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Dec 2010

LAUSD appoint Zipperman as new school police force chief

The nation's largest school police force is set to have a new chief beginning next year: Steven K. Zipperman, a 31-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department. Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines...

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Dec 2010

Plan to assign LAPD officers to jails OK'd

Hoping to get the new Metropolitan Detention Center up and running by the end of January, a city panel signed off Monday on a plan to reassign 83 LAPD officers to work as jailers. While LAPD brass and city officials oppose the idea of...

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Dec 2010

California has 6-week backlog on new driver's licenses

State officials recently unveiled a dramatically redesigned California driver's license, with hidden photos and raised lettering, aimed at foiling counterfeiters. But the new design, it turns out, is just tripping up the DMV and its...

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Dec 2010

Red-light cameras go dark across state

(Photo: gsbrown99/Flickr) While the state collects millions of dollars from red-light cameras at intersections, a few California cities are starting to question whether the safety benefits are worth the high cost to their own coffers....