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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 28, 2011 |
LAPD all-hands-on-deck 'Tactical Alert' called as a result of low staffing, budget cuts
When the Los Angeles Police Department goes on tactical alert, it's not unusual, but it's an event. This is the nation's second largest city, and the LAPD is the proverbial thin-blue line. Reporters who are used to listening to LAPD frequencies alert whenever there's a "tac alert." It means all-hands have to be on-deck -- nobody's going home early -- because something serious is going down. It also means that lower priority calls -- say, for example, a business dispute -- are not responded to at all.
LA Weekly |
Local law enforcement backs proposed ban on 'cop killer' bullets
A bill to make it harder to buy handgun ammunition, including "cop-killer" bullets capable of piercing body armor, was endorsed Thursday by local law enforcement. Sen. Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, said Senate Bill 124, which he introduced this week in the state Legislature, is designed to counteract a judge's decision Monday that struck down another pending state law that would have restricted sales of handgun ammunition.
Los Angeles Daily News |
L.A. school officer faked shooting story, LAPD says
A Los Angeles school police officer who said he was shot by an attacker last week, prompting a manhunt that shut down a large swath of Woodland Hills, has been arrested on suspicion of concocting the story, authorities said Thursday night. The startling revelation came at a hastily called news conference by Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, who said detectives became suspicious about the officer's story as they investigated the case. A terse Beck said Los Angeles School Police Department Officer Jeff Stenroos had been booked on a felony charge of filing a false police report. He declined to elaborate further on the case, which the head of the Los Angeles Police Protective League called an "embarrassment to law enforcement."
Los Angeles Times LAPPL Media Statement
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LAPD Chief releases PSA over concern about immigration rhetoric
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck sought Thursday to assure residents that his officers will not arrest them because of their immigration status. As part of his effort, Beck released a series of public service announcements. "It is this department's policy that all persons, regardless of immigration status have the right to protection under the Constitution of the United States," Beck says in the TV announcement. Beck said the announcements are a response to increasingly angry rhetoric about undocumented immigration.
KPCC
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Grim Sleeper didn't 'sleep,' LAPD says
Los Angeles police say they have linked two more slayings to alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr., persuading detectives that he never stopped killing during the supposed dormant period that led to his nickname of the Grim Sleeper. The Grim Sleeper allegedly killed seven women between 1985 and 1988 and three between 2002 and 2007. Police have been openly skeptical that the slayings stopped during the 13-year gap. On Thursday, they announced the strongest evidence yet that the killings had not ceased: two homicides during the interim involving women slain in the South L.A. area where the other killings occurred.
Los Angeles Times |
The 1998 Rampart scandal continues to reverberate in the LAPD
I credit the authors of the consent decree with good intentions in their desire to avert corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department. But as is most often the case when the federal government inserts itself where it has no business, the best of intentions can yield disastrous results. The outcome here is as predictable as the tides: More people in Los Angeles will be murdered this year than last. And what a shame that will be.
Jack Dunphy/Pajamas Media |
Officials: US better at finding cyber attackers
U.S. military and law enforcement officials say the government has made significant strides in figuring out who is responsible for complex cyber attacks, a fundamental but elusive first step to determine whether the U.S. should strike back, whom to strike, and how hard. U.S. authorities are using a mix of high-tech forensics and a greater emphasis on spying within the online world, although officials won't reveal exactly how they are ferreting out cyber criminals in the vast, often anonymous Internet universe.
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State moving more money out of inmate rehab programs
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation quietly transferred millions of dollars out of beleaguered rehabilitation programs last year to cover shortfalls in other areas like prison security. In all, the department moved around $70 million from the adult programming budget, in addition to $250 million that was previously cut from education, drug rehabilitation and other programs, according to a report released by the Legislative Analyst's Office.
California Watch
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Financial crisis panel finds many at fault
A federal commission created to investigate the financial crisis is pointing the finger at nearly everyone, from overextended homeowners to reckless executives and timid regulators. "The crisis was the result of human action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone haywire," the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission said in its majority report to Congress. "To paraphrase Shakespeare, the fault lies not in the stars, but in us." Despite assigning widespread blame, the Democratic majority's 525-page account also asserts that the near-meltdown didn't have to happen.
Los Angeles Times
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Bill would ban pardons in final days of governor's term
A Southern California lawmaker proposed legislation this week to prohibit any California governor from pardoning an offender or commuting a prison sentence in the final 30 days of the officeholder's term. The measure comes three weeks after outgoing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used executive power on his final day in office to reduce the sentence of Esteban Núñez, son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, from 16 to seven years in prison.
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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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