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Training

Interviews Start in Search for LAPD's Next Chief

The Police Commission, the civilian panel that oversees the LAPD, began conducting closed-door interviews Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the process confirmed.

May 3, 2018

Patrol

Video: Family Dog Helps LAPD Capture Pursuit Suspect

A Sun Valley family's dog helped lead to the eventual capture of a suspect attempting to evade the Los Angeles Police Department.

April 12, 2018

Patrol

Family Dog Helps LAPD Capture Pursuit Suspect

A family's dog helped lead to the eventual capture of a suspect attempting to evade the Los Angeles Police Department. More Here.

April 12, 2018

Patrol

Funding for Local Police Cannot be Based on ICE Cooperation, Judge Rules

The U.S. Department of Justice cannot force local police departments to cooperate with immigration agents as a condition for receiving federal funding for a law enforcement program, a judge in Los Angeles ruled this week.

April 12, 2018

Patrol

LAPD to Make Body Camera, Patrol Car Videos Public

The Los Angeles Police Department's years-long practice of keeping video from body cameras and patrol cars under wraps will soon end after the agency's civilian bosses approved a policy Tuesday that requires the release of recordings in the future.

March 20, 2018

Special Units

Judge Blocks Los Angeles Gang Enforcement Program

The order is believed to mark the first time a judge has blocked Los Angeles officials from enforcing the injunctions, which were born from a time in the late 1980s and '90s when gang activity in the city gained national attention. Their use has been credited by law enforcement with helping reduce gang-related crime.

March 16, 2018

Patrol

Prosecutors Decline Charges Against Former LAPD Officer Over Fatal Venice Shooting

Two years ago, Beck publicly said he believed Proctor should be criminally charged, marking the first time as chief he had suggested an officer be prosecuted in a fatal on-duty shooting.

March 8, 2018

Patrol

Next LAPD Chief Faces Long List of Challenges

He or she will face calls to: Reduce crime. Increase transparency. Build trust in police. Motivate officers. Crack down on problem officers. Tackle homelessness. Curb shootings by police. Put more officers on the streets. Stay away from immigration enforcement. Continue police reforms.

March 8, 2018

Patrol

LAPD Officer Arrested, Accused of Deferred Retirement Fraud

Police Officer Terry Johns joined the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, or DROP, in July 2014. The following month he filed a workers' compensation claim for a bad back, public records show.

March 8, 2018

Patrol

LAPD Officer Won't Be Charged in Fatal Shooting of Armed Teen

Los Angeles County prosecutors outlined their reasoning in an 11-page memo made public Monday, saying Officer Eden Medina reasonably believed the teenager posed a deadly threat and used "reasonable force" to defend himself and others.

March 6, 2018

Patrol

LAPD Motor Officer Hospitalized After Crash

A Los Angeles police officer on a motorcyle and a civilian driving a Mini Cooper were both injured in a crash in North Hollywood early Wednesday.

February 28, 2018

Technology

LAPD Draft Policy Calls for Quick Release of Body Camera Videos

Under the proposed plan, the LAPD would also begin to release some video shot by cameras in patrol cars and on drones – and video collected from private security cameras and bystanders.

February 21, 2018