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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
LA Police Protective League
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Los Angeles
Police Protective League
the union that represents the
rank and file LAPD officers
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
May 12, 2011 |
Crime alerts for Sawtelle, Mount Washington and 12 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 14 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Nine neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Sawtelle was the most unusual, recording five reports compared with a weekly average of 1.6 over the last three months. Mount Washington topped the list of five neighborhoods with property-crime alerts. It recorded eight property crimes compared with its weekly average of 2.5 over the last three months.
Los Angeles Times |
Debate persists over effectiveness of surveillance program
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 Angeles Police Department's Photo Red Light Unit can do the equivalent work of some 100 out on the streets, according to Sgt. Matthew MacWillie, who oversees the program. Having three officers patrol one intersection would mean paying three salaries as opposed to operating one camera at $8,125 a month, MacWillie said.
Los Angeles Daily News |
Slaying of MTV coordinator may be linked to shotgun robberies, LAPD says
Los Angeles police are trying to determine whether there is link between Sunday's slaying of MTV music coordinator Gabriel Aron Ben-Meir and a series of shotgun robberies and a homicide over the last two weeks. LAPD sources said the robber had struck at least eight times in the last two weeks, using a shotgun during street and business robberies in the Mid-City, Southwest L.A. and Wilshire areas. The robber also is responsible for a slaying a week ago, police believe.
Los Angeles Times |
Company to unveil "Wanted" billboards in Bryan Stow case
The first of hundreds of billboards will be unveiled Thursday in an attempt to find the men behind the beating of a Giants fan at Dodger Stadium. The red and yellow billboards read, "Wanted: Attempted Murder at Dodger Stadium." The billboards will include sketches and information about the two men who attacked Bryan Stow. The 41-year-old Giants fan was beaten as he walked in the stadium parking lot after his team's season opener against the Dodgers. There have been no arrests in the case.
NBC4 |
3 arrested, 2 sought in slaying at Hollywood party
Los Angeles Police Department detectives in Hollywood, working closely with the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and county probation gang experts, have tied five people to a deadly confrontation April 17 that claimed the life of Lorenzo Smith when gunfire broke out. One of the men has been charged in the killing and another man and woman face accessory-to-murder charges. The party in the 1600 block of North La Brea Avenue turned to mayhem as known gang members began to argue and confront Smith, drew their weapons and unleashed several rounds.
Los Angeles Times |
LAPD receives two electric hybrid bicycles for street patrols
The Los Angeles Police Department is now the proud owner of two hybrid electric bicycles that officers can use on bike patrol. Chatsworth-based Currie Technologies has donated two electric hybrid bicycles to the Los Angeles Police Department. "The biggest thing that these electric bikes do on the street for the officers is afford them the power to stay with conventional road bikes," said Sgt. Matthew Bygum, who runs the LAPD's Bicycle Coordination Unit.
Southern California Public Radio |
Police Unity Tour stops in Warminster
The Police Unity Tour made a brief stop at the Warminster (Penn.) Police Department to refresh and refuel on Tuesday afternoon. Officers are riding to raise awareness of Law Enforcement Officers who have died in the line of duty and to fund raise for the National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorial and Museum.
PhillyBurbs.com |
LAPD official says Bin Laden journal offers evidence L.A. terror threat is real
A top Los Angeles police official said Wednesday that information in Osama bin Laden's journal confirms what local authorities have long known: that L.A. has been a target of Al Qaeda. The journal contemplated how to kill Americans in U.S. cities including Los Angeles. "The latest trove of intelligence should be a wake-up call to Americans that this threat has always been real," said Michael Downing, commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's counter-terrorism and special operations bureau.
Los Angeles Times |
High court eyes Calif's landmark prison case
It's the "Sword of Damocles" hanging over California's head, according to Gov. Jerry Brown. The Democratic governor used the phrase to describe the possible release of more than 35,000 state inmates - the equivalent of at least six prisons - if the Supreme Court upholds an order by a special three-judge panel demanding overcrowding be reduced to improve the health care received by inmates. A decision by the high court is expected in June.
Capitol Weekly |
Appellate court: Sacramento County must make pension data public
An appeals court ruled this morning that Sacramento County's retirement system must turn over pension data requested by The Bee. Amid public outcry about government pensions, The Bee and the First Amendment Coalition went to court to force the Sacramento County Employees' Retirement System to reveal the pension benefits of retirees.
Sacramento Bee |
Audit: City wastes $1M on cellphones
The problem at City Hall is not that no one is listening. It's that too many people are talking. And it's costing taxpayers at least a $1 million a year. That's one of the conclusions Controller Wendy Greuel came up with in an audit released Wednesday of the city's use of cellphones. The audit found the city has 11,812 cellphones distributed among the city's 40,000 workers, including three proprietary departments of Airports, Harbor and Water and Power.
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