Rudy Guliani only did 25% of what these cops did - and was able to clean up NY City.
The morning briefing ended with “And hey. Let’s be careful out there!”
Meanwhile, a few years before, the New Orleans newspapers were screaming about the homosexuals dancing in the streets, and demanded the LAW against them be enforced.
Jim Croce Laws:
You don’t tug on superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger
You don’t mess around with Jim
I had to look it up. Across Canal from the French Quarter, stopping a block from St. Charles; and going almost as far upstream as the new bridge. A pretty big area to patrol on foot.
Today if a cop doesn’t allow a heroin dealer to shoot him he gets charged with murder if he defends himself and a white football player who makes pretend he’s black kneels at the nation anthem.