Guess it must be age (not THAT old) but, when baldness was reserved for Pendelton Marines on week end pass, or later into the 70s, the look of Eastern sect monks.
Somewhere in the 80s perhaps some movie star was losing hair and went full scalped.
None the less, when I saw this interview, it was cringe worthy and could have been used as a recruitment piece for say an Edward Norten sort in American History X.
Mil-spec Cops, birthed by the Fred C. Koch paranoids in a town near you and going strong since the 50s.