IVIV (12): LAPolice Reserves

[rich]

you guys remember in Serpico when joints are passed around in the NYPD
precinct squad room so they know what they're busting people for.
I wonder if this was prevalent throughout that time period at big city
PDs and the like

somehow I can't picture an old beat cop Bumper Morgan (William Holden)
in the Blue Knight (1973) indulging like that

seph Wambaugh, the ex-cop turned novelist whose Police Story began its
TV run in 1973, was responsible for the like-vintage TV miniseries The
Blue Knight. William Holden stars as Bumper Morgan, a 50 year old cop
on the verge of mandatory retirement. Morgan's last four days with the
LAPD are packed with incident, notably the trackdown of the brutal
murderer of a prostitute. Lee Remick plays Morgan's faithful lady
friend, who is anxious for her man to retire but who will tolerate no
criticism from anyone of the job the police are doing. Emmies went to
William Holden, director Robert Butler and editors Marjorie and Gene
Fowler Jr., while Lee Remick received an Emmy nomination. The film
itself is derivative at times (one chunk of dialogue is lifted bodily
from the Jane Fonda vehicle Klute), but otherwise is as realistic a
portrayal of police work as TV censors would allow in 1973

I do wonder about that realistic claim tho I do love William Holden

at one time I lived not too far from where FS is shot in the face in
Brooklyn--the area around when he's hopping on the roofs towards the
end of the movie

rich

On 10/29/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Maybe they were required to watch Mod Squad episodes so they could learn to
> talk like hep-daddies.
>
> LK
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>
>>
>>In Venice he worked Front Desk, Patrol, Vice, Narcotics, Special
>>Problems, Community Relations and the Juvenile Car.
>>_____
>>special problems? Juvenile Car (resurrection of the body no doubt) but
>>what might those special problems be? for the LAPD to use the lingo of
>>the time was pbly along the lines of How to talk to a Negro so forth
>>
>>On 10/29/09, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> As Fritz points out, the Watts riots were a great recruiting tool for the
>>> reserves, which is confirmed a few pages down, when Doc pays a call on
>>> Art
>>> Tweedle [the Tweedle Dum to the LAPD's Tweedle Dee?)
>>>
>>> Browsing around, though, I found a real-life counterpart to Art [yeah,
>>> yeah,
>>> I know, life imitates ...].  Note what it was that drew him to the
>>> reserves:
>>>
>>> http://www.loans4officers.com/noel.htm
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>
>