Mobile Jail on Wheels: When LAPD Took Creativity to the Extreme
LOS ANGELES, 1920s – In an era when alcohol was banned, crime was rampant, and cities were booming, the Los Angeles Police Department once deployed an unprecedented tactic: a motorcycle pulling a full-size metal jail cage. Not a patrol car or a police van — but a motorbike, towing a suspect quietly seated behind steel bars down the street. A rare black-and-white photograph — believed to have been taken in the early 1920s — has sparked both curiosity and amusement decades later. In the image, a uniformed officer is seen writing up a report while behind him stands a vertical...
2 min read