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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
LA Police Protective League
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the union that represents the
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
August 3, 2016 |
Los Angeles Police Protective League Calls for Billionaire Owner of L.A. Rams to Pay Full Cost of Police Services for Football Games
Today, the LAPPL will demand that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at L.A. Rams home games. The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year. Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city. The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayers for the NFL team.
Yahoo Finance
Prosecutor: Man Opened Fire Immediately On San Diego Police
A man opened fire immediately on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, prosecutors said Tuesday, then shot into a patrol car, hitting the officer's partner with four bullets as he sat wearing a seatbelt. Jesse Gomez — a construction worker with two felony convictions — pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder charges at a hospital where he is recovering from wounds sustained in the gunbattle with police.
Associated Press
New Charges Added Against Three Charged in Off-Duty Officer's Killing
Two men and a teenage boy accused in the shooting death of an off-duty Downey police officer during an apparent botched robbery have also been charged with robbing a man less than an hour earlier in Paramount, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Abel Diaz, 17, and co-defendants Steven Knott, 18, and Jeremy Anthony Alvarez, 21, are facing a murder charge that includes the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission of an attempted robbery in the Nov. 18 death of Officer Ricardo Galvez.
NBC 4
Civilians Experience Police Shooting Simulator
Aiming to build a bond between law enforcement and the community, residents in Anaheim were given the chance to see what they would do in the scenario of a police shooting. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5 on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016.
NBC 4
Intruder Sought After Assaulting 2 Woman in Their Apartments on the Same Day: LAPD
Police were searching Tuesday for a man wanted in two home-invasion assaults on women on the same day in different parts of Los Angeles, and in both cases he was caught on surveillance video. The first assault was reported around 12:20 p.m. on Aug. 1 at an apartment complex in the 800 block of North Mariposa Street in East Hollywood, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
KTLA 5
Council approves Garcetti's nomination of attorney to LA Police Commission
The City Council signed off Tuesday on Mayor Eric Garcetti's nomination of attorney Cynthia McClain-Hill to the Los Angeles Police Commission. The former California Coastal Commission member will replace Robert Saltzman, who is termed out. Her term runs through June 30, 2021. McClain-Hill is coming aboard during a volatile time in the relationship between police and the black and Latino communities. Police Commission and departmental decisions around police shootings have been meet with vocal protests by Black Lives Matter members at the panel's recent meetings.
City News Service
Brazen Thieves Take $10,000 Painting Off Gallery Wall in San Pedro and Walk Away With It; Reward Offered
Detectives were asking for the public's help Tuesday in identifying those responsible for stealing a $10,000 painting from an art gallery in San Pedro. Surveillance images released by the Los Angeles Police Department show five people sought in the theft of a painting in San Pedro on July 7, 2016. The theft occurred on July 7 at a gallery on Sixth Street and Pacific Avenue while the business was open, according to a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department.
KTLA 5
Protesters shut down traffic outside LAPD headquarters
The mother of a young black man killed by police at a public housing project in Watts joined members of a group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party in a protest that briefly shut down traffic Tuesday outside LAPD headquarters. More than a dozen protesters walked onto the street in front of the Los Angeles Police Department's downtown building about 2:30 p.m., prompting officers to block off First and Main streets for about an hour. The street closure also temporarily barred the public from entering City Hall.
MyNewsLA.com
Raves leave L.A. for the suburbs, but deaths and drug problems continue
The heart of Los Angeles was once home to some of Southern California's most memorable rave concerts. But the geographic center of the scene is rapidly moving east as the popularity of the concerts increases and concerns about drug abuse by ravegoers has sparked a backlash in Los Angeles County. All of the region's biggest electronic dance music festivals are now held deep in the suburbs and exurbs of Southern California, centered in San Bernardino County.
Los Angeles Times
LA FBI Field Office's Assistant Director Deirdre Fike Speaks About New Post
The FBI's new assistant director in charge of the Los Angeles field office says she plans to focus on violent crime, public corruption and other concerns as she settles into her new post. It's been a busy three months for Deirdre Fike. She took time to sit down and talk with Eyewitness News in an exclusive one-on-one interview. Fike brings with her more than 27 years of experience as an FBI agent. Most recently, she served as special agent in charge of the Anchorage, Alaska, division.
ABC 7
It's Silicon Valley vs. law enforcement on California death penalty
Two competing November ballot measures that aim to abolish or expedite California's long-dormant death penalty each raised more than $3 million through the first half of the year, according to state campaign finance records, and largely drew their funding from a narrow group of major donors: Silicon Valley executives and law enforcement unions. Nearly 80 law enforcement groups have given to the campaign, led by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association with $325,000, the Peace Officers Research Association of California with $305,000, the California Association of Highway Patrolmen with $250,000 and the Los Angeles Police Protective League with $225,000.
Sacramento Bee
Should Fallen Officers' Families Get to Decide on Publicizing Death Videos?
It's a sight that's become all too familiar in recent days, a video showing the death of a law enforcement officer in the line of duty. Sometimes the recording comes from a nearby witness, but often it comes from the officer, whether through a body camera, dashboard camera or radio call. A bill pending in the California Senate from Democratic Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley) would let the family of the fallen officer decide whether those recordings should be made public. Low's brother is a police officer. He says the bill isn't intended to withhold information, but to protect families.
KQED
William Bratton, stepping down as New York police commissioner, says, 'I wish I had more time'
When William J. Bratton announced he was stepping down as L.A.'s police chief, even the ACLU seemed saddened. Now, seven years later and three time zones away, Bratton's resignation as New York City's police commissioner is drawing a similar reaction from the U.S. attorney leading a corruption investigation that has already resulted in criminal charges against four ranking New York police officials.
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City Government News
Van Nuys residents sue city over planned Oxnard Street fire station
Marking another legal fight over a planned Van Nuys fire station, a group of San Fernando Valley residents filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over the project.Filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, the lawsuit challenges the environmental analysis for the 18,500-square-foot planned station at Oxnard? Street and Vesper? Avenue and asks the court to invalidate the station's approval.
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Public Safety News
Plane crash near Van Nuys airport kills pilot, stuns neighborhood
The shambles of a fatal plane crash near Van Nuys Airport on Tuesday left shattered nerves and served as a reminder that in this part of the San Fernando Valley, danger from the sky is ever-present. Chris Aleck, the owner of P Graphics on Valjean Avenue, was standing outside when the plane flew overhead, then crashed. Los Angeles Daily News |
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About the LAPPL Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents the more than 9,900 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPPL serves to advance the interests of LAPD officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. The LAPPL can be found on the Web at:
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