You know, the 1940s detective in the suit and tie and the overcoat who would pull a notebook out of his blazer pocket and suck on a cigar. Now days cops look roided up or fat and their uniform is militarized. Cops back then didn't even have bulletproof vests?
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Everyone dressed like that back then. I do regret that it has changed. Hats are very important, protection from the sun used to be valued and now people are actively killing themselves all the time. This is where the "white people age poorly" meme comes from
No one wants to get their three-piece suit dry-cleaned smelling like blood and shit.
t. cop
Are you guys even allowed to wear your dress uniforms in the field anymore?
Nope, what I get issued is something like a cross between an ACU and Crye G3, but with shorter sleeves, and a baseball cap.
Detective still wear plain clothes dumbass.
They wear jeans, t-shirts, muscle-fit under armour tops etc, they do not wear suits, ties and hats. They also vape and do not smoke cigars or pipes anymore.
>They wear jeans, t-shirts, muscle-fit under armour tops etc
Maybe in the town of Redneckistan, Kentucky they do. As others in the thread have said, they dress like the local population.
>1940s detective
That trope is based off of private investigators. who are not cops
This is how American Police actually dressed up back then
All those detectives behind the police
>tall detective on the left with eyes hidden in shadow, his intentions a mystery
>grizzled old detective on the right with the cane investigating the cop's ass
Insane how literally everything in the USA was aesthetically superior in the past
People looked slimmer, dressed better, architecture was nicer, cities were actually cities and not highway pitstops, etc.
It even still looked okay up until 1970 or so, and that's when everything goes to shit in every single aspect.
I'm not even being a Chuddy "VGH the black people did this!" because black Americans also dressed the same as whites back then and in other countries, such as Brazil, they also dressed themselves to a higher standard (pic related)
>Insane how literally everything in the USA was aesthetically superior in the past
>Posts Brazil
Not him but that's clear Americanization tbh
How are we meant to respect public institutions when they look stupid and lazy instead of cool like this
In LA Noire you play as a detective for 99% of the game, literally the first mission is you as a beat cop in a uniform
>Cops back then didn't even have bulletproof vests?
Because Kevlar wouldn't have been invented for a few more decades back then
As every fricking question in this god forbidden place; TIME
>morons think uncomfortable and restrictive clothing would be good for police work
They essentially still wear "restrictive" clothing
It's just regular work pants and dress shirt
And that is just as "restrictive" as this
How is that more restrictive then a dress coat? I've worn those before and their really baggy and heavy
He is wearing the coat for warmth
Ok
It still doesn't make it any less cumbersome
He take it off whenever he needs to
moron it's literally part of his uniform he can't just take it off
Pic is all NYPD does. They sit around looking at their phones in their squad cars and shoot the shit with other cops. Then they expect six figure salaries, pensions, and expect not to have to put their lives on the line.
Go apply then anon, maybe you can lead by example and reform the NYPD and clean up NYC while you're at it.
>Not appreciating 80s sleazecore
Yeah, I'd say that this stuff only ever fell out of fashion in the 2000s, and even then you were expected to wear slacks and dress jackets if you went anywhere that would require them. The current trend towards utter slobbishness only became a majority over the past 15 years. It'll correct.
I always thought police leather jackets were IQfy as frick. Which departments were they issued to? Are they still a thing?
cops are tatted up gang members now.
>How come cops don't dress like this anymore?
Because why the frick would they? The literal whole meaning of "plain clothes" in a police context is to wear the dress of an ordinary citizen.
If coppers start wearing clothes 80 years out of fashion they are NOT wearing plain clothes anymore. If they want to stand out they can (and ought) just wear their uniform.
if you look at pics from the 70s-80s detectives are dressed in the fashions of that era and always have porno 'staches.
>why don't cops
probably the same reason people in general don't dress that way anymore
he's an undercover cop and no one dresses like that anymore
Cole Phelps was not an undercover cop
Occasionally, an undercover officer or detective may be found wearing the stereotypical/old-fashioned types of clothes with a suit and hat, or a sports coat and hat, but nowadays, it is either much older men in the various police forces who take to that look, or the younger set influenced by hipsters that partially revived it. Most of the time, these officers and detectives just wear more current-looking clothes, maybe slightly behind the times in fashion, but not all the way back to the 1940s or 1950s noir era.
this game was the bomb diggity
>Do you frick young boys Valdez
we have mass production of clothes now so we all wear the jeans tshirt combination
>everyone dressed nice and has self-respect
>police have enough money to live decent life, even beat walkers on the wrong side of the tracks
>no bulletproof vests because no militarized police, no police state
>cops actively form gangs to purge and kill the mob, murderers, pimps, pornographers
>they call out left-leaning scum openly
Noticing again, are we goy?
Beat it tuts, these streets ain't like what it used to be...