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New Mexico Cops Fatally Shoot Homeowner After Showing Up at the Wrong House

Plus: Los Angeles sues journalist who published police photos, IRS releases $80 billion budget plan, and more...

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LA sues journalist, activist group to claw back photos of undercover officers

LOS ANGELES — In a move immediately denounced as legally meritless by First Amendment and media rights experts, the city of Los Angeles has sued a local journalist and an activist group over the online publication of undercover Los Angeles Police Department officers’ pictures — images the city had itself…

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Who's sending mystery Uber Eats orders to LA neighborhoods? The plot thickens

LOS ANGELES — Separated by about 16 miles of traffic-snarled L.A. roads — and an income bracket or two — Westwood Hills and Highland Park may not seem like they have a lot in common.

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Hundreds of 'undercover' LAPD officers take step to sue city over release of photos

LOS ANGELES — More than 300 Los Angeles police officers who worked in sensitive assignments gave notice Tuesday that they will file a negligence lawsuit against the city for allegedly endangering their lives by releasing their department photographs along with images of thousands of other cops under the state’s public…

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LAPD police union sues Chief Moore, wants images of undercover officers taken offline

LOS ANGELES — The union representing Los Angeles police rank and file sued Chief Michel Moore on Tuesday to force the department to stop making officers’ photos public and to claw back images of undercover officers given out under the state’s public records law.

Los Angeles Times

‘Killer cop’ Twitter account suspended after LAPD union sues its owner

Twitter has suspended the social media account of an anti-police website for violating its rules against inciting violence after a union for Los Angeles police sued the owner of the website that offers a “bounty” for the killing of police officers.

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Gustavo Arellano: An LAPD SWAT raid wrecked this man's print shop. He can't get compensation

LOS ANGELES — For 13 years, Carlos Pena has run NoHo Printing & Graphics in North Hollywood. He has stayed here even as this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard became sketchier, even as the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to lay off all his employees.

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LAPD chief says inspector general’s office will investigate release of photos of undercover officers to watchdog website

LOS ANGELES — The Office of the Inspector General will investigate LAPD Chief Michel Moore and the department’s constitutional policing director over the disclosure of photos of thousands of officers, including those who work undercover.

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles police accidentally release photos of undercover officers to watchdog website

LOS ANGELES — In a still-unfolding drama that has reached its top ranks, the Los Angeles Police Department accidentally released the names and photos of numerous undercover officers to a watchdog group that posted them on its website.

Los Angeles Times

Younger Angelenos have far more negative view of police than elders, poll finds

LOS ANGELES — Angelenos are split in their views of the Los Angeles Police Department, showing a sharp generational divide on how they rate the force's performance and on whether officers generally treat people of all races fairly, a new poll shows.

Los Angeles Times

LA strongly approves of Mayor Bass but is skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows

LOS ANGELES — On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be crucial for the new mayor during uphill battles ahead.

Los Angeles Times

LA riders bail on Metro trains amid 'horror' of deadly drug overdoses, crime

LOS ANGELES — Matthew Morales boarded the Metro Red Line at MacArthur Park as classical music blared over the station loudspeakers.

Los Angeles Times

Violence against Black women in LA remains high, even as serious crime drops

LOS ANGELES — Even as the rate of serious crime in Los Angeles trends downward, Black women and girls remain at higher risk of victimization than any other demographic, according to a report by the city's civil rights department.

Los Angeles Times

Man who shot 3 LAPD officers was fugitive parolee; 2 officers sent home from hospital

LOS ANGELES — Two of the three Los Angeles Police Department officers shot during a brief gunfight with a fugitive parolee this week were released from a hospital Thursday as more details emerged about the shooter, who died in the confrontation, police said.

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3 LAPD officers shot in Lincoln Heights neighborhood

LOS ANGELES — Three Los Angeles Police Department officers were shot Wednesday night and a suspect was dead following a confrontation in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, police officials said.

The Guardian - US

The Hollywood sign at 100: how a hillside ad became an enduring monument

The familiar letters loom over a dreamy city – yet they remain surprisingly hard to reach

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Suspect in attacks on Jewish men was on FBI's radar, LAPD chief says

LOS ANGELES — A man charged with the hate-motivated shootings of two Jewish men in Los Angeles was on the FBI’s radar before the attacks, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said.

The Independent UK

Los Angeles police union proposes limits to 911 responses

The Los Angeles Police Department’s rank-and-file union is proposing that someone other than police respond to more than two dozen types of 911 calls in a bid to transfer their workload to more serious crimes

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LAPD should stop handling many non-emergency calls, police union says

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department's largest employee union is looking to have officers stop responding to more than two dozen types of calls, transferring those duties to other city agencies while focusing on more serious crimes.

Los Angeles Times

One man’s fight to hold an LAPD officer accountable for a protest shooting

LOS ANGELES — Since Deon Jones first alleged that a Los Angeles police officer had unjustly shot him in the face with a hard-foam projectile at a 2020 protest, he and his legal team have gone to great lengths to prove it.

The Independent UK

Lady Gaga ‘sued by dog theft accomplice for not giving her $500k reward’

The singer’s dogs were stolen in 2021

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: LAPD’s broken discipline system doesn’t hold officers accountable

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore and Mayor Karen Bass want to make it easier to fire or otherwise punish officers who have committed serious misconduct, and they have the right idea. Police must earn the trust of the communities they serve, yet trusting them is hard if officers can’t…

Los Angeles Times

‘He was hunting Jews’: LA officials decry antisemitism in wake of shootings

LOS ANGELES — In a school gymnasium painted yellow and black to symbolize the star that Jewish people were forced to wear in Nazi Germany, Mayor Karen Bass addressed a crowd of 400 who had gathered for a town hall on antisemitic violence after the shootings of two Jewish men…

Los Angeles Times

Jews in West LA are resolute, on edge after gunman targets Jewish community in 2 shootings

LOS ANGELES — Stephane Sultan, who owns a kosher restaurant on Pico Boulevard, knew his neighbors and customers were on edge because they kept confiding the same message.

Los Angeles Times

LA City Council members want to give police chief more power to fire officers for misconduct

LOS ANGELES — Two members of the Los Angeles City Council called Friday for an overhaul of the Police Department's disciplinary process, one that would enhance the police chief's power to fire officers and scale back the involvement of civilians in disciplinary hearings.

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