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awwwww THE GOOD OL DAYS....Kids sneaking up on a policeman with snowballs behind their backs in Chicago, 1959. Was the mid 20th century the last time that kids were genuinely allowed to have fun? There's absolutely no way that a photo like this could be taken today, and it probably wouldn't. Kids sneaking up on a police officer with something behind their backs takes on a completely different tenor in the 21st century.What once seemed like harmless fun now takes on a chilling tone. And it's not just the propensity for young people to sneak up on cops that have changed. Many young people at the time were dealing with OCD and ADHD that went undiagnosed. The one positive that came out of this was the creation of antipsychotic drugs and advancements in health care caused a decrease of institutionalizations by 92 percent between 1955 and 1994.