Law Enforcement

Crime alerts for Cypress Park, Cheviot Hills and 12 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 14 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Nine 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.
Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles SWAT Team turns 40
Decades of protecting and serving on the front lines of danger. Friday night the LAPD's elite SWAT Team celebrated a milestone anniversary - 40 years since it became an official unit. Swat members old and new gathered to celebrate the platoon's history.
KCAL9

Police investigate two shootings, one fatal, in South Los Angeles
Police were investigating two unrelated shootings in South Los Angeles on Saturday, one of them fatal. The first occurred shortly before 5 a.m. at 106th Street and Wadsworth Avenue. A 35-year-old man driving near the intersection was shot and his car then crashed against the curb, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Gregory Baek said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Los Angeles Times

'Year of the checkpoint' delivered thousands of impounds
California traffic safety officials declared 2010 the "year of the checkpoint," and they delivered on that pledge. And while the checkpoints are ostensibly intended to snare drunken drivers, officers impounded six cars for every one DUI arrest made, according to data from the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center at UC Berkeley. The center operates a grant program funding the checkpoints for the California Office of Traffic Safety.
California Watch

Suspect in police killing turns himself in after hostage standoff
A suspect accused of killing a Georgia police officer and wounding another one surrendered to authorities after a hostage standoff Friday night. The incident was shown live on television as officers arrested suspect Jamie Donnell Hood in Athens, Georgia. Hood, who was shirtless, emerged from the home a little after 11 p.m. with people whom authorities said he had held hostage. SWAT officers descended on Hood, ending the saga that had lasted four days.
CNN

Parole

Collective Bargaining

Thousands attend downtown L.A. labor rally
Alarmed by recent union losses in a Wisconsin labor battle, thousands of organized workers marched through downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, vowing to fight a similar fate here in cash-strapped California. Police estimated between 5,000 and 8,000 people attended the protest, which ended in a packed rally at Pershing Square. The event comes in response to the Wisconsin Legislature's approval of a bill this month that curtails the collective bargaining rights of many unions and follows a weeks-long battle.
Los Angeles Times

Mayor's deal with big union could spur agreements with other city workers
A day after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a "watershed" labor agreement with city workers, he was quick to send a pointed message to other municipal unions. "We will be asking all employees and departments to consider how they too can offer reasonable, responsible changes at this time of historic deficits," the mayor said Friday.
Los Angeles Times

Politics

Beutner may parlay job-boosting stint into 2013 Los Angeles mayoral run
Austin Beutner, point man for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's efforts to create jobs, will decide soon whether to run for the top job and take on the city's fiscal challenges. The 50-year-old co-founder of New York-based investment bank Evercore Partners Inc. has worked 15 months as first deputy mayor at a $1-a-year salary. He is charged with boosting private-sector hiring in a city with 12.2 percent unemployment, more than three points above the national average.
Bloomberg