Back when people who ran LA actually gave a shit about safety. Now they have a DA who could care less about victims and more about criminals who deserve a 2nd 3rd 4th 5th chance. Vote that idiot out.
I knew some retired cops who started in the 1950s on foot patrol in San Jose. They had no radios and would look up at a telephone pole on their beat for a light. If the light was on, they would access a call box with their key at the bottom of the pole and call dispatch.
@2:13 that’s my shop! I worked LAPD in the 90’s. That car was around 1988 and used all the way into the late 90’s. That and the big crown Vic at the time were our vehicles back then. Great video!
Amazing how bad the smog was in the old days. Gotta admit that clamping down on industry, plus the crap that we have to deal with regarding our cars getting choked with smog devices has worked
if they only knew what was coming , they wouldve burned that city to the ground and got out of there quick. back before the welfare state was up & running, before families had been destroyed, and reduced to a single mother, popping out kids, and being married to the state welfare system. how could we have allowed it to go so wrong
6:08 -- The microphone on this radio is plastic, but the early MOTRAC mikes were cast aluminum. Motorcops would often swap their plastic mikes for the older metal ones, then take those to a chrome shop to have them personalized. They would usually keep these for their whole career, and when later radios came out, would b/r/i/b/e convince radio techs to rig the new mikes into the old chrome housings. I saw one of these not long ago on an RTP, awarded on Motors certification by the proud grandfather who had originally had it on his motor back in the 1970s. Note also the sticker identifying the Freq set used. Unlike a CB radio, on Tac 1 these units transmitted on one frequency and received on another. The "Freq 17" tag identified the pair used for Tac 1. Tac 2 was a simplex (direct) frequency used for car-to-car (good for a couple of miles, maybe). Tac 3 in LA was generally used by detectives, and Tac 4 was where the motorcops hung out when not on Tac 1. 14:45 -- The 1967 radio car, fully equipped (including shotgun), cost $2700! A Harris XL-200 or current-model Motorola APX costs several times that (even before adding accessories).
There is no technological improvement which has made as much of a change in policing as putting a radio on every cop. For the first 40 years of radio use in LE, it was limited to "radio cars," which were able to talk directly to Dispatch -- and not all cars WERE radio cars. Dispatch could send calls by radio, but until the 1950s, most cars didn't have two-way radio. To talk to Dispatch, you had to stop at a Gamewell box and use the phone. Gamewells were still in ROUTINE use into the 1970s for LAPD, and into the 1990s for LA County on Catalina. This means that the officer was only in touch with Dispatch or other radio cars when actually IN the radio car. Motorola portables started appearing in the 1960 era -- these were the PT100 "lunchbox" radio, a short range unit weighing several pounds. By the end of the decade, handheld "CC" radios (so named for the Motorola model number prefix) -- about the size of a brick -- were making their way onto the street, but only for occasional use. Cops were still tied to the radio car. Then, suddenly, practical and AFFORDABLE handheld radios started arriving. The premier was the Motorola HT220, which was so popular and durable that some were still in use 15 or 20 years later. What the HT220 (and similar radios from GE, Standard and others) did was to give the officer communications with other OFFICERS, in real time. This change came home to older cops the first time they heard Dispatch repeat "One at gunpoint!" while they were a hundred feet from the car, around behind the building and still hearing their cover unit roaring in from a block away. And then consider the relief brought by that unit, replying ". . .one minute out!" That one advance took the street cop from the baton-ringing, whistle-blowing lone sentry into being part of a cohesive team, able to coordinate with others at a distance beyond the range of a shout. The car replaced the horse, the MDT replaced the TeleType hot sheet, even the Gamewell simply replaced the Twilight Bark . . .but the portable radio replaced empty and sometimes-unanswered PRAYER.
This was the #LAPD then. Now they have lower hiring standards, homosexuals, transexuals, and females (aka feminists). Whether he be a male wearing a dress, or a female wearing a military or police uniform (feminazi), all forms of cross-dressing are a demonstration of bisexual anthropology and a perversion of God’s order of creation. Sadly, today, gender confusion has even infiltrated churches.
Ethetical approach - the idea that their sons and daughters, grandsons and grand daughters, great grandsons and grand daughters will ensure a spot in a lucrative field thanks to neptism in the LAPD from so long ago.
Ethetical approach - the idea that their sons and daughters, grandsons and grand daughters, great grandsons and grand daughters will ensure a spot in a lucrative field thanks to neptism in the LAPD from so long ago.
Every time I see a guy 6’6 200 lbs I say when I was a kid that’s how big LAPD were for a reason and they look at me strange and I say you know why ? They can’t figure it out I say for the safety of them and the situation unbelievable how dumb people have gotten
Many of those mentally sick went into politics, and other mentally sick people voted for them and Many years later, we see the results of their policies lol
Those Motorola radios were the exact type I used when I first started my Fire Service career. I always remember our dispatch saying KMH-217 every time we communicated with them. When I retired we had multi-band digital systems, CAD Systems, GPS Location and programmable hand held radios. Almost forgot Cellphones too! Really enjoyed watching this. Tank you!
Our Santa Monica Fire dispatcher would use say KMA and the full identifier was KMA367 for LAPD. I learned that it had to do with FCC requirements for station identification every few hours.
I remember people of that time speaking about the lack of policemen and crime increased. It's funny that in the investigation of Rodney King's incident said that LAPD was too elite.
