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A confluence of sporting events on Friday — a Lakers game, USC football, and the East L.A. Classic in addition to the Dodgers hosting the Yankees — will have the police department working overtime.
Los Angeles police said the victims were homeless people caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout, and that two suspects had already been arrested for allegedly participating in a flash mob-style robbery.
An LAPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice Beach in 2015 will face criminal charges based on the recommendation of a special prosecutor hired by Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón.
Once a member of the vaunted Robbery-Homicide Division, Det. Kristine Klotz alleges she was demoted after calling out harassment by a male supervisor.
LAPD training officers have forced new hires to wear long-sleeved uniforms in hot weather, forbid them from speaking unless spoken to, and told them to “forget everything you learned in the academy,” according to a new study by the department’s inspector general.
A police officer who fatally shot a man found asleep with a gun in his waistband was initially cleared of wrongdoing by oversight officials — but now could face punishment after the department’s chief found the killing was not justified.
The decision to select McDonnell, who was an LAPD officer before serving as L.A. County sheriff, comes after a months-long search by Mayor Karen Bass.
The officer, Toni McBride, is the daughter of a high-ranking police union official and a gun influencer on social media.
There are three other law enforcement agencies in addition to the LAPD that patrol Los Angeles parks, the port and the airport. But their officers have a different retirement plan than the city’s other public safety employees.
LAPD officers have jailed a former Men’s Central Jail deputy on accusations of being involved in an armed robbery in which a man’s car was shot at last month.
