Martin Milner the star of "Adam 12" and "Route 66" has passed away. His role as the tough but compassionate LA cop was an inspiration to many young people who went on the police force. He was the kind of cop you wanted to see. Tough but willing to work with people. He wouldn't ignore the law or take money like so many cops did in the 1960's, There were episodes where he turned in crooked cops or cops who physically abused suspects more than was warranted by the situation. He wasn't a goodie two shoes but he wasn't out of control either.
Of course that was on TV. Real policing is a lot different. You deal with worthless skells and the dregs of society. Now they surround you with cell phone cameras and try to find a way to stop the police from enforcing the law. In fact they want to cancel most laws. Laws against public urination. Open containers. Doing drugs openly. Liberals and progressives want to have an anything goes society and don't understand why the animals will run riot and loot the CVS. Why the topless hookers in Times Square are mugging tourists. Why Andrew Cuomo's lawyer would get shot in the head. It is a big surprise.
Pete Malloy wouldn't have stood for that. He would arrested the skells. He would have done his job. But I could be wrong. He might have resigned. Or just driven by in his squad car and let Baltimore burn. I don't know.
I bet the Black Lives Matters mutts and their liberal enablers are hoisting a Colt 45 and chanting "Pigs in a blanker fry them like bacon."
I do know that another icon of Sixties TV has passed. I see my youth passing away before my eyes. Things come in threes. Wrangler Jane. Officer Pete Malloy. Whose next?
RIP Martin Milner 12/28/1931-9/7/2015
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Laws against public urination. Open containers. Doing drugs openly.
The few times I went to Boston and visited Wonderland Dog Track, we saw those things occurring, especially the public urination. Classless and lawless. When I visit a dog track, I expect a certain level of sophistication from the patrons around me.
You forgot Batbabe and Ensign O'Toole.
It's the generation. Most of the actors we knew growing up were born late 20s (Jim Garner, Jack Kelly) to middle 30s (Doug McClure, John Smith).
Sad to say, we'll be marking many of their passings.
PS Say what you will about Milner's portrayal of Malloy, he did a scene talking a punk out of a gun that was Emmy-worthy, but only the snob shows got nominated - then and now.
Milner was an excellent actor, much in demand by the movies and TV.
I have to tell you, I never like Martin Milner. He always struck me as being a giant Richard.
He was Richard Jaeckel with a college education.
'Adam12' and 'Dragnet' seem a universe away now. I grew up on them. It's hard to believe there was ever a world in which that world, that California, existed, but it did. Yes, I know, it's TV; the same point can be made about movies, and about novels. But they reveal things about the world in which they were created, nevertheless.
And Malloy's partner in Adam 12 was Tom Brady's old man.
It's the cops' job to make America safe for black crime. Anything less be NASTY & MEAN!
Hey, Ben Carson thinks so and we all know he's the next sanctified black savior according to establishment conservatives.
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