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29
Dec 2010
This week's news that Los Angeles is likely to finish the year with the fewest homicides in nearly half a century should be both a source of satisfaction and a challenge to city and county policymakers.
Barring some dreadful event between...
28
Dec 2010
New developments in the investigation of a Christmas shooting that killed a South Los Angeles mother as her daughter watched. There's now a reward in the case.
A news conference was held Tuesday afternoon to announce the reward.
Family and...
28
Dec 2010
The decline in violent crime in Los Angeles has been among this region's most gratifying and encouraging trends in recent years. But some have worried that the decline must inevitably level off and give way to stasis. Happily, year-end...
28
Dec 2010
After 34 years on the police force, John Maguire had finally put in his retirement papers.
He told relatives who for years had asked the 60-year-old officer to slow down that he was taking their advice. Starting Jan. 1, he would be off the...