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30
Apr 2009
In the weeks leading up to the tepid re-election of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa last month, Bill Bratton, the statistics-driven chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, appeared on TV in a political advertisement paid for by...
27
Apr 2009
Police and fire services would diminish under a furlough plan designed to save the city money, the Los Angeles City Council's Budget and Finance Committee was told today as deliberations began on the city's proposed $7.04 billion budget....
27
Apr 2009
The LAPD would be allowed to grow to 10,000 officers this year but every other agency would have to freeze hiring while a two-tiered system for pensions and other new-worker benefits is studied, a city panel was told Monday.
As it launched...
27
Apr 2009
This March marked a dubious milestone for American law enforcement. With four officers killed by a gunman in Oakland, it was the first month since Operation Iraqi Freedom began that the number of police officers murdered on American...