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  • Sheriff's deputy who was shot dead guarded highly dangerous inmates (Mex. Mafia hit?)

    08/04/2008 9:02:59 AM PDT · by BurbankKarl · 13 replies · 811+ views
    LA Times ^ | 8/4/08 | Stuart Pfeifer and Tami Abdollah,
    A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy gunned down Saturday outside his boyhood home in Cypress Park had been assigned to guard the most dangerous inmates in the county, including members of the notorious Mexican Mafia gang, authorities said Sunday. Los Angeles police and sheriff's officials said the prospect that Deputy Juan Abel Escalante was killed because of his work at the jail remained one of three possible motives. Investigators were also considering the possibility that neighborhood gang violence or a personal grudge were behind the killing. As of right now, all of those possibilities are on the table," said Los...
  • Program stakes out repeat DUI offenders

    08/02/2008 7:09:09 PM PDT · by hole_n_one · 61 replies · 214+ views
    Los Angeles Daily News ^ | 8/2/08 | Sue Doyle
    VAN NUYS - On a recent stakeout, LAPD Officers David Hopkins and Steve Johnson slink down low in their unmarked car, ready to bust the type of criminal known to kill 16,000 people every year. Ordered by a judge not to drive, the man under their surveillance pulls up to his house, driving his father's car. Alcohol hangs on his breath. Eric Bernardo Davila is no murderer, rapist or terrorist. But with his growing arrest record, he's almost as dangerous. He's a habitual drunk driver - three DUIs and just 31 years old. And he's one of thousands of chronic...
  • LAPD Chief Bratton backs gay marriage with checkbook

    07/23/2008 2:11:37 PM PDT · by mngran2 · 9 replies · 167+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 7/22/08 | Tina Daunt
    LAPD Police Chief William J. Bratton has come out -- in favor of gay marriage. As a wedding gift to friend and celebrity publicist Howard Bragman and his longtime partner, Chuck O'Donnell, Bratton made it official: He and his wife, former Court TV diva Rikki Kleiman, strongly believe that gays have a right to marry. And in honor of Bragman and O'Donnell, who wed this past week in Norwalk, the chief and Kleiman have made a donation to Equality California, a group seeking to stop a state ballot measure this November that would ban same-sex marriages. "The Constitution guarantees life,...
  • Dan Walters: Villaraigosa's promises on police crumble in L.A.

    07/21/2008 7:56:32 AM PDT · by SmithL · 12 replies · 331+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/21/8 | Dan Walters
    Two years ago, newly elected Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vowed to put 1,000 more cops on the city's dangerous streets and proposed to raise trash collection fees to provide the money. "Every new dollar residents pay for trash pickup," the mayor promised in a city news release, "will be used to put more officers on the streets." Residential trash collection was boosted from $11 a month to $26. The new fees generated $137 million, but the city hired only about 400 more cops, according to a recent report from City Controller Laura Chick, and they cost about $42 million....
  • Federal appeals court upholds $15-million civil award for Rampart police officers

    07/14/2008 8:58:35 PM PDT · by SmithL · 4 replies · 165+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 7/14/8 | Maura Dolan
    A federal appeals court upheld a $15 million jury verdict for three Los Angeles police officers who alleged they were falsely arrested and prosecuted as part of the Rampart corruption scandal. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said there was evidence to support the jury's verdict that the city and the Los Angeles Police Department violated the officers' constitutional rights by arresting and charging the men without an adequate investigation. The jury had awarded $5 million each to LAPD Officer Paul Harper, Sgt. Edward Ortiz and former Sgt. Brian Liddy. With interest and attorney fees, the city is now liable...
  • LAPD Special Order 40 lawsuit dismissed

    06/25/2008 12:04:18 PM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 48 replies · 402+ views
    ABC-TV Los Angeles ^ | June 25, 2008 | Staff
    LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the LAPD's controversial Special Order 40, which directs officers not to ask arrestees about their immigration status. The city of Los Angeles and the ACLU had asked the judge to dismiss the suit.
  • Minutemen, others march in L.A. to protest illegal immigration

    06/22/2008 7:25:43 AM PDT · by Ladycalif · 19 replies · 123+ views
    LA Times ^ | June 22,2008 | Anna Gorman
    About 50 protesters marched in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday to decry violence by illegal immigrants and to demand that the Los Angeles Police Department change its controversial policy limiting when someone can be questioned about their immigration status. The marchers, including anti-illegal-immigration Minutemen and local community activists, also called for justice for Jamiel Shaw II, 17, a black athlete who was shot and killed in March by an alleged gang member who was in the country illegally.
  • LAPD Officer Charged With Felony Possession of Child Porn- Ralph Cameron Lakin-Strawberry Festival

    05/22/2008 12:19:33 PM PDT · by mustfight · 8 replies · 823+ views
    Orange County DA ^ | May 17, 2008 | OC District Attorney
    FORMER LAPD VETERAN CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND CHILD ANNOYANCE AFTER TAKING SEXUAL PICTURES OF YOUNG GIRLS AT 2007 STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL GARDEN GROVE – A former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) veteran was arrested and charged today with felony possession of child pornography and multiple counts of child annoyance following an extensive joint investigation by the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) and Garden Grove Police Department (GGPD). Ralph Cameron Lakin, 53, La Palma, was charged with one count of felony possession of child pornography involving Jane Doe #10, eight counts of misdemeanor child annoyance involving Jane Does #1...
  • Jamiel Shaw Event - Report and Pictures

    05/10/2008 7:49:44 PM PDT · by Ladycalif · 7 replies · 180+ views
    5/10/2008
    Local Media was there, KTLA and FOX, so watch the news. Lots more pictures: http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm86/wendylajamielshaw/?albumview=slideshow This was very emotional event. The marker marking the spot where Jamiel Shaw was shot down is just three doors down from their family home. Attending was Terry Anderson, Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND, Sheriff Lee Baca and City Councilman Zine. Sheriff Lee Baca spoke briefly of the need for "intervention programs" to prevent young people such as Pedro Escobar from joining gangs. This was generally met with groans and eye rolls. City Councilman Zine spoke of his initiative to amend Special Order 40. He...
  • Locke High School in South Los Angeles locked down after huge brawl

    05/10/2008 4:46:19 AM PDT · by Haddit · 42 replies · 615+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | May 10, 2008 | Howard Blume and Mitchell Landsberg
    A fight between rival groups of black and Latino students at Locke High School quickly escalated into a campus-wide melee Friday, with as many as 600 students brawling until police restored calm with billy clubs. The troubled campus in South Los Angeles was locked down after the fight broke out at 12:55 p.m., as students returned from lunch to their fifth-period classes. Overwhelmed school officials called Los Angeles police for help, but students and faculty said it took about half an hour before dozens of officers, many in riot gear, restored order. "The kids were crazy, running from place to...
  • 11 Years of Police Gunfire, in Painstaking Detail (Mostly NYPD with a little LAPD for comparison)

    05/08/2008 6:30:26 PM PDT · by neverdem · 15 replies · 125+ views
    NY Times ^ | May 8, 2008 | AL BAKER
    New York City police officers fire their weapons far less often than they did a decade ago, a statistic that has dropped along with the crime rate. But when they do fire, even at an armed suspect, there is often no one returning fire at the officers. Officers hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time. When they fire at dogs, roughly 55 percent of shots hit home. Most of their targets are pit bulls, with a smattering of Rottweilers and German shepherds. Officers’ guns go off unintentionally or by accident for a variety of reasons: wrestling with suspects,...
  • Los Angeles Police Hire Dietitian to Combat Pudgy Cops

    05/06/2008 1:57:20 PM PDT · by Resolute Conservative · 25 replies · 69+ views
    Foxnews ^ | 5/6/08 | AP
    LOS ANGELES — Rana Parker tells pudgy police they have the right to remain chubby, but it can and will be used against them on the streets of Los Angeles. The dietitian lays down the law for recruits, veterans and top brass, letting them know that eating right can help them do a better job and could even save their lives.
  • Revamped LA police tactics to be tested at immigrant rally

    05/01/2008 9:30:20 AM PDT · by SmithL · 14 replies · 477+ views
    LOS ANGELES—When May Day protesters take to the streets downtown to call for immigration reform, police will be using new tactics and technology in hopes of overcoming the memory of last year's event. LAPD officers pummeled demonstrators and reporters with batons and opened fire with rubber bullets last May Day, rekindling accusations of excessive force that have dogged the LAPD for decades. Police brass have spent the past year trying to undo the damage done during those few minutes at MacArthur Park. Chief William Bratton promised things would be different Thursday and made a point of meeting with organizers beforehand....
  • 320 complaints of racial profiling and not one had merit, LAPD says

    04/30/2008 11:38:15 AM PDT · by radar101 · 9 replies · 94+ views
    The report to the city Police Commission is greeted with skepticism. 'This is not a racist department,' Chief Bratton says in defending the report. Los Angeles Police Department officials announced Tuesday that they investigated more than 300 complaints of racial profiling against officers last year and found that none had merit -- a conclusion that left members of the department's oversight commission incredulous. It is at least the sixth consecutive year that all allegations of racial profiling against LAPD officers have been dismissed, according to department documents reviewed by The Times. In 2007, the LAPD's Internal Affairs Group closed 320...
  • Ask and deport, family urges

    04/09/2008 4:04:13 PM PDT · by Delacon · 5 replies · 91+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | April 9, 2008 | Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton
    Their son's alleged killer, in the U.S. illegally, had been let out of jail onto streets.   The attack on the Los Angeles Police Department's Special Order 40 -- which limits when officers can ask about the citizenship status of suspects -- has come largely but not exclusively from anti-illegal-immigration forces. But now the order has a new and potentially potent foe: the family of Jamiel Shaw Jr., the Los Angeles High football star who was killed last month. Police have charged a gang member who was in the country illegally with Shaw's slaying. Jamiel Shaw Sr. and his wife,...
  • Female officer accepted into L.A.'s SWAT training

    03/30/2008 5:48:07 PM PDT · by radar101 · 55 replies · 1,224+ views
    L A Daily News ^ | 29 March 2008 | not identified
    Article Last Updated: 03/29/2008 11:38:27 AM PDT A female police officer has been accepted into the Police Department's SWAT training program that could make her the first woman to join the elite group. Jennifer Grasso, 36, is one of 13 officers selected for spots in the department's 12-week training school, which is scheduled to begin on Monday, according to an internal department e-mail quoted in a published report. A confidential report made public earlier this month said a panel of law enforcement experts sought changes in SWAT testing to make the process more open to women. Police Chief William Bratton...
  • Alleged Gang Member Arrested in Football Star's Death(Illegal kills American)

    03/24/2008 5:20:17 PM PDT · by kellynla · 18 replies · 796+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | March 12, 2008 | Richard Winton
    A young convict and alleged gang member had been released from jail a little more than a day before he shot and killed Los Angeles High School football star Jamiel Shaw Jr., LAPD Chief William J. Bratton said Tuesday. On the same day mourners attended the 17-year-old's funeral in the Crenshaw district, authorities announced that the alleged gunman, Pedro Espinoza, 19, had been formally charged with Shaw's death. Espinoza, according to officials, is a member of the 18th Street gang and had spent nearly four months in a Los Angeles County jail for exhibiting a firearm and resisting arrest before...
  • Son of SLA victim angered by Sara Jane Olson's release

    03/22/2008 11:06:24 AM PDT · by Iron Munro · 35 replies · 1,118+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | March 22, 2008 | Bill Lindelof
    The release of former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson from prison has angered Jon Opsahl, whose mother was gunned down in a Carmichael bank by the SLA. Myrna Opsahl was shot to death in the lobby of a Carmichael bank during an April 21, 1975, SLA bank robbery. After serving six years in prison for his mother's death and for trying to bomb police cars, Olson is now free. She was released Monday from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. "She's out of prison too soon by far," Jon Opsahl said Friday. "It's another in a series...
  • Sara Jane Olson [Kathleen Soliah] will return to St. Paul

    03/22/2008 5:24:48 AM PDT · by rhema · 13 replies · 785+ views
    Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | March 21, 2008 | RANDY FURST
    Nearly nine years after she was arrested and six years after she went to prison, Sara Jane Olson will once again call St. Paul home. Olson, who pleaded guilty to a failed plot to kill Los Angeles police officers and to her role in a deadly bank robbery, was released from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on Monday and is expected to arrive in the Twin Cities by today. A young man who answered the phone at the family home in St. Paul early Friday evening said the family would have no comment. Olson is scheduled to report...
  • Lancaster [CA] deputy polices up Iraq

    03/18/2008 12:48:43 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 4 replies · 385+ views
    Valley Press ^ | Tuesday, March 18, 2008. | VERONICA ROCHA
    Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Walth wanted an adventure and something different, so he joined a group of International Police Advisors in Iraq to train Iraqi police officers on community policing. Training Iraqi police officers in a war zone is a job unlike any other mission he has taken and has significant differences from training deputies at the Lancaster Sheriff's Station. "As much training as we received before going over there, it's still an eye-opener when (an explosive attack) happens right in front of you," Walth said. Walth believes the challenges he encountered in Iraq will be useful to...