Law Enforcement

KABC-AM Radio Interview With Craig Lally On Body Cameras
Los Angeles Police Protective League's Craig Lally discusses how body cameras will be deployed across the LAPD over the next several months.
KABC-AM

LA Police Commission To Consider Ban On ‘Personal, Profane' Remarks At Public Meetings
The Los Angeles Police Commission was expected Tuesday to consider a new rule that would allow for the removal of people who make “personal, impertinent or profane remarks” during a commission meeting. LAPD Lieutenant and police union leader Craig Lally told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO he doesn't believe the protesters reflect the feelings of most people in the city at large.
CBS Los Angeles

C .A. Throws Out Ordinance Designed to Halt LAPD Attrition
The City of Los Angeles cannot enforce an ordinance requiring some police officers to repay all of their training costs if they leave the department and take other law enforcement jobs, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled. Div. Two said the ordinance—to the extent it requires repayment of costs for training beyond that required of all California peace officers by statute—violates a Labor Code provision requiring that an employer pay “all necessary expenditures incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties.”
Metropolitan News-Enterprise

Cops and prosecutors oppose parole for Voltaire Williams
In early August we published a visiting blogger piece by Arnold Friedman about the possible parole of Voltaire Williams, who was convicted in the murder of Los Angeles police officer Thomas Williams in 1985. Friedman covered that murder case for the Daily News; Williams also was his fraternity brother at San Fernando Valley State College.
LA Observed

Assault rifles, other guns stolen from Harbor City home, LAPD says
Detectives are trying to find whoever broke into a Harbor City home and stole assault rifles, semiautomatic handguns and other firearms -- and are asking for the public's help. The break-in occurred about 11:45 a.m. on Aug. 20, at a house near Western Avenue and Palos Verdes Drive North, LAPD Officer Brian Frieson said. No one was home at the time of the break in. Some electronics and more than half a dozen guns were taken, Frieson said.
Los Angeles Times

Firefighter, 2 Hospital Employees Stabbed Inside Emergency Room In Boyle Heights
A firefighter and two hospital employees were stabbed inside the emergency room of a Boyle Heights hospital, it was reported Tuesday. The incident unfolded just after 9:30 p.m. at White Memorial Medical Center on East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Units responded and subsequently took the suspect into custody. The LAPD says the suspect was expected to be booked on suspicion of attempted murder.
CBS Los Angeles

Big Jump In LA Murder Rate In August
The number of homicides in the city Los Angeles jumped drastically last month, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police Chief Charlie Beck told the Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday 39 people were killed in the city in August.
CBS Los Angeles

California To End Unlimited Isolation For Most Gang Leaders
California on Tuesday agreed to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept hundreds of inmates in notorious segregation units for a decade or longer. No other state keeps so many inmates segregated for so long, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The New York City-based nonprofit center represents inmates in a class-action federal lawsuit settled Tuesday on behalf of nearly 3,000 inmates held in segregation statewide.
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