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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
January 6, 2011 |
Mayor Villaraigosa, Chief Beck trumpet drop in crime, seek funding to hire to attrition in next budget
The City of Los Angeles recorded the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years - 297 murders occurred last year. City and law enforcement officials trumpeted that progress at a City Hall news conference. But they said they couldn't sustain it if budget cuts force the Police Department to lose officers. The year just ended was Charlie Beck's first as Los Angeles' police chief. He said the last time the city tallied so few homicides was 1964.
Southern California Public Radio |
Sex offender at large after cutting off monitoring device
A paroled sex offender from Pacoima cut off his GPS monitoring device and was at large Wednesday, according to officials. John Howard Marble, 49, is considered extremely dangerous and frequented the Van Nuys corridor, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Los Angeles Daily News
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Police release surveillance video in armed food truck robberies
Police are looking for two suspects they say went on a robbery spree in Koreatown, targeting two food trucks and two pedestrians within 20 minutes. The robberies happened on December 29, starting at about 10:30 p.m. The thieves hit a food truck in the 3200 block of West Eight Street, then robbed two pedestrians in the same area. They robbed a second food truck in the 4000 block of the same street. Police have released surveillance video from one of the food truck robberies.
KTLA |
Mongols and Hells Angels invade hiptown
Echo Park and Los Feliz see influx of violent, clashing criminal biker groups. A blood feud between the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club and the Hells Angels has not abated since "Operation Black Rain" in 2008, in which 1,000 local cops, feds and deputized Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms agents arrested 60 members of the Mongol MC in five states.
L.A. Weekly |
L.A. Coliseum Commissioner Rick Caruso likely to ask for ban on raves
Rick Caruso, developer of the Grove mall and a member of the public commission that oversees the L.A. Coliseum and Sports Arena, told the Weekly Wednesday that he'll likely ask his fellow officials to ban raves at the venues in coming months. Caruso has been the biggest critic of raves on the commission, which in November and December voted to allow massive events at the public venues to continue despite more than 300 medical emergencies related to the parties in 2010. One of the commission's major new rules is that everyone attending is 18 and that all IDs are checked with a scanner.
LA Weekly |
L.A. budget chief says police hiring at risk without lease of city parking garages
The top financial advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday that the city would need to stop hiring police officers if the City Council abandons plans to lease nine public parking garages to a private operator. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana issued his warning as he recommended that council members press ahead with plans to find a company to run the garages, including three in Hollywood, for the next 50 years.
Los Angeles Times
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State investigates inmate's Facebook account
California officials are investigating a state prison inmate they suspect used a Facebook account to post messages to his mother and others from behind bars. Fredrick Garner had access to a cell phone, which is forbidden in prison, and appears to have posted messages after prisoners were supposed to be asleep, said Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Terry Thornton. Garner has served nearly 10 years of a 22-year Sacramento County sentence for voluntary manslaughter. He is being held in Corcoran State Prison, the same prison where cult killer Charles Manson was found with a cell phone in 2009.
Associated Press
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Documents reveal California's desperate search for execution drug
Desperately seeking a drug that would allow them to execute a death row inmate last fall, California prison officials scoured the nation for a dose of it, calling dozens of hospitals, local surgery centers, the Department of Veterans Affairs and other states for help, newly released documents show. The documents, released late Tuesday as a result of a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union, reveal new details of how California sought to cajole the governor of Texas to lend the state a supply of sodium thiopental.
Sacramento Bee
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Obama renominates Goodwin Liu to 9th Circuit
President Barack Obama re-nominated Goodwin Liu, associate dean and professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School, to a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, weeks after Senate leaders cut a deal not to seek his confirmation in the final hours of the last Congress. The President nominated Liu in February, and although there was GOP opposition right out of the gate, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing in April and voted 12-7 along party lines in May to send Liu to the full Senate for confirmation.
San Jose Mercury News |
Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals
Another big California health insurer has stunned individual policyholders with huge rate increases - this time it's Blue Shield of California seeking cumulative hikes of as much as 59% for tens of thousands of customers March 1. Blue Shield's action comes less than a year after Anthem Blue Cross tried and failed to raise rates as much as 39% for about 700,000 California customers.
Los Angeles Times
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