Libor Jany covers the Los Angeles Police Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2022, he covered public safety for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Jany studied communications at Mississippi State University.
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La familia de Daniel Magaña ha presentado una demanda por homicidio culposo contra el condado de Los Ángeles, alegando que el personal de la cárcel de Twin Towers no le proporcionó “evaluación psiquiátrica, seguimiento, medicación ni tratamiento” antes de que fuera hallado inconsciente en su celda a principios de este año.
The family of Daniel Magaña has filed a wrongful death claim against L.A. County, alleging staff at the Twin Towers jail failed to provide him with “psychiatric evaluation, monitoring, medication, and treatment” before he was found unresponsive in his cell earlier this year.
The rise of multimillion-dollar “nuclear verdicts” involving the Los Angeles Police Department has caused payouts over officer misconduct, traffic accidents and workplace discrimination to soar in recent years, according to a Times analysis of data from the city attorney’s office.
Citing concerns about the potential misuse of automated license plate readers, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to overrule the approval of a pilot program by Axon Enterprise that would attach the devices to streetlights around the city.
An LAPD recruitment officer recorded his colleagues making derogatory statements about people of color. Unlike in years past, the LAPD is no longer a majority white department.
Wilver Blanco, 42, was shot in 2024 after police were called to the Broadway-Manchester neighborhood for a report of a man seen chasing an elderly man with a knife, possibly while under the influence of drugs.
A new executive directive announced Thursday by Mayor Karen Bass seeks to boost crisis intervention training for police officers, among other reforms.
A 34-year-old Los Angeles man was arrested after allegedly pepper-spraying a fellow moviegoer using a cellphone at a Burbank AMC theater, leaving at least two others needing hospital treatment.
In a statement, a spokesperson said that the entertainer was ‘receiving the care and support he needs,’ TMZ reported.