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How prohibition forever changed policing in Seattle
29 minutes Posted Dec 19, 2019 at 8:04 am.
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On a recent SoundQs segment we learned about historic bootlegger Roy Olmstead. Today we do a deep dive on another larger-than-life figure from that time, black business owner Doc Hamilton. Both men dealt in illegal alcohol, but had wholly different experiences with the temperance movement and the law.