C. Erwin Piper Technical Center, 555 Ramirez Street, Space 320, Los Angeles, California 90012, USA City of Los Angeles. City Archives and Records Center http://clerk.lacity.org/city-archives-and-records-center michael.holland@lacity.org public domain; released under license Creative Commons CC0 "no rights reserved"; please credit "University of Southern California Digital Library
Description
A demonstration of LAPD police technology in need of improvement: command, control, computers, communications, ca. 1967. Includes LAPD Chief of Police Thomas Reddin. Views of downtown Los Angeles include: City Hall (200 North Los Angeles Street), Parker Center (150 North Los Angeles Street) and the Port of Los Angeles. Includes 1966 Los Angeles Police Department statistics. Includes footage of the 1965 Watts riots.
Type
moving image
Format
1 film reel (17:02): sound, color 16mm, optical documentary films video/mp4
Promotional film showing police communications at work Reddin, Thomas, 1916-2004
Place
150 North Los Angeles Street 200 North Spring Street 34.052249,-118.241277 34.053856,-118.243108 California Los Angeles Watts Parker Center Los Angeles City Hall USA ca. 1967
Source
Los Angeles City Archives [Contributing entity] disk 1938194; original filename LAPD_FILM_INSTANT_COP.avi; original filename InstantCop.mp4 [Identifier]
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