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More than $25,000 was raised in a barbecue Thursday for the family of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was shot in the face by an East L.A. gang member, an official said.
Deputy Mohamed Ahmed, who recently left the hospital after reconstructive...
A $50,000 reward for information in the 2006 murder of a 14-year-old girl from City Terrace was renewed Thursday by L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar.
Los Angeles Police Department detectives recently uncovered new leads in the cold case of Emmery Munoz,...
Many of the city's most violent, gang-infested neighborhoods are no longer being policed by special gang officers, after members of entire units quit their assignments over rules requiring the disclosure of their personal financial information.
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For the second time in less than two years, California prison officials caught Charles Manson, mastermind of one of the most notorious killing sprees in U.S. history, with a cellphone behind bars.
Guards at Corcoran State Prison found the phone on Jan. 6...
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has announced the selection of Cobham to supply Synthetic Vision Electronic Flight...
The city will hire back 10 of the 80 officers laid off in July, Mayor Jean Quan announced Monday.
In addition to rehiring the officers -- bringing the force to a total of 666 officers -- Quan is moving to repair the department's fleet of aging patrol...
Red light cameras may be controversial, but they save lives, according to a new national study of 62 large U.S. cities, including Sacramento.
The study, released today by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that the rate of fatal red light...
Federal and local law enforcement personnel arrested 37 suspects connected to L.A.'s 38th Street Gang during a racketeering sting Tuesday. Twenty more people were detained on weapons and narcotics charges.
Almost 800 ATF special agents and LAPD officers...
Long Beach anti-gang detective shot near a park in the Cambodia Town area continued his recovery, as the search continued for the suspects who shot him, police officials said.
The uniformed detective was patrolling in an unmarked car with another...
The long-delayed transfer of inmates from the dilapidated Parker Center jail to the new Metropolitan Detention Center begins at midnight tonight amid continuing concern about the use of LAPD officers as guards.
Assistant Police Chief Michel Moore told...
Government reformers and youth advocates have long called for California to get out of the business of juvenile corrections.
Now they're backing Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to eliminate the state Division of Juvenile Justice and give counties...
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 20 L.A...
In better times, Los Angeles city elections have served as vehicles for leaders' ambitious ideas - from expanding the city's solar energy capacity to building more than two dozen new libraries. This spring's contest testifies to an era in which city leaders...
The public seems likely to support Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to move public safety services from state government to local government, officials said during a panel discussion today.
In a state budget plan released this month, Brown proposed to give...
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Los Angeles school police officer who said he was shot by an attacker last week, prompting a manhunt that shut down a large swath of Woodland Hills, has been arrested on suspicion of concocting the story, authorities said Thursday night.
The startling...
The Obama administration is throwing its support behind a proposal to give a valuable chunk of radio waves to police officers, firefighters and emergency medical workers to build a nationwide wireless broadband network for public safety.
The announcement...
In 1992, the Los Angeles Police Department investigated a staggering 1,092 murders, the most in the city's history. The number had risen more or less steadily through the late '80s and into the '90s with the advent of the crack cocaine trade and the gang...
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A bill to make it harder to buy handgun ammunition, including "cop-killer" bullets capable of piercing body armor, was endorsed today by local law enforcement.
Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, said Senate Bill 124, which he introduced this week in the...
When the Los Angeles Police Department goes on tactical alert, it's not unusual, but it's an event. This is the nation's second largest city, and the LAPD is the proverbial thin-blue line. Reporters who are used to listening to LAPD frequencies alert whenever...
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