Lockdown Armoured Patrol Division (LAPD)
Nobody really remembers their original purpose or what they even do anymore, but it seems to involve a lot of re-purposed surplus military gear from overseas wars, drones, body armour, gas masks, night vision and assault rifles, that sort of thing. Armoured patrols in the Lockdown Area consist primarily of independent contractors who are remunerated according to their own individual takedowns, fostering a loot-what-you-kill mentality of survival.
(your phone call)
UNKNOWN NUMBER (Donnie Raoul on a burner phone...??)
-Yo sangre, da police are comin' with them legion of boom flyby muthafuckas, gotta run or yo' gon' get creased, blood. Them shots ring out and that shotadetector come beaming fo' yo ass...
(QM: you think the caller is referring to a system similar to this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfire_locatoran acoustic telemetry and surveillance system consisting of an array of listening sensors to range and triangulate changes in sound pressure from gunshots, installed across dispersed locations around the district perimeter to DTLA, used for algorithmic intelligence-led policing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/nyregion/nypd-shotspotter-guns.htmlJune 20, 2024
Gunshot Detection System Wastes N.Y.P.D. Officers’ Time, Audit Finds
When it was performing at its best, only 20 percent of ShotSpotter’s alerts actually revealed shootings, they found. Often, it did even worse. Of the 940 alerts officers responded to last June, only 13 percent corresponded to confirmed shootings...)
