"Supervisor needed for the three questions"????
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I wouldn't use "just" to characterize a rape, but yes, "attack" is the word that's been used by LAPD over the radio for a rape since at least the 1940s. Per the Communications Division Manual,
"Operators receiving a call... involving rape shall use the term 'attack.' The word 'rape' SHALL NOT be used in any voice broadcast."
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"Attack" is supposed to be used as an incident type only for rapes (forcible, statutory, spousal, etc). Other calls or incidents that involve assaultive kinds of bahavior are classified as batteries (242 in CAD; if voiced it's called "battery"); Assault with a Deadly Weapon (245 in CAD, voiced as an "ADW"); a simple non-contact, but threatening misdemeanor assault as in 240 PC (415 subtype 8 in CAD, voiced as "415 (man/woman) assaulting ___"); animal attacking someone (905 subtype V in CAD, voiced as "vicious animal" although I've heard it broadcast like "pitbull attacking a child" - entirely logical though not specifically provided for in the manual).
The word "attack" in its generic sense is very often used in department news releases or blog entries such as "the dogs were attacking a child" or "the officer was attacked by a man with a machete," or "Gang attack leaves victim stabbed to death." None of those would fit the official radio/dispatch use of the word "attack," but the audience for those reports is the public rather than internal LAPD use.
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It's RACR, and it's a division: Real-Time Analysis & Critical Response Division, the greatly expanded version of what used to be the "Department Command Post" attached to Communications Division. Back then, in the 80s, 90s and early oaties it was mainly an after-hours notification center for major incidents - homicides; officer-involved shootings, injuries, deaths; tactical alerts, etc. They would notify specified people such as detectives, bomb squad, the COP or other command officers. It was staffed by a couple police officers and usually a Sgt or maybe a Lt. (They were the ones to whom fell the unenviable task of sending officers to virtually force then-chief Willie Williams to leave the safety of his home and get down to his office the morning of the Northridge earthquake.)
Before the Dept Command Post was created, for many years the off-hours were under the eye of rotating command-level "Operations Duty Officers" and a skeleton crew at the now-deceased and just barely online DHQ - Detective Headquarters Division (Click on the "Impatient?" link there if you are) Information Desk.
Anyway, RACR today is a large 24/7/365 operation, with about 60 personnel from clerks and a PSR to about 20 detectives, 25 police ofcrs, and a Captain III running it. All sorts of additional duties now; check out page 4 of the Feb 2006 LAPD Beat. And they've moved from the dungeon deep beneath City Hall East and into the city's new EOC on East Temple Street.
Thank Harry. You always answer my questions with all the info I wanted to know. Thank you. I heard them talk about RACR in pacific div at a 300-400 crowd at the beach that they were trying to keep it peaceful. And RACR had showed up and they were pissed off because no one called them. Is 3D320 a bomb squad unit?
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