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While the City of Los Angeles ended 2010 with the fewest murders on record in decades, officials admitted Tuesday the percentage of solved cases had also shrunk, perhaps as a result of overtime caps that have sharply restricted the availability of detectives.
LA Times blog
The Obama administration doesn't want dangerous prison inmates, such as convicted mass murderer Charles Manson to make calls or send text messages from contraband cellphones because of the possibility that they could direct new crimes.
USA Today
At least 42% of police officers killed in vehicle crashes over the past three decades were not wearing seat belts or other safety restraints, according to a federal review.
California Watch
California is carrying the weight of decades-old public safety woes into the new year.
Associated Press
It began with a sheriff's deputy investigating a report of gunfire at a trailer park. By the time it was over, the deputy and the suspected shooter were dead, and a police officer was wounded in a gunbattle with the suspect.
LA Daily News
Officers towed more than a dozen so-called mobile billboards parked in the West San Fernando Valley on Sunday in an unprecedented crackdown against a controversial industry officials are trying to get off city streets.
LA Times
To help erase a $30-million budget shortfall, it will decrease by seven the number of fire companies that are on duty across the city each day on a rotating basis.
Kentucky Courier-Journal
The camera moves forward giving you the view of a police officer approaching a van on a dark street as the voiceover describes the potential dangers the officer may face.
Lowell (Mass.) Sun
Middlesex DA: No notification that Woburn officer's killer was up for parole
LA Times
Fee is being added to help pay for air transportation of critically ill patients and is the latest increase imposed on drivers.
LA Times
Drivers who cause accidents in at least 50 cities can be billed for the police and firefighters who show up. Critics are upset that cities are charging for what used to be a basic service.
Washington Post Editorial
THEIR AVERAGE AGE was 41, their average length of service was nearly 12 years and, on average, each left behind two children.
LA Downtown News
Crime Rate Falls Again, Down 11% From 2008
USA Today
When Washington debates whether America is safe, the focus now is usually on the increasing threat of terrorism — not violent crime.
LA Times Op-Ed
The City Council and the Board of Supervisors need to find the money to keep an adequate number of law enforcement officers on the streets for an adequate number of hours, or the gains of recent years won't be maintained.
ABC7
New developments in the investigation of a Christmas shooting that killed a South Los Angeles mother as her daughter watched. There's now a reward in the case.
LA Times Editorial
For the first time since the late 1960s, Los Angeles appears on course to finish the year with fewer than 300 murders. And the crime statistics suggest further progress is possible.
Boston Globe
After 34 years on the police force, John Maguire had finally put in his retirement papers.
USA Today
The number of law officers killed in the line of duty across the United States jumped 37% this year, reversing two consecutive years of steep declines, according to a report released Monday by a national police advocacy group.
LA Daily News
With a handful of reports of celebratory gunfire around the city in the first few minutes of Christmas Day, Los Angeles police and sheriff's deputies today are warning people about shooting into the air to ring in the new year.
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