No Guillotine at the Los Angeles Police Museum

I’ve been to the police museum in Paris and I thought trying the one in L.A. as well. The one in Paris goes back a few hundred years longer than the California one and has a real guillotine!musee-de-la-prefectureThere was much to see and their weekend hours are the 3rd Saturday of each month only. I loved the old posters of the LAPD magazine, BEAT.

Beat magazine LAPD museum michele roohani

LAPD museum poster michele roohaniLook at these uniforms from 1886:

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If you wanted to call the police:

LAPD museum phone box michele roohani

The cells were so depressing…

LAPD museum cell box michele roohani

LAPD museum keys michele roohani

There were tons of different handcuffs but the painfully interesting ones were the “Thumbcuffs”!

LAPD museum thumbcuffs michele roohani

Different vehicles from all eras were on display as well,

LAPD museum patrol car michele roohani

Even some pretty scary ones,

LAPD museum rescue michele roohani

And of course the iconic LAPD bikes:

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There were shrines to the “Onion field”, the “Bank of America shootout”, the SLA and Patty Hearst kidnaping:

LAPD museum onion fields michele roohani

My favorite of all were the badges.

LAPD museum badges michele roohani

One wonders why go to a police museum when the weather is almost always nice in L.A…

LAPD museum andre demir