Serious gang-related crime has tumbled 40% over the last three years in the troubled neighborhoods surrounding the sites of Summer Night Lights, Los Angeles' park program designed to curb violence, newly assembled police data show.
This was the third...
On Oct. 31, 1985, Los Angeles Police Det. Thomas C. Williams was shot to death while picking up his 6-year-old son from church school. The 42-year-old had just come from the San Fernando courthouse, where the trial of a robbery suspect he'd apprehended would...
A veteran San Diego police officer was fatally shot and two other people were killed in a brief but furious gun battle that began with authorities trying to arrest a suspect in an assault case, officials said Thursday.
Officer Christopher Wilson, 50, a...
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Being a cop in Los Angeles is a dangerous job dominated by men.
While the dangers are apparent, many women, such as LAPD officer Heidi Stoecklein, seek out a career in law enforcement.
Stoecklein -- who is stationed at the Olympic Division -- says...
The body of Los Angeles Police Department Officer and Marine Corps Reserves Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Cullins will arrive aboard a plane landing at Los Angeles International Airport today.
A closed police and military ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. when...
The tragedy of last year's murders of four Lakewood police officers is being cited by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in announcing a new Department...
Authorities investigating Sunday's fatal shooting of Shreveport police Sgt. Tim Prunty believe they know what happened that night. What they don't know is why. Almost unanimously, investigators said the shooting makes no sense.
On Monday, the day after...
A man who rammed his car into a Los Angeles Police Department narcotics officer nearly three years ago and seriously injured the officer was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg imposed the term...
Joshua Cullins, an LAPD officer assigned to Central Division, was killed last week in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, where he was serving as a staff sergeant...
The body of a 28-year-old Los Angeles police officer and Marine reservist killed while serving in Afghanistan will be returned to Los Angeles this week, police officials said today.
Joshua J. Cullins, a bomb specialist who was a staff sergeant in the...
Milton Conley's mental illness has cost him - and society - more than he cares to tally.
When Rohan Coombs joined the Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend.
Coombs, 43, born in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States...
On many of Los Angeles' busiest boulevards, luxury cars carry the pretty and the famous to homes high in the Hollywood Hills.
Weighed down by a struggling economy, government agencies in California shed 37,300 workers last month - more jobs than were lost in the private sector - as cities and counties made their biggest payroll cutbacks since at least 1990.
What's more,...
President Obama will return to Los Angeles on Friday, and the city is bracing for a repeat of extreme gridlock because of his visit.
Obama felt the sting of Angeleno road rage in August when street closures for his motorcade stretched Westside commutes...
LOS ANGELES is one of the most under-policed cities in America. With a mere 26 officers for every 10,000 residents (Chicago, by comparison, has 46), the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) needs all the help it can get.
That help may be at hand, with a...
Portions of some streets near USC will be closed to traffic Friday because of President Barack Obama's visit, but police said Wednesday they were attempting to avoid the congestion that accompanied Obama's last visit.
The closures, to vehicle and some...
Abubaker Bahrun had just finished loading his hotel shuttle van with luggage when he drove to a different hotel just a few dozen yards away on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood. Since he was just about to jump out of the shuttle again to help...
