The Los Angeles Police Commission has failed to publicly disclose its findings on at least 240 police shootings and other violent encounters with suspects, despite a promise four years ago to be more transparent and post its decisions on the Internet, a Times...
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A state appeals court said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger distorted the evidence to justify blocking the parole of a San Francisco man who murdered a Mission District security guard in 1993.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will revive a plan to house 15,000 nonviolent felons in county jails instead of state prisons, a cost-cutting move that likely would result in some inmates leaving jail early.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release May 14, 2010
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT CEREMONY HONORING TOP COPS
Rose Garden
10:12 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. Please have a...
After losing $500 million on a controversial New York real estate deal, CalPERS is being asked to put more money into the same property.
A New York City councilman is urging the California pension fund to participate in a tenant-led buyout of a Manhattan...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he'll ask voters in the second-largest U.S. city by population to decide whether new police and firefighters should get lower pension benefits than existing employees.
The city faces at least five years of...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday called for eliminating California's welfare-to-work program, one of the deep cuts he proposed to close a $19 billion budget deficit in the coming fiscal year.
Slashing the welfare program would affect 1.4 million...
LAPD officers working three 12-hour shifts work 156 hours per 28-day deployment period. Officers working eight-hour shifts work 152 hours per deployment period - four hours fewer per period when factoring in the holidays.
Flexible scheduling has...
The number of homicides in the city of Los Angeles is up more than three percent compared to the same time last year, and the union that represents Los Angeles police expressed that it is "uneasy" as the budget-strapped city's cuts to Los Angeles Police...
The Los Angeles City Council, protesting Arizona's tough crackdown on illegal immigration, voted Wednesday to ban most city travel to Arizona and future contracts with companies in that state.
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An East Bay Assemblyman's bill to let drug felons get food stamps after their release from prison passed the Assembly floor today, but not without taking some heat from a lawmaker seeking higher office.
The Assembly voted 42-23 to approve AB 1756, the...
A lawsuit over whether Denver police are being properly compensated, including a dispute over whether they should be paid for the time it takes to dress for work, can move forward to trial, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch on...
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The campaign to rid our nation's prisons of cell phones went to the next level on Wednesday, with a call from the Department of Commerce for intel on devices that can get the situation under control. The government is "seeking comment on technical approaches"...
The state contribution to CalPERS should increase to $3.9 billion in the new fiscal year beginning July 1, up $600 million from the current year, actuaries for the giant public pension fund calculate.
The recommendation to the CalPERS board next week...
Despite new challenges from rival automakers, the head of Ford Motor Co.'s police program is confident her company will continue to dominate the market because Ford is giving its customers what they want.
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Los Angeles County officials should prepare for even more drastic budget cuts next year than they had expected after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger releases his revised state budget Friday, county CEO Bill Fujioka said Wednesday.
Already making deep cuts to...
Washington hasn't come to the rescue. Hopes for a tax windfall were dashed last month.
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If Arizona's new immigration law survives the many court challenges now facing it - a dubious prospect, given the Ninth Circuit's eventual role in the process - it will take effect on July 29. And on that day, as police officers settle into their Crown...
Aging metal detectors at Los Angeles County's Men's Central Jail frequently break down, posing safety concerns for deputies who routinely confiscate weapons that inmates make from scrap metal, sheriff's officials said.
"We're stuck with old technology...
Crime is dropping throughout much of the country, but statistics show that one category...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's financial rescue plan for the coming year may soon boil down to the following question: When does it become too expensive to lay people off?
The mayor's plan for erasing a $485-million budget gap calls for, among...
Talk about downplaying expectations.
No specifics are out yet on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's revised plan to balance the state budget. But Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear offered two salient details today: There will be no tax hikes and "...
The budget roller coaster at Los Angeles City Hall took another sharp turn on Tuesday, with the City Council's top policy analyst calling for the elimination of 1,000 jobs on top of the 761 targeted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa in his proposed annual budget....
John Torres, Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), announces the release of aggregate trace data for crime guns recovered in Los Angeles and submitted to ATF for tracing for...
The number of murders within Los Angeles city limits has tipped 100, which has some wondering if crime is up or not. Through May 8th, there were 103 murders, three more than the same time last year, which was when the city experienced the fewest homicides since...
The state budget crisis has been quiet for the past few months but will return to center stage this week as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger prepares to belt out some bad news.
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According to preliminary statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 48 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty during 2009. Geographically, 21 of the victim officers were killed in the South, 13 in the...
In a rare public rebuke of a media outlet, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck called out CBS2/KCAL 9 news...
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