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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
May 4, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Fairfax, Koreatown and 10 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 12 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. Fairfax was the most unusual, recording four reports compared with a weekly average of 0.7 over the last three months. Koreatown topped the list of three neighborhoods with property crime alerts. It recorded 49 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 31.9 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Gold Line service resumes after LAPD detonates 'suspicious device'
Metro Gold Line service at Little Tokyo resumed after the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad detonated what appeared to be a fake grenade, officials said." It was possible a copy grenade that was rendered safe ... we don't think it was a real device but it could've been," said LAPD spokeswoman Officer Karen Rayner. "They shot it with a water cannon." The eastside portion of the Gold Line at Little Tokyo was shut down for three hours after someone reported a suspicious device on a tree, said Rick Jager, Metro spokesman.
Pasadena Star-News |
LA woman arrested after hours-long standoff
Los Angeles police arrested a 65-year-old woman after an eight-hour standoff at her San Fernando Valley home. City News Service says the woman surrendered to officers shortly before 7 a.m. Tuesday. Her name wasn't immediately released. Officers were sent to the Northridge home at around 10 p.m. Monday on a report that the woman had threatened her brother with a gun. Police evacuated nearby homes and at one point poured tear gas into the home but the woman didn't come out until hours later.
Associated Press |
LAPD motorcycle cop injured in hit-and-run
Police are searching for an SUV driver after the vehicle hit an LAPD motorcycle officer, and then fled the scene on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said the officer was cut off by the other vehicle and hit at Stocker Street and Palermo Boulevard just before 1 p.m. The officer was rushed to UCLA Medical Center, and police say he was conscious and breathing after the accident. The suspect's vehicle was only described as a dark-colored SUV. No suspect description was available. No further information is available at this time.
ABC7 |
Retired LAPD sergeants launch 2HungryCops.com
"Code 7" is police lingo for a meal break. And with the new web venture 2HungryCops.com, retired LAPD sergeants Dan Campbell and Steve Clark want menu abiding citizens to realize such pauses often involve anything but half dozen donuts. Yes, it's hard to avoid the donut reference; in fact, the high-calorie staple is mentioned at the top of the website's welcome message, as well as in this promo video clip. At press time, the pair has banked 27 video reviews of LA cop eateries and hope to eventually take their Law and Orders show on the road.
MediaBistro.com |
San Francisco mayor expects cops to take a pay cut
There are no sacred cows in these tough budget times, and Mayor Ed Lee seems intent on making sure the police and fire departments bear a fair share of the pain. With police officers due $14.5 million in raises starting July 1, Lee said he expects officers to be paid less rather than have budget cuts force a noticeable decrease in cops on the streets.
San Francisco Chronicle |
County foots $10M bill for early release
The state's early release of non-violent prisoners has cost Los Angeles County about $10 million over the last 15 months, according to a new report. The state's decision to save money by granting low-level prisoners "non-revocable parole" and letting them out of jail before they had served their entire sentence has put a burden on the county's Mental Health and Sheriff's departments, according to the report from county Chief Executive Officer William Fujioka.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Feinstein urges ban on prison cellphones
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein is lobbying to revive a bill that would make it illegal to smuggle cellphones into California prisons. Currently, it's a violation of prison rules for a prisoner to possess a cellphone, but it is not a crime. Feinstein sponsored a bill making possession of a cellphone by an inmate in a federal prison punishable by up to a year in prison and a $5,000 fine. Now she is taking on the issue at the state level, pressing California legislative leaders to support a bill by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) that would do the same.
Los Angeles Times |
California says it won't resume executions this year
California corrections officials have put off until at least next year any attempt to resume executions among the 713 condemned inmates on death row, according to court documents. The request by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to delay review of newly revised lethal-injection protocols until January at the earliest follows a decision last week by Gov. Jerry Brown to scrap plans to build a new death row facility at San Quentin State Prison.
Los Angeles Times
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Lawmakers advance health reform bills
Even as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to strip funding from the nation's health reform law yesterday, California lawmakers were advancing bills meant to implement parts of the law early and make sure people are alerted to new benefits as they become available. Three bills would help California get a jump-start on enacting the federal law, which has already expanded parents' health coverage to young adults up to 26 and removed barriers to health coverage for children with pre-existing conditions.
California Watch
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