That is true. I would add that I was a resident of a town just outside Birmingham during one of Mr. Connor's terms as director of public safety (I think that was the term) and the word was that one could walk in downtown Birmingham at 3:00 a.m. and be perfectly safe. The ferals were that afraid of his policemen, all of whom were large and aggressive. Try that today, if you're suicidal.
If you are trying to praise "Bull" Connor for safety, realize that it came at a very high price in loss of civil liberty. After all, Birmingham was part of the United States - and still is. We are not the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, the People's Republic of China, nor countless other dictatorships where they know or knew how to keep the streets safe at night.