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A Times review shows the LAPD’s academy is graduating about half the number of recruits needed per class to keep pace with Mayor Karen Bass’ ambitious plan to expand the department to 9,500 officers.
The officer was previously a member of the Mission Division Gang Enforcement Detail, which came under suspicion last year for a range of misconduct that is also under FBI investigation.
A Los Angeles police officer who fatally shot a 14-year-old girl through the wall of a changing room at a North Hollywood store has been cleared of wrongdoing.
Following a string of departures, Los Angeles faces an unprecedented three vacancies in key police leadership and oversight positions.
Simpson’s death at age 76 has revived memories of how his case roiled the police department with allegations of corruption, racism and incompetence that still resonate nearly three decades later.
Choi has so far avoided the kinds of controversies that plagued his predecessor, but low morale, an uptick in shootings by officers, and other challenges remain for the department’s first Asian American leader.
Los Angeles is testing a new approach to crisis response — dispatching teams of unarmed mental health practitioners instead of police officers.
The officer, Toni McBride, is a gun rights influencer on social media and the daughter of an outspoken police union official.
The off-duty lieutenant, Matthew Ensley, was arrested in connection with a crash on the 605 Freeway in Santa Fe Springs that injured at least one.
Kendra Rush was shot to death in a stretch of South L.A. known as a hub of the sex trade. Her mother is seeking answers.
