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Battle Lines Forming Over Public Access to Videos from LAPD Body Cams

At two recent community meetings on the body camera issue, police commissioners and top brass heard from residents who questioned why the public would not get to see the footage. Many said that by withholding the recordings from the public, the department would undermine the transparency and officer accountability touted by proponents.

February 5, 2015

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LAPD Under Fire for Arranging Meeting with Area Chiefs and Mexican Mafia Member

LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Downing described the meeting as an "LAPD-sponsored event" where attendees listened to the man describe his experience with a "transnational criminal enterprise."

January 29, 2015

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Video: Violent Crime Rises in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Police Department released crime statistics Monday showing that violent crime rose last year for the first time since 2003.

January 13, 2015

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Violent Crime Rises in Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Police Department released crime statistics Monday showing that violent crime rose last year for the first time since 2003. More Here.

January 13, 2015

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Video: Autopsy Shows Police Shot L.A. Man 3 Times

An autopsy report released on a 25-year-old man killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police appears to affirm initial statements by officers about the struggle that led to the close-range shooting, police said.

December 30, 2014

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Autopsy Report Prompts New Protests in Los Angeles

The autopsy report of Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man shot by police in August after a reported gun grab, was released yesterday. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck says the report supports police accounts of what happened. But that didn't stop people from protesting, reports KTLA. More Here.

December 30, 2014

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2 LAPD Police Officers Ambushed in Unprovoked Attack

Los Angeles police called off an intense 8-hour manhunt Monday morning that began after two officers were ambushed in an "unprovoked attack" the previous night. Two men allegedly opened fire on their patrol car. More Here.

December 29, 2014

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Video: 2 LAPD Police Officers Ambushed, Shot at in Unprovoked Attack

Los Angeles police called off an intense 8-hour manhunt Monday morning that began after two officers were ambushed in an "unprovoked attack" in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South L.A. the previous night.

December 29, 2014

Technology

LAPD Plan for Body Cameras Complicated by Privacy and Policy Concerns

Another battle is brewing over whether police officers should be able to review the recordings before writing police reports about incidents. Bibring and others said officers should not have access to the recordings because it could allow them to alter their statements or align them with what the footage showed.

December 18, 2014

Technology

LAPD to Outfit All Officers with TASER Axon Body Cameras and Evidence.com

TASER International today announced the purchase of 860 Axon body-worn video cameras and a five-year subscription to Evidence.com by the Los Angeles Police Department. Los Angeles plans to equip a total of 7,000 officers with body cameras in 2015.

December 17, 2014

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Fine Line Between Lawful and Unlawful Protests

There will always be issues and decisions that every citizen may not agree with – it is simply the nature of who we are as Americans.

December 15, 2014

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Video: L.A. Police Shoot, Kill Knife-Wielding Man in Hollywood

LAPD officers opened fire on a man carrying a 3- to 4-inch folding knife at the crowded Hollywood intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue about 7 p.m. while responding to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon, said Los Angeles Police Lt. Michael Ling.

December 8, 2014