{"id":237824865,"date":"2012-07-15T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237824865"},"modified":"2012-07-15T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T14:27:45","slug":"what-a-difference-60-years-makes-dragnets-hunt-for-a-hit-and-run-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237824865","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet\u2019s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u09qh0N50mY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/u09qh0N50mY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We have to thank Network blog <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copenhagenize.com\/2012\/06\/big-hit-run-killer.html\">Copenhagenize<\/a> for pointing us to this video, from a 1954 episode of the classic detective series Dragnet. In this installment, Los Angeles Police Detective Joe Friday and his team investigate a hit-and-run collision that killed a young boy and his grandmother as they were crossing the street.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the attitude toward traffic deaths among law enforcement officials&nbsp;has changed quite a bit since 1954, notes Copenhagenize\u2019s Mikael Colville-Andersen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Sergeant Joe Friday puts it [6 minutes, 18 seconds in]: \u201cHow much difference, for example, as far as moral guilt is concerned, is there between the following: #1 the man who plans a killing, takes up a gun, finds his victim and shoots him to death. And #2 the man who thinks he has to look out for no one\u2019s welfare but his own, gets behind the wheel of a car, disregards the ordinary rules of safety and proceeds to commit homicide with a motor vehicle. Often times the crime masquerades under the guise of an accident. Morally, no matter how you spell it, it adds up to murder just as surely as if the person had taken a gun and shot his victim down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Imagine. Look at how much air time was given to a hit &amp; run. Things have certainly changed. Maybe lucrative car commercials ended up weeding out bad branding like this storyline.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Contrast that with modern-day New York City, where the family members of hit-and-run victims&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.streetsblog.org\/2012\/01\/04\/family-of-mathieu-lefevre-sues-nypd-for-withholding-crash-information\/\">have to sue the police department<\/a> for failing to investigate a very similar crime. Where\u2019s Joe Friday when you need him?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2012\/06\/18\/what-a-difference-60-years-makes-dragnets-hunt-for-a-hit-and-run-killer\/\">https:\/\/streetsblog.net\/2012\/06\/18\/what-a-difference-60-years-makes-dragnets-hunt-for-a-hit-and-run-killer\/<\/a>oldId.20120715142745348<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Angie Schmitt, Streets Blog We have to thank Network blog Copenhagenize for pointing us to this video, from a 1954 episode of the classic detective series Dragnet. In this installment, Los Angeles Police Detective Joe Friday and his team investigate a hit-and-run collision that killed a young boy and his grandmother as they were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=237824865\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a Difference 60 Years Makes: Dragnet\u2019s Hunt for a Hit-and-Run Killer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237824865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237824865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237824865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237824865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237824865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237824865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237824865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}