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Two months after an audit raised questions about the LAPD's helicopter program, the agency defended its nearly round-the-clock flights above the city.
The ASD was established as the LAPD Helicopter Unit in 1956 with one Hiller UH-12C three-seat helicopter. They added a second helicopter in 1963 and a third in 1965 after the Watts Riots . [ 4 ] The city operated Bell 47 G and 47J model helicopters.
It is home to the Los Angeles Police Department's Air Support Division which is the largest metropolitan police aviation unit in the U.S. with 16 helicopters. The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for the LAPD motor pool including marked and unmarked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.
A civilian panel rules the officers' action was justified, even as its account throws the role of LAPD helicopters under new scrutiny. A man with a knife was shot by police. Then an LAPD ...
Two groups studying the effects of helicopters on the health of county residents are suing the L.A. County Sheriff's Department over records on its chopper fleet.
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997.
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Major Crimes is an American police procedural starring Mary McDonnell as Captain (later Commander) Sharon Raydor originally airing on the TNT network. A spin-off of The Closer, Major Crimes follows the activities of the LAPD Major Crimes squad, charged with solving high-profile crimes in the city of Los Angeles, along with the members of the squad.