LAPD: Life on the Beat (1995)

Genre

reality television

Country

United States

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This reality series follows Los Angeles police officers as they go on patrol and respond to calls. It shows routine incidents, vice operations, and SWAT situations across different LAPD stations.

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What happens

LAPD: Life on the Beat (sometimes referred to individually as LAPD or Life on the Beat) is an American reality television series that follows officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, as they respond to various incidents within their division's jurisdiction. The program aired in first-run syndication from September 11, 1995, to September 10, 1999. Like its contemporary, COPS, LAPD follows police officers on patrol and during investigations. Unlike COPS, Life on the Beat only features police officers from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The series was originally titled as simply LAPD for its first season in 1995, before adopting the expanded title in 1996, in conjunction with the introduction of an upgraded graphical look. A typical episode featured four segments, a cold case story and usually a quiz relating to police statistics. Unlike COPS, Life on the Beat features incidental music and a narrator. At the time of the series, the LAPD still had only 18 stations, so camera crews would cover as many stations as possible and had episodes featuring multiple areas of Los Angeles. Episodes featured routine patrol, vice units, gang units, and even SWAT calls. Many segments also feature the Air Support Division. For a large amount of patrol-based segments, cameras flip back and forth between ground and aerial angles. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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