:02:00
Because of that vast area...
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and because of a population made up
of people from every state in the union...
:02:06
Los Angeles is the largest police beat
in the country...
:02:09
and one of the toughest.
:02:12
We're going to take you into the City Hall,
where police headquarters are located.
:02:16
Here, in Communications,
are the ears and voice of the police.
:02:19
The lights on the complaint board
flash 24 hours a day.
:02:22
Citizens reporting a prowler, a lost child,
a man molesting a woman...
:02:26
an auto accident, a wild party.
:02:28
Spend an hour or two here, and you'll think
the whole city has gone berserk.
:02:33
Minute by minute, the orders go out
to the radio cars in the far-flung divisions.
:02:37
Watts and Wilshire in West Los Angeles.
:02:39
Hollywood and Hollenbeck Heights
in North Hollywood.
:02:42
The work of the police, like that of woman,
is never done.
:02:46
This is the case history of a killer...
:02:49
taken from the files
of the Detective Division.
:02:52
The facts are told here as they happened.
:02:54
The story properly starts here
in Hollywood division headquarters...
:02:58
at 1.:00 of a June morning last year.
:03:00
Officer Robert Rowlins had finished
his tour of duty and signed out.
:03:04
It had been a tough day.
He'd be glad to get home.
:03:06
His wife would be waiting up for him,
as she always did.