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| Al Capone – pass notes, no 3,271 | Al Capone – pass notes, no 3,271 |
| (12 days later) | |
| Age: 48 | Age: 48 |
| Appearance: Italianate. Legendary. | Appearance: Italianate. Legendary. |
| Oh, I love him! You do? | Oh, I love him! You do? |
| Yup. Loved him in Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets – can't put a foot wrong. Except for Stanley & Iris. But everyone's allowed a mistake now and then. You're thinking of Al Pacino. | Yup. Loved him in Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Mean Streets – can't put a foot wrong. Except for Stanley & Iris. But everyone's allowed a mistake now and then. You're thinking of Al Pacino. |
| Oh. But Robert De Niro did play Capone, in The Untouchables. | Oh. But Robert De Niro did play Capone, in The Untouchables. |
| And again he was brilliant. Which makes Stanley & Iris all the stranger a choice. So, why is Al de Pacino in the news? AL CAPONE is being used to describe new policing tactics. | And again he was brilliant. Which makes Stanley & Iris all the stranger a choice. So, why is Al de Pacino in the news? AL CAPONE is being used to describe new policing tactics. |
| Such as? Well, the US state department in charge of counter-piracy policy – | Such as? Well, the US state department in charge of counter-piracy policy – |
| Of the copyright-infringing, Captain Pugwash or Somalian kind? Somalian. It's announced that it is planning a global campaign to go after the dozen or so kingpins involved and prosecute them for breaking corruption and money-laundering laws. | Of the copyright-infringing, Captain Pugwash or Somalian kind? Somalian. It's announced that it is planning a global campaign to go after the dozen or so kingpins involved and prosecute them for breaking corruption and money-laundering laws. |
| Just like Kevin Costner got Truman Capote for tax evasion after he'd been running the biggest crime syndicate in 1920s Chicago, involving bootlegging, smuggling, prostitution, bribery and killing Sean Connery! Yes, almost, yes. And the Metropolitan police's sex crime unit Sapphire is planning to start using similarly oblique ways of targeting and thwarting rapists. | Just like Kevin Costner got Truman Capote for tax evasion after he'd been running the biggest crime syndicate in 1920s Chicago, involving bootlegging, smuggling, prostitution, bribery and killing Sean Connery! Yes, almost, yes. And the Metropolitan police's sex crime unit Sapphire is planning to start using similarly oblique ways of targeting and thwarting rapists. |
| I didn't think rapists could be relied on to keep incriminating business accounts? No, Sapphire is going to do things such as use licensing laws to close down establishments where a lot of rapes and sexual assaults occur. | I didn't think rapists could be relied on to keep incriminating business accounts? No, Sapphire is going to do things such as use licensing laws to close down establishments where a lot of rapes and sexual assaults occur. |
| I see. Wouldn't it be better – in all sorts of ways really – if the rapists were caught, charged with and prosecuted for the crimes they actually committed? Well, the police will be using other measures too, like covertly surveilling men they have reason to believe are sexual offenders who haven't yet been caught or successfully prosecuted. | I see. Wouldn't it be better – in all sorts of ways really – if the rapists were caught, charged with and prosecuted for the crimes they actually committed? Well, the police will be using other measures too, like covertly surveilling men they have reason to believe are sexual offenders who haven't yet been caught or successfully prosecuted. |
| And when they do, will they have baseball bats applied as hard and fast to their genitals as Al Capone swung his at treacherous heads? That's the Chicago way, I believe. Alas, no. If and when offenders are caught due process will then apply. | And when they do, will they have baseball bats applied as hard and fast to their genitals as Al Capone swung his at treacherous heads? That's the Chicago way, I believe. Alas, no. If and when offenders are caught due process will then apply. |
| Do say: "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!" | Do say: "He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!" |
| Don't say: "I loved him in Goodfellas." | Don't say: "I loved him in Goodfellas." |
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