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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 18, 2011 |
Not your 1992 LAPD
Today, the LAPD's Olympic Division, located in the heart of a Korean neighborhood, is among the department's most acclaimed. It led the LAPD in overall crime reduction in 2009, and in violent crime reduction the year before that. Violent crime was down another 11% in 2010. Homicides have plunged from 23 in 2009 to four last year. The station is new, clean, professional and inviting. Olympic Division is run by Capt. Matt Blake, a second-generation LAPD officer. He came to the department in 1987, when his father was a 20-year veteran. He's white, male and fit - the very picture of the LAPD in the old days. But Blake is immersed in modern policing, deeply thoughtful about deployment and statistically driven crime strategies. He has known the department's glories and its defects; he's proud of be part of its recovery.
Jim Newton/Los Angeles Times Op-Ed |
LAPD officers shoot man waving handgun on skid row
Los Angeles police shot and injured an armed man who was pointing his gun at bystanders on skid row in downtown L.A., authorities said Monday. Officers were dispatched Sunday night to the 500 block of San Julian Street after a man apparently upset over his laptop being stolen grabbed a gun from a backpack on the sidewalk and began pointing it at people, including a woman in a wheelchair. By the time police arrived, the man had gone up to the fourth floor of an apartment building, where officers found him after surrounding the building.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD seeks leads in slaying of man found on South L.A. street
Police on Monday were seeking information in the slaying of a 34-year-old man fatally shot in South Los Angeles. Edjardo Chavez was found about 3 a.m. Monday lying in front of a home in the 100 block of West 73rd Street, the Los Angeles Police Department said. A resident called police after seeing Chavez on the ground.
Los Angeles Times
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Trying to get under the safety umbrella
It's crisis time again in Los Angeles, and city leaders are considering how to slash tens of millions of dollars from the budget. Both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council agree: Public safety should be the last service cut. But the definition of public safety is getting stretched and tested as almost every city department tries to fit under the public safety umbrella.
Kerry Cavanaugh/Los Angeles Daily News |
Crime alerts for Hollywood Hills, San Pedro and five other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in seven L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Three neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Hollywood Hills was the most unusual, recording four reports compared with a weekly average of 0.8 over the last three months. San Pedro topped the list of four neighborhoods with property-crime alerts. It recorded 61 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 42.4 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
2 West Los Angeles hit-and-runs prompt request for public help
Two recent fatal hit-and-run accidents in West L.A. have prompted police to ask for help finding the drivers. Across the Southland, hit-and-runs occur every week. "Unfortunately, these kind of accidents happen all too often," said LAPD Detective Alasea May-Jackson. "It's rare to have an actual fatal hit-and-run traffic accident." May-Jackson said the first of two happened around 9 the night of December 2, when an older Toyota Corolla killed 60-year-old Razia Shariff near Centinella and Nebraska avenues in West L.A.
Southern California Public Radio |
LAPD still looking for information about North Hollywood taco stand killing
Los Angeles police detectives, with few leads to go on in their search for the killer of a young man gunned down in the parking lot of a North Hollywood taco stand, reminded the public that there is a $50,000 reward in the case. Last Oct. 17, about 12:40 a.m., 18-year-old Vartan Avatyan was standing with a group of friends in the parking lot of the eatery in the 7200 block of Lankershim Boulevard when he was targeted by the shooter. The assailant, described only as a male Hispanic, walked up and fired several rounds at Avatyan, who died at a hospital.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Loners like Tucson gunman 'fly below the radar'
The gunman accused of trying to assassinate Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, Jared Lee Loughner, was not on any government watch list that might have warned someone not to sell him a gun or caused police to investigate his unstable behavior. It turns out there is not a list in the United States for people like Loughner.
Associated Press
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GOP clamors for state pension overhaul
When Jerry Brown met with members of the Assembly Republican caucus last week to sell them on his wide-ranging plans for fixing the state budget, Costa Mesa's Allan Mansoor challenged the governor to add pension reform to the mix. "I asked why it wasn't being addressed right now," Mansoor said. "I don't think I've received a satisfactory answer. It needs to be addressed right now." Indeed, in a budget proposal that includes billions in cuts and tax increases, plans to realign government responsibilities and eliminate local redevelopment agencies, pension reform was noticeably absent.
Orange County Register |
Brown's prison plan has a hitch: County jails are overcrowded, too
Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to transfer state inmates to county jails faces a simple obstacle: Many jails don't have the space to hold them. Just as the state has struggled with prison overcrowding, some counties have had their own problems keeping inmates locked up. Statewide, tens of thousands of inmates are released early from county jails each year because of space constraints.
Sacramento Bee
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