It hasn’t been that many years ago in Louisiana that those SOBs would have been tracked down and left hanging from a bridge. Justice used to be swift.
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Same as when I was growing up in TX in the ‘40-’50s. LEOs had lots of citizens’ help and skin color didn’t matter.
No a/c in those days, so people slept with only screens on windows in the Summer. I recall a rapist roaming about one Summer in the area, removing the screens and raping the women. ...........People in my neighborhood were nailing the screens to the houses. Most of the nearby families would gather after supper on the cooler East lawn of my corner lot house, with coolers of beer and watermelon for us kids. Quilts were spread for kids and lawn chairs were brought for adults, as we all had to wait until 10-11pm to go to bed after the houses had cooled down a little. ....During those times, every male adult had a sidearm with him.
Apologies to all for going off topic a bit. Old memories.
“LEOs had lots of citizens’ help and skin color didn’t matter.”
Things actually “worked better” then. There was a pervert in my neighborhood who would get his jollies watching kids go to and from grade school. Some men in the neighborhood “explained” to him that this was not appropriate behavior. He was never seen during school hours again. I’m sure that back in the day things worked similarly in black neighborhoods.
Your description reminds me of reading *A Death in the Family*...I suppose that was the way of things in the past. It would probably do us good to live that way again. We’ve all become so detached from one another.
I remember those years growing up in Texas without a/c. Wouldn’t want to live like that now.
No apology needed. I didn’t grow up in the south but I spent some time there in the service. My last duty was at Ft. Benning, GA. I was driving across Alabama when I noticed men with picks and shovels working in a ditch. I also noticed “Boss” standing up top with a shotgun! I’d never seen anything like that in my home state of Washington. I was quite impressed. I expect by the the time you’ve got your day in, you’re to hot and tired to cause much trouble back at at the jailhouse.