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Using approach paths to hide from the police in Los Angeles
The heavily restricted airspace around Los Angeles International Airport, Burdette pointed out, has transformed the surrounding area into a well-known hiding spot for criminals trying to flee by car. Los Angeles police helicopters cannot always approach the airport because of air-traffic-control safety concerns. Indeed, all those planes, with their otherwise-invisible approach patterns across the Southern California sky, have come to exert a kind of sculptural effect on local crimes across the… (www.nytimes.com) 기타...
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In this short-attention-span, sound-bite-ridden world, it's refreshing to read an article with some depth. Interesting insight into the the airborne world of the LAPD.
The New York Times is one of the last vestiges of a once great industry.
Interesting the NYT is reporting this and not the LAT or other Cali based newsource? I would have to believe that all major cities with a large airport that has approach paths over urban areas could have the same 'crime corridors' where police air presence is unable to fly. The approaches to Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark in the NY metro area makes for a fairly large area that is no-fly for the police heli crews. Maybe seomone from the LAT will be doing that report next?
From the article: "Los Angeles is a fundamentally different kind of place from New York or Chicago, he explained, with their skyscrapers and deep, canyonlike streets. Those dense clusters of high-rises and towers make thorough aerial patrols nearly impossible, not to mention potentially dangerous."
Ha! I was actually going to quote that same passage here.
What about the 1983 movie "Blue Thunder"?
