As the Los Angeles City Council weighed options to address a $208-million shortfall, Councilman Bernard C. Parks on Monday ordered the city's top budget analyst to prepare a plan that could include layoffs of police officers and firefighters.
Last week,...
Voter-approved limits on where sex offenders can live may be enforced on parolees who committed their sex crimes long before Jessica's Law passed, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
But the court did not clarify what happens once they leave...
Reporting from Washington - California stands to receive more than $1 billion from President Obama's budget plan to help cover healthcare for the poor and the cost of jailing illegal immigrants.
The budget proposal includes $25 billion in additional...
The chief executive of the trendsetting California Highway Patrol union told a CalPERS forum last week that he is thinking about negotiating lower pension benefits for new hires, a move to protect them from a greater rollback by a future initiative.
Jon...
Nearly two decades after the Rodney King beating prompted demands for heightened monitoring of LAPD officers, city officials were told Monday of a renewed effort to get video cameras installed patrol cars.
Police Chief Charlie Beck has said he wants the...
Add cell phones to the list of cutbacks at the San Diego Police Department.
About 200 officers have been asked to turn in their department-issued cell phones and PDAs to reduce the agency's $800,000-a-year cell phone bill by nearly $300,000.
That...
BELLVILLE - Lori Campbell hopes this parole decision is the last time anyone will consider releasing her father's murderer.
The Bellville woman is the daughter of Los Angeles police officer Ian Campbell, who was kidnapped and murdered on March 9, 1963....
SIERRA CONSERVATION CENTER - Before living behind bars, 48-year-old George Harrison did carpentry work in and around Modesto. He felt lucky to land a spot in a prison cabinetry course that would give him greater precision skills to compete in the job market...
The police horses that have patrolled San Diego's Balboa Park are being sold at an online auction.
The Police Department has ended its horse unit, which was organized in 1983, as a money-saving measure. The officers have been transferred to other duties...
Los Angeles will need to lay off at least 1,000 employees, shut down three departments and make other changes if it is going to survive this year, the city's top analyst said Friday.
In a grim assessment to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council...
Los Angeles city officials will receive a detailed report today that will suggest from where they should lay off 1,000 workers over the next five months to cover a $200 million deficit in this year's $7.01 billion budget.
A preliminary report presented...
It was a shabby little bit of journalism, and it came back to bite them.
Last November, KTTV, the Fox affiliate here in Los Angeles, aired a news story that alleged two LAPD officers had perjured themselves in the prosecution of a gang member they had...
A board that oversees vocational training and work programs at California prisons has voted to discontinue allowing undocumented immigrant inmates set for deportation to participate in the California Prisons Industry Authority certification program.
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In his 37 years of ministry to the law enforcement community here in Southern California - most of that with the Los Angeles Police Department, but also serving simultaneously 13 years with the FBI - Father Michael McCullough has buried 97 police officers....
On Thursday, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez asked readers to submit candidates for a list of "L.A.'s worst people." Among those who qualified for this list, either in Lopez's or his editors' opinion, are those whose pictures appear in the...
Two men arrested in the stabbing of an El Monte store clerk last month were on parole -- one was later put on probation -- and could be considered the kind of "non-violent, low-level offender" now being unleashed as part of the state's budget-minded "parole...
Since the beginning of January, 14 law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty, half of them after being assaulted. It is a deadly start for the year. Now Ainsley Earhardt reports police officers under attack. But we do need to warn you as...
A new contract for Los Angeles city firefighters may be in sight, as an independent "fact-finder'' proposed a pact similar to what city police got, a union leader said today.
David Hart, the fact-finder for the Employee...
Law enforcement officials throughout the region and across the state are bracing for a possible spike in crime as thousands of state and county prisoners are returned to the streets under a new law aimed at cutting government expenses.
More than 130 non-...
The city of Los Angeles today renamed West Valley Park in Reseda after slain SWAT Officer Randal Simmons.
The name change...
The state senate on Thursday unanimously approved a law that would again outlaw body armor for felons. The legislation was first written and proposed by Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, and Valley Sen. Alex Padilla is carrying it in the senate.
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With former Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton on board, Virginia-based Altegrity Inc. is launching a global investigations company with ties to the city.
Bratton is chairman of the new firm, Altegrity Risk International. He's tapped former L.A...
In the intensifying debate over budget-driven releases of state prison inmates, the state's cash problems are well known. But at least one private correctional company is reaping major rewards.
In three years, a private-prison construction and management...
The push to eliminate 1,003 jobs across Los Angeles city government could carve most deeply into neighborhood councils, arts programs and initiatives aimed at reducing ethnic tensions, according to a report obtained by The Times.
To close a nearly $200-...
Our economic problems and California's budget crisis have impacted every level of government: state, county and city. Painful cuts have been and will continue to be made in all areas. Inevitably up and down the state, counties and local governments are looking...
Harbor-district Councilwoman Janice Hahn is urging Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck to assign one patrol officer to handle graffiti in San Pedro and Wilmington.
"The communities are becoming more and more frustrated with the constant markings that...
The state Assembly passed legislation Wednesday that would require anyone who observes a violent crime to report it to authorities. The Witness Responsibility Act now moves to the state Senate.
Current law requires that witnesses report a rape, murder or...
The state parole board this evening rejected a bid for release by Gregory Powell, who was convicted in the 1963 slaying of Los Angeles Police Officer Ian Campbell near Bakersfield. The crime and its aftermath were the subject of Joseph Wambaugh's book "The...
The mayor and City Council plan to eliminate a backlog of untested rape evidence. But available funds will allow the hiring of just 11 staffers, not the 26 originally sought.
In an abrupt reversal of an earlier decision that...
In a groundbreaking case out of Sacramento, a split California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the use of a DNA profile to identify an unknown suspect in an arrest warrant is a legitimate way to beat the deadline for filing criminal charges.
"We conclude...
