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Source: www.publicradio.org --- 24 days ago
Two of the region’s top law enforcement officers yesterday endorsed Proposition “A” on the November ballot in the city of Los Angeles. The proposed parcel tax would provide money to gang prevention programs. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze reports. Frank Stoltze: Prop A would place a $3-a-month tax on all residential and commercial property in the city. It would raise $30 million a year for gang prevention and intervention programs. Bill Bratton: We have repeatedly indicated that we cannot arrest our way out of the gang problems that are so pernicious in this city and in this county. Stoltze: LAPD Chief Bill Bratton joined L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca in supporting A. Lee Baca: The voters cannot afford to not vote for this initiative. Either we address the problem where it can be changed, or we do business as usual. Stoltze: Proposition “A” faces likely opposition from anti-tax groups. It requires approval from two-thirds of the city’s voters to become law. ... Source: blogs.laweekly.com --- 24 days ago
More than a year later, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton has offered his suggestions for disciplining 15 officers who were involved in the May Day fiasco in 2007, which saw groups of police officers swinging at, and connecting with, a mostly peaceful crowd at a demonstration in MacArthur Park. At a Police Commission meeting, Bratton said he wants four of those 15 officers to be fired. ...
Source: blogs.abcnews.com --- 71 days ago
Did Lindsay Lohan just get outed -- not by Samantha Ronson, not by her parents, not by her publicist -- but by the Los Angeles police Chief? He who all but called Britney Spears a reformed nudist and Paris Hilton... ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 71 days ago
Chief on Zine's Media Conference: Granstanding, Foolishness, Waste of City Time MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) topnav_MENU_ITEMS [ new menu (topnav_MENU_ITEMS, HomeSuperPlannerCouncilsMediaDownloadsLibrarySign-Up Los Angeles Friday, August ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 71 days ago
New York, Aug 1 : Many stars say that the paparazzi are creating problems for them and that stricter laws should be enforced, but LAPD Chief William Bratton says things have calmed down since Britney Spears 'started wearing clothes', Paris Hilton is ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 23 days ago
"Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton announced Tuesday his plans to discipline 11 officers and called for the termination of four others for their roles in a May Day melee last year in which police were accused of using excessive force to clear immigration rights demonstrators and journalists from MacArthur Park," writes Joel Rubin in Wednesday's L.A. Times."The penalties mark a significant step in the Los Angeles Police Department's effort to recover from an incident that Bratton called "a phenomenal black eye." LAPD officers were videotaped wielding batons and shooting rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse a largely peaceful crowd. A scathing internal investigation into the incident blamed poor leadership and overly aggressive tactics by officers in the field." "In general, LAPD Deputy Chief Mark Perez said, officers were being punished for excessive use of force, failing to rein in other officers or lying to investigators during the inquiry. Citing personnel privacy rules, he and Bratton declined to name any of the involved officers or publicly elaborate on the officers' transgressions during a presentation Tuesday to the Police Commission, the department's civilian oversight board." -- Reed Johnson in Los Angeles Photo: Los Angeles police officers in riot gear move into MacArthur Park on May Day, 2007. Credit: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times ... Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 27 days ago
On a cool winter night in 1956, a passenger train on its way to San Diego lurched off a curve near the Los Angeles River, killing 30 people and injuring 130. It was Los Angeles’ deadliest rail disaster. The Santa Fe Railway train was traveling too fast that night, Jan. 22, an investigation later determined. The train’s engineer admitted to speeding. The scene at the crash site -- southeast of downtown at the Redondo junction near Washington Boulevard and Soto Street -- was chaotic. While rescue workers worked to pry victims from the wreckage, police clashed with journalists trying to cover the story. Doctors, clergymen, volunteers and looters swarmed around the wreck as frantic relatives went from hospital to hospital in search of loved ones. Later, the FBI found that the Los Angeles Police Department’s attempts to protect the scene had generated even more pandemonium. In response, Police Chief William Parker created the LAPD’s press relations unit. Many victims and relatives of those killed in the crash sued the railroad, which settled 168 cases for about $30 million. -- Kate Linthicum Photo: KTLA ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 38 days ago
LAPD Chief William J. Bratton says there were 84 slayings in the city from June through August. He adds that all categories of violent and property crimes are down from last year. Amid an ongoing drop in overall city crime rates, Los Angeles this summer recorded the fewest number of homicides in more than four decades. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 38 days ago
LAPD Chief William J. Bratton says there were 84 slayings in the city from June through August. He adds that all categories of violent and property crimes are down from last year. Amid the ongoing drop in overall city crime rates, Los Angeles recorded the fewest number of summer homicides in more than 40 years. ... Source: www.publicradio.org --- 4 days ago
Los Angeles police say a man facing financial troubles killed his wife, three children, and mother-in-law in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood over the weekend. It happened in a gated community in Porter Ranch. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze reports officers made the discovery this morning. Frank Stoltze: LAPD Deputy Chief Michael Moore says officers went to the home after a neighbor called police concerned the wife hadn’t shown up to go to work. Deputy Chief Michael Moore: Upon entering the home behind me, they found the remains of an entire family; six people dead in what we have now determined to be a murder-suicide. Stoltze: Moore says the husband and father shot to death his three sons, ages 19, 12 and 7, his 39-year-old wife, and his 69-year-old mother-in-law, before turning the gun on himself. Police found two letters. Moore: First was a suicide letter addressed to law enforcement. In it, the suspect alluded to having a string of financial difficulties and confessed that he killed his family because of those difficulties. A second letter was addressed to friends. Police said the man held a Masters of Business Administration in finance and formerly worked for PriceWaterhouseCooper and Sony Pictures, but had been unemployed for several months. The family had lived in the house for about a year, but did not own it. Police say the man bought the handgun last month and apparently had been planning the murder suicide for several week ... Source: www.publicradio.org --- 23 days ago
Millions of Americans have a stake in the stock market - but not always by choice. Their pension funds are invested in a lot of financial institutions, some of which have taken big hits in the last couple of weeks. What does retirement look like for them now that so many investments have gone south? And it’s Ask the Chief - where the Chief answers Patt’s questions and yours on the LAPD. Department officials have recommended that 4 LAPD officers be fired for their roles in last year’s May Day rally in MacArthur Park, which ended in a clash between officers, demonstrators and journalists. Too tough? Not tough enough? What do you think? The comment area is open for business. ... Source: blogs.laweekly.com --- 7 days ago
The below press release sheds light on what some have begun to call an overwrought hyper-focus on gangs by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief William Bratton. As the Weekly has reported, Villaraigosa and Bratton in 2007 hyped a fake "gang crisis" . It was bunk—as experts predicted, it was a one-year spike in gang activity, which has been dropping for years . Villaraigosa and Bratton earned great TV time, though, and then absurdly took credit a few weeks ago for putting a lid on the "crisis." As the press release about Melrose sadly illustrates, there's a downside to all this fakey Kabuki Theater by Villaraigosa and Bratton. During the time they've focused obsessively on gangs, they've all but ignored the tenets of the Broken Window Syndrome : if you allow small, unpleasant quality-of-life issues to fester, decay and entrenched crime will follow. But if you fight the small issues , even litter, neighborhoods will be sound . Graffiti spreading in every neighborhood, long-term dumping of reeking garbage in South Central alleys, Abandoned Sofa Syndrome (I call it ASS) spreading citwide , urine-soaked and neglected sidewalks despite millions spent on "redeveloping" Hollywood Boulevard, 4,000 illegal billboards cluttering streets citywide, new and boldly illegal "supergraphics" being draped over landmark L.A. buildings, blatantly illegal begging allowed on scores of freeway ramps—and all of it exploding under Villaraigosa and Bratton ...
Source: www.boxxet.com --- 70 days ago
Written by Perez Hilton Bratton continued on by saying that he puts the blame on celebrities, such as Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, for the constant issues with the paparazzi. He adds, "If you notice, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody, thank God; and... Original story at perezhilton.com . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Lindsay Lohan . ... Source: laist.com --- 25 days ago
Everyday that goes by means it's getting closer to election day and for the first time, a Proposition A e-mail came into our e-mail inbox. Prop A is a City of Los Angeles measure that if voted on by two-thirds of the people, the city will add a $36/year special tax on each real property parcel for programs that address gang violence (to read through the language, Smart Voter has it ). Tomorrow afternoon, LAPD Chief William Bratton, Sheriff Lee Baca and LAFD Chief Douglas Barry are all scheduled to publicly endorse the measure at City Hall. ...
Source: www.laobserved.com --- 5 days ago
LAPD Chief William Bratton attended the London tabloid The Sun's "Broken Britain summit" on crime last week (in conjunction with the Conservative Party), got some... ... Source: www.laobserved.com --- 3 days ago
The Sun newspaper in the U.K. continues to call LAPD Chief William Bratton "a leading contender to replace ousted Sir Ian Blair as Londons Metropolitan... ... Find more results for LAPD Chief on RSSMicro.com |
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LOS ANGELES â Lindsay Lohan said Friday that police have no business getting involved in her personal life, a day after the police Chief explained that the paparazzi were no longer an issue _ in part because the 22-year-old actress had evidently "gone gay." "Police Chief shouldn't get involved in everyone else's business when it comes to their personal life. It's inappropriate," Lohan said in a video shot by paparazzi Friday and posted on TMZ.com. In the footage, Lohan and gal pal Samantha Ronson are trekking through the Los Angeles Airport on their way to catch a flight to Chicago. ...
UPDATE: News reports say today's 10 AM Los Angeles City Hall meeting about proposed new restrictions on paparazzi included reps from West Hollywood, Malibu, the Screen Actors Guild, and LA County Sheriff Lee Baca. But no members of the LAPD were present at the hearing. That's because Chief William Bratton has consistently opposed new legislation that would further restrict and [...] ...
Photo by mugley via Flickr The LAPD's Central Division is increasing their resources in downtown in the form of eight bicycle patrols and new foot patrols finds downtown blog Angelenic . According to the Senior Lead Officer for the area (he's like the mini Chief of police for a neighborhood), they are focusing on pedestrian enforcement. Blogger not happy: Is this nipping larger crimes in the bud or is it just “Broken Windows” theory gone wild? Broken Windows, espoused by Chief Bratton and with a tried and true record in New York City, is the doctrine that preventing small crimes such as graffiti, subway fare evasion and petty theft — and punishing perpetrators accordingly — prevents larger crimes from happening. But when I can walk past 6th and Los Angeles and shifty-eyed loiterers approach me to buy my “stolen” laptop, when I walk down Spring Street and see a woman inducted into prostitution, and when I find myself in the Civic Center being physically threatened by a man much larger than me for money, focusing on office workers stepping off a Grand Avenue sidewalk a moment too late just seems ludicrous. While we understand that graffiti, illegal dumping and jumping gates in NYC subway stations to avoid paying are all part of broken windows, we're not sold yet on pedestrian enforcement yet. ...