Inglewood Police Department

Few in Inglewood had heard of Jacqueline Seabrooks or knew anything about the new police chief. After the City Council interviewed three finalists and then announced the appointment, Inglewood police officers and residents wondered how the new boss would adjust. After all, Seabrooks, 45, is a 26-year police veteran of Santa Monica, a city that had two homicides in 2006; Inglewood had 36.

Top Inglewood police officials struggled Monday to explain why officers fatally shot an unarmed motorist over the weekend, acknowledging that there was no evidence linking the man or others in the car to the gunfire that drew police to the scene. "It was a totality of circumstances," Capt. Eve Irvine said in explaining why the police shot at the car Sunday, killing Michael Byoune, a 19-year-old passenger, and wounding the driver, 19-year-old Larry White.

Inglewood police will hold a news conference this afternoon to release some findings of the investigation into Sunday's fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old man by two police officers, city officials said Tuesday. The announcement by City Manager Timothy Wanamaker came late into a City Council meeting, moments before relatives of the victim, Michael Byoune, were slated to take the lectern.

State and federal officials on Friday called for additional investigations of the Inglewood Police Department after this week's fatal officer-involved shooting, the third such incident in the last three months. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said in a statement that she planned to call for a federal probe at a news conference Monday at City Hall. The state Legislative Black Caucus also called for California Atty. Gen.

The Inglewood City Council tonight will consider asking an independent investigator to review a spate of officer-involved shootings that has resulted in three deaths in the last three months. The council will decide whether to engage the services of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Office of Independent Review to analyze the Police Department shootings, officials said. The announcement comes on the heels of state and federal officials calling for separate investigations.

Defending her management of a long-troubled department, Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks told reporters Wednesday that she helped initiate an independent review of her agency after the first of a spate of officer-involved shootings that left three people dead. Seabrooks said she also stood by her decision to return Officers Brian Ragan and Roman Fernandez to active duty a month after the May 11 shooting that left Michael Byoune, 19, dead and two others wounded.

In the wake of a series of deadly officer-involved shootings, Inglewood Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks announced Wednesday that her officers would begin new training in tactical decision-making next month. Seabrooks told reporters that the training would help officers better assess situations that could escalate to the use of deadly force. "At the end of the day, we are talking about a program that is to professionalize and enhance a skill set," Seabrooks said.

Three Inglewood girls said Saturday that they were attacked last week by at least 13 other teenagers on a sidewalk across the street from the Inglewood Unified School District offices and a continuation school. The girls, ages 16, 17 and 18, said at a news conference that they were held down and kicked Wednesday afternoon, and that two of them suffered injuries requiring outpatient hospital treatment.

At least six current or former Inglewood police officers are under investigation for allegedly having sex with female employees of massage parlors and other adult businesses that have been the target of a high-profile law enforcement crackdown. The internal affairs investigation by the Inglewood Police Department began after federal authorities launched an investigation of money laundering and prostitution involving women smuggled into Los Angeles from Asia.

The Inglewood Police Department said late Thursday that it has fired two officers who were the subject of an internal investigation into allegations that department employees had sex with female employees of massage parlors. In a prepared statement, the department said other employees of the agency have been given "intent to discipline" notices in connection with the case. The names of the officers involved, and the number of other employees facing discipline, were not disclosed.