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Radio-the Criminal's
by
Lionel White,
• Especially posed for RADIO DOINGS by Officers Hubert Larimer, ). R. Stephens, and W. A. Rathburn, of the Los Angeles Police Department.
THE low, powerful black touring car pulled up silently into the shadows of the building. Four men quickly alighted; a fifth sat slouched over the steering wheel, his engine idling, one hand on his gear shift, the other caressing the blunt end of a cold, grey gun.
It didn't take the four who had left the car more than a minute to jimmy the back door of the brooding building. A second later and they were in the jewelry store.
The whole thing was accomplished in less than five minutes. But even as they rushed back to their car, two men carrying bulging black satchels, the other two with sawed off shot guns slung across their arms, it happened.
• A screech of brakes, the quick rat-a-tat-tat of a sub-machine gun, a police siren. It was over almost as soon as it had started. Two of
the running bandits dropped in their tracks, the man at the wheel fired once and slumped to the floor boards; the other pair threw their hands into the air.
To the bandits it was phenomenal — it was more; it was death and prison. To the police it was merely another case in which radio was successfully used in the detection of crime.
For the case actually happened. The police of Los Angeles made the coup within a month of the day they began systematically to use short wave broadcasting to clear the city of crime.
Los Angeles is not the first city to make use of radio in an effort to prevent crime. Detroit pioneered several years ago. Chicago, Buffalo and a half dozen other eastern metropolises rapidly followed suit.
• The startling rapidity with which it is possible for a radio equipped car to arrive on the scene of a crime has brought home to police officials everywhere the fact that the use of radio is the greatest boon to the forces of the law in more than a
— the Rat-a-tat-tat of a Machine Gun — a Police Siren —
century. According to Captain Hawtrey, in charge of the radio division of the Los Angeles police, the average time it takes a car to get to the scene, find out what's wrong and phone in a report is exactly three minutes.
There are forty-five radio equipped cars covering the city of Los Angeles. They are more efficient than four hundred patrolmen could be. The system is comparatively simple. There is an operating room and microphone at a secluded part of the city hall. A half dozen men sit at the phone continuously and take reports. Reports of everything, from a mad dog to a stickup, a drunken driver to abank robbery.
Less than a minute after the report is in, the broadcast goes out. The car cruising the district in which the accident or crime is taking place is called. All cars get the
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