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Blogs
January 13, 2012
Illegal-Immigrant Impound Policy Elevates Into Political War: Mayor, LAPD Chief vs. City Council, Police Union
It's common knowledge, by now, that DUI checkpoints around L.A. County double as illegal-immigrant crackdowns. It works like this: Illegals aren't allowed to hold driver's licenses in California (a public-safety outrage for another day), so when they're asked to show their licenses at a DUI checkp ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Joe Buscaino vs. Warren Furutani for L.A. City Council: Police Union's New 'Public Safety First' Yard Signs Could Sway Election
lapd.comNow on 6,500 lawns across L.A.Like in national elections, it takes a democracy-numbing amount of time and money to win a political post in Los Angeles. Just ask Ron Kaye, LA Daily News editor turned City Hall watchdog. (If you ever feel like witnessing a city official burned at the ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Vows to End 30-Day Impounds For Unlicensed Drivers (a.k.a. Illegal Immigrants)
Following an unflattering report on vehicle impounds by the LAPD, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today said he would stop L.A. cops' 30-day impounds for first-time offenders who have been pulled over and found to lack drivers licenses. For the most part around here those people are called illegal immig ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2011
LAPD Could Disband SWAT, Narcotics, Gang Teams if Deal With Police Union isn't Reached, Chief Charlie Beck Says
UCLALAPD SWAT team members.Updated at the bottom with the police union's unhappy response. The LAPD SWAT team, gang cops and narcotics teams could be disbanded as a result of money problems in the city of L.A. unless the police union makes concessions, department Chief Charlie Beck announced ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Los Angeles Should Brace For Thousands of Released Prisoners Following Supreme Court Ruling
DaRThe U.S. Supreme Court today ordered California to open the floodgates at its state prisons and unleash 37,000 of its 140,000 or so inmates. You can bet that a good portion of those 37,000 would end up right back here in L.A. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has said that, if it happens, the relea ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
'Dog Wars' Android App Lets You 'Juice' Your Dog, Shoot Police; Real-Life Police Not Amused
androidsoftware.usMuch in the same way the iPhone "Smuggle Truck" app set immigrant-rights groups into a tither, L.A. police (along with the nation's top animal-rights activists) are now fuming over a dogfighting app for Android called "Dog Wars." It's just a game, sure...
Blogs
April 20, 2011
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 2011 Budget: Nobody Fired, But 1000s of City Workers, Mainly LAPD, Must Choose Between Furloughs or Blows to Benefits
LAPD-City Hall relations are about to get a lot hairierThe city budget is here! The city budget is here! (Much like the Royal Wedding. Almost.) It's not the finalized budget for 2011-2012 -- many grueling meetings separate us from that glorious summer day -- but we have before us the mayor' ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2011
Underage Sex: LAPD Officer in His 30s Got 17-Year-Old Girl Pregnant, Asked Her To Abort the Baby, She Claims
A teenager claims she had sex with a cop when she was 17.An 18-year-old woman says she had sex with a Los Angeles police officer when she was 17, which could constitute statutory rape in California. She gave LA Weekly a paternity test that shows a 99 percent probability that the officer is th ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2011
The 42 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles*, According to the Downtown News
AEG CEO Tim Leiweke: He's got downtown Los Angeles in his hands*Well, technically just in downtown Los Angeles, but that's where all the big players make all their big decisions anyway, right? Just ask a pissed-off Daily News outsider in the Valley. Jon Regardie at the LA Downtown News knows ... More >>
News
March 17, 2011
Bernard Parks Was Targeted as Union Object Lesson
$1.2 million buys a lot of fear at L.A. City Hall if that's your aim
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Manuel Jamines: Protest Near MacArthur Park Tonight After L.A. Police Commission, D.A. Say Cop Was Right to Shoot Immigrant
Ted SoquiPolice last summer in Westlake.Update: The mayor's statement, after the jump. Following conclusions today that last summer's shooting of a Guatemalan day laborer in the Westlake district was within policy and not a crime, immigrants rights activists planned a 5 p.m. protest near Mac ... More >>
Blogs
February 28, 2011
Councilman Bernard Parks Likens Union Leaders To Slaveholders
Bernard Parks: Not going to take it anymoreUpdate: 4:30 p.m. Parks' opponent, Forescee Hogan-Rowles, calls Parks' slavery analogy "a racist tactic." More below.The gloves are coming off in the 8th Council District. Councilman Bernard Parks unleashed a righteous vent on Twitter on Sunday, apparent ... More >>
News
February 24, 2011
Bernard Parks v. Forescee Hogan-Rowles
Incumbent's rival in Los Angeles Council District 8 was forced from an investing board for gift-seeking
Blogs
February 1, 2011
LAPD Chief Says Jeffrey Stenroos, L.A. School Officer 'Shot in Chest' at El Camino High, Was Lying [UPDATED WITH PHOTO]
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who announced tonight that the officer-involved shooting may have been a farseUpdated after the jump with a PHOTO of Jeffrey Stenroos, who has admitted to shooting himself in the chest. Update: Word on the street is Stenroos probably shot himself. He's out of jail af ... More >>
Blogs
January 14, 2011
L.A. Critical Mass Rider Sues City For LAPD 'Beating' Caught On Cell-Phone Video
YouTubeKicking the Critics into lineAs we learned from unjustly imprisoned L.A. high-schooler Jeremy Marks in December, a cell phone can be our most effective weapon against out-of-line law enforcement. Like Marks, an L.A. cyclist named Manuel Gallegos was carrying his cell phone during a Cr ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
LAPD Gang Cops Leaving Posts Rather Than Disclosing Personal Finances Under New Department Rule
Steve LyonCops are going "code 3" to exit gang units.Potholes are devouring tires, the city budget is once again a mess, and now there's more bad news this week for the concerned citizens of L.A: Experienced gang cops are abandoning ship. (See the L.A. police union's response, after the jump) ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2010
LAPD Officers Take Automatic Weapon Fire Near Downtown, Kill A Suspect
Updated after the jump with alleged shooter's ID, fact that he was a parolee-at-large, and response from the police union. First posted at 6:37 p.m. Tuesday. A person was fatally shot by cops when the suspect in a reportedly stolen car opened fire on police with an AK-47-type rifle, accordin ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
State Sen. Gloria Romero Chastised For Suggesting LAPD Has 'Shoot-To-Kill' Mentality Following Manuel Jamines Confrontation
This week's foot-in-the-mouth award goes to Eastside state Sen. Gloria Romero, whose often-brave stances we often agree with, but whose recent comments about a Los Angeles Police Department shooting she might want to reconsider. She suggested in an interview aired on KFI AM 640 over the week ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
Demonstration Against Officer Who Shot Manuel Jamines Planned Saturday; LAPD Union Not Happy
Southern California Immigration CoalitionAn organization that wants to legalize undocumented workers in the United States is staging a rally Saturday to call for the prosecution of the Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot day laborer Manuel Jamines in a controversial confrontation earl ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2010
Chere Osmanhodzic Murder Case Inspires LAPD Union To Say We Told You So: Suspect Saw An Early Release Despite Record
Loera.The union that represents Los Angeles police is fuming over the case of 34-year-old Omar Armando Loera, the man recently named as a suspect in what authorities described as a brutal murder of a bride-to-be in Valley Village. The union is mad because, it states, Loera has a long criminal ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
Immigrants' Rights Group Calls For Murder Prosecution Of Frank Hernandez, LAPD Cop Who Fatally Shot Manuel Jamines
A Los Angeles-based immigrants' rights group called on Tuesday for the Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot immigrant Manuel Jamines earlier this month to be prosecuted for alleged murder. The Southern California Immigration Coalition was scheduled to hold a news conference Tuesday aft ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2010
LAPD Union Stands Up For Frank Hernandez, Officer Behind Controversial Westlake Shooting
Ted SoquiPolice at the ready in Westlake.The union that represents Los Angeles police on Thursday stood up for Frank Hernandez, the officer who touched off three nights of raucous demonstrations in Westlake after he shot a man who authorities said was threatening people with a knife. The Los ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
LAPD Union Backs Initiative That Would Suspend State's Anti-Global Warming Effort
Paul Weber.The union representing Los Angeles police stepped into the contentious fight over the state's anti-global warming efforts by backing a proposition that would put the brakes on a law that sought to reduce California's green-house gas output by about 15 percent. That effort under AB ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2010
Los Angeles Police Union Backs D.A. Steve Cooley For State Attorney General
Steve Cooley.No surprise here: The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers has thrown its considerable weight behind the man whose office cops often have to work in harmony with: Republican District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's running for California Attorney General against ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2010
LAPD Officers In Arizona This Week Despite Los Angeles City Boycott Over Immigration Law
Despite the Los Angeles City Council's economic and travel boycott of Arizona over its controversial illegal immigration law (SB1070), four Los Angeles police air-unit officers went to Tucson anyway for law enforcement training. Though funding for the conference was denied by city leaders, th ... More >>
Blogs
July 2, 2010
Los Angeles 911 Operators Stage Sickout
More than 80 Los Angeles city 911 operators staged a sickout Friday to protest furloughs and budget cuts that took effect Thursday as part of the city's new fiscal-year budget, a representative of the Los Angeles police union confirmed to LA Weekly. Tweets went out to the police union's lead ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Banning Ex-Felons From Wearing Body Armor
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday signed into a law a bill by San Fernando Valley state Sen. Alex Padilla that outlaws the wearing of bullet-proof vests by ex-felons. The bill had also been pushed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and the union representing Los Angele ... More >>
Blogs
May 31, 2010
LAPD Officers In Hot Water Over Bike Ride Incident Caught On Tape
YouTubeAn officer throws a regulation kick.The Los Angeles Police Department launched an investigation over the weekend after an officer was spotted apparently throwing a kick toward a bicyclist involved in a demonstration against British Petroleum Friday night in Hollywood. At least 400 bi ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Four LAPD Evidence Rooms Closing Down; Number Of Officers On The Streets Reduced
Police union president Paul M. Weber.The union representing Los Angeles police announced that four department property rooms would begin shutting down Friday as a cost-cutting measure. The news comes as the Los Angeles Police Protective League states that cuts in civilian staffing at the depa ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Police Union Responds To Death Of Daryl Gates
Police union president Paul M. Weber.The president of the union representing Los Angeles police responded Friday to the news that former Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl F. Gates has passed away. "Los Angeles has suffered a great loss with the death of Chief Gates," said Paul M. Web ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2010
L.A. Cops Doing Civilian Work As Budget Cuts Shrink Force
More and more L.A. cops are being shifted to desk jobs as budget cuts have slashed Los Angeles Police Department's civilian ranks by nearly 1,000, according to the union representing Los Angeles police. It will be a long, hot summer for crime fighting in L.A. as a result of the shuffling and ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
Putting More LAPD Cops On The Streets Pays Dividends, Study States
As budget-triggered reductions of Los Angeles Police Department cops affect the city for the first time since 2005, the union representing LAPD officers is touting a Rand study that concludes adding more badges to the force is well worth the cost. The report, issued last month, concluded tha ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2010
Parole Denied For Ailing 'Onion Field' Killer
CDCRGregory Powell.Onion Field killer Gregory Powell was denied parole this week after nearly 47 years behind bars, despite his plea for more freedom before he dies from terminal prostate cancer. The 76-year-old reportedly told a parole board in San Luis Obispo, "I've done enough time. I'm a ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2010
Fox 11 Duped By Fabricated Video That Attempted To Show Cops Lied
Fox 11 NewsSuspect Abdallah and his attorney.It appears that Fox 11 News was duped by a suspect who admitted to fabricating video that the station used to show that cops had allegedly lied when they stated that the man was pulled over because his car lacked license plates. The suspect, somet ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2010
'Onion Field' Killer Gets Parole Hearing
A man serving a life sentence for the kidnapping and execution murder of a Los Angeles police officer in a case made famous by Joseph Wambaugh's book The Onion Field (and an eponymous movie) is up for parole Wednesday. The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police is opposing parol ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2010
L.A. Police Union Wants Cops To Be Notified When Expected Wave Of Prisoners Comes To Town
The union representing Los Angeles police officers on Thursday asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ensure that local departments are notified when prisoners from the massive release planned for Monday come their way. "We are very concerned that the released prison inmates will be completely ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects California's Appeal Of Prisoner Release Mandate
The administration of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger lost its appeal (PDF) to have the U.S. Supreme Court to stop a federal order that would force California to release more than 40,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding. The release, which we told you previously was planned for Jan. 25, must go ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2010
Release Of Thousands Of California Prisoners Set For This Month
Batten down the hatches. The state is scheduled to release thousands of prisoners, with at least 5,000 coming to California, starting Jan. 25, according to a statement from the union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers. "The county of Los Angeles will be dramatically impac ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2009
Jerry Brown To Challenge Ruling Overturning Ban On Body Armor For Felons
Jerry Brown.With Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck, San Francisco police Chief George Gascon and Los Angeles police union president Paul M. Weber urging him on, state Attorney General Jerry Brown says he'll petition the state Supreme Court to throw out a lower court ruling that overturned ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2009
Ruling Allowing Felons To Wear Body Armor Should Be Appealed, Officials Say
LAPPLPaul M. Weber.The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police and the chief of the San Francisco Police Department are urging Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a state appellate judge's ruling that overturns a state ban on body armor for violent ex-convicts. They want to see ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
L.A. Police Union Livid After Ban On Body Armor For Violent Felons Overturned; Law Was Inspired By North Hollywood Shootout
LAPPLPaul M. WeberThe union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police was livid over the weekend after a judge overturned California's prohibition on body armor for many of those convicted of violent felonies. After a second district state appellate court judge overturned the 11-year-old ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2009
Villaraigosa Chooses Beck as Next L.A. Police Chief
Charlie Beck will be Los Angeles' next police chief. The mayor is expected to announce his choice at a press conference at 11 a.m. this morning at the Getty House in Hancock Park. Charlie Beck Beck headed the LAPD's Detective Bureau and oversaw the testing of thousands of untested rape kits ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2009
Cops Get New Contract, No Raises
The expansionist era of Chief William Bratton is over, and the city is seeking to put a lid on costs stemming from policing Los Angeles. A new contract with the city that aims to reign in the Los Angeles Police Department's overtime costs was approved by the rank-and-file members of the Los Angeles ... More >>
News
April 30, 2009
Bratton: L.A. Is as Safe as 1956
Except the chief is manipulating numbers and acting like a politician

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