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The $80 Million Civic Center Facility Opens Two Years After Completion
LA Times
The $84-million facility sat empty for nearly two years due to staffing shortages. Chief Beck defends his move to transfer 90 patrol officers to detention duty because the old jail's closure was overdue.
LA Times blog
More than $25,000 was raised in a barbecue Thursday for the family of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was shot in the face by an East L.A. gang member, an official said.
LA Times blog
A $50,000 reward for information in the 2006 murder of a 14-year-old girl from City Terrace was renewed Thursday by L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar.
LA Daily News
Many of the city's most violent, gang-infested neighborhoods are no longer being policed by special gang officers, after members of entire units quit their assignments over rules requiring the disclosure of their personal financial information.
LA Times blog
For the second time in less than two years, California prison officials caught Charles Manson, mastermind of one of the most notorious killing sprees in U.S. history, with a cellphone behind bars.
LA Times
Officers who refuse to disclose financial status are assigned to patrol. Department downplays concerns but critics say it's risky.
Shephard News UK
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has announced the selection of Cobham to supply Synthetic Vision Electronic Flight Instrument Systems (EFIS) for their fleet of Eurocopter and Bell helicopters.
Police Magazine editorial
There are two things that can be done to immediately make your job safer.
Oakland Tribune
The city will hire back 10 of the 80 officers laid off in July, Mayor Jean Quan announced Monday.
Sacramento Bee
Red light cameras may be controversial, but they save lives, according to a new national study of 62 large U.S. cities, including Sacramento.
LA Times blog
Chester Dewayne Turner, one of Los Angeles' most prolific serial killers who prowled the streets of South L.A. in the 1980s and '90s, was charged Tuesday with four additional murders linked to him through DNA.
KABC7
Federal and local law enforcement personnel arrested 37 suspects connected to L.A.'s 38th Street Gang during a racketeering sting Tuesday. Twenty more people were detained on weapons and narcotics charges.
Officer.com
A female correctional officer at the state prison in Monroe was killed by an inmate on Saturday night.
My Central Jersey
In his first year, Gov. Chris Christie put the squeeze on police departments across the state but had his most prolonged and public battle with the state teachers union.
LA Daily News
A Long Beach anti-gang detective shot near a park in the Cambodia Town area continued his recovery, as the search continued for the suspects who shot him, police officials said.
LA Daily News
The long-delayed transfer of inmates from the dilapidated Parker Center jail to the new Metropolitan Detention Center begins at midnight tonight amid continuing concern about the use of LAPD officers as guards.
Sacramento Bee
Government reformers and youth advocates have long called for California to get out of the business of juvenile corrections.
LA Times blog
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 20 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database.
LA Times
Scaling back pensions for future fire and police hires, carving out more money for libraries and reining in the DWP's power are among measures' goals.
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