lead the way for
the mafia in the early 19 hundreds. Due to the prohibition era,
Al Capone transformed the mafia into today's business like
criminal organization.
Al Capone. Mugshot information from Science and So...
English: A photo of young Al Capone with his mothe...
English: Al Capone while incarcerated at Alcatraz.Organized crime in the 19th century, was an ever booming scene
for the average citizen. Since the 19th century, crime and
business seemed to have gone hand in hand since the prohibition
days of Capone. Long before Al Capone became involved in
bootlegging, his excitement in life was the economic opportunity
of being a gangster on the streets. As soon as Capone reached the
legal age of fourteen, he dropped out of school to live this
economic dream of making money as a gangster on the streets. 1.Al
Capone was convinced that the opportunities for personal
advancement and material success were not available through
legitimate means, and so Capone turned toward the crime
profession of bootlegging. Capone was a smart man with a mission.
2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a business like
matter. Although prohibition was clearly illegal, Capone used his...