Opinion: Trump's mug shot may become his best-known portrait

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"I've never seen a mugshot quite like the one of Fulton County Inmate Number P01135809. But I saw lots of mugshots taken when I was a crime reporter. The alleged perps, as they were called by police, were stood against a cinderblock wall, while a hot white light would be trained on their face.

"Face forward" the photographer would call out. You'd hear a snap and whirr, then, "Turn to the side." I don't recall ever hearing, "Please."

Many of the people having mugshots snapped seemed to know the routine. They had been "in the system," as they called the courts, and often "in the joint," or prison. I saw people booked for drug store stickups and gang fights, street solicitation, and buying and selling bags of heroin. I saw people booked for stealing televisions, or robbing liquor stores, and people booked for shooting at someone in an alleyway, or through a kitchen window"