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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonApril 17, 2012

LAPD Launches Cost-Reduction Study for Fleet

The Los Angeles Police Department's fleet manager has outlined several cost-control measures to address rising costs, including a study of major fleet costs to develop strategies for reducing top expenditures for fuel, tires, brake components, and big-ticket components such as transmissions and engines.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 13, 2012

LAPD Adopts Policy for Transgender Stops

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has issued a new policy covering how officers must deal with members of the transgender community during stops and searches.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 13, 2012

Teen Shot by LAPD Was Dropped From Explorer Program

The 19-year-old who died in a hail of Los Angeles Police gunfire on the Hollywood (101) Freeway had wanted to join the department, but was dropped from its Explorer program for disciplinary reasons.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 13, 2012

U.S. Armor Hosts LAPD Training Event

U.S. Armor co-sponsored a training event attended by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The company is the sole body armor provider to the LAPD.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 12, 2012

Video: LAPD Pursuit Ends In Gunfire

Los Angeles Police officers fatally shot a 19-year-old man late Wednesday who appeared to point a weapon at them after a high-speed pursuit that ended along the Hollywood (101) Freeway in Woodland Hills.

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Inside the Badge by Paul ClintonMarch 22, 2012

LAPD Evaluates Driver Training with Patrol-Car Choice

The Los Angeles Police Department has yet to choose its Crown Vic replacement patrol car, but that hasn't kept the agency's emergency driving trainers from discussing changes in how recruits are trained behind the wheel.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 14, 2012

LAPD Adopts New Policy for Officer-Involved Crashes

Acknowledging major problems with the quality of its investigations into serious traffic collisions involving officers, the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday announced new rules intended to improve the thoroughness and credibility of the inquiries.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 8, 2012

Former LAPD Detective Guilty of Murder

A jury has convicted former Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus of murdering the wife of her former lover in a cold case that forced the department to bring down one of its own.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 28, 2012

Police Commission Backs LAPD Chief's New Impound Policy

The Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday endorsed Chief Charlie Beck's new impound policy that would return vehicles to unlicensed drivers sooner than the state-mandated 30 days.

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Articlesby Bob ParkerFebruary 28, 2012

How the North Hollywood Shootout Changed Patrol Arsenals

On the 15th anniversary of one of the fiercest gun battles in modern law enforcement history, patrol officers are much better armed, equipped, and trained than they were in 1997.

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