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Los Angeles
Police Protective League
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the union that represents the
rank and file LAPD officers
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
October 6, 2017 |
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Las Vegas Mass Shooting
When Cancer Patient Couldn't Flee Las Vegas Shooting, An LAPD Officer Carried Her
As chaos unfolded during the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Cassidy Huff was completely exhausted. Coming off of chemotherapy for cancer, she simply could not run anymore as she tried to flee gunfire. The 20-year-old collapsed behind a car. That's when Mitchell Tosti appeared. Tosti is a Los Angeles police officer who was in Las Vegas off-duty at the time. "You don't know who you're helping at that point," Tosti recalls.
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LA's Crisis Responders Ready To Comfort, Provide Support To Las Vegas Shooting Survivors
As survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting return home to Los Angeles this week, a team of volunteer crisis responders say they are here to listen and provide support to those reeling from the traumatic event. Usually dispatched to traffic accidents, homicide scenes and other traumatic events, the more than 200 people that make up the Mayor's Crisis Response Team are now taking dozens of calls from those who witnessed or were victims as a gunman sprayed bullets in quick succession into a crowd of concert-goers from a 32nd-floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
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Las Vegas Mass Shooting Shines Light On Little-Known Device That Allows Semiautomatic Weapons To Mimic Machine Guns
The Las Vegas mass shooting is bringing intense scrutiny on a once-obscure device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to mimic a machine gun. Legislators in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives are discussing a potential ban on the device known as a “bump stock,” with even the National Rifle Association calling for a review of whether it complies with federal law.
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Law Enforcement News
Slain LA County Sheriff's Sgt. Honored One Year Later
On the one-year anniversary of his killing, a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant was honored Thursday as family members joined authorities to dedicate a section of State Route 14 in the Antelope Valley in his name. "The outpouring by the Antelope Valley community has remained steady and strong,'' Sheriff Jim McDonnell said at a ceremony one year to the day that sheriff's Sgt. Steve Owen was shot to death last Oct. 5 as he responded to a young mother's 911 call reporting a burglary at her apartment building in Lancaster.
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Driver Arrested On DUI, Reckless Driving Charges After Chase Ends In Crash In North Hollywood
A short police chase ended in a multi-vehicle crash in North Hollywood that sent the suspect and others to the hospital Wednesday night, police said. The chase involving two motorcycle officers lasted less than a minute before the suspect smashed into three other vehicles at Vineland Avenue and Victory Boulevard around 9:30 p.m. Police were seen on video drawing their guns as they approached the vehicle.
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LAPD Reveals Its Proposed Drone Use Guidelines
The Los Angeles Police Department has made its pitch on how it would operate drones to the commission overseeing it. The proposed guidelines say drones would be deployed for search and rescue operations as well as specific situations, such as those involving active shooters. In addition, department-operated drones would not have any weapons capabilities.
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LAPD Declares Unlawful Assembly After DACA Supporters Block Traffic On Wilshire Blvd.
In Westwood; 9 Arrested Los Angeles police declared an unlawful assembly and made several arrests after supporters of the DACA program blocked traffic on Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood on Thursday morning, backup up traffic on the popular thruway and prompting outrage among motorists. The protest, at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Veteran Avenue, took place on the same day that eligible recipients under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have to file to renew their status.
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A Pipeline To Juvenile Detention? A New Study Aims To Find Where Officials Can Intervene
A new study finds that the troubles of the hundreds of youth leaving the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles County each year may have started at home in early childhood. For most coming out of juvenile detention, the county's child protective system had received a warning about their mistreatment as kids, according to the study released Friday from the University of Southern California's Children's Data Network.
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New California Law Ends Penalty For Crossing Street During Signal Countdown
Whether you're quick or not, the principle is the same: If you step into a crosswalk after the countdown begins you're putting yourself at risk — at risk of a costly fine, that is. Or at least that's been the case as long as section 21456(b) of the California Vehicle Code has been around. Once the red hand appears on the crossing signal, “No pedestrian shall start to cross the roadway in the direction of the signal,” the law states. ?
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Sexual Extortion Will Be Considered A Criminal Act In California
Sexual extortion will be considered a criminal act in California under legislation signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown. SB 500, by Sen. Connie Levya (D-Chino), will add coercion involving sexual acts and sexually explicit images — known as "sextortion" — to the state's extortion laws. “The Governor's signature of SB 500 tells sextortion victims that they matter and that they absolutely deserve to be able to receive justice in a court of law," Leyva said in a statement.
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FACT CHECK: Is Chicago Proof That Gun Laws Don't Work?
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't give a definite response to these questions, but her statement showed a White House hesitant to create new regulations.
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Public Safety News
1 Firefighter Injured After Fire At Downtown L.A. Recycling Facility Is Mostly Extinguished
Firefighters managed to control the flames of a structure fire at a recycling facility in downtown Los Angeles Thursday afternoon and one firefighter suffered a non-threatening injury after battling the blaze, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. The fire was reported by about 1:18 p.m. at Angelus Western Paper Fibers Inc. in the 2400 block of East Porter Street, authorities said.
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California's Deadly Hepatitis A Outbreak Could Last Years, Official Says
California's outbreak of hepatitis A, already the nation's second largest in the last 20 years, could continue for many months, even years, health officials said Thursday. At least 569 people have been infected and 17 have died of the virus since November in San Diego, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties, where local outbreaks have been declared.
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Local Government News
Gov. Brown Visits L.A. To Lobby For The $17-Billion Delta Water Project With two key California
WaterFix votes looming, Gov. Jerry Brown expressed confidence Thursday that water agencies will commit to enough funding to sustain the massive project. Brown was in Los Angeles to lobby for the $17-billion proposal, which would re-engineer the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California's complex waterworks.
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