First of all, the police in the 1930s & 1940s were no different than they are today. You had all kinds of officers, good and bad and power hungry knuckleheads. In this country we can criticize the police. We can also criticize the government at any level. I guess it depends on how much you trust the government. You are, of course, welcome to unquestioningly do whatever the government says, many people never question the government. The restrictions of the time period we refer to as The Great Depression, if you will blow the dust off your history book, had...
"...borscht and kimche was readily available..." Cracked me up. Yeah, Fountain Police department is pretty bad. One of the multitude of reasons to love 'Murrica is that we can be critical and we can know and understand our rights and stand up for them. A number of years ago someone we both know, Matt, had his house broken into and the Fountain PD messed up the investigation badly.
I'll have to look. If memory serves, he was a minor feature on the Yogi Bear show and I couldn't find a lot of clips of him. He was real scrappy in his own right and didn't always seem to realize he could be that way because Chopper was there.
