NewsWatch
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Feb 2009
It's been rejected several times over the last two decades, but the Los Angeles Police Protective League again is vigorously lobbying city officials to honor fallen officers with police "purple heart" medals.
Purple hearts have been a...
18
Feb 2009
Daily News Editorial
Los Angeles police chief expects no rise in crime in 2009. Conventional wisdom has it that when the economy heads south, crime rates head north.
It seems like common sense as well. When times are desperate, people are...
18
Feb 2009
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A proposal to award a medal similar to the military Purple Heart to Los Angeles police officers injured or killed in the line of duty picked up support today from the union that represents rank-and-file members of the...
13
Feb 2009
Re "A case for LAPD openness," editorial, Feb. 10
Hopefully, the arms of Times editors aren't sore after their vigorous back-patting for the paper's "conscientious discernment" in not publishing a report that was negligently released by...