Talk:Los Angeles Police Department resources
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The above citation which lists numbers of air units is outdated, The LAPD according to a 2007 short documentary talks about buying more of the A-stars bringing that fleet to 19, earlier this year here on wikipedia the number of planes was at 3. Please don't use the official page of lapdonline.org's link to the air support division, because it too is outdated and hasn't been updated to show for the airship purchases in 2006. However, the numbers do suggest that LAPD has a bigger fleet than NYPD making LAPD the Largest non-military air force. From what it looks like the people at NYPD forgot to subtract the units they got rid of last year. The LA sherif's on the other hand seem to have just as big of a fleet as their counterpart. So it's possible that even LA County SD might be the 2nd largest fleet overall.
There are several significant problems with this paragraph:
- If the above citation is outdated, then, update it with the most recent information - do not leave outdated information in the article, and then add the update below it. It is confusing and does not look like part of an article in an encyclopedia.
- Please cite the documentary that is more up to date than the lapdonline.org website. Since that was the official record on the helicopter equipment in use by the Los Angeles Police Department, it should be used unless a verifiable source of information can credibly render that invalid for the purposes of an article in an encyclopedia.
- The equipment that New York Police Department nor what the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has is relevant to discussing what the Los Angeles Police Department has (unless the LAPD obtained equipment from NYPD or LASD).
-- Dlombard (talk) 19:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
