History Of The FBI

Chances are you have heard about the FBI, and of all the cool things they have done for the country. Flying from city to city, investigating serial killers, psychopaths, and doing undercover missions. But it’s not all it's cracked up to be by all the crime tv shows like Criminal Minds, which focus of the BAU (behavioral analysis unit), all the CSI tv shows, even though they are a different branch of criminal justice, and NCIS which is also another branch, just to name a few. The FBI is a lot of hard work and commitment, and takes lots of skill to be a part of. You don’t always have to be a field agent to be in the FBI, because of J Edgar Hoover and the crime lab he set up, which you will find out more about later, you can be behind the scenes

The FBI’s original name was the BOI or the Bureau of Investigation and was officially changed to the FBI in 1935. In the beginning, the FBI primarily investigated law violations involving bankruptcy, naturalization, land fraud, and controlling espionage during WWI just to name a few. During the “Red-Scare” of 1919-1920 J. Edgar Hoover, set up a card index system listing every radical leader, organization, and publication in the United States. By 1921 Hoover had collected about 450,000 files, and more than 10,000 communists were arrested during this time. Hoover made it his goal during the 20’s to drastically reconstruct and expand the

Together these brought the need for bootleggers and gangsters which would sell these items illegally. During these years the local police officers were so corrupted by the owners of industries that paid them, that the FBI had to step in and stop the big acts of gangsterism and terrorism attacks. The groups and people included none other than Al Capone, his arch rival Bugs Moran, the KKK, and Nucky Johnson. Al Capone was the leader of the Five Points Gang or the South Side Gang, but he was not originally the leader. Capone became the the boos when Torrio got seriously wounded, surrendered control and retired to Brooklyn in 1925. A few years later Al Capone supposedly ordered his men to gun down the seven top members of Bugs Moran's gang on February 14, 1929. this became know as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Bugs Moran was Al Capone's arch rival and the leader of the North Side Gang. Moran was incarcerated 3 times before the age of 21, and when Moran was finally arrested by the FBI in Kentucky, along with all the other crimes he committed, he was arrested because of a bank robbery, and died after 11 years in prison. During the 1920’s the KKK wasn’t just against blacks anymore they were against catholics, jews, and immigrants as well. Even though the KKK’s rise was short lived in the 20’s and the had basically disappeared by the 30’s a