William Bratton

Luxury Car Hit-And-Run Drivers Running Rampant in L.A.

Why are drivers of luxury cars in Los Angeles involved in a bloody binge of hit-and-run driving, leaving innocent victims for dead? Are rich folk out of their minds? This is felony manslaughter, not "oops." The city is offering a $50,000 reward to help find the driver of a silver or white Mercedes ... More >>

L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca Spent Over One Month Outside L.A. Amid Horrific 2012 Jail Scandal

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa isn't the only local politician leaving his municipal duties in the dust, these days, in pursuit of a higher political calling. A records request run by diligent county-watcher Eric Preven earlier this summer shows that L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca -- who we l ... More >>

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 >>

Tupac and Biggie Murders: An Up-to-Date List of Characters, Given New Evidence From Ex-LAPD Detective Greg Kading

Update: "The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Confession From Gangster Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Kill Tupac." Of the many theories that have emerged over the last 15 years as to who was behind the drive-by killings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, the closest thing we've seen to an invest ... More >>

Fight for Council District 12

Valley citizens try to crack open L.A. City Hall

LAPD: Fewer People In Los Angeles Want To Become Officers Despite Good Pay And High Unemployment Elsewhere

SSCusp via FlickrLAPD officer recruitment is down.​In this Great Recession, with unemployment in Los Angeles County at nearly 13 of every 100 people, you'd think that folks would be murdering each other to get at the head of the line for a gig as an LAPD officer. You'd be wrong. For whatever ... More >>

Dept. Of Too Soon: Who Will Play Media Characters In Grim Sleeper Saga?

FishblowlLA​Local media watchers at FishbowlLA wondered aloud on Thursday who would be cast to play news media characters if the Grim Sleeper case becomes a movie. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek doggedly pursued the story and, with editor Jill Stewart (pictured), came up with the Grim Sleep ... More >>

Family Of Barbara Ware, Victim Of Grim Sleeper, Reflect On An Eventful Week

Updated: Now with photos. Ted SoquiDiana Ware, step-mom of Barbara Ware​ Larina Corlew needed to be in Church Sunday. "Church is a good place to be because it reinforces the need to forgive," she said. "But it's hard." Corlew's beloved step-sister Barbara Ware was murdered in 1987 by the so ... More >>

LAPD Counter-Terrorism Unit Being Disbanded?

​Given the attempted car bombing in New York over the weekend -- with initial implications for the Los Angeles area and its entertainment media -- this would be an ill-timed move: The union representing Los Angeles police and pseudonymous cop writer Jack Dunphy both say that the Los Angeles Po ... More >>

City-Touted, $4 Million Benefit From Jackson Memorial Pulled From Thin Air

Sony Pictures​LA Weekly obtained a series of emails that shed light on City Hall's oft-touted contention that July's Michael Jackson memorial at Staples Center downtown was a $4 million boost to area businesses. The number is important because it's often cited by those who believe it was worth it ... More >>

City-Touted $4 Million Benefit From Jackson Memorial Doubted

Sony​As the L.A. City Council takes up the strange saga of the Michael Jackson memorial next week, the critical question will be whether area businesses really reaped a $4 million windfall for an event that cost taxpayers $3.2 million, and whether memorial organizer Anschutz Entertainment Grou ... More >>

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 >>

In The LAPD Chief Hunt, It's Hard To Ignore Gascon

The Los Angeles Police Commission is keeping the identities of two candidates to replace outgoing department Chief William Bratton a secret. You see, the applicants don't want their out-of-town departments to know they're going for the brass ring. But that won't prevent us from wondering aloud abou ... More >>

Early Release Candidate No. 1: Prisoner Najee Ali

The L.A. activist says cut him loose, help the state budget

Villaraigosa Staff Shakeup: Now His Chief of Staff, Robin Kramer, Is Bolting

This cannot be good news for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. As reported in extensive detail this morning by Ron Kaye, former editor of the Daily News, Villaraigosa's Chief of Staff Robin Kramer, the woman some view as the most rational adult at City Hall, is jumping ship amidst a series of resignation ... More >>

Lily Burk: Snatched a Block Away From an L.A. Crack Bazaar

Was teenager’s killer shopping for drugs on deeply troubled Leeward Avenue?

$4 Million Jackson Memorial Cost to Taxpayers?

By Tibby Rothman City Hall is begging Jackson fans for alms, but upset L.A. residents face paying a king's ransom for the memorial to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. During the hours leading up to today's globally viewed memorial, the Los Angeles Police Department and other city offices were str ... More >>

L.A. City Council Clings to Stunning Perks and Pay

They can't bear to give up those record-high $178,898 salaries

Grim Sleeper Web Site Creator Unmasked

Ever since the L.A. Weekly broke the story about the Grim Sleeper serial killer in August of 2008, the news about his ongoing killings, which began in 1985 on the streets of South Los Angeles, has gone global. We dubbed the male suspect the Grim Sleeper because he took a 13-year break before sudden ... More >>

A Shark Tank of Lawyers Takes on Jack Weiss for L.A. City Attorney

Five sharp lawyers try to upset the Westside politician’s bid for the office

L.A. Slams Residents With Stiff Fees and Taxes

In "City of Los Angeles vs. All Persons," downtown pols play dirty

It Started With a Kiss: Finding Shelter Among the Stray Cats

What news of a murdered girlfriend triggers

Schwarzenegger Elevates Former Mayor Hahn

Judge Jimmy's 'rehabilitation' is now complete

Rick Caruso's Aria: L.A.'s Mall King Mulls a Mayoral Run

Does he have a shot?

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 >>

SWAT Officer Simmons' Final Farewell

A police officer guards SWAT Officer Randal Simmons' white hearse in front of the Crenshaw Christian Faith Dome on Vermont Ave. Dozens of colorful wreaths surrounded the entrance to the church. The funeral began at 11 a.m. Thousands of officers including members of the Jackon, New Jersey Pol ... More >>

Thousands Predicted To Attend Fallen SWAT Officers Funeral

Thousands of mourners and a swarm of media are expected at Friday morning's funeral for fallen Los Angeles Police Department SWAT Officer Russel Simmons, who was shot to death on February 7 in a horrific shootout in the San Fernando Valley. LAPD officials are predicting an overflow crowd and one of ... More >>

Greens Seeing Red

Our readers write

Children of the Revolutionary

Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America. Was it worth it?

Letters: Driving Concerns

Our readers write

Scott Kaufer

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Peace Treaty in Harbor Gateway

Derek Thomas, living with racial hatred in Harbor Gateway.

Bitch Slapped

Stripped of his takeover plan, Villaraigosa talks partnership with schools prez Marlene Canter — but this is war

Antonio's Long Ride

How immigration issues torture the mayor

Power Grabs Antonio Villaraigosa Should Make Once He's Done With the Schools

Power Grabs Antonio Villaraigosa Should Make Once He’s Done with the Schools

Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

Huge raid could be a mortal blow to notorious Valley gang

Architecture As a Contact Sport

L.A.’s Thom Mayne wins Pritzker Prize

Endorsements, Election Day March 8

Babbling Idols

And the L.A. 5 can’t be humiliated

Rooms of Dissent

Police pull welcome mat on hotel workers’ protest

In the Lap of Lobbyists

Monty Python and the Flipping Bird

D’oh! Goofiest L.A. Political Gaffes

Rough Justice

How Much Truth Is Enough?

What Williams said and didn’t say about his troubled youth

Blue Canaries

A day at the LAPD’s counterterrorism camp

Chief of Police — It’s Never Been My Total Identity

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

Once Is Not Enough

Rolling Back the Years, or Blame It on Brokaw