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During the budget year that ended June 30, LAPD officers worked more than 680,000 overtime hours for which they have not yet been compensated.
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The FN 509 MRD-LE features the patented FN Low-Profile Optics-Mounting System with co-witness tritium 3-dot iron sights that deliver rapid sight acquisition.
Read More →"Crime does pay right now across this country. Criminals know that they have the green light to pretty much do what they want to do because we're in an era where we coddle criminals instead of holding them accountable," Deon Joseph said Wednesday."
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What was meant to be a safe detonation of homemade fireworks ended in an explosion that injured 17 people, including 11 law enforcement officers, on June 30.
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The blast came around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday outside of a home where police had spent the day seizing a large cache of fireworks. They also came across about 40 homemade “coke can-sized” devices with powder and fuses on them, and 200 smaller similar devices. The bomb squad determined them to be “very volatile.”
Read More →“No one wants anyone using a firearm while impaired,” said Eileen Decker, the commission president. “A more specific policy — the time may have come for that.”
Read More →In her order granting Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles's request for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall noted an increase in reports of LAPD officers pushing, striking and firing less-lethal weapons on crowds of protesters, including media covering demonstrations, without a dispersal order being given.
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“Upon contact with the window the bottle shattered and ignited the flammable liquid,” according to the news release. The flames were put out by a supervisor.
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The standoff followed an hourslong chase of a white SUV that police identified in a string of drive-by shootings that left two men dead and a third wounded in a span of 30 minutes.
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"Instead of apologizing, you deflected," Officer Deon Joseph wrote. "You said you took your tweet down because you did not want it to be used for hate, when the tweet itself was the embodiment of hatred, rooted in a lack of understanding of the danger of the situation."
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