Los Angles Police Department (LAPD) chief Michael Moore indicates numerous firearms have recently been stolen during freight train robberies near downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times quoted Moore saying, “People were … breaking into these containers and stealing firearms, tens of firearms…That gave us the great concern as a source again of further violence…
Union Says LAPD Officer Followed Training in Incident That Resulted in Fatal Shooting of Teen
January 3, 2022 by
LOS ANGELES—The police officer who inadvertently shot a 14-year-old girl to death while confronting a suspect at a Burlington store in North Hollywood had recently completed a course on how to handle an active shooter situation and was properly following his training, the officer’s union told City News Service on Jan…
LAPD Advises City Residents to ‘Cooperate and Comply’ with Robbers
November 11, 2021 by
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) tweeted a release Tuesday advising city residents to “cooperate and comply” when being robbed. The release begins: Due to an increase in violent street robberies, Robbery-Homicide Division has become aware of an ongoing crime trend of follow-home robberies. Suspects have been locating victims in Los Angeles, following them, and…
LAPD Union Demands NBA Punish Jaxson Hayes for Alleged Assault on Cops, Using N-Word
August 12, 2021 by
The union representing the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is asking the NBA to punish one of their players for allegedly assaulting their officers and calling them the n-word. Jaxson Hayes, a center for the New Orleans Pelicans, was involved in an altercation with police last month after officers were dispatched to a reported domestic…