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06
Dec 2010
Sound the alarm - Oakland's Police Department is shrinking so fast that it doesn't have enough officers to cover some patrols and many of its investigative units have been stripped to the bone.
Everyone knows about the 80 officers the city...
05
Dec 2010
Prompted by constituent complaints, City Councilman Tony Cardenas has demanded that Los Angeles police craft a new plan to quash pockets of crime in his northeast San Fernando Valley district.
Cardenas' order, however, has mystified LAPD...
04
Dec 2010
On the night of Feb. 24, 1986, John Ruetten came home to discover his 29-year-old bride dead. Sherri Rae Rasmussen had been beaten and shot to death. In the days that followed, homicide detectives in Los Angeles didn't come up with much...
03
Dec 2010
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich discussed the injunction in April, outside the Midnight Mission. (Photo: Gary Leonard)
In April, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich took an unprecedented step when he announced his office would seek an...