It's not enough to hide your GPS units, laptops and sunglasses when you leave your car to prevent thieves from breaking in. Now you'll have to hide your seats, too.
Or at least lock them up.
Burglars are making off with third-row seats of Cadillac...
More than three weeks after he declared victory in the race for state attorney general, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley conceded defeat Wednesday as he trailed by more than 50,000 votes in one of the closest statewide races in California history....
GREELEY, Colo. -- The Weld County Officer who died in a shootout Tuesday was remembered as a great deputy, a faithful friend and a loving husband.
Sam Brownlee, 43, had worked as a Weld County Deputy for the past five years, according to Sheriff John...
Police on Tuesday warned residents to be on the lookout for burglars using distraction schemes to get into homes in West Hills and Woodland Hills.
Suspects have posed as someone looking for a lost dog or workers trying to verify a property fence line in...
As police officers, we've known for a while now that some of the best places to catch criminals bragging about their illegal...
LAPD detectives are searching for anyone who may have fallen victim to a man who allegedly claimed to be a DMV employee and offered driver's licenses and social security cards in exchange for money.
Julio Alvitres, of Los Angeles, was arrested in the Mid...
Even as the number of uncounted ballots dwindles, the outcome of the California attorney general's race has not become more certain.
On Monday, at least two more counties finished tallying mail-in and provisional ballots and posted final results on their...
Today, the FBI released 2009 statistics which indicated that 6,604 criminal incidents involving 7,789 offenses were reported as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability...
With the shopping season starting to pick up speed, parking lots and shopping centers are becoming very busy places. But the holiday shopping season also means crime.
Shoppers often make themselves easy targets for thieves, leaving valuables, such as...
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Riverside police Capt. Michael Perea knows the pain will never go away.
SANTA CRUZ - If you talk and drive, use a hands-free device or be prepared to meet your local law enforcement officer.
California Highway Patrol officers up and down the Central Coast will spend Monday and Tuesday "aggressively" looking for motorists...
With time ticking down on his final term, Simi Valley Mayor Paul Miller warned recently of a problem that local cities-and future city councils-will have to grapple with, one that could have far-reaching impacts.
That problem is the potential early...
The story popped up on the Los Angeles Times website Saturday night. The headline: "Justice Department warns LAPD to take a stronger stance against racial profiling."
One might assume on reading such a headline that the Justice Department had...
The relationship between Los Angeles city government and its Police Department once was distinctly destructive: City Hall starved the LAPD for resources but, by way of consolation, allowed its officers to do their work without much second-guessing. The result...
With Christmas around the corner auto thieves are gearing up for their shopping season... And it could be your car at the mall.
"There was glass everywhere, outside, in the back seat. It was a mess," said Asia Kalejs describing what she saw after...
Huntington Beach is considering a new tactic in its crusade against drunk driving: public shaming on Facebook.
The city's Police Department is looking into posting the names of suspected drunk drivers on Facebook, said Lt. Russell Reinhart.
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Los Angeles City Councilmember Jan Perry and members of the Los Angeles Police Department met Thursday at the Midnight Mission Homeless Shelter to raise awareness about how to channel efforts and resources to better help the homeless community. Perry...
LAPD officers responded to a report of a bank robbery on the Westside of L.A. Thursday evening.
The bank-robbery suspect was given a bag with a GPS tracking device in it from the bank.
Officers tracked the device in the bag to a Culver City bus...
Pacific Grove police filed a lawsuit against the city alleging unfair labor practices, breach of contract and violation of the city charter and state constitution because of council approval of a voter-generated cap on retirement benefits.
The suit,...
L.A. has got to be America's, if not the world's (sorry Paris), preeminent city of noir. And now the contemporary master of noir-lit, James Ellroy (L.A....
A sex offender released from prison Wednesday after serving 25 years for abducting and molesting two girls was rearrested a short time later in Tustin for violating his parole.
It is not clear what condition of his parole Lawrence Joseph Brown, 52,...
The 2010 elections are now history. If there was any lesson from this Republican tidal wave that swept across the country it is that the vast majority of Americans are furious at the overspending and flawed leadership of our politicians. Voters are no longer so...
While 8 million Californians voted in the state's attorney general's race, about 300 Los Angeles County election workers will decide the fate of a race "too close to call."
That's if the candidates, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and...
