History Of Al Capone

On january 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Alphonso Caponi "Scarface" was born. Al attended school till the sixth grade, at which point he horrifically beat his teacher up. He taught himself at a young age that the main purpose of life was to acquire power and wealth. Al began to participate in criminal activities as a way of achieving success in what he saw as an unjust society. Johnny Torrio, a ganster that gave Al a job in a gang and knew Al did not mind violence and often had him beat up people who were unable to repay loans. During a fight in a bar Al was taughting a woman and received a razor cut on his cheek by the woman boyfriend, which gained him the nickname "Scarface." Johnny Torrio moved to Chicago in 1909 to help run the giant

Al Capone owned all sorts of businesses that gave oppurtinties to control his criminal activities with bootlegging and etc. Al's huge production and demand for alcohol pushed for alcohols legalization in what we have today where its commercialized and legal everywhere. These businesses of Al's helped fund the activities and the crime sprees that involved his crime organization. With the power and wealth Al had, he was able to further improve the crimes and organizations. These techniques of power and wealth are also used in gangs today and have been a reliable way for the gangs to control and commit crimes undetected. With the techniques used by Al to keep his criminal organization surviving, it also brought the ability for gangs to survive today also. His effects go all the way with legalization of marijauna, the same exact thing that happened with alcohol is happening with marijauna and possibly more drugs in the future. Big time Kingpins now requonize the importance of supply and demand with the abuse of money and power Al gained from it. Al effected the future of organized crime organizations and abundance of illegal drugs into the United States

Al was responsible for these deaths. He sent a team of four men to kill Bugs Moran a Chicago prohibition gangster and his men. Two of Al's men dressed as cops and lined the men up against the wall of a warehouse. The other two came in with machine guns and shot and killed all of them. Bugs was not there however, Al’s men thought he was. Six of the people killed were Moran’s men, the seventh was a mechanic who happened to be there fixing cars. This opened a perspective for all gang member across America and gave wrong impressions to be used in the way gangs operate today. Now the way gangs tend to fix their problems with people of threats of their business and money is only fixed through viloence. The story and pictures were publicized everywhere across America bringing the fear into the regular citizens eyes of gangs making the future of gangs stronger and more feared today. Al's Capone might not of been this first criminal to do this, but certainly was the most famous and talked about event in the nineteenth century which only supported more gangs to lash out more violence and death into the American