Law Enforcement

Black Lives Matter Organizers Meet With LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Vow To Keep Demonstrating
Demonstrators vowed to continue protesting outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters on Friday, after police Chief Charlie Beck refused to meet their demand that he immediately fire two officers involved in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ezell Ford. As many as 100 members of the group, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles — a local chapter of a national coalition — have gathered regularly outside police headquarters since Dec. 30 in response to the release of autopsy results showing Ford was shot once in the right side of his back, once in his right arm and once in his right abdomen.
Los Angeles Daily News

4 LAPD Officers Rescue Suicidal Man, Suffer Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Four LAPD officers and one firefighter Friday were being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after they were exposed to gas while rescuing a suicidal man. Police received a report of a man in his 30s who was trying to take his life at an exotic car dealership in the 10500 block of W. Pico Boulevard in West LA, authorities said.
CBS Los Angeles

How the LAPD Got Smart and Started Winning the War Against Street Gangs
The Los Angeles Police Department may have won the fight against street gangs — at least in some critical ways, and at least for the time being. Police statistics — in addition to analyses by experts and advocates on the ground — suggest that gang violence on LA's streets has dramatically decreased. The city's most dangerous communities are markedly safer today than they have been at any point in the past 30 years."It's like night and day," gang expert and author Sam Quinones told VICE News. "Really, it's a remarkable change."
VICE News

Homicide Detective Retiring After 33 Years With LAPD
In 1981, David Klinger, a white LAPD officer, shot and killed a black suspect in South Los Angeles. Today, Klinger is a professor of criminal justice in St. Louis, where he's had a front-row seat on the raging controversy over the shooting death of a black man by a white officer in Ferguson, Mo. Those things made me think that he might have something interesting to say about the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, and he did.
CBS Los Angeles

75-Year-Old Man Diagnosed With Alzheimer's Reported Missing In LA
Detectives sought the public's help Saturday in locating a 75-year-old man reported missing by his family. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, Henry Yun was last seen around 4:00 a.m. in the 1700 block of West 8th Street. He suffers from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, and has not been seen or heard from since this morning.
CBS Los Angeles

NYPD Cops Told No Vacations Until Work Slowdown Ends
It's a slowdown showdown. At precincts across the city, top brass are cracking the whip on summons activity and even barring many cops from taking vacation and sick days, The Post has learned.Throughout the city, precincts are being ordered to hand up to borough commanders “activity sheets” indicating the number of arrests and summonses per shift, sources told The Post. “Police officers around the city are now threatened with transfers, no vacation time and sick time unless they write summonses,” one union source said.“This is the same practice that caused officers to be labeled racist and abusers of power.”
NY Post

Police, Citizens Mark Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
Low pay, odd hours, second guessing, gunshots, evil, true evil.The hazards police officers combat were highlighted Friday during a ceremony for Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, an event organized in the wake of perceived national ire against police."They are the guardians of our way of life and they deserve our support," organizer Madeline Neumann told a crowd at the Michael T. Lake Performing Arts Center at Neptune High School. "Law enforcement officers are not the enemies."
USA Today

Sheriff's Dept. Higher-Ups Now Appear to Be Targets in Jails Inquiry
Sheriff's officials convicted of obstructing a federal investigation into the Los Angeles County jails have been testifying before a grand jury as prosecutors set their sights on the highest echelons of the department, according to sources familiar with the probe. The questioning has focused partly on meetings where then-Sheriff Lee Baca and his No. 2, Paul Tanaka, discussed how to deal with the discovery of a cellphone provided to a county jail inmate by the FBI. In addition to the convicted officials, some current Sheriff's Department officials have also received grand jury subpoenas.
Los Angeles Times

LAPD Hopes Public Can Help Them Identify Alleged Kidnap Victim
The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public's help to identify a woman they say was kidnapped. Authorities said the unidentified woman walked into Christy's Donuts in the 5600 block of York Boulevard in the early morning hours of December 20, 2014. Detectives told KCAL9's Brittney Hopper they were only now releasing the woman's picture because it took them a while to sharpen the grainy video image.
CBS Los Angeles

“Hands Up, Don't Shoot” Activist Guns Down Unarmed Man, And Is Thankful For The Experience
In his Twitter profile, Reverend Jarrett Maupin describes himself as a, “Progressive Baptist Preacher. Civil Rights Campaigner. Radical Political Activist.” He's led numerous civil rights protests in Arizona, including recent protests of the death of Rumain Brisbon, a suspected drug dealer, at the hands of Phoenix police. The details of Brison's death aren't surprising. Like the overwhelming majority of those killed by police officers, Brisbon was violently resisting arrest when the officer shot him.
Bearing Arms

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Considering Senate Run
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Saturday that he is seriously considering a run for the Senate seat Barbara Boxer will vacate after deciding not to seek re-election to a fifth term. In a statement released Saturday, Villaraigosa says too many Californians are struggling “to make ends meet, pay bills and send their kids to college. They are looking for progressive leaders in Washington who will fight for them, like Senator Boxer has done for over 20 years. I was honored to serve as Speaker of the CA Assembly and as Mayor of Los Angeles and it would be an honor to serve Californians again in the future. The urgency of the needs of the people of this great state have convinced me to seriously consider looking at running for California's open Senate seat.”
Los Angeles Daily News