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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
April 8, 2011 |
After Dodger Stadium attack, Los Angeles police to increase presence at games
After the unprovoked attack last week at Dodger Stadium that left a San Francisco Giants fan with brain damage, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on Thursday announced a plan to significantly increase the number of police officers on patrol during games. "You are going to see a sea of blue. And it's not going to be Dodger blue. It's going to be LAPD blue," Beck said of the beefed-up police presence planned for the team's next home game Thursday.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD union files grievance against department over its curtailment of unlicensed-driver vehicle impounds
That decision by the LAPD last month to cut some drivers a break if they're snagged in a DUI/drivers license checkpoint and happen to be without a license was met with a "class action grievance" by the police union. The Los Angeles Police Protective League ain't happy with the change. Instead of impounding vehicles for 30 days, officers will now give the cars of unlicensed drivers to registered owners or their friends and family if they can get to the scene quickly.
LA Weekly
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$50,000 reward offered for information on woman's body found downtown near recycled trash
A $50,000 reward was announced Thursday for information that could identify a woman's remains and lead detectives to those responsible for her death, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The decomposed female body, dubbed by police as Jane Doe No. 52, was found with recycled trash last September near downtown Los Angeles, authorities said. The L.A. County coroner's office has classified her death as murder but has been unable to determine the cause of death "due to an extreme state of decomposition," according to a statement by police.
Los Angeles Times |
Local police pressured to adopt body armor policies
The Justice Department is threatening to withhold millions of dollars in federal aid to local police departments unless they adopt policies that require uniformed officers to wear body armor. The requirement, which takes effect this month as local agencies apply for as much as $37 million in federal aid to purchase bullet-resistant vests, comes in the wake of a recent surge in fatal shootings of police officers.
USA Today |
City & State Budget Crises
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City may cap retiree health outlay
If city employees don't agree to start paying a percentage of their salaries for health insurance, the city should freeze the amount it pays for retirees' health care at current levels, the city's top financial officer said Thursday. In a memo to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council, City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana recommends that city employees who retire after June 30, including police and firefighters, pay 100 percent of the increase in their health care costs in the future if they don't begin picking up some of the costs now.
Los Angeles Daily News |
State Senate hearing on all-cuts budget solution
Democrats in the state Senate raised the prospect of closing some University of California campuses, shortening the school year and reducing the number of law enforcement officers as they began considering what California would look like if the Legislature took an all-cuts approach to solving the budget deficit. A hearing on the all-cuts option, the first of several in the coming weeks, was held as Gov. Jerry Brown prepared to travel to Southern California today and Saturday on the first leg of a statewide tour intended to pressure Republicans into allowing voters to decide whether taxes should be used to help erase the deficit.
San Francisco Chronicle
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Prison psychiatrists routinely report to work late and leave early, audit finds
Psychiatrists working for California prisons, who are among the state's highest paid employees, routinely show up late and leave early, getting paid for time they don't work, a state audit found. A three-month study of the hours employees spent inside Mule Creek State Prison showed that 46 of 51 mental health clinicians -- including psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers -- worked an average of 34 hours a week, instead of the 40 for which they were paid.
Los Angeles Times |
In Niello's pension measure, the devil is in the details
A simple look at the ballot measure former Assemblyman Roger Niello filed last week shows that's written almost as sloppily as the 2005 attempt to gut retirement benefits for police and firefighters that was laughed off the ballot. Niello's initiative begins with a catalog of alleged pension shortcomings drawn from a factually slapdash and glaringly unobjective report by the state's Little Hoover Commission that was roundly criticized by State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and legislators for being unlawful and unworkable.
Capitol Weekly |
Color code security threat system replaced by new system
Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings - elevated and imminent - and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by AP. Some terror warnings could be withheld from the public if announcing a threat would risk exposing an intelligence operation or an ongoing investigation, according to the government's confidential plan.
Associated Press |
Los Angeles area could feel impact of government shutdown
The potential shutdown of the federal government could have wide-ranging effects in Los Angeles, where nearly 50,000 federal workers are based. National parks in the region, like the Channel Islands and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, are expected to close. Officials at the downtown federal courthouse are looking at a plan to potentially shut down civil cases, while criminal cases would continue. Local airports and the Port of Los Angeles are expected to continue functioning as normal, though their employees may be strained if a shutdown continues and they are not receiving paychecks.
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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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