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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
February 29, 2016 |
Virginia police officer killed a day after she is sworn in; 2 others injured
A Virginia police officer was killed while responding to a domestic-related shooting a day after she was sworn in, authorities said. Prince William County police officer Ashley Guindon was killed Saturday night in Lake Ridge. She was sworn in Friday. Two other officers were injured in the shooting, authorities said. One was in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds and another officer was stable, according to Corey Stewart, chairman of the board of county supervisors. A day before the shooting, the department tweeted a photo of Guindon after her swearing in. Guindon had been an officer before but took some time off, Stewart said. Authorities did not release additional details on the domestic call. But when police arrived at the scene, they found a civilian woman killed in that incident, Stewart said.
CNN
Good Samaritan Shot, Killed By Robbery Suspect In DTLA
Police are investigating a shooting that left a good Samaritan dead in downtown Los Angeles early Saturday. LAPD officers responded to the scene at about 3:30 a.m. near Long Beach Boulevard and E. 14 Street, according to authorities from the Newton Division. The victim, believed to be in his late 30s, was found with a gunshot wound to his thigh. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities said the victim saw a man snatch a purse from a woman and chased after him. Soon after, the suspect turned around and fatally shot the good Samaritan.
ABC 7
L.A. Police Officer Pays It Forward With His Nonprofit
As a kid growing up in South Central Los Angeles, John Negrete has always had to bob and weave to stay on the right path. The 17-year LAPD veteran says he never would have made it to where he is now if he hadn't joined the cadet program, then known as the Explorer Program. “The community is impacted by gang activity. And if anything, it gave me a safe haven. It gave me a mentorship,” Negrete said. When he was 14, he became an explorer at Newton Division, where experienced community and police work. Years later, he ended up working as an officer there.
CBS 2
Grieving Mom on a Mission for Justice in Slaying of Teen Son
Tawona Lee will always remember Aug. 22, 2014, when her 17-year-old son became the fourth relative to be killed by gang violence in South Los Angeles. "My brother was murdered, my sister was murder, my father was murdered," she says in tears. "I couldn't believe they were coming to tell me my son had been murdered." Bert Crump, Jr. was near the intersection of Gage and Normandie avenues on a Friday afternoon. During the evening rush hour, while he was waiting for a bus, LAPD South Bureau Criminal Gang homicide detectives believe his red LA Angels of Anaheim T-shirt may have inadvertently offended a local gang member. "We know the shooter is a local," Det. Fernando Cuevas said. "We just need someone to tell us who it is."
NBC 4
2 Hurt Road Rage Shooting in South LA
A road rage shooting in South Los Angeles Saturday left two people wounded, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Police were searching for the shooter at 6:30 p.m. The shooting occurred in the Vermont-Slauson area of South LA around 6 p.m. A road rage incident near the intersection of Gage and Raymond Avenues led to two people being shot, police said. The two were taken to the hospital, but their conditions were not immediately available.
NBC 4
Chief Beck needs to explain why we need thousands of extra cops
Violent crime is rising in Los Angeles, as it is in every major California city. The population of L.A. is rising as well, with 136,000 more Angelenos in 2014 than just four years earlier. Yet the city's budget has room for just under 10,000 officers in the L.A. Police Department. That's not enough, and it's high time for City Hall to face that fact, Police Chief Charlie Beck said this month. Beck is correct that the LAPD is on the lean side, at least when compared with other U.S. cities of similar size.
Los Angeles Times
Police Storm Embassy Suites Near LAX After High-Speed Chase
Police swept through an Embassy Suites near LAX on Friday searching for a man who had ditched a car after a high-speed pursuit. The pursuit started around 10:45 p.m. when LAPD officers pursued a stolen vehicle into El Segundo. The pursuit ended in front of the Embassy Suites Hotel, at 1440 E. Imperial Ave., police said in a news release. The man drove erratically, at times of speesd at 100 mph, along the Century (105) Freeway. At one point he bailed out ofhte car and ran into an undeground parking structure under the Embassy Suites.
NBC 4
1 Dead, 3 Injured in Hit-and-Run Crash on 5 Freeway Near Griffith Park; Driver Sought
Authorities were searching for a hit-and-run driver after a multivehicle crash left one person dead and three others injured near Griffith Park on Saturday morning, authorities said. Fire crews responded to a five-car crash on the southbound 5 Freeway at Colorado Boulevard shortly before 4 a.m., according to an alert from the Los Angeles Fire Department. One person who was ejected from his or her vehicle onto the road was pronounced dead at the scene, said Officer Francisco Villalobos of the California Highway Patrol. The victim's name has not been released.
KTLA 5
The federal government is fighting Apple for something the police want too
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Capt. Chris Cahhal doesn't mince words when deputies bring him an iPhone 6 and ask for help gathering information from the device. The veteran officer with the sheriff's fraud and cyber-crimes bureau simply hands it right back. “Here's your nice paperweight,” Cahhal tells them. “We can't do anything.” A long-simmering dispute between law enforcement and Silicon Valley over encrypted phones gained national prominence last week when a federal judge ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI break into an iPhone 5c as part of the investigation into the San Bernardino terror attacks.
Los Angeles Times
Assembly Poised to Take Up Gun Control Measures
Guns are once again a hot topic in Sacramento. Tuesday the Assembly Public Safety Committee will consider four bill regulating guns. Among the measures is one by Democrat Marc Levine that would expand the state's assault weapons ban to include firearms with a button that allows magazines to be easily detached. “This makes it very easy to change magazines,” says the San Rafael legislator. “Literally in a second (you can) go from one ten-clip magazine to another one, so that shooters can fire more bullets.” The committee will also take up a measure that would more broadly expand the definition of an assault weapon.
KQED
Lawmakers focus on untested rape kits
California lawmakers are pushing law enforcement agencies to ensure rape kits are being processed and victims are being heard, with several bills introduced so far this year in the state Legislature. The bills follow years of reports about massive rape-kit backlogs across the nation and stories of cases where shelved DNA evidence could have stopped a serial sex offender before a new crime was committed. In January, Heather Marlowe filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against San Francisco, alleging the Police Department denied her equal protection under the law by not adequately investigating her case or testing her rape kit. That case is pending.
San Francisco Chronicle
California ponders whether prostitutes are criminals or victims
By the time she was 19, Ashley Dickerson's body had already made money for several men. She ran away from home at 13 and was soon having sex for money. From time to time, she considered trying something else. But the men controlling Dickerson felt like family, she said, and she wasn't sure what else to do. “You sort of lose track and think you make choices on your own, not realizing the abuse you went through,” said Dickerson, who is now 31. “The problem with having no options, no job skills and a criminal record is you have nothing to do.” Finally she fled. She went to work, had a client drive her to the train station, and never returned. Since then, Dickerson has gone back to school and graduated with her medical assistant's degree.
Sacramento Bee
Scrutiny Brings Low Morale for Chicago Cops
Standing at the back of a car he had just pulled over during a routine traffic stop, the veteran cop had to calm himself. Ten, he counted as he took a deep breath. Nine. Eight. And down to one. The stop was like hundreds he'd made before except this time the driver inched the window down and swore at the officer as he handed over his license. "I don't have to talk to you, (expletive) you," the gang officer recalled the man telling him as the smell of marijuana wafted from the car. The release of disturbing video of a white officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, a black teenager, exposed decades of simmering anger over police mistreatment and abuse of Chicago citizens in some of the poorest, most disadvantaged areas.
Chicago Tribune
LAPD Warns Motorists About Streets To Avoid With Vice President Biden In Town
The Oscars? The Vice President in town? The Vice President scheduled to go to the Oscars? It all spells possible traffic nightmare. The Los Angeles Police Department has put out a list of streets that motorists should avoid Sunday and Monday (when Vice President Biden is expected to leave the Los Angeles area.)
CBS 2
Convention Center Rehab Sparks Dueling Visions
LA - A once-direct path to an updated Los Angeles Convention Center has been thrown into question, as a top city official has unveiled a plan that could lead to a massive new project in South Park. The late-stage proposal, which is new and fairly untested, has divided area leaders and raised the possibility of a project that would reshape a large portion of the community. The city has long sought to modernize and expand the aging Convention Center. The venue's lack of contiguous space — its South and West halls are split in two wings on uneven floor levels — and other shortfalls have made it a tough sell for meeting planners, particularly when vying with regional rivals San Diego and Anaheim.
Los Angeles Downtown News
Community center meant to unite L.A.'s Korean Americans has become a battleground The four-story building at Western and Olympic was meant to pull Korean Americans together as a community. But in recent years it has become a battleground. Lawsuits fly back and forth, and alternating waves of armed guards and locksmiths sneak in to lop off chains and drill through locks adversaries installed. When things got really bad just over a year ago, angry men repeatedly squared off in hallway shouting matches. "It was crazy," says LAPD Officer Harry Cho. "It was a big to-do."
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Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.'s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder
The Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division station is a brown brick fortress that consumes an entire block of Skid Row, but it is no match for the rats. They pop out of burrows in the station's raised planters at dusk, dozens of them, big fat ones, their gray-brown bodies nearly camouflaged by the bone-dry dirt of their stomping grounds. Humans standing 5 feet away fail to faze them. These rats play by Skid Row rules: live and let live, mind your business.
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