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.”
“People complain about how violent the cops are today, shoot, they have nothing on how cops used to be.”
I agree. I grew up in Boston in the 1930s-—1940s. No one messed around with the cops-——and if one of the neighborhood boys got into trouble,and some did,the parents were on the side of the cops.
There was virtually no crime in our neighborhood.
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Civic life was pleasant. You could walk with the family without being accosted by druggies, bums, deranged psychopaths and dodging turds. It is amazing that we tolerate this level of coarseness and degradation. I guess there are hardly any people left who remember how it used to be.