If you're missing your 1920s fix this video may amuse you: it's a live-streamed talk I did last Wednesday about Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith. They looked more like vaudevillians than cops but, with no training, they became the most successful enforcement agents of Prohibition in the US. Despite working to uphold an unpopular law that most Americans were happy to break, such was the playfulness and ingenuity of their methods (including a bizarre array of disguises) that Izzy and Moe became immensely popular with the public—something that would ultimately lead to their downfall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSHbaqtncPw
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