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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
March 25, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Cypress Park, Cheviot Hills 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. Thirteen neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Cypress Park was the most unusual, recording five reports compared with a weekly average of 0.8 over the last three months. Cheviot Hills topped the list of two neighborhoods with property-crime alerts. It recorded 11 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 2.9 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Impounds and illegals
Anyone surprised by this hasn't been paying attention. Los Angeles Police Department officers manning sobriety checkpoints will no longer, as a matter of department policy, impound cars driven by unlicensed drivers. That is unless the unlicensed driver is a United States citizen or lawful resident, in which case he can say adios to his car for 30 days, as authorized by California law.
Jack Dunphy/Pajamas Media
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Jewelry store robber barricaded downtown
One person was shot in a jewelry store robbery in downtown L.A. Thursday night, according to the LAPD. Police say three male suspects, one armed with a gun, entered a jewelry store on the 600 block of S. Broadway. Shots were fired, according to police. A victim was found at the location. The victim's condition was not released. Two suspects were in custody, and the gun was recovered. A third suspect was believed to have been injured. Police at the scene followed a blood trail into the Hayward Manor Apartments nearby.
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Accused serial killer put on accelerated track toward trial
The case against accused serial killer Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was put on an accelerated track toward trial Thursday, when he was arraigned on a grand jury indictment charging him with killing 10 women. Franklin, 58, was arrested in July, and prosecutors filed charges accusing him of killing the 10 women over two decades, beginning in the 1980s.
Los Angeles Times |
Officers exchange gunfire with man in South Los Angeles
Los Angeles police exchanged gunfire with a man Thursday in southeast Los Angeles, the second such shooting in as many days, department officials said. No officers were injured in the 1:30 p.m. incident near 95th Street and Maie Avenue, said LAPD spokesman Richard French. Officers established a perimeter to search for the gunman, who was not identified. French said investigators recovered a gun at the scene that may have been used by the assailant.
Los Angeles Times |
3 people nabbed after allegedly stealing 9 computers from Westchester magnet school
Three people accused of stealing nine computers from the Open Charter Magnet School in Westchester were caught by built-in security software, police said. The computers were stolen between March 9 and 10 at the campus at 5540 W. 77th St., the Los Angeles Police Department reported. "The suspects were unaware that the computers were equipped with security software," police said. "Once (a) computer was turned on and connected to the Internet, it monitored and recorded their location via GPS. It additionally (took) photographs of the user."
Los Angeles Daily News |
City & State Budget Crises
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Pension, healthcare deal reached with L.A.'s largest city union
Los Angeles officials Thursday unveiled what Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa termed a landmark tentative labor agreement that would greatly increase healthcare and pension contributions for thousands of municipal workers and put an end to some furloughs caused by the city's budget crisis. "This is a watershed moment, make no mistake," Villaraigosa, flanked by union leaders and City Council President Eric Garcetti, told a City Hall news conference. "You're talking about a game-changer."
Los Angeles Times |
In major cuts, Gov. Jerry Brown slashes services for poor, sick and elderly
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law billions of dollars in budget cuts Thursday that will mean fewer government services, particularly for the old, the poor and the sick. The governor signed the new laws to tackle $11.2 billion of the state's estimated $26-billion deficit, even as he scrambled to find Republican support for the other half of his budget plan: a ballot measure asking voters' blessing to renew expiring taxes. Time is running out to place such a measure on the June ballot, he said.
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Border battle over illegal immigration shifts to beaches
U.S. and Mexican authorities try to stem a rising tide of illegal immigration by boat. Vessels still land at San Diego-area beaches but are also traveling as far north as Huntington Beach and Newport Beach. Drug smugglers venturing even farther have been caught on Catalina Island and Santa Rosa Island, off the Santa Barbara coast. Last year, 867 illegal immigrants and smugglers were arrested at sea or along the California coast, more than double the number in 2009.
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City Councilman Dennis Zine is stripped to the funny bone for a good cause
For a former cop who has appeared publicly in drag, City Councilman Dennis Zine would seem almost insusceptible to embarrassment. But on Thursday night, the San Fernando Valley councilman saw his life stripped to the funny bone at what has become one of the year's most anticipated Los Angeles political events.More than 900 politicians, businesspeople, lobbyists and police officers packed a ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the 14th annual political roast, which is expected to bring in more than $500,000 for the American Diabetes Association.
Los Angeles Times
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