Posted: 1/17/2013 9:32:15 AM EDT
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Sorry to add such a superfluous subject but...
A local channel was running it regularly and my wife got me a Netflix subscription for Christmas so I've been catching up. I'm just a podunk but I swear the calls these guys get and their interactions with citizens and each other could be taken from any random shift of mine. I'm amazed they actually shot this show on location (most of the time) and how well they play their roles - from serious to comedic. What do those of you who've watched it think? Start at 14:40: Adam 12 - Pumpkin |
I remember watching most of the originals, not re-runs 1970 it was my favorite show, watched it in B&W no color TV for me until 1976.
On Edit: 1970 is when I can remember watching it for sure, I think it came out in 68 maybe 69. Had one uncle that was a cop and one that was a firefighter I wanted to be a cop for the longest time growing up. Then I came to my senses and scored too high on the civil service exam and became a firefighter. Being a cop and dealing with asshole after asshole day in and day out, would suck. |
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I love the show from a nostalgia viewpoint, but watching it after a 30+ year break, I loved the show even more. As a kid I thought it was cool, but as an adult I really didnt remember how dark a few of the episodes were. The first episode with Malloy riding out his last days when he gets assigned Reed, then deciding he wasnt going to walk away from the job. A later episode with Malloy loosing it and beating a suspect (may have been a child molester), the episode ends with the Sergeant telling Malloy he'll take some days off and if he's lucky he wont lose his job.
Dragnet is still a good show too. The episode that still gets me (and the wife cried the 2 times she has seen it) was when they were working a shooting of two officers, a veteran and a rookie. The two wives handled it in different ways, but at the end when the veteran succumbs to his injuries and his family is arriving, the wife lost it when her son arrives to comfort his mother in uniform and he is also a cop. Those 2 shows will always be special to me. |
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I remember watching most of the originals, not re-runs 1970 it was my favorite show, watched it in B&W no color TV for me until 1976.
On Edit: 1970 is when I can remember watching it for sure, I think it came out in 68 maybe 69. Had one uncle that was a cop and one that was a firefighter I wanted to be a cop for the longest time growing up. Then I came to my senses and scored too high on the civil service exam and became a firefighter. Being a cop and dealing with asshole after asshole day in and day out, would suck. Sorry to hear you wasted all that aptitude. I kid, I kid, the world needs more swimming pools and people to build them. Bah-domp-bah 
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I remember watching most of the originals, not re-runs 1970 it was my favorite show, watched it in B&W no color TV for me until 1976.
On Edit: 1970 is when I can remember watching it for sure, I think it came out in 68 maybe 69. Had one uncle that was a cop and one that was a firefighter I wanted to be a cop for the longest time growing up. Then I came to my senses and scored too high on the civil service exam and became a firefighter. Being a cop and dealing with asshole after asshole day in and day out, would suck. Sorry to hear you wasted all that aptitude. I kid, I kid, the world needs more swimming pools and people to build them. Bah-domp-bah
Re-read my last line, that sums it up. I made the right choice for myself. FF uncle always enjoyed going to work, and happy when he came home, the cop uncle was not so happy, this was the big thing that swayed me. I talk to the cops at work, you have the one's that absolutly love the job and play the game with bad guys and those that, are not so happy but feel stuck with the good paycheck and do not know where to go. It is funny to watch the cops play head games with bad guys. Sadly too many times you cops only get to deal with "good" people when you are giving them a ticket. |
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I think I only saw 4 or 5 episodes of that show....ever.
It must have run on ABC in its prime time life, because it ran til '74 and I know we never watched it when I was a kid.....and we didn't get ABC over the antenna back then. I've been watching an episode or two a day since this thread surfaced....kind of nostalgic, seeing the old gear, cars, tactics etc. |
| I've never watched that show until I clicked the link above. Watched the whole episode. Pretty damn realistic. Funny that you guys are saying that show is 40ish years old and the calls are some of the same ones we respond to today, the technology and gear is just newer. |
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I've never watched that show until I clicked the link above. Watched the whole episode. Pretty damn realistic. Funny that you guys are saying that show is 40ish years old and the calls are some of the same ones we respond to today, the technology and gear is just newer. The funny thing is - with laptops, in-car printers, and all the other new-fangled stuff that make us "more better" - take it all away and it's the same thing. I despise the tech. that's pushed on us through grants, etc. because it takes the focus off of how we need to be as if having it will make up for character flaws or the inability to communicate with ANYONE effectively. There's a place for some of it but most is just throwing tax dollars at something hoping it'll "improve" things, when things don't necessarily need improving. There seems to be a constant push that indicates we NEED to do something for the sake of doing something and so we can justify "our" existence (admin. types). Y'know, let's have a meeting so we can plan and schedule the next meeting. I could go on but I'm not typing anything you folks don't already know. Sermon's over. |
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The funny thing is - with laptops, in-car printers, and all the other new-fangled stuff that make us "more better" - take it all away and it's the same thing. I despise the tech. that's pushed on us through grants, etc. because it takes the focus off of how we need to be as if having it will make up for character flaws or the inability to communicate with ANYONE effectively. There's a place for some of it but most is just throwing tax dollars at something hoping it'll "improve" things, when things don't necessarily need improving. There seems to be a constant push that indicates we NEED to do something for the sake of doing something and so we can justify "our" existence (admin. types). Y'know, let's have a meeting so we can plan and schedule the next meeting. There are areas where the etch means we can do a better job. Plate readers, for isntance In theory electronic tickets are better and quicker. In practice, taking your eyes off the car and its occupants for the length of time needed to complete the ticket is bad news. They need to put the ticket / report writing software into a mini tablet that you can carry or hold in such a way as you could with the old ticket books. Or carry into a scene to write out your report there,a s you could with the old paper forms. |
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The funny thing is - with laptops, in-car printers, and all the other new-fangled stuff that make us "more better" - take it all away and it's the same thing. I despise the tech. that's pushed on us through grants, etc. because it takes the focus off of how we need to be as if having it will make up for character flaws or the inability to communicate with ANYONE effectively. There's a place for some of it but most is just throwing tax dollars at something hoping it'll "improve" things, when things don't necessarily need improving. There seems to be a constant push that indicates we NEED to do something for the sake of doing something and so we can justify "our" existence (admin. types). Y'know, let's have a meeting so we can plan and schedule the next meeting. There are areas where the etch means we can do a better job. Plate readers, for isntance In theory electronic tickets are better and quicker. In practice, taking your eyes off the car and its occupants for the length of time needed to complete the ticket is bad news. They need to put the ticket / report writing software into a mini tablet that you can carry or hold in such a way as you could with the old ticket books. Or carry into a scene to write out your report there,a s you could with the old paper forms. Am I the only one that cringes when someone suggests additional technology to supplement other technology that was supposed to replace something simple like a ticket book? I'm glad I'm not a Chief or Sheriff. If I had someone asking for an electronic handheld ticket writer that they could hold like an "old" ticket book after we already spent money on computer software and printers to do tickets, I would just reissue ticket books and enjoy the sweet sounds of rookies complaining of writers' cramp again. |
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Am I the only one that cringes when someone suggests additional technology to supplement other technology that was supposed to replace something simple like a ticket book? I'm glad I'm not a Chief or Sheriff. If I had someone asking for an electronic handheld ticket writer that they could hold like an "old" ticket book after we already spent money on computer software and printers to do tickets, I would just reissue ticket books and enjoy the sweet sounds of rookies complaining of writers' cramp again. I'm not saying supplement the software. I'm saying that when they went to electronic tickets and reports, they should make it a format thats portable and doesn't put the officers at risk The switch from paper is inevitable. There is no going back. Paper tickets still exist as a fallback, but the courts and I suspect the state aren't even set up to handle them anymore. There is no going back. So lets make the technology work better. I don't even know if the younger guys even know how to write one out without stumbling through the process. |
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Oh man, don't get me started. Our state recently revamped our paper tickets to include ORIs and dept. specific bar codes. I had to order a minimum of 1,000 tickets at a cost of about $850. I've been here almost 12.5 years and we haven't gone through more than 500 in that time - I'm a podunk and am proud of it! I'm betting that the state will start tweaking them soon making the expenditure a huge waste of tax dollars (comparative to our small size) when we need to get the "better" version.
Then a month or two later we get the in-car printers on a grant. Gee, maybe since we were going that way, although not a statewide thing, you could have said "if a dept. is going with e-citations, they are exempt from the new paper tickets". The problem then would be, what happens when the printer goes down. It was truly a case of "there's grant money out there, let's get some" not taking into account the need OR the fact that the state had just made our tickets "better". Now it's a case of either/or and more crap in the car that can get f'ed up. What I wouldn't give for a week or two in 1978 to be driving a Dodge Monaco or Plymouth Fury, shotgun in the rack, 12 rounds on my belt and 6 in my K-frame, a couple of pens, a notepad, some tickets, a flashlight and comfort in the knowledge that my word didn't need to be backed up by audio/video. I love using our old back-up squad when the primary's being serviced because it's functional but basic - amazingly one can still perform one's duties in it. My license was activated in 1999 when I was 23 and several months out of college and I still long for the "old days" of which I have no actual knowledge. |
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I started in 1980 and retired in '06.
We still had one 440 Mopar in the fleet, for my first year I was assigned to it, cause it was the oldest pile we had. The rear gears howled so loud that dispatch thought I was rolling code when I keyed the mike. But that thing flew...and sounded like it was going to suck the hood through the big Carter AFB when you stood on it. And talk about room... It was certainly a simpler time when I began that when I retired. |