Does the name Poulson ring a bell with you, Jimmy Poulson?
Yeah. Poulson was a policeman in the Northwest around '73, '74. During that time a cop named Reinman was k*lled during a traffic stop and every cop in the city was hunting the shooter.
And the rule was then if you ran into him on the street, you k*lled him. No questions asked.
So what about Poulson?
Poulson was a good cop, but he had the misfortune of cornering the Reinman shooter in a Pimlico alley.
And?
And he let him surrender. I was working Tactical during the time, and I was in the district station house when Poulson brought the shooter in.
So what happened?
Turned him over to the desk sergeant, and a number of Reinman's friends grabbed the sh**t, dragged him out of the lock-up, took him back into the cell block and beat him bloody. Ever since that day not one cop, not one cop spoke a word to Poulson.
Man! Here's to the good old days.
Yeah. I don't agree with a lot of those things that happened back then, but back in the '70's, '60's, if you even dreamed of killing a cop or one of the cop's relatives, you woke up and you apologised.
Jimmy Poulson and Jake Rodzinski, both of them born at the wrong time.
it would be back in the Northwest, and standing in the parking lot, and listening to those cops beat that prisoner in his cell and hearing him scream for justice, just screaming for justice. And I remember this... the sergeant laughing and saying, "There ain't no justice here. It's just us."
But nowadays, thinking about this Kenny Damon case, it makes me wonder about... us.
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