Los Angeles Police Department officials vowed today to do everything they can to avert proposed layoffs of civilian employees, but some of the city's budget analysts expressed skepticism amid a growing deficit.
"I can't afford to let anybody else go,"...
Warned by federal officials that the LAPD is inadequately investigating racial profiling complaints against officers, Chief Charlie Beck and a civilian watchdog on Tuesday defended the agency but acknowledged there is still work to be done.
Nicole...
Spacenet Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILT) and a leading provider of broadband network solutions, announced today that its Emergency Communications Services (ECS) and associated high performance equipment are being...
A woman accused of fatally stabbing her 10-year-old daughter at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro was ordered Monday to stand trial on a murder charge.
Long Beach Superior Court Judge Jesse Rodriguez found sufficient evidence to require the case against Bong...
The U.S. Supreme Court's pending decision on how California must address its colossally overcrowded prisons is about the unconstitutional state of inmate health care. But it's also about money.
Specifically, the hundreds of millions of dollars the state...
A Los Angeles City Council panel opened discussions Monday on a proposed series of cutbacks in the LAPD designed to reduce an $88 million budget deficit.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana last week proposed eliminating 225 civilian jobs in the...
Sound the alarm - Oakland's Police Department is shrinking so fast that it doesn't have enough officers to cover some patrols and many of its investigative units have been stripped to the bone.
Everyone knows about the 80 officers the city laid off in...
Prompted by constituent complaints, City Councilman Tony Cardenas has demanded that Los Angeles police craft a new plan to quash pockets of crime in his northeast San Fernando Valley district.
Cardenas' order, however, has mystified LAPD brass.
It...
On the night of Feb. 24, 1986, John Ruetten came home to discover his 29-year-old bride dead. Sherri Rae Rasmussen had been beaten and shot to death. In the days that followed, homicide detectives in Los Angeles didn't come up with much.
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Facing an $87.84 million deficit over the remainder of the fiscal year, the city's top budget analyst today recommended eliminating 225 civilian positions in the Los Angeles Police Department and moving firefighters out of Haz-Mat squads.
City...
The union representing police officers in the Los Angeles Police Department is absolutely right that the department's resources and growth plan need a re-examination. And everything - from police hiring to current officer work schedules - should be on the table...
Stop hiring new officers and give the current ones overtime pay. That's the position of the Los Angeles Police Protective League. President Paul Weber joins Fred Roggin to discuss whether overtime pay in lieu of new officers fulfills the department's duty to...
When the City Council voted to raise trash fees in 2006, the action came with a promise to Angelenos that the money would be put toward expanding the Los Angeles police force to more than 10,000 officers. But even as we've moved closer to meeting that goal on...
A Miramar-based Marine who shot at California Highway Patrol officers during a short pursuit in East County last year was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison.
Edward Michael Forney, 21, pleaded guilty in October to assault with a firearm on a...
The chairman of the Los Angeles City Council's Public Safety Committee praised the police union Wednesday for urging a freeze on hiring new L.A.P.D. officers - even as Police Chief Charlie Beck denounced it. Its the first time the politically powerful union has...
Reviving the debate over the size of the LAPD, the head of the police officers' union called Wednesday for a summit on the future of the agency and how it should cope with the ongoing budget crisis.
Paul Weber, president of the Los Angeles Police...
Bruce Holloway was turning into his driveway in Mount Juliet, Tenn., in April 2009, when he was struck and killed by Brian Duffey.
Duffey was driving 80 mph with alcohol and painkillers in his system, according to police and court records.
"He was...
On Nov. 7, Riverside Police Department officer Ryan Bonaminio, 27, was shot to death after pursuing a suspect in a hit-and-run accident who fled on foot into Fairmount Park. Rubidoux parolee Earl Ellis Green, 44, was arrested two days later on suspicion of...
The city's police union launched a public information campaign Monday, aimed at notifying the public about 16 officers who may soon be laid off and the impact such cuts could have on the community.
The Colton Police Officers Association announced its "...
Councilman Tony Cardenas, despite misgivings by those in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office, has taken the lead in the City Council on developing anti-gang programs.
But he also has pushed through programs allowing reformed gang members to get off gang...
Millions of California cellphone users are no longer getting busy messages, experiencing unconnected calls or being put on hold for extended periods when they dial 911.
The number of wireless emergency calls reaching busy operators or failing to go...
When grief intersects with anger, sparks fly.
Such is the case in the circumstances of Sandra Verna Jackson, whose husband Paul Verna, an officer with the LAPD, was murdered in the line of duty 27 years ago, and whose two killers have languished on San...
The line of squad cars, blue lights twinkling in the late afternoon, snaked through downtown, signaling tragic news for Chicago - for the fifth time in six months and the second time this week, a Chicago police officer had been shot and killed.
Stunned...
EUFAULA, Okla. -- An off-duty Texas police officer's last act was to push...
