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and Charlie gets a job on the force. The very first day on his beat he encounters the leading gangster, whose appearance alone is enough to clear the street. The giant bully and the new cop size each other up. Charlie, at the alarm box, nervously tries to put in a call with the bully listening in. To deceive him, Charlie "plays" the receiver like a musical instrument and "looks through" it like an eyeglass. When the bully picks it up to take a look, Charlie gets in a lick with his club. As the sneering bully bends his head for more futile blows, Charlie tries to pacify him. In another display of his strength, the bully bends the gaslight lamp-post. Climbing quickly on his back, Charlie fits the lamp over the bully's face to anesthetize him. With all the finesse of a physician, he feels the bully's pulse and turns on more gas.
The Easy Streeters are awed by the new policeman while regulars on the force continue to cringe before a neighboring kid. Other funny business includes Charlie's catching a poor woman stealing a ham — and then, overcome by her sobs, "borrowing" vegetables from a neighboring stand to round out her dinner. For thanks he receives a flowerpot dropped on his head from above. Dispensing charity with Edna, he visits a couple with ten small children all in one slum room. Eyeing the puny father Charlie feels his muscle and pins his badge on him. He then strews cornflakes before the children as if they were chickens in a barnyard.
Pursued by the bully, who has broken jail, Charlie finally subdues him by dropping a stove on his head. In another scene Edna is trapped in a dive and Charlie thrown down a manhole into the same room. Their plight seems hopeless when a dope fiend knocks Charlie on his hypodermic needle. The accidental injection produces superman results. He KO's the attacker, spins around and embraces Edna; then, with flying leaps, subdues the mob that hems them in.