Frankie
12-05-2011, 01:42 PM
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842400,00.html
Johnny Broderick, widely referred to as "The World's Toughest Cop."
http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-03-12/news/18098379_1_cops-bodyguard-boys
"HERE'S HOW Johnny Broderick handled ordinary smart guys. Here were three of them, standing outside a downtown restaurant, looking for trouble. Johnny smacked them around for a while, then he picked them up one by one and flung all three of them through the restaurant's plate-glass window. Then he ran them in for malicious destruction of property, and the judge gave them 30 days and made them pay for the damage.
Here's how Johnny Broderick handled racketeers like Vannie Higgins. Dapper Vannie would come around to Madison Square Garden for a sporting night out on the town, and Johnny would be waiting for him every time, and Johnny would just pick him up and send him crashing through a phone booth and make him leave. Vannie complained about this to the fixers on several occasions, but it never got him anywhere."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842400,00.html
"All his colleagues privately called him "cemetery bait," and the bookmakers along his Broadway beat said that on any given day, the odds were 9 to 5 he would be killed. But when the shots were fired, they were off target; the knives and brickbats missed; the flung cue balls were wide of the mark. Johnny Broderick, "the world's toughest cop," was destined to die in bed of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday."
And here's a bonus:
the infamous gangster Legs Diamond also once had a run in with Johnny Broderick. Broderick considered Diamond a punk and in order to demonstrate this he beat Diamond up and shoved him head first into a garbage can and left him there, so that Diamond's colleagues and ordinary citizens would see the shine taken off Legs' tough guy image.
Sounds like a fascinating movie begging to be made.
Johnny Broderick, widely referred to as "The World's Toughest Cop."
http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-03-12/news/18098379_1_cops-bodyguard-boys
"HERE'S HOW Johnny Broderick handled ordinary smart guys. Here were three of them, standing outside a downtown restaurant, looking for trouble. Johnny smacked them around for a while, then he picked them up one by one and flung all three of them through the restaurant's plate-glass window. Then he ran them in for malicious destruction of property, and the judge gave them 30 days and made them pay for the damage.
Here's how Johnny Broderick handled racketeers like Vannie Higgins. Dapper Vannie would come around to Madison Square Garden for a sporting night out on the town, and Johnny would be waiting for him every time, and Johnny would just pick him up and send him crashing through a phone booth and make him leave. Vannie complained about this to the fixers on several occasions, but it never got him anywhere."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842400,00.html
"All his colleagues privately called him "cemetery bait," and the bookmakers along his Broadway beat said that on any given day, the odds were 9 to 5 he would be killed. But when the shots were fired, they were off target; the knives and brickbats missed; the flung cue balls were wide of the mark. Johnny Broderick, "the world's toughest cop," was destined to die in bed of a heart attack on his 72nd birthday."
And here's a bonus:
the infamous gangster Legs Diamond also once had a run in with Johnny Broderick. Broderick considered Diamond a punk and in order to demonstrate this he beat Diamond up and shoved him head first into a garbage can and left him there, so that Diamond's colleagues and ordinary citizens would see the shine taken off Legs' tough guy image.
Sounds like a fascinating movie begging to be made.