“”””I remember walking with my Father in downtown Hartford Ct back in the 60’s and seeing cops walking a beat all of them were huge comparing them to my dad who was a big guy himself. They were pretty good swinging those billys around. No more beat cops today””””
There is a lot of order emitting from a powerful man who isn’t challenging anyone else’s place yet is obviously the toughest guy present and who is walking around in the role of watchdog and enforcer.
The community authority of a large friendly uniformed beat cop with a gun and a club that he handles like another appendage is a subject that students of human behavior, especially of the more impulsive, emotional classes can have a large discussion on.
Beat cops could be father figures in those areas and even more than a father figure, those warrior-type men could introduce the concept of the ‘sheepdog’ to some of those young men before their testosterone-driven impulses go automatically in the wolf direction, but I guess modern laws would prevent what we are thinking about.
Back in the day when cops were peace officers. Now they’re “law enforcement”. That change has not been for the better.
L