Despite strenuous objections from one of its employee unions, a divided Los Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday to hire a private company to handle billing for the fire department's ambulance services.
On a 9-to-5 vote, the council approved a six-year...
The cost of retirement benefits for Los Angeles city employees will grow by $800 million over the next five years, dramatically eroding the amount of money available for public services to taxpayers, according to a report issued Tuesday.
In a bleak...
California parole officials, stung by recent high-profile failures in the system, said Tuesday they are beginning to test more intensive monitoring of parolees in four counties as the first step in a five-year plan to improve supervision of high-risk offenders...
Contraband smuggled into prisons has been a headache for jailers since...
The proven flawed and failed policies of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and Division of Adult Parole Operations (DAPO) nearly cost two Los Angeles police officers their lives. One of the officers was shot in the wrist and...
Following the controversy over the exorbitant salaries paid to Bell city officials, Controller Wendy Greuel said Monday she is working to post Los Angeles city employee salaries on the Internet.
In a letter to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City...
Few political issues are as difficult to tackle as laws dealing with California's ever-growing number of convicted sex offenders.
A death row inmate convicted of the 1985 torture and murder of a pizza deliveryman in Glendale asked a court Monday to strike down the state's newly revised execution procedures as illegal and likely to inflict excruciating pain if used on any of California's...
LAPD officers swept through Echo Park Lake yesterday issuing warnings and citations to vendors who refused to leave the sprawling unregulated flea market, according to the...
San Fernando Valley residents will get a chance to meet police officers from their local stations tonight as part of the 27th annual National Night Out.
Free food and entertainment will be available at the event, which aims to spur participation in local...
The Pomona City Council quashed talk Monday night of disbanding its nearly century-old police force, officials said.
The council had the option of placing the matter on the November ballot, leaving voters to decide whether to contract out their law...
When Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies moved into Maywood a month ago to fill in for the city's disbanded police force, they were shocked to find 80 reports of suspected child abuse that had seemingly gone uninvestigated by the local police agency.
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It's a shame that the public has to be reminded of this from time to time, but any cop can testify to this inescapable fact of police work: Where there is no punishment for criminal behavior, crime will flourish.
Nowhere has this been demonstrated with...
KNOW YOUR OFFICERS: Steve Nichols was recently assigned to be Senior...
A computer algorithm determined that Javier Joseph Rueda would go on nonrevocable probation in January and live unsupervised without risk of incarceration again unless police arrested him for a new crime.
Based on the particulars of Rueda's criminal...
The Los Angeles Police Department Robbery-Homicide Division is asking the public for help...
Police union members have agreed to a concessions deal that will initiate a two-tiered retirement system and continue the givebacks that police officers agreed to last year.
The deal, which will require police officers to forego roughly one-tenth of...
The Rev. Joseph Tracy said he's tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he'll be going to more of them.
Shoot or don't shoot? Eighteen-year-old William Bryant takes a deep breath and gulps before he aims his pistol and shoots a passenger in a van who appears to be reaching for a weapon.
Applause comes from the audience. Moments later, they groan when...
The Los Angeles Police Commission has set up a hotline for complaints about tow truck operators.
The goal is to reduce the number of bandit towing companies.
People who feel they have been victimized by towing companies that demonstrate unethical...
Furloughs are back.
A federal judge in Arizona on Wednesday broadly vindicated the Obama administration's high-stakes move to challenge that state's tough immigration law and to assert the primary authority of the federal government over state lawmakers in immigration matters....
Neither Eric DeShann Floyd nor Levon T. Warner fired a shot the day Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski had his fatal encounter in Port Richmond with a trio of fleeing bank robbers.
A gunbattle erupted during an undercover drug operation at a south Phoenix home Wednesday night, killing one police officer and wounding two others, police said.
Two suspects died at the scene, two others are hospitalized with non life-threatening...
Los Angeles police detectives and gang-enforcement officers arrested 13 people in downtown Los Angeles on narcotics-related and other counts, Los Angeles police said on Wednesday.
The arrests were made yesterday in what police described as a "special...
Families are invited to enjoy a day of golf watching, food and star gazing at the 39th annual Los Angeles Police Family Fun Day and Celebrity Golf Tournament being held at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday. Tee off time is 10 a.m....
The city's two-year effort to consolidate the fight against street gangs is poorly monitored and nobody knows whether it's responsible for a drop in gang violence, according to an audit released Tuesday.
Still, progress has been made in following a 2008...
