
Just last year, United Teachers Los Angeles, a teachers union in the area, released a research paper on steps needed to safely reopen public schools and expressed the need to free up additional funding by defunding the police.
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An officer with the Los Angeles School Police Department was patrolling a high school campus in preparation for a football game when he received word that a woman atop a nearby building was threatening to jump to her death.
Read More →The Los Angeles School Police Department officer found dead on the campus of a North Hollywood elementary school over the weekend has been identified as 46-year-old Douglas Campbell.
Read More →The Los Angeles Police Department, which also responded to the school and is the lead agency in the investigation, identified the suspect as a 12-year-old girl.
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Through the Pledge to Patrol program – also known as the Associate Community Officer Program or A-COP – more than two dozen high school graduates will be working part-time for the Los Angeles Police Department as a way to train the next generation of police officers.
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There are currently seven female police chiefs in Los Angeles County, an all-time high. Several of the chiefs gathered recently at USC's Sol Price School of Public Policy in Los Angeles for a panel discussion to share their differing perspectives on their roles.
Read More →All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday after LAUSD received a "credible terror threat," according to school district officials and police.
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Two Los Angeles Schools police officers were rushed to the hospital after colliding with a dump truck in Sun Valley on Friday. Police authorities are reporting the officers' injuries are serious, but not life-threatening.
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In the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, the Los Angeles Police Department plans to have officers visit every public elementary and middle school in the city on a daily basis beginning in January.
Read More →In a decisive step away from the zero tolerance policies of the 1990s, Los Angeles school police have agreed to stop issuing citations to truant students and instead refer them to city youth centers for educational counseling and other services to help address their academic struggles.
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