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By Ruben Vives
February 28, 2010
Citing a decline in revenues and an increase in the cost of law enforcement, several small cities in southeast Los Angeles County are considering a novel approach to policing their communities.
City officials in Maywood and Bell say they are examining the possibility of combining police departments as a way to reduce [...]
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The chief who first sought funding for LAPD cameras is pictured in the department’s oldest crime-scene photos on record.
By Steve Harvey
February 28, 2010
It’s a grim irony tucked away in the files of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The first request for funding to buy photographic equipment for the department was made by Chief Walter Auble in [...]
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By Victoria Kim (LA Times)
February 26, 2010
This month, patrol officers in the Pasadena Police Department tried something new: They went door to door, introducing themselves, handing out business cards and saying hello.
Some residents greeted them with mouths hanging open, interim Chief Christopher Vicino said. Others wanted to know what the trouble was that brought the [...]
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By Rick Orlov (LA Daily News)
February 23, 2010
In his first 100 days as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Chief Charlie Beck says he has come to put his stamp on the agency as it faces its biggest challenge in years – maintaining public safety amid a hazardous budget climate.
Since his appointment by Mayor [...]
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By Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton (LA Times)
February 18, 2010
Troubled by an increase in police shootings last year, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Wednesday ordered deputies to be more cautious — and call for backup — when pursuing armed suspects.
“In policing cultures around the nation, there is a tendency for us to put [...]
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By Victoria Kim (LA Times)
February 6, 2010
The Pasadena Police Department will institute a host of reforms and order new tactical training for its officers in light of a watchdog report on a fatal officer-involved shooting last year, police officials said in a written response to the report.
Two police officers, whose names have been withheld by [...]
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By Andrew Blankstein and Tony Barboza (LA Times)
February 3, 2010
Jim McDonnell, who served for most of the decade as one of former Chief William J. Bratton’s top assistants at the Los Angeles Police Department and was among the short list of finalists to be his successor, was named Wednesday as the next chief of the [...]
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By Maeve Reston and Phil Willon (LA Times)
February 2, 2010
As the Los Angeles City Council weighed options to address a $208-million shortfall, Councilman Bernard C. Parks on Monday ordered the city’s top budget analyst to prepare a plan that could include layoffs of police officers and firefighters.
Last week, City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana outlined plans [...]
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By Joel Rubin (LA Times)
January 27, 2010
In an abrupt reversal of an earlier decision that drew the ire of rape victim advocates, city officials have cleared the way for the Los Angeles Police Department’s crime lab to hire more staff capable of DNA analysis.
The about-face amounts to a belated attempt by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and [...]
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By Joel Rubin (LA Times)
January 22, 2010
Nearly two decades have passed since the Los Angeles Police Department was first called upon to outfit all its patrol cars with video cameras. Today, the number of vehicles with functioning cameras stands at zero.
Over the years, while other law enforcement agencies around the country put cameras into wide [...]
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By Dennis Romero (LA Weekly)
January 20, 2010
The Los Angeles Police Department seems to be taking the possibility of a state release of prisoners starting Jan. 25 seriously. California is under a federal order to release 40,000 prisoners, nearly one in four in the state, to relieve overcrowding, and the U.S. Supreme Court this week rejected [...]
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By Joel Rubin (LA Times)
January 16, 2010
Faced with an unrelenting fiscal crisis, Los Angeles city officials have refused to hire needed analysts for the Los Angeles Police Department’s crime laboratory, hampering a plan to eliminate a backlog of untested DNA evidence from rape cases and angering victims’ rights advocates.
Last spring, despite a near freeze on [...]
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