Those "thugs" knew how to police and keep homicides down to record low levels for a city of this size. They were better cops than you'll ever be. You can see today how well the passive suburban policing methods adopted by LMPD have worked in the high crime areas. They don't. The suburbs have low crime because of the people there, not the police. The main purpose of suburb cops is to take accident reports and do DUI stops, as you well know.