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Old, VERY Old, Police Picture!
nunn
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Now this picture was made LONG before my time, but the gentleman on the left is Elbert E. "Cotton" Hughes. He was the first Chief Of Police I ever worked for. Cotton kept a Smith & Wesson model 76 on the front seat of his car when he was working, and he kept it close at hand when he was not. When he was sleeping, it lay in the floor next to his bed. Someone asked him about his extraordinary safety measures, and he replied, "Hell, I'm alive!"
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Cool
The S&W M76 was nice old sub gun. I think its best performance was in Dirty Harry Magnum Force.
Neat old pic thanks for sharing, nunn. The guy with the shades looks sorta high intensity and nazi like.
They look like they would not take any back talk.
Need'um today.
School crossing guard maybe, he even has the whistle clipped to his right shirt pocket 😁
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
The guy on the right looks just like D. B. Cooper
....Cool pic David...I dont keep my .45 on the truck seat or on the floor next to me...I keep it on my hip and the night stand...😉
looks like "No Eyes" from Cool Hand Luke
I don't know the fellas in the middle and on the right. The guy on the right looks pretty serious, doesn't he?
For several years into my career, a whistle was a required part of the uniform. Fastened to the pocket button and secured by a chain. I wore it but never used it.
I remember him, he was a real gentleman.
Nah
Those guys didn't live that long by being pansies.
good fellows a bit rough looking , and take no crap is obvious but thats what it took , thanks for posting Nunn
my 2 cents they are likely rolling over in there grave at the PC rules now LEO have to follow
When I started I was issued a whistle. Standard issue in the old school.
Now-a-days not so much.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I feel privileged to have been able to pray with and for Cotton, just weeks before he died. He had survived a terrible stroke, but he was on his way out. Unafraid.
you also have to remember, back then there was a thing called respect for a police officer, something severly lacking today............
They look like the kind of guys that you don't want to get on their bad side.
George Floyd would not have wanted to run into one of those...
People used to OBEY whistles.
Times change. Many years ago, a local man would direct traffic on Main St. during the evening "rush hour." He was obviously "challenged", but most everyone at least knew of him & obeyed his directions. If not, you got a blast from his whistle. He actually did a good job, was made an honorary officer & was eventually promoted to Sgt. Then the population grew, drivers didn't stop for him & they finally had to put in a light.☹️
Nunn, since you remember him do you know what the tattoo on the Chiefs right arm is ?
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
When I met Cotton, he was in his late 50s or early 60s. The tattoo on his right forearm was badly faded and smudged; it had been there a while. The tattoo depicted a female figure wearing a swim suit. Cotton said the female had originally been nude, but when he and his wife became engaged, out of respect for her, he had the swim suit added.
Back in 1959-62 we had a 200 acre pecan farm just outside of DeQueen, Ar on Dogtown Road. Every year in Oct-Nov we had to call the Sherrif's office to run trespassers off who were stealing our crop. I remember a city officer coming out with a deputy one time. He was a big, mean looking man.