LAPD To Test Non-Lethal Restraint Device That Some Are Comparing To Batman Weapon
The device is known as the BolaWrap 100, which fires a Kevlar cord that wraps around a person's torso and legs from up to 10 to 25 feet away.
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The device is known as the BolaWrap 100, which fires a Kevlar cord that wraps around a person's torso and legs from up to 10 to 25 feet away.
Detectives have made arrests in connection with recent burglaries at the homes of Los Angeles celebrities, police said Monday.
Los Angeles police have arrested a man they believe sexually assaulted several women — including two in their 80s.
A former Los Angeles Police Department civilian employee who worked in the Valley Jail Division and the owners of a Sherman Oaks bail bond company were charged Friday in an alleged scheme to illegally solicit bail bond contracts.
One of three would-be robbers was shot and killed by an employee at a Taco stand in South Los Angeles late Friday night, a Los Angeles police lieutenant said Saturday.
Two men surrendered to police Thursday after leading officers on a high-speed, occasionally wild police pursuit out of South Los Angeles.
A construction crew will begin repairing a damaged sidewalk Thursday near the Hollywood Hills home of retired "The Price Is Right" host Bob Barker, who suffered cuts to his head after tripping on the sidewalk in October.
Authorities have identified two officers involved in the fatal North Hills shooting of a knife-wielding man after he did not respond to being zapped with a stun gun.
A rookie police officer whose weapon was found in the hallway of an apartment complex in Culver City no longer works for the Los Angeles Police Department, according to police Chief Charlie Beck.
An investigation is underway Tuesday into a Los Angeles Police Department officer after a bullet that allegedly came from his gun was fired into the wall of a Culver City apartment.
About three dozen people gathered outside LAPD headquarters for a march that was scheduled to end at Sixth and San Pedro streets.
Actor Martin Milner, whose portrayal of Officer Pete Malloy on the "Adam-12" television series that helped shape the public's perception of the Los Angeles Police Department, will be honored today at the department's headquarters.
A pedestrian was stabbed to death in Winnetka just after midnight on Saturday morning in a crime that police believe to be related to a robbery that occurred 15 minutes earlier.
A crash on Thursday night involving a big rig and a passenger vehicle in Granada Hills has killed one person, the LAPD said.
A tow-truck driver was struck and killed by a motorist early Saturday morning in Sun Valley.
Police on Sunday are asking for the public's help in searching for a missing Special Olympics athlete from Albania.
After the LAPD accused political cartoonist Ted Rall of lying in a blog post he wrote in the Los Angeles Times in May, the Times decided this week it will no longer publish work from the award-winning cartoonist. Now, Rall is calling out the Times for taking the police department's word over his own.
"[Officers] will be out in the streets and they will be doing their jobs," LAPD Sgt. Barry Montgomery.
With law enforcement agencies across the country under fire over allegations from excessive force to racial profiling, there are still quite a few people hoping to make a difference as a police officer.
Hundreds of people gathered at a memorial ceremony on Thursday to pay tribute to LAPD officers killed in the line of duty.
The Los Angeles Police Department remains on Blue Alert Tuesday morning in wake of the violence in Baltimore prompted by the death of a man in police custody.
Police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday he believes an officer charged with using excessive force during an October arrest committed a "criminal act," and he personally urged the district attorney to file charges.
An Inglewood man was arrested and jailed Friday in connection with a series of shootings that killed one man and injured four people Thursday afternoon in the Palms area of West Los Angeles.
A homeowner was injured late Friday night after two men and a woman invaded his family's house in Exposition Park and stole cash, authorities said.
Hundreds of body cameras have been delivered to the Los Angeles Police Department, and are expected to be put in use starting this summer, officials said Tuesday.
