One year in 77th can pack in as much instructive mayhem as two or three years somewhere else. The police are what’s between them and the bad guy.” The good people in the division always supported the police. Lest it sound unseemly that someone should find a thrill in misfortune, riding the police radio from calamity to calamity, there is the other reason a cop may prefer these parts to more decorous divisions, whose citizens can make a cop feel like the “servant” in “civil servant.” And after spending 20 years here, Officer Jack Reidy puts it forth as succinctly as anyone: “You get the feeling you are accomplishing things because the bad guys and the good people are distinguishable. “Yeah, we’re in here trying to conduct business and these bastards were shooting at each other right out in front of the station.” The assistant watch commander is on the phone, his voice cool and amused. The 289 miles of streets in 77th offer life at Mach 2, get-your-heart-pumping duty, more jolting than the battery-acid Folger’s on the assistant watch commander’s desk.
“That’s part of the spice of life,” purred a ranking officer who worked here years ago. Whether or not a cop has read his Hemingway, these are trophies, the bad guy’s manly equipment right there on a shelf in your basement. Heaped on its shelves like the take from some wartime surrender are the yellow-tagged guns gathered up just in 77th and just since the first of the year: shotguns, rifles, pistols by the hundreds, AR-15s and AK-47s. The basement property room in 77th is a concrete-lined chamber that once was part of a subterranean pistol range. The fortune says: “Your luck has been completely changed today.”
Some sly hand taped it up at precisely the level a man’s eye will seek as he leans forward to be inspected by an officer who snaps on a pair of thin black rubber gloves for the task. On a wall of the booking room, an antique cubicle of glass and wire, is a fortune from a fortune cookie. Two thousand people a month are brought through the 77th station in handcuffs. It has a per capita murder rate higher even than Washington, D.C., the nation’s newly proclaimed murder capital. On average, fewer people are murdered in 20 American states than were killed in the 77th last year. In the record year of 1987, 155 people were murdered-often victims of the street war, fueled by drugs, that crackles around it. More rapes, more robberies, more assaults. The 77th by the numbers: More yellow crime-scene tape gets strung up in this division than anywhere else in the city. Someone will be there when they can.” Early on a Friday evening, the screens of the Digicom MDT-800 two-way computers in police cars are already imploring: “Holding 12 calls. “I know, but there’s unfortunately about six calls ahead of you. The payroll figures were calculated by combining the January 2023 roster with 2022 payroll data.“Here you are on the list, ma’am,” a cop at the front desk tells the distressed voice on the phone. Police move between divisions, and some might have multiple assignments, so this information might be out of date or We can’t vouch for the information beyond that. The officers listed above were assigned to this division as of January 2023, according to a roster LAPD published that month. Weaponry, munitions, other equipment and supplies, vehicles, real estate, facilities, administrative overhead, civilian employees, liability, and That does not include any other costs such as The city's total 2022 payroll costs for sworn personnel in this division was approximately $34,597,418.12, including Watch The Watchers Watch The Watchers A Project by the stop lapd spying coalition 77th Division 335 cops
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