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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
February 1, 2011 |
L.A. inmates to be transferred to new jail
The long-delayed transfer of inmates from the dilapidated Parker Center jail to the new Metropolitan Detention Center begins at midnight tonight amid continuing concern about the use of LAPD officers as guards. Assistant Police Chief Michel Moore told city officials on Monday that 88 sworn officers - 83 jailers and five supervisors - have been trained to supplement the 331 civilian officers needed to staff the $84 million detention center.
Los Angeles Daily News
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Crime alerts for Porter Ranch, Valley Glen and 13 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 15 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Eight neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Porter Ranch was the most unusual, recording three reports compared with a weekly average of 0.3 over the last three months. Valley Glen topped the list of eight neighborhoods with property crime alerts. It recorded 39 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 25.9 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Former USC football standout arrested after alleged assault on LAPD officer
Los Angeles police used a Taser to subdue former USC football standout Everson Griffen after he allegedly assaulted an officer during a traffic stop near campus, department officials said Monday night. Griffen, now a member of the Minnesota Vikings, was booked on suspicion of felony battery after the incident, which was reported about 4 p.m. Monday at 30th and Hoover streets, said LAPD spokeswoman Karen Rayner.
Los Angeles Times
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Police seek shooting suspects, officer recovering
A Long Beach anti-gang detective shot near a park in the Cambodia Town area continued his recovery, as the search continued for the suspects who shot him, police officials said. The uniformed detective was patrolling in an unmarked car with another detective near MacArthur Park on Anaheim Street at Mahanna Avenue when he was shot once in the upper body around 11 p.m. Saturday, Sgt. Rico Fernandez said. The detective, in his 30s and a seven-year veteran of the police department, was hospitalized with stable vital signs.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Wash. corrections officer killed by inmate
A female correctional officer at the state prison in Monroe was killed by an inmate on Saturday night. The slain officer has been identified as 34-year-old Jayme Lee Biendl, an 8-year veteran of the facility. According to a release from the Washington State Department of Corrections, the staff conducted a routine count of offenders Saturday after 9 p.m. and noticed that one offender was missing. He was found three minutes later in the chapel lobby and told officers he planned to escape.
Officer.com |
Oakland to hire back 10 laid off officers
Oakland will hire back 10 of the 80 officers laid off in July, Mayor Jean Quan announced Monday. In addition to rehiring the officers -- bringing the force to a total of 666 officers -- Quan is moving to repair the department's fleet of aging patrol cars, as well as broken radios and computers that rank-and-file officers have been complaining about in Quan's visits to roll call meetings, she said.
Oakland Tribune
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Young black males far more likely to be murder victims
Black youth and young adults are nearly five times more likely to be killed in California than the average young Californian. The disparity was even wider for black males, who have a homicide rate more than 14 times that of whites and nearly four times that of Hispanics. Those are among the disturbing facts in a new report by the Violence Policy Center which found that guns and firearms were used in 84 percent of the 803 homicides of 10- to 24-year-olds in California in 2009. Ninety percent of the victims were male.
California Watch
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Study says fatal crashes drop in cities with red light cameras
Red light cameras may be controversial, but they save lives, according to a new national study of 62 large U.S. cities, including Sacramento. The study, released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, found that the rate of fatal red light crashes has decreased in large cities across the country since the mid-1990s, regardless of whether they had red light cameras or not.
Sacramento Bee
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Report: Immigration law not enforced consistently
Some local law enforcement agencies, particularly in the Southeast, are turning over illegal immigrants who commit even minor offenses to federal authorities for deportation, while others are focused on deporting more violent criminals, according to a report released Monday. The report by the Migration Policy Institute, a Washington-based nonpartisan think tank, said conflicting messages from the U.S. government and local political pressure may account for the discrepancy.
Associated Press |
Brown urges lawmakers to allow special election
In the first State of the State speech of his new administration, Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday urged lawmakers to let California voters decide the direction of the state as it faces a gaping budget deficit, saying it would be "unconscionable" for them to block his request for a special election. In a somber address to a joint session of the state Legislature, Brown again asked lawmakers to set aside their partisan differences for the good of California, which faces a $25.4 billion deficit through June 2012.
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