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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 9, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Vermont Square, Bel-Air 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. Eight neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Vermont Square was the most unusual, recording 23 reports compared with a weekly average of 13.0 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Flood of lawsuits by LAPD officers costs the city millions
At least 17 officers have won million-dollar-plus jury verdicts or settlements from the city in the last decade in lawsuits involving accusations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, retaliation and other workplace injustices. Officer-driven lawsuits have come under greater scrutiny in recent years as Los Angeles' financial problems have gotten worse. Elected officials and the LAPD's independent watchdog believe the department should be doing more to deter workplace conflict and avoid the expensive litigation.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD collects Uzis, AK-47s and more at gun buyback
The sleek black Uzi submachine gun was pulled out of the trunk of a car in Mission Hills, drawing wary admiration from police officers working the city's third annual gun buyback program on Saturday. "There's no reason for that weapon to be in this country other than to kill people," said LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore. "So we're getting those weapons off the street, out of hands of people who shouldn't have them."
Los Angeles Daily News
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Behind the scenes of LAPD SWAT sniper training
We have learned a lot over the past few days about the elite Navy SEALs who stormed Osama bin Laden's compound. But few people know about another elite unit of snipers in the Los Angeles Police Department. Eyewitness News takes a rare and exclusive look at the highly trained force.
ABC7
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State to double crime searches using family DNA
California's success in using 'familial searching' spurs Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to increase funding for the controversial genetic sleuthing technique in rape, murder and cold cases. California's early success with familial searching - it led to the arrest of the suspect in the Grim Sleeper serial killings last summer - has spurred calls for using the science to trace criminals nationwide. Virginia recently joined California and Colorado in permitting such searches.
Los Angeles Times
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Body found with gunshot wound in Mid-Wilshire
The body of a man in his early 30s was discovered Sunday morning on a sidewalk in Mid-Wilshire, authorities said. He had a gunshot wound to the head. A man walking his dog about 6:30 a.m. found the body on the sidewalk on Packard Street between Stanley and Spaulding avenues, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Renee McAlonis said. Neighbors questioned by police reported hearing a gunshot about 1 a.m. and police determined the victim had been lying on the sidewalk for several hours.
Los Angeles Times |
Suspect hurts LAPD officer during traffic stop
A Los Angeles Police Department officer was attacked by a suspect in Sun Valley Friday afternoon and hospitalized. The assault occurred around 5 p.m. in the 8700 block of Lucia Place, near Sunland Boulevard, said Detective Gus Villanueva of the Los Angeles Police Department. ''One suspect is in custody for assault with a deadly weapon on an officer,'' Villanueva said. ''They are searching for a second suspect.''
NBC4
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LA police move to stem violence in Venice Beach
Police in Southern California are gearing up for long days even before summer's unofficial Memorial Day start after one of the city's top tourist destinations, Venice Beach, became the scene of a recent shooting and a stabbing. Fearing crime could spiral, the authorities have started cracking down on the unruliness that typifies the boardwalk - a 1.5-mile ribbon of asphalt that can draw 150,000 people on a summer weekend.
Associated Press |
Labor law under attack
Much of the current rage against public employee unions stems, of course, from those beleaguered private sector workers who aren't unionized and understandably envy what they see as the handsome wages and retirement benefits - handsome in comparison to what they receive - that public workers get. But whittling public workers down to size, as it were, by hobbling their unions will not help private sector employees and more likely will make things even worse.
LAPPL Blog |
Brown wants to cut prison population by a fifth
How small is the California prison population likely to become if Gov. Jerry Brown has his way? In three years, California's prison population would be 20 percent smaller. There are always two Jerry Browns. There's the talk-show Brown who likened American incarceration rates to "absolute oppression." A decade later, Attorney General Brown fought three federal judges who ordered California to release 37,000 to 58,000 inmates to relieve overcrowding.
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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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