07-29-16, 12:50 PM
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Gefallen Engel U-666
Join Date: Jul 2013
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Originally Posted by vienna
We knew our beat cops and they knew us; as a kid, we knew, if we did something wrong, the cops were more likely to take us to our fathers rather than to the precinct house; our neighborhood was blue-collar working class, predominantly Irish and Italian; those fathers were harder on the kids than any police force could ever be...
I also remember that the cases of officers pulling guns were very few and far between; an officer firing a weapon was front page news in the papers, above the fold , and that's saying something for a city with a population of about 750,000 citizens...
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U obviously didn't hang out at Geneva Towers and UN Plaza
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