If you were Melba from Warriors Don’t Cry wouldn’t you want some protection and a heads up on the attacks being planned on you? Many characters like Danny and Link play important roles in the protection of Melba. Link also helps Melba in other ways than protecting Melba in the book. In the book Warriors Don’t Cry Link plays Protectant, Informer, and a Friend. If Link didn’t protect Melba the way he did, the whole situation wouldn’t have gone the way it did.
During the 1920s at the peak of organized crime, Al Capone rose to prominence as one of the most powerful gangsters in the United States, running a multi-million dollar operation in Chicago. The man who ultimately took down Capone, through forensic accounting, was Frank J. Wilson. As a special agent in the IRS, Wilson was able to pioneer forensic accounting in the investigation that exposed Capone’s unreported gambling activities and income. Wilson effectively combined forensics with the new idea of handwriting analysis, otherwise known as graphology, which led to the razing of Chicago’s, as likely as not the United States's, most powerful gang. Wilson would later go on to apply his new discoveries in the field of forensic science to the investigation
The Culper Spy ring was founded by Benjamin Tallmadge. He was appointed by General Washington as the directory of military intelligence. His objective was to gather intel about the British forces in New York City. Tallmadge enlisted close friends to join him in his cause. These added members were: Abraham Woodhull, Caleb Brewster, Anna Strong, Austin Roe and Hercules Mulligan.
He received his first job, shortly after graduating, at the Retail Credit Company. He was an investigator for the company. He conducted verifications and background checks on the people of Chicago. After a while, he quits his job at the company and takes a job as an agent for the Prohibition Bureau. He joined the bureau in 1927.
Special Agent Eliot Ness is considered one of the most famous federal agents because “during the Prohibition period he pursued gangster Al Capone and helped to build a successful case against him on tax-evasion charges”(Martinek 2012, para 3). He was in charge of assembling and leading a small task force of men to go after Capone and his known associates who was found guilty of illegal criminal organizations operations. Ness's team became known as the Untouchables, which became a very popular book, tv show and movie. They just about eliminated all major organized crime in the city of Chicago. Ness was known as hero for his crime fighting skills and bravery making a model for the fictional character Dick Tracy to hit the big screen.
One can argue that one of the most influential Dons of all time is John Gotti Sr. This mobster has played a major role in the Gambino crime family during the Modern Era. Eventually ratted out by his underboss, John Gotti’s legacy continues through today. In spite of being ratted out, the Teflon Don’s influence on organized crime is as important as any. Born on October 27, 1940, in the South Bronx, New York, Gotti was the fifth of thirteen children.
Other functions of Division 8 included the writing of books that would come out in Hoover’s name. He got the credit – and undoubtedly the royalties – for his books such as “Masters of Deceit” (Summers, 1993). Since most of his books did very well because of his sterling public reputation, the royalties often on a single book would be thousands of dollars. J. Edgar Hoover as a Director and as a Man As indicated in this chapter, J. Edgar Hoover was a paradox as a man, a despot as a director, and a national figure who aimed to keep his reputation unsullied while also building his image as the nation’s top cop. However, Curt Gentry said this about him: “One of the deepest and darkest secrets of all the FBI’s secrets was that America’s number one law enforcement officer was himself a crook”
John Gotti, the Italian-American mobster, was involved in organized crime is a vivid example of how committing a crime, in the end, has no benefits for the offender. At a young age he started his crime lifestyle, in which he expanded to becoming the head boss of the Gambino crime family. To further describe Gotti, he had the ability to instill fear in everyone he came in contact with. It was widely known that tempting John Gotti would have detrimental consequences, most likely being
5.4 By 1923, Charles Luciano was on top of a pyramid far grander than he could have dreamed (Gosch, 1975). 5.5 He had nearly reached the throne; almost the king of booze in New York (Gosch, 1975). 6. The more important Luciano became in the underworld, the more pressure there was to join forces with one of two families.
During the 1920’s gang related crime was a serious issue. The leader of all this violence and corruption was a man named Al “Scarface” Capone (“Al Capone”). This organized crime, dehumanization, and corruption, became the ultimate image of Chicago for people throughout the world. He was largely immersed in things like gambling, prostitution, and the illegal sale of liquor. He was not convicted for any of his crimes, even the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929, until he was imprisoned for tax evasion (Horan).
Something interesting that happened to him was when he was working as a barrel maker he came across two counterfeiters that were trying to steal stuff. Allan had them arrested and that’s when he opened the detective agency. The
In his lifetime, he only endorsed one check and he never had a bank account in his own name. He dealt exclusively in cash. After the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, he was charged with contempt for failing to appear in a Chicago court for questioning. Since the contempt citation was issued by a federal court, the FBI became involved in investigating Capone’s activities.
I thought that he would have been excited because when his brother went away to prison he became one of the highest ranking gang members by taking his place, but after applying cognitive dissonance theory, and the idea of compliance, I now see that he was just partaking because that was what the gang expected of him, not necessarily because that is what he wanted. I do not see any limits to the application of cognitive dissonance theory to American History
He started his bootleg business very young, he started to build up his business to become more successful This did cause some of his men to die or get injured very bad. Al Capone and his men did not cooperate with the police. But they did not care Al Capone was the best man there was in there eyes. They also did not want to get on his bad side. If they did they were destined to die.
" He tried not to get his family involved. To sum everything up Capone was a very big influence to America. He did what he thought was right for his church, for himself and made a ton of money while he was doing what he wanted. He changed the law by making detectives go further into investigations, got the Volstead Act passed.
