Explores the life of a police officer in Washington D.C. in the 1960's and shows how police help keep a community together. Sound flutter clears at 0:28 / @16mmeducationalfilms
My grandfather was an officer with the MPDC from 1969 to 1979. He died in the line of duty. These videos are special to me, with him not talking much about his experiences, and knowing he watched this video at one point while in the academy. God bless our boys in blue!
I walked a beat in old #2 Precinct in 1968 and we did not have a portable radio. I “pulled a box” every hour in the half. It took about thee months before I was assigned to a cruiser, but I do recall being required to report potholes & streetlights that were out.
Grandfather was Officer Richard Giguere, I believe of the 1st district. He died in the line of duty flying with Juno Jack on June 6, 1979. I still have his brass key to one of the call boxes. Thank you, for your service to our community. I'm so proud of my grandpa, even though I never met him. Matthew 5:9
I joined in 1970 and we had about 10 radios so after the vice and old clothes guys got the radios you walk a beat with just your call box key for coms.Notice the officer is carrying a baton,you never went on the street with out yours.The old timer complained they didn’t get short sleeved shirts till after the D.C. transit strike.
It's interesting how people think racial relations were awful back then, which is simply untrue. Sure, in rural Mississippi, if you're black, you might want to get out of there, but in your average American land of suburbia, racial relations were really exceptional. My grandfather was an officer with the MPDC from 1970 to 1979, when he lost his life in the line of duty, alongside one of his good friends, a black officer. I love these old films, knowing he had watched them and took notes on them. It's a look into his life he seldom talked about, and I never got to meet him, which truly pains me.
Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this WITHOUT a watermark or false-intellectual property mark. I hate seeing public-domain films and photos being monopolized upon because one asshole has the only copy online. These Metropolitan Police Department videos have a special place in my heart. Thank you SO MUCH, for real!
You are very welcome! So glad to hear you enjoyed it - had it laying around in my basement for 25 years - almost threw them all out when I retired from teaching but found a way to convert them to digital - small miracle :)
Actually my grandfather was a BLACK DC POLICE OFFICER during this time, and talked about how the WHITE officers where the most corrupt during that time.
One time in my Sr. year of high school I was drinking in a bar with a buddy of mine on a school night we left about midnight and we were fucking hammer on the way home we side swipe five cars and t- bone a city bus and got away with it.I guess I always felt bad for those poor bastards..
The good ole days huh? Well if only there wasn't all that segregation and racism going on back then, it would be a alright decade to admire honestly. Times have certainly changed. Crazy how this was 50 some years ago
Racial relations were actually really good in American suburbia for the time period. Yeah, if you're black and in the middle of butt-fuck Mississippi, you might experience a slur or two, but for the most part, things were decent in your average town. My grandfather walked a beat in DC from 1970 to his death in the line of duty in 1979, and many of his friends within the department were black.
Shit segregation was over with in those days. The friend of the black community LBJ had signed it into law. No more segregation. Yet we have Obuma and Jim Crow Joe to take racism to a record high.
