Dragnet's Worst Criminal Scumbags

Yes. Fat Donna was under arrest, going to jail and she was completely under Friday 's control. For him to go off on her on his own could easily have been construed as a bully tactic. Fat Donna had no choice but to listen to it. For a man to do that to a woman would have been seen as overbearing, even to a 1960s audience.

Also, Friday had no reason to give her the speech without her asking for it. Imagine that scene with the speech without Fat Donna's begging for it. She used the terms "opinion" and "what do you think of me" to get Joe to finally give her his personal feelings about her.

Come to think of it, Joe never gives a suspect one of his righteous speeches unless they ask for it in some way. Fat Donna was more obvious because she had to ask two for it two or three times.

Joe Friday was Jack Webb's incarnation of the perfect policeman, and a perfect policeman never let's his personal feelings enter into a case. That is what Joe did when he told Fat Donna that her baby had no choice about being born and deserved better than being left in a trash can, but the suspect had to ask for it more than once.

Remember, she only asked Joe for his opinion. Bill was there also but she wasn't interested in his opinion, only Joe's. He could only give her the speech if she insisted upon getting his opinion of her.

Jeff Buckram.

The scumbag junior college student who murdered two people because of what he read in his college literature book.

Then his punishment is to get sent to the state mental hospital for "observation."

He should have sniffed the gas instead. Then the shrinks could have "observed" him in the gas chamber.

It just goes to show, young male junior college students who read French literature are likely to become murderers.