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Officer Andre Moye was shot and killed after conducting a traffics top near the junction of I-215 and Eastridge Avenue in Riverside. As Officer Moye completed paperwork to impound the vehicle the driver retrieved a rifle from it and opened fire. Despite being mortally wounded, Officer Moye was able to radio for assistance. Officers from the California Highway Patrol, Riverside Police Department, and Riverside County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and engaged the subject in a prolonged shootout. Two other officers were wounded and the subject was killed. The subject who shot him had previously served 10 years in...

A man accused of killing Los Angeles Police Department Officer Juan Diaz outside a taco stand in Lincoln Heights after the policeman and a friend told him to stop tagging a sidewalk has been charged with murder, authorities said Tuesday. Diaz, 24, was off-duty when he was gunned down near Avenue 26 and Humboldt Street around 1 a.m. on July 27. But those accused of killing him were involved in a series of other crimes that same night, including another shooting, according to LAPD. That second shooting allegedly targeted an ex-boyfriend. Cristian Adrian Facundo, the 20-year-old suspected of fatally shooting...

Along with LightStrike, which uses high-intensity light to kill germs in rooms, the department also installed a device called HealthySole that uses ultraviolet rays to kill germs on shoes. The problems facing this facility were highlighted in late May when an officer was infected with salmonella typhi — which typically comes from infected food or water — while at least two other people were sent home experiencing similar symptoms. The Los Angeles Times reported that the LAPD was fined more than $5,000 by the state Department of Industrial Relations last month for failing to tell employees how typhus fever is...

LAPD officials confirmed that Caplette was assigned to the department’s employee relations group and serves as a department chaplain. Caplette is also involved in the Bigs in Blue, a law enforcement partnership with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America. He was recognized in 2017 as Big Brother of the Year. A representative of the LA chapter of the organization confirmed Caplette had one “little brother match” which is being “closed right now.” They would not comment further on the allegations. Caplette was arrested after he was spotted using his cell phone to record inside a men’s bathroom. When...

Attorney David Winslow said his client — a Los Angeles Police Department officer whom he wouldn't name — was struck from behind without a word being spoken Friday night as he fed his son samples of teriyaki chicken in the warehouse store in Corona, southeast of Los Angeles. Winslow told The Associated Press the officer was briefly knocked unconscious and his 1 ½-year-old son also fell to the ground. When the officer regained consciousness, Winslow said, "he believed his life and his son's life was in immediate danger." "He believed he was under attack," Winslow said. "That's when the shooting...

Corona police say 32-year-old Kenneth French from Riverside allegedly assaulted the unidentified officer inside the store on Friday night. French’s mother, Paula, and father, Russell, were also shot and critically wounded. Both remained in critical condition at Riverside Community Hospital on Sunday but French’s cousin — Rick Shureih — told CBS2/KCAL9’s Greg Mills his uncle was “doing better” (he had a breathing tube removed) but his aunt “is still not out of the woods.” He said Kenneth had “mental issues” but nothing that ever made him violent. He told Mills that Kenneth was a big guy and because of his...

“From my understanding, from some people we talked to, there was apparently an argument inside. Some type of argument that ensued into a gun battle,” Lt. Jeff Edwards told reporters. The off-duty LAPD officer reportedly works in the Southwest Division and shot and killed a man during an altercation after feeling threatened. The injured were transported to a local hospital and are reported to be in stable condition. Witnesses at the scene told CBSLA reporter Nicole Comstock they heard an argument before hearing seven or eight shots. The investigation is currently ongoing, but the officer is not currently in custody...

FULL TITLE: Rats at the police station, filth on L.A. streets — scenes from the collapse of a city that’s lost control The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing. The bad news is that I didn’t have to travel far to find more streets just as badly fouled by filthy mounds of junk and stinking, rotting food. Then there was the news that the LAPD station on skid row was cited by the state...

Cops are people who sometimes have to take on thankless dirty jobs, because someone has to take out the trash, but now that they're coming down with typhus-like illnesses, based on the multiplication of the homeless population and the accompanying rats, one wonders how fair this is — or, more to the point, if maybe leftists making policy wanted it this way. According to ABC News: At least one officer with the Los Angeles Police Department has contracted the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, Salmonella typhi, and another one is showing typhus-like symptoms, the police department announced on Thursday. The officer who had...

"The health, safety, and wellbeing of our Los Angeles Police Department officers is critical and we are ensuring the officers exposed to this disease are cared for," the department said in the statement. "First responders throughout the region and especially here in Los Angeles are constantly responding to incidents that put them at risk of potential exposure to various diseases, and that’s why the Department takes this incident very seriously. All of the work areas that may have been exposed have been disinfected." It was not immediately clear how the officers came into contact with the bacteria. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A series of DUI and other alcohol-related incidents involving drunk officers is raising attention at the Los Angeles Police Department. Video obtained exclusively by Eyewitness News reveals the aftermath of a DUI arrest in Glendale last April -- LAPD Sergeant James Kelly blew a .28 on a breathalyzer test, that's four times the legal limit. Commander Nicole Mehringer was a passenger in her city-owned vehicle and appears to be slumped down on the floor of the front seat. Kelly, who appears to be passed out, is at the wheel with his seat belt on. Mehringer was...

LASER is designed to inform officers where crimes are likely to occur and tracks ex-convicts and people they believe are most likely to commit crimes through technology, including cell phone trackers and license plate scanners. The PredPol -- short for "predictive policing" -- program analyzes data about when and where crimes have occurred to identify "hot spots" in the city where certain types of crimes are more likely to be committed on a given day. The Chronic Offender portion of the LASER program was suspended in August 2018, along with the use of the associated tracking database, according to the...

A female LAPD commander charged in an off-duty alcohol-related incident in Glendale has initiated legal action against the city of Los Angeles, alleging she has been unfairly punished because of her gender and the race of a male companion. Nicole Mehringer's government claim, made public Thursday, also accused the LAPD of, "disparate treatment," during her administrative trial. Mehringer claimed at least six other LAPD officers, including an assistant chief and two commanders, kept their jobs and rank after they committed more serious alcohol-related violations, the claim said. Mehringer's attorney, Brad Gage, alleged in the claim that the LAPD was intentionally...

A veteran police captain is suing the Los Angeles Police Department after a naked photo wrongly believed to be her was shared among officers. Lillian L. Carranza claims bosses knew the 'deeply humiliating' image was being circulated within the department but 'took no steps' to inform the 50-year-old and did nothing to stop it. The lawsuit also alleges department chiefs made no effort to clarify the image being passed around was not of the 28-year veteran. (Cut) In her lawsuit, filed Friday, Carranza blasts the department for tolerating a sexist culture that subjects women to persistent verbal harassment. The police...

Attorney Lisa Bloom appeared in court Thursday in Los Angeles to argue for a temporary restraining order against Officer Danny Reedy on behalf of her client, Detective Ysabel Villegas. Reedy and Villegas were involved in an "abusive" relationship, which they recently broke off, Bloom said. The officer took explicit photos of the detective during their relationship, according to the attorney. Once it ended, Bloom said Reedy sent out the photos to several of his "buddies," including a fellow LAPD officer and an LAPD sergeant. Distributing such photos without permission from the person in them, sometimes known as "revenge porn," is...

@SenFeinstein indicates that the FBI report on Kavanaugh should NOT be made public: “It would seem to me that if people are going to be identified this ought to be held very close and not." "I think the investigation ought to be closely held," she reiterated

Los Angeles police on Monday released a video of a gang member shooting a female officer at point-blank range during a July traffic stop in the San Fernando Valley and her partner subsequently fatally wounding the gunman. Recordings from inside a police cruiser and the officers' body cameras captured what seems to begin as a routine traffic stop that suddenly explodes into violence as the gunman pulls a .380-caliber handgun from his side and shoots the female officer who is standing just inches away. “By the grace of God she is alive,” Moore said. “Officers are fearful in these situations...

Before Michel Moore was promoted to become the Los Angeles Police Department’s new chief in June, he took a brief, highly unusual retirement. He left as chief of operations for only a few weeks before rejoining the force in the same job at the same pay. But the move provided him with a financial windfall: a lump sum retirement payment of $1.27 million from the city.

The Los Angeles Police Department released footage of their deadly encounter with a man holding a woman hostage with a knife on Wednesday morning. A witness to the tragedy said Perez began a “sawing motion against her throat and cut her throat,” at which point LAPD fired 18 shots, killing both Perez and his hostage. There is an ongoing investigation as to whether the officer’s actions align with hostage training protocol.

A Trader Joe’s employee, who died during a hostage situation over the weekend, was killed by LAPD gunfire, Chief Michael Moore said Tuesday at a news conference. Ballistics tests show that a bullet fired from a Los Angeles police officer’s firearm struck and killed Melyda Corado, 27, during a shootout with the alleged hostage taker at the Silver Lake supermarket Saturday, Moore said.