If you'd like to easily steal confidential information, Social Security numbers, and addresses of victims and witnesses, we recommend visiting the LAPD's Southwest Division parking garage.
The garage is home to truckloads of cardboard boxes filled with...
Union officials criticized Los Angeles Police Department officials today for two recent incidents in which confidential paperwork pertaining to criminal investigations or personnel was found unsecured at police stations.
Hundreds of boxes of case...
The ring, with ties to the Drew Street clique of the Avenues gang, is alleged to have smuggled more than 200 illegal immigrants into the United States a year.
Federal authorities have arrested eight people, and were seeking a...
The budget crisis in Los Angeles may have unpleasant consequences for concert- goers, Lakers fans and even Dodgers fans on the day of the first game of the National League Championship Series: gridlock.
For more than a decade, the city has covered the...
The new LAPD headquarters won't be dedicated until later this month -- more about the name of the building in a bit -- but when it is, the first official shift to show up for work will see some sadly familiar names.
Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig container, each stuffed...
It's a mark of the disarray and crisis within Los Angeles City Hall that Police Chief William Bratton, one of the most famous cops in the world, riding high on an era of low crime and sometimes absurdly over-praised accomplishments, is leaving town on October...
A shortage of staff to cover 24-hour shifts at prisons means workers are going in on furlough days and being paid in IOUs that will eventually cost the state -- and its taxpayers -- much more.
Staff shortages are forcing tens of...
Before dawn four weeks ago, some 1,300 cops and federal agents fanned across the badlands of Los Angeles in a massive crackdown on the Avenues gang, inviting along a few reporters to observe them as they quietly approached 42 run-down hovels and crowded...
On Oct. 13, hosting a cyber-crime prevention gathering called the Digital Crimes Consortium at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters, Microsoft announced it was teaming with the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) to make the center the nation's first...
Awards are always sweet, especially national awards won competing with fellow professionals.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department recently took top honors for their street safety strategy programs from the...
People buying ammunition in California will soon have to be thumbprinted and dealers will have to keep records of sales, under legislation that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law.
After vetoing similar bills three times since 2004, Schwarzenegger...
Tackling one of the city's major budget issues, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday proposed a two-year police contract that could save up to $100 million next year by slashing overtime and bonuses.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. But...
Council president Eric Garcetti says at least eight members favor hiring enough officers to replace those who leave.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and two members of the City Council said Monday they have forged an...
Los Angeles negotiators have reached a tentative two-year contract agreement with the city police union that apparently will avert the need for officer furloughs and shave $50 million to $100 million from L.A.'s $405-million budget shortfall.
To become...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday signed into law two bills authored by Southland lawmakers that crack down on drunken drivers.
Both laws involve the installation of ignition interlock devices on cars by DUI offenders. The ignition interlock...
Prisons will be reduced by about 20,000 inmates over the next two years now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill under pressure from federal courts to reduce prison overcrowding.
The plan combines previous reform efforts performed...
For many of the neighborhood council leaders who gathered at City Hall this weekend, it must have seemed like deja vu all over again.
Led by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and hammered at by other city officials, the message was: "This time, we're serious,"...
BUDGET: Early retirements and furloughs will mean less service.
With thousands of city workers scheduled for furlough days, reduced work hours and early retirements in coming months, city officials are bracing for what could be...
Lawyers for California's prison inmates on Thursday demanded Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger be held in contempt by a federal court for his "bald defiance" of an August order to slash more than 40,000 inmates from the state's clogged prison system.
In court...
POLICE: Outgoing chief says LAPD should hire replacement from within.
As he makes his final rounds across the city, Police Chief Bill Bratton cautioned Thursday against reductions in the Los Angeles Police Department and said he...
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, left, inspects a recruit class...
Keith B. Bolcar, acting assistant director in charge of the FBI in Los Angeles,...
A new program aimed at keeping Americans safe from terror attacks will rely on individual citizens to serve as "the eyes and ears" of their communities.
U.S. public funds have long operated in a world of political patronage where the pressure to pay to play can be enormous. Regulators are looking to crack down on the practice, but can the proposed reforms really fix the underlying problems?
It's good to...
Several law enforcement agencies that annually purchase Ford Motor Co.'s Crown Victoria Police Interceptor have been told the automaker...
The Los Angeles Police Department has cut in half a backlog of untested DNA evidence from rapes and sexual assaults, according to police figures.
In late 2008, amid increasing pressure from victims' rights groups and elected officials, LAPD officials...
Two committees of the Los Angeles City Council recommended Monday that the city stop hiring police officers starting next month and wait until January to see if the budget picture has improved enough to resume recruitment.
The Budget and Finance and...
General Motors unveiled a concept version of its rear-wheel drive Caprice...
U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday stressed the importance of cooperation between federal and local law enforcement agencies to stop terrorism. They say the recent arrest of an imam...
