tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84124589285892356742024-02-21T01:08:14.566-08:00LAPD RANTThis site is their voice. This site is dedicated to their struggles. This site is consecrated as hallowed internet ground to the officers of the Los Angeles Police Department - past, present and future...LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-9251199341498314552007-04-29T11:36:00.000-07:002007-04-29T11:52:54.204-07:00Residents recall life amid the anarchy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_BrbytY_AbudAXKYmFwCHy_rLH8RlHyEwrEoCIZD2jttpQrTH3F3pf0LhwddNva9tzYqHHpZBUEBVFKCEq0HfIs6Dc3cDaCr2ckf5yztdaLDjIeNxfvbN1EY1XH8s5AMBPMKJvrhBOg/s1600-h/1177828165-riot.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058924990056433762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_BrbytY_AbudAXKYmFwCHy_rLH8RlHyEwrEoCIZD2jttpQrTH3F3pf0LhwddNva9tzYqHHpZBUEBVFKCEq0HfIs6Dc3cDaCr2ckf5yztdaLDjIeNxfvbN1EY1XH8s5AMBPMKJvrhBOg/s320/1177828165-riot.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles police officer takes aim at a looter in a market at Alvarado and Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992, during the second night of rioting in the city. VICTORVILLE — Christopher Anderson was living in Baldwin Hills on April 29, 1992 — the day that all hell broke lose in South Central Los Angeles, not far from his neighborhood.<br />His mother called him earlier that day, concerned about the Rodney King verdict.<br />“My mom told me and my sisters and brothers to come over and leave work early. She said, ‘I have a vibe something is going to happen if they do not find these cops guilty,’ ” said the Victorville resident.<br />But the premonition did not prepare Anderson for the devastation he would encounter.<br />That day, three police officers were acquitted by a predominantly white jury in the beating of motorist Rodney King, while the panel could not agree on one count for the fourth police officer.<br />What ensued was the worst riot in modern U.S. history, with damage estimated from $800 million to $1 billion. Rioters looted stores, set fires, beat innocent bystanders and shot at police, with 53 people killed in the process.<br />On the 15-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Anderson mused about the conditions that led to the chaos.<br />“If (elected officials) don’t sit down and try to get to the roots of the problem, who knows? Maybe we’ll wake up one day and this city will be on fire like that,” he said.<br />Though the conditions that led to the riots are not exactly duplicated here, the population has grown considerably in the last 15 years, putting ethnic groups in close proximity who have not previously had a presence in the valley.<br />With gangs from Los Angeles added to the mix, tensions have erupted in the schools between Latinos and blacks. Anderson, whose parents had moved to Los Angeles from Alabama not long after the 1965 Watts riots, found it hard to believe that residents would destroy their own neighborhoods.<br />“Why are you stealing from your own community? You're hurting yourself,” he said. “Here I am driving down Crenshaw Boulevard and there’s people losing their minds. You go out in the street and there’s the National Guard. It was like a different country, it wasn’t America.”<br />William Lundelius, a retired chief warrant officer with the United States Army, was called in with the 49th Military Police Brigade to assist when rioting broke out.<br />“I’m in a quandary as to why it took L.A. so long to ask for the National Guard’s assistance when everything was going to hell in a hand basket,” said the Phelan resident.<br />“They were doing all the damage on their own home turf,” he said. “Nothing makes sense. I couldn’t understand the rationale behind it. Rioters were taking pot shots at firefighters who were trying to put the fires out.”<br />Racial tensions in South Central Los Angeles provided fertile ground for the rioting. Between 1980 and 1990, about 22,000 manufacturing jobs in the area were lost, with Firestone, Goodyear and General Motors closing their plants.<br />Many local businesses were owned by Korean Americans, who had been struggling with harassment from gangs and lived on edge trying to protect their property.<br />Not long after the Rodney King beating in 1991, a 15-year-old black girl named Latasha Harlins was shot and killed by a Korean-American store owner, Soon Ja Du. Soon Ja had observed the girl putting juice in her backpack, but a court review of the security video revealed that Harlins was planning to pay for her purchase. After a scuffle, Harlins put the money on the counter and fled, only to be shot in the back. When bedlam broke out, Du’s store was burned to the ground.<br />“What I think took place let off some steam, but I don’t think it solved the group problem,” said Lundelius.<br />While the four officers in the King case were originally mostly acquitted, two lawmen, Laurence Powell and Stacy Koon, were found guilty in a 1993 civil trial.<br />The retired Army officer also reviewed the video of the Rodney King beating, noting that King was under the influence of PCP at the time and was resisting arrest.<br />“I've been in situations like that, and I’ve actually had to deal with people on crack or PCP.”<br />Lundelius said that when someone is resisting arrest who is impaired, the training is to use your baton on the fleshy parts of the arms and legs to wear down the muscles.<br />“When it went to the head, that’s when you overstep your bounds,” he said. “You just don’t do that, I don’t care who you are, it’s not right. ... The officers who stepped over the line deserved what they got.”</div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-75420700730098281572007-04-29T11:26:00.000-07:002007-04-29T11:36:30.996-07:00The LAPD 15 years later<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xMSXcf3F-VNgtjkyiOC2_tOjh6diZX9kGUbpGQHjixU6SRLaOHCa_TKVjwptuKHk7dru9dwM8pIoTRqlHFoEs0r8ihDI5yqp9trDCpoviIYOT_Dr89J7qBU1pnVioxIhNgu2qfkQdbU/s1600-h/riotfire.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058920596304889922" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xMSXcf3F-VNgtjkyiOC2_tOjh6diZX9kGUbpGQHjixU6SRLaOHCa_TKVjwptuKHk7dru9dwM8pIoTRqlHFoEs0r8ihDI5yqp9trDCpoviIYOT_Dr89J7qBU1pnVioxIhNgu2qfkQdbU/s320/riotfire.jpg" border="0" /></a> How the police force has changed -- and stayed tough -- after the 1992 riots.<br /><br /><div><br />By Will Beall</div><br /><br /><div>WILL BEALL, author of the novel "L.A. Rex," is an officer with the LAPD's South Bureau gang homicide unit.April 29, 2007 </div><br /><div><br />I WAS IN MY DORM ROOM at San Diego State, listening to the Led Zeppelin cover of "When the Levee Breaks," when I first saw George Holliday's amateur video of the Rodney King incident on CNN. It looked like those grainy films of Selma, Ala., in 1965, and the brutality turned my stomach. They didn't really talk about Rodney King when I went through the Los Angeles Police Academy a few years later. The department just tore its clothes and sat shiva for those officers, and we didn't speak of them or the deadly riots that followed their acquittals 15 years ago. I went on thinking that those cops were racist brutes.<br />My first year as a cop, 1998, my perspective was changed a little by a third-striker who went by the moniker of Nine-Nine. He carjacked a woman right in front of my partner and me — at Florence and Normandie, no less, the infamous epicenter of the riots, where Damian "Football" Williams bashed in Reginald Denny's head with a concrete block and danced his sadistic jig for the news helicopters.<br />After Nine-Nine's carjacking, there followed a vehicle pursuit, a foot pursuit and a fight. That was the first time I had to use my baton. It wasn't pleasant for me, and I know it wasn't pleasant for Nine-Nine. And if there'd been a video, it wouldn't have been pleasant to watch.<br />I'm not an LAPD apologist, and this isn't John Wayne in "The Green Berets" telling David Janssen that you can't make an omelet without breaking a few skulls. It's just that civilians have the option of walking away from a fight. But cops often don't. Some of these hard-core felons are apex predators, red in tooth and claw, and they don't want to be arrested. They'll run from you. If you catch them, they'll fight you. And if you let them, they'll kill you. It happens faster than you think, and you don't have the option of slowing the fight down to advance it frame by frame.<br /></div><p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRKmzc1AnlkWrMSZZmDdq9FdCsckYC3u033VwO2UoQujYwj0lJ0Sl_fdzSJm3_90hoolhw8cgc9ATtN0FWzyJFkIUdOHOPrtEzDy-d9i-kflkNBPGJ8D6o4IamC9g7_VZ4Tobc_9g-C8/s1600-h/White_truck_driver_Reginald_Denny.bmp"></a> </p><div>After Rodney King and after the riots, it became fashionable for journalists, politicians and activists to talk about the need to change the culture of the LAPD, as though we're a bunch of hold-out Confederates who refused to turn in our sabers after Appomattox. Formal critiques came from two blue-ribbon panels — the Christopher and Webster commissions — that changed how the chief is appointed and the police commission operates, and they demanded an emphasis on community policing.<br />So, has the LAPD evolved since the riots? You bet. We're better equipped, more diverse, more sophisticated, more racially sensitive. I also honestly believe that, as a result, we are more responsive to the communities we serve. Still, no amount of raci<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRKmzc1AnlkWrMSZZmDdq9FdCsckYC3u033VwO2UoQujYwj0lJ0Sl_fdzSJm3_90hoolhw8cgc9ATtN0FWzyJFkIUdOHOPrtEzDy-d9i-kflkNBPGJ8D6o4IamC9g7_VZ4Tobc_9g-C8/s1600-h/White_truck_driver_Reginald_Denny.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058920716563974226" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqRKmzc1AnlkWrMSZZmDdq9FdCsckYC3u033VwO2UoQujYwj0lJ0Sl_fdzSJm3_90hoolhw8cgc9ATtN0FWzyJFkIUdOHOPrtEzDy-d9i-kflkNBPGJ8D6o4IamC9g7_VZ4Tobc_9g-C8/s320/White_truck_driver_Reginald_Denny.bmp" border="0" /></a>al sensitivity will make an ex-con want to go back to prison. And the next time officers have to arrest some dude with his head full of PCP, I can promise you it's still going to be ugly, because the application of physical violence is ugly.<br />When Bernard Parks was police chief, we had to watch Nordstrom's customer service training videos, and we had to refer to arrestees as "clients." I still don't intend to let a client take away my gun and give me an unscheduled lobotomy with it. In police work, violence isn't always a failure of diplomacy.<br />Sure, we've had our share of thugs in uniform through the years, but I have to say that hasn't been my experience of this department's culture. Make no mistake. It's still us against them, our magic against theirs. But the "them" we battle isn't the community we serve, it's the jackals who prey on it.<br />Last Tuesday, I stood humbled in the courtyard behind 77th Street Station with 100 other cops. Lt. Doug Young, Dets. D.C. Webb, Guy Bourgeois, Chuck Tizano, Rich McCauley and Officer Charles Howard were retiring. These men embody the culture of the LAPD, and there's nothing recalcitrant or retrograde about them.<br />Each of them has more time on the job than I have on the planet. Into their 60s and 70s, these guys were still clearing cases, still arresting bad guys, still serving the people of South-Central. They stood shoulder to shoulder during the 1992 riots, protecting South-Central even as its residents raged against everything they stood for. In the years that followed, they watched chiefs arrive beloved and leave beleaguered. They worked through the Rampart scandal and finally a consent decree — monitored for civil rights violations by a federal government that favors secret tribunals and condones torture. None of it changed the way these men conducted themselves because this was never just a job for them. It was their vocation.<br />They were treating addicts and gangsters with humanity and respect long before the Christopher Commission told them they had to. Because they're honorable men.<br />This is the culture of the LAPD. Pray it never changes. </div></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-9092716155919950712007-04-27T10:34:00.000-07:002007-04-27T10:43:46.855-07:00Man sentenced for LAPD crash that killed 80-year-old man<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVfmpJdkwIH7ZAulOF1A2KyC3Sq-l8ZkMjYJSfHVqv8JvRcb1tHiIS-h-sT9Os5jovDwv3h7nau-iJ25ZAsKZHlfCJGLf88hpd_ASKBxmWwWkMKwRVX9MA08gbAo9rPCpy36f9_J0bBA/s1600-h/chase1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058165017068242994" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJVfmpJdkwIH7ZAulOF1A2KyC3Sq-l8ZkMjYJSfHVqv8JvRcb1tHiIS-h-sT9Os5jovDwv3h7nau-iJ25ZAsKZHlfCJGLf88hpd_ASKBxmWwWkMKwRVX9MA08gbAo9rPCpy36f9_J0bBA/s320/chase1.jpg" border="0" /></a> LOS ANGELES- A driver who killed an 80-year-old motorist during a police chase received a potential life sentence. Robert Chavez was sentenced to 15 years and eight months to life in prison on Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.<br />Chavez was driving a sport utility vehicle that was fleeing police when it crashed into a car pulling out of a driveway on July 8, 2002. The crashed killed the other driver, Teruyuki Terao.<br />A jury convicted Chavez of second-degree murder in January.<br />Chavez initially was convicted of murder and other charges in 2003 but an appeals court reversed the conviction and sent the case back for retrial.LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-10570455254006867802007-04-26T20:03:00.000-07:002007-04-26T20:33:52.086-07:00LAPD Command Staff Promotion Ceremony - 4/30/2007<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom9VNK8ErUElt-kwfIX1zrqPoXN5u4SNfp62MulgY2so8Xw86cU-JSwvfz2Tsi54oe-e4LyAtDhl3Oq-EWNkZElFKOfi_2U5fgIocsVpbwmk8D4G_FUOX-2Is3dghxqcmbbAGiZdduS4/s1600-h/351766166_a1ab0a464d.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057946012390852642" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiom9VNK8ErUElt-kwfIX1zrqPoXN5u4SNfp62MulgY2so8Xw86cU-JSwvfz2Tsi54oe-e4LyAtDhl3Oq-EWNkZElFKOfi_2U5fgIocsVpbwmk8D4G_FUOX-2Is3dghxqcmbbAGiZdduS4/s320/351766166_a1ab0a464d.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL8kMsHCl6GnlySfMTBHarzYcVWwbEz3s0ToqIislOmcSlpnX6YuVLRWa8ANMe-Z6Isd0RpjYSp9UcagulwXnDABPx0vDi5JWQJeuWKV2O7E992JV_04J1v9-yVwHIqhtc0cigKB5h4bk/s1600-h/214785270_e69f590140.jpg"></a>LOS ANGELES - The Command Staff promotion ceremony on Monday, April 30, 2007 will be the largest in the modern era of the Department. The ceremony involves the promotion of 13 command and staff officers, including a Deputy Chief, three Commanders and nine Captains. Additionally, 13 existing commanding officers will be recognized for advancement (upgrades)within their current rank of Captain.<br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-33817486629613259362007-04-26T19:56:00.000-07:002007-04-26T20:01:55.332-07:00National Police Week 2007 Schedule of Events<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrHx4oRnSH5mu-4fT1dIEWlwYoj8rrcgsEM-r9DSUDDeuEm-Ykb6NMM4RAbEUNEiFSwgOweGGikLST3J2mIzPOBFETH7MWTJ0k9B_szLb5VKrxP8Cy9qLLa19Gqd3_Z13wdthy8dmahg/s1600-h/Police__Washington1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057937650089527298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrHx4oRnSH5mu-4fT1dIEWlwYoj8rrcgsEM-r9DSUDDeuEm-Ykb6NMM4RAbEUNEiFSwgOweGGikLST3J2mIzPOBFETH7MWTJ0k9B_szLb5VKrxP8Cy9qLLa19Gqd3_Z13wdthy8dmahg/s320/Police__Washington1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Tuesday, May 8<br />13th Annual Blue Mass Noon at St. Patrick's Catholic Church 10th & G Streets, NW Washington, DC 202-347-2713<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Friday, May 11<br />8th Annual National Police Week Challenge 50-Kilometer Relay Race Coordinated by the U.S. Secret Service Employee Recreation Association 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Secret Service Training Center in Laurel, MD Contact: Kam Flynn <a href="http://www.secretservice.gov/npc50">www.secretservice.gov/npc50</a><br />28th Annual Memorial Service for Law Enforcement Officers in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore Region 11 a.m. Washington Area Police Memorial Fountain Outside Henry J. Daly Building (Metropolitan Police Headquarters) 300 Indiana Avenue, NW Washington, DC Contact: 202-408-7767<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Saturday, May 12<br />Police Unity Tour Arrival Ceremony Since the Police Unity Tours inception in 1997, a total of $3.2 million has been raised for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. $2 million of the total donation has been designated towards the Police Unity Tours $5 million pledge to support A Matter of Honor: The Campaign to Support the National Law Enforcement Museum. Contact: Harry Phillips, 973-443-0030 or email: <a href="mailto:unitytour1@aol.com">unitytour1@aol.com</a> or go to <a href="http://www.policeunitytour.com/">http://www.policeunitytour.com/</a><br />14th Annual TOP COPS Awards Ceremony Hosted by the National Association of Police Organizations 7:00 p.m. at the Warner Theatre, 513 Thirteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC Contact: Jill Cameron 202-842-4420<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sunday, May 13<br />12th Annual Law Ride Line up begins at 9:00 a.m. in Lot 8 of R.F.K. Stadium in Washington, DC. The procession will leave RFK promptly at 11:00 a.m. and ride to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial, located on the 400 Block of E Street, NW. Contact: <a href="http://www.lawride.com/">http://www.lawride.com/</a>.<br />19th Annual Candlelight Vigil 8:00 p.m. at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial 400 Block of E Street, NW 202-737-3400 It is advised that anyone attending take the Metro Red Line to Judiciary Square.<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monday, May 14<br />Fifth Annual Steve Young Honor Guard Competition Fraternal Order of Police Grand Lodge 8:30 a.m. at John Marshall Park, between the Federal Court House and the Canadian Embassy. Contact: Ken Roske via email: <a href="mailto:honorguard@policeweek.org">honorguard@policeweek.org</a> or visit <a href="http://www.policeweekhonorguard.com/">http://www.policeweekhonorguard.com/</a>.<br />National Police Survivors Conference Concerns of Police Survivors 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Hilton Alexandria Mark Center (Registration is Mandatory)<br />National Shomrim Society Annual Wreathlaying Ceremony 10:00am National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Contact: Jeff Wennar, <a href="mailto:JTWENNAR@aol.com">JTWENNAR@aol.com</a><br />Twelfth Annual Emerald Society & Pipeband March and Service National Conference of Law Enforcement Emerald Societies, Inc. Assemble at 4:30 p.m. at New Jersey Avenue & F Street, NW. Step-off promptly at 6:00 p.m. March will proceed to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Contact: Mike Roe: 314-304-1915 or email: <a href="mailto:Mjroe@slmpd.org">Mjroe@slmpd.org</a><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tuesday, May 15<br />26th Annual National Peace Officers Memorial Day Services Grand Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police Grand Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police Auxiliary Noon at the West Front of the United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.<br />FOP/FOPA Wreathlaying Ceremony National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial 3:30 p.m. at the 400 Block of E Street, NW<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday, May 16<br />National Police Survivors Conference Concerns of Police Survivors 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Hilton Alexandria Mark Center (Registration is Mandatory)<br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please stop by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Visitors Center during your visit to Washington. Come see our museum to law enforcement and visit our gift shop. The Visitors Center is located at 605 E Street, NW, and will be open extended hours during National Police Week.<br />Visitors Center Hours for National Police Week 2007:<br />Thursday, May 10, 9:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 11th, 9:00 a.m - 9:00 p.m. Saturday, May 12th, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Sunday, May 13th, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. - Midnight Monday, May 14th, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 15th, 9:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 16th, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Thursday, May 17th, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.<br />Regular hours (9 am 5 pm) before and after these dates. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-78535542758107842142007-04-26T19:50:00.000-07:002007-04-26T19:56:35.155-07:00Garden Grove, CA Officer Hailed as a Hero<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuQD339YNb9HYkfbo6vJad0mATWcqhxzhYV39DVKUBHlotHI9DnzJh-eE-Nsodx9gMNGY6Q_gZqGjgEu-s2pMwhZWgGJVeuBzXdQz9lnBxiUTZetNaXekRjZLTTmEfWyBpQSeiFxQPCI/s1600-h/heroes1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057936383074174962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuQD339YNb9HYkfbo6vJad0mATWcqhxzhYV39DVKUBHlotHI9DnzJh-eE-Nsodx9gMNGY6Q_gZqGjgEu-s2pMwhZWgGJVeuBzXdQz9lnBxiUTZetNaXekRjZLTTmEfWyBpQSeiFxQPCI/s320/heroes1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Garden Grove, CA - A woman whose car caught fire after a rear-end collision on the Garden Grove Freeway remained in critical condition Wednesday with second- and third-degree burns. Meanwhile, a Garden Grove police motorcycle officer who helped free her from the fiery wreck was hailed as a hero. Officer Ed DesBiens arrived and cut the woman's seat belt, freeing her from the fiery wreck. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-48272435089044311032007-04-26T19:41:00.000-07:002007-04-26T19:48:23.509-07:00Suspect Leads LAPD on 90 minute Wild Chase<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cRdjriVQNF0oJxaUqZMer4ULHSRFh-vwBv2cPGgGSoHIFzs9McwYoV6vIOBsY4vi6Uu6tFerPSQLsZCbaiLUkNL321T6sBAaW__e57tke5HJozzHE6RNpixw_rJ_MPXCcXi5ebUEO_k/s1600-h/pursuit_4_26_07.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057934278540199906" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6cRdjriVQNF0oJxaUqZMer4ULHSRFh-vwBv2cPGgGSoHIFzs9McwYoV6vIOBsY4vi6Uu6tFerPSQLsZCbaiLUkNL321T6sBAaW__e57tke5HJozzHE6RNpixw_rJ_MPXCcXi5ebUEO_k/s320/pursuit_4_26_07.jpg" border="0" /></a> Los Angeles -- A man driving erratically in a stolen car with two flat tires led police on a 90-minute chase this afternoon on surface streets in downtown and south Los Angeles before being taken into custody.<br />The pursuit began downtown just after 3 p.m. and ended at 4:30 p.m. in south Los Angeles, when an LAPD patrol unit hit the rear of the disabled sedan, sending it into the center divider, and the man got out of the car and surrendered.<br />The driver had kept going for miles, even though several police vehicles had previously rammed the car, which had two flat tires from spike stripes set down by officers.<br />The car's bumper dangled behind throughout the chase, making for an odd sight as the driver variously ran red lights, traveled on the wrong side of the road, narrowly avoided collisions and, at one point, drove in circles in an intersection.<br />Throughout the trip, he also threw items out of the car, including clothing, and drove across one bridge with a door open.LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-77891576207902904742007-04-26T19:35:00.000-07:002007-04-26T19:41:22.706-07:00Rapper Eve arrested in Hollywood DUI crash<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLghKcDvTUz6tYMQH7Dvjf1F-YQhrrdpHCCz3rSqNj02t0FCokXlAqWzwHQ6DYloVa1_C9fLTz60uKaHmSMmAlCf8vBrjIkMBl-8aI_CqLxTRDUcY7-yW0kpGiwYE7NV8PklQLbOaDMM/s1600-h/eve1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057932414524393426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMLghKcDvTUz6tYMQH7Dvjf1F-YQhrrdpHCCz3rSqNj02t0FCokXlAqWzwHQ6DYloVa1_C9fLTz60uKaHmSMmAlCf8vBrjIkMBl-8aI_CqLxTRDUcY7-yW0kpGiwYE7NV8PklQLbOaDMM/s320/eve1.jpg" border="0" /></a> HOLLYWOOD - Actress/rapper Eve was arrested by LAPD officers early today on suspicion of drunk driving after crashing a Maserati in Hollywood, authorities said.<br />The 28-year-old Grammy winner, whose full name is Eve Jeffers, was booked at Hollywood Station at 2:45 a.m. for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs after the crash at Hollywood Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue, officials said.<br /><div><br />Jeffers was released after posting $30,000 bail, officials said. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-64797501252672213332007-04-26T10:54:00.000-07:002007-04-26T11:07:51.895-07:00MISS USA AKA MISS 'UNDERCOVER' USA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ewUNvXXiweHwF5T5OqK40a8_VAgXJpmPF1HxD7uO4dFDD0wr2gbmp2XemMctS1M-CxAls5Oi_k4kIUEEJgksF_2xecSCSC5ilyr3MUp32RPk0TRQt_OvyA66We7z4MdLJtwCeNPGhjY/s1600-h/Miss_USA_Armed.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057799992092723138" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ewUNvXXiweHwF5T5OqK40a8_VAgXJpmPF1HxD7uO4dFDD0wr2gbmp2XemMctS1M-CxAls5Oi_k4kIUEEJgksF_2xecSCSC5ilyr3MUp32RPk0TRQt_OvyA66We7z4MdLJtwCeNPGhjY/s320/Miss_USA_Armed.jpg" border="0" /></a> NEW YORK - POLICE used the ultimate bait in trying to capture online perverts - Miss America.<br />The beauty queen posed as a 14-year-old girl as part of an undercover operation to target sexual predators in the US.<br />Lauren Nelson, 20, posed as the teen and logged into chatrooms frequented by men hoping to meet underage girls for sex.<br />Police had created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.<br />And the "sting" was a success, with four men later arrested and a further six under investigation.<br />Nelson posed as a girl from Long Island, New York. She said it didn't take long for some men to make explicit suggestions while they talked online.<br />With police monitoring the "chats", Nelson agreed to meet the men at a house in Long Island.<br />Film crews from the TV show America's Most Wanted were also at the scene to film the arrests.<br />Nelson said: "The story was they knew I was 14 and I told them I was cutting school to meet with them.<br />"I stood outside on the porch and I would say 'Hi' to them and wave them inside."<br />Nelson said as soon as she went into the house, the host of the TV show John Walsh confronted the suspects.<br />She said: "That part was very scary but the police were all over the place. I was nervous, of course, but it was a very controlled environment, very safe."<br />Nelson was crowned Miss America last month. She took over from Tara Conner, 21, who was almost sacked from the role after admitting taking drugs.<br />The beauty queen, whose platform issue is internet safety for children, said: "As many as we caught on that day, there are a lot more out there."LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-75762360166594069342007-04-26T10:37:00.000-07:002007-04-26T10:48:26.654-07:00USC Students Hold Off Gunman<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMtKlaQwnhhYKuud3PlVrms0lG6F6M4mm08ijchQkmolKk9qZgx-5lHRYVTppBaNo7eshyphenhyphenp7K9a4ulUZNmUWTtDOr4GEV2jyHYQr8g9ZbieyoQT7NlAGSmL6RE1-G6zG3Am-ljz7SbgI/s1600-h/USC_Trojans.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057795065765234610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMtKlaQwnhhYKuud3PlVrms0lG6F6M4mm08ijchQkmolKk9qZgx-5lHRYVTppBaNo7eshyphenhyphenp7K9a4ulUZNmUWTtDOr4GEV2jyHYQr8g9ZbieyoQT7NlAGSmL6RE1-G6zG3Am-ljz7SbgI/s320/USC_Trojans.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>April 25, 2007 - AP</div><br /><div></div><div>DISCLAIMER: Photo has nothing to do with story - save being USC cuties!</div><br /><div>LOS ANGELES - Students wrested a gun away from a University of Southern California student who had been asked to leave an off-campus party after threatening a young woman, police said Tuesday.<br />Zao Xing Yang, 19, was arrested early Sunday and is being held without bail, Chief William Bratton said at a news conference.<br />Some students at the party, held at a student's home, overheard Yang making intimidating statements to the woman and threatening her with violence about 3 a.m. Sunday, Bratton said.<br />Yang began arguing with the host, who noticed Yang was holding a gun, he said.<br />'Several students wrestled the gun away from Yang and held him until campus security and then LAPD officers arrived,' Bratton said.<br />Detectives searched Yang's off-campus room Monday and found a safe containing methamphetamine packaged for sale, a .44-caliber Magnum revolver and several hundred dollars in cash, Bratton said.<br />Yang is charged with making criminal threats, assault with a firearm and personal use of a handgun. If convicted, he faces up to 18 years in prison.<br />Defense attorney Nina Marino declined to comment.</div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-26133849993714715112007-04-25T16:41:00.000-07:002007-04-25T16:48:57.650-07:00BAKER TO VEGAS 2007 RESULTS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZQwdd3JhhGVDOcTsYIETpDOUSLwLuUgVVIz9KxOo-D_QbbMaCgD2_iYr3ojXhOisOwNLThiNIrXO-mUJluOltaqfh8n8JuoYAdkjNg6NtL0L2FHVHrjZeBVYuHd4Kvk5YiuvSnb-aVc/s1600-h/baker+to+vegas.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057516880733472674" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZQwdd3JhhGVDOcTsYIETpDOUSLwLuUgVVIz9KxOo-D_QbbMaCgD2_iYr3ojXhOisOwNLThiNIrXO-mUJluOltaqfh8n8JuoYAdkjNg6NtL0L2FHVHrjZeBVYuHd4Kvk5YiuvSnb-aVc/s320/baker+to+vegas.jpg" border="0" /></a> Order of finish: <div><br /><div>The 23rd annual Baker-to-Vegas Challenge Cup race order of finish (top three in each category), according to statistics released by Baker-to-Vegas timers and scorers at 1:30 p.m. Monday:<br />Open (Any gender, any age) -- Overall winner: California Highway Patrol, Sacramento, 13 hours, 3 minutes, 40 seconds (6:31 per mile); Men's Central Jail of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, 13:04.50 (6:32); San Diego PD, 13:18:18, 6:49; Anaheim PD, 14:10:22 (7:05). CDC Open, 14:19:55 (7:09); LAPD Metro Red, 14:31:24 (7:15); Riverside County Sheriff, 14:51:16 (7:25); Orange County SD-Open, 15:12.30 (7:36); U.S. Border Patrol No. 1, 15:22:05, 7:41; LA Sheriff TTCF, 15:24:01, 7:42.<br />800 (Ages of runners must total 800 years old) -- Los Angeles FBI, 13:48. 64, (6:54 per mile, fourth overall); Los Angeles Sheriff's Department SEB, 14:13:11 (7:06, seventh overall); LASD Star Center, 14:40:42 (7:20, 10th).<br />99 (Agencies with less than 99 sworn personnel) -- Murietta, Calif., Police Department, 15:55:11 (7:57); Vernon PD, 16:38:47 (8:19); El Segundo PD, 16:53:05 (8:26).<br />Guest (Invited team with unknown ability) -- LAPD Metro-Cavalry, 16:42:27 (8:21).<br />Invitational (Mixed Teams) -- Albuquerque, N.M., PD, 14:53:42 (7:26, 13th); LA Sheriff's Department-North, 15:52:18 (7:56); California Department of Justice Gold, 16:11:47 (8:05).<br />Invitational -- United States Marine Corps, 14:56.18 (7:28, 14th); Orange County District Attorney's Office, 15:11:54 (7:35, 18th); Arizona FBI, 15:45:28 (7:52).<br />Mixed -- LAPD Training Division, 15:11:10 (7:35, 17th); San Francisco FBI, 15:27:15 (7:43); San Diego Probation, 15:48:29 (7:54).<br />Station (Geographic stations for LAPD and LASD, using only those personnel assigned to those stations) -- U.S. Secret Service, 14:48:42 (7:24); San Diego FBI, 15:13:57 (7:36); San Diego DEA, 15:15:05 (7:37).<br />Women -- Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, 17:08:26 (8:34); LA FBI, 17:12:02 (8:36); Orange County Sheriff's Office, 17:19:00 (8:39).<br />1000 (Agencies with less than 1,000 sworn personnel) -- Santa Ana PD, 14:11:36 (7:05, sixth overall); Long Beach PD No. 1, 14:57:13 (7:28); California State Parks, 15:01:44 (7:30).<br />150 (Agencies with less than 150 sworn personnel) -- Newport Beach PD, 15:19:21 (7:39); Orange County PD, 16:01:26 (8:00); Culver City PD, 16:36:25 (8:18).<br />300 (Agencies with less than 300 sworn personnel) -- Huntington Beach PD, 15:27:11 (7:43); Los Angeles DA's Office, Bureau of Investigations, 15:36:09 (7:48); Santa Monica PD, 15:39:14 (7:49).<br />500 Invitational -- LA County Police, 17:32:50 (8:46); Southeast Cities, 17:48:33 (8:54); Cypress-Fountain Valley, 18:04.46 (9:02).<br />Finishing 227th and last was the Claremont-LaVerne PD in 23 hours, 31 minutes, 49 seconds, an average of 11:45 miles per mile. </div></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-44307415325156204432007-04-25T16:23:00.000-07:002007-04-25T16:41:26.913-07:00Manhunt Underway for N.Y. Cop-Killer<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobQ3OSptDQnxCQl4lxu4tqc-bFX6nTI50Nxzfl0plakaUXW_jCXM3FT_S6MFmXUaGW2CUNxEQkgBQKTXh5l9MUmLQmZoam3B7aNBFSayKsq0ej3fomwUJZelIsbETqNQSacpoyD-VF8w/s1600-h/NYSP_Officer_Down_4_2007.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057514600105838466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobQ3OSptDQnxCQl4lxu4tqc-bFX6nTI50Nxzfl0plakaUXW_jCXM3FT_S6MFmXUaGW2CUNxEQkgBQKTXh5l9MUmLQmZoam3B7aNBFSayKsq0ej3fomwUJZelIsbETqNQSacpoyD-VF8w/s400/NYSP_Officer_Down_4_2007.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5245277">http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=nation_world&id=5245277</a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVfbmq1QU0_XAccuOfKOKWokxPj2GPW0GQ70fTHP4acImhxbM8Fimb8EKd-evOa9T8mTY38aRBjJq4QwGCAJeO-ydfeosQ6xiP2lTylDcqGUiKlCB78BZjyrVdTnrXYCFvXB7mM6WiRes/s1600-h/NYSP_Officer_Down_4_2007.jpg"></a></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-91605673854464363512007-04-25T15:35:00.000-07:002007-04-25T16:04:38.952-07:00ACLU CONTINUES ITS PATH OF DESTRUCTION<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghsIn70ZrInpOe_jA1dkRIUZmgbHCiSgA4QaXl6vpiAlGNTYsJ0HVqLUzOqO78Iq2Fc_q15QT83yuUA8mV3QQ8NunbFvb-TF0QBZB2xy0oSl4Y6SxkXWEyC2b_9XxGIZerxEgU7Z4wQc/s1600-h/skid_row.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057505511955040082" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgghsIn70ZrInpOe_jA1dkRIUZmgbHCiSgA4QaXl6vpiAlGNTYsJ0HVqLUzOqO78Iq2Fc_q15QT83yuUA8mV3QQ8NunbFvb-TF0QBZB2xy0oSl4Y6SxkXWEyC2b_9XxGIZerxEgU7Z4wQc/s320/skid_row.jpg" border="0" /></a> Some LAPD efforts unconstitutional<br /><div><br />LOS ANGELES April 25 (UPI) -- A U.S. district judge ruled Wednesday that certain aspects of the Los Angeles Police Department's efforts to improve downtown conditions are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson ruled that police officers had to eliminate unconstitutional searches of probationers and parolees without proper evidence as part of their efforts to rid downtown of crime and homeless people, The Los Angeles Times said.<br />The searches were part of an increased police presence in downtown Los Angeles that have resulted in a 35 percent drop in area crime during the last six months.<br />While city officials disagreed with Pregerson's decision in the American Civil Liberties Union suit, some legal experts applauded the court's attempt to protect individual citizen's constitutional rights.<br />"It's an important decision," Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson told the Times. "It sort of resolves an argument percolating out there, that ... the LAPD would have permission to stop anybody."<br />In addition to ordering the police to alter such unconstitutional tactics, Pregerson set a review date of the injunction for August, the Times said. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-11749465923409606622007-04-24T16:17:00.000-07:002007-04-24T16:19:31.109-07:00Cops to help make Special Olympics great<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeDexWpe9t4HO4hxmcnvz8DTLLlguHsBTQIlc9m6AJo4HkjHUuvZv4YVRjSeMayxlWwgc1SV71zBbphMugxLoVStmJtiJ89P4YE4LaDzxfckVpag0Pq6yWF_wdeiLTm7ctUWQ3sepX1M/s1600-h/torchrun1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057137986207165906" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieeDexWpe9t4HO4hxmcnvz8DTLLlguHsBTQIlc9m6AJo4HkjHUuvZv4YVRjSeMayxlWwgc1SV71zBbphMugxLoVStmJtiJ89P4YE4LaDzxfckVpag0Pq6yWF_wdeiLTm7ctUWQ3sepX1M/s320/torchrun1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div>(LA DAILY NEWS) LOS ANGELES - The 750 special-needs kids who will be competing in the upcoming Tri-Valley Region Special Olympics at Birmingham High School already know the importance of those big hearts behind the badges, Jan Maseda says.<br />They know that without Tip-A-Cop Night on Thursday, there would be no way their families and friends could afford to put on a full-scale competition, complete with aquatic, basketball, tennis and track-and-field events.<br />No way they'd be marching into the Birmingham High stadium, their faces illuminated with smiles that elate - and break - your heart.<br />"It cost us $10,000 for the games last year, and $8,000 of that came from law enforcement officers who raised the money serving as waiters and waitresses for Tip-A-Cop Night," said Maseda, director of the San Fernando Valley Region for Special Olympics, Southern California.<br />"There is no charge to any athlete who wants to compete in Special Olympics. The money all comes from the community, from individuals and groups like these law enforcement officers who open their hearts and give us their time so our kids can win an Olympic medal," Maseda said.<br />Los Angeles Police Department Reserve Officer David Bush still remembers sitting in the stands a few years ago and watching the Special Olympics opening ceremonies. "It was one of the most moving, beautiful events I'd ever witnessed, and I knew the men and women I serve with would feel the same way," said Bush, who is in charge of the LAPD's 641 reserve officers.<br />Many of his reserves, along with FBI agents and sworn officers from the LAPD, California Highway Patrol and California State University, Northridge - more than 100 of them - will be working during Tip-A-Cop Night.<br />They'll be waiting tables, but also spending as much time as possible talking with diners about the importance of Special Olympics. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPbSSsXuD8Q04FisMSVfwtq6f85smvRV42tP1a3L2vvJObFDuyDhZPzDB2-cOiPjpUbf3C_u05H8uvx9iglPHusf5P2hPQjlJ-9wiKLm8N7bcbqhSJhfiwqyFlcoLBxiOeOaetsx_fOI/s1600-h/flameofhope.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057138106466250210" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPbSSsXuD8Q04FisMSVfwtq6f85smvRV42tP1a3L2vvJObFDuyDhZPzDB2-cOiPjpUbf3C_u05H8uvx9iglPHusf5P2hPQjlJ-9wiKLm8N7bcbqhSJhfiwqyFlcoLBxiOeOaetsx_fOI/s320/flameofhope.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />"We don't take the tips of the regular waiting staff, only any extra tips customers want to give us for the kids," said Bush, a sales engineer when he's not on patrol as a reserve officer.<br />You may remember one of his reserve LAPD officers who will be there - Bobby Sherman, a TV actor and pop singing sensation back in the 1970s.<br />"I was fortunate to keep the money I made in show business and manage it well so I could do something in life I really love," said Sherman, who now lives in Van Nuys.<br />A trained emergency medical technician since 1988, Sherman has been an LAPD reserve officer for 18 years.<br />"I was not about to sit on my hands and do nothing," Sherman said. "Serving the community and helping great organizations, like Special Olympics, is a heck of a lot more important and fulfilling than being a teen idol." </div></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-48663852432572769502007-04-24T11:35:00.000-07:002007-04-24T11:43:32.056-07:00NYPD vs. LAPD Boxing Spectacular - Event for 9/11 Charity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmoc0UkPj1GKmg05Iba_OEUGTteYOXugiFer2YkfYlv_LqhmDGYe4akpMLAs0o3atAiTSzsHzMx2KFQTEwelTU3OMbdg5YFlgkOxDb72FLqYqx0xkGQVfwpTqUBJFgosJqTH-0GdjBaE/s1600-h/story6.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057067140721618370" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmoc0UkPj1GKmg05Iba_OEUGTteYOXugiFer2YkfYlv_LqhmDGYe4akpMLAs0o3atAiTSzsHzMx2KFQTEwelTU3OMbdg5YFlgkOxDb72FLqYqx0xkGQVfwpTqUBJFgosJqTH-0GdjBaE/s320/story6.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, June 7, 2007 at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers from 6pm to 11pm, boxers from the New York Police Department will duke it out against their counterparts from Los Angeles at “Heroes and Legends… a Night at the Fights,” a fundraiser to support Tuesday’s Children, a nonprofit organization committed to assisting families who lost a loved one on 9/11..<br />Los Angeles will be represented by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Both teams are comprised of active officers who are all highly-trained, amateur boxers.<br />The event, which will feature a cocktail reception, dinner, and a silent and live auction, will be attended by numerous boxing and sports legends from the NHL, NFL, MLB and NBA.<br />All proceeds will benefit Tuesday’s Children’s wide-range of programs and services including, Next Steps, Career Paths, Mentoring and First Steps.<br />WHAT: Police Officers from New York square off in the boxing ring against law enforcement officers from L.A. at “Heroes and Legends…a Night at the Fights” -- a special gala fundraising dinner to benefit Tuesday’s Children (9/11 Families)<br />WHEN: Thursday, June 7, 2006 6:00pm – 11:00pm<br />WHERE: Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers811 7th Avenue on 53rd Street<br />TICKET PRICE: Individual tickets are $500Tables range from $3,500 to $10,000. All tables include seating for ten, fine cigars and recognition in the evening’s program.<br />TICKET INFORMATION: Amy Wright (212) 319-3988 </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-43225338500989960242007-04-23T21:17:00.000-07:002007-04-23T21:33:42.079-07:00MAY GOD HELP US!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vtFJttO4vqgeRZcvDCOyyxWPg4Blhrr3ctNu7BKyKCKjQzUolbb91bC6qyQ0_7nXD9rtRMGgLBqyiLCdcS27V4Zi3Qv68Qj235Mpkw_zBQirRXilfsdboKUODLmTMdjCzJsWAbVI6t4/s1600-h/dumb1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056848114569391538" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vtFJttO4vqgeRZcvDCOyyxWPg4Blhrr3ctNu7BKyKCKjQzUolbb91bC6qyQ0_7nXD9rtRMGgLBqyiLCdcS27V4Zi3Qv68Qj235Mpkw_zBQirRXilfsdboKUODLmTMdjCzJsWAbVI6t4/s320/dumb1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Crook wins damages for injury during theft</div><br /><div><br />VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian man who admitted shoplifting C$106 in razor blades has been awarded C$12,000 ($10,645) for injuries he suffered when he was tackled by store security guards.<br />A British Columbia Supreme Court judge said that just because Daniel Baines admitted the store had a right to arrest him in the 2004 incident, it did not mean he lacked credibility as a witness about being beaten while being apprehended.<br />"Listening to Mr Baines testify, I found him to be remarkably forthright. He did not minimize or deny circumstances that might seem embarrassing or harmful to his case," Justice William Ehrcke said in a ruling published this week.<br />Baines, who represented himself, said employees of the supermarket in a Vancouver suburb used unreasonable force when he struggled during his capture. Baines lost a tooth in the incident, and said he now has trouble speaking. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-10551945653181538752007-04-23T21:12:00.000-07:002007-04-23T21:17:02.363-07:00GET A LIFE MORONS!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGezMP_wv6wfBwAv1XzE7que-g4hPUxsODA3mXTKjzs5EatcLU75-3hTc9XyK67VAC_wI2_GbLLNq1frq2c2Kfu5hw9D50GW7aMgCe2563v5nuRL-XQCWB-S5m9L-yduOIURbArOYD58/s1600-h/tennie2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056843871141703074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGezMP_wv6wfBwAv1XzE7que-g4hPUxsODA3mXTKjzs5EatcLU75-3hTc9XyK67VAC_wI2_GbLLNq1frq2c2Kfu5hw9D50GW7aMgCe2563v5nuRL-XQCWB-S5m9L-yduOIURbArOYD58/s320/tennie2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>LAFD probes alleged hazing</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Fire Department is investigating allegations that a young African American firefighter found his locker at a North Hollywood station vandalized in a racist manner in recent days.<br />Although top officials with the city's fire and police departments would not disclose the nature of the incident at Fire Station 89 because of the internal investigation, others familiar with the probe said the rookie firefighter opened his locker to find a banana and his clothing -- including his uniform -- covered with a white lotion or foam.<br />To date, the sources said, one firefighter has acknowledged being involved in the incident, although no one has been disciplined pending the outcome of the investigation.<br />"The Fire Department has zero tolerance for any kind of behavior that involves hazing, racial discrimination or mistreatment of people," Battalion Chief Kwame Cooper said late Friday. "So we are actively and aggressively investigating this incident to determine the details of what happened. We are taking it very seriously and will take appropriate action when our investigation is complete."<br />Matt Szabo, press secretary for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said the department's "swift and thorough" response was "evidence that the zero tolerance policy of the mayor and chief is taking effect and that the culture of the Fire Department is changing."<br />Word of the incident comes a week after a Los Angeles jury awarded $1.7 million to a former city firefighter who said he was the victim of retaliation for helping a black female firefighter who had accused the department of discrimination.<br />And in December, Fire Chief William Bamattre resigned in the wake of a number of discrimination allegations against the department. The highest-profile case involved a lawsuit by Tennie Pierce, a black firefighter who alleged he was fed dog food in 2004 by fellow firefighters at a station in Westchester. The City Council's $2.7-million settlement with Pierce was vetoed by Villaraigosa after photos surfaced of the firefighter himself engaging in pranks. His lawsuit is scheduled for trial in September.<br />In the latest incident, fire officials opened an administrative investigation after allegations of the hazing surfaced. As part of that investigation, the department contacted the LAPD's North Hollywood Division, which provided "technical assistance," including dusting the locker for fingerprints, according to LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon.<br />The firefighter who was allegedly targeted in the incident has been assigned to another station.<br />"I just cannot fathom this happening ... after all of the other [discrimination] lawsuits we have had," said veteran Fire Capt. Jerry Thomas, a vocal critic of the department who is retiring after 32 years. "Until people start getting terminated for these offenses, these types of conditions will continue." </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-21207205166843863132007-04-23T21:03:00.000-07:002007-04-23T21:11:59.684-07:00GOTCHA!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZjfOeb3OjI1k2KIXU3lfi5pkpWKL5vKB__hED9I96YpUiwBEJz11ZYaHXq-Agr7cK5DjWw1TGiFn9BzE_Aa6PNZ9p4WdTiVZKVAEduUwMdhU_ud069gCf72yb1-RxL_eyDJJ2gqMCRk/s1600-h/gotcha44di.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056842586946481554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRZjfOeb3OjI1k2KIXU3lfi5pkpWKL5vKB__hED9I96YpUiwBEJz11ZYaHXq-Agr7cK5DjWw1TGiFn9BzE_Aa6PNZ9p4WdTiVZKVAEduUwMdhU_ud069gCf72yb1-RxL_eyDJJ2gqMCRk/s320/gotcha44di.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Surprise Suprise..3 gang members charged in triple murder</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors charged three black gang members today with killing two Latino boys and an adult as they talked in the frontyard of their South Los Angeles home last year, saying the assailants picked the victims at random because they could not find any gang rivals to shoot.<br />The charges cap a nearly one-year investigation, with detectives concluding that the members of the Rollin' 30s gang fired on the victims -- who had no gang ties -- while driving around the neighborhood looking for members of another gang, the Eastside Treys.<br />The shooting stirred concerns about race-related violence in South L.A., especially at a time when the LAPD says that race-motivated gang crimes are on the increase. But the Los Angeles Police Department insists that the shooting was not race-motivated, rather it was fueled by a gang feud.<br />The gunmen -- identified as Ryan T. Moore, Lawrence William Island Jr. and Charles Ray Smith -- fired more than 30 rounds from two AK-47 assault rifles on a June 30 afternoon after climbing out of a vehicle.<br />David Marcial, 10; his 22-year-old uncle, Larry Marcial; and a neighbor, Luis Cervantes, 17, were fatally shot outside their families' homes in the 1100 block of East 49th Street.<br />David's brother, Sergio Marcial Jr., 12, was wounded but survived the shooting described by investigators as an "execution."<br />Moore, 33, and Island, 24, were to be arraigned this afternoon downtown. Smith, 37, is a fugitive wanted on a murder arrest warrant.<br />Each of the three faces three counts of murder, with the special circumstance of multiple murder and murder to further a gang, and one count each of attempted premeditated murder.<br />Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty will be made by prosecutors later.<br />Both Moore and Smith have been in custody for several months on other charges while detectives tried to build a case.<br />The Rollin' 30s is one of the top 11 gangs being targeted by the LAPD as part of a wider push against gang violence in the city.<br />Dubbed the "49th Street massacre" by Chief William J. Bratton last summer, detectives determined that what at first looked like a drive-up shooting now appeared to be a calculated, execution-style slaying. They concluded that the gunmen got out of a car and approached each of the victims, firing from point-blank range with AK-47 assault-style rifles.<br />"These were not gang members. These were just kids," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in announcing a $105,000 reward in the killings. "It is just absolutely obscene that people would just shoot kids this way -- with automatic weapons, multiple times, even when they were on the ground. It's outrageous," he said. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-61987485354013330132007-04-23T21:01:00.000-07:002007-04-23T21:03:18.099-07:00Man Shot In Chest Walks Into LAPD Station<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKwLRdmCiwpiWGIGX_Xnr-ZLLm4Nie1QWQ9Q-e68i5VUYMVisCvpuWqSVSz93zCJd1s77Mwje66wAnRm0vW9wGrdKhXoXxk7SSbZzwWjyRhv5mR4fCx0huyh83ccBewPamlm7gS_U-CU/s1600-h/gunshot1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056840327793683842" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtKwLRdmCiwpiWGIGX_Xnr-ZLLm4Nie1QWQ9Q-e68i5VUYMVisCvpuWqSVSz93zCJd1s77Mwje66wAnRm0vW9wGrdKhXoXxk7SSbZzwWjyRhv5mR4fCx0huyh83ccBewPamlm7gS_U-CU/s320/gunshot1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>(CBS) LOS ANGELES A man who had been shot in the chest walked into the lobby of the Los Angeles Police Department's Foothill Station tonight, police said.The man, said to be in his 20s, went to the station, 12760 Osborne St., at about 8:35 p.m., Officer Martha Garcia said.The man came to the station shortly after being shot at Haddon Avenue and Glamis Street, Lt. Robert Marino said.The victim was hospitalized in stable condition, Marino said.No one has been arrested, he said.</div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-67894673433568848322007-04-23T20:58:00.000-07:002007-04-23T21:01:31.751-07:00LAPD investigating 2 home invasion robberies<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGesIu4ag9DJSptEBZgGAUluJR0PiykjQc_TMD2PwbbzP-dGUlQ7snWLQafYBqrVyP7w7coM7NMQMKO_A8ayNl08-MQySl7vxiDJUwPrPrFm4rxYK2e8L7Y9P2NBgNxOInysgtBVgn724/s1600-h/homeinvasion.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5056839773742902642" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="179" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGesIu4ag9DJSptEBZgGAUluJR0PiykjQc_TMD2PwbbzP-dGUlQ7snWLQafYBqrVyP7w7coM7NMQMKO_A8ayNl08-MQySl7vxiDJUwPrPrFm4rxYK2e8L7Y9P2NBgNxOInysgtBVgn724/s320/homeinvasion.jpg" width="252" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Los Angeles police said today they are investigating two home invasion robberies that netted sizable amounts of cash and jewelry.<br />At about 2:30 a.m. today, three masked gunmen broke into a Mar Vista home and took a "substantial amount of cash," Officer Marjan Mobasser, an LAPD spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview.<br />Three female residents were tied up and a man was pistol-whipped in the robbery, she said.<br />The man was forced to open a safe where the cash was kept, she said.<br />In Playa del Rey last night, a masked gunman robbed about $400,000 worth of jewelry from a couple who were treated at a hospital, police said.<br />The robber carried a .25-calibre handgun, Mobasser said.<br />The robberies are not believed to be connected.</div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-41621878019103497752007-04-20T18:20:00.000-07:002007-04-20T18:27:18.370-07:00Mayor's budget is kind to LAPD<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkqyYsOMbeSPz3r1diC6U3rd8FhBXci4xSWWdumClEiuSqnfK6g7wv0L0Rht3LnhAAuOH-D8IoLp-ABCFWSvhMfBrN5Vr4mnhluuz-jU8DV-XKA1Ogr5tlJN9aSR0P-zFAD7B5sAe14o/s1600-h/moneyvote.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055686768297454946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUkqyYsOMbeSPz3r1diC6U3rd8FhBXci4xSWWdumClEiuSqnfK6g7wv0L0Rht3LnhAAuOH-D8IoLp-ABCFWSvhMfBrN5Vr4mnhluuz-jU8DV-XKA1Ogr5tlJN9aSR0P-zFAD7B5sAe14o/s320/moneyvote.jpg" border="0" /></a> Proposed spending plan would put more officers on the street and fund new anti-gang efforts. Mayor says other services won't suffer. <div><br /><div>By Duke Helfand and Steve Hymon</div><div>Times Staff Writers</div><br /><div>April 20, 2007 </div><div><br /> </div><div><br />LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa unveiled a $6.8-billion budget Thursday that reflects his top priority for the coming fiscal year — public safety — by continuing to boost the size of the police force and concentrate money on a broad strategy for combating gangs.<br />Villaraigosa's budget plan comes amid signs of slumping revenues, but the mayor said it nonetheless holds the line on most city services, avoiding cuts in library hours and efforts to combat gridlock.<br />And the spending blueprint will continue to chip away at a long-standing imbalance between what the city takes in and what it spends. In 2007-08, the mayor proposes taking $138 million less from city reserves to balance the books.<br />Villaraigosa also is proposing to add $8 million to the city's contingency fund, raising it to $187 million.<br />The mayor said he would accomplish all this by cutting spending in several city departments, slashing workers' compensation costs, setting firm expenditure levels and undertaking other efficiencies.<br />"This budget proves that we can put more cops on the street, work to reduce gang violence, provide necessary city services and guarantee the city of Los Angeles remains on sound financial footing as we head into an uncertain fiscal year," Villaraigosa said during a news conference in Baldwin Village.<br />Villaraigosa released his budget, which must be approved by the City Council, one day after announcing an initiative to reduce gang violence in some of Los Angeles' most troubled neighborhoods. His spending plan would focus $168 million, including $15 million in new money, on more police and prevention programs in eight "gang reduction zones" in South Los Angeles, the Eastside and the northeast Valley.<br />But his budget — and future spending plans — could be blown apart if the city and other municipalities lose a group of lawsuits over its right to collect cellphone user taxes. The litigation could cost the city $271 million a year, and the mayor said Thursday his proposal for the fiscal year starting July 1 contains no contingency plan to counter the potential loss.<br />The city faces other challenges as well, including upcoming labor negotiations with a union representing more than 11,000 city workers. Villaraigosa said he had budgeted money for those contracts but would not say how much.<br />The mayor said he decided to focus on public safety in December, when two bystanders — a 9-year-old girl in Angelino Heights and a 14-year-old girl in Harbor Gateway — died after being shot by gang members.<br />"The two incidents really hit me — and once I saw gang crime was up, I felt like we had to make this a priority," he said, referring to a 15.7% increase in gang crime last year.<br />As a result, the Los Angeles Police Department, which accounts for 48% of city spending, will get a 4.5% increase, an additional $53 million, thanks in part to an increase in trash pickup fees approved last year by city officials.<br />The coming year's budget contains no tax increases, the mayor said.<br />Villaraigosa said his goal is to add 235 officers to the LAPD in 2008 to eclipse its previous high mark of 9,852 sworn officers in June 1998. Los Angeles continues to have fewer police officers per resident than most other large cities.<br />"The budget that the mayor is proposing … is a good news budget for the Police Department because it is in fact prioritizing public safety," said Chief William J. Bratton, who joined Villaraigosa at his Baldwin Village news conference.<br />Villaraigosa's budget would maintain most city services at current levels or, in some cases, increase levels. Twenty-four library branches, for example, would be open more hours.<br />But some fees would rise. Developers would pay more for planning permits, and homeowners would be charged more for false alarms to police and for brush clearance.<br />The budgets of City Controller Laura Chick, a strong Villaraigosa ally, and the Bureau of Street Services would be cut, as would that of City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo.<br />The relationship between the mayor and Delgadillo has been tempestuous at times, but the cut raised eyebrows because the city attorney's office obtains gang injunctions and prosecutes some gang crimes.<br />"We're still reviewing the details of the budget but the city attorney is troubled because it appears, in terms of necessary funding for the fight against gang violence, instead of moving forward, we're actually going backward," said Delgadillo spokesman Nick Velasquez, declining to elaborate.<br />Other departments were clear winners. The city's planning agency — with the vocal and well-known Gail Goldberg at the helm — got the money to hire 35 more employees.<br />City Council President Eric Garcetti said the council would not be shy about tweaking Villaraigosa's budget as it weighs the spending plan with an eye toward improving constituent services and saving money.<br />"I think there will be a council stamp on this; it won't be some sort of drawn-out fight over priorities," Garcetti said. "I think there are ways to make this a tighter budget."<br />Though the mayor tried to balance revenues and expenses, he did not outline any new big-ticket items other than police hiring and gang initiatives. He said Thursday he would seek a housing bond, or perhaps higher fees for developers, to pay for more affordable housing.<br />Councilmen Tony Cardenas and Greig Smith have been discussing putting a $1-billion-plus bond measure before voters next year for street repairs. Councilwoman Janice Hahn is pushing for a $50-million bond issue in 2008 for anti-gang programs.</div></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-71654560574652289772007-04-15T22:24:00.000-07:002007-04-15T23:19:01.889-07:00LAPD Kill Reputed Gang Member In Shootout<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdapDTwEYRxRPmK0h4kqsJnuc3fZ13yBv9_cZkjgTQrT6j61uZt7eVxMwkRW_ygIi7k6Tdnh2YNdO9vChTlfkXy3FIGikSyOwC9jCgkNFhEIvVE4IjVtxEfvWoHOSI5du8gJupF59wb7Y/s1600-h/LAPD4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053906626595805906" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdapDTwEYRxRPmK0h4kqsJnuc3fZ13yBv9_cZkjgTQrT6j61uZt7eVxMwkRW_ygIi7k6Tdnh2YNdO9vChTlfkXy3FIGikSyOwC9jCgkNFhEIvVE4IjVtxEfvWoHOSI5du8gJupF59wb7Y/s320/LAPD4.jpg" border="0" /></a> LOS ANGELES -- A reputed gang member was shot to death in a gun battle with police in South Los Angeles, authorities said.<br />Patrolling officers stopped a man on a skateboard for questioning at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the Jefferson Park area, Officer Norma Eisenman said.<br />The man, whose identity was not immediately released, got off the board and ran between some houses with officers in pursuit, she said.<br />As the officers turned a corner, the man began firing a handgun, Eisenman said.<br />The officers fired back, hitting the man. No officers were hurt, Eisenman said.<br />A .357-caliber revolver was recovered near his body, she said.LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-45088277276130918522007-04-11T11:11:00.000-07:002007-04-11T11:19:23.289-07:00LAPD Cop arrested in moonlighting scam<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRUy_lOVevWmTEx08-Rv9Vwr0kMvHiwQzTEmNswkvHkZspAXNHVbU-CpHMKxma2a_8rgnNFYDw8mkX18EaXwdMRe_QjNgf1JGu12sQNTq9SZ8evhzPPLGQS2Beqz5HfQU-oJPXBmjj8Q/s1600-h/BadApple.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052236816325565122" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaRUy_lOVevWmTEx08-Rv9Vwr0kMvHiwQzTEmNswkvHkZspAXNHVbU-CpHMKxma2a_8rgnNFYDw8mkX18EaXwdMRe_QjNgf1JGu12sQNTq9SZ8evhzPPLGQS2Beqz5HfQU-oJPXBmjj8Q/s320/BadApple.jpg" border="0" /></a> Detective accused of working while collecting injury pay<br /><div><br />LOS ANGELES - A veteran LAPD detective was arrested Tuesday after a 16-month investigation showed he was moonlighting as a security guard while collecting thousands of dollars in workers' compensation, authorities said.<br />Gil Barrow, 37, who works out of the Rampart Community Police Station and makes at least $75,000 a year, was supposed to be recuperating from an on-duty knee injury.<br />But for six of the nine months he was off, police said, Barrow made extra cash working for a private security firm.<br />He was arrested on suspicion of grand theft and attempted perjury and is the fifth Los Angeles Police Department employee accused of benefits-abuse in the last two years.<br />"The taxpayers of Los Angeles provide excellent benefits for police officers," Police Chief William Bratton said in a statement. "We take seriously any misuse of those benefits and pursue criminal charges when appropriate."<br />After supervisors became suspicious that Barrow might have prolonged his off-duty recovery time, investigators from the LAPD's Professional Standards Bureau secretly watched him several times as he worked as a guard while he was supposed to be recovering from his injury.<br />The perjury charge stems from<br />Barrow's testimony during an April 31, 2006, deposition related to his injuries. He is charged with grand theft, accused of receiving salary benefits under false pretenses. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison. His bail has been set at $30,000.<br />"Like all community members, we find it disturbing when an officer is accused of abusing this public trust and commits a crime against those he is sworn to protect," said Hank Hernandez, an attorney for the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents more than 9,000 officers.<br />"While it is important to know all the facts in this case and not rush to judgment, we recognize that Los Angeles residents place their trust in law enforcement to uphold the law."<br />Last year, three LAPD employees were fired over benefits-abuse related charges and another was suspended for 15 days.<br />One of those employees, an officer assigned to Internal Affairs, was working as an armed security guard in the parking lot at Staples Center and at a concession area at Dodger Stadium in summer 2003. She was sentenced to 180 days in jail.<br /></div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-85901764510526629442007-04-10T21:18:00.000-07:002007-04-10T21:27:19.436-07:005-month gap in record of LAPD complaints<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ROlIhxng624dn46klyPKMFdBvA7sboJJ5K6hjMOmc_VbVmA0Fk5nePOjBa-kfbcc6AR9_g_EYscI5AspVLBh4o_03SbNYHr2scg-aqiXNE1TPC5y4QMXwFGqEJMQZQehyiRlLyYwivQ/s1600-h/LAPDfone1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052022334248737458" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ROlIhxng624dn46klyPKMFdBvA7sboJJ5K6hjMOmc_VbVmA0Fk5nePOjBa-kfbcc6AR9_g_EYscI5AspVLBh4o_03SbNYHr2scg-aqiXNE1TPC5y4QMXwFGqEJMQZQehyiRlLyYwivQ/s320/LAPDfone1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <div>LOS ANGELES - For five months, a toll-free LAPD hotline set up to monitor citizen complaints against officers didn't record any of the calls that came in - and nobody noticed, according to an internal audit the Police Commission will discuss today.<br />"It's an obvious concern when the mechanism to intake complaints is not working," LAPD Inspector General André Birotte said. "It's something that needs to be remedied sooner rather than later."<br />Listed on the back of all LAPD business cards, the 800 number connects the public to an internal affairs investigator. The recording says that all calls are monitored, but between April 27 and Sept. 29 last year, not a single call was recorded.<br />"Despite the recording system's malfunction, all complaints phoned in to the toll-free number were taken, documented and investigated," LAPD spokesman Lt. Paul Vernon said. "The malfunction has now been corrected, and persons calling the toll-free number will now have their complaints recorded on tape at the point of contact."<br />The system, required by a 2001 federal consent decree, was put in place to ensure complaints about alleged officer misconduct were recorded.<br />This year, the department hopes to get out from under the decree that stemmed from a lawsuit alleging the L</div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8412458928589235674.post-63126149356759343582007-04-10T20:58:00.000-07:002007-04-10T21:03:08.667-07:00Rapper Snoop Dog Charged! AGAIN!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOcLfrRloM3k3roeCb1ayjWcPYsAcs4Fng8p4Pncv_9PA8xEexvneAVOfemkZXNUBvYqrsUaynvnZuSTUgc_M-KdFt3_uXcr3GKCjBqF73zXY2BYo43-g9bqY1OQxzeGHHRTxWipAkoQ/s1600-h/Soop.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5052016093661256354" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOcLfrRloM3k3roeCb1ayjWcPYsAcs4Fng8p4Pncv_9PA8xEexvneAVOfemkZXNUBvYqrsUaynvnZuSTUgc_M-KdFt3_uXcr3GKCjBqF73zXY2BYo43-g9bqY1OQxzeGHHRTxWipAkoQ/s320/Soop.jpg" border="0" /></a> LOS ANGELES -- Rapper Snoop Dogg -- who is already facing a weapon charge in Orange County -- was charged Tuesday in Los Angeles County with one felony count each of sale or transportation of marijuana and possession of a firearm by a felon.<br /><div><br />The 35-year-old musician, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus, will be arraigned Wednesday in Pasadena Superior Court, said Deputy District Attorney Marian Thompson.<br />Broadus was arrested Oct. 26 by officers from the Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport Authority Police Department at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank on suspicion of transporting marijuana, authorities said. </div><br /><div><br />He was released on $35,000 bail.</div><br /><div><br />The firearm charge stems from the alleged discovery of a weapon by Burbank police during a search of his home on Nov. 28. The rapper was arrested that night outside NBC Studios in Burbank. He was released a day later on $60,000 bail.</div><br /><div>The criminal complaint alleges that Broadus was convicted of felony drug possession and possession for sale in 1990.</div><br /><div>Meanwhile, the Long Beach native is awaiting a May 15 hearing in Orange County Superior Court on a felony charge of carrying a 20-inch collapsible baton, which authorities consider a dangerous weapon, into John Wayne Airport on Sept. 27.</div><br /><div>The rapper said he did not know the object was illegal and that it was to have been a prop in a video he was to tape in New York, Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino reported. He was charged last November with a felony count of possession of a deadly weapon. </div>LAPD RANT Chiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15972517527062826625noreply@blogger.com2