>>>In the old days, cops would walk the perps to the car and the press photographers with Speed Graphic cameras would be lined up yelling obscenities and racial slurs at them in attempts to get the perps to look mean or crazed<<<.
Your experience is being which?
A Racist photograghper or a Crazed looking Punk Perp?
Your "Old Days" the '90's, 80's (your Grade School Days?)
That pretty much ended in the 1970s. The king of that was a guy named Arthur Felig -- who went by the name Weegee. Later he was called an "artist." Reporters had army surplus tank radios in their cars that could be tuned to the police frequencies to get to the crime scenes often before the first patrol car...
I was neither a venom spewing reporter or a crazed punk. But I did know some of those old time reporters and the stories they told were terrific.