GROVER ALOYSIUS WHALEN

See {626663} for a description of the police illegal violence and {626665} for an earlier statement by the commissioner green lighting brutality with nightsticks. His resignation was forced shortly after. As remarkable as it seems to us today, there was a time where constitutional rights and the law was were commonly abused and broken by the police and the politicians. This occurred in New York which was actually more liberal than most of the country. The Police Commissioner had to resign. In other parts of the country, there were similar police law-breaking but there was little public concern and no one had to resign.

This statement by the police commissioner was very controversial as a major form of police brutality at the time was clubbing citizens with their nightsticks which were much larger and heavier than those used today. However the effect on the police officers was to green light heavy use of the nightstick and soon there was a major incident where the police badly beat many innocent citizens in their quest to control and punish alleged leftists. Whalen was forced to resign. See {626664} and {626663}.

See {626663} for a description of the police illegal violence and {626665} for an earlier statement by the commissioner green lighting brutality with nightsticks. His resignation was forced shortly after. As remarkable as it seems to us today, there was a time where constitutional rights and the law was were commonly abused and broken by the police and the politicians. This occurred in New York which was actually more liberal than most of the country. The Police Commissioner had to resign. In other parts of the country, there were similar police law-breaking but there was little public concern and no one had to resign.

This statement by the police commissioner was very controversial as a major form of police brutality at the time was clubbing citizens with their nightsticks which were much larger and heavier than those used today. However the effect on the police officers was to green light heavy use of the nightstick and soon there was a major incident where the police badly beat many innocent citizens in their quest to control and punish alleged leftists. Whalen was forced to resign. See {626664} and {626663}.