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Drag competition finals of Dragnet in Brooklyn, NY on June 20, 2013 hosted by Merrie Cherry and Untitled Queen at Metropolitan bar.
I was able to take these photos from the Blair Hills area (on a residential cul de sac) which is sandwiched between Baldwin Hills and Culver City just behind Ladera Heights and can be seen from La Cienega Blvd. near the entrance of Kenneth Hahn Park . I have seen this house ... I mean mansion before but never took any real notice till I heard about it on TV and recently saw it in the news paper. This old house sits in the middle of the Inglewood Oil Field with oil derricks as it's only neighbors.
The mansion has a very rich history and interesting dirt about some of Los Angeles high society folks back in the day.
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The Los Angeles Police Department, or LAPD, is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, with more than 9800 officers and 2700 staff. It serves a massive area of 1,290 km^2 and a population of 4,030,904. The LAPD has a history of both proud media appearances and controversies related to racism, police brutality and corruption.
Early policing in Los Angeles were volunteer forces, including the Los Angeles Rangers in 1853 and the Los Angeles City Guards. As neither were quite effective in bringing law and order to the community, the first paid force was established in 1869 under City Marshal William Warren. Even in 1900, the LAPD remained a minuscule 70 officers, and Los Angeles became known for its vice and corruption. In 1933, the LAPD first interacted with the media when CBS released the first police drama show Calling All Cars. During WWII the LAPD was overwhelmed by the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, when white Navy sailors began attacking mostly Hispanic locals for being "unpatriotic" wearing the fabric-heavy Zoot Suits. Chief of Police Clemence Horrall was forced to resign in 1949 after getting caught up in the Brenda Allen vice scandal. After a brief tenure by Marine Corps Maj Gen William Worton, the Chief of Police went to William Parker. In 1951 seven civilians, two whites and five Hispanics, were severely beaten by police officers. The Bloody Christmas attack lead to five convictions by officers of the LAPD.
Also in 1951, the TV show Dragnet was first released. Starring fictional police Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet became one of the most famous and influential police procedural dramas in history. With a focus on realism and based on real incidents of the LAPD ("Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent."), Dragnet was praised by police and went on from 1951-1959, 1967-1970, 1989-1991, and 2003-2004. A frequent guest was Police Chief William Parker, who in the 1950s began reforming the LAPD to become a professional force. While greatly reducing corruption, standardizing the police academy and enacting a more proactive policing approach, Parker also militarized the LAPD, creating SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team in 1965 following the Watts Riots and had a confrontational approach to crime, coining the term "the Thin Blue Line". He was willfully blind to racial issues, desegregating the police force in 1962 but otherwise leading the LAPD through ever-increasing charges of police brutality, especially among Hispanics and African-Americans.
After Parker, Thomas Reddin became the Chief of Police, introducing community policing and attempting to modernize the LAPD. In 1978 Daryl Gates, one of the founders of SWAT, became Chief of Police. As a crime wave hit South Central Los Angeles, Gates established DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) with the Rotary Club and CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) to deal with the problems through the community, and finally Special Order 40, prohibiting police officers from stopping people for the sole purpose of obtaining immigration status. Gates also instituted Operation Hammer, massive 1000 officer sweeps through South Los Angeles, an extremely controversial venture that resulted in 25000 arrests (most without charge). In 1991 Rodney King was arrested and then beaten by officers of the LAPD. As the video of the beating appeared, Gates and the LAPD came under fierce criticism for police brutality. Gates was called by Mayor Tom Bradley to resign, but refused. On the day the indicted police officers' verdict was to be released, Gates, who finally agreed to resign, sent the day shift home. As the Rodney King Riots began, he told reporters that everything would be under control and then left for a fundraiser. As Los Angeles erupted into flames of looting, arson and riots, Gates and the LAPD were seen as, at best, incompetent and incapable of handling the situation; at worse, acting spitefully to punish the city for not supporting the police force.
In 1997, Chief of Police Bernard Parks was credited with a significant reduction in gang-related violence in Southern Los Angeles. However the Rampart police brutality and corruption scandal related to CRASH (involving unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, stealing and dealing narcotics, bank robbery, perjury, and the covering up of evidence of these activities) ended his term. He was replaced by William Bratton, who promoted the "Broken Window" theory. The LAPD is now under Chief of Police Charles Beck.
The LAPD is now located here in the 2009 New Police Administration Building, immediately adjacent to Los Angeles City Hall, reflected in the windows.
Downtown, Los Angeles, California
Located at 3210 W 54th St, Los Angeles, CA.
The Institute of Musical Art was founded in 1922.
A site with significant musical History. It was declared a historical / cultural land mark No.344 by the L.A. Cultural Heritage Affairs Dept. in 1988
The Institute of Musical Arts is a multi-faceted cultural and event center featuring a Tea Room, Performance Space, and Recording Studio.
Into this world to eat and to sleep
And to know no reason why he was born, Save to consume the corn,
Devour the cattle, flock and fish, And leave behind an empty dish.
from my vintage ad collection...
While in my back yard helping my handyman with some work he was doing I heard a lot of cars blowing their horns right before the crash but when my air compressor came on little did I know that was the moment of impact. The driver of a white Ford van going north on the south bound side of Crenshaw Blvd. struck 2 cars with the Lincoln and it’s occupants receiving the brunt of the force from the collision. The couple that were in the Lincoln had to be freed from their vehicle with the Jaws of Life by the L.A.F.D. The crash which took place around 2:25p.m.Tuse. 9/30/15 at the intersection of 54th street & Crenshaw blvd in the Angeles Mesa area near Leimert Park of South L.A. The driver of the gray Cadillac was uninjured and the driver of the van and driver and passenger of the Lincoln are reported to be in critical condition per NBC News. The investigation was reported as still on going to determine why the van was traveling the wrong way.
"We want to be free... Free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!" It started out with old classics and lowriders and Harleys converging on the bridge and a car show broke out. Then some knuckle head brought unnecessary attention to the whole thing by lighting a smoke canister / bomb. From the distance I guess it looked as if some one was doing a burn out. The L.A.P.D. comes and breaks up the show. But as the photos prove the SHOW still went on.... UNDER THE BRIDGE.
Car appears to have flame thrower mechanism going to the pipes.
Hey we are filming here you can not take pictures here. Who are you and who are you with? I'm no body.
You don't look like a nobody with that camera and large lens. You need to delete those pictures now.
Sez who, it's a public street I aint on your property.
You need to go now no more pictures and delete your pictures.
What about the car, are you going to start it up, what's it sound like, are the pipes for decoration or does the car sound like somethin' mean.
No you need to go now, no we are not going to start the car.
Well why don't you put a tarp up on the fence so when people drive by they can't see what you are doing.
( My dealing with the camera Nazi)
Down by the 6th Street Bridge construction in East L.A.
Car appears to have flame thrower mechanism going to the pipes.
Hey we are filming here you can not take pictures here. Who are you and who are you with? I'm no body.
You don't look like a nobody with that camera and large lens. You need to delete those pictures now.
Sez who, it's a public street I aint on your property.
You need to go now no more pictures and delete your pictures.
What about the car, are you going to start it up, what's it sound like, are the pipes for decoration or does the car sound like somethin' mean.
No you need to go now, no we are not going to start the car.
Well why don't you put a tarp up on the fence so when people drive by they can't see what you are doing.
( My dealing with the camera Nazi)
Down by the 6th Street Bridge construction in East L.A.
"It's awkward having a policeman around the house. Friends drop in, a man with a badge answers the door, the temperature drops 20 degrees.
EL REY TACOS my favorite place to go when I crave a gr8 burrito or taco. I usually get the Combination which is beef, bean, cheese and red sauce burrito with extra cheese and onions. If you ever ate at the Pup N' Taco back in the 60's and 70s you more then likely had their killer Combination burrito, well EL REYS taste just like it. Taco Bell and del Taco don't have a clue how to make good food, in my humble opinion, lol. It's a mystery to me why T. BELL & Del are still in business.