My first question was how much of this is labor, and from the chart provided at the bottom of the helpful link provided elsewhere (https://controller.lacity.gov/landings/lapd-helicopters), it appears to be around 60%.

I was wondering because I remember the last time I lived in Los Angeles in 2009 I went to a Lakers championship parade and talked to one of the cops assigned to crowd control, and asked about it when a helicopter flew overhead. She told me it's a great job a lot of them try to get because even 20 years ago they were starting out at something like $215,000 a year and were not expected to have any flight experience. The city just trained up regular patrol officers and tripled their pay.

The way they fly you can tell they don't have a lot of flight experience. Really low compared to news choppers following the same pursuit. Juvenile even, at times (1-4)

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/1oolm68/lapd_he...

2. https://www.threads.com/@kilodelta/post/C5m373ZOX9Q

3. https://preview.redd.it/jcfdph3aiczf1.jpeg?width=1164&format...

4. https://preview.redd.it/dl7lqa2blbzf1.jpeg?width=1206&format...