NewsWatch
05
Dec 2011
In this age of perpetual campaigns, the Los Angeles Police Protective League is beginning to develop a grass-roots level of support for 2013 with a pilot program in three council districts.
Yard signs reading "Public Safety First," are...
02
Dec 2011
A state government report said on Friday that California's homicide rate fell by 7.8 percent in 2010 to the lowest level since 1966, in-line with a U.S. drop in violent crimes that researchers have attributed in part to better police work...
01
Dec 2011
More than 20 percent of respondents to a state Office of Traffic Safety survey said talking on cell phones is the biggest safety problem on state roads.
In what safety officials call a dramatic reversal, Californians now believe...
30
Nov 2011
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck watches officers assemble Tuesday before they boarded buses at Dodger Stadium. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck took in the scene of hundreds of his officers lining the City Hall lawn...