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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 26, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Palms, Toluca Lake 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. Palms was the most unusual, recording seven reports compared with a weekly average of 1.8 over the last three months. Toluca Lake topped the list of seven neighborhoods with property-crime alerts. It recorded 11 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 2.4 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Gunman fires at LAPD officers in South L.A.
At least one gunman armed with a semiautomatic weapon opened fire on Los Angeles police Wednesday evening, authorities said. No officers were injured in the shooting, which occurred about 6 p.m. near 42nd and Main streets, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Patrol cars swarmed the scene as officers searched for suspects. Officers were investigating a report that someone was barricaded in a home. No additional details were available.
Los Angeles Times |
Driver arrested for GTA outside LAPD headquarters
Los Angeles police officers dramatically arrested an auto theft suspect at gunpoint right outside their own headquarters. Officer Sara Faden says the driver of a car that had been reported stolen in the Rampart area was followed Wednesday and stopped in front of the downtown Police Administration Building. The driver was arrested at gunpoint out of concern that he may have been armed. Faden says he was held for investigation of grand theft auto. A woman with him was questioned and released. Faden didn't immediately have other details.
Associated Press |
L.A. City Council issues $75,000 reward in toddler's death
The Los Angeles City Council has issued a $75,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or people responsible for a shooting that killed a toddler and left his uncle in critical condition. Shortly after nightfall Monday, gunfire broke out in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where 22-month-old Joshua Montes lived with his family. Minutes before, Joshua's uncle, Josefat Canchola, had carried the boy out the back door to play. Both were struck in the head by the spray of bullets that investigators believe may have been intended for someone else.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD SWAT team uses tear gas to force man out of Encino apartment
A man armed with a knife was barricaded inside his Encino apartment for more than three hours until a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team forced him out with tear gas early yesterday. The barricade started about 9 p.m. Tuesday in the 5100 block of White Oak Avenue, near Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles police Sgt. Bruce Oakley of the West Valley Station said. The suspect was pulled out of the apartment about 12:30 a.m.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Charlie Beck, L.A. Police Chief, required to cut $40 million to balance budget, but given no guidance
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa received amendments on Wednesday made by the City Council to his 2011-12 proposed City budget. The big issue is more than $40 million that Villaraigosa had wanted to borrow on commercial paper. That debt plan has now been trashed, and the burden has been placed on the L.A. Police Department to come up with $40 million in cuts. But with no plan and no deadline, this could be a bit too easy to procrastinate on: Police Chief Charlie Beck had already expected and agreed to make $20 million in cuts, but now that number has doubled.
LA Weekly |
Prisoner Release & Parole
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Ending California prison overcrowding will be tall order
With the clock about to start ticking on clearing more than 30,000 inmates from California's prisons, state officials appear to be relying on a plan that is replete with question marks. Gov. Jerry Brown and leaders of the prison system are pinning their hopes on a so-called realignment proposal that would shift most low-level, nonviolent inmates from the state prison system to the county jails. The governor signed legislation this spring that would put the reforms in place, but they cannot go into effect until the state finds a way to pay for the dramatic move, perhaps the biggest question mark of all amid California's budget crisis.
San Jose Mercury-News |
High-risk state parolees unsupervised
California improperly paroled more than 450 dangerous criminals without supervision last year as part of a program designed to reduce prison crowding and cost, the California prison system's independent inspector general said Wednesday in a report. A faulty computerized risk-assessment program predicted the offenders could be released under the state's non-revocable parole law that took effect in January 2010. The inspector general found that about 1,500 offenders were improperly left unsupervised, including 450 who "carry a high risk for violence."
Associated Press |
Union coalition tap dances on Niello pension plan's demise
Former Assemblyman Roger Niello's initiative to rollback public pension benefits "will end up in the scrapheap of politically-motivated failures," said Dave Low, chairman of Californians for Retirement Security, in a statement released by the union coalition Tuesday evening. Niello has decided he won't pursue collecting signatures to put his public pension rollback initiative on the ballot, although the secretary of state has said that he can begin working to place it before voters.
Sacramento Bee |
L.A. is urged to support limiting local participation in deportation program
Adding their voices to a growing number of opponents, Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks and Councilwoman Jan Perry have called on the city to support limiting the scope of local participation in a controversial federal deportation program. The City Council resolution proposed Tuesday on the Secure Communities program comes as San Francisco County prepares to implement a new policy seeking to do the same.
Los Angeles Times
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