Dragnet: The Big Set-Up

Drag this. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're an detective sergeant. You're assigned an narcotics detail. A steady flow of drugs is coming into your city.

The prime buyers are juveniles. Weeks of effort fail to turn up any lead to the source. Your job? Find it. The draw move in actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, January 10th, it was cold in Los Angeles. We were working today, watch out in our cotics detail.

My partners Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Walters. My name is Friday. We're on our way back from the cell block and it was 9.47 a.m. when we got to the interview room. The felony section.

Sit down there. Alright, Marley, you want to tell us? About what? Why, you're here. It sounded booking slip, you saw it. We'd like to hear it from you. It's no go. You won't tell us.

I'd like to, but I can't. Alright, let's go over it again. From where? The beginning. Where were you picked up? Corner fifth in Maine, for what? The cop said I had a handful of pot.

Did you? Well, he found it, said it was mine. But it wasn't. No. Where did it come from? I don't know. How much you turned? Couple of joints. And you don't know where it came from.