There were two reasons for this, according to Larsen and Deitche.
One was that some future criminals and law enforcement officers â both typically of Italian or Cuban descent â grew up together and their families were friends for generations in a city that still had a small town feel, Larsen said. They then remained friends even when on opposite sides of the law.
âThey protected their own,â Larsen said. âGuys like that didnât go to jail, except maybe overnight.â
More prevalent, Deitche said, was that some law enforcement officers and elected officials were on the mafiaâs payroll.
âPolitical corruption in Tampa went a long way in keeping those guys above the law,â Deitche said.
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100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time
By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News
On 4/11/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Like most movie genres, science fiction goes back almost as far as the medium itself, all the way to 1902 to be exact. That was when Georges Méliès an innovative genius of many talents unleashed his 14-minute masterwork: Le voyage dans la lune, better known to American audiences as A Trip to the Moon. Inspired by the written works of Jules Verne, among other things, and laced with satirical jabs toward the scientific community, the surrealist short follows a group of astronomers as they embark on a trip to the moon. While not scientifically accurate by any means the astronomers do travel by way of cannon shot, after all the film did kick off a cinematic trend of depicting hypothetical ideas in anticipation of future realities.