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Grudgingly
Clemenza
called
Rocco
Lampone
and
told
him
to
get
a
few
people
and
cars
and
cover
the
road
to
Long
Beach
.
He
himself
went
out
to
his
beloved
Cadillac
and
with
three
of
the
platoon
of
guards
who
now
garrisoned
his
home
,
started
over
the
Atlantic
Beach
Bridge
,
toward
New
York
City
.
One
of
the
hangers-on
around
the
candy
store
,
a
small
bettor
on
the
payroll
of
the
Tattaglia
Family
as
an
informer
,
called
the
contact
he
had
with
his
people
.
But
the
Tattaglia
Family
had
not
streamlined
itself
for
the
war
,
the
contact
still
had
to
go
all
the
way
through
the
insulation
layers
before
he
finally
got
to
the
caporegime
,
who
contacted
the
Tattaglia
chief
.
By
that
time
Sonny
Corleone
was
safely
back
in
the
mall
,
in
his
father
's
house
,
in
Long
Beach
,
about
to
face
his
father
's
wrath
.
The
war
of
1947
between
the
Corleone
Family
and
the
Five
Families
combined
against
them
proved
to
be
expensive
for
both
sides
.
It
was
complicated
by
the
police
pressure
put
on
everybody
to
solve
the
murder
of
Captain
McCluskey
.
It
was
rare
that
operating
officials
of
the
Police
Department
ignored
political
muscle
that
protected
gambling
and
vice
operations
,
but
in
this
case
the
politicians
were
as
helpless
as
the
general
staff
of
a
rampaging
,
looting
army
whose
field
officers
refuse
to
follow
orders
.
This
lack
of
protection
did
not
hurt
the
Corleone
Family
as
much
as
it
did
their
opponents
.
The
Corleone
group
depended
on
gambling
for
most
of
its
income
,
and
was
hit
especially
hard
in
its
"
numbers
"
or
"
policy
"
branch
of
operations
.
The
runners
who
picked
up
the
action
were
swept
into
police
nets
and
usually
given
a
medium
shellacking
before
being
booked
.
Even
some
of
the
"
banks
"
were
located
and
raided
,
with
heavy
financial
loss
.
The
"
bankers
,
"
.
90
calibers
in
their
own
right
,
complained
to
the
caporegimes
,
who
brought
their
complaints
to
the
family
council
table
.
But
there
was
nothing
to
be
done
.
The
bankers
were
told
to
go
out
of
business
.
Local
Negro
free-lancers
were
allowed
to
take
over
the
operation
in
Harlem
,
the
richest
territory
,
and
they
operated
in
such
scattered
fashion
that
the
police
found
it
hard
to
pin
them
down
.
After
the
death
of
Captain
McCluskey
,
some
newspapers
printed
stories
involving
him
with
Sollozzo
.
They
published
proof
that
McCluskey
had
received
large
sums
of
money
in
cash
,
shortly
before
his
death
.
These
stories
had
been
planted
by
Hagen
,
the
information
supplied
by
him
.
The
Police
Department
refused
to
confirm
or
deny
these
stories
,
but
they
were
taking
effect
.
The
police
force
got
the
word
through
informers
,
through
police
on
the
Family
payroll
,
that
McCluskey
had
been
a
rogue
cop
.
Not
that
he
had
taken
money
or
clean
graft
,
there
was
no
rank-and-file
onus
to
that
.
But
that
he
had
taken
the
dirtiest
of
dirty
money
;
murder
and
drugs
money
.
And
in
the
morality
of
policemen
,
this
was
unforgivable
.
Hagen
understood
that
the
policeman
believes
in
law
and
order
in
a
curiously
innocent
way
.
He
believes
in
it
more
than
does
the
public
he
serves
.
Law
and
order
is
,
after
all
,
the
magic
from
which
he
derives
his
power
,
individual
power
which
he
cherishes
as
nearly
all
men
cherish
individual
power
.
And
yet
there
is
always
the
smoldering
resentment
against
the
public
he
serves
.
They
are
at
the
same
time
his
ward
and
his
prey
.
As
wards
they
are
ungrateful
,
abusive
and
demanding
.
As
prey
they
are
slippery
and
dangerous
,
full
of
guile
.
As
soon
as
one
is
in
the
policeman
's
clutches
the
mechanism
of
the
society
the
policeman
defends
marshals
all
its
resources
to
cheat
him
of
his
prize
.
The
fix
is
put
in
by
politicians
.
Judges
give
lenient
suspended
sentences
to
the
worst
hoodlums
.
Governors
of
the
States
and
the
President
of
the
United
States
himself
give
full
pardons
,
assuming
that
respected
lawyers
have
not
already
won
his
acquittal
.
After
a
time
the
cop
learns
.
Why
should
he
not
collect
the
fees
these
hoodlums
are
paying
?
He
needs
it
more
.
His
children
,
why
should
they
not
go
to
college
?
Why
should
n't
his
wife
shop
in
more
expensive
places
?
Why
should
n't
be
himself
get
the
sun
with
a
winter
vacation
in
Florida
?
After
all
,
he
risks
his
life
and
that
is
no
joke
.
But
usually
he
draws
the
line
against
accepting
dirty
graft
.
He
will
take
money
to
let
a
bookmaker
operate
.
He
will
take
money
from
a
man
who
hates
getting
parking
tickets
or
speeding
tickets
.
He
will
allow
call
girls
and
prostitutes
to
ply
their
trade
;
for
a
consideration
.
These
are
vices
natural
to
a
man
.
But
usually
he
will
not
take
a
payoff
for
drugs
,
armed
robberies
,
rape
,
murder
and
other
assorted
perversions
.
In
his
mind
these
attack
the
very
core
of
his
personal
authority
and
can
not
be
countenanced
.
The
murder
of
a
police
captain
was
comparable
to
regicide
.
But
when
it
became
known
that
McCluskey
had
been
killed
while
in
the
company
of
a
notorious
narcotics
peddler
,
when
it
became
known
that
he
was
suspected
of
conspiracy
to
murder
,
the
police
desire
for
vengeance
began
to
fade
.
Also
,
after
all
,
there
were
still
mortgage
payments
to
be
made
,
cars
to
be
paid
off
,
children
to
be
launched
into
the
world
.
Without
their
"
sheet
"
money
,
policemen
had
to
scramble
to
make
ends
meet
.
Unlicensed
peddlers
were
good
for
lunch
money
.
Parking
ticket
payoffs
came
to
nickels
and
dimes
.
Some
of
the
more
desperate
even
began
shaking
down
suspects
(
homosexuals
,
assaults
and
batteries
)
in
the
precinct
squad
rooms
.
Finally
the
brass
relented
.
They
raised
the
prices
and
let
the
Families
operate
.
