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• To enforce the 18 th Amendment, a Prohibition Bureau was formedin the Treasury Department with the task to enforce the law. Theirjobs was to patrol 18,700 miles of coastline, as well as inlandborders, track down illegal stills, monitor highways for truckloads ofillegal alcohol, and oversee all industries that legally used alcohol tomake sure that none was diverted for illegal purposes.• The Prohibition Bureau employed approximately 1,500 federalagents and local police, creating a major enforcement challenge.Most field enforcement agents were poorly paid and therefore easyto bribe.• To exacerbate the problem, the enforcement effort received littlesupport from the federal government, both in terms of lack offunds as well as little cooperation from other government agenciesand officials.
Prohibition agents examine liquorconfiscated from a captured rum runner,1924Patrolling thousands of milesof borders to stop smugglingwas nearly impossible, as waslocating and shutting down thenumerous stills and speakeasiespopping up around thecountry.By 1925, in New York City alone there wereanywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 speakeasyclubs.
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