Portraying the Good Guys : 1920s/30s cops
Something I haven't seen addressed before, is how to turn out as one of the good guys. I'd think the best starting point for this conversation should be a few photos (with a bias towards NJ, since it was between those two hotbeds of crime, Philadelphia and New York City).
The entire Teaneck NJ police force, circa 1930.
http://www.teaneck.org/virtualvillage/police/1930.jpg
..and some better detail of your standard wool-coated beat cops and civilian-clothed Supervisors, from the Fairlawn NJ PD.
http://www.fairlawnpd.com/history/im...late_1930s.jpg
It's a big pic, but image trying to find your sidearm, let alone draw it fast during the winter!
FLPD History
...and Camden motorcycle cops in 1928
http://www.dvrbs.com/Camden/images/Bike1.jpg
http://www.dvrbs.com/Camden/CamdenNJ...esInCamden.htm
..and Schwarzkopf's NJ State Police
http://www.capitalcentury.com/20stroop.jpg
New Jersey State Police - History -1930's
1928: The first troopers
I felt out gunned at the ZS National Championships
I was the only good guy at the Zoot Shooters National Championships. As the "G Man" I was wearing a suit with a badge. I have looked at putting together a period police uniform but it would be very hot to wear in the summer even in the Colorado mountains. One other consideration would be, that to be period correct I would have to shoot a revolver or revolvers. I do enjoying dressing period correct but I would also like to have some chance of shooting competitively as well. We do need to have separate revolver categories.
A little late in the period, but..
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88.
TBO.com - News From AP
So what's this got to do with Zootshooting? Check who's toting Thompsons while hunting for Unruh.
Detective Kelly, Camden PD
Camden People - William E. Kelly
http://www.dvrbs.com/PEOPLE/CamdenCo...y-Unruh-01.jpg
and Officer Hance
Camden People - Charles S. Hance
http://www.dvrbs.com/People/CamdenCo...e-Unruh-01.jpg
Note : there's caper/scenario potential here, one or two 'Good Guys' versus the pre-TV age insane serial killer.
Straight out of the original **** Tracy comics.
