# The ubiquity of cell phones in today's TV police procedurals

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**Created:** [March 2, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ubiquity-of-cell-phones-in-todays-tv-police-procedurals/1015018 "2025-03-02T15:24:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ubiquity-of-cell-phones-in-todays-tv-police-procedurals/1015018/37 "2025-03-10T16:44:24Z")

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> [@Shows or film that were actually filmed in the place where they are set](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/24):
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> I was going to mention a horde of 1960s/1970s police dramas. And Emergency. But I’ve been partly ninja’d. Highway Patrol (both iterations), Dragnet the TV series and the movie, Adam-12, CHiPs, Starsky and Hutch. I’m sure there are more. A lot of liberties were taken with locations though. As mentioned above, the stationhouse for Emergency’s fictional Squad 51 is real. As was Rampart Hospital. There really is a Rampart district in LA. But they were 30+ miles apart, and the shots of most of…

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