LAPD "The 25th Man" 1962

A documentary about the application process and academy training to be a Los Angeles Policeman. Vintage views of Elysian Park Academy and Police Administration Building.

[@melokc7257]

I miss California in the 60s what a great state it was. Too overcrowded now.

[@copshopl.a.1797]

Great Video! Thanks for sharing

[@knockonolan]

Thanks for uploading!

[@2113pinch]

This must be before DEI and lower standards. 😂👍🏾

[@stinkypete891]

Back then you just had to be a Hillbilly married to your sister and you were hired.

[@sudaev]

They were lowering standards decades ago. It was the same back in the late 80s and 90s, believe it or not.

[@abashardoust]

Fantastic!

[@ApartmentKing66]

A Public Service Feature of KRCA-TV before they changed call letters and became KNBC later in 1962.

[@RichardCockerill]

maryjane a felony

[@MikeTrujillo-fd2fn]

Back then, it was easy to become a cop? 👮

[@joeguzman3558]

When you needed to qualify for a job

[@graygeorge9887]

Those cholos at 14:47 look pretty hardcore.

[@MikeTrujillo-fd2fn]

All these cops 👮 are gone 💀 now? 🙄

[@eddiel.4108]

Ethetical approach - the idea that their sons and daughters, grandsons and grand daughters, great grandsons and grand daughters will ensure a spot in a lucrative field thanks to neptism in the LAPD from so long ago.

[@joeguzman3558]

The ones who didn't pass the syecatric exam quality for government office

[@Roddy556]

What about the ones that failed the spelling test?

[@Tahoe_Z71]

Lol. Days LONG gone.
Abolish qualified immunity.

[@daschmidtz]

Learn what it is first

[@rudeboy6627]

🤡🤡

[@MightyMick88]

Was The Beat magazine for gay cops? 25:36

[@rapman5791]

Only the closeted ones

[@eddiel.4108]

Ethetical approach - the idea that their sons and daughters, grandsons and grand daughters, great grandsons and grand daughters will ensure a spot in a lucrative field thanks to neptism in the LAPD from so long ago.

[@IDNHANTU2day]

You are so wrong. Did you just wake up some morning with this F U idea?