LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A proposal to award a medal similar to the military Purple Heart to Los Angeles police officers injured or killed in the line of duty picked up support today from the union that represents rank-and-file members of the LAPD.
The Police...
Re "A case for LAPD openness," editorial, Feb. 10
Hopefully, the arms of Times editors aren't sore after their vigorous back-patting for the paper's "conscientious discernment" in not publishing a report that was negligently released by the Los Angeles...
Lisa Simmons, the wife of slain SWAT Officer Randal Simmons, holds back the...
By Jessica Van Sack / The Beat
It was back in September that Joe Biden publicly thanked a prominent local...
5 Participating California Pizza Kitchen...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The city of Los Angeles would be able to offer rewards for information in cases where an off-duty LAPD officer was assaulted or killed outside the city limits under a motion introduced today.
The city charter currently allows the Los...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Police today sought the public's help in finding two teenage boys involved in the shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer in front of his home.
Officer Anthony Razo, 49, who is assigned to the Hollenbeck Station, was...
A sheriff's deputy checks the trunk of a car leaving the area where an off-duty LAPD...
LOS ANGELES (KNBC-TV) - The union that represents Los Angeles police officers filed a class action grievance against the police department today claiming commanders violated policy when they told officers not to wear helmets at a pro-Palestinian rally.
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The union representing LAPD officers today filed a formal grievance over how commanders handled a recent pro-Palestinian demonstration. The union argues commanders jeopardized officer safety by not allowing them to wear helmets. As KPCC's Frank Stoltze reports...
The union representing rank and file Los Angeles Police Officers filed a labor grievance Friday demanding that officers be required to war safety equipment while trying to control crowds in street marches and other gatherings.
The grievance, filed with...
LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles police officers' union has filed a class-action grievance against the department for ignoring officer safety during a rally that turned violent.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents the department's 9,800...
Four LAPD officers contended that they were falsely arrested during corruption scandal.
The Los Angeles City Council approved a $20.5-million settlement Wednesday to bring to a close lawsuits brought by four Los Angeles Police officers...
Los Angeles Cops Use the Web to Track Child Predators
High Tech Child Porn & the LAPD Squad Who Tracks It
Child Porn offenders are utilizing high tech tools to lure victims, and LAPD's elite unite is tracking suspects down
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The president of the union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers today announced his opposition to paroling an inmate who solicited the killer of an LAPD detective.
'It is crucial to the security of the state of...
In a post from January 14, I wrote about LAPD officers being ordered not to wear their helmets and face shields while facing pro-Palestinian demonstrators at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles. The wearing of helmets, the officers were told, might...
Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine is seeking a full accounting of a Jan. 10 incident in which an LAPD officer not wearing his riot helmet was hit in the head with the wooden end of a sign during a protest over the Israeli invasion of Gaza.
The...
The police union warns members that submitting genetic evidence could lead to invasions of privacy. Department officials say the practice is needed to investigate serious use-of-force cases.
Since its arrival as a crime-fighting tool,...
An audit finds that the city's fleet vehicles cost tens of millions of dollars and that their use is not always justified and poorly monitored.
Driving a company car home each night with free gas and maintenance has long been a cushy perk for hundreds of...
When local protests broke out this month over the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Los Angeles Police Department officials decided that officers at the scene should not immediately wear their riot helmets out of concerns the gear might escalate passions among the...
By Jack Dunphy
Patterico
I was fortunate not to be among the LAPD officers dispatched to the Federal Building in West L.A. on Saturday, where they confronted a boisterous but mostly peaceful group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The senior...
We are pleased to announce that your Los Angeles Police Historical Society (LAPHS) has hired retired Lieutenant Mike DeCoudres as our Associate Executive Director. Mike served with the Department from June 1972 to July 2008 when he retired as the LT II, OIC,...
Even with a sluggish economy and the prospects of a more than $400 million shortfall, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed Monday to oppose any reductions in the Los Angeles Police Department budget this year after seven straight years of reduced crime rates.
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Crime in the city of Los Angeles continued to hit historic lows in 2008, a trend which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and law enforcement officials today credited to more police officers and interagency relationships.
There were 381 murders in 2008, 15 fewer...
Los Angeles police were targeted in 527 attacks this year, a 17 percent drop from 2007, officials said Monday.
Violence against Los Angeles Police Department officials in 2008 involved the slaying of SWAT Officer Randal Simmons in a Winnetka shootout,...
The Los Angeles police officers union on Wednesday asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare law enforcement in the latest round of state budget cuts, saying crime could increase as the recession makes people desperate.
"We understand that the state...
