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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 20, 2010 |
Release of photos in Grim Sleeper case brings major response
The Los Angeles Police Department was inundated with hundreds of phone calls, e-mails and other tips a day after detectives released photographs of unidentified women found in a trailer belonging to alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. "The information coming in is voluminous," said Det. Dennis Kilcoyne, who headed the task force that searched for Franklin. Officers, he said, have fielded "hundreds upon hundreds" of phone calls, as well as e-mails and text messages that flooded in through various hotlines and online accounts the department uses.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD shooting of 13-year-old with pellet gun is a 'tragedy,' Chief Beck says
The shooting of a 13-year-old Glassell Park boy carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun by a Los Angeles Police Department officer is a "tragedy," Chief Charlie Beck said. "This is a tragedy for all involved, but in particular for the young man injured in this police shooting and for the officer who believed that he was protecting himself and his partner from a real threat," Beck said in a statement. "The pellet gun the juvenile was using is the exact dimensions of a Beretta 92F and is indistinguishable from a real handgun on a dark night."
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD looking for couple who robbed downtown jewelry store at gunpoint
Police are searching for a couple who robbed a Jewelry District store at gunpoint, making off with $8000. Their heist at Diamano Fine Jewelry was caught on video, and detectives hope that may be the ticket to a quick arrest."This is among the best video of a robbery I've ever seen," said Det. Alfredo Rasch, who is assigned to the Central Robbery Table. "The man with the gun seems to be the brawn in the case, while the woman seems to be the brains." The robbery took place at 3pm on Tuesday, December 14.
Blogdowntown |
Funds pledged to fight gangs
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a gift to anti-gang programs statewide Friday as he called for an end to the partisanship that has divided the nation. Schwarzenegger announced his administration was providing $9.2 million to anti-gang efforts throughout California, including $1 million for Los Angeles. With his term winding down, the moderate Republican also used the press conference to talk about the working relationship he developed with Democratic officials such as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster on issues including public safety, transportation, the economy and the environment.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Improving video surveillance to solve crime
When a crime is committed at a business, video surveillance systems on the premises can provide detectives with vital clues and quickly lead to an arrest. But too often the resulting images are of low quality and therefore of limited use to investigators. The Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland has an education program to help business owners improve the quality of their video surveillance by upgrading their systems and paying attention to placement of cameras.
Police One |
Suggestion to cut police department to stay solvent prompts political fight in Bell
The already fractured political landscape in scandal-plagued Bell is expected to worsen in the coming months as the city considers slashing spending to stay solvent. Though many residents know the city's finances were bad, a draft audit by the L.A. County auditor-controller found that the city needed to make deep cuts in its budget, including possibly eliminating the Bell Police Department and contracting with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department.
Los Angeles Times
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More sex-offender alerts sent via e-mail
A growing number of law enforcement agencies and states are using e-mail to alert victims and anyone else who wants to know when sex offenders in their area move into the neighborhood, or change jobs or schools. The Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Sacramento police and sheriff's departments are among the latest agencies to unveil such systems, adding them in October and November respectively.
USA Today |
County unemployment rate jumps, state rate remains steady
Los Angeles County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 12.9 percent in November - its highest rate in modern history - as job growth gained little traction. California's rate as a whole held steady at 12.4 percent in November, with the state showing a net gain of 1,600 nonfarm jobs following a revised gain of 43,200 jobs in October. The county's November unemployment rate was up from 12.6 percent in October and from 12.3 percent a year earlier, according to the state Employment Development Department.
Torrance Daily Breeze |
Council moves for mobile sign crackdown
After years of legal skirmishing, the Los Angeles City Council on Friday took action to start off the new year with a toughened enforcement policy against mobile billboards. "This is a huge win against a major source of blight and traffic safety hazards in our communities," Councilman Dennis Zine said. "These mobile billboard advertising displays take up parking spaces, impede visibility and attract vandalism and graffiti." For years, Zine has been waging a war against the mobile billboards and one company in particular, Reseda-based Lone Star Security and Video, fighting unsuccessfully to get them off the streets.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Dream Act's failure in Senate derails immigration agenda
A last-ditch Democratic effort to establish a path to citizenship for some children of illegal immigrants failed in the Senate on Saturday, likely derailing any attempt at sweeping immigration reform in Congress for the foreseeable future. The bill, known as the Dream Act, had passed the House, and its advocates and Democratic sponsors hoped that they could muster enough Republican votes to bring the legislation to the floor. Instead, it fell victim to a GOP filibuster, one in which a handful of Democrats also blocked the bill. The final tally was 55 to 41.
Los Angeles Times |
Monitoring America
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
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