 talk about Willem Brandt and the various problems she had to encounter. And one of them was just finding good prohibition agents to help her enforce this very unpopular law. Prohibition agents' average starting salary was only $1,200 a year, which was barely a living wage in some cities, and really a pittance in comparison to the large bribes that you could make just getting money from bootleggers if you just looked the other way or facilitated the bootlegger's business. And a prohibition agent could even have a criminal record.