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Why Kamala Harris Was Given $24 Million

Los Angeles Daily News | Rick Orlov and Doug Saunders | Posted 05.18.2013 | Los Angeles

Bringing together district attorneys and law enforcement officials from throughout the state, Attorney General Kamala Harris convened a working group ...

The Feds Are Done Watching LAPD

AP | TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 05.17.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- A judge has officially ended more than a decade of federal oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department that was triggered by a corru...

LAPD: 3 Parties Will Split $1 Million Reward Offered During Christopher Dorner Manhunt

AP | SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER | Posted 05.08.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of the $1 million reward offered in the manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner will go to a couple whom he ...

Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy

Peter Bibring | Posted 05.07.2013 | Los Angeles
Peter Bibring

Photographing a single license plate one time on a public city street may not seem problematic, but when that data is put into a database, combined with other scans of that same plate on other city streets, and stored forever, it can become very revealing.

Is L.A.'s Future More Secure With 10,000 Cops?

Rick J. Caruso | Posted 05.05.2013 | Los Angeles
Rick J. Caruso

Great cities face their challenges head-on and invent new paths towards the future. There are at least 10,000 reasons for Los Angeles to do the same.

Camp Ranger Files Lawsuit For Dorner Reward Money

AP | Posted 04.30.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- A camp ranger whose truck was taken by Christopher Dorner filed a lawsuit Monday for the $1 million reward offered for information lead...

Mayor Challenges Those Who Want To Take His Place

Los Angeles Daily News | Rick Orlov | Posted 04.07.2013 | Los Angeles

Crime continued to drop throughout Los Angeles as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Friday challenged his potential successors to continue to support a 10...

LAPD Officer Wins $1.2M After Enduring Shocking Racial Harassment

Posted 03.27.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES - A black LA police officer was awarded $1.2 million by a jury Tuesday for being the target of vulgar racial harassment by a white supervi...

Police To Get Charles Manson Tapes Yield Clues

AP | DANNY ROBBINS | Posted 03.27.2013 | Crime

DALLAS -- A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department should be able to obtain the decades-old taped conversations betwe...

Christopher Dorner and Racial Battle Fatigue

Angelica V. Hernandez, Ph.D. | Posted 05.01.2013 | Crime
Angelica V. Hernandez, Ph.D.

It's easy to say that Dorner could have expressed his grief in a productive way. But by acting on his sense of vengeance, Dorner has shown us how susceptible we are to participating in the cycle of abuse.

Inspired By Chris Dorner, 6 More Cops Come Forward

AP | TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 04.28.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- At least six fired police officers want their disciplinary cases reopened after the Los Angeles Police Department began reinvestigating...

Search For Dorner Began With 'Long Shot' Tip From Officer He Feuded With

AP | Posted 04.24.2013 | Crime

LOS ANGELES — The training officer whose dispute with former Los Angeles police Officer Christopher Dorner led to his firing says it was her "lo...

Police Struggle To Cope With Cop Killer's Aftermath

AP | A. BREED, JULIE WATSON and TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 04.18.2013 | Los Angeles

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — As soon as he heard officers were chasing the suspected cop killer in a stolen truck, San Bernardino County Sheriff's De...

Chris Dorner's Body IDENTIFIED

AP | Posted 02.14.2013 | Crime

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) -- Officials say burned remains found in a California mountain cabin have been positively identified as fugitive former pol...

When Cops Are a Danger to the Public

Brian Rooney | Posted 04.15.2013 | Crime
Brian Rooney

In those moments when the guns come out, it is a difficult and dangerous job. But difficult and dangerous circumstances are when all that training is supposed to kick in, not be abandoned in a moment of "incredible tension."

You Can't Just Execute Him

James Peron | Posted 04.13.2013 | Politics
James Peron

How convenient! Anyone the president has executed is considered guilty unless proven innocent after they are dead. There is no messy due process, no court, only secret evidence; the president personally judges the merits and orders the executions.

$1 MILLION REWARD

AP | Posted 02.10.2013 | Crime

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. -- Authorities are offering a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Christopher Dorner, the former Los Ange...

LAPD Apologizes: We're Sorry, Here's A New Truck

AP | TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 02.10.2013 | Los Angeles

-- A mother and daughter newspaper delivery team who were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police hunting for a fugitive former cop will get a new pick...

Captain Targeted In Ex-Cop's Manifesto Won't Leave His House

AP | Posted 02.10.2013 | Crime

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A Los Angeles police captain who's been named as a target in a fugitive former cop's online manifesto says he is taking the threa...

LAPD Reviews Ex-Cop's Allegations Of Racism As Manhunt Goes On

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS and TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 04.12.2013 | Crime

IRVINE, Calif. — Police blocked off a street and stood guard in front of a home in a typically quiet Southern California suburb Sunday, protecti...

Records Say Dorner Cried On Police Duty

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 02.09.2013 | Crime

ORANGE, Calif. -- A photo never tells the whole story, and that's especially true for Christopher Dorner. The images on his Facebook page are essentia...

'He Could Be Behind Every Tree': Search For Cop-Killer Resumes

AP | TAMI ABDOLLAH | Posted 04.11.2013 | Crime

BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. — The hunt for a former Los Angeles police officer suspected in three killings continued in snow-covered mountains Saturda...

There Is Nothing More to Say About This Story Except Just to Tell It

Tanya M. Acker | Posted 02.07.2013 | Los Angeles
Tanya M. Acker

I was in the middle of dinner with a friend recently when he realized he'd left his wallet in the car and went to the valet to retrieve it. He returne...

READ The Disturbing Manifesto Of At-Large Cop 'Killer'

Posted 02.08.2013 | Crime

Christopher Dorner, the shooting suspect who allegedly went on a rampage and killed an officer on Thursday, wrote an online manifesto on his Facebook ...

Raid Of The Day: The 39th & Dalton Edition

Radley Balko | Posted 02.05.2013 | Politics

"This is war." And with that, Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates launched "Operation Hammer" in the spring of 1988. Like a lot of overly agg...