Tats

A regular feature in the Daily Pamphlet is the "County's Most Wanted," featuring mug shots and descriptions of evil-doers. Almost to a man (or woman), these perps have one or more tattoos. I don't suppose, when they got them, they imagined they might help the police in their identification.

We have heard that convicts get tattoos in prison from fellow inmates. My short-term friend, Louie Toro, had a number of very poorly drawn figures of cartoon characters on his upper body. I think it was prison art, because no one would pay more that a pack of cigarettes for such nonsense.

Perhaps the police should lurk outside tattoo parlors to identify present and/or future criminals as they avail themselves of the "artistic" services. Some well-advertised and sanitary parlors are probably legitimate businesses, but the fact remains, criminals sport lots of tattoos, and many of them are professionally applied.