These men, who have a lot of blood on their hands, would ultimately be the originators of organized crime as we see it today. The young Al Capone would later become the leader of the underworld. For all his power, Capone still had enemies from other surviving gangs in the city. He drove everywhere in an armored limousine and wherever he went, so did his armed bodyguards. Violence was a daily occurrence in Chicago. 227 gangsters were killed over a 4 year period and on Valentine's Day 1929, 7 members of the O'Banion gang were shot dead by gangsters dressed as police officers.[3] All this violence was spreading across the country and would continue as long as the sale of alcohol was illegal. At this point, the federal government finally had enough and began cracking down on organized crime. The violence was out of control and the FBI was finally in charge of the national catastrophe. Furthermore, America failed to support Prohibition, even though its intentions failed to grasp the concept of an alcohol-free country. [4] In 1933, Prohibition was finally repealed and alcohol was finally legal. It didn't put an end to organized crime, in fact it did