LaFrieda mentions prior to trying to arrest the second robber that they did not bring the helicopter, so they'd have to walk in. Vic Morrow would die in 1982 while acting in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) due to a helicopter accident on set.
At the scene in the end where the aerial camera pans out is sumillar to the end scene in the Mod Squad (1968) the show that Tige Andrews starred in