NEW YORK COPS BREAK RECORD FOR SEIZURES OF ILLEGAL BOOZE
New York City (JFK+50) On April 26, 1921, "police engaged in enforcing the Mullan-Gage prohibition law*...broke all records for seizures for any twenty-four hour period since the state law was enacted."
According to the New York Tribune, the police would "dump 600 gallons of several per cent beer into a sewer, with an East River outlet."
101 arrests were made on the lower West Side in a 24 hour period.
*Under NY's Mullan-Gage Act, a.k.a. "Little Volstead", the 1st 4000 arrests led to only 6 convictions & 1 jail sentence. The act was a complete failure & repealed in 1923.
SOURCES
"It's Not Even About the Booze: Politics, Prohibition and the Mullan-Gage Law," by Elizabeth J. Beutel, www.history.sfsu.edu/
"Rum Hunters Net 101, Biggest Haul in a Day," The New York Tribune, April 27, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
