That was a long time ago, in a Los Angeles far away, my friend.
The LAPD of yesteryear used to regularly bust heads, but they've succumbed to the pc illness that's affected the rest of the state these days.
I can't tell you how many times they knocked me around when I was a kid. They were a force to be reckoned with back then, but no more.
LA PD Live working Incident Scanner just went up, three minutes ago.
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http://www.scanneralerts.com/2011/11/30/los-angeles-county-working-incident-3/