Trivia

1. Code 2 -6, meaning the call comes from the sixth floor at Parker Center. Never heard of it. That is just not true.

2. Detectives and ranking officers do not receive gold badges. Regardless of rank, LAPD badges are all alike with the exception of the civil service rank on the top banner.

3. The "Glass House" name for Parker Center comes from the streets, not the department. I think it is called that because from the street, it looks like it was made of glass. I forgot the reason given in the book, but it was wrong.

4. At one point, the detectives were driving from Panorama City to Chatsworth, yet the text said they were driving east. Wrong direction.

5. A "U" car is not the watch commander's go-fer. True, the officers call it the U-boat, but it is strictly to take crime reports by appointment - an all-shift task - very busy.

6. The author refers to units with a "The" . . . The RHD, The LAPD. Insiders never use that terminology . . . it is always just RHD or LAPD.

7. When the school principal was arrested, the author says that statements made before the Miranda warning may be inadmissible. The whole Miranda process is misunderstood - a common misconception among non-police types (and the liberal media, too). Any voluntary or spontaneous statements are admissible, regardless of the Miranda Warning. AND, officers do not need to advise arrestees of those rights, except after a person is in custody and not free to go AND only when officers question the arrestee. The only necessary Miranda Warnings are for juveniles - they need to be admonished immediately after the arrest. So, an officer can arrest a person and not admonish the arrestee, take the arrestee to an interview room and just sit there with him. When the arrestee asks questions or makes statements, anything said can be used as evidence. No admonishment is necessary. It is only when the officer asks questions AFTER THE ARREST or custodial situation develops that the warning must be read and each section affirmatively understood.

8. Miranda Rights are read to suspects from the back of the Officer's Field Notebook, a small notebook carried by every LAPD officer; not from the back of a business card. The rights are so detailed that they wouldn't fit on a business card (at least in print that could be read by a normal human).

9. Officers of the rank of Police Officer 2 do not have stripes. The first rank with stripes is P3 (Police Officer III) - they have two stripes like a military corporal.

10. There is no constantly staffed unit called the Department of Operations. There is an Office of Operations but it was strictly administrative and closed during non-business hours. OO as it is known is a command structure.

11. There was no such unit known as PDU (Public Disorder Unit). There was a division known as Public Disorder Intelligence Division (PDID), disbanded years ago.

12. It is "Little Tokyo", not "Japantown."

13. Directions given at murder of tow-truck driver were backwards - Tampa is west of Porter Ranch Dr., not east.

14. Murder on a freeway or freeway on/off ramp is NOT the jurisdiction of the CHP. CHP are merely traffic officers - any non-traffic crimes are the locals'.

15. There is no Detective First Grade - that is an east-coast thing. In LAPD, they are Detective I, II or III.

16. An Academy graduation ceremony with only 24 cadets? Unheard of . . .

17. No one receives a 10-day sentence at Van Nuys Jail. There are no sentenced prisoners in LAPD jails - in fact, there are rarely, if ever, any arraigned prisoners in LAPD jails