EDITORIAL RADIO FOR HELP.SO the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . needs new radios for its cops
badly. The old system has dead spots, especially in the San Fernando
Valley San Fernando ValleyValley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . And in 2007, the department won't even be able to buy replacement parts for its existing radio inventory. For months, city leaders have balked balk v. balked, balk·ing, balks v.intr. 1. To stop short and refuse to go on: The horse balked at the jump. 2. at buying new radios, saying the $43 million price tag was too high. To be fair, that did sound like a lot of money for a force of just 9,000 officers. But now the Police Commission has managed to negotiate the price down to $30 million, a significantly more manageable sum. That's still a lot of money, but it's less than the $37 million in cost overruns that city leaders are prepared to pay for a new $340 million LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. headquarters. And cops in the field need quality equipment far more than they need a fancy headquarters for the top brass. |
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