Police Captain Frank Pape cultivated a reputation in the 1950s and early 60s as Chicago’s “toughest cop.”
“Pape has been in 15 gun battles in which nine hoodlums were killed,” wrote James Gavin in the Chicago Tribune on April. 17, 1960. Detective magazines ran 49 articles about him, including an interview with Coronet in which he declared, “I’m not goin…
