The Los Angeles Police Department was forced to reassign officers, many of whom work for special investigative units, to security at Los Angeles Rams games after two fights broke out at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Mary Beth McDade reports for the KTLA 5...
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An off-duty Los Angeles police officer is in serious condition after being struck by an SUV while riding his motorcycle in Fullerton.
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A Northern California man accused of deliberately ramming a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer with his truck and then leaving the scene was charged Monday with assault and attempted murder.
Philip Newlyn, 28, of Elk Grove, is facing one...
Authorities Wednesday sought the public's help to find a motorist behind a hit-and-run crash in the Valencia area that lefta Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer injured.
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Rams football fans hold banners, wave signs and chant while marching around the L.A. Memorial Coliseum in January. (Richard Vogel/Associated Press)
As the Rams prepare for their return to Los Angeles on Saturday with a preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys, L.A. city officials are scrambling to figure out who will pay for the substantial police presence required at a National Football League game....
A Los Angeles Police Department officer is being celebrated after raising tens of thousands of dollars for two children whose mother is in hospice care after a stage 4 cancer diagnosis.
Demonstrators rally in Hollywood on Saturday to pay tribute to law enforcement officers. (Anh Do / Los Angeles Times)
Rosa Padilla is the mother of a narcotics officer and mother-in-law to a son entering the police academy.
So she spent her Saturday morning on a passionate cause: honoring the men and women in uniform whom she calls "our blessings, who protect our lives...
Dozens of officers came in and out of Scripps Mercy Hospital overnight, where one of the wounded officers underwent surgery. That officer is expected to survive, SDPD Chief Shelley Zimmerman said. (NBC 7 San Diego)
A San Diego Police Department officer has died and another officer remains hospitalized after a late-night shooting during a traffic stop just south of downtown San Diego. Both officers are part of the force's Elite Gang Unit.
The SDPD said one suspect...
A Los Angeles police officer was shot and wounded in a gunfight between a suspect in Watts late Monday night.
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck leaves at the end of a news conference held Friday to discuss crime in L.A. through the first half of 2016. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
The Los Angeles Police Department's decision to flood the city's deadliest neighborhoods with more officers has managed to slow the pace of killings and shootings in recent months.
But the department still faces a continuing rise in assaults, robberies...
A handful of restaurants Monday threw an appreciation lunch for LAPD officers Monday at the LAPD's Pacific Division Station in Del Rey.
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LAPD officers at a protest near City Hall on Tuesday, July 12. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
The Los Angeles Police Department will increase helicopter patrols and the screenings of 911 calls in the wake of the fatal shootings of three Baton Rouge officers, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Sunday.
Under the move, the LAPD will also...
An LAPD officer was hospitalized Wednesday morning after being involved in a motorcycle crash with an SUV on the 60 Freeway near Mountain Avenue in Ontario.
The officer, a 16-year veteran who has been riding the motorcycle for work for about a year, was...
Jasen Frelot, left, holding his daughter Ruby, gives a pat to Seattle police officer Daniel Aguirre after handing the officer a rose in response to the shootings of police officers in Dallas, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Seattle. (AP Image)
The Dallas shooting that killed five officers has spurred an outpouring of support for police, not only in Texas but hundreds of miles away.
Around the country, people have showed up at local departments with flowers, sent social media messages or called...
An LAPD commander says others in the department falsely concluded that he gave a blogger information on a horse deal involving the daughter of Chief Charlie Beck. Above, the police chief. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A Los Angeles Police commander is suing the city, alleging he was the victim of retaliation after top police brass falsely concluded he leaked information to a blogger for a story that said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck approved the department's purchase of a horse...
Sunday, June 12, 2016 photo provided by the Orlando Police Department shows the helmet Officer Michael Napolitano was wearing when responding to the shooting at Pulse nightclub, in Orlando, Fla. (Orlando Police Department via AP)
The Kevlar helmet that saved an Orlando SWAT officer from a gunshot wound during the nightclub massacre this month is proof of why police need sophisticated equipment, say local unions representing law enforcement agencies.
The issue was raised Wednesday...
Officer Guillermo Espinoza pushes a button to turn his lapel camera on and off. The cameras don't roll for the entire shift, only when an officer presses record. (Maya Sugarman/KPCC)
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a $69.6 million plan to place body worn cameras on 7,000 Los Angeles patrol officers by the end of 2017.
Originally, L.A. Mayor Garcetti had promised to have cameras on LAPD officers by the end...
On New Year's Day 2016, LAPD K-9 Edo helped save the lives of officers and children from an armed man. (KABC)
On New Year's Day 2016, Los Angeles Police Department K-9 Edo helped save the lives of officers and children from an armed man.
Sierra Cuesta doesn't remember her dad.
But a group of officers do.
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Friends and family react after a list of hospitalized victims is released June 12 outside a hotel near the Orlando Regional Medical Center.
While the bodies of Omar Mateen's victims were removed from Pulse nightclub overnight, investigators worked Monday to determine what motivated the Florida killer responsible for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history -- a man the FBI knew was sympathetic to...
This April 28, 2015 staff file photo shows Roberto Maldonado in court in San Fernando. (Photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News/File)
The driver of a dump truck that collided with an LAPD cruiser in Beverly Hills, killing a veteran training officer, waived his right Wednesday to a hearing to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to proceed to trial on a felony count of gross...
Craig Lally, president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, called for the department's disciplinary board to be composed entirely of civilians. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Tensions between Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and the union representing LAPD officers boiled over into a federal lawsuit Thursday, with the Los Angeles Police Protective League claiming the chief has a "corrupting influence" on the disciplinary...
President Obama Monday awarded the Medals of Valor to four Southern California police officers, who risked their lives to save others.
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LAPD patch. Photo by MyNewsLA.com
Los Angeles police officers who died in the line of duty were recognized Thursday in the memorial service held annually at police headquarters.
Police Chief Charlie Beck said he thinks daily of the officers killed during his time with the department, and...
City Controller Ron Galperin flanked by Councilman Mitch Englander and others speaks about the need to get cops out of civilian assignments back to patrol. (Richard Winton)
Los Angeles police could better combat crime in the city by freeing more than 400 able-bodied officers from desk jobs and hiring more civilians to perform clerical duties, according to an audit released Tuesday.
The report by City Controller Ron Galperin...
A police officer patrols Skid Row in Los Angeles, California, September 22, 2014. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
For the second year in a row, violent crime is up in Los Angeles. Through March, homicides rose 24 percent compared to the same period last year. Overall, violent crime - which includes homicides, robbery, aggravated assaults and rape - is up 13.4 percent,...
The Los Angeles Police Department deployed units to "critical infrastructures" sties throughout the city Tuesday in response to the terror attacks at the international airport and a subway station in Brussels.
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Police investigate the shooting of a security guard at a jewelry store in downtown L.A.'s Chinatown earlier this year. Paramedics treated the man for an arm wound, according to reports from the scene. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Killings in Los Angeles have surged by 27.5% so far in 2016 compared to the same period last year as the city continued to see a rise in violent crime, LAPD officials said Tuesday.
The jump in homicides along with double-digit increases in aggravated...
LAPD patch. Photo by MyNewsLA....
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