Framed photographs or paintings of honored judges hung on the court room walls. Law people went to school to learn the legal procedures and the laws of the land. There were good schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and all those high class places. These legal entities were the machinery of the law.
Law people think that crime does not pay. Criminals believed it does and acted to make a rich living off of it. They had and obeyed no rules, had no loyalty, or bad feelings from their foul activities. These agents of evil just did not care. They lived lives of danger with high stakes. Hoods and heavies did not respect the holy tenets of the great teacher, Jesus Christ. These were individuals of evil with dark souls. Criminals boldly dared to do the illegal for gain. Wrong was right. Criminals were mobile, discreet, and skilled individuals. There were crime gangs. These were groups of people organized as a group to commit crimes for money. They knew how to plan, hit, and hide. They stole, defaced, injured, killed, destroyed, violated, scared, terrorized, and had no respect for law and order or the rights of others.
Charlotte had banks. These were robbed. Large companies had payrolls and expenses. Charlotte was well endowed with insurance companies that held and paid out sums of currency daily. This meant sums of money had to be on hand for daily operations. These funds got attacked and stolen. Transportation centers were there. Airports, railroads, bus, cabs, and truck freighting firms. These needed capital to operate. These moneys got stolen. People’s private homes got robbed. People walking about town got robbed. Some people were injured and killed as these crime acts occurred. Hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs were common necessary businesses in Charlotte. Their business offices had stores of cash. This got burglar-ized. Gas stations were easy victims for robbery. They had no security. Jewelry stores got broken into and robbed. Department stores, movie theaters, trolley cars, car sales lots, sports arenas, and small businesses got attacked and cash lifted from them. Some crimes were bought deaths of innocent individuals that criminals wanted removed. Murders were often difficult to prove. Many were never solved. Often property and not cash were stolen. Recovery of this was difficult. Proof of ownership was frequently not easy.