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My first question was how much of this is labor, and from the chart provided at the bottom of the helpful link provided elsewhere (https://controller.lacity.gov/landings/lapd-helicopters), it appears to be around 60%.

I was wondering because I remember the last time I lived in Los Angeles in 2009 I went to a Lakers championship parade and talked to one of the cops assigned to crowd control, and asked about it when a helicopter flew overhead. She told me it's a great job a lot of them try to get because even 20 years ago they were starting out at something like $215,000 a year and were not expected to have any flight experience. The city just trained up regular patrol officers and tripled their pay.

[asdff]

The way they fly you can tell they don't have a lot of flight experience. Really low compared to news choppers following the same pursuit. Juvenile even, at times (1-4)

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1oolm68/lapd_he...

2. https://www.threads.com/@kilodelta/post/C5m373ZOX9Q

3. https://preview.redd.it/jcfdph3aiczf1.jpeg?width=1164&format...

4. https://preview.redd.it/dl7lqa2blbzf1.jpeg?width=1206&format...