While I don't know Handy, and there are always a few rogues, back then LPD and JCPD were competently led departments that effectively policed unlike today's LMPD. Compare these numbers with LMPD's recent body count. The old ways were generally better, including for career criminals who weren't getting murdered nearly as often back then. Homicides in LPD/JCPD jurisdiction 1988: 43 1989: 32 1990: 52 1991: 58 1992: 49 1993: 48 1994: 52 1995: 50 Until LMPD's ice cream community event policing generation