LAPD Santa Claus in the Walk Street neighborhood. (Photo: Nancy Zubiri)
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PENN HILLS, Pa. --
Authorities have released the identity of a police officer shot and killed while responding to a call Sunday night in Penn Hills.
Officer Michael Crawshaw, who had been on Penn Hills' police force for two years, was shot and...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say they could eventually start patrolling the skies over Southern California with drone aircrafts, which are unmanned and unarmed, to detect drug traffickers, illegal immigrants and smugglers on the ground and in...
The arguments in front of the justices were the latest over how explicit the Miranda warning rights have to be, as justices debated whether the warnings police gave Kevin Dwayne Powell made clear to him that he could have a lawyer present while being...
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry said Monday that entertainment company AEG would not likely help defray the $3.2-million cost for police and other city services during the Michael Jackson memorial until the city attorney resolves his "criminal...
Lawyers for California's prison inmates on Monday supported Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's overall plan to reduce overcrowding in the state's 33 prisons, but asked a federal court to order state prison officials to meet strict deadlines to ensure they shed nearly...
THE plight of Karen Clark, a middle-aged, mentally ill woman who for most of a year lived on a bus bench on Ventura Boulevard, was noticed by many people who worked or lived in the area.
It especially bothered Dennis Magalios, whose sympathy and...
State lawmakers and other top elected officials had their pay and some benefits slashed by 18% effective today, two weeks after the state attorney general rejected a challenge to the reductions from the Legislature.
The base salary for legislators drops...
The Los Angeles Police Department is facing an $80 million deficit and seems poised to cancel its January class of academy recruits. If the City Council's public safety and personnel committees confirm the move next week, it would mean a third month of hiring...
It seems like the never-ending articles, opinions and commentaries streaming through both The Californian and our local airways that continue to besmirch a police officer's retirement only take economic relativism into consideration and miss the big picture....
In the wake of Sunday's ambush and slaying of four Lakewood police officers, a state senator representing that city is arguing for a constitutional change that would allow defendants facing life sentences to be held without bail.
The man widely believed...
The Times endorsed studio executive Christine Essel in the Sept. 22 special election to fill Los Angeles' 2nd District City Council seat. Essel was one of the two top finishers and is competing in Tuesday's runoff against Assemblyman Paul Krekorian; we continue...
On the surface, there are few differences between businesswoman Christine Essel and Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, who face off Tuesday in the special election for the 2nd City Council District seat.
Both agree on the need to boost business development,...
A Sunday morning shooting that took the life of a 17-year-old boy last month in San Pedro is putting new focus on policing in the waterfront town.
An "emergency" meeting to discuss the issue has been called by the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council...
A consistent theme in my posts here and in my columns at National Review Online and Pajamas Media has been the frustration so often experienced by working police officers when burdened with poor leadership. Today I learned of a stunning example of this.
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Pierce County organizers say the public should be prepared to take buses Tuesday to a Tacoma Dome memorial service for the four Lakewood police officers gunned down in the deadliest attack on law enforcement in state history.
The service is expected to...
For newly appointed Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, the past few weeks have been filled with firsts as he and the department get accustomed to Beck being in charge.
Today, however, offered a particularly special and personal moment for Beck as he...
Declaring "I will not let you down," Police Chief Charlie Beck took the oath of office Thursday to become the 56th leader of the Los Angeles Police Department in a formal celebration of his appointment.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck last month. (Photot: Damian Dovarganes /...
An off-duty Los Angeles police officer and father of five children died early this morning in a crash that detectives say remains under investigation.
Department officials did not immediately release the identity of the officer but said he was a veteran...
Editor's note: The LAPPL is saddened to learn of the death of Jim Perry. Mr. Perry was generous with his time and knowledge, and...
Thanks to a lone officer on routine patrol, the world will be spared the spectacle of a trial for the man who murdered four officers in Lakewood, Washington.
And now Maurice Clemmons is dead.
Good.
It's good because the alternative...
Charlie Beck, Los Angeles's newly appointed chief of police, is a cop's cop.
For a city that's lived through seven years of his rock star predecessor, Bill Bratton -- whose outsized abilities came with an ego to match -- it's a definite change of pace....
Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington said Wednesday that the state would temporarily stop accepting parolees from Arkansas, escalating the conflict between the states over a man believed to have killed four police officers, days after his release from jail....
The convicted murderer who drove Maurice Clemmons from the coffee shop where he massacred four suburban police officers waited for him in the getaway truck with a newly purchased cigar while Clemmons committed the crimes, according to court documents filed...
The Los Angeles City Council renewed a $500,000 reward today for the so-called "Grim Sleeper," a serial killer linked to 11 murders, mostly in South Los Angeles, over the last quarter century.
Eight of the murders were...
Documents released Tuesday show that a wide variety of state and local officials viewed Maurice Clemmons as a dangerous man, and wanted desperately to keep him in custody. But Washington officials encountered resistance from an unlikely source -...
The last thing the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles needs right now is for its public agencies to grow. City officials are in the process of stripping existing departments to fill an ever-growing gap between revenue and and spending. Workers are taking unpaid...
The Los Angeles City Council has pushed off until next Tuesday its continued consideration of a medical marijuana ordinance so that council members can review the latest draft, a 14-page document that the city attorney's office finished Monday.
The...
Los Angeles County's Hall of Justice, vacant since it was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake, might be reopened.
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