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Chicago Police Department

What the public wanted, it seemed, was a vice and bootleg business netting sixty million dollars a year-and many gangland funerals

Benevolent father figure? Bloody-handed Cossack? Slow-witted flatfoot? Irish grafter? Brave but underpaid public servant? Check your prejudice against this inquiry into police history

 

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