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Police Misconduct
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tapes help free a suspect
California | Local |
August 19, 2008
False testimony by a Los Angeles police officer led a judge on Monday to throw out a case against a man accused of attempted murder – the second time in recent months that an LAPD officer’s testimony has torpedoed a prosecution. Read more
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Inglewood chief defends actions on shootings
California | Local |
August 14, 2008
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. Read more
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Bratton seeks to modify punitive rules
California | Local |
July 22, 2008
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton is seeking permission to make the department’s review of officer-involved shootings and other use-of-force incidents less punitive for some officers who violate department rules. Read more
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
LAPD homicide detective in interrogation that led to slaying of witness is reassigned
California | Local |
July 18, 2008
Los Angeles Police Department officials have reassigned a homicide detective and will train others to be more careful in protecting witnesses in light of the slaying of a teenage girl after officers disclosed her name as part of a ruse during an interrogation. Read more
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
LAPD brings discipline charges against 19 for May Day melee
California | Local |
July 9, 2008
The Los Angeles Police Department brought disciplinary charges against 17 officers and two sergeants for their roles in the May 2007 MacArthur Park melee, in which immigration protesters and journalists were injured by police, officials said today. Read more
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Carona’s attorneys target talk of affair
California | Local |
July 8, 2008
Attorneys for indicted former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona asked a federal judge Monday to prohibit a former secretary from testifying that Carona asked her to lie to investigators about their lengthy sexual affair. Read more
Friday, July 4, 2008
LAPD veteran investigated in hit-and-run that injured 2
California | Local |
July 4, 2008
A Los Angeles police officer assigned to the elite Metropolitan Division is under investigation for allegedly driving drunk, striking two pedestrians with his Hummer and then fleeing the scene, authorities said. Read more
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Interrogation, then revenge
California | Local |
July 2, 2008
On a cool spring night five years ago, 16-year-old Martha Puebla sat on the curb outside her Sun Valley home, talking to a friend, when a man walked up from behind. Read more
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
$2.5 million couldn’t keep Anaheim gang member from his old friends
California | Local |
June 17, 2008
Nobody wanted Jose Luis Muņoz to fail. Read more
Bill seeks to open LAPD discipline file
California | Local |
June 17, 2008
A state senator hopes to revive a controversial bill that would increase media access to disciplinary hearings and records involving Los Angeles Police Department officers. Read more
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Police chief’s arrest jolts town
California | Local |
June 4, 2008
Just beyond the reach of the North Coast fog, this little community of 1,150 basked until recently under the protection of a police force of just four officers. Read more
Monday, June 2, 2008
Fixing Theo Lacy will be a priority for next O.C. sheriff
California | Local |
June 2, 2008
Theo Lacy is Orange County’s largest and most notorious jail, the site of a highly publicized inmate homicide and the focus of a scathing report by the district attorney. Read more
Friday, May 23, 2008
Officer payment program criticized
California | Local |
May 23, 2008
A little-known Los Angeles police union program that reimburses officers for wages lost as a result of misconduct suspensions has been roundly criticized by law enforcement and management experts, who say the practice seriously undermines officer discipline. Read more
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
What LAPD takes, union returns
California | Local |
May 21, 2008
Most Los Angeles police officers who are suspended without pay for misconduct rely on an unusual union-run insurance policy to reimburse them for lost wages. Read more
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Baca halts training of new recruits
California | Local |
May 14, 2008
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has ordered his academy to stop training new recruits until it addresses problems exposed by state inspectors, including the revelation that one instructor gave recruits the answers to their tests. Read more
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Dead deputy may have molested others
California | Local |
April 24, 2008
The Orange County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that it was trying to determine whether a sheriff’s deputy who killed himself after being charged with molesting a 12-year-old boy may have sexually assaulted other minors. Read more
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2 men win in ‘05 case against police
California | Local |
April 15, 2008
Two members of a Bell Gardens family who said police beat them at a Halloween costume party in 2005 have been awarded a $4.5-million civil rights judgment, their attorneys said Monday. Read more
Closing arguments in Sean Bell trial
National |
April 15, 2008
. – The three police officers on trial for killing a 23-year-old man on his wedding day behaved appropriately, a defense lawyer said in closing arguments Monday, casting blame for the incident on one of the young man’s friends. Read more
Sunday, April 13, 2008
O.C. deputies lied, record shows
California | Local |
April 13, 2008
They lied, they changed their stories and they compared notes even after being ordered not to by a special Orange County grand jury investigating a deadly beating at Theo Lacy Jail, the testimony shows. Read more
