During Prohibition, would you expect that the quality of liquor in speakeasies who paid bribes to police would be high or low?
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Brookealynx3
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Probably both. You get what you pay for, much like today. Regular bar rum would contain less alcohol by proof than a top shelf rum which has a higher alcohol content. The bribes paid to cops were for them to look the other way. Speak easy or not, serving alcohol was against the law.
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i'd expect that, as a group, payers of bribes to police probably offered higher quality liquor than did those speakeasies that didn't. i'd also expect that the quality of liquor has increased significantly since prohibition ended.
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