I've read a lot of threads and posts here over the years, but this one has to rate as one of the best by far!
My department, the Suffolk County PD is fifty years old, and has a history of its own, but nothing like that of the LAPD and the sort.
Keep the stories coming you dinosaurs!

As an aside, my first issued duty pistol was a Smith 64-3 in a Jordan Border Patrol holster with 158 +p SWCHP rounds and dump pouches. That was in the fall of '82 so I guess I qualify as a bit of a dinosaur myself- life is good...

And not to completely hijack this thread, God Bless the boys of the Onion Field- their sacrifice can never be forgotten. And if not for them, the use of the BUG may not have happened so soon and so swiftly.

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jd SWCA #3276