Drastic cuts to the LAPD civilian workforce are forcing LAPD cops to increasingly fill civilian jobs instead of patrolling the city's streets and responding to your 9-1-1 calls. These widespread cuts - in combination with forced time off for overtime worked -...
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Without a promised transfer of money from the Department of Water and Power, the budget gap for the city of Los Angeles has grown to $222.4 million this fiscal year, even with a brighter forecast for property tax collections.
In a key financial status...
LAPD's Project Dream program gives inner-city kids a chance to interact with the police in a positive way and receive mentorship.
On Friday, ten kids from housing projects in South Los Angeles began the biggest adventure of their young lives as they...
A new study by the RAND Corp. indicates that reducing police personnel invites financial and social harm, according to the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL). While cutting police department budgets may save money in the long run, according to the...
Goodwin Liu couldn't speak English until kindergarten, but he went on to become co-valedictorian at Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, a Rhodes Scholar and a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The state Supreme Court upheld a law Thursday that allows a Death Row inmate from Contra Costa County, and others sentenced to death or life without parole, to seek post-trial evidence from prosecutors that might assist their appeals.
Prosecutors argued...
Danny Galindo, a retired Los Angeles police detective who helped investigate the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, died of a heart ailment Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, his family said. He was 88.
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San Francisco police chief George Gascon is aggressively targeting crime in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood. While the push appears to be having an impact on crime, some city officials and local residents are critical, saying the crackdown is flooding city...
More and more L.A. cops are being shifted to desk jobs as budget cuts have slashed Los Angeles Police Department's civilian ranks by nearly 1,000, according to the union representing Los Angeles police. It will be a long, hot summer for crime fighting in L.A....
Parole officers should have done a better job watching a paroled California sex offender, but closer scrutiny may not have stopped the murder of one teenage girl and the assault of another woman, a draft report released Thursday said.
Even if suspect...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said today an unexpected increase in revenue has alleviated what he perceived as a need to shut down parks, libraries and other city agencies two days a week.
"We're hoping the added revenues will put us in a position where we...
A proposed ballot measure that would limit public employee unions' ability to collect dues for political purposes has been abandoned because sponsors saw they'd be unable to gather enough petition signatures by the deadline, co-author Mark Bucher of Tustin said...
Saying they can avert a partial shutdown of Los Angeles government, city officials announced Thursday they had found an additional $30 million in revenue and savings to help pay their bills through the next two months.
They plan to combine the newfound...
Los Angeles is suddenly back in a deep and immediate financial crisis, and this time it's not a result of recession, the mortgage meltdown or a persistent structural deficit. All those things pushed the city to the brink, but officials had begun dealing with...
Authorities unveiled a tough new legal tactic Wednesday aimed at keeping gang members - and the drugs they sell - off the streets of Skid Row.
Under a civil lawsuit proposed by the city attorney's office, 80 defendants, most of them gang members, would...
Flexing its muscles in an escalating City Hall budget battle, the City Council moved Wednesday to block Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's city shutdown plan and to seize control over the Department of Water and Power.
The aggressive posturing came amid a...
The bullet still lodged in his leg, John Gibbs recounted Wednesday what happened when he tried to stop a man from driving off with an elderly couple's Pomeranian.
"The passenger leaned out. He said something like, 'Back off.' And then - boom!," said...
Los Angeles police are investigating three officer-involved shootings in the last three days during which suspects were wounded or nearly wounded.
The first incident took place Sunday shortly before 11 p.m. in the 3800 block of West Jefferson Boulevard...
The city's top financial official issued a grim assessment of the escalating budget crisis Monday, warning that Los Angeles could be unable to pay its bills in just over four weeks.
City Controller Wendy Greuel declared an "urgent financial crisis" and...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called Tuesday for all city agencies -- except for police, other public safety and revenue-generating departments -- to close for two days a week starting April 12 because of the city's continuing budget crisis.
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The union representing Los Angeles police on Tuesday tied the budget-induced decreases in the number of cops on the city's streets to a rash of homicides in March and early April. The Los Angeles Police Protective League linked the cutbacks to killings that...
More than 250 state prison inmates freed without supervised parole under a new California law were convicted of crimes considered violent or threatening, according to prison records obtained as part of an inquiry by state lawmakers. A handful are sex offenders...
The recent increase in the number of killings in Los Angeles continued last week.
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Escalating his dispute with the City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Tuesday he is preparing to shut down large parts of city government for two days a week starting Monday because of the city's budget crisis.
The shutdown will focus on...
The body of a Marine reservist ant LAPD SWAT officer who was killed in Afghanistan will arrive at the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Monday.
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The owner of the Valley Village restaurant where four men were shot to death and two others were wounded said Sunday that police retrieved video from a camera at the entrance that shows who entered and left the building.
Artour Balian said the victims...
Bracing for an influx of newly released prisoners, East Bay leaders are working with social services groups to prevent the former inmates from returning to lives of crime.
The concern has reached a critical point because state legislation has relaxed...
As budget-triggered reductions of Los Angeles Police Department cops affect the city for the first time since 2005, the union representing LAPD officers is touting a Rand study that...
As evidence that the state simply has lost the ability to govern effectively, the early release program for prison inmates already is off track.
The program touted by Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, a...
LAPD detectives were struggling with conflicting accounts and an undetermined motive in the killing of four people over the weekend at a Valley Village restaurant.
Law enforcement sources told The Times that detectives are skeptical about some of the...
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