Originally Posted By: PKDickman
Originally Posted By: ItalianIrishMix
What is the deal with all those pre-1950 photos with 5-10 mobsters standing shoulder to shoulder with no hint of a smile?.........Are those all,police line-up photos? Or, are they just a bunch of friends getting together and trying to look as mean as possible?.......Same thing, every time!......Everyone has a hat on!...Everyone has a trench coat on....Everyone looks like a mope!

I assume they are line-up photos but, wouldn't they demand the hats to be taken off for proper ID?

I'm not sure.
In the ones I posted, most of those guys were burglars,fences, etc.
I suspect that any time they rounded up the usual suspects, they would take one of these shots.
That way, anytime there was a burglary, they could show these around and see if anyone was seen in the vicinity.


It also depends on where they may have been taken into custody, some areas did not follow or have protocol for documenting arrests. Or they did but the rules were not inforced since they might have been fishin for bribes.

That latest line up shot, The dude all the way to the right, looks like a stone cold killer.

DP


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