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Los Angeles Police Department

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2013

    Transgender Woman's Hollywood Beating by Thugs Captured on Video

    A transgender woman was kicked and pummeled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and some of it was caught on video. The LAPD this week released the security footage of a douchebag in a YSL t-shirt and two to three other winners (one of them is seen smiling) with the hope that someone might recognize the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2013

    Helicopter Crashes in Griffith Park, Passengers Uninjured (PHOTO)

    Updated at the bottom with details about the passengers from the L.A. Fire Department. First posted at 2:54 p.m.See a photo of the chopper after the jump. In this city of buzzing aircraft -- news choppers, police, tourist rides and rich-guy toys -- it's amazing that this doesn't happen more often. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2013

    Christopher Dorner 'Needed to Go,' Civil Rights Lawyer Says

    An LAPD review of Christopher Dorner's firing wasn't supposed to be wrapped up until the end of the month, but civil rights attorney Connie Rice has seen a draft and told the Associated Press it concludes the killer cop was justly terminated. The second look at Dorner's brief career at the LAPD was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2013

    LAPD Command is Majority White Even as The Department Has Diversified

    Turns out the LAPD is not only "majority minority," but it's also dominated by Latino officers. That's according to the latest data about the department's sworn personnel, which was circulated this week by the Latin American Law Enforcement Association, a.k.a. LA LEY:

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2013

    Camera Tripod "Rifle" Sets Off Chaminade School Campus Lockdown

    Chaminade High School in West Hills was on a three-hour lockdown this morning after police received reports of a man possibly with a gun near campus. The man in question turned out to be a student with a camera tripod. That's good news. Yet while students and parents in the San Fernando Valley h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2013

    Crazy Lady Photographed During Van Nuys Dognapping

    What the hell is wrong with people these days? Los Angeles has seen its second report of a dognapping in as many weeks. The latest involves a woman who went into a Van Nuys yard, took pictures, and then took a 5-year-old Siberian Husky.

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2013

    LAPD Officer Arrested For Lewd Conduct With Minors, Cops Say

    Updated at the bottom with the officer charged. First posted at 4:02 p.m. Monday. An LAPD officer was arrested today on suspicion of lewd conduct in a case involving underage victims, authorities told the Weekly. The officer was arrested in the Santa Clarita area, a sheriff's official said. Accord ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2013

    LAPD's Rampart-Era Consent Decree Finally Over

    The final black cloud over the Los Angeles Police Department has lifted. A 2001 consent decree that put LAPD under federal oversight following allegations of false arrests, excessive force and unreasonable searches and seizures in the wake of the Rampart scandal is officially over:

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2013

    Silver Lake Reservoir Robbers Target Joggers

    Cops are on the lookout for two or three robbers who have targeted joggers around the Silver Lake Reservoir in recent weeks. So far the LAPD has only recorded two such crimes, including one last week, but the M.O.s are similar and there's no telling if the suspects will attack again:

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2013

    LAPD 'Party Car' in Valley Ready to Bust Your Backyard Shindig

    Cops are spread thin in this country-sized city of nearly 500 square miles. Call one and she might come -- if you have a serious emergency. But in the San Fernando Valley, LAPD has found the cash to put police to good use dealing with the scourge known around the Southland as ... teen house parties ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2013

    Robber Targets Market Steps From LAPD Station, Is Fatally Shot

    If you rob a store -- and we don't recommend it -- make sure it's not around the corner from a police station, because this is what happens: You get shot at not by one officer but by as many as three. Then you die. That's the story from the LAPD this week after man allegedly robbed a market on Skid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2013

    Was Black USC Party Unfairly Raided By LAPD?

    Some USC students were angry with the LAPD over its riot-gear response to a student party near campus over the weekend. The end-of-the-school-year event appeared to be attended by African American students. Another party, across the street, did not meet with the same response, according to one repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2013

    LAPD License Plate Readers Know What You Did Last Summer; ACLU Sues

    The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in Southern California routinely scan millions of license plates via patrol-car-based devices that can track your whereabouts. What do they do with the info? It's not entirely clear, but the record shows that cops ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2013

    49 'Assault Weapons' Turned In During LAPD Gun Buyback

    The gun debate in this country can probably be defined by two kinds of people: Those who think having fewer assault-type weapons around means safer streets, and those who think such a thing would be detract from the fight against criminals. (Because bad guys get ripped to pieces by legit homeowners ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2013

    Man Blowing Kisses To School Children Sought By LAPD

    A man was seen sitting in a pickup near a San Fernando Valley elementary school blowing kisses to the children recently. Of course, police would now like to have a chat with this well-wisher. In fact, they believe the perv might have done something like this before, according to an LAPD statement:

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2013

    Newspaper Delivery Ladies Shot By LAPD In Dorner Manhunt See $4.2 Mil Settlement

    So you're driving down the street delivering newspapers and all of a sudden police open fire on you without much if any warning. You're wounded and your delivery truck is finished. What's your damage? You get a new truck, sure. But there's a lot of medical treatment and emotional stress. Here's wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2013

    Has The LAPD Stopped Publicizing Its DUI Checkpoints?

    LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said a few years back that he didn't like publicizing the exact locations of his department's DUI checkpoints. But the LAPD did just that. Until now, it seems. For the first time in our memory the department's weekend checkpoint list sent to media outlets omits these inters ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2013

    Hooters Bomb Joke Shuts Down Hollywood Boulevard

    The guy said it was a joke. But the LAPD's bomb squad doesn't play around. And so, after a man entered Hooters in Hollywood today and said he had bomb in his lunchbox, the area was evacuated and Hollywood Boulevard was shut down, police say:

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2013

    Ciclavia To Get Beefed Up Security Sunday In Wake of Boston Attacks

    CicLAvia, Los Angeles' celebrated outdoor bike ride, has the misfortune of being scheduled the weekend after Boston's tragic terror attack. It starts Sunday at 10 a.m. and runs from downtown to Venice. Like the Boston Marathon, the route runs along many miles (about 15 in this case) of streets line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2013

    Upskirt Picture Taker Foiled By Victim's Own Photos, LAPD Says

    It's upskirt season in Los Angeles. The combination of warm weather and accessible technology (smartphones, tablets) has conspired to create a tidal wave of perversion in the Southland. The latest victim was going about her business at a Panorama City ampm market when she noticed a creep taking s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2013

    Hollywood Drunk Drivers Targeted By LAPD Tonight

    As cops start to consider the school graduation season, they're ramping up DUI checkpoints and patrols. The LAPD plans a strong anti-drunk-driver presence on the streets this weekend starting tonight. The department is even telling you where its officers will be, hoping that you'll stay home or tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2013

    Valley Teen Pulls Classmate Into Bathroom For Kiss, Sees 'Intent-To-Rape' Charge

    Updated at the bottom with one of the reasons cops think the suspect had intent to rape. First posted at 9:04 a.m. A Valley High School teen who pulled a girl into a restroom to kiss her was in jail today for alleged kidnapping with the intent to commit rape, cops said. The LAPD says in a statemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2013

    Energy Drinks Could Be Policed By LAPD

    The LAPD has a lot on its plate, what with all the gangsters, burglars, traffic scofflaws and various other idiots in a city the size of some entire countries. But L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks wants cops to do one more job: Figuring out how energy drinks can be placed in special sections, wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2013

    Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law

    See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Alleged Northridge Kidnapper Tobias Summers Crossed Into Mexico; Search Is On There

    Tobias Summers, the man wanted for the shocking abduction of a 10-year-old Northrdige girl, was seen crossing the border into Mexico, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told reporters today. The search has focused on Mexico, authorities say, but so far Tobias remained elusive:

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2013

    Red-Car Flasher Suspect Luis Bucio-Cedeno Arrested In Valley

    They got the "red-car flasher," cops say, but where's the red car? The smoking gun in the two-year-long case of dozens of indecent-exposure reports, a red Toyota Camry, was not with 24-year-old Luis Bucio-Cedeno when cops arrested him at his North Hills residence over the weekend. But they still t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2013

    Bicyclist Sustains Major Injuries In Valley Village Hit-And-Run By Mercedes SUV

    See also: Hit-and-Run Blowback on LAPD. A series of hit-and-run crimes on bicyclists have L.A. bike activists fuming this spring. The community was buzzing about a near-death hit-and-run in Griffith Park last month. Now there's this:

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2013

    Lotto Scam In San Fernando Valley Nets Thousands Of Dollars

    What if someone came up to you and offered to split their winnings from a Lotto ticket? All you'd have to do, in return, is cash it for them and put up money to show good faith that you're not going to run off with the whole thing. If it sounds like a scam, it is. But people are being taken right h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Missing Northridge Girl Apparently Abducted, Attacked

    Updated at the bottom: She was found with injuries after she was apparently abducted. Headline has changed. First posted at 3:29 p.m. Lots of people go missing in this mean city, unfortunately, and many do so largely unnoticed. But when a 10-year-old disappeared after she was last seen in her subur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    Panorama City Shootings, One Near Marijuana Shop, Rattle LAPD

    Bad weekend for Panorama City. Hours after cops announced the community's first homicide of 2013, another one was reported. The first murder happened about 10:35 Saturday night, according to the LAPD. The yet-to-be identified victim was walking ...

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2013

    St. Patrick's Day Weekend Means DUI Crackdown In L.A. County

    Updated at the bottom with specific checkpoint locations. First posted at 9:01 a.m. You think you have the luck of the Irish? Don't test it. The AAA of Southern California this week said the new, higher cost of a first-time DUI offense is $15,649, up from earlier estimates of $10,000. The LAPD, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2013

    Sex Attack On Orange Busway Bike Path Has Valley Cops On Lookout

    The LAPD this week released an artist's sketch of a creeper who they say attacked a woman on the Orange Line Busway Bike Path in Woodland Hills. The sexual assault happened last month but police are now asking for the public's help. They say the suspect jumped a fence, walked behind the 20-year-ol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2013

    DUI Checkpoints & Patrols In Valley, Near Downtown This Weekend

    The LAPD is springing forward with a whole mess of DUI checkpoints and drunk patrols this weekend. The department publicizes the enforcement operations with the hope that you'll think twice about drinking and driving: "The deterrent effect of sobriety checkpoints is a proven resource in reducing th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2013

    Louis Vuitton Goods Worth $40K Stolen From Valley Neiman Marcus

    Fashion-conscious burglars hit the Neiman Marcus at the Westfield Topanga mall and sashayed away with $40,000 worth of Louis Vuitton bags and scarves, police said last night. Not the most imaginative choice, but just as felonious as anything they could have taken from Chanel or Kate Spade. And her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2013

    Paul Maldonado, Kurt Logan: LAPD Cops Save Life At Warner Center Restaurant

    A few days after a pair of cops were credited with saving the life of a woman in a burning tent downtown, two LAPD officers were being praised for helping to save the life of an elderly woman at a pizza restaurant in the Valley. The duo was flagged down by a restaurant employee Saturday at 1:30 p.m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2013

    DUI Checkpoints, Patrols For Silver Lake, Hollywood, Long Beach Starting Tonight

    Can you say early spring? Yeah, as things warm up out there, the heat is on. The LAPD, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and Long Beach police have a bunch of DUI checkpoints waiting for you this weekend. They want you to know about them so that maybe you'll avoid drinking and driving altogethe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2013

    LAPD Rescues Woman From Exploding Tent On Skid Row (PHOTOS)

    An LAPD officer was being praised by the department for bravely going where you or I probably would not have gone: Inside a burning tent to save a woman's life. It happened early today on Skid Row as cops on patrol as part of the LAPD's Safer Cities Initiative noticed the blaze:

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2013

    Elisa Lam: Video Of Missing 21-Year-Old Released By LAPD

    The LAPD this week released video of missing, 21-year-old Canadian Elisa Lam, hoping the imagery will help someone recognize her and call authorities. Cops say her disappearance is "suspicions;" they believe "foul play" might have played a role. The tourist was supposed to be en route to Santa Cru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    Wayne K. Guillary, LAPD Sgt., Appeals To Dorner, Says Cop Racism Remains

    Another African American cop, this one still on the force, has reached out to disgraced ex-LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner, telling him to call a TV station before he surrenders so that the event is filmed and he is "not harmed." Sgt. Wayne K. Guillary posted a "personal appeal" on the website of L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Christopher Jordan Dorner, Disgraced LAPD Cop, Suspected In Irvine Murders

    UPDATED BELOW with a list of dead and wounded police and other victims and comments by Chief Charlie Beck on the LAPD's accidental predawn shooting of paper delivery women at a staked-out site in the manhunt for Dorner. The search for the suspect has focused on San Diego. Cops were on the lookout t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Elisa Lam: 21-Year-Old Missing From Downtown L.A. Possible Victim Of Foul Play

    Cops were searching for a missing 21-year-old, Elisa Lam, who came to Los Angeles from Vancouver as a tourist. Unfortunately, investigators believe that her case is "suspicious" and might involve "foul play," according to an LAPD statement. She ended up in a sketchy part of downtown and stayed in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Christopher Dorner LAPD Murder Rampage Timeline

    Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013: Monica Quan, 28, daughter of an ex-LAPD captain who Christopher Dorner apparently believed represented him poorly before LAPD fired him, is slain along with her boyfriend Keith Lawrence, 27. The bodies are found in a car in their condo's Irvine parking garage. Quan was an assis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2013

    Traffic Tickets Get A Boost With LAPD's Laser-Accurate Speed-Detection Guns

    If you're tired of the LAPD killing fish in a barrel with "ticket traps" and other money-making schemes while motorists make atrocious and dangerous moves in your neighborhood, we have bad news for you. The department has obtained new laser speed-detection guns that can not only pick you out of a c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2013

    Super Bowl Weekend DUI Checkpoints, Patrols Start Tonight; Look Out Silver Lake, Hollywood

    If your idea of a solid Super Bowl involves a bowl of weed and a keg of beer, beware: The LAPD is gearing up for a massive DUI crackdown that starts tonight and peaks on Sunday when the 49ers take on that other team. Here's your drunk-driver checkpoint and "saturation patrol" cheat sheet for the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2013

    Marijuana Warehouse That Provided Dispensaries With Weed Busted By LAPD

    A nearly $4-million-month marijuana operation that supplied dispensaries near and far was busted by the LAPD, the department alleged today. Narcotics officers, with the help of U.S. Homeland Security gang agents, served a search warrant at a warehouse about 11 a.m. yesterday and allegedly discovere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2013

    L.A.'s Hit-And-Run Epidemic Inspires New Focus At City Hall

    Following LA Weekly's eye-opening report on the city's hit-and-run epidemic, one L.A. city Councilman wants something done. Joe Buscaino is asking the LAPD to report to the council's Public Safety Committee "about what efforts are being undertaken by the Department to curtail hit-and-run incidents ... More >>

  • News

    January 24, 2013

    LAPD Spied on 21 Using StingRay Anti-Terrorism Tool

    Mimicking a cellphone tower, it bypasses checks and balances

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2013

    Angel Serna Mancilla: Man Fatally Shot Outside Eastside Taco Truck

    Cops were searching for the suspect who shot 27-year-old Angel Serna Mancilla outside an Eastside taco truck over the weekend. The attack near Monterey Hills, in the 5100 block of Huntington Drive, was reported at 10:15 Saturday night, according to the LAPD. The victim, found by officers lying on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2013

    DUI Patrol In Hollywood Tonight, Silver Lake Tomorrow: Hipsters Beware

    If you thought you could skate after buzzing through New Year's Eve without getting busted for DUI, think again. The LAPD isn't letting up and has a flurry of anti-drunk-driving activities planned for your weekend. Here's your DUI checkpoint and patrol cheat sheet for tonight and beyond:

  • News

    January 10, 2013

    Army Corps' Eco-Disaster in Valley

    Army Corps homophobia may have prompted destruction of 40 acres of habitat

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