Moonlighting

Reversing a long-standing policy, the Los Angeles Police Department intends to prohibit officers from moonlighting as private investigators, officials said Monday. LAPD Assistant Chief Sharon Papa told the City Council's Public Safety Committee that the department first must confer with the police officers union, but "it is the chief's intention to restrict them from working as private investigators."

Dozens of Los Angeles police officers hold private investigator licenses, a far higher number than officials had previously acknowledged, a Times study of state and local records shows. The licensed investigators include detectives in high-profile assignments. Chief William J. Bratton told the Police Commission in February that only two of his officers were licensed and that the department closely monitored such activities. Other officials later put the number at eight. This week, LAPD Cmdr.

AT night, the scent of poet's jasmine woke me up. We slept outdoors, on wooden beds arranged next to the 12-foot-deep fish pool with statues of silver-skinned dolphins that spat water into the air when the fountain was turned on. Tehran's summers were dry and brutal. At midday, the heat nearly melted the asphalt on the sidewalk and turned the city into a ghost land. By 5 o'clock, the red bricks on the floor of our yard were still too hot to step on barefoot.

A Los Angeles City Council member warned LAPD officials Thursday that they must ban officers from moonlighting as private investigators, or he will push the council to do so. "We need to ban all outside work as private investigators. We need to ban officers working for private investigators," Councilman Jack Weiss said at a meeting of the council's Public Safety Committee.

Los Angeles Police Commission members on Tuesday questioned whether LAPD officers should continue to be allowed to work off-hours as private investigators, with commission President John W. Mack expressing "serious reservations" about a practice he said "raises highly questionable ethical issues." The commission has asked the department and the Los Angeles city attorney to determine whether it can prohibit officers from working as private investigators. LAPD Cmdr. Kenneth O.

At the moment court adjourned for the day, legendary defense lawyer Bruce Cutler was not just yelling but bellowing, stabbing the air with his finger, his face crimson. The witness, a sweet-faced former Luchese boss turned government informant, had risen from his seat and was yelling himself. "I can holler louder than you!" said Alfonse "Little Al" D'Arco, glowering at Cutler. "You loudmouth!" Moments later, Cutler -- his voice now quiet -- delivered an apology to U.S.

How good a job does Police Chief William J. Bratton think he's doing policing the streets of Los Angeles? Good enough that the chief is at work on two books: one on management techniques, the other on counterterrorism. Bratton has yet to provide specifics about the books, including their titles or when they would go to press. But he is not new to the world of publishing.

After six months of review, the National Institutes of Health has decided to leave in place its ban against agency scientists taking consulting fees from drug companies but will not require the scientists to sell all of their industry stock holdings, officials announced Thursday.

Ethics officials at the National Institutes of Health often approved senior scientists' requests to moonlight for drug companies and other outside organizations without gathering adequate documentation to help judge whether the arrangements posed conflicts of interest, federal inspectors have found. In 81% of the recent outside arrangements reviewed by the inspector general of the U.S.