Well, I think we can all cut Officer Joe Friday a bit of slack for not being on the cutting edge of 'hip'.
Joe Friday was awesome. He was in a move called The D.I.
Drill Instructor. VERY believable.
Yeah, which is ironic because he was really heavy into the west-coast jazz scene, married a jazz singer (Julie London), and, in Sunset Boulevard, played a hip cat who tried to draw Joe Gillis (William Holden) out of his bad scene.
In 1950 he was hip and cool, by 1960 he was a heavy working for Chief Parker, and by 1970 he was just disgusted, rousting long-hairs and counting the days till he could retire.
Speaking of which, I better go retire. Stay cool, Windy.