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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 11, 2011 |
Los Angeles gang police quit over financial rules -- Dozens of anti-gang police officers across the city are quitting their assignments over a requirement to reveal personal financial information under strict anti-corruption rules, The Associated Press has learned. Gang units in some of the city's most violent neighborhoods are being left with multiple vacancies, with officers choosing instead to work regular patrol shifts, Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger said Monday.
Associated Press
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Cops tackle social media at SMILE conference
It's now become nearly impossible for law enforcement agencies to remain uninvolved in social media. Enter the Social Media, the Internet, and Law Enforcement (SMILE) conference. Its goal is to give attendees the knowledge and tools to use Facebook, Twitter, and other social media with confidence. The conference in Santa Monica this week covers a wide range of topics that pertain to law enforcement's interest in social media: posting policies, cyber bullying, conducting background checks, issuing alerts, and meeting public expectations.
Police Magazine
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Anonymous tipster who provided video of attacks on severely disabled women meets with detectives
The anonymous tipster who unleashed an investigation into the sexual abuse of at least 10 severely disabled women by handing over more than 100 hours of video of the attacks met with Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives over the weekend, sheriff's officials said Monday. The informant, who was not identified by detectives because he feared for his safety, told sheriff's detectives that he was given a desktop computer by a drug addict and "asked to clean the hard drive," sheriff's detectives said in a statement.
Los Angeles Times |
Godown moves up
Before Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom left for the job in Sacramento, he initiated a game of musical chairs at San Francisco City Hall. He appointed Police Chief George Gascon as interim district attorney. Gascon replaces Kamala Harris who is now the state attorney general and that move created an opening for interim police chief. The new interim police chief is Jeff Godown, an assistant chief and veteran from the Los Angeles Police Department. He's known as a bright, no nonsense, tough-on-crime cop who was hired by Chief Gascon in 2009. He's had a meteoric rise to the command staff and now, he's the top cop -- a surprise also to him.
ABC7 San Francisco |
Villaraigosa says he will lay off more city workers if parking garage deal is abandoned
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter Monday urging the City Council to move ahead with his plan to get budget revenue by leasing nine parking garages to a private company, saying he will lay off more employees if the deal is abandoned. Villaraigosa's letter was issued two days before the council heads behind closed doors to discuss the parking proposal, which would give a private company the opportunity to run the garages for up to 50 years.
Los Angeles Times |
L.A. council panel deadlocks on how to address mounting deficit
The Los Angeles City Council's budget panel deadlocked Monday on how to address the city's mounting deficit, with two council members calling for layoffs of city workers as an alternative to more furloughs. Split on how to proceed, the Budget and Finance Committee asked City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana for more suggestions for addressing the financial crisis. Councilmen Greig Smith and Bernard C. Parks called furloughs a temporary solution and said the city should permanently reduce the workforce.
Los Angeles Times |
Jerry Brown calls for major shifts of state prisoners to county jails
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday called for a major shift of state prisoners to the county jail system, a plan aimed at saving the state money, reducing overcrowded prisons and attempting to better handle juveniles and low-level offenders who cycle through the justice system at great cost to the public. Brown's plan would eliminate altogether the state's juvenile prison system, sending offenders to their home counties and reducing costs that have reached more than $200,000 annually per youth inmate.
San Jose Mercury News
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State can keep lethal drug supplier secret
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation doesn't have to release the names of its lethal injection drug suppliers, a state judge ruled on Monday. But prison officials might have to produce their communications with former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his aides about California's international search for sodium thiopental. That search ran from August to October - with calls to hospitals, other states and, at one point, someone in Pakistan - before the corrections department received 12 grams of the anesthetic from Arizona.
California Watch
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State pension funds: what went wrong
Two CalSTRS programs that expired at the beginning of the new year are an example of what all three state public pension systems did in good times - pumped up pensions for retirees, while cutting payments into the pension funds. The conventional wisdom was that employers and employees could put less money into pension funds, and get much larger pensions in the future, because investment earnings would cover most of the cost.
Calpensions
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| Los Angeles Regional Crime Stoppers finished its first full year in operation in 2010 netting thousands of anonymous tips that led to 280 arrests. The nonprofit initiative also helped authorities recover $1.2 million in drugs and property, organizers said. For more information and to submit a Web Tip, visit lacrimestoppers.com |
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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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