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This is Los Angeles.
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Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels,
as the Spaniards named her.
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The fastest growing city in the nation.
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It's been called
a bunch of suburbs in search of a city.
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And it's been called
the glamour capital of the world.
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A mecca for tourists,
a stopover for transients...
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a target for gangsters...
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a haven for those fleeing from winter,
a home for the hardworking.
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It is a city holding the hopes and dreams
of over two million people.
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It sprawls out horizontally over
452 square miles of valleys and upland...
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of foothills and beaches.
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Because of that vast area...
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and because of a population made up
of people from every state in the union...
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Los Angeles is the largest police beat
in the country...
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and one of the toughest.
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We're going to take you into the City Hall,
where police headquarters are located.
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Here, in Communications,
are the ears and voice of the police.
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The lights on the complaint board
flash 24 hours a day.
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Citizens reporting a prowler, a lost child,
a man molesting a woman...
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an auto accident, a wild party.
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Spend an hour or two here, and you'll think
the whole city has gone berserk.
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Minute by minute, the orders go out
to the radio cars in the far-flung divisions.
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Watts and Wilshire in West Los Angeles.
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Hollywood and Hollenbeck Heights
in North Hollywood.
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The work of the police, like that of woman,
is never done.
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This is the case history of a killer...
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taken from the files
of the Detective Division.
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The facts are told here as they happened.
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The story properly starts here
in Hollywood division headquarters...
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at 1.:00 of a June morning last year.