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People have noted that Trump used the phrase of Miami police chief, Walter Headley. What is notable is the positive coverage Headley received in newspapers throughout the country in 1967. Headlines like this were common./1 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52375391/
Here's the Miami News headline./2 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52375817/
The Ft Lauderdale News./3 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376153/
An AP story in the Tallahassee Democrat. /4 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376256/
Dec 27, 1967 front page headline in the Tallahassee Democrat./5 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376549/
Dec 27m 1967 front page headline of The Tampa Times./6 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376614/
Miami Herald Headline on the "start" of a "get tough" policy and announcing that "community relations efforts have failed." (I wonder how long and seriously those efforts had been going on.) /7 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376802/
It wasn't just Florida newspapers. Here's the headline in the Dayton Journal Herald./8 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52376946/
The Indianopolis Star./9 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52377051/
AP story in Minneapolis Star. Headley says, "Felons will learn that they can't be bonded out from the morgue." Headline calls it a "crime war."/10 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52377400/
San Francisco Examiner headline: Miami police chief plans to "`get tough' in Negro areas."/11 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52377553/
For more on the politics of "getting tough" see @julillykh's superb book. /12 https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691191546/getting-tough
So many headlines like this from the Logan Daily News, as if "police to crack down on Negroes" was a new thing./13 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52378915/
