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Panel weighs cutting fire, police budgets

LA Daily News

A City Council panel on Monday recommended a plan to save $87 million - mostly through cuts to fire and police service - to begin chipping away at Los Angeles' $300 million-plus budget deficit.

Two killed in motorcycle crash ID'd

Orange County Register

Orange County coroner's officials have identified the two men killed Sunday in a three-motorcycle crash on Santiago Canyon Road, one of whom was a veteran Los Angeles Police Department officer.

LAUSD appoint Zipperman as new school police force chief

Torrance Daily Breeze

The nation's largest school police force is set to have a new chief beginning next year: Steven K. Zipperman, a 31-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Plan to assign LAPD officers to jails OK'd

LA Daily News

Hoping to get the new Metropolitan Detention Center up and running by the end of January, a city panel signed off Monday on a plan to reassign 83 LAPD officers to work as jailers.

California has 6-week backlog on new driver's licenses

Sacramento Bee

State officials recently unveiled a dramatically redesigned California driver's license, with hidden photos and raised lettering, aimed at foiling counterfeiters.

Red-light cameras go dark across state

California Watch

While the state collects millions of dollars from red-light cameras at intersections, a few California cities are starting to question whether the safety benefits are worth the high cost to their own coffers.

Prison officials battle cell phone smuggling

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

With thousands of cell phones and smart phones getting into the hands of the state's prison inmates, officials are busy finding ways to deal with a growing problem.

Despite being outmoded, a confidential license plate program keeps growing

Contra Costa Times

At the time, it made perfect sense.

LAPD on way to clearing up DNA sample backlog

LA Daily News

A decades-old backlog of more than 7,000 untested rape kits has been nearly cleared by the LAPD, but 1,000 more DNA samples collected since 2008 have piled up and will take until July to analyze, officials said Friday.

LAPD kicks off toy drive

ABC7

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck launched the annual LAPD Angels Community book and toy drive Thursday.

LA police want to continue red-light cameras

Associated Press

The Police Department wants to continue its red-light camera enforcement program despite costing the city $2.5 million in the last two years due to a high number of uncollected tickets.

Florida Deputy Fatally Shot at Traffic Stop

Officer.com

The Orange County Sheriff's Office identified a deputy shot and killed during a traffic stop on Wednesday night.

Traffic stops among most dangerous police duties

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Florida has lost nine officers in the line of duty in 2010.

L.A. might allow residents to park in front of their driveways

LA Times blog

It’s a situation that many Angelenos have faced: You’re trying to park. It’s your own residential street. Home turf. But there are too many cars, so you end up half-blocking your own driveway. Then you get a ticket.

Masks so realistic they're arresting the wrong guy

LA Times

A white man who robbed Ohio banks looked so convincing in a black-male disguise that an innocent man was held. That's not exactly how SPFXMasks of Van Nuys had intended its masks to be used.

Parolee leads cops on high-speed chase

LA Daily News

A parolee at large led police on an approximately 50-minute chase through the San Fernando Valley today, occasionally driving on the wrong side of the street, before surrendering.

LAPD, Police Commission defend handling of racial profiling cases

LA Times

But the department's inspector general pinpoints areas in which the department needs improvement. Last month, the Justice Department accused the LAPD of falling short in addressing profiling complaints.

Servers at downtown restaurants can help discourage theft during holidays

LA Times blog

To cut the number of thefts in downtown Los Angeles this holiday season, the LAPD is enlisting waiters and waitresses in scores of restaurants to ensure that patrons do not leave their cellphones, iPads and cameras unattended and easy pickings for light-handed crooks.

Masked gunman attacks woman in Westchester

ABC7

Police need the public's help catching a masked gunman who attacked a woman in her own home in Westchester on Monday night.

3 drivers fled scene of fatal Rampart area hit-and-run

LAist

Authorities are turning to the public to help nab a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run that happened last week in the Rampart area.

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