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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
LA Police Protective League
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Los Angeles
Police Protective League
the union that represents the
rank and file LAPD officers
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from
LA Police Protective League
November 30, 2010 |
Jurors find in favor of LAPD officer in Woodland Hills man's fatal shooting
A jury Monday found in favor of a Los Angeles police officer in a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged that he and other officers used excessive force in the shooting death of her husband in the Crenshaw area. The Los Angeles Superior Court panel deliberated about two hours before finding in favor of Officer Jose Campos, who was sued in July 2008 by Laura Michelle Cox of Woodland Hills. The 9-3 verdict came after two alternates replaced a pair of jurors on the panel, including a young woman who was excused just this morning.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Armed robbers strike Port of Los Angeles
Detectives on Monday were investigating an armed robbery of shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles. The suspects took control of one or more trucks loaded with shipping containers around 10:30 p.m. Sunday near Farragut Avenue and Anaheim Street, said a spokesman for the LAPD's Harbor Division. Two security guards were at the container yard when the heist occurred, police said. No details were available on how many trucks were taken or what was in the containers.
Los Angeles Times |
Gang related? Maybe ZIP code matters
Councilman Tony Cardenas, despite misgivings by those in Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's office, has taken the lead in the City Council on developing anti-gang programs. But he also has pushed through programs allowing reformed gang members to get off gang injunctions and is now questioning how authorities classify some crimes as gang-related. "It seems like if a crime happens in a certain ZIP code, it is more likely to be classified as a gang crime," Cardenas said last week after a Public Safety Committee meeting. "If there is a dispute in Pacoima or Sylmar, they might call it gang-related. If the same things happens elsewhere in the city, it's just a dispute.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Chicago officer slain while investigating car break-in
The line of squad cars, blue lights twinkling in the late afternoon, snaked through downtown, signaling tragic news for Chicago - for the fifth time in six months and the second time this week, a Chicago police officer had been shot and killed. Stunned shoppers on Black Friday stared as a line of squad cars began to escort the body of Officer Michael Flisk from Northwestern Memorial Hospital on the Near North Side to the Cook County medical examiner's office on the Near West Side. Flisk, 46, an evidence technician who was two months from celebrating 20 years on the job, had been shot in the head about four hours earlier in a South Side alley where he was investigating a burglary. A 44-year-old man who had called police after his car was broken into was also shot and killed.
Chicago Tribune |
FBI says Oregon suspect planned 'grand' attack
The bomb, which was in a van parked off Pioneer Courthouse Square, was a fake - planted by F.B.I. agents as part of the elaborate sting - but "the threat was very real," Arthur Balizan, the F.B.I.'s special agent in charge in Oregon, said in a statement released by the Department of Justice. An estimated 10,000 people were at the ceremony on Friday night, the Portland police said. Mr. Balizan identified the suspect as Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a naturalized United States citizen. He graduated from Westview High School in Beaverton, Ore., a Portland suburb, and had been taking classes at Oregon State in Corvallis until Oct. 6, the university said Saturday.
New York Times |
California to ship more prisoners out of state
California, under pressure to reduce the number of inmates in its crowded prisons, has steadily increased the number of convicts it sends to private institutions outside the state since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger began the program in 2006. The latest deal will ship another 5,800 inmates to private prisons across state lines, bringing the total to more than 15,000. The transfers will begin in May under a contract that runs through June 2013 - nearly halfway through the term of Gov.-elect Jerry Brown.
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a bad time for job seekers with criminal records
Eddie Lemon has an associate's degree from Taft College near Bakersfield. He's certified to work as a sheet metal operator and to drive a forklift. He has experience as a dishwasher and a cabinetmaker. He also has a criminal record. The 47-year-old Lemon believes that has made it all but impossible for him to find a job in one of the worst economies in decades. And as prisons are forced to reduce their inmate populations because of overcrowding and budget shortages, some economists fear that could lead many of them back to a life of crime.
Los Angeles Times |
Brown's job gets tougher before he even takes office
Some honeymoon: No sooner had Jerry Brown been elected governor than the state's budget deficit doubled and turbulence in the financial markets drove up costs for billions of dollars in planned state borrowing. The events had nothing to do with Brown. But they were a reminder that a leadership change in Sacramento will not necessarily restore confidence that California is on the mend. Brown's election has not been greeted in the business world with the applause that came with the recall election that swept a Hollywood action hero into office seven years ago.
Los Angeles Times |
White House continues appeal for DREAM Act
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday that Congress can't afford to wait to pass the DREAM Act, even as immigration allies acknowledge there's little hope of getting the bill done in the lame-duck session. In his second conference call with reporters in 12 days, Duncan reiterated that the legislation is not an issue of politics or ideology but rather fairness and economic necessity. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for tens of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants who attend college or serve in the military for at least two years. Critics still dismiss the proposal as "amnesty" for illegal immigrants.
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About the LAPPL Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents the more than 9,900 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPPL serves to advance the interests of LAPD officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. The LAPPL can be found on the Web at:
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