Highway Patrol1955

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Narrator:
One of the meanest crimes encountered by police agencies in their day-to-day enforcement of the law is that of the protection racket. Earlier this year, the Highway Patrol ran into a variation of this racket. Not the usual kind, but one in which men were forced to pay dearly, week after week, in order to keep their jobs, or face the consequences, as did Mike Richards.