Organized Crime
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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ORGANIZED CRIME criminal activities organized...Chicago, the Detroit Purple gang, and the Owney Madden ring of New York City, gang wars and gangland killings were...features of the 1920s. Powerful gangs corrupted local law-enforcement...prohibition, surviving organized crime leaders turned to new avenues...