Law Enforcement

LA Demonstrators Take Part In National Day of Protests Against Police Brutality
Dozens took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles Thursday as part of what organizers have dubbed a National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation. It was a small group making plenty of noise, holding signs and shouting "enough is enough" at times. "Someone has to speak out. Someone has to speak up for us," L.A. resident Channell Temple said. Activists, including some members of the Black Lives Matter group, rallied outside of LAPD headquarters Thursday afternoon before marching nearly half a dozen blocks to Sixth and San Pedro streets.
ABC 7, CBS Los Angeles

MISSING: 81-Year-Old Woman With Dementia From Los Angeles
The family of Grace Asano Nakamura and the Los Angeles Police Department's West Los Angeles Division are asking for the public's help in locating her. Nakamura went missing Wednesday, Oct. 21 from the 1700 block of Sawtelle Boulevard, in the West Los Angeles Area. She suffers from dementia and her family is extremely concerned that she has not been found.
Highland Park-Mount Washington Patch

DUI Crackdown Strikes Mid-City And The Valley
Are you feeling that slightly cooler night air yet? It's finally fall. It's time to mosey on up to your favorite old-school bar and wrap your hands around a glass of heart-warming whisky. And then Uber it home. The Los Angeles Police Department will be on the hunt once again for drunk drivers. We suspect cops are only going to be more and more visible as we get closer to the beer holiday known as Halloween, too.
LA Weekly

Hope for New Leads in Cold Case Murder of High School Coach
LAPD South Bureau's Criminal Gang Homicide Division Detective Dean Vinluan says he continues to seek out answers into who killed Eddy Lewis. Eddy's family says he had no gang ties. An assistant football coach at Morningside High School, he grew up near Hawthorne and went to high school in Woodland Hills.
NBC Los Angeles

Woman in Custody After Allegedly Carjacking Taxi in South L.A.
The crime occurred about 12:40 a.m. in the 800 block of West 93rd Street, where the woman “used bodily force” and threatened to use a weapon while stealing the vehicle, said Lt. Gordon Olson of the Los Angeles Police Department. The taxi driver was unharmed in the incident.
KTLA 5

Homelessness

How should L.A. spend its $100-million homelessness emergency fund?
We are not going to build our way out of homelessness in Los Angeles, even with the $100 million that Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council have allocated to deal with a declared "state of emergency." The problem is one of "groupthink": Everyone believes there is only one option. For decades we have approached housing by building low-income projects. The average cost of housing one person in a 300-square-foot studio apartment in Los Angeles is $468,000. That means we would need nearly $25 billion to provide homes to all the homeless here — 53,000 people by one estimate.
Los Angeles Times