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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 5, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Vermont Square, Hancock Park and 11 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 13 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. Vermont Square was the most unusual, recording 21 reports compared with a weekly average of 13.0 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times
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19 arrested on drug and weapons charges in Venice gang sting
At least 19 people -- many of them alleged Westside gang members -- were arrested early Wednesday on suspicion of firearms and narcotics offenses observed at a Venice storefront run by undercover agents. Agents with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives carried out "Operation Villainz Ink" with the Los Angeles Police Department, targeting members of the Venice 13, or Venice Trece, gang.
Los Angeles Times |
Police seek hit-run SUV driver in death of girl, 6
Police were looking today for the driver of a dark- colored or black sports utility vehicle with front-end damage that struck and killed a 6-year-old girl in South Los Angeles. The hit-and-run happened at about 9:25 p.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of West 49th Place, west of Figueroa Street, Officer Karen Rayner of Los Angeles Police Department said. Witnesses said that Kemberly Arrue was following a ball into the street when she was struck.
Torrance Daily Breeze |
LAPD's Hydra Program: Command officer training for critical incidents
Law enforcement professionals can point to a variety of historical incidents where seemingly innocuous occurrences have evolved into full-fledged crises. Critical incidents have a trajectory, and each department's command staff has a crucial role to play in mitigating liability along its flight path. The golden hour of critical response has a huge bearing on an incident's final outcome. Training to handle a critical incident requires a learning environment where the complexity, chaos, and challenge of real incidents are recreated.
LAPD Sgt. Timothy J. Kalkus/Police Chief Magazine |
LAPD Mission Station to participate in gun buyback program
If you need extra money and have guns lying around your house, you can take advantage of the Anonymous City of Los Angeles Gun Buyback program that offers $100 and $200 gift certificates to those who turn in weapons this Saturday at several Los Angeles Police Department stations, including Mission Station in the San Fernando Valley.
San Fernando Valley Sun
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California has $2 billion in unexpected tax revenue
State officials are reporting an unexpected $2-billion surge in tax receipts that will help lawmakers close the remaining $15-billion budget deficit, and the Capitol is humming with hope that more is coming. But the windfall could complicate Gov. Jerry Brown's push for tax increases, which he says are needed for California's longer-term financial health. Some analysts say the surprise - the sign of a brightening economy - could be just the beginning.
Los Angeles Times |
California to delay sending DMV registration bills
California drivers who are scheduled to register their cars in July are getting a reprieve -- as the state won't be sending them their annual registration bill just yet and is waiving any late fees for at least a month. But the move is hardly a gift from the cash-strapped state. It is part of an effort by lawmakers and Gov. Jerry Brown to buy time to negotiate a budget package that includes hiking vehicle registration fees.
Los Angeles Times |
Proposals would cut benefits for California employees 25% to 40%
Pension benefits for hundreds of thousands of state workers would be reduced 25% to 40% under two proposals that have become the focal points for what could become a costly and bruising ballot fight over retirement funding. In a new financial analysis estimating the cutbacks, the nonprofit California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility warned that rising costs of public employee pensions and retiree healthcare could overwhelm the ability of taxpayers to fund many basic health, welfare and public safety services.
Los Angeles Times
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Public employees defend 'modest' pension benefits
Public employees, saying they are tired of being lumped together with the few who have been snared in pension scandals, struck back Wednesday with what they called their own "truth squad" on pensions at the Capitol. One longtime teacher's aide at the news conference accused "out-of-state billionaires and corporate interests whose greed led to California's budget mess" of leading attacks on unions to divert the blame from themselves.
Contra Costa Times
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Groups press Brown for sentencing reforms
A team of advocacy groups is pushing Gov. Jerry Brown to include sentencing reforms in the revised state budget proposal he will unveil this month. The three organizations - the American Civil Liberties Union of California, the Drug Policy Alliance and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights - contend that reducing charges for simple drug possession and nonviolent property crimes from felonies to misdemeanors would yield many millions of dollars in cost savings to the deficit-plagued state.
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