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LOS ANGELES — Hate crime reports across Los Angeles are up 13% over last year’s record-setting levels, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who said he believes inflammatory rhetoric on social media was contributing to the increase.

LOS ANGELES — Hours after drawing protesters’ ire with his first in-person appearance in two months at a Los Angeles City Council meeting, Kevin de León was involved in a fight with an activist Friday night that was at least partially caught on video.

LAPD officer was set to be important witness in trial of Tory Lanez, who is accused of shooting the fellow rapper two years ago

From the horse’s head in The Godfather to the smell of napalm in Apocalypse Now, no one does chilling menace like the 91-year-old Oscar-winner. With the release this month of his new film, we rate his greatest roles

LOS ANGELES — Days after an internal investigation was launched into whether a former Los Angeles police captain led a cover-up of sexual assault allegations against former CBS chief Leslie Moonves, the detective who handled the case years ago took an unusual step.

Los Angeles police are seeking a search warrant for the Reddit website as they try to identify the person who leaked a racist discussion between CityCouncil members and a powerful labor leader, causing a scandal that has rocked the community and shaken faith in its lawmakers

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police detectives have served several search warrants as they attempt to find out who recorded a meeting among three L.A. City Council members and a powerful labor leader filled with racist and offensive comments, law enforcement sources told The Times on Tuesday.

Shaun Byrne, 35, was resuscitated in the street by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department

The two men, both from Liverpool, were shot in the Venice Beach area in the early hours of July 30 - Los Angeles Police Department released CCTV in hopes of finding Brandon Manyo Dixon

Bystander Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was killed last year when police officer shot at assault suspect in store

The Los Angeles Police Commission has ruled that an officer violated policy when he fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store last year, killing a 14-year-old girl