Parker Center

Law & Order, Special Fugly Unit: Parker Center, 150 N. Los Angeles St., Downtown

The building that housed the LAPD's headquarters between 1955 and 2009 starred in TV shows like Dragnet in its heyday, but its slow, fifty-year slide into disrepair gave it a real world stigma that's left it tarnished and crumbling from the inside out -- most obviously because the community doesn't ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Arrestees Say Bathrooms Off Limits For Hours so They Went on Buses: Sheriff's Department Looking Into it

Ted Soqui​Allegations that Occupy L.A. detainees were not allowed to use the restroom for hours as they waited on buses headed to jails are being checked out this week by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, says spokesman Steve Whitmore. Accusations of rough and inhumane treatment of Occupy ... More >>

Michael Jackson Fans To March Downtown One Day After The Anniversary Of King Of Pop's Death

​A group unhappy about the justice system's pace in the death of Michael Jackson is planning a rally downtown one day after the one-year anniversary of the pop star's death. The group is encouraging people to show up outside Staples Center on Saturday, June 26 at 11 a.m. for a march to the Los ... More >>

Rodney Alcala: The Fine Art of Killing

One man’s murderous romp through polite society

Judge Sets Bail for Alleged Killer Cop at $10 Million

A superior court judge set bail at $10 million for veteran Los Angeles Police Department Detective Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, who is accused of shooting and beating to death her ex-boyfriend's wife 23 years ago. ​ Lazarus, a well-regarded veteran cop dedicated to tracking stolen art, was arrest ... More >>

New LAPD HQ Has Eye on L.A. Times

Los Angeles police Chief William J. Bratton today gave the news media a tour of his department's gleaming new headquarters at 100 W. First St. downtown. The 10-story box contains a media room with live streaming, a gym three times the size of the one at the circa-1955 Parker Center headquarters near ... More >>

Bratton Successor: Insider LAPD Brass Who Want to Replace Him

Nothing against the interesting list the Los Angeles Times published today, of the Los Angeles Police Department's top brass who want to replace the departing Bill Bratton. But the chances that City Hall would somehow have a permanent new chief in place the day Bratton leaves for New York, which is ... More >>

Lily Burk Murder Suspect Arrested

Associated Press has just announced that Los Angeles police have arrested a 50-year-old man in connection with the brutal murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk, whose body was discovered in her car Saturday. She had been abducted and reported missing Friday after running an errand for her mother. The susp ... More >>

Group Demands Progress on Grim Sleeper

1980s-era activists return to fight a serial killer in South-Central

LAPD Cop, Alleged Murderess Stephanie Lazarus, Picked Up By One of Her Own

KNX News RadioSherri Rae RasmussenAll eyes were on Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton today after news broke that 49-year-old detective Stephanie Ilene Lazarus was arrested for the cold-case shooting and beating death of her ex-boyfriend's wife Sherri Rae Rasmussen. As one television ... More >>

Black Coalition Questions Lack of Progress of Grim Sleeper Task Force

The Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders held a press conference and sidewalk vigil yesterday outside the Los Angeles Police Department's Parker Center headquarters for the victims of the Grim Sleeper. The group also questioned the lack of information and progress in resolving the murders o ... More >>

Bratton: L.A. Is as Safe as 1956

Except the chief is manipulating numbers and acting like a politician

LA People 2009: Art Cop Confidential — Don Hrycyk

Third Suspect Arrested in Deputy Slaying

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy. A fourth man remains at large. "We will bring all those responsible for the murders to justice," said Police Chief William Bratton at a 1 p.m. press conference at Parker Center, ... More >>

Bernie Parks Wants New LAPD HQ to Keep 'Parker' Brand

What's in a name? Today's L.A. Times carries an item about L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks' nostalgic quest to have the new, schmantzy LAPD HQ named Parker Center. You know - as in "Parker Center" that has been the name of the current police headquarters since 1966. Which is named for the same cr ... More >>

The Verdict: After Rodney King

Sympathy for the Devil: Crime Stats Say L.A.'s Streets Are Safer Than Ever, So Why Are Gang Hoods Still So Bloody?

Top dogs Da Brat, Zen Baca and Tony V weigh in, along with street players D-Black, Marky-D and Mauricio

LAPD Asks for Public’s Help in Solving Grim Sleeper Murders

Los Angeles Police Department detectives held a press conference today asking for the public’s help in finding a serial killer believed to be responsible for at least 11 murders in South Los Angeles over a 23-year span. Dubbed the Grim Sleeper by the LA Weekly, which broke the news that he is sti ... More >>

LAPD Tip Line Busy After News of $500,000 Reward in Grim Sleeper Investigation

The phone lines at 1-877-LAWFULL, a number that rings at the Los Angeles Police Department’s Parker Center, have been hopping since news broke Wednesday that the Los Angeles City Council offered a whopping $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the serial killer du ... More >>

Grim Sleeper Returns: He's Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA

The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Sunil Dutta

The renaissance cop

Prime-Time Crime Fighter

William J. Bratton

The Anger Commission

Mayor sends a message by sticking around to hear heated criticism about LAPD

Rooms of Dissent

Police pull welcome mat on hotel workers’ protest

Slow Road to Rampart Justice

It just might be the LAPD reforms itself faster without outside help

An American Family: Jail Time

A police raid threatens everything

Initiation by Fire

Hard lessons learned by a paper and a journalist when the city burned

Neat and Messy

Two guys who will police the police

The Ticking Stopwatch

LAPD's new terrorism czar ponders al Qaeda

Toppling Pyramids

An open-and-shut case for change at the LAPD

View From Parker Center

A one-on-one with Police Chief Bill Bratton

The Long Wait

Staking out taggers with the LAPD

Call Rewrite!

The view from the pressroom

Rewriting the Book

Commander George Gascon and Captain Sergio Diaz attempt a revolution from within

Letters

White Man’s Burden

Let’s draft David Dotson for police chief

Reporter's Notebook

The Burning Tree

The Bernie Blow-off

Secret meetings on police chief's future could have been open to the public

Wanted: A Real Mayor

Two issues could make Hahn history

Keeping the Peace

LAPD really knows how to sock it to ’em

People’s Podium

A protester’s guide to the Democratic convention

Free To Protest

Thanks to Judge Feess, you can say more things in more places

Philadelphia Story

Like L.A., the City of Brotherly Love had to confront cowboy cops

No Public Displays

Council to protesters: Demonstrate, if you must, at home

The Insiders

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

Parks’ Department

Bernie Parks claims he’s got the Rampart scandal under control

Chained Gang

Can the city attorney's injunction stop Pico-Union's 18th Street Gang?

Stein-Hubbell affair

Rewriting the Stein-Hubbell affair