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Los Angeles Police Museum (former Mathnet HQ) (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / South Pasadena / Los Angeles, California / York Boulevard, 6045
 museum, police station, historic landmark

6045 York Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90042
(323) 344-9445

www.laphs.com/

The Highland Park Police Station on York Boulevard in the Highland Park section of Los Angeles, California, USA is the city's oldest surviving police station. Closed in 1983, the station is now operated as the Los Angeles Police Museum. It has been designated as a Historic Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Built from 1925-1926 at a cost of $100,000, the station opened in April 1926 in a ceremony attended by Chief Edgar Davis and Police Commissioners Birnbaum, Insley and Webster.

A number of big cases were handled out of the Highland Park station; it was that Det. Robert Grogan pursued the "Hillside Stranglers", Angelo Buono, Jr.. and Kenneth Bianchi. In the early 1980s, the building was cited for failure to meet seismic safety standards and was described as a "Shake and Bake Hellhole". The radical Symbionese Liberation Army (the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst and engaged in an infamous shootout with the LAPD in 1974) planted a bomb in the Highland Park Station in 1973, but it proved to be a dud.

Between 1987 and 1991 the building housed the LAPD's Mathnet unit which specialized in solving crimes using math.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathnet
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Coordinates:   34°7'5"N   118°11'15"W

Comments

  • It should be noted that the Mathnet unit was fictional. "Mathnet" was a segment of a children's television show called Square One TV, which was developed by the Children's Television Workshop (the people behind Sesame Street) and aimed to make learning math more fun. "Mathnet" was a segment on this show that parodied the old Dragnet series and featured two mathematicians, played by Joe Howard and Beverly Leech, who solved crimes using mathematics. It was not a real unit of the LAPD. However, the building was used as the exterior of Mathnet HQ on the show. :)
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