In the calm of a warm spring evening, a man in uniform stood alone at Pomona's civic center, gathering his thoughts.
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Earlier this year the LAPD Northeast police station in Glassell Park began selling The CLUB steering wheel locks for only $11 - compared to about $30 at most retailers - under its 11 for 11 program. The name of the promotion refers to the cost of the lock and...
The City Council decided by a single vote Monday to give the city manager authority to impose furloughs on police officers if city negotiators and the police union fail to reach a deal on pay concessions. City Manager Charles McNeely has no immediate plans to...
A fierce gun fight between a cadre of CHP officers and a heavily armed felon with anti-government beliefs ended with the man in the hospital and some lanes on Interstate 580 closed for most of Sunday.
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National Guard troops assigned to the Southwest border will begin to arrive Aug. 1, and the federal government is sending other reinforcements to stem the flow of illegal immigrants and narcotics entering the state, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano...
City and Fire Department officials face opposition from organized labor and some City Council members over a proposal to contract out billing and collections for the Los Angeles Fire Department's emergency medical services.
The proposed outsourcing of...
Faced with a $118 million budget deficit, the city of San Jose, Calif., recently decided it could no longer afford its own janitors. So the city's budget called for dropping its custodial staff and hiring outside contractors to clean its city hall and airport,...
In an effort to close its budget deficit, the Golden State is planning to release thousands of inmates before their time is served, leaving many wondering: Will the plan sacrifice public safety?
Paul Weber, the president of the LAPD Protective League, is...
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca says budget cuts have significantly slowed his agency's analysis of narcotics evidence.
The average backlog in 2009, before the cuts, was 256 cases. That number has more than tripled, swelling to 920 unanalyzed cases,...
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Colorado restricts illegal immigrants from receiving in-state tuition. Nebraska requires verification of immigration status to obtain public benefits. In Tennessee, knowingly presenting a false ID card to get a job is a misdemeanor.
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Los Angeles police confiscated hundreds of items from the suspected Grim Sleeper serial killer's South L.A. house and vehicles after his arrest last week, including firearms and ammunition, car seats possibly stained with bodily fluids, and pornographic photos...
A lawyer for a Phoenix police officer told a federal court Thursday his client could be sued for racial profiling if he enforces Arizona's new immigration law. It is the first hearing in a series of legal challenges filed over the controversial crackdown which...
The California Public Employees' Retirement System bounced back from the global economic meltdown this year as the value of its investments grew by about $21 billion.
Preliminary estimates show the portfolio held by the nation's largest public pension...
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San Jose's city budget for the next 12 months is on the books, but changes to the police department are just starting to take shape.
On July 13 members of the San Jose Police Officers Association ratified an agreement with the city that avoids layoffs...
Despite the Los Angeles City Council's economic and travel boycott of Arizona over its controversial illegal immigration law (...
State and local lawmakers Wednesday called for a review of security at Los Angeles International Airport after claims by a local police organization that the passenger terminals have become more vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D-...
As Vallejo slogs through its third year of bankruptcy, city officials are giving local police a blunt choice: Forgo a raise or the city will lay off officers to pay for others' raises.
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State corrections officials said Thursday that an inmate's street gang affiliation is not considered when determining how to classify and monitor parolees like the one who allegedly shot an LAPD officer during a traffic stop in the San Fernando Valley.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has asked the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to investigate how a parolee who fired nearly a dozen gunshots at two LAPD officers over the weekend in the San Fernando Valley was able to gain early release and...
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Momentum is growing as the California Law and Order Independent Expenditure Committee (CA L&O), comprised of the membership of...
Los Angeles County...
Layoff orders for eighty Oakland police officers went into effect Tuesday evening after labor talks between the city and the police union broke down.
Oakland Police Department spokesperson Holly Joshi said the dreaded terminations became official at 5 p....
The Swiss refused Monday to extradite Roman Polanski to face rape charges in the U.S., angering the cop who arrested the director three decades ago.
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Before the end of summer, 300 Los Angeles Police Department patrol cars will be equipped with video cameras to record interactions between officers and suspects, the mayor and police chief will announce today.
Several patrol cars in LAPD's Southeast...
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For decades, capital punishment was a driving force in California politics, swaying elections for governor and the U.S. Senate and reshaping the state Supreme Court.
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