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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 12, 2011 |
Two Calif. bills would loosen vehicle impound law
A pair of bills now making their way through the California Legislature would, if passed in their current forms, make it more difficult for patrol officers overseeing sobriety checkpoints to seize the vehicles of illegal immigrants. The authors of the two bills - AB 353 and AB 1389 - acknowledge they're providing cover to undocumented, unlicensed drivers who lose their vehicles at the checkpoints even though they aren't intoxicated.
Police Magazine |
Phone apps can let users outsmart the law
There are phone and tablet apps that help you hack text messages, let you stalk co-workers and let you evade police after a night of drinking. Legal experts say the software is free speech protected by the 1st Amendment. Apple's App Store, for example, offers Drivers License software that promises "unlimited access to realistic-looking licenses" for all 50 states.
Los Angeles Times
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Initiative to abolish death penalty is a red herring
In a predictable but no less galling move, death penalty opponents are seizing on the current state fiscal crisis as the latest reason to end the death penalty in California. Having failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the death penalty is unconstitutional, failed to convince voters it is immoral, failed to stop executions with attacks on lethal injections, opponents are now trying a different track. State Senator Loni Hancock has introduced a bill advancing the latest argument by opponents who steadfastly cling to only one principle - preventing execution by any means necessary.
LAPPL Blog |
U.S. to require more gun-buyer information in border states
As a backlash mounts over the government's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracing operation, the Justice Department will begin requiring firearms dealers in California and other border states to alert officials anytime they sell more than two semiautomatic rifles to someone in a five-day period. The new reporting requirement will help the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "detect and disrupt" border gun-smuggling operations, Deputy Atty. Gen. James Cole said Monday.
Los Angeles Times |
Royal visit: Not a single arrest, paparazzi well-behaved, LAPD says
The Los Angeles Police Department said officials made no arrests and that there were no paparazzi-related incidents related to the royal visit over the weekend. "Everything went well. The crowds were terrific, the traffic delays were very minimal, and the duke and duchess showed L.A. they are truly a world-class couple," LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith said.
Los Angeles Times
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City, county agencies help vets readjust
On any given day, it could be a sound, a smell, a face-to-face confrontation. Any of those triggers can bring back the same fears and rush of adrenaline experienced on the front lines of Iraq or Afghanistan. "You get used to all the noise in Iraq, but when I came back here, it was hard for me," said Los Angeles Sheriff's Sgt. Trendel Coley, who was called up for a second deployment, lasting 15 months, with the Army in 2007. "I would hear a horn and ... I had to remind myself I was home and not in the war zone."
Torrance Daily Breeze |
California prison inmates enter 11th day of hunger strike
Thousands of California prison inmates are still refusing meals to protest conditions in isolation units. Prisoner advocates say they believe those inmates are on their 11th day without food. About 400 inmates in Security Housing Units at Pelican Bay State Prison initiated the hunger strike on the first of the month.
Southern California Public Radio |
L.A. County Probation Dept. should handle new parolees
Thousands of new parolees are coming to Los Angeles County as part of the state's effort to ease prison overcrowding. To deal with them, the Board of Supervisors faces two options, both abysmal. It could assign the former state prisoners to the foundering Probation Department, which has demonstrated an inability to keep adequate records, discipline wayward employees and properly supervise troubled youths, and is under scrutiny by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Los Angeles Times Editorial |
Countdown to the 405 Closure
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Officials to rely on airborne CHP, roadway sensors
With Carmageddon looming, transportation officials said Monday they will rely on airborne CHP officers and vehicle-tracking sensors embedded in the pavement to monitor congestion and help keep motorists moving. A state-of-the-art command center manned by Caltrans officials will be established near downtown Los Angeles to monitor expected freeway chaos this weekend. There, they'll use information provided by remote cameras, traffic volume sensors and California Highway Patrol officers deployed in patrol cars and aircraft.
Torrance Daily Breeze |
Controller John Chiang: Cash receipts $350 million behind
It didn't take long for California's optimistic budget to fall behind in tax revenues. Controller John Chiang released data Monday showing that California received $351 million less in May and June than state leaders expected in the budget that Gov. Jerry Brown signed just 12 days ago.
Sacramento Bee |
Voters to choose Rep. Jane Harman's successor today
Voters in the South Bay go to the polls today to choose Democrat Janice Hahn or Republican Craig Huey to succeed former Rep. Jane Harman as their congressional representative. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. throughout the 36th Congressional District, which runs from Venice to San Pedro and juts inland through Torrance, Lomita and parts of other communities. While Hahn, 59, is favored to win, the race has been contentious and hard-fought.
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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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