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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
December 6, 2010 |
LAPD stamps 'Closed' on nearly 100 cold cases
When the LAPD cold case unit was created in 2001, the detectives were handed over 9,000 unsolved murders that spanned over two decades. Detectives first focused on cases that had genetic material samples, "whether they be blood, or semen or hair or anything that had been collected that with the advent of DNA testing and DNA technology might be able to be solved," he says. Of the 9,000 unsolved murders the unit inherited, detectives estimate they have reopened about 1,600 and have been able to close or clear more than 100 murders.
National Public Radio |
LAPD: Time for overtime?
Stop hiring new officers and give the current ones overtime pay. That's the position of the Los Angeles Police Protective League. President Paul Weber joins Fred Roggin to discuss whether overtime pay in lieu of new officers fulfills the department's duty to protect and to serve.
NBC4 Video
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LAPD civilian workers may face layoffs
Facing an $87.84 million deficit over the remainder of the fiscal year, the city's top budget analyst today recommended eliminating 225 civilian positions in the Los Angeles Police Department and moving firefighters out of Haz-Mat squads. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana told City News Service that not all the position eliminations will lead to layoffs, as some of the positions may be vacant. The cuts are part of the "2010-2011 Operational Plan" prepared by his office to put the city back in the black.
City News Service |
Oakland Police Department shrinking fast
Sound the alarm - Oakland's Police Department is shrinking so fast that it doesn't have enough officers to cover some patrols and many of its investigative units have been stripped to the bone. Everyone knows about the 80 officers the city laid off in July to save money. But since then, 21 more have retired, 12 have decamped for other police departments, five have simply quit and one has been fired - dropping the total number of officers to 670. Meanwhile, 30 more officers are undergoing background checks by other departments seeking to hire them. And another 40 will be eligible to retire by year's end. Even that doesn't tell the whole story.
San Francisco Chronicle |
Councilman Tony Cardenas seeks new anti-crime strategy
Prompted by constituent complaints, City Councilman Tony Cardenas has demanded that Los Angeles police craft a new plan to quash pockets of crime in his northeast San Fernando Valley district. Cardenas' order, however, has mystified LAPD brass. It turns out that crime throughout Cardenas' district - which includes Van Nuys and Sun Valley - and across the Valley has dropped consistently in recent years. The crime rate in Van Nuys, for example, has been slashed in half in just the last five years.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Drug shortage stirs death penalty debate U.S. and beyond
A shortage of one of the three drugs used in lethal injection executions has set off legal battles nationwide as states search for ways to put condemned inmates to death. In the past week, courts in California, Arizona and Oklahoma have weighed in on the dispute, as has the government of Great Britain, where some states have sought supplies of the scarce drug - sodium thiopental. California corrections officials have been ordered by a San Francisco Superior Court judge to release records by Tuesday that might show where they obtained a recently purchased supply of the drug.
Sacramento Bee |
High court's prison case: It's about money
The U.S. Supreme Court's pending decision on how California must address its colossally overcrowded prisons is about the unconstitutional state of inmate health care. But it's also about money. Specifically, the hundreds of millions of dollars the state spends each year to house prisoners it does not technically have space to incarcerate. The federal courts ordered California to release some 40,000 inmates to improve medical services; the state is challenging that order, which has put the issue before the top court.
California Watch
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Pension-squeezed cities may turn to San Diego's 'radical idea'
Cities from New York to San Jose, Calif., facing almost $400 billion in unfunded pension liabilities, will be watching what San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders calls his "radical idea" to cut costs. After voters on Nov. 2 rejected a half-cent sales tax increase to balance the budget, Mr. Sanders is pushing to eliminate pension plans for new city employees, offering 401(k)-like savings accounts instead.
Pensions & Investments
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DWP quietly scales back Villaraigosa's ambitious renewable energy goal
As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa prepares to pick the next general manager of the Department of Water and Power - his sixth in three and a half years - the massive utility is quietly backing away from his ambitious goal of generating 40% of its power from renewable sources by 2020. That shift, initiated under the leadership of First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner, is only the latest at an agency marked by upheaval as it pursues the mayor's lofty environmental agenda. Since Villaraigosa took office in 2005, the nation's largest municipally owned utility has been in a state of churn. Multimillion-dollar initiatives have been announced, then abandoned. Executives have been installed, then jettisoned.
Los Angeles Times
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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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