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Los Angeles (AP) -- A day of mostly calm immigration rallies around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles where officers fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. Police promised to review the use of force. Several people, including about a dozen officers, were hurt during skirmishes at MacArthur Park near downtown late Tuesday. About 10 people were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries including cuts, authorities said. None of the injuries was believed to be serious. At least one person was arrested, Officer Mike Lopez said late Tuesday. May Day marches in Los Angeles brought...

LAPD has bottles tossed at them and respond accordingly..........

Riot Police Break Up SoCal Immigration Rally POSTED: 7:47 pm PDT May 1, 2007 UPDATED: 8:13 pm PDT May 1, 2007 Email This Story | Print This Story Sign Up for Breaking News Alerts LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- There were tense moments at an immigration rally in Los Angeles Tuesday afternoon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Images: Riot Police Called To L.A. Rally -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Riot police were called to a MacArthur Park near downtown and fired rubber bullets at a crowd, officials said. The incident was caught on tape by several media organizations. Numerous officers were deployed to the area at dusk. Police arrested...

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A federal judge has ruled that some Los Angeles police tactics in patrolling downtown are unconstitutional, raising questions about the city's successful campaign to dramatically reduce the number of crimes and homeless people. U.S. District Court Judge Dean D. Pregerson found that officers question — and at times search — parolees and probationers without evidence that they might have committed a crime, which the judge said was unconstitutional. He ordered the department to change its practices. City officials strongly disputed the judge's decision and said that police were acting within the law. If the city appeals the ruling, a higher...

The Police Department has developed rules for investigating racial profiling complaints against officers to address issues raised by the U.S. Justice Department and LAPD inspector general during a review of previous probes, officials said Friday.

Los Angeles (AP) -- Opponents of illegal immigration on Wednesday sued the Los Angeles Police Department, taking aim at its long-standing "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding suspects' immigration status. The Superior Court lawsuit seeks to force officers to inform federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are arrested on drug charges. Department policy prohibits officers from inquiring about the immigration status of suspects, a policy strongly supported by Police Chief Chief William Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The suit was brought on behalf of unidentified police officers who are afraid to speak out but argue the policy creates a situation...

As the LAPD cracks down on the city's most violent street gangs, federal and county officials have launched their own campaigns to apprehend and deport gangsters who are in the county illegally. For the first time, federal immigration officers are tracking incarcerated gang members, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is creating a database of gang members who are in the U.S. illegally. The FBI is also strengthening its ties to international police agencies and hopes to create a gang intelligence center in El Salvador. "We want to connect the dots the same way we have been doing with...

New LAPD flashlights are too small to be used as weaponsLOS ANGELES The L-A-P-D has decided that smaller is better when it comes to flashlights.Police Chief William Bratton is scheduled to unveil new flashlights today that are brighter than the ones they use now, but too small to be used as a weapon.  The idea for the new ten-inch torch was conceived just days after news cameras broadcast images of L-A-P-D officers beating a car-theft suspect with a two-pound, two-foot long standard issue flashlight.  Bratton banned the large flashlights after the 2004 beating and called for manufacturers to create...

The Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot 13-year-old Devin Brown publicly released transcripts Friday from a meeting in which a disciplinary panel cleared him of wrongdoing. The panel's decision, reached earlier this week, outraged some city leaders because it was made in secret and rejected the civilian Police Commission's finding that the shooting by Officer Steven Garcia was unjustified...

Los Angeles -- Two black and two Hispanic Los Angeles police officers are accusing top department officials of discrimination for failing to include them in a new use-of-force investigation unit. The four announced a lawsuit Friday against the department. They contend the city failed to properly investigate their complaints that top department officials had excluded them from the Force Investigation Division because they were minorities or had disabilities. "My clients are just pure victims," said their lawyer, Bradley Gage. "But for race, but for their disability, they would still be in those positions."

LOS ANGELES -- In September 2004, just days after Chechen rebels raided a school in Beslan, Russia, killing 331 men, women and children, the Los Angeles Police Department summoned senior officers to its decaying downtown headquarters. The issue on the table: What would they do if a similar attack took place here? Most of the talk that morning was about where to deploy SWAT teams if terrorists ever took over a local school. Detective Mark Severino, one of the city's counterterrorist investigators, then asked his colleagues: "Do we even have Chechen extremists in Los Angeles?" Blank stares and silence filled...

LOS ANGELES - A man who was videotaped running at police following a San Fernando Valley car chase was shot to death when an officer apparently mistook an item he was holding for a gun, authorities said Wednesday. The man, 45, was pronounced dead at a hospital. His identity was not immediately released. Police spotted a truck moving erratically in Van Nuys shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, police Lt. Paul Vernon said. When officers tried to stop the car, the driver fled, leading police on a short chase, he said. The driver appeared to be under the influence of drugs,...

LAPD Veteran Taped Assaulting TeenVideotape Shows Officer Assaulting Handcuffed Youngster Inside Holding Cell LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 2006(AP) A videotape shows an officer assaulting a handcuffed teenager inside a police station holding cell, but the images won't be made public, the police chief said. Sean Joseph Meade, 41, was arrested Thursday for investigation of assault under color of authority. He was released on $10,000 bail, and a court appearance was scheduled for Monday. Police Chief William J. Bratton said the confrontation was part of an internal investigation, so the videotape won't be released publicly. The department is still wrestling with...

LOS ANGELES - An FBI investigation prompted by video footage of a man being punched repeatedly in the face by police has demonstrated anew the power of the Internet sensation of the year, YouTube.com. In addition to being a monumental time-waster around the office, YouTube could also become a tool for keeping police honest, some say. This week, a clip on the post-it-yourself video Web site triggered a police-brutality investigation by the FBI. The footage shows the Aug. 11 arrest of alleged gang member William Cardenas, 24. Two Los Angeles officers can be seen holding him down on a Hollywood...

NORTH HILLS - In a sign that the San Fernando Valley's surge in gang violence could be drawing in younger members, police said they arrested a 15-year-old triggerman and his 14-year-old accomplice Wednesday after a drive-by shooting that seriously injured a 12-year-old and two of his teenage friends. The two suspected gang members are accused of attacking three boys who police said belong to a graffiti, or tagging, crew. A third suspect in Tuesday's North Hills drive-by shooting remains at large. "These are not established gang members. These are junior high and high school students who are taking out a...

Two Los Angeles police officers filed a lawsuit against the city Monday, alleging that the Police Department transferred them from gang-enforcement efforts in the troubled Jordan Downs housing project after gang members and their supporters made many unsustained complaints about them. Southeast Division foot beat Officers Ryan Moreno and Chuck Garcia also charge that department investigators worked inappropriately with gang members on a sting operation that did not find any wrongdoing by the two. For years, many police officers, especially in anti-gang units, have complained that the LAPD's receptivity to complaints have made officers susceptible to false allegations. That debate,...

To help alleviate concerns that the Los Angeles Police Department has loosened its drug policy for hiring recruits, the Personnel Department and the LAPD said they've committed to rejecting applicants who have tried methamphetamine, heroin and hard drugs other than cocaine. Personnel and police officials noted Wednesday that they haven't actually hired anybody who has experimented with those drugs, but they wanted to make it clear they won't consider recruits who have tried hard drugs other than cocaine. And they said they will reject candidates who tried any hard drug as a mature adult. The decision comes after several council...

You probably know how affirmative action can bump you from college admission or a job in favor of the less qualified. Read this provocative article and see how it can also bring you mayhem and death.

As all of you know from previous articles here, I want illegal immigration stopped. I want a fence built, I want a ten-fold increase in the Border Patrol, I want employers deliberately hiring illegals put in jail – and then I want put in place a fair program of earned citizenship – fair to the illegals here and fair to those who entered by playing by the rules. However, to be completely fair about this issue, and in response to Pat Buchanan’s recent book, “State of Emergency” (I think Pat Buchanan gives conservatism a bad name), I present the following