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Police say a man is posing as an officer to harass young girls in the San Fernando Valley. The suspect threatened to arrest one girl and told another he needed to put a tracking device in her bra.

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The Brown Administration told a federal appeals court Tuesday that it may ask for more time to comply with a Supreme Court ruling declaring overcrowding...

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The Los Angeles Police Department wants BB guns and imitation firearms to look a lot less like the real thing.

In a memo set for review Tuesday by members of the Police Commission, police Chief Charlie Beck is asking for a new city ordinance that would...

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Giovanni Ramirez, the man accused by Los Angeles police in the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan at Dodger Stadium, also is a suspect in a gang shooting in Nevada, LAPD officials said Wednesday.

Ramirez, 31, was taken into custody last week...

The good news is the influence of al-Qaida has diminished, and its powerful leader, Osama bin Laden is dead, Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michael Downing told a crowd Wednesday at the Visalia Convention Center.

But the violent extremist organization...

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SAN ANTONIO - Authorities in south-central Texas say a veteran sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while waiting at a traffic light in his patrol vehicle.

Bexar County Sgt. Kenneth Vann was waiting at an intersection early Saturday when someone in...

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Photo: Officer Andrew Garton. Credit: Larry Guidi.

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Photo by Roderick Yang via Flickr

Photo by Roderick Yang via Flickr...

Los Angeles police officials Tuesday acknowledged serious shortcomings in the way the LAPD investigates claims of retaliation among officers, vowing quick reforms to the unit that investigates such cases and better training for supervisors who are often accused...

In a Tuesday afternoon news conference in Cypress Park, Los Angeles Police Dept. officials...

The police do not need a warrant to enter a home if they smell burning marijuana, knock loudly, announce themselves and hear what they think is the sound of evidence being destroyed, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in an 8-to-1 decision.

The issue as...

The independent watchdog of the Los Angeles Police Department again has found serious shortcomings in how the LAPD investigates cases of retaliation among officers.

LAPD policy forbids officers from retaliating against other officers who report...

An investigation is under way into an officer-involved shooting in North Hollywood where a man tried to run over police with a car.

Watch the video report.

The incident...

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Over the past three years, the District has reduced the number of its police officer positions from 4,200 to 3,800, and the number of officers would continue to fall to about 3,500 in the next 18 months under Mayor Vincent Gray's budget plan. Last week, Post...

Washington, DC - The names of 316 law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty - 152 of them in 2010 - were formally dedicated on the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Friday evening in Washington, DC.

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Four Los Angeles police officers were among 30 law enforcement personnel receiving "Top Cop" awards today at the White House.

"We're grateful for the sacrifices you and your families make, and my administration is committed to making sure that you get...

The city's controversial red-light traffic cameras issued 46,000 tickets last year.

And it only took all of four police officers sitting at a few computer monitors to run the system.

Just one of the officers manning the computers at the Los...

A Los Angeles City Council committee voted Tuesday to recommend six furlough days for police officers and certain firefighters in January if labor talks are unproductive in the coming months.

The proposal was the single biggest change made by the council...

A Los Angeles gun buyback that offered gift certificates for people who turn in guns netted 2,062 weapons over the weekend, including 91 assault rifles and a black Uzi machine pistol with a massive silencer, L.A. police said.

A covert operations weapon...

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