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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 16, 2010 |
The thin blue line vs. deepening red ink in L.A.
Call it the case of the disappearing police officers. While the number of Los Angeles Police Department officers has grown over these past few years, the city's residents are today seeing fewer of them on the streets. And in the new year they'll see even fewer. It's the kind of mystery that will make you want to call the cops. Los Angeles has long been known as one of the most under-policed cities in the country. According to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report for 2009, the LAPD had 2.59 officers per 1,000 in population last year.
Jack Dunphy/Pajamas Media |
L.A.'s red light cameras will be a money-losing safety tool as long as county courts remain slack on collections
The real problem with this program, as currently implemented, is that it is operating at a loss. The Controller's audit determined that over the last two years, the Photo Red Light Program has not generated sufficient revenue to cover its operation and maintenance expenses, and in fact, has cost the City $2.5 million. Why is this program losing millions? Too many drivers are simply disregarding the citations because doing so carries no consequence.
LAPPL Blog
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In civilian vs. officer, the answer is clear
In a big city already short on cops on the street, sworn officers are stuck doing paperwork, answering phones and handling other administrative duties that could be done more cheaply by civilian workers. "We do not need hundreds of police officers, at a cost of $30,000 a year more than a properly trained civilian, performing administrative functions that do not require carrying a firearm." Those words could be ripped from one of the many recent news stories on the debate over whether to continue hiring LAPD officers or stop police hiring and fill vacant civilian public safety jobs. But the quote is nearly three years old. It comes from then-Controller Laura Chick, whose audit found some 500 jobs in the LAPD could be performed by civilians, which would save $16 million a year and free up sworn officers for actual policing and investigative work.
Kerry Cavanaugh/Los Angeles Daily News
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LAPD to release images of 160 women taken by alleged 'Grim Sleeper'
In July, when Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin Jr., the suspected "Grim Sleeper" serial killer, they scoured his South L.A. property for incriminating evidence. Among the more troubling discoveries were nearly 1,000 still photographs and hundreds of hours of home video showing women, almost all of them partly or completely nude and striking sexually graphic poses. Detectives on the case have spent the ensuing months trying to identify the women to determine whether they are alive and to learn how they came to be photographed by a man charged with sexually assaulting and killing 10 women. The attempt has proved fruitless. So today the LAPD plans to publish images of the roughly 160 women in the hope that they, family or acquaintances will recognize them and contact investigators.
Los Angeles Times |
Border agent killed in gun battle in Arizona
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was shot dead by suspected smugglers in a gun battle close to the Mexico border in southern Arizona and four suspects have been arrested, authorities said on Wednesday. Agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was shot dead after he confronted several suspects while on duty with a special tactical team in a mountainous area a few miles northwest of the border city of Nogales late on Tuesday night, local and federal police said.
Reuters |
3 band members charged in massive freeway traffic jam
Three members of an Orange County band, who caused a miles-long traffic backup when they stopped a truck on the Hollywood (101) Freeway and began performing on top of the vehicle, pleaded not guilty today to criminal charges. Christopher Roy Wright, 32, David Paul Hale, 30, and Keith R. Yackey, 32, are charged with one felony count of conspiracy, two misdemeanor counts of resisting, obstructing or delaying Los Angeles police and California Highway Patrol officers, and one misdemeanor count each of creating a public nuisance and false imprisonment.
Los Angeles Daily News |
LAPD captain and son team up for final patrol
Capt. Steve Zipperman spent his final shift with the Los Angeles Police Department on patrol with his son in the San Fernando Valley Wednesday before becoming chief of the Los Angeles School Police Department. The elder Zipperman was the commanding officer of the LAPD's Southwest Area Community Police Station. His son, Officer Chad Zipperman, is assigned to the Mission Division in the east San Fernando Valley. The Zippermans reported to the Mission Division's 2 p.m. roll call, and began a shift around midnight.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Gas station near middle school sells crack pipes
An investigation and home video recording by the watchdog web site reelurbannews.com reveals that a Watts gas station near a middle school is selling drug paraphernalia. The web site's investigation reveals that the ARCO gas station at the intersection of Main Street and Imperial Highway in Watts, directly behind Samuel Gompers Middle School, not only sells gasoline to their predominantly African American and Hispanic customers, but crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia as well.
KTLA |
Trade secrets: inmate health-care contracts kept confidential
Hundreds of millions of dollars are involved in a new state contract for prison health care, but there's no telling now exactly much money California is spending under the agreement, which takes effect in just weeks. Even lawmakers are kept in the dark. The contract and its fiscal details are secret because of an exemption related to health care information within the state Public Records Act, said Liz Kanter, a spokesperson for the California Prison Health Care Services, the government body that awarded the contract to Health Net Federal Services, an outside HMO and subsidiary of Health Net.
Capitol Weekly
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CalPERS state rate hike cut by $200 million
The state payment to CalPERS for this fiscal year was cut by $200 million yesterday, reflecting a savings for the deficit-ridden state from agreements by state workers to pay more toward their pensions. The CalPERS board approved the lower rate after unions representing two-thirds of the state workforce agreed to new contracts boosting worker contributions from 2 to 5 percent of pay, allowing a similar reduction in the state payment.
Calpensions
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Kamala Harris' star-studded transition team
Atty. Gen.-elect Kamala Harris announced the members of an all-star transition team Wednesday, recruiting former presidential appointees and top police and legal professionals to advise her on a variety of issues as she takes the reins as California's top law enforcement official. The five co-chairs of Harris' "Smart on Crime Committee" are: William J. Bratton, former Los Angeles police chief; Warren Christopher, secretary of state under President Clinton; Connie Rice, co-director of the Advancement Project in Los Angeles; George Shultz, secretary of state under President Reagan; and Kathleen Sullivan, former dean of Stanford Law School.
Los Angeles Times
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