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Public Invited to LAPD Senior Lead Officers Summit
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Northeast Division will hold its Senior Lead Officers Summit next month at the Greek Theatre.
The summit is open to the public and will provide local residents the opportunity to meet area senior lead officers as well as 9-1-1 operators and find out the local division’s goals for this year, according to LAPD Sergeant Ruben Arellano. There will also be presentations from the bomb squad and the PAL Box.
The summit will take place at 6 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, at the Greek Theatre located at 2700 North Vermont Ave.
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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.
Gang injunctions keep working to make L.A. safer
Councilmember and Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti deservedly presided at the reopening last Saturday of Echo Park Lake. The much-anticipated event followed a two-year, $45 million dredging and rebuilding of the iconic recreation area that includes new wetlands, boardwalk embankments and lotuses.
Now comes the hard part – keeping the area around the beautifully-restored lake safe for kids and families, and free from gang-related crime.
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A landmark decision puts public safety first
Monday’s Supreme Court decision upholding the police practice of taking DNA samples from people who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime is a major victory for law enforcement and public safety. In upholding a Maryland law, the High Court decided one of the most important criminal procedure cases it has taken up in decades.
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Justices Allow DNA Collection After an Arrest
The police may take DNA samples from people arrested in connection with serious crimes, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 5-to-4 decision.
The federal government and 28 states authorize the practice, and law enforcement officials say it is a valuable tool for investigating unsolved crimes. But the court said the testing was justified by a different reason: to identify the suspect in custody.
“When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and they bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, “taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”
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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.
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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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