As Charlie Beck gets ready to retire, a look at LAPD chiefs who came before
After nine years as LA’s top cop, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has announced he’ll retire later this year. Beck will leave a 10,000 officer force with a simple…
After nine years as LA’s top cop, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has announced he’ll retire later this year. Beck will leave a 10,000 officer force with a simple…
Pamela Ferguson has lived on a quiet cul-de-sac near the Staples Center downtown for about a year and a half. Along with her four dogs, she lives in a…
KCRW’s Off the Block began in Westmont, a small Los Angeles neighborhood that has seen hundreds of arrests over the past five years according to a map developed by UCLA researchers…
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck defended his officers’ use of deadly force on Monday against two men in separate confrontations over the weekend. “While holding a handgun in his left hand –…
KCRW’s Warren Olney moderated KCRW’s Which Way LA? for 23 years before wrapping up the program on January 28. But he’s not going away. He will continue to host To the Point,…
L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck is defending his decision to recommend criminal charges against an officer involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice. Since going…
Tasers have been widely adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country. More than 80 percent of police departments in the United States authorize the use of what are officially…
There was a highly unusual ending to a televised car chase in L.A. County yesterday…police let the driver get away. The chase began in Altadena around 5 p.m. and ended…
The Los Angeles Police Department says it’ll send dozens of elite officers into South LA in response to an increase in crime and reported gang violence. August saw a big…
The Los Angeles Police Department is rolling out the first of 860 body cameras for its officers, part of a plan that will eventually have some 7,000 officers routinely wearing…
Police body cameras are coming to a city near you. For starters, the LAPD plans to roll out more than 800 of the devices next week as part of a…
This week on Press Play, we’re using the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots to talk about what has changed in the South L.A. community, and what has stayed the…
This week on Press Play, we’re using the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots to talk about what has changed in the South L.A. community, and what has stayed the…
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The LAPD has gotten a lot of praise for reducing crime and improving relations with minority communities. But violent crime is actually up this year (homicides are down). The national conversation…
Emotions ran high at a town hall meeting inside a Venice elementary school auditorium Thursday. Those gathered were concerned, and in many cases, irate, about this week’s killing of an unarmed…
Police and city officials met Thursday night with residents and activists in a standing-room-only town hall, two days after police fatally shot an unarmed homeless man near the Venice boardwalk. Emotions…
There’s no doubt, police officers are in a dangerous business. Their lives can be put in peril when they hit the streets of cities and towns across America. But, given some very…
The Dodgers season got off on the right foot as they staged a late comeback to beat the San Diego Padres at Chavez Ravine. But the experience wasn’t so pleasing…
Federal prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty in the case of the LAX shooter. 24-year old Paul Ciancia is accused of opening fire inside Terminal 3 of Los Angeles…