We are expected to obey the laws he has been asked to enforce, one way or another. For centuries, the criteria for recruiting these cops was almost always the same they had to be physically capable of controlling violent people and they needed a limited amount of intelligence. Which brings me back to my question to Captain Culley. I always considered that a wise answer. Muscle to equal muscle and a job not for the squeamish.
Cops come from the very same streets as the illegal muscle that they fight to control.
It s chance they became cops, not criminals. A detective I knew well, Andy Lugo, was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, a tough neighbourhood. He told me that most of the kids he grew up with were either dead or behind bars. I n films and television, we seldom ever see the social class from which the cops come from. There s no time in such action films.