The "What is a Cop?" speech
Most Dragnet fans are familiar with Joe's speech to the rookie cop (played by a pre-Adam 12 Kent McCord). I was listening to one of the early Dragnet radio shows from 1949 called "Police Academy", and Joe's chief, played by Raymond Burr, gives a talk to the new recruits that sounds like the inspiration for what would become Joe's speech hears later. Just a point of interest for Dragnet fanatics.
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