10. Searching Women
Police tended to leave the management of women to their fathers and husbands at the time. They were less likely to pull over a woman, but almost no police officer would search a woman. It was illegal in many states. One journalist, Jack O’Donnell, in 1924 had this to say of female bootleggers: “[They] come from all stations and ranks of life – from the slums of New York’s Lower East Side, exclusive homes in California, the pine-clad hills of Tennessee, the wind-swept plains of Texas, the sacred precincts of exclusive Washington. Some are bold, brainy and beautiful, some hard-boiled and homely, some white, some black, some brown. All are thorns in the sides of Prohibition Enforcement officials.”