At the end of the episode, and right before the end credits, the following text is presented:
"In 1988, 7,504 Los Angeles Police Officers made 317,982 arrests."
And next:
"Violent crime was down 17 percent from the previous year."
The abandoned building that Hunter & Billy Joe Powell have their confrontation in was the sight of the The Los Angeles Soap Company, makers of 'The White King' label of products built in the early 1900s. The sight was on its last legs in the late 1980s to early 1990s, with demolition finalizing by 1992. Downtown Los Angeles used to have an extensive network of industrial sidings (including lots of street trackage) radiating off of Alameda Street as well as parallel Santa Fe lines a few blocks to the east. This specific sight was Santa Fe trackage on Banning St., looking into the industrial entrance to the big White King Soap factory. Today this stretch of Banning St. and all of the buildings as well as tracks is completely gone between Vignes and Alameda.
In this episode, the vice principal of Pierce High School is discovered (through blackmail) to have had a sexual relationship with a high school student. A few years after this episode, Stepfanie Kramer and co-star Connor O'Farrell starred together in the made-for-TV movie "Deceived By Trust", which was the true story of a high school principal who USED blackmail to engage in sexual relationships with female students.
If Jack Small was stabbed why wasn't there any blood in the pool