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Younger Angelenos have far more negative view of police than elders, poll finds

LOS ANGELES — Angelenos are split in their views of the Los Angeles Police Department, showing a sharp generational divide on how they rate the force's performance and on whether officers generally treat people of all races fairly, a new poll shows.

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LA strongly approves of Mayor Bass but is skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows

LOS ANGELES — On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be crucial for the new mayor during uphill battles ahead.

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LA riders bail on Metro trains amid 'horror' of deadly drug overdoses, crime

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Morales boarded the Metro Red Line at MacArthur Park as classical music blared over the station loudspeakers.

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Violence against Black women in LA remains high, even as serious crime drops

LOS ANGELES — Even as the rate of serious crime in Los Angeles trends downward, Black women and girls remain at higher risk of victimization than any other demographic, according to a report by the city's civil rights department.

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Man who shot 3 LAPD officers was fugitive parolee; 2 officers sent home from hospital

LOS ANGELES — Two of the three Los Angeles Police Department officers shot during a brief gunfight with a fugitive parolee this week were released from a hospital Thursday as more details emerged about the shooter, who died in the confrontation, police said.

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3 LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights neighborhood

LOS ANGELES — Three Los Angeles Police Department officers were shot Wednesday night and a suspect was dead following a confrontation in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, police officials said.

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The Hollywood sign at 100: how a hillside ad became an enduring monument

The familiar letters loom over a dreamy city – yet they remain surprisingly hard to reach

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Suspect in attacks on Jewish men was on FBI's radar, LAPD chief says

LOS ANGELES — A man charged with the hate-motivated shootings of two Jewish men in Los Angeles was on the FBI’s radar before the attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said.

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles police union proposes limits to 911 responses

The Los Angeles Police Department’s rank-and-file union is proposing that someone other than police respond to more than two dozen types of 911 calls in a bid to transfer their workload to more serious crimes

The Independent UK

LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department's largest employee union is looking to have officers stop responding to more than two dozen types of calls, transferring those duties to other city agencies while focusing on more serious crimes.

Los Angeles Times

One man’s fight to hold an LAPD officer accountable for a protest shooting

LOS ANGELES — Since Deon Jones first alleged that a Los Angeles police officer had unjustly shot him in the face with a hard-foam projectile at a 2020 protest, he and his legal team have gone to great lengths to prove it.

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Lady Gaga ‘sued by dog theft accomplice for not giving her $500k reward’

The singer’s dogs were stolen in 2021

The Independent UK

Editorial: LAPD’s broken discipline system doesn’t hold officers accountable

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and Mayor Karen Bass want to make it easier to fire or otherwise punish officers who have committed serious misconduct, and they have the right idea. Police must earn the trust of the communities they serve, yet trusting them is hard if officers can’t…

Los Angeles Times

‘He was hunting Jews’: LA officials decry antisemitism in wake of shootings

LOS ANGELES — In a school gymnasium painted yellow and black to symbolize the star that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, Mayor Karen Bass addressed a crowd of 400 who had gathered for a town hall on antisemitic violence after the shootings of two Jewish men…

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Jews in West LA are resolute, on edge after gunman targets Jewish community in 2 shootings

LOS ANGELES — Stephane Sultan, who owns a kosher restaurant on Pico Boulevard, knew his neighbors and customers were on edge because they kept confiding the same message.

Los Angeles Times

LA City Council members want to give police chief more power to fire officers for misconduct

LOS ANGELES — Two members of the Los Angeles City Council called Friday for an overhaul of the Police Department's disciplinary process, one that would enhance the police chief's power to fire officers and scale back the involvement of civilians in disciplinary hearings.

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Suspect in shootings of two Jewish men in LA is charged with federal hate crimes

LOS ANGELES — A man with a history of making antisemitic statements was charged Friday with federal hate crimes on suspicion of shooting two Jewish men as they left religious services in Los Angeles in recent days.

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Shootings of 2 Jewish men in LA under investigation as potential hate crimes

A suspect was arrested by LAPD on Thursday in connection with both shootings.

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The suspect accused of shooting 2 Jewish men in LA has been charged with hate crimes

Both victims survived the shootings, which happened just blocks apart this week. Federal prosecutors filed two hate crimes charges against the shooter on Friday.

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Man with animus toward Jewish community arrested in LA shootings, sources say

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a suspect in the shootings of two men outside synagogues in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of L.A. over the last two days.

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Extra security added for synagogues after two Jewish men shot in LA's Pico-Robertson neighborhood in two days

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department will provide increased security around Jewish institutions across the city after the shootings of two men outside synagogues in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood over two days, community leaders say.

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Federal prosecutor joins LAPD probe into handling of Les Moonves sex assault allegations

LOS ANGELES — A federal corruption prosecutor has joined the LAPD investigation into allegations that the department mishandled a sexual assault complaint against former CBS executive Leslie Moonves, Los Angeles police told the L.A. Times.

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Jennifer Coolidge called the police after spotting a trespasser at her home

LOS ANGELES — "White Lotus" star Jennifer Coolidge alerted the Los Angeles Police Department after she spotted a trespasser at her home in the Hollywood Hills.

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She asked the police to help her husband. They killed him instead

Sassie Smith’s husband, Takar, was fatally shot by the Los Angeles police while he was having a mental health crisis: ‘I won’t let this get swept under the rug’

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LAPD edits police shooting videos as other cities embrace greater transparency

LOS ANGELES — The videos Memphis officials released showing the fatal police beating of Tyre Nichols last month were striking not just for the viciousness they captured.

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