Sheriff's Dept. Credits Civilian Volunteers For Drop In Violent Crime
Violent crime has dropped significantly so far this year — but law enforcement officials give much of the credit for the decline to its civilian partners.
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Violent crime has dropped significantly so far this year — but law enforcement officials give much of the credit for the decline to its civilian partners.
Two women and a man were arrested on suspicion of check fraud Thursday, according to El Monte police.
Solution: Jordan gets a "friend" top pull the trigger, by promising money or pain pills. I'd have thought he'd want to hang on to the pain pills.
Downtown L.A. has certainly seen quite a resurgence in the past decade, but the latest crime stats may give some reason to pause.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Friday the expansion of his 3-year-old Summer Night Lights program ,which keeps some public parks open at night during the summer to give teens a place to go and keep crime down.
The set-up: State trooper throws the switch, lights up blue-n-reds, to get a driver to pull over. That driver is standing on his seat; uppper half of body, sticking out of sunroof.
Crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, on the run for almost 17 years, has been apprehended in Santa Monica, according to authorities.
2011 has seen fewer violent crimes committed in Los Angeles County, according to data released Wednesday.
A fresh batch of booking photographs. Or as fresh as some of these folks will get. Remember: don't call them 'mug shots.' Dignity, always dignity.
The Los Angeles Police Department is unveiling new surveillance cameras in the North Hills area.
Hey! Wait a second! $,1600 was charged at the motel where this guy's son just got married. (Not hotel; motel. -Ed.) And a lot of the other purchases looked like stuff somebody getting married would buy.
Gov. Jerry Brown asked groups representing crime victims and state prison guards on Monday to help him lobby Republican lawmakers on his proposal to close a budget deficit that once stood at nearly $27 billion.
Police say at least 35,000 residents have already signed up to supply the LAPD with crime tips using a free online service.
prosecutor Noorul Hasan says Douglas Mackenzie should be committed to a mental hospital because he is a danger to society.
Here's why -- according to the police report-- one of them looked at the other two and said "We can't leave any witnesses." So he deals with the three witnesses, by sending them to sleep with da fishes.
USC announced plans to increase security west of the school's Exposition Park campus by deploying USC security ambassadors, campus police and security cameras.
A man dressed as a clown threatened to burn down a liquor store in downtown Austin. Ted Stewart, 44, became upset when a store clerk ... refused to sell him liquor because the clerk believed Steward was too intoxicated
A so-called "shot caller" who was arrested in a crackdown on a Southern California Latino street gang has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Seventeen homicides: that's the difference between an understaffed LAPD and one that isn't, according to Chief Charlie Beck.
With Christmas around the corner auto thieves are gearing up for their shopping season... And it could be your car at the mall. Find out how your local shopping center ranks for parking lot theft.
My favorite quote from the TV station that talked to him; "He fell down into the pumpkin, too. And he was spitting up pumpkin." Law enforcement points out it's never safe, taking the law into... bla bla bla.
A new state report shows 67.5 percent of California prison inmates who were paroled in 2005-06 returned to prison within three years.
Two Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employees face criminal charges stemming from a six-year scheme that defrauded the utility of millions of dollars.
The FBI Friday asked for the public's help in finding the "Muscle Shirt Bandit."
