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Police

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Bellflower Dad Who Threatened, Kidnapped Two Daughters Turns Up in Utah

    Los Angeles County Sheriff's DepartmentKatelyn Litwin (left) and Natalya Litwin (right)​The was an Amber Alert out this morning for 34-year-old Bellflower man Stephen Andrew Litwin, who was believed by L.A. County sheriff's deputies to have kidnapped his two young daughters Sunday at about 10: ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    Jeremy Marks "Attempted Lynching" Case

    Black teen who filmed an LAUSD campus cop hitting a student faces bizarre charges and years in prison

  • News

    August 12, 2010

    Pomona Cops Dodge a Bullet

    Accepting severe pay cuts, a police department survives to patrol another day

  • News

    July 8, 2010

    A Betrayal in Proud Pomona

    Century-old police department fears the end of its own thin, blue line

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2010

    Los Angeles County Murder Rate Down As City Rate Continues To Outpace 2009

    ​As the city of Los Angeles continued to see an uptick in homicides this year, the county sheriff's department reported that the murder rate was down so far this year for the areas it patrols. In fact county homicides were down 17 percent through the end of June compared to the same period in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2010

    Ex-Cop Mayor Of Compton Gets His Police Department Back; Sheriff's Deputies Told To Take A Hike

    ​Almost ten years after it was shuttered, the Compton Police Department was revived. The Compton City Council late Tuesday voted 3-2 to reestablish its own department and stop contracting with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for police services. According to Fox 11 News, former Co ... 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

    February 12, 2010

    Sheriff Will Monitor Parolees That State Won't

    ​The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers made a rare move this week in praising the Sheriff's Department for stating it would essentially do the job of the state and monitor those convicts set free under state parole reform. " ... We thank Sheriff Lee Baca," reads a stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Long Beach Scoops Up Jim McDonnell For Chief

    LAPDJim McDonnell.​As is tradition at the Los Angeles Police Department, some of those unsuccessful internal candidates for chief often end up moving on to helm their own departments in other municipalities. Such was the case today as the city of Long Beach appointed Jim McDonnell as its next ... 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 28, 2009

    Cop Deaths Down In California; LAPD Had No Officers Down in 2009

    ​The number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty was down in California for 2009, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund reports. Eight officers statewide were killed, including one Culver City cop, Sgt. Curtis Massey, who was the victim of a wrong-way driver on ... 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 17, 2009

    Last Call Comes For Traditional Party Day At Police Bar

    ​Following the DUI death earlier this month of a police veteran who had been drinking on payday at a bar at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park, officials announced that the watering hole would be closed for the traditional "payday Wednesdays" festivities there. Retired Deputy Chie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Odelay: Beck Is Official As LAPD Chief

    El Jefe.​Charlie Beck had a public swearing in as the 56th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Thursday, and it was his father, retired LAPD Deputy Chief George Beck, who pinned the top-cop badge on his son for all to see in the plaza of the new Police Administration Building downtown. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    New Chief Banishes Rivals To Siberia (Just Joking -- He Remixes The Brass And Gives One Challenger A Promotion)

    Chief Charlie Beck.​New Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck took less than a week as the city's top cop to rearrange his command staff. While you might rightfully have a sharp eye on what he plans to do with his fellow challengers for chief, Deputy Chief Michel Moore and Assistant Chi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Sheriff's Boat Runs Aground On Dry Land

    The Old West image of the local sheriff as a six-shot cowboy still endures, so you might give Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies a little leeway for any perceived lack of sea legs and water navigation skills. But a sheriff's boat was on dry land Wednesday when it hit an obstacle -- a freeway over ... 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 27, 2009

    LAPD Interim Chief Named

    Deputy Chief Michael Downing was today named the Los Angeles Police Department's interim chief. Currently, Downing is in charge of the department's counterterrorism unit. ​He will take over the coveted spot until a new chief is selected by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The Los Angeles Police Com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Three Finalists For LAPD Police Chief Named

    Charlie Beck​The three finalists for police chief of the Los Angeles Police Department are Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck and Deputy Chief Michel Moore. The three finalists were chosen unanimously by the police commission after a three-and-a-half hour closed-door m ... More >>

  • News

    September 24, 2009

    LAUSD’s Finest Shakeup

    Police Chief Manion relinquishes powers but old blood is still at top

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

    The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Ex-LAUSD Super Accused of Using Fake Badge to Pull Woman Over

    Ruban Zacarias, who left as the top dog of the Los Angeles County Unified School District in 2000, plead not guilty did not enter a plea* today in response to a charge of impersonating a police officer, the Los Angeles District Attorney's office reported.Zacarias, 80, is accused of using a school po ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2009

    LAUSD's Finest: Los Angeles School Police

    How an oblivious school board lets a tiny, scandal-ridden force endanger L.A. kids

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 145, LAPD Officers Involved in Fatal Shooting

    A robbery suspect was killed last night after an altercation with Los Angeles Police Department officers in West Los Angeles. According to preliminary reports, the officers encountered the robbery suspects at the corner of Iowa and Purdue avenues around 11:15 p.m. on July 6. One of the suspects wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2009

    Greig Smith Hits Back Over LAPD Hiring Freeze

    Now it's getting interesting. Last Friday night, 12th District City Councilman Greig Smith released his own salvo over a proposal to freeze the hiring of LAPD officers during Los Angeles's budget crisis, claiming Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was engaging in "scare tactics and fear mongering." Office o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2008

    Hundreds Attend Funeral for Slain Sheriff's Deputy

    Family and friends along with hundreds of law enforcement officers attended a funeral today at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown L.A. for a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down outside his home in Cypress Park. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Escalante, 27, was shot to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Officer Involved Shootings Reach 27 this Year

    With Monday's fatal shooting of postal worker Kevin Wicks by an Inglewood police officer the number of deaths this year at the hands of law enforcement in Los Angeles County has hit 27, according to the LA County Coroner. That means roughly four deaths a month involving police officers. The startl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2008

    Major Law Enforcement Crack down Nets the Gangsters of Drew Street

    A multi-agency task force of 500 law enforcement officers swooped down on members of the avenues gang on Drew Street early this morning. The crackdown netted 32 members or associates of the “Drew Street” clique of the avenues. The operation, which began at 4 a.m., stemmed from a massive 157-pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2008

    Maywood Hires a Convicted Ethics Professor as Interim Police Chief

    For a town looking to repair its police department's reputation as corrupt and brutal, Maywood took the unusual step Friday of holding an emergency session to hire as its interim police chief Al Hutchings, a former Maywood and LAPD officer convicted of bilking LAPD for fraudulent overtime. Mayor ... More >>

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    A Classic Diversion

    Chief Cayler Carter is publicly sacrificed, but the screwups on May 1 began with Bratton

  • News

    May 10, 2007

    Bratton's Mea Culpa Tour

    Youve obviously not been watching your own news channel, Bratton said acidly to the KTTV reporter. Ive already apologized. I dont feel the need to answer your specific question, or apologize to you.

  • News

    January 27, 2005

    Revenge of the White Cops

    The meaning of the Inglewood verdict

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Lighten Up, Bloomberg

    The demonstrators yelled a lot, so what?

  • News

    February 12, 2004

    Light of Justice

    Federal judge agrees to take another look at secret deal in Inglewood brutality case

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Fast Justice

    Lessons from New Yorks handling of a police shooting

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    The Untouchables

    Lasting, sad lessons of Rampart

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    Chief of Police Its Never Been My Total Identity

    Web exclusive: the L.A. Weeklys interview with Bernard Parks, candidate for the 8th Los Angeles City Council District

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    The Rampart Verdict

    The deeper meaning of LAPDs biggest scandal may never be known

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Rewriting the Book

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

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Just the Facts, Ma'am

    Everything you wanted to know about the LAPD

  • News

    August 8, 2002

    Tale of the Tape

    Kroeker's recorded comments about gays haunt his bid to be LAPD chief

  • News

    July 25, 2002

    The Cop Who Stopped the Punch

    Kroeker's recorded comments about gays haunt his bid to be LAPD chief

  • News

    May 16, 2002

    No Movie for Rafael Perez

    Kroeker's recorded comments about gays haunt his bid to be LAPD chief

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Cant Claremont Just Get Along?

    Of Rodney King, Jesse Jackson and Irvin Landrum Jr.

  • News

    May 17, 2001

    Beating History

    Hahn better hope voters forget his mistakes dealing with Daryl Gates and Rodney King

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Keeping the Peace

    LAPD really knows how to sock it to em

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    A $500,000 Lesson

    Culver City cops just dont get it

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Pay Boost Sought for Police Watchdog

    Commission flip-flop means higher pay all around

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    To Expel an Inspector

    How the LAPD cleansed itself

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