When people received the amendment was ignored. In California, grape growers increased their acreage 700 percent for the first five years, and the mayor of New York sent instructions on wine making to all of his constituents. 7,000 arrests in 1921-1923, 2/3 of the federal budget went to policing prohibition. Some of the police was bribed and they fell for it, but some were honest and didn't. There were so many crimes that the defendants had to wait up to a year to go into court Law had a very hard time enforcing the 18th Amendment. In fact, some Government Officials have turned against the law for money or more alcohol. For example some officers were paid by gangs to keep them hidden from uncorrupted officers. Some officers were afraid to enforce the law because gangs, and criminals threatened to kill them if they exposed them, or their speakeasies. Jails struggled to find room for more criminals to put behind bars.