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Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, complaint alleges
A complaint reviewed by The Times accuses officers of voicing open discrimination against potential recruits and colleagues based on race, sex and sexual orientation.
LAPD expediting investigation into racist remarks, Chief McDonnell says
In light of a whistleblower’s complaint that alleged racism and discrimination by officers within the Los Angeles Police Department, an expedited investigation is now underway into the department’s recruitment and employment division, Chief Jim McDonnell said Tuesday.
LAPD officers under investigation for alleged racist, derogatory comments on audio recording, chief says
The involved officers have been “assigned to home” without police powers, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said during a Tuesday Board of Police Commissioners meeting.
Investigation into racist remarks by officers to be expedited: LAPD Chief
Chief Jim McDonnell on Tuesday called details of a whistleblower’s complaint alleging racism and discrimination by officers in the Los Angeles Police Department’s Recruitment and Employment Division a “major setback.
LAPD investigation into racist, sexist, homophobic comments
According to new reporting by the LATimes, an LAPD officer assigned to recruitment has been secretly recording other officers’ wildly offensive conversations in which they make racist, homophobic, and misogynistic comments about other officers,
LAPD Officers Caught On Audio Spewing Racist Remarks, Complaint Says
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department have been accused of making racist and derogatory remarks on secretly recorded audio.
LAPD cops shot 21 bystanders in 10 years. How does it keep happening?
A Times analysis of police shootings over the past decade found that officers are rarely — if ever — punished for firing ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, L.A. Cop Turned Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 88
Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, author who knew gritty reality of cop life, dies at 88
The LAPD pay was better. He was among the police units mobilized in 1965 when the city’s Watts neighborhood erupted in deadly riots after the arrest of a Black man by a White police officer ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, ex-LAPD officer who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
The prolific author, who initially planned to be an English teacher, had been with the Los Angeles Police Department 11 years and reached the rank of sergeant when he published his first novel ...
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Details of LAPD probe into racist, sexist remarks raise recruitment woe
New details of a complaint filed with the Los Angeles Police Department alleging officers in the recruitment office used ...