The eighteenth amendment, also known as Prohibition, was originally created to attempt to reduce the amount of alcohol consumption in America and therefore make the country much more sober as a whole. However, it was soon clear that this movement would be a failure, as it was nearly unenforceable. Many people hid their smuggled liquor in fake books, hollow canes, hip flasks, and anything else that they could find. Barely 5 percent of smuggled liquor was hindered from being brought into the country in the 1920s. Both of these pieces of evidence shine light upon how drastically unenforceable the Prohibition movement truly was. As a result of the lack of enforcement, crime rates soon began to climb, as bootleggers began to acquire the mindset that they would not be stopped. Serious crimes, such as assault, battery, and homicides increased nearly 13 percent, and other crimes involving victims increased by about 9 percent. However, some supporters of Prohibition still continued to argue that the movement decreased the crime rates. This idea was revoked once major crimes, such as homicides, increased by about 24 percent from 1920 to 1921. Also, drunk driving arrests during the Prohibition period rose about 81 percent. The contributing factor to the sudden increase of felonies was the organization of crime. Due to the fact that legal liquor was no longer available to the public, ordinary citizens turned to gangsters who readily began the bootlegging business to supply the common people with liquor. This industry became so profitable that more and more gangsters arose from the population to strike at rich in the bootlegging business. Crime became so organized because criminal groups organized around the steady source of income provided by laws against victimless crimes such as consuming alcohol. Violence then began to arise due to competition between bootlegging gangs. Each gang wanted to prove to the others that they were the best, and that they could make the most amount of money in the trades. The motive of profit caused over 400 gang related murders in Chicago during only one year. Al Capone was the most infamous bootlegging gangster. Capone is significant because he increased the the size of the bootlegging business by so much that customers could easily obtain alcohol by walking down almost any street in a city. If you can walk down any street in a city and be able to come in contact with an illegal substance, then there is obviously a major problem that must be dealt with.