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To: SpaceBar

“Vagrancy”?

I think those laws were done away with about 40 years ago when it became no longer against the law to be homeless.

My second boss used to tell me about growing up in St. Louis in 40s. If the beat cop found a bum sleeping in a doorway, he got a hard nightstick to the bottoms of his feet. Cities were a LOT cleaner, civil, and favorable to ordinary people back then.


14 posted on 09/28/2017 4:56:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

St. Louis City cops were real handy with those nightsticks and still have them made custom, called Mullanphy Tablelegs. Very dense hardwood with a brass cap on the business end.

People complain about how violent the cops are today, shoot, they have nothing on how cops used to be.

The difference is that there was no 24 hour media to hype it up and people didn’t make heroes out of bums who got a wooden shampoo/urban turban for “disturbing the peace.”


18 posted on 09/28/2017 8:30:42 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Destroying the vestiges of the First Civil War is ensuring the Second.)
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