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A Los Angeles police officer was struck by a hit-and-run driver and landed on the hood of the suspect's car in South Los Angeles late Monday night, authorities say.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Los Angeles police officer was struck by a hit-and-run driver and landed on the hood of the suspect's car in South Los Angeles late Monday night, authorities say.

Police were investigating a possible stolen vehicle near San Pedro...

An 11-year-old boy diagnosed with a brain tumor will make the "It's time for Dodger baseball" announcement before Wednesday night's game at Dodger Stadium. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.

An 11-year-old boy diagnosed with a brain tumor will make the "It's time for Dodger baseball" announcement before Wednesday night's interleague game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium.

A.J. De La Torre, the son of Los Angeles Police...

Juan Jose Diaz appears in a photo released by the Los Angeles Police Department on July 27, 2019.

Memorial services were being held Monday morning for Los Angeles Police Department Officer Juan Diaz, who was fatally shot near a taco stand in Lincoln Heights late last month.

The services were taking place at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in...

Family friends of slain LAPD officer Juan Diaz, Chris Martin, center, and Ricardo Camacho visit a memorial in front of LAPD headquarter. Camacho’s parents were godparents to Officer Diaz.(Al Seib/Los Angeles Times)

Two days after a young off-duty officer was fatally shot at a taco stand in Lincoln Heights, police were still looking for the gunman who killed him.

Juan Jose Diaz, 24, was eating near the stand shortly after midnight Saturday with his girlfriend and...

An ambulance rushes to the scene of an accident in a file image (Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

A Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer and a bicyclist were injured in a crash in the Sepulveda Basin early Monday afternoon, officials said.

The collision took place just after noon in the 16400 block of West Burbank Boulevard, according to...

When the worlds of good and evil collide in a dark environment of a concrete cell and street. An information-gathering technique used only during the extremist of circumstances. When intelligence is vital for conviction, what can your department or agency do?...

LAPD Chief Michel Moore talks about the department using high-tech devices to kill germs in the Central Division station. (Liz Moughon / Los Angeles Times)

While it resembles something from a Hollywood movie, the Los Angeles Police Department hopes a high-tech robot can kill bacteria in a police facility the state declared unsanitary.

On Friday, Police Chief Michel Moore unveiled a robot that uses high-...

A police cruiser is involved in a multi-vehicle crash in Los Angeles on June 16, 2019.

Two Los Angeles police officers suffered minor injuries in a three-vehicle crash Sunday in the Pico-Union area of Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The crash happened about 7:20 p.m. at 2688 Olympic Boulevard, fire department...

A Los Angeles police motor officer was injured in a collision involving an SUV in Van Nuys on Friday morning.

VAN NUYS, Calif. (KABC) -- A Los Angeles police motor officer was injured in a collision involving an SUV in Van Nuys on Friday morning.

The crash happened in the 6900 block of Van Nuys Boulevard around 10:15 a.m., the department said.

AIR7 HD was...

Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies walk in a procession behind a coroner's van transporting the body of fallen Deputy Joseph Gilbert Solano to the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner after a news conference announcing his death, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

A man walked into a Jack in the Box on Monday and shot Joseph Gilbert Solano in the head

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was shot in an off-duty attack at a fast-food restaurant died Wednesday, the sheriff...

An LAPD officer has died after surgery related to a 2015 traffic collision that occurred while she was on duty, police said Tuesday.

Officer Esmeralda Ramirez passed away over the weekend, according to a Los Angeles Police Department...

Police have a new tool in their efforts to mentor Los Angeles youth: minibikes.

The Los Angeles Police Department demonstrated its new program "National Youth Project Using Minibikes'' Saturday at the off-road training course of the LAPD Davis Training...

Authorities are searching for a BMW driver after a Los Angeles police officer on a motorcycle was injured in a hit-and-run crash on Interstate 105 in Lynwood early Monday morning, officials said.

The officer was ejected from his bike and taken to the...

A Los Angeles police station was being disinfected Wednesday after officials learned one officer was sickened with typhoid fever and a second employee was exhibiting salmonella typhi-like symptoms.

The employees both work in LAPD's Central Division,...

President Donald Trump awards Sgt. Thomas Avila III of the Azusa (Calif.) Police Department the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

On Election Day in November 2016, a gunman went on a deadly rampage in an Azusa neighborhood, killing one and injuring three others with a rifle and handgun near an election polling place.

In a ceremony Wednesday, eight Azusa and Irwindale police...

The leadership of the Oscar Joel Bryant Foundation (OJB) expressed outrage over the cover of the May 2019 LAPPL’s Thin Blue Magazine which depicts bullets flying in South Los Angeles. Well, bullets are flying and what the LAPPL is outraged over is the ever-...

Three Los Angeles Police Department officers have been infected with a highly contagious staph infection after what a union official says was an encounter with a homeless person at a police station. The three officers who were infected are on medical leave...

Law enforcement sources said a domestic terror plot aimed at “multiple targets” in Southern California was disrupted. (Los Angeles Times)

A domestic terror plot aimed at “multiple targets” in Southern California was disrupted by federal and local law enforcement agencies, sources told The Times on Monday.

A single suspect has been arrested on domestic terrorism charges, according to two...

LAPPL Vice President Jerretta Sandoz at the LAPPL's press conference regarding the ACLU's dangerous demand.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League held a press conference to decry the ACLU’s demand to remove all LAPD Metropolitan Division officers out of South L.A. In the last week of March, according to LAPD Chief Moore, 26 people in South L.A. were shot. Ten of...

LAPD and L.A. County Sheriff’s vehicles line up near the scene of a shooting in South L.A. on Saturday, April 20 that left an officer and a suspect injured. (Raphael Richardson/Special to SCNG)

Police officers chasing a man in South Los Angeles late Saturday got into a brief gunfight with another man who appeared in their path armed with a gun, officials said.

The shooting left one of the officers and the suspect injured, Los Angeles Police...

Crafty crooks take Hollywood by storm. They pulled off more than 40 car break-ins last weekend alone, and police say they've been in these streets before.

Police said Thursday that they've broken up a band of scooter-riding robbers from the San Francisco Bay Area who busted into 40 cars over the weekend in Los Angeles.

The thieves traveled to Hollywood and used ride-sharing scooters to hit dozens of cars...

California can reduce dangerous encounters and improve the safety of our neighborhoods by taking a more holistic approach to crime reduction. (Bay Area News Group File Photo)

We should stop pretending that there’s one single solution to reduce police use of force incidents

A safe and respectful encounter. Every single time. California public safety officers have this goal in mind whenever they interact with a...

Photo by Nigel Kileen/Getty Images, File

The Los Angeles Police Department saw a 25% reduction in officer-involved shootings last year, compared to the previous year, according to a report presented to the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday.

The 2018 Use of Force Year-End Review Report found...

Listen in as LAPPL Director Robert Harris discusses with Dr. Drew and Leeann Tweeden on how to make interactions between police officers and the community safer, and why AB 392 is the wrong solution to address this issue.

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Solidarity.

It was a force for good over the weekend as LA fire and police officers, along with members of the public, gathered at Fire Station 89 in North Hollywood, where they shaved their heads to support kids who’ve lost their own hair from cancer...

More organized retail crooks are flying into California to hit high-end stores, police say.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- California is always a top destination for tourists.

But now another group is flocking to the Golden State and they're not bringing their hard-earned money - they're taking ours.

Organized retail crime is big business for...

LAPD respond to a crime scene near Hawkins High School. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Jaleyah Collier had just said goodbye to Kevin Cleveland outside a doughnut shop a few blocks from Hawkins High School on a spring afternoon in 2017. Get home safe, she told him before walking away.

Minutes later someone drove into an alley nearby, got...

A Northern California sheriff's department has released graphic video of a deputy fatally shooting an armed suspect.

Napa County Undersheriff Jon Crawford said Wednesday that the video was...

A coroner's van leaves the Renaissance gated community, where Los Angeles police are investigating a triple homicide. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Police on Tuesday publicly identified three men who were shot to death recently in the Renaissance gated community on the border of Porter Ranch and Chatsworth.

Gary Davidson, 39, a renter in the house where the shooting erupted; Benny Lopez, 46, of...

Photo credit: Los Angeles Police Department

A rare English bulldog puppy is on its way home thanks to cooperation between police officers in Illinois and the Los Angeles Police Department.

The blue merle English bulldog puppy was taken from a pet store in Naperville, Ill. on Dec. 18. It was 10...

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