- Detective-Sergeant Martin 'Marty' Wynn was a highly decorated member of the LAPD. He worked several units such as Vice, Homicide and Intelligence division in the toughest areas of the city of angels: 77th Street, Rampart, Southwest, Wilshire, Hollywood and North Hollywood.
- He met Jack Webb on the set of He Walked By Night, on which he served as a technical Advisor. Wynn suggested Webb to do a TV series about the real activities of the LAPD and Dragnet was born few months later. Wynn worked as a technical advisor on most of the episodes.
- The character of Jack Vincennes in the novel L.A. Confidential was mainly inspired by real-life LAPD detective Marty Wynn.
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