<p><span class="deck"> Benevolent father figure? Bloody-handed Cossack? Slow-witted flatfoot? Irish grafter? Brave but underpaid public servant? Check your prejudice against this inquiry into police history</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> What the public wanted, it seemed, was a vice and bootleg business netting sixty million dollars a year-and many gangland funerals</span> </p>
