L.A. Police Commission

L.A. Police Commission Approves Questionable LAPD Hit-and-Run Report

Despite questionable data, the Los Angeles Police Commission approved a controversial LAPD report about the city's hit-and-run crisis on Tuesday. The study now heads to the L.A. City Council's public safety committee, where Councilman Joe Buscaino will decide if LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is doing ev ... More >>

LAPD 'Biased Policing' Claims Up As Chief Beck Vows Transparency In Wake Of Dorner

In the shadow of Christopher Dorner's reported allegations of racism with the LAPD, the department says that 2012's complaints and allegations of biased policing were up 6.4 percent compared to 2011. Chief Charlie Beck has vowed that his department will conduct a thorough review Dorner's firing, on ... More >>

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Occupy Heads to Police Commission Over Art Walk / Chalk Walk Clash With LAPD

Following Thursday's clash between riot police and the Occupy LA movement downtown during monthly Art Walk festivities, members of the group are headed to this morning's L.A. Police Commission meeting to lodge complaints. Occupy The Hood organizer Bilal Ali tells the Weekly that his spin-off organi ... More >>

R.I.P. Los Angeles Red-Light Camera Tickets: What This Means for the Rest of the County

The wait has paid off for all us rebels who refused to pay our red-light camera tickets! LA Weekly reassured you of the good news all through 2011. In July, "L.A. City Council Says You Don't Have to Pay Your Red-Light Camera Tickets." In September, "Are You Sure I Don't Have to Pay My L.A. County R ... More >>

Mitch Englander, L.A. City Leader, Asked to Step Aside in Debate Over Taking Unlicensed Drivers' Cars

Councilman Mitch Englander.​The matter of impounding cars belonging to unlicensed drivers in the city of L.A. is becoming a hot topic. The National Lawyers Guild and the Southern California Immigration Coalition are calling on L.A. city Councilman Mitch Englander to step away from the debate ... More >>

John & Ken Nation Riled up Over Proposed LAPD Policy to Let Illegal Immigrants Keep Their Cars

The John & Ken nation was out in force last night at an L.A. Police Commission hearing in Northridge. The issue of letting unlicensed drivers keep their cars at police checkpoints wasn't on the agenda, but the conservative talk-radio hosts (KFI AM 640) put it there by encouraging listeners to show ... More >>

L.A. City Council Says You Don't Have to Pay Your Red-Light Camera Tickets (and Never Did)

F that.​Update: The L.A. City Council has unanimously voted to eliminate the city's red-light camera program. Tickets will cease to be issued this Sunday. (Not that you have to pay them up until then, either. Stupid.) For all y'all inquiring about other cities in L.A. County: Details at botto ... More >>

Naked Therapy is L.A.'s Latest Self-Improvement Industry (Just Ask Randy Hastings)

Randy Hastings: The love doctor is in.​You gotta love L.A. Along with our porn industry and pot shops, we can now lay claim to hosting "the world's first gay male Naked Therapist-in-Training." And while in some contexts naked therapy would just be another term for, er, prostitution, in the yo ... More >>

Red Light Cameras in L.A. Could Become Extinct After City Council Declines to Save Them

dullhunk​Guess all the lobbyists in the world couldn't give this program the green light. The city's much-hated red light cameras have been quagmired out of existence after the L.A. Police Commission said they must go and their defenders on the L.A. City Council couldn't muster enough votes t ... More >>

Manuel Jamines Vigil Tonight in Westlake to (Once Again) Decry His Death by LAPD

Dennis RomeroA sign from March's protest.​Immigrants' rights advocates are still pissed off about the police shooting of Guatemalan day laborer Manuel Jamines last summer. Even after the L.A. Police Commission last month ruled that the fatal confrontation near downtown on September 5 was with ... More >>

Manuel Jamines: MacArthur Park-Area Protest Fizzles Out After LAPD Officer Exonerated; Another Protest at D.A.'s Office Today

Dennis RomeroA sign for the LAPD.​That protest that cops braced for near MacArthur Park? Turns out to have been a big dud. Not that we blame the LAPD for preparing. After all, the target of demonstrators' ire was the department itself. And the last time the topic came up -- the September sho ... More >>

Today In WTF: If You Paid That $446 Red-Light Camera Ticket In L.A. You're Probably A Sucker, Because It Could Have Been Blown Off

This red-light camera watches over suckers.​A doozy for the department of WTF this week: You know those annoying red-light cameras that flash of when you're taking a left through an intersection behind a grandma who's waiting to make sure everyone within a five mile radius has come to a stop b ... More >>

LAPD Headquarters Blues

How two affable restaurateurs went from PAB's pals to eviction targets

10 Going on 16

Small and Deadly Threat

Tiny Margaret Mitchell and her screwdriver

Power to the Cops

Questions the Police Commission should have asked

The Insiders

Time for oversight panel, inspector general to step from the shadows

Tarnished Brass

Case against LAPD captain doesn't address Rampart's big questions