“Real Life Film Noir”: Vintage Crime Scenes From The LAPD Archives – Design You Trust

“Real Life Film Noir”: Vintage Crime Scenes From The LAPD Archives

Forensic detail of bullet holes in a car window – 1942

Warning: this gallery contains images some people may find distressing.

Crime scene photographs shot by Los Angeles police officers in the line of duty between 1925 and the 1970s are on show at the city’s Lucie Foundation. More than 80 images are on display, drawn from the thousands discovered in a warehouse in 2000 by the fototeka Gallery.

h/t: guardian

A jewellery store robbery that resulted in the death of a bystander – 1932

A body under a bridge over the LA River as police investigate – 1955

Woman under arrest – 1952

Robbery demand note – 1965

A booking photograph of a vagrant in the early 1930s

Detectives calculating the trajectory of a bullet – 1934

An assault victim poses for the camera – 1934. The photograph is now known as the Chinatown photo, after the film

Two men murdered in prohibition-era dispute

A cuffed perpetrator – 1952

Re-enactment of the “onion field murder”, in which two police officers were kidnapped – one officer was shot, and died, and the other escaped – 1963

Dead body laying on the ground with gun at side – 1926

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