Great news guys, I've just found a site hosting the old seasons of COPS! Some episodes are missing and the quality isn't the best but hey, it's still better than nothing. This is the site in question, I am not sure if it's against the rules to post it and if that'd be the case I would remove it if asked so. I'd just recommend to use adblock or something like that and antivirus; I haven't got any problem yet but you never know with those video hosting sites.

Some Miami Vice here

On 3/8/2016 at 10:59 AM, strike said:

Great news guys, I've just found a site hosting the old seasons of COPS! Some episodes are missing and the quality isn't the best but hey, it's still better than nothing. This is the site in question, I am not sure if it's against the rules to post it and if that'd be the case I would remove it if asked so. I'd just recommend to use adblock or something like that and antivirus; I haven't got any problem yet but you never know with those video hosting sites.

Strike, you've hit a goldmine as far as I'm concerned.  Some of the earliest, and by far the most insightful into the past, episodes are now available.  What's listed as S7E34 is the first half of the two-parter NYPD special from the early 1990s.  Unfortunately it's the one without the elevator and water rescue clips, but it's still great!

Supposedly there was an episode done on the Street Crime Unit as well, but I've yet to find or ever see any clips from that one.

Edited March 22, 201610 yr by FCV96

On 15/3/2016 at 10:20 PM, Hastings said:

Some Miami Vice here

Posted those a while back, with a bunch of additional pics of the 1980's Miami from the Miami Herald site, here, if you want to check them out. Thanks for the contribution anyway! By the way, is the last one with the Army guys from the Liberty City riots?

9 hours ago, FCV96 said:

Strike, you've hit a goldmine as far as I'm concerned.  Some of the earliest, and by far the most insightful into the past, episodes are now available.  What's listed as S7E34 is the first half of the two-parter NYPD special from the early 1990s.  Unfortunately it's the one without the elevator and water rescue clips, but it's still great!

Supposedly there was an episode done on the Street Crime Unit as well, but I've yet to find or ever see any clips from that one.

It's kind of annoying the fact that many of them are either missing or have the wrong link, so thanks for the episode reference, I had already given up with that one. On that matter, seems that there's an episode about the NYC Transit Dept as well, but it's unfortunately missing too. I think they may be adding the missing episodes though; when I first posted the link I believe that either the Alaska, Portland and some others weren't even hosted so hopefully every of them will eventually be uploaded.

Few more pics from Miami.

North Miami Police seize garbage bags of marijuana during drug raid, 1978.

Weapons drug bust, sometime in the 1980's. Guys look like SWAT officers. I'm guessing Miami too.

Miami Police car pins taxi cab against rail. Something about a bank robbery said the caption.

Let's bring some Italy to this post



One of the two Ferrari 250 GTE that were operated by the Squadra Mobile (sort of a rapid response unit) in Rome



Fiat 1100 operated by the Polizia di Stato (State Police, the main law enforcement agency)



Alfa Romeo Giulia Super used by the Carabinieri, a branch of the Italian Army that serves as law enforcement agency



Alfa Romeo Alfetta of the Polizia di Stato



Fiat Campagnola used by the Vigili Urbani (metropolitan police) iin Turin



Another Alfa Romeo Giulia, this time operated by the Polizia di Stato

Cars used by Polizia di Stato are called Pantera (Panther), by the Carabinieri are called Gazzella (Gazelle), and an unmarked car is called Civetta (Owl)

Edited March 22, 201610 yr by powasheep

 

8 hours ago, strike said:

Posted those a while back, with a bunch of additional pics of the 1980's Miami from the Miami Herald site, here, if you want to check them out. Thanks for the contribution anyway! By the way, is the last one with the Army guys from the Liberty City riots?

Ah damn. must have overlooked that. Took those pictures from another site, actually, never traced the original. My bad. 

Check out what shows up at 8:43! I never realized how great the Fox LTD looked in LASD livery - Credit to Strike for the link, once again. :D

http://vidzi.tv/dja430qvxejt.html

Edited March 23, 201610 yr by FCV96

This was just posted to the PPB facebook page. A throwback to when officers would give out Portland Trailblazer basketball trading cards to kids.

 

 

4-2 PCT Volare, 170th and Charlotte in the Bronx, NYC, 1980:

Edited April 11, 201610 yr by LtFlash

57 minutes ago, LtFlash said:

Two things:

1) That's some horrible trigger discipline on that cop holding that M16A1

2) He's rearing to go, he's got his mags taped together. I wonder if he fought in Vietnam or something. Seems like a strange thing to do for law enforcement.

 

 

Are the Blues Brothers in town?

 

17 hours ago, LtFlash said:

 

I can't tell the amount of footage from the 1993 WTC bombing I watched only trying to figure out what the 'YORK' van pictured there was from, as it can be seen parked in different places during the response to the incident. Medical examiner perhaps?

On 22/3/2016 at 1:44 AM, FCV96 said:

Check out what shows up at 8:43! I never realized how great the Fox LTD looked in LASD livery - Credit to Strike for the link, once again. :D

http://vidzi.tv/dja430qvxejt.html

With the right setup it's a real good looking car. Another one can be seen in this 1988 documentary about the Los Angeles gangs, at 10:00. There are few other clips of the LAPD/LASD in action too.

 

a 1985 Jeep J-20 Pickup 

Spoiler

 

 

fmc XR-311 Military prototype

Spoiler

 

the user has a few more older pictures on his flickr

Edited April 15, 201610 yr by OfficerFive0

Jesus I wonder how that thing ended up in a michigan agency. It looks like some gi joe shit.

LAPD and Los Angeles gangs, 1988.

Los Angeles Police Officers Raymond Terrone (left) and Curtis Woodle pose during a 1988 Los Angeles, California, patrol of the South Central region of town.

Police officers question suspected gang members at the Avalon Garden housing projects June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

A police officer searches a suspected gang member June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

A police officer puts a suspected gang member into a squad car June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

Police officers arrest a suspected gang member June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

A group of police officers stand June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

A police officer searches a suspected gang member June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

A suspected gang member sits in the back of a police car as an officer runs his identification through a computer June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles,

Arrested gang members sit on the ground at the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums headquarters June 10, 1988 in Los Angeles, CA.

Police officers search people arrested for selling narcotics in the south-central area of Los Angeles in April 1988.

1 hour ago, strike said:

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I don't know where you find these pictures. But they are damn fine.

German Polizei Special unit, 1972

German Polizei GSG 9 Unit, 1979

Ohio cops checking out the design :D

 

 

That's interesting. The Munich Attacks were a before and an after for counter terrorist forces. Soon after West Germany created the GSG9, in 1973, East Germany formed their own version under the command of the Stasi, the Diensteinheit IX.

There's this clip on youtube about the Diensteinheit IX, though is probably during/after the reunification.

On another point, the armored in the second picture is a Thyssen Henschel UR-416, which was extensively used by the Spanish Policía Nacional throughtout the 1980's in conflictive areas of the country, the Basque Country and Navarra in particular.

Clashes between shipyard workers and Policía Nacional in Bilbao, in 1984 during the famous Battle of Euskalduna. Below, an armored after being hit by a RPG grenade, killing an officer and wouding another six, in Pamplona, 1982.

NYSP:

 

 

4 hours ago, strike said:

That's interesting. The Munich Attacks were a before and an after for counter terrorist forces. Soon after West Germany created the GSG9, in 1973, East Germany formed their own version under the command of the Stasi, the Diensteinheit IX.

By the way, did you hear anything about any kind of riot police formations in East Germany, an analogue of the USSR's OMON, which had been forming around this time? I know many Warsaw Pact countries did or still do have one, but Germany?,, 

I guess that the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft could be considered as the East German counterpart to the OMON; a paramilitary police force independent from the Volkspolizei and under the command of the Ministry of Interior, in charge of riot control or maintaining public order. I am unsure about the degree of militarization both forces had though.

You might like to check this site, though in German, has info an pictures of the loadout and uniforms of either Volkspolizei (VoPo), Diensteinheit IX and Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft (BePo). The video I posted earlier picture them training but like I pointed out, it was very likely filmed soon after the reunification.

On 5/2/2016 at 6:06 PM, strike said:

I guess that the Volkspolizei-Bereitschaft could be considered as the East German counterpart to the OMON; a paramilitary police force independent from the Volkspolizei and under the command of the Ministry of Interior, in charge of riot control or maintaining public order. I am unsure about the degree of militarization both forces had though

Oups sorry I actually missed your reply!

Thanks for the link provided, that is interesting reading indeed. As far as VB goes.. Apparently that's more like our Internal Troops, a paramilitary formation subordinate to the Ministry of interior but considered a part of the armed forces.