My town didn’t have prostitution, drugs, crime or corruption on the scale that Durham seems to have. The police chief didn’t disappear for a year while still on the payroll. Our DA did play handball every day with the local Mafia boss but he was no Nifong.
on the scale that Durham seems to have.
Perhaps it was not as bad as RD, but it certainly did. It's just that the officials in your town of the functional 1950s knew how to maintain order, and the law. In that order. In fact, in the days before widespread drug use, if their "business" were not overly interfered with and stayed within agreed bounds, the Mafia could do both, and often did. Simple god-fearing folk need not even acknowledge that they existed, much less deal with them.
With drugs in the picture, and a 50%+ "minority" population, left-wing municipal governments, permissive Affirmative Action Law Enforcement Agencies, massive welfare benefits, 85% illegitimacy rates, collapsed and corrupt public schools, etc. many towns have neither law nor order. Betcha Raleigh-Durham has more murders in a month than your old Mafia hometown had in 10 years.
A 16-year old African-American boy in Florida gunned down two English tourists over the weekend. Less than a week before, he had been arrested for shooting out the tail lights of a rival gang member. And released. And released on a armed robbery charge. And released on a burglary charge. And released on drug charges.... And released ....
How long do you think that SOB Al Sharpton protegé ... and those SOB judges who let him go ... would have lasted in Steubenville, Ohio when Dean Martin lived there?