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All but one of the roughly 80 gang officers in the Southeast, 77th, Northeast and Hollenbeck divisions - areas that are home to some of the city's most violent and active gangs - refused.
Read More →Four more cadets have been arrested in connection with the thefts of police cruisers from two LAPD stations, and some of those cadets are believed to have made traffic stops on members of the public.
Read More →Officers at the Los Angeles Police Department's Mission Division in the San Fernando Valley were equipped with body cameras Monday as part of a roll out of 860 such cameras over the next month.
Read More →Prosecutors charged an 18-year-old Tuesday with half a dozen felonies, including attempted murder of a peace officer, in connection with the Easter Sunday shooting of an LAPD helicopter that pierced its fuel tank.
Read More →An officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has successfully run the Los Angeles Marathon in full tactical gear to support a great cause. More Here.
Read More →A man convicted in the 1985 plot to kill a Los Angeles police detective will be released on parole within the week, over the objections of city police leaders.
Read More →An underground explosion downtown that threw two manhole covers in the air slightly injured a Los Angeles police officer Monday.
Read More →Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck forcefully denied Tuesday that his department had falsified violent crime statistics and dismissed the allegation by a captain that the LAPD misled the public as "not only untrue, but outrageous." More Here.
Read More →A cache of Los Angeles Police Department submachine guns and handguns was stolen last week from a secured building used by the department's SWAT unit, raising fears that the weapons, which police had altered to fire only blanks, could be converted back to lethal use.
Read More →On May 17, 1974, three months after the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, armed members of the "Symbionese Liberation Army" barricaded themselves in a house in Los Angeles, Calif., and began firing at the police, reports The Daily News. Read Story Here.
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