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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 21, 2011 |
LAPD officers fatally shoot man during stabbing of woman
Los Angeles police fatally shot a man Wednesday morning who was slashing a woman's throat inside a South Los Angeles warehouse, department officials said. Officers initially responded to a robbery call abound 8:15 a.m. Wednesday in the 3400 block of South Broadway near the 110 Freeway, said Los Angeles Police Department Cmdr. Andy Smith. When they arrived a bystander directed officers to a warehouse from where he had heard a woman screaming, Smith said.
Los Angeles Times |
L.A. Council considers law to protect bicyclists from harassment
A proposed law intended to protect bicyclists from harassment by motorists will be taken up Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council. The law would make it a crime for drivers to threaten cyclists -- verbally or physically -- and would allow victims of harassment to seek more than $1,000 in damages in civil court. The proposed ordinance is one of the toughest anti-harassment measures nationwide, according to its author, Councilman Bill Rosendahl. "It's about time cyclists have rights," he said.
Los Angeles Times |
Promising athlete convicted of killing woman
A promising athlete has been convicted of murdering the South Los Angeles mother of a girl set to testify against him in a robbery case. Two previous trials ended with hung juries. Prosecutors say 23-year-old Tyquan Knox was convicted Monday of murder, robbery and witness intimidation for the 2007 shooting death of Pamela Lark. He faces life in prison without possibility of parole when he's sentenced Sept. 7. The Los Angeles Times says Knox was a Crenshaw High School football player who had attracted college recruiters from top-tier schools.
Associated Press |
8 arrested in crackdown on L.A. County tagging crew
Members of a tagging crew allegedly responsible for more than 1,600 pieces of graffiti vandalism were arrested Wednesday by authorities serving search warrants at houses in cities across southwest Los Angeles County. Eight people, including one juvenile, were charged with causing more than $100,000 in vandalism to schools and Metro bus and rail systems, according to a report from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. All are alleged members of the ASC -- Art Sex Crime -- tagging crew.
Los Angeles Times |
New studies find state's illegal immigrant population shrinking
Two groundbreaking studies of illegal immigrants have concluded that while California has far more than any other state -- 2.6 million -- the number has declined slightly as other states become more attractive working and living destinations for border crossers. The studies were conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, one a survey of illegal immigration from the national perspective and the other concentrating on California.
Sacramento Bee |
S.F. supervisors put pension overhaul on ballot
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to place a charter amendment on the November ballot to overhaul city retirement benefits. "I believe this is absolutely, 100 percent, unequivocally the right step for the city," said Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, who crafted the measure with Mayor Ed Lee and public employee unions. The show of unity, despite opposition from city retirees over some health care provisions in the measure, came after the city controller released numbers narrowing the savings gap between the mayor's pension proposal and a rival ballot measure advanced by Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
San Francisco Chronicle |
Californians would rather ease penalties than pay more for prisons
Cash-strapped Californians would rather ease "third-strike" penalties for some criminals and accept felons as neighbors than dig deeper into their pockets to relieve prison overcrowding, a new poll shows. In the wake of a court order that the state move more than 33,000 inmates out of its packed prisons, an overwhelming number of voters oppose higher taxes - as well as cuts in key state services - to pay for more lockup space.
Los Angeles Times |
Meth addict with flame thrower spared prison as states cut spending
Zackariah Lehnen, a 30-year-old transient, was paroled from a California prison in November after serving five months of a 16-month sentence for drug possession. He left under a program intended to reduce state costs by freeing nonviolent prisoners without supervision. Six months later he was arrested and charged with murder in the torture and stabbing deaths of an 89-year-old man and a 27- year-old woman in a Los Angeles suburb, according to court documents. He's in jail, with a plea hearing set for July 28.
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Special election for Hahn's L.A. council seat set for Nov. 8
A special election to fill the vacant Los Angeles City Council seat of Janice Hahn will be held Nov. 8 with a runoff, if necessary, on Jan. 17. The City Council approved the dates on Wednesday, which opens up the window for fundraising for potential candidates - who must first file the proper paperwork with the city's Ethics Commission. Filing for the election will open Aug. 22 and the deadline for returning nominating petitions is Sept. 12.
Torrance Daily Breeze |
A TV mayor is mulling a run for the real job
Like most aspiring actors here, Eric Garcetti has a day job: he is president of the City Council, and he is openly pondering a run for mayor of Los Angeles. But this week, Mr. Garcetti got a taste of the job on TNT's drama "The Closer," where he played, well, the mayor of Los Angeles. For the second time. A speaking role on a hit show like "The Closer" might be a dream come true for some of Mr. Garcetti's constituents, many of whom live every day looking for that big Hollywood break. For Mr. Garcetti, the appearance may instead be a step on the way to finding a better day job.
New York Times
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