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Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman has criticized the LAPD for no longer releasing neighborhood crime statistics. Others have taken issue with slow responses to public records requests. Chief Jim McDonnell, however, says the department is more transparent than ever.
While Flock has faced the brunt of the country’s backlash against automated license plate readers, its main competitor has emerged as a winner in the race to equip LAPD with surveillance technology.
The officer, Anthony Gutierrez, was off duty when he was taken into custody by officers from the LAPD’s Mission Division late Monday and booked on suspicion of kidnapping and assault with a firearm.
Homicides in Los Angeles have fallen to levels not seen since the 1960s, but more than a third of those killed this year have been Black.
Some observers see the November election between Mayor Karen Bass and challenger Nithya Raman as a referendum on LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.
The San Diego Police Department is exploring the use of AI to help officers write reports
La familia de Daniel Magaña ha presentado una demanda por homicidio culposo contra el condado de Los Ángeles, alegando que el personal de la cárcel de Twin Towers no le proporcionó “evaluación psiquiátrica, seguimiento, medicación ni tratamiento” antes de que fuera hallado inconsciente en su celda a principios de este año.
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The family of Daniel Magaña has filed a wrongful death claim against L.A. County, alleging staff at the Twin Towers jail failed to provide him with “psychiatric evaluation, monitoring, medication, and treatment” before he was found unresponsive in his cell earlier this year.
The rise of multimillion-dollar “nuclear verdicts” involving the Los Angeles Police Department has caused payouts over officer misconduct, traffic accidents and workplace discrimination to soar in recent years, according to a Times analysis of data from the city attorney’s office.
Citing concerns about the potential misuse of automated license plate readers, the Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to overrule the approval of a pilot program by Axon Enterprise that would attach the devices to streetlights around the city.
