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Thicker ’n Thieves 39: In order to continue to break the vice and gambling laws profitably, they have to know who is ‘all right’—i.e., who is dishonest and graft-taking; and who is ‘all wrong’—honest and devoted to law enforcement. Thicker ’n Thieves 66: Among police officers, Lieutenant Stewart was what is known as a ‘square apple,’ meaning that he didn’t take graft, and that he didn’t countenance the taking of graft by anyone who worked under him. Thicker ’n Thieves 64: Nate Bass [was a] Main Street bar owner and director of a covey of B-Girls (girls who hang out in saloons to facilitate and expand the sale of drinks to lonely men). Thicker ’n Thieves 184: The department’s main source of revenue during this period was the ‘shaking down’ of bar owners on Main and East Fifth Streets to allow B-Girls, a polite name for prostitutes, who are proscribed by law, to operate. Thicker ’n Thieves 143: Sergeant Jackson, the police department’s eager beaver pimp and procurer. Thicker ’n Thieves 49: [T]he district attorney and the sheriff must stand shoulder to shoulder [...] to emasculate and mitigate, to blow down and squelch any and all efforts anyone may make to interfere with the status quo. Thicker ’n Thieves 227: [I]f the district attorney is ‘interested’ in ‘blowing down the beef’ rather than in bringing malefactors to justice, his deputy will follow the boss’s line. Thicker ’n Thieves 228: [U]pon occasion the district attorney merely ‘punches the bag’ for public edification, having no intention of convicting the criminal before the bar of justice. [...] in the parlance of questionable legal maneuvering it is known as a ‘tank job,’ or a ‘boat ride’ . Thicker ’n Thieves 110: ‘But what are you doing here?’ ‘Browsing,’ I told her. ‘I read about your arrest and since this is my district, I thought it advisable to come out and look around’ . Thicker ’n Thieves 234: They asked if I had an alibi. I assured them that I had one and that it was bullet proof. Thicker ’n Thieves 283: Today’s young officers have learned from our ordeal; and when the next scandal appears on the horizon, many of them will tin can it and will refuse to do their duty h [...] because of the fear of executive reprisals. Thicker ’n Thieves 244: But Bowron, ever the politician [. . .] proved that he was still the master shover of the old coneroo. He took to the radio and yowled and howled that the gangsters were coming, ta-ra. Thicker ’n Thieves 206: I determined that, no matter what kind of a curve ball would be pitched, I would not be caught with my bat on my shoulder, and I wouldn’t be surprised by the pitch. Thicker ’n Thieves 30: If you ever got a dead right steer, you got one tonight, kiddo. Thicker ’n Thieves 315: My ‘ear,’ or informant [...] told me that the file on the ‘homo’ arrest made by my officers at The Little New Yorker, had been removed . Thicker ’n Thieves 269: ‘Had no idea she was a whore. Every time I came to town after that, I’d look her up and go out with her. I thought she was a swell fellow’. Thicker ’n Thieves 67: ‘He sneaks prostitutes into this hotel, top flight gals from the Hollywood flesh mart, gals who won’t lay the body down for less than fifty-dollars, and who generally get a hundred’. Thicker ’n Thieves 95: That evening with twenty dollars of city money in his pocket and in his big red convertible coupe, he pulled up in front of Brenda’s flesh factory. Thicker ’n Thieves 286: Not one deputy, but two were given the responsibility of seeing to it that I didn’t wriggle off the felonious hook. Moreover, one [...] Clifford Crail, was accredited with being its toughest prosecutor. [...] the District Attorney told him to forget his duties in that city and come to Los Angeles to give it to me. Thicker ’n Thieves 42: [I]f there were no enforcement of the laws against prostitution and gambling. [...] [Y]ou would have many Brenda Allens and Mickey Cohens—a condition that is possible with the help of grafting politicians, public officials and law enforcement agents. Thicker ’n Thieves 14: [T]he chief duties of Kynette and his squad seemed to be the harassment, arrest and suppression of any racketeers outside the ken of those who ‘had’ the town for gambling, slot machines and prostitutio. Thicker ’n Thieves 105: One of the head hunters (personnel investigators probing into a police officer’s suspected misconduct) [...] says that personnel has enough evidence on a certain vice squad sergeant to send him to San Quentin penitentiary. Thicker ’n Thieves 364: Mayor Bowron’s move in installing Chief Worton as a pinch-hitter for Chief of Police Clemence B. Horrall was not prompted solely by a desire to restore police morale. Thicker ’n Thieves 235: If Hizzoner was fighting crime, where was he fighting it? Thicker ’n Thieves 27: ‘Do you think I’d stay in this jerk burg?’ he jeered. Thicker ’n Thieves 42: The underworld refers to police officers as ‘the enemy.’ Its members allude to police protection as ‘juice’. Thicker ’n Thieves 393: Chief of Police Worton [...] believed in kangarooing those whom he disliked. Thicker ’n Thieves 310: ‘He said that if we wanted to continue prosperous,’ [...] ‘we’d have to kick loose from some juice’. Thicker ’n Thieves 124: Captain Wingard called me in. He couldn’t understand why Captain Cecil Wisdom, the personnel chieftain, who was going to knock Brenda out of the box, hadn’t taken any action. Thicker ’n Thieves 325: The following night, I was ready for the knockover. [...] I would raid the joint [i.e. an unlicensed club].