
Neal Boenzi/The New York Times. Harlem Streetlight Demonstration, May 20, 1964.

© Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1936, LAPD
Suspects line up during a Los Angeles Police Department “show-up,” now known as a lineup, as victims or witnesses try to identify alleged crime perpetrators.

U.S. Bureau of Standards develops a Dick Tracy transmitter which can broadcast messages for a mile! 1947

Man gets a ticket for littering as part of the New York clean up campaign
(Mark Kauffman. 1950)

by
Sabine WeissNew York, 1961
Back in the day I found one of those double-breasted police jackets in one of the boxes of used clothing outside the front of Canal Jeans (before they got respectable…anyone remember that place?) and wore it around (sans badge) in my longhair days until it lost a couple of buttons…wonder what happened to it?

1950’s Pachuco is pulled over NO IT’S NOT A MOVIE IT’S REAL ! It was on Vermont and 3rd in LA