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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 tale ...
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Woman’s Suit Alleging LAPD Shot Her With Rubber Bullet Headed to Trial
A judge has ruled for a second time that a woman who sued the city of Los Angeles and then-LAPD Chief Michel Moore — alleging both are liable for injuries she suffered after officers allegedly shot ...
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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 ...