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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
LA Police Protective League
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the union that represents the
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
January 4, 2015 |
Crime in LAPDs Harbor Area rises nearly 20 percent
Major crime in the Harbor Area rose nearly 20 percent in 2015, a statistic about double the average across the Los Angeles Police Department's jurisdiction, according to statistics released this week. LAPD crime reports through Dec. 26 show the numbers of homicides, robberies and aggravated assaults increased sharply in the Harbor Division's jurisdiction, as did burglaries, auto thefts, thefts from vehicles and other thefts.
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Carjacking suspect tied to violent crimes and Long Beach standoff has died, police say
A carjacking suspect who police say shot two people and stabbed another before shooting himself in the head at the end of a wild pursuit Friday has died, Los Angeles police said. Daniel Ramirez died shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday, Officer Mike Lopez said. Ramirez was identified Saturday as an accomplice to Artyom Gasparyan, a 32-year-old man who police believe is responsible for a monthlong series of violent crimes — including robbery, carjacking, attempted murder and a fatal shooting — stretching across Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles Times
Wild chase suspect in custody after standoff in Van Nuys
A man wanted for making criminal threats took Los Angeles police officers on a dangerous pursuit through the San Fernando Valley before crashing in Van Nuys on Sunday. The pursuit of the armed suspect ended outside a strip mall after an intense standoff with police. Authorities said the chase began after the suspect got into some type of altercation with another person at a store on the 8300 block of Haskell Avenue.
ABC 7
In Los Angeles, sex trafficking doesn't look like it does in the movies
It's a warm summer evening in July, and Lt. Andre Dawson of the Los Angeles Police Department is steering his blacked-out SUV across South Los Angeles Street. Skid Row is an emblem of L.A.'s notorious designation as the nation's unsheltered homeless capital: the city has 82,000 homeless on any given night, and most people don't realize that up to one in eight of the homeless are unaccompanied minors, according to the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center.
Salt Lake City Deseret Morning News
Police Search Long Beach Neighborhood Following Home Invasion
A search is underway in a Long Beach neighborhood for a possibly armed individual wanted in connection with a home invasion. Police established a perimeter near the crime scene in the 3200 block of Chestnut Avenue. Three people were arrested following the home invasion report and a short pursuit Monday morning.
NBC 4
Chicago Police Shot Fewer People in 2015
While the video release of a Chicago police officer's shooting of Laquan McDonald prompted a domino effect of change, including the ousting of the police superintendent and a federal civil rights investigation, the department finished 2015 on an ironic note: Officers shot the fewest people that they have in years. Chicago police officers shot 22 people in 2015, eight of them fatally. That's a 40 percent drop in the total number of people shot compared with 2014, when 37 people were hit by police gunfire and 16 of them were killed, according to department figures.
Chicago Tribune
FBI Monitoring Armed Standoff in Oregon National Wildlife Refuge
The FBI has taken the lead in monitoring an armed standoff in Oregon where a group of militia members, along with some members of the family of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, are occupying a building on federal land at a national wildlife refuge. The FBI is "working with the Harney County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and other local and state law enforcement agencies to bring a peaceful resolution to the situation,” the agency said in a statement.
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Mayor Urges Los Angeles Residents to Prepare for Storms at News Conference
Mayor Eric Garcetti urged Los Angeles residents to be prepared for El Niño-related storms expected in the coming week. "This storm is real — and it's coming," Garcetti said at a news conference Sunday evening. A series of storms was expected to strike in the coming week, bringing rain, snow, and potential flooding beginning Sunday evening. The stronger storm was expected to make landfall bringing one to two inches of rain on Tuesday.
NBC 4
Minimum Wage, Homelessness Likely To Be Among Major Issues For L.A. In Year Ahead
The minimum wage and homelessness likely will continue to be among the major issues affecting Los Angeles in the year ahead. While most of the action around minimum wage happened in 2015, the effects of the measure adopted by the city to raise the wage to $15 per hour by 2020 will start to be felt in the upcoming year.
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Los Angeles County winter shelters for homeless hit capacity as chilly nights continue
The line forms in the frigid night almost an hour before opening time. Most of the homeless men and women who shiver and wait outside the National Guard Armory in Sylmar carry just one bag each. Some have nothing. Others in line are those who are often reluctant to leave their belongings and encampments to stay at an emergency winter shelter such as the one set up at the armory.
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