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Police Patrol
"POLICE PATROL is filled, from beginning to end, with valuable information and suggestions to police officers on duty." -- Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
"You have here, by all odds, the best, clearest and (of all things) the most entertaining presentation on the subject." -- Institute of Public Administration
"POLICE PATROL is the backbone of crime prevention and law enforcement. This book is recommended for careful study." -- Chief Advisor, Police Advisory Group, Ankara, Turkey
"You have here, by all odds, the best, clearest and (of all things) the most entertaining presentation on the subject." -- Institute of Public Administration
"POLICE PATROL is the backbone of crime prevention and law enforcement. This book is recommended for careful study." -- Chief Advisor, Police Advisory Group, Ankara, Turkey
115 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1948
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March 25, 2008
There's nothing in this 1948 police handbook better than the illustrations, some of which would make wonderful T-shirts. One of my favorites, with the caption "Don't help criminals lay out timetables," shows a patrolman checking his wristwatch in front of a clock store displying a clock and underneath yet another clock hanging over the steet while a criminal (complete with Hamburglar-style mask and pistol sticking out of his pocket) watches him from behind a tree while checking his own wristwatch. What's the point of this illustration again? Something about time? Gee, I wish the lesson were somehow made clearer.
I also like the illustration of a policeman polishing his badge, failing to notice a drunk driver (who looks a bit like Adolf Hitler) driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The caption? "Don't be too much of a big shot to make traffic arrests."
OK, I take it back, there is one thing better in this book than the drawings. It's a quote from a chapter about suspicious persons: "In observing traffic, notice drivers who are not familiar with the operation of the car, have difficulty shifting, skid the wheels suddenly when making a routine stop, or stall the motor. If the driver is a woman, this does not indicate a great deal; it is too routine." Who wrote this book anyhow? Henny Youngman?
I'm guessing that, sixty years later, police handbooks are a little bit different -- and far less amusing.
I also like the illustration of a policeman polishing his badge, failing to notice a drunk driver (who looks a bit like Adolf Hitler) driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The caption? "Don't be too much of a big shot to make traffic arrests."
OK, I take it back, there is one thing better in this book than the drawings. It's a quote from a chapter about suspicious persons: "In observing traffic, notice drivers who are not familiar with the operation of the car, have difficulty shifting, skid the wheels suddenly when making a routine stop, or stall the motor. If the driver is a woman, this does not indicate a great deal; it is too routine." Who wrote this book anyhow? Henny Youngman?
I'm guessing that, sixty years later, police handbooks are a little bit different -- and far less amusing.
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