Officer Mike McCoy at the Houston Police Department Recruiting Blog found a great video from 1972 called The Houston Policeman: Main in the Middle. It was a documentary made about HPD and the challenges it faced at that time.
As the film states, this is the time when the image of a police officer had changed from that of the friendly face patrolling the street to "a dehumanized, mechanized, faceless robot in a cold blooded computerized society." A little over the top, but it is the film's words, not mine. It sounds like the inspiration for The Terminator!
The reason given for this change was the fact that Houston was growing rapidly and officers had to take "to wheels" over walking the streets. It makes you think back to old films when the image of cops consisted of the guy who knew everyone's name as he strolled through the neighborhood. A different view from the contemporary one because that would be impossible today in a major city.
In a lighter sense, it is fun to see the shots of Houston back then.
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