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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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 ...
Joseph Wambaugh, author who knew gritty reality of cop life, dies at 88
Before the release of Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions,” he received an unusual offer from the star of the ...
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Armed With Just a Badge, Los Angeles’ First Policewoman Protected the City’s Most Vulnerable in the Early 20th Century
Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...
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1992 vs. 2020: What can the Minneapolis Police Department learn from the Los Angeles Police Department?
Minneapolis Police are getting some help navigating how to work under a consent decree after the murder of George Floyd. That ...
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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, L.A. Cop Turned Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 88
By Chris Koseluk Joseph Wambaugh, who turned his experiences from 14 years with the Los Angeles Police Department into ... period that led to the 1965 Watts riots. Published by Little, Brown ...
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Remembering Joseph Wambaugh, crime writer and Chaffey grad
The writer, who died Feb. 28, graduated from Chaffey High and Chaffey College. A military stint in between made him take ...
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Nearly 5 years after George Floyd murder, Minneapolis PD turns to LAPD for lessons
Nearly five years after George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer, the force is taking lessons from Los Angeles police who worked through the aftermath of the 1992 beating of Rodney King.