Law Enforcement

LAPD officers shoot, kill suspect after their vehicle's rear window shattered
Los Angeles police say officers in Van Nuys shot and killed a suspect Saturday night after he threw a bottle through the rear window of their patrol car. The car was stopped when the suspect threw a 40-oz beer bottle from behind, shattering the rear windshield, LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith told KPCC on Monday. "It blew out the back window," Deputy Chief Bob Green told KPCC. "That got both of their adrenaline going."
KPCC

Search continues for gunman in West Hills shooting
Police continued the search Monday for a gunman involved in Sunday morning's West Hills shooting that seriously wounded the brother of Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Josh Ravin in West Hills. Detectives from LAPD's Topanga Division were following up on some leads, said LAPD spokesman Officer Aareon Jefferson, who said he had no further information.
Los Angeles Daily News

NoHo street fight turns deadly; hunt for 4 shooting suspects
Police Monday sought the public's help in identifying as many as four suspects involved in the killing of a 44-year-old man who was shot in the back in North Hollywood. It happened about 9:15 p.m. Sunday at Saticoy Street and Bellaire Avenue, according to Sgt. Catherine Leon of the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood Station. “Witnesses observed a fight in the street and then heard three gunshots,” Leon said.
mynewsLA.com

Teen killed by hit-and-run driver in Sherman Oaks identified
An 18-year-old woman killed by a hit-and-run river while crossing a street in Sherman Oaks has been identified. The woman was identified as Nysmuh Imann Taylor, 18, from Sylmar, Lt. Fred Corral of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner said Monday. A coroner's official had earlier described the woman as a 19-year-old from North Hills. The crash was reported at 2:21 a.m. Sunday on Moorpark Street between Stern Avenue and Matilija Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Los Angeles Daily News

Mayor Garcetti Pledges To Expand Domestic Abuse Response Teams
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday announced the expansion of a program aimed at curbing domestic violence. Garcetti — speaking alongside wife Amy Wakeland — said the city will expand its “Domestic Abuse Response Teams.” The team pair trained civilians with LAPD officers to respond to reported incidents of domestic abuse. The teams provide legal, emotional and medical support to victims.
CBS Los Angeles

Sexual Assaults Put Cal State Northridge Community On Edge
The community is on alert around Cal State Northridge. Police are searching for a rapist who attacked a student near campus Saturday night. The attack comes just one week after campus police issued an alert about another sexual assault on campus. Saturday's attack has students at CSUN on edge. A 21-year-old student was assaulted in an alley between Vincennes and Plummer streets, not far from campus.
ABC 7

L.A. Sheriff Takes a Small Step Toward Reason with New Immigration Enforcement Cooperation Policy
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced last month that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) was partially reversing a policy instituted following a Board of County Supervisors meeting last May, when the long-established practice of cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to identify and detain alien criminals lin the county jail was ended.
Center for Immigration Studies

California Deputy Has Long Road to Recovery
A Mariposa County deputy sheriff shot in a gunfight last week, allegedly with a Merced man, was identified Sunday. Deputy Rudy Mirelez, 39, remained in critical condition Sunday at a Modesto hospital, the Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Officials said Mirelez is expected to "undergo many more surgeries on his road to recovery."
Officer.com

City Government

LA City Council committee wants more study of proposed tax break
A Los Angeles City Council committee Monday called for further study of a plan that would offer a total of $54 million in annual tax relief to tens of thousands of small businesses by 2020. The Budget and Finance Committee instructed city analysts to report back in 60 days on how the proposal — which would allow more small businesses to apply for exemptions from the city's gross receipts tax — would affect city coffers.
Los Angeles Daily News

Legislation

Jerry Brown turned to his own doctor and Desmond Tutu in assisted-suicide decision
To the Members of the California State Assembly: ABx2 15 is not an ordinary bill because it deals with life and death. The crux of the matter is whether the State of California should continue to make it a crime for a dying person to end his life, no matter how great his pain or suffering.
Los Angeles Times

California's new racial profiling law divides police, activists
California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation this weekend requiring law enforcement to collect data on the race of those people police encounter. While activists laud it as a way to fight bias, cops say it will just hinder policing with paperwork. The law requires agencies to include the race of the person who was stopped, the reason for the stop and whether the stop resulted in a citation or arrest. It will also make such information publicly available, allowing people to have hard statistics on possible racial profiling.
RT

Pension

Backers of California pension overhaul alter ballot language
Backers of a proposed ballot initiative to cut pension spending for California state and local government employees said Monday that they were dropping a measure proposed in June because state Attorney General Kamala Harris found that current employees would lose constitutionally protected vested pension benefits, and they will instead pursue an alternative aimed at avoiding that pitfall.
The Washington Times, The Sacramento Bee