Law Enforcement

11 shot in violent South L.A. weekend; residents on edge
Fed up with a recent rash of gang violence in South Los Angeles, Naima Smith gathered a group Saturday at a Baptist church on Hoover Street to talk about ways to bring peace to their neighborhood. Smith, 32, a lifelong resident of South L.A., left the gathering feeling encouraged. Then her phone rang. It was the pastor. There had just been another shooting, right outside the church. A man was dead. The killing was part of a violent weekend in the LAPD's 77th Street Division in South Los Angeles. Seven shooting incidents Friday and Saturday left one dead and 11 wounded, prompting police to pull in more officers to help quell the violence.
Los Angeles Times, KPCC

#100days100nights: Gang threats of violence on social media draw fear
The photographs went online earlier this month after a 27-year-old man was gunned down in South Los Angeles. One showed a man flashing a chrome handgun from his jacket pocket. In another, a young man held a pistol in each hand. “Better wake up,” one person wrote on Instagram. “It's a war goin' on.” “This area ain't safe right now,” someone else posted with a map showing a portion of South L.A. Police said they were monitoring the traffic as they try to quell the violence. LAPD Deputy Chief Bill Scott met with gang intervention workers Monday night, telling them there was no evidence to corroborate the threats and asking for help in calming fears.
Los Angeles Times , NBC Los Angeles

Broadway Altercation Sparks LAPD Investigation
The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation into a confrontation between officers and an armed man in the Historic Core. Christopher Adam Zareck, 43, allegedly got into a physical altercation with a business improvement district security officer near Broadway and Third Street on July 17. LAPD received a call at about 7 a.m., and more than a dozen officers responded, closing part of Broadway in the process.
LA Downtown News

Man Barricaded Inside South L.A. Home, Prompting SWAT Standoff; Dozens Evacuated
Dozens of residents in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles neighborhood were temporarily evacuated early Tuesday after a man brandished a shotgun against his neighbors before locking himself inside a home, according to LAPD. Officers were called to the 6900 block of Estrella Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Monday after receiving a call regarding the armed man, according to Capt. Mark Reina of the Los Angeles Police Department.
KTLA 5

Studio City shooter identified but authorities seeking next of kin
Authorities have identified the gunman killed by police on Ventura Boulevard Friday afternoon but are not releasing his name until a relative can be notified. The dead man is a 44-year-old white male from Los Angeles, said Craig R. Harvey, chief of operations and investigations for the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. The relative is an adult female who is out of town and investigators are trying to locate her, he said. Officials do not know how many times the man was shot by Los Angeles Police Department officers because the autopsy is pending, Harvey said.
Los Angeles Daily News

Man shot in buttocks in possible road rage incident
A man was wounded in the buttocks Monday in a car-to- car shooting in what may have been a case of “road rage” in South Los Angeles, a police lieutenant said. The shooting happened after midnight at Florence and Normandie avenues, said Lt. S. Duke of the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th Street Station. The victim, in his early 20s, was transported to a hospital for treatment, Duke said. He was cooperating with investigating officers.
mynewsLA.com

L.A. County supervisors to hear recommendations on sheriff oversight
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will hear recommendations on Tuesday about the role and responsibility of a panel that will oversee the Sheriff's Department. The supervisors, in a split decision, voted in December to create a Civilian Oversight Commission for the Sheriff's Department. Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas, Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl were in favor of the commission. At Tuesday's board meeting a working group that has spent months coming up with recommendations about the commission's function will make its pitch to the supervisors.
Los Angeles Daily News

Special Olympics

Teen Triathlete Grabs First Gold at Special Olympics World Games
A 17-year-old from South New Jersey hit the water first at Alamitos Beach in Long Beach and never looked back, winning the triathlon that kicked off the 2015 Special Olympics World Games on Sunday. Noah Dellas took just under an hour and 13 minutes (1:12:58) to complete the half-mile swim, 20 kilometer bike, and 5k run.
NBC Los Angeles

Prop. 47

Prop. 47 also reduces some juvenile offenses, state court rules
Alejandro was 15 when he tried to steal three bottles of vodka and a bag of potato chips from his neighborhood pharmacy. Arrested immediately, he admitted his crime in juvenile court and was sentenced to up to three years in juvenile custody for an offense labeled a commercial burglary, a felony. It took a change in state law, a nimble public defender and an agreeable judge to get Alejandro released early from juvenile hall and back to his family.
Los Angeles Times

State Government

Thousands Of Jobs Available In State Government, Officials Say
Officials say thousands of jobs are currently available and thousands more are expected to open as 40 percent of state employees are eligible to retire. “What we're looking at doing is filling a lot of positions in a hurry,” Jim Zamora with the California Department of Human Resources told Ed Mertz of KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO.
CBS Los Angeles