Flashing Spotlight??

[Skip Goulet]

In an episode of some police reality show in the early 90s they rode with a gang unit in LA. They had only 2 rear flashers and a single front red steady. The officer explained that he cleared the intersections by sweeping the spotlight back and forth. This looks like the exact same activity.

In the Dragnet shows of the mid-60s, Friday and Gannon drove a downsized Ford; and in some of the sequences where they actually ran "hot", Friday had a handheld spotlight with a steadyburning red bulb (per CA law) that he held up near the windshield that he waved back in forth. What I thought was "cute" was when they had to run like that, you never saw a siren box under the dash as on Adam-12. Gannon would tap the horn button and away went the siren. Interesting technology...hmmm!