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Search results for "LAPD" ...
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A Bad Cop and His Wife
The investigation uncovered how a Los Angeles detective and his wife ripped off people from coast to coast. The detective would use his influence as a police officer to help his wife's furniture and design business. She would take customers money but not deliver the goods.
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"Urban League Gets Mixed Grades On Crenshaw Area Overhaul"
This series attempts to provide a "midway progress report" for a major, $25 million effort by the Los Angeles Urban League to "address academic problems at Crenshaw High School," and several other "social ills" that bother the neighborhood that surrounds the campus. Reporters interviewed members of the community, school and local law enforcement in an effort to report on the progress of the program. They found the Urban League's Neighborhoods@Work program "met some goals and fell short of others."
Tags: Los Angeles Urban League; Crenshaw High; LAPD; L.A. Unified School District; L.A. City Attorney's Office; California Public Records Act; records request
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"Fresno Cops Involved in Repeat Shootings Still on Duty"
This investigative report by Ali Winston found that "27 Fresno police officers were involved in repeat shootings of civilians" from 2003 to 2009. Winston compared the data to the Oakland Police Department, a city that has a higher crime rate, during the same period of time and found that "only five officers were involved in repeat shootings." The Fresno Police Department's chief of internal affairs was "unaware of the number of officers involved in repeat shootings until contacted by Winston."
Tags: Fresno Police Department; Oakland Police Department; Internal Affairs; California; Anaheim Police; LAPD; Robert Nevarez; Central Valley
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Homicide in LA
This series is a story about a serial killer on the loose in South Los Angeles. The story broke after a lead from the one and only surviving victim, who agreed to meet only with LA Weekly. LA Weekly kept the story alive by helping detectives by writing stories and keeping the existence of the serial killer alive. Though, after the story had gone away, 20 years later it has reappeared as the serial killer struck again.
Tags: murders; LAPD; police; mystery; Grim Sleeper; Southern California; court; law enforcement; detectives
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The Final Hours of Miguel Contreras
Labor leader and Los Angeles power-broker Miguel Contreras was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Los Angeles, the week before the 2005 mayoral election. No autopsy was performed, and doctors were pressured to sign a death certificate. The article outlines political power bases in Los Angeles, and speculates how various issues would have had different results if Contreras had lived.
Tags: organ harvesting; autopsy; botanica; 911 tape; labor leader; coroner; Los Angeles County Federation of Labor; LAPD; United Farmworkers; UFW; Centinela Freeman Memorial Hospital; Daniel Freeman Hospital
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The Scourge of Skid Row
In Los Angeles' Skid Row, the lives of police, firefighters, social workers and homeless people are threatened by a staph infection outbreak. Yet the country health department has done little to assist, even as L.A. firefighters and police, as well as a doctor, chaplain and employees at local homeless Missions were infected.
Tags: Staph; LAPD; LAFD; Skid Row; staph outbreak; staph infection
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Southeast Homicide
This story examines the intractable problem of homicide in black neighborhoods in Southeast Los Angeles. It also follows the efforts of the Los Angeles Police Department's Southeast homicide squad to solve the killing of Jerry Walsey Jr. The story describes how the lack of resources or skewed apportionment of resources creates problems for detectives.
Tags: LAPD; Jerry Wesley Jr.; race; homicide
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Mortal Wounds
"These stories examined the disproportionate number of LAPD homicide detectives across the city. We found that the safest places got the most detective manpower, that is, areas with fewer homicides were getting more detectives per case."
Tags: homicide; police; detectives; caseloads
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Battle Against Bad Cops Isn't Fought Only in L.A.
The LA Times looks at corrupt cops and finds that "in the seven years that U.S. Atty. Gen. Janet Reno has run the Department of Justice, the number of law-enforcement officers doing time in federal prison has risen to 668--an increase of nearly 600 percent."
Tags: police; cops; bad cops; LAPD; convicted cops; crime; corruption
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Flunking Grade: Psychological Tests Designed to Weed Out Rogue Cops Get a 'D'
The Wall Street Journal investigates the psychological tests designed to weed out bad cops and finds "critics say they fail to halt racial and other abuse." However, other police cite gains.
Tags: cops; police; psychological tests; racism; police brutality; personality tests; LAPD; job screening