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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
July 6, 2011 |
Will & Kate royal visit: LAPD has plan to rein in paparazzi
Paparazzi anticipating a veritable royal feast of photographs when Prince William and his wife, Catherine, visit Los Angeles may be in for a rude awakening -- and a potential jail stay -- if they expect to take shots of the royal couple in certain parts of Hancock Park. The Los Angeles Police Department has secured no-trespassing letters from residents who live in seven homes around the June Street residence where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will spend the night.
Los Angeles Times |
Nicole Bershon, head of LAPD watchdog agency, steps down
After little more than a year on the job, the head of the watchdog agency that keeps tabs on the Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday that she is leaving her post. Nicole Bershon, who was selected as the L.A. Police Commission's inspector general May 2010, is departing to accept a new position as a commissioner for the Los Angeles County Superior Court. In making the announcement at a commission meeting, Bershon said she would remain for a few weeks and did not know exactly when she would step down.
Los Angeles Times |
Rep. "Buck" McKeon wants answers in release of suspect in killing at North Hollywood Sears' lot
A local congressman on Tuesday asked the U.S. Attorney General to investigate the release of the suspected killer of a Granada Hills teen by a Puerto Rican judge despite authorities' requests to keep him in custody. In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, asked for information on the release of Zaren Manjikian, who is wanted on suspicion of killing 19-year-old Mike Yepremyan in a Sears parking lot in North Hollywood in November 2009.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Local law enforcement readies for state inmates
In just three months, Superior Court judges will start sending low-level felony offenders to county jail, instead of state prison, and law enforcement officials are bracing for the event. Some say the state's decision to require local jails to house and supervise certain nonviolent criminals - one of the cost-saving measures used to balance the state budget by July 1 - is the biggest change to the local criminal justice system in at least 25 years.
San Diego Union-Tribune
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Government cuts may leave businesses to face cyber pain alone
Funding of specialist e-crime units is likely to suffer in the face of public spending reductions, the head of a newly formed international body to tackle cybercrime said Tuesday, despite an inexorable growth in crime. Cuts could leave businesses to face "growing amounts of cyber pain" on their own, he said. John Lyons, a 20-year veteran in tackling cybercrime and now chief executive of the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance, said that the austerity caused by the reduction in public spending means businesses won't necessarily be able to count on the support of national law enforcement agencies.
Wall Street Journal |
Can computers predict crimes of the future?
The LAPD's Sean Malinowski wants to reduce crime with “predictive policing,” which can forecast patterns of where crime occurs using computer algorithms. The idea: Although no one can foresee individual crimes, it is possible to forecast patterns of where and when homes are likely to be burgled or cars stolen by analyzing truckloads of past crime reports and other data with sophisticated computer algorithms.
Miller-McCune |
Inmate hunger strike expands to more California prisons
Inmates in at least 11 of California's 33 prisons are refusing meals in solidarity with a hunger strike staged by prisoners in one of the system's special maximum-security units, officials said Tuesday. The strike began Friday when inmates in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison stopped eating meals in protest of conditions that they contend are cruel and inhumane. "There are inmates in at least a third of our prisons who are refusing state-issued meals," said Terry Thornton, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
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Countdown to the 405 Closure
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Phone data to give a picture of traffic shutdown in L.A.
Chaos is expected to descend on Los Angeles on July 16, when a 10-mile stretch of I-405, a major highway running through the center of town that carries an average of 500,000 cars on a summer weekend, shuts down for more than two days. Anxiety is palpable. Public officials have suggested that people simply stay in their houses. But KABC, the local flagship station for ABC, sees the closure as an opportunity to experiment with technology tools as its plans to report on the mess as it unfolds. The station has partnered with Waze, an Israeli technology company that makes a navigation app for smartphones, to give drivers a real-time picture of what is happening on the roads.
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