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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
March 9, 2016 |
Killings in Los Angeles jumped 27.5% so far this year
Killings in Los Angeles have surged by 27.5% so far in 2016 compared to the same period last year as the city continued to see a rise in violent crime, LAPD officials said Tuesday. The jump in homicides along with double-digit increases in aggravated assaults and robberies meant Los Angeles has experienced a 12.7% rise in violent offenses, LAPD Asst. Chief Earl Paysinger told police commissioners at their weekly meeting Tuesday. In contrast, property crime has fallen 2%, fueled largely by what Paysinger described as a "remarkable" 16.2% drop in burglaries. As a result, overall crime is up less than a percentage point from 2015, Paysinger said.
Los Angeles Times
Everyone's privacy is important, including police officers'
Some misguided politicians and anti-cop activist groups are pushing a proposed new law, SB 1286, authored by State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), to strip away the privacy protections from California police officers, sheriffs' and highway patrolmen, which has been in place for almost 40 years. Why? Because they think providing confidential information contained in an officer's personnel file will increase trust between the community and law enforcement. It's nonsense and the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) is opposed and will fight this dangerous proposal. Senator Leno's bill is a solution in search of a problem. Currently, police officers are held accountable in California when they violate their respective department's policies or the law. In Los Angeles, the civilian Police Commission reviews incidents where officers use force and determines if that force was within policy.
Los Angeles Police Protective League
Fallen LAPD Officer Nick Lee Remembered On 2nd Anniversary Of His Death
Fallen Los Angeles Police Department officer Nicholas Choung Lee was remembered Monday during a tribute ceremony held at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale on the second anniversary of his death. Dozens of family, friends and LAPD officers gathered to remember Lee and place roses on his grave. The father of two was killed on March 7, 2014 when a runaway truck plowed into the side of his Hollywood Division LAPD patrol car near Robert Lane and Loma Vista Drive in Beverly Hills. His rookie partner was also critically injured.
ABC 7
City Attorney Mike Feuer Talks Drug Crime, Porter Ranch Gas Leak On Eyewitness Newsmakers
Many critics blame L.A.'s recent increase in crime on Proposition 47, which decreased some criminal penalties to reduce California's prison overcrowding. On Eyewitness Newsmakers, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer revealed he's doing a federally funded study that will find out if the critics are right. He also told Newsmakers host Adrienne Alpert he's running a pilot program at one LAPD subdivision that is giving more incentive to offenders to get into drug treatment, which could greatly decrease crime. The city attorney also discusses legal action from the Porter Ranch gas leak, and his part in a nationwide prosecutors' effort to remove guns from domestic abusers.
ABC 7
First-responders, investigators in San Bernardino terror attack honored
San Bernardino police Lt. Travis Walker took the stage at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday and told the audience he would not be mentioning the names of the husband and wife who attacked the Inland Regional Center in December. The responders to the terror attack were one of three groups receiving awards. A second group included human-trafficking investigators from the state attorney general's office, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Long Beach Police Department and city prosecutors office. A third group included members of the Los Angeles Police Department for its Community Safety Partnership Program, a collaboration with the Los Angeles Housing Authority that focuses on building community trust by working on programs such as Girl Scout troops and a football team for housing projects in Watts instead of making arrests.
Los Angeles Times
Man, woman arrested in 118 freeway shooting
A man and a woman were arrested after the man allegedly fired off several rounds from a moving car into the brush on the 118 freeway in Mission Hills and the woman was found to have an outstanding warrant, authorities said today. The shooting took place on the westbound 118 Freeway near the interchange with the 405 freeway about 8 p.m. Tuesday, said sheriff's Lt. Henry Saucedo of the Transit Policing Division. “An off duty deputy was traveling west on the 118 Freeway when a person in the car in front of him rolled down the window and fired off several rounds into the brush alongside the freeway,” Saucedo said. The deputy, who was in a department cruiser, pulled the car over and found two men and two women inside, he said. The male passenger was arrested for allegedly firing the gun and one of the women was jailed on an outstanding warrant, he said.
Los Angeles Daily News
Deputies trained not to arrest child prostitutes, but offer help
Children who are sexually exploited often return to their pimps or traffickers, even when offered safe alternatives, county officials told the Board of Supervisors. As part of a program being expanded countywide, sheriff's deputies have been trained not to arrest children working the streets, but to connect them to county agencies and community-based organizations that can help. Sheriff Jim McDonnell and other county officials have adopted the slogan, “There is no such thing as a child prostitute.” The Los Angeles County Law Enforcement First Responder Protocol for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children began as a pilot program with sheriff's Compton and Century stations and Long Beach Police Department. Last month, it was rolled out to the Los Angeles Police Department's 77th and Southeast divisions.
MyNewsLA.com
San Bernardino chief says first responders to attack were out-gunned
San Bernardino police officers did not have all the equipment needed as they stormed into the Inland Regional Center searching for active shooters last December, San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said Tuesday. Burguan told KPCC officers had insufficient body armor and lacked tools to knock down doors. Inside, responders found 14 dead and 22 injured. It was the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. The shooting was over when police arrived, but had it not been, officers would have found themselves out-gunned, Burguan said. "We encounter people with more firepower all the time," he said.
89.3 KPCC
Alleged Sinaloa cartel kingpin is extradited to San Diego
Victor Emilio Cazares Gastellum, an alleged onetime top lieutenant in Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, has been extradited to San Diego, four years after his arrest in connection with one of the largest U.S. investigations ever mounted against the powerful organized crime group. Cazares, who was flown from the state of Mexico to San Diego on Friday, entered a not guilty plea in federal court Monday and was denied bail. Cazares, who is believed to be related to Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, allegedly ran a drug trafficking arm of the cartel that linked Colombian cocaine producers with cities across the U.S.
Los Angeles Times
A Porter Ranch park closed due to oily residue, possibly caused by gas leak
A Porter Ranch park was closed today after city health officials discovered oily residue believed to be caused by a leaking gas well in Aliso Canyon. Holleigh Bernson Memorial Park, near the intersection of Sesnon Boulevard and Porter Ranch Drive, was closed, City Councilman Mitch Englander announced in a news release. Englander had requested L.A. County health department officials to inspect all parks in the area following the months-long gas leak. Englander said on March 6, county health officials reported, “after a thorough examination of the playground facilities in Porter Ranch area parks, there was no evidence of any ‘oily residue' and no health concern for residents or visitors.”
Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles joins 118 cities urging Supreme Court to lift ruling on undocumented adults, children
Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Tuesday that 118 cities and counties have joined together to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to lift an injunction that blocks President Obama's executive action on immigration. The friend-of-the-court-brief was co-drafted by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer's office, and was submitted by a coalition of mayors to ask the Supreme Court to lift an injunction on Obama's policies to help millions of undocumented children and their families who would otherwise be deported. Through executive action, Obama unveiled a policy in 2014 called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents or DAPA, to allow more than 4 million undocumented immigrants to be eligible for work authorization and associated benefits.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Carl Lewis, Greg Louganis and other athletes join L.A.'s Olympic bid
Carl Lewis, Greg Louganis and Apolo Ohno highlight a long list of Olympians who have lent their names to the campaign to bring the 2024 Summer Games to Los Angeles. The LA 2024 bid committee announced its athletes' advisory commission on Tuesday during a U.S. Olympic Committee event at the Beverly Hilton. "Every time I come to this city, I'm swept away by a river of emotions from the 1984 Games," said Lewis, who won four golds at the Coliseum that summer. "It's the very special feeling I get every time I return to Los Angeles."
Los Angeles Times |
L.A. County winter shelters will remain open through March 31
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to extend the operation of winter shelters through the end of the month due to the potential for more rain. The Board of Supervisors voted in September to open winter shelters six weeks earlier due to the forecasted El Niño conditions. Supervisors Hilda Solis and Michael Antonovich requested that the shelters that were slated to close March 15 remain open through March 31. The shelters that were scheduled to close on March 15 are in Bell, Pomona, Lancaster and at the former High Desert Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center. Most of these shelters have been operating at 90 percent capacity, the supervisors said. While the heavy rains that were predicted haven't, for the most part, materialized in Los Angeles, forecasters have said there is a potential for more rain.
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