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A federal judge ruled this week that Los Angeles Police Department officers should be paid for the time it takes them to put on and take off their uniforms and safety equipment, a decision that could cost the city millions of dollars in back pay and higher...

Yesterday, at the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Dispatch Center in downtown, Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were buddying up again, with City Council President Eric Garcetti and City Attorney candidate and Councilman Jack Weiss...

Police report the number of homicides dropped almost 34 percent since this time last year.

L.A. has had the biggest drop in crime of any major U.S. city. Overall violent crime, including rape, robbery and assault, is down almost 5.5 percent. Gang crimes...

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles police officers should be paid for the time it takes them to put on and take off their uniforms and safety equipment, a ruling that could potentially cost the LAPD millions of dollars in back pay and higher salaries...

A Schwarzenegger administration proposal would drain funds from cities and counties to help plug a huge budget hole. Skeptics say it's a ploy to scare voters into approving Propositions 1A-1F.

Reporting from Sacramento - Los Angeles and...

It was a solemn reminder of the sacrifice made everyday by law- enforcement as they serve and protect the dangerous streets of California.

"Police officers today have an extremely difficult, dangerous job and it's only fitting that we pay tribute to...

Faced with a looming $530-million budget gap, the Los Angeles City Council voted today to initiate the layoff process for up to 400 city workers and eliminate 1,200 vacant positions.

The action allows the city's personnel department to begin the arduous...

The Los Angeles Police Commission voted today to establish a medal for officers killed or seriously injured in the line of duty.

The five-member panel that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department voted unanimously in favor of the LAPD Purple Heart...

In a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger, the Police Protective League expresses concern over planned expansion of the tool, which would result in less monitoring of lower-risk offenders by parole agents.

The union representing 9,800 Los...

The union representing 9,800 Los Angeles police officers is accusing state corrections officials of compromising public safety by using computer-based risk assessments to reduce the number of parolees -- and by extension, the state prison population.

In...

Los Angeles police officers who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty could receive a Purple Heart from the Los Angeles Police Department under a proposal that will be considered Tuesday by the Police Commission.

The proposal to issue...

Los Angeles city, county and school officials Wednesday began bracing for - and plotting to fight - yet another round of budget cuts after California voters rejected a package of budget-reform ballot measures in Tuesday's election.

Anticipating the state...

STOCKTON - City Hall will issue layoff notices today to about 55 police officers and 35 civilian employees to shed costs, officials said Thursday, after Stockton and its police union ended labor talks without a deal.

Also, seven of the Police Department'...

This short article is not intended to be a medical or scientific discussion of the current strain of flu or its treatment. Instead, this piece is meant to inform law enforcement of some of the many unique threats and assets that may present themselves during a...

DNA leads detectives to John Thomas Jr., 72. He is held in two slayings, but police suspect he may have killed up to 30 elderly Westside and Claremont women a decade apart.

The first wave of slayings haunted Los Angeles in the mid-1970s....

In the weeks leading up to the tepid re-election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last month, Bill Bratton, the statistics-driven chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, appeared on TV in a political advertisement paid for by the Villaraigosa...

Police and fire services would diminish under a furlough plan designed to save the city money, the Los Angeles City Council's Budget and Finance Committee was told today as deliberations began on the city's proposed $7.04 billion budget.

Committee...

The LAPD would be allowed to grow to 10,000 officers this year but every other agency would have to freeze hiring while a two-tiered system for pensions and other new-worker benefits is studied, a city panel was told Monday.

As it launched its review of...

This March marked a dubious milestone for American law enforcement. With four officers killed by a gunman in Oakland, it was the first month since Operation Iraqi Freedom began that the number of police officers murdered on American streets equaled the number...

Los Angeles police officers will have more discretion over when to activate the lights and sirens on their patrol cars under a policy approved today by the City Council.

The revised policy means LAPD officers can decide to respond "code three" to any...

My inbox overflowed this week with responses to last Saturday's column about the relationship between a boy from Watts and a group of Los Angeles Police Department officers who have embraced his family.

More than 100 readers wrote to praise young Micah...

A partial transcript of the L.A. mayor's April 21 visit with The Times' editorial board.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's proposed $7.05 billion budget relies heavily on his ability to win concessions from employee unions find new...

Avoiding layoffs is a nice goal, but shouldn't L.A.'s mayor first know how big a workforce the city needs?

Is Los Angeles city government too big or too small? Does it provide the right blend of services while protecting taxpayers? Are...

Editor's note: This article was originally published on lawofficer.com shortly after the killings of four Oakland police officers by a parolee. In the wake of a chillingly similar incident in Lakewood over the weekend...