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It's rare to receive a formal invitation to remember a shootout and riot. But that's what participants, like myself, received for this year's 40th anniversary commemoration of the Glenville Shootout and Riot.
Read More →You are now in the middle of a kill zone between two rival and highly agitated gangs. You watch in slow motion as they drop their wounded and draw their guns. It is as though they cannot even see you or recognize your uniform or police vehicle. You are not the intended target, but you could easily be collateral damage.
Read More →Hear Richard Valdemar take part in radio discussions about Los Angeles gangs.
Read More →The preliminary 2008 midterm report on U.S. law enforcement deaths by the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial Fund shows a significant, 41 percent, reduction compared to the same period in 2007—the lowest total in more than four decades. On the surface, this is very good news for us—the fewer police deaths the better. But does this mean that police work is 40 percent safer in 2008?
Read More →It might not be dialogues with Plato, but sometimes striking up a conversation with strangers can offer up all forms of enlightenment.
Read More →How do you expect to know all of the answers, all of the time? This is a training program.
Read More →LASD SEB (SWAT) was called in. They approached the structures in an armored car. Suspect Kueck engaged the SEB vehicle with his .223 assault rifle giving away his position. A heavier LAPD SWAT armored battering ram was brought up and tear gas was fired into the wooden structure.
Read More →You'd think that as people engaged in a profession that is no less broadstroked by the public, cops would have more empathy for security guards.
Read More →The magnetism of the team is so powerful that those who miss the "big one" for any reason will often feel badly about it for many years.
Read More →Law enforcement is replete with stories of true warriors whose will to prevail often defies even the most daunting odds.
Read More →In conducting interviews with the officers profiled in my Shots Fired columns, I was surprised at how many either didn't know that they'd been injured, or if they knew they'd been injured didn't know where their injuries were located or their severity.
Read More →For several months prior to the riots, intelligence reports rolled across my desk about activity in the Jordan Downs, Imperial Courts, and Nickerson Gardens Housing Projects. Drug dealers were financing meetings of gang members from rival gangs, and these meetings were being arbitrated by OGs (veteran gang members) or the Fruit of Islam, Black Muslim security units.
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