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Federal oversight of LAPD officially ends
A judge has officially ended more than a decade of federal oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department that was triggered by a corruption scandal involving abusive officers.
In two short sentences, U.S. District Judge Gary Allen Feess dismissed the final remnants of a consent decree on Wednesday, releasing the department from a transition agreement put in place in 2009 to ensure reforms that had been made were kept in place.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cheered the formal end to agreement at an afternoon news conference with Police Chief Charlie Beck.
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Jenkins Report regarding security in Los Angeles
The LAPPL recently commissioned a report by esteemed security expert Brian Michael Jenkins, who broadly addresses the question of how the City of Los Angeles could further improve its preparedness in light of the changing threats, asking, “How can things be made even better?” His report, “Looking Back, Looking Forward:
Pressing the Reset Button on our Response to Terrorist Threats in the Los Angeles Region,” can be accessed by clicking on the link below.
http://lapd.com/assets/LookingBack_LookingForward_FINAL_102312.pdf.
For additional information on why the LAPPL commissioned the Jenkins Report, click here.
Council approves two projects to stimulate the economy
In recent weeks, the Los Angeles City Council has approved two critical projects that will help boost the economy in Southern California.
The first project, the modernization of LAX also has the added benefit of improving safety.
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Inventing the headline number
The playbook is familiar now—gin up a study on public pensions and government debt to be released to media outlets with a headline-grabbing number shrieking doom for public finances. The latest exhibit is a propaganda piece tossed out to the media by the anti-public employees group California Public Policy Center (CPPC) purposely inflates pension debt.
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With all precincts reporting, clear leaders emerge in city races
The Los Angeles city clerk early Wednesday morning released final vote tallies for the citywide election, leaving only mail-in ballot results standing between candidates' victory and defeat.
With 100% of precincts reporting just after 3 a.m., clear leaders emerged in citywide races for mayor, city controller, and city attorney, as well as four City Council seats and positions on the Board of Education and the L.A. Community College Board of Trustees.
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Kidnapping Suspect Returns to US After Mex. Arrest
A phone tip and a Superman tattoo led to the Mexico arrest and return to the U.S. of a fugitive charged with abducting and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old Los Angeles girl.
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Remembering a 'cop's cop' in San Bernardino
The day before his death, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremiah MacKay agreed to a request from his wife, Lynette: He stayed home from work.
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The Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence Girls Basketball Scholarship Fund
John Miller, the former head of the LAPD Major Crimes Division, speaks with two married police officers at the top of revenge killer Christopher Dorner's hit list. [VIDEO]
Hundreds at funeral for Riverside officer
As Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven" played on a loudspeaker, motorcycles led a black hearse and a lengthy funeral procession of law enforcement vehicles down a hill and into the parking lot of the Grove Community Church in Riverside.
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In wake of Dorner shootout, questions over use of 'the burner'
The day's light was fading when the SWAT officers decided they could wait no longer for Christopher Dorner to surrender.
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Hollywood intersection dedicated to 'Onion Field' victim
LAPD Officer Ian Campbell's last breaths were in the dirt of a Kern County onion field. It was March 9, 1963, and he and his partner, Karl Hettinger, had been driven to the area at gunpoint.
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