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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Vivian Regan seemed to have no love for law enforcement. Did her views reflect Chandler's? On page 86 she says of Owen Taylor, "He has a police record. He didn’t know the right people. That’s all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country." And on page 226 she says to Marlow, "That makes you just a killer at heart, like all cops."
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Of course the police back then were a bit on the rough side compared to what they are expected to be today. There was no miranda warning as yet and the rubber hose was (I understand) a very real thing. Now days the police are held to a higher standard of conduct (though there are still some incidents).