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Los Angeles
Police Protective League
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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
November 20, 2018 |
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Law Enforcement News
Police Officer Among 4 Dead In ‘Horrific' Chicago Hospital Shooting
A Chicago police officer and two hospital workers were killed Monday by a gunman who carried out a grisly assault at a city hospital. Police identified the fallen officer as Samuel Jimenez, a young cop with less than two years with the department. Hospital officials said emergency room doctor Tamara O'Neal and first-year pharmacy resident Dayna Less were the other victims in the afternoon shooting at Mercy Hospital on the city's South Side. The shooter, who authorities identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, also was killed in the incident. He was previously engaged to O'Neal, according to family members who spoke with reporters.
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LAPD To Make Presentation To City Council On Efforts To Combat Street Racing
The Los Angeles Police Department is scheduled to make a presentation to the City Council Tuesday on its efforts to combat illegal street racing following reports of dangerous “street takeovers” in the San Fernando Valley and some fatal crashes. The presentation comes after the City Council voted in June to have the LAPD report on all of the city's current ordinances, laws and fines related to street racing, anti-street racing programs in effect, as well as any suggestions to increase penalties or fines. Street racing is a decades-old problem in city, but particularly in the Valley, and in recent years has evolved into what are commonly referred to as street takeovers, where a large number of drivers close down a street or intersection while other motorists perform dangerous and reckless stunts.
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Police Seek Driver Who Fled After Hitting 75-Year-Old Man
Police Monday sought the public's help to identify a driver who struck and injured a 75-year-old man last month in an Atwater Village parking lot and then left the scene. Images and video of the suspect and his pickup truck were recorded by surveillance cameras and disseminated by the Los Angeles Police Department in hopes of determining the motorist's identity. The victim was struck about 4:25 p.m. on Oct. 7 in a parking lot near the 2900 block of Los Feliz Boulevard. The suspect was driving a gray 2000-2019 Dodge Ram that hit the victim's left shoulder. The vehicle's driver's side mirror was damaged, police said.
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Central Coast Inmate Arrested In L.A. Weeks After Escaping Prison In State Van
California officials say they have apprehended a minimum-security inmate who escaped last month by stealing a state van parked at the prison garage where he worked. The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says 26-year-old David Gray Hall drove away Oct. 30 from the California Men's Colony prison in San Luis Obispo. He was arrested without incident Friday about 200 miles away, in a park in the southwest area of Los Angeles. The prison's white 1997 Ford Aerostar van was found nearby. Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton says inmates have escaped using state vehicles before. Virtually all escapees are caught.
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South LA Prostitute Pleads To Federal Sex Trafficking Charge
A South Los Angeles prostitute known as "Pretty Hoe" on social media pleaded guilty today to a federal sex-trafficking charge, admitting she used the internet to try to enlist underage girls to work for her on the streets. Melanie Williams, 23, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison for her plea to a single count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. U.S. District Judge George H. Wu scheduled sentencing for Jan. 28. According to prosecutors, Williams physically abused a woman she had recruited via social media to work as a prostitute.
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3 Men Convicted In East Compton Gang Shooting Where 4-Year-Old Boy Was Hit By Stray Bullet
Three men have been found guilty in a 2017 gang shooting in East Compton that left a 4-year-old-boy who was sitting in a nearby car wounded, officials announced Friday. Luis Julian Beltran Perez, 23, Edgar Manuel Rosas, 35, and Salvador Sanchez, 21, were each convicted Thursday of two counts of attempted murder and three counts of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a news release. The jury also found true allegations of use of a firearm and that the shooting was committed for the “benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with a criminal street gang.” Perez was also found guilty of three counts of attempted voluntary manslaughter.
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California Sheriff's Office, School Districts Roll Out New Emergency App
San Luis Obispo law enforcement and school district officials are working together to introduce an app to reduce police response time and hopefully save lives in the event of an active shooter, the SLO County Sheriff's Office announced last week. The Rave Panic Button dials 911 and alerts other teachers to the presence of an active shooter, KEYT reported. It also provides responding officers with teachers' locations and a map of the premises. “We're the only county that I know of that has developed a response plan with an app,” Sheriff Ian Parkinson told KEYT. “But frankly we hope that we'll never have to use [it].”
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Public Safety News
VIDEO: LAFD Helicopter Pilots Rescue 3 People, 2 Dogs In Santa Monica Mountains
During Woolsey Fire Dramatic video shows two pilots with the Los Angeles Fire Department rescuing three people and two dogs in the Santa Monica Mountains from the oncoming flames of the Woolsey Fire. LAFD Air Operations pilots David Nordquist and Joel Smith were battling flames of the Woolsey Fire on Nov. 9 when they was re-directed to a rescue at nearby Castro Peak in the hills above Malibu. The pilots are heard in the video communicating with one another, trying to figure out where to land as surrounding communication towers and parked vehicles made it difficult. The pair begin their landing, conscious of their diminishing fuel supply and the fire approaching.
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LA Rams Bring 'LA Together' To Honor Tragedy Victims And First Responders
In the past two weeks, 12 victims were killed in the mass shooting at the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks, and hundreds of people lost their homes in the Hill and Woolsey fires. That's why the Rams decided to honor the victims at Monday's Football game calling it "LA Together." Rams fans, first responders and victims of recent tragedies were on the Rams' guest list in Monday's game. "This is a 100 percent dedicated to the first responders and to the victims and those affected by the recent tragedies," said Ronalee Zarate-Baayani, Chief Marketing Officer for the LA Rams.
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Local Government News
L.A.'s $2B Metro Rail Line From Mid-City To South Bay Will Miss Its 2019 Deadline
A $2-billion light-rail line that will add a key north-south connection to Los Angeles County's growing transit network is facing several construction problems and will not open next year, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. Tunneling and track construction along the 8.5-mile Crenshaw Line through South Los Angeles has gone quickly, officials said, but crews have fallen behind schedule on electrical work, the connection to the Green Line, and improvements to sidewalks and gas lines in areas where the train will run at street level.
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