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Calling All Cars: You Cant Kill a Cop

Calling All Cars · August 22, 1934 · 32 min · 4,288 words

The transcript of “You Cant Kill a Cop”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast August 22, 1934. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). North Pole Radio: Holiday Specials plays Calling All Cars free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The motorcycle driving up one street and down another all upon our rigid economy in this branch of city government stipulates economy of operations.

When you hear advertising claims of quick starting, pick up, power, mileage, anti-knock, you hope you're getting it in the gasoline you buy. Well, the police car performance you get from Rio Grande, includes all these policies.

That is why, in the great Southwest, so many police cars, fire engines, motorcycles, ambulances, and other emergency equipment by real, brandy crack. More, the real grandi-oil company is proud to present Chief James E. Davis of the Los Angeles Police Department, Citizen and taxpayer, made possible these broadcasts.

There is an axiom in England as old as England itself, that no matter where a citizen of England is when he meets death at the hands of an enemy of England society, no force on the face of the earth can keep Great Britain from reaching out and avenging his death.

The streets of London are patrolled by uniform bodies unarmed with but few exceptions. No firearms are carried by the police of England, for the citizens of that country have a hard respect for the age-old truism which has reached into Canada, into India, into the British East-Indias, into the islands of the Pacific, into Africa, in fact, into all the

dominions of Great Britain, that the English police always get their man. Here in America only recently has public decency, then so outraged by the brazenness of the criminal element as to bring to every citizen a realization of how important it is to support the police and peacetime army on a criminal front where battle never ceases.

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