Headlines & News Releases
Wall Street Journal
Voters on Tuesday defeated by a wide margin a law that would have restricted the powers of unions representing teachers, police officers and other public-sector workers.
Torrance Daily Breeze
In one of the most closely watched Harbor Area political contests in years, Los Angeles police Officer Joe Buscaino and Assemblyman Warren Furutani emerged as the top vote-getters Tuesday in a crowded field to fill Janice Hahn's vacant Los Angeles City Council seat.
Government Security News
A maker of bulletproof vests that contained Zylon agreed to pay $1 million in fines for knowingly selling products it knew severely degraded over time, said the U.S. Department of Justice on Nov. 7
LA Times
In two cases involving 14-year-olds convicted in homicides, the justices could further bolster the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
LA Times blog
It is unlikely that Dr. Conrad Murray will serve a lengthy stint behind bars, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said Monday after the physician’s conviction in the death of Michael Jackson.
Associated Press
A man convicted of four “Southside Slayer” serial killings was found guilty Thursday of strangling three more victims in a series of attacks stretching over a decade.
LA Times blog
Top Los Angeles police officials Wednesday evening renewed their call for help from the public to identify possible victims of alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.
National League of Cities
The U.S. Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office released a study this week that reveals the economic state of cities has eroded the manpower of police forces and their ability to respond to public safety concerns.
California Watch
Hundreds of California prisoners locked in stark segregation units could be transferred to regular prison cells under new policies being developed by state corrections officials.
Sacramento Bee
The majority of criminal offenders sent to Sacramento County under a new law have serious criminal backgrounds – in contrast to how the law was promoted, county officials say.
NBC LA
Bridge work and the replacement of overhead freeway signs will close a six-mile stretch of the 405 Freeway beginning Tuesday night.
Associated Press
Authorities are keeping a wary eye on swelling inmate populations as hundreds of extra criminals are sent to Los Angeles County jails under a broad shakeup of California's corrections institutions.
USA Today
WASHINGTON – By year's end, nearly 12,000 police officers will have lost their jobs, and 30,000 positions in county and municipal departments will go unfilled, both direct consequences of a faltering economy that has forced deep cuts in local government budgets.
WHDH-TV
A Boston Police Department website was hacked. At least 2,000 names and passwords have been posted online.
All Voices
The loosely knit hacker group Anonymous has been aligned with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement from the very start.
POLICE Magazine
Due to overcrowded county jails, state inmates will likely end up on the streets where patrol deputies and officers must deal with them.
Torrance Daily Breeze
Mary Grady, a former television reporter who served a decade as an LAPD spokeswoman, has been named director of public and media relations at Los Angeles International Airport.
LA Daily News
The former second-in-command of LAPD's Valley Bureau is returning to his old turf, this time to assume the top post.
LA Times
Board turns down compassionate release for Gregory Powell, 78, whose 1963 kidnapping and murder of an LAPD officer shocked the city. Powell is dying of prostate cancer and has six months or less to live.
Associated Press
When police in southern Louisiana were investigating the deaths of eight women in 2009, the sophistication of the crimes set off rumors that the serial killer was a police officer _ speculation that became so pervasive that officials ordered DNA testing of law enforcement personnel to rule it out.
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