- Sergeant Joe Friday: This is the city, Los Angeles, California. It's a big city with a big heart, and it offers a lot: museums, libraries, galleries, playgrounds, beaches, valleys and mountains. Angelenos are proud of our new Griffith Park Zoo, which houses animals from all over the world: the king of beasts, and his jester, the proud, and the profane. Not all of the wolves and jackals who come to Los Angeles are in the zoo. A lot of them wind up in the city jail; my job is to put 'em there. I carry a badge.