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Jun 26, 2024 · By Libor Jany. and David Zahniser. June 25, 2024 Updated 6:05 PM PT. The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a ballot measure that would give the police chief the authority to fire ...
Aug 23, 2023 · The council, on a 12-3 vote, signed off on the agreement with the Los Angeles Police Protective League, giving the union’s members four year-to-year pay increases, bigger retention bonuses and ...
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Jun 15, 2023 · Four members of the LA City Council find it difficult to explain why they voted for both more policing and less policing at the same time. While Councilmembers Curren Price, Nithya Raman, Heather Hutt, and Hugo Soto-Martinez of the LA City Council said LAPD’s acquisition of a robot dog would be “an expansion of the current boundaries around policing and surveillance” and “used to ...
Jul 2, 2020 · The Los Angeles City Council has voted to slash the Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade. The council approved the change Wednesday, July 1, 2020, dropping the number of officers to a little more than 9,700 by next summer.
Sep 7, 2023 · The answer, confusingly, is all of the above. Violent crime in Los Angeles is down this year — and more than a little. Homicides are down 24%, from 269 in 2022 to 203 this year (through Aug. 26). Rapes are down 17%, robberies 12%. Those are significant drops, and they are not confined to Los Angeles. Violent crime is down in San Francisco and ...
Apr 27, 2012 · The Watts riots and rebellion erupt in Los Angeles when a non-Hispanic white police officer arrests a black man for drunk driving. After six days, four people lay dead, over 1,000 are hurt, nearly 4,000 are arrested, and property damage is estimated at about $40,000,000. The National Guard is called in to restore order.
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Nov 4, 2020 · As of Wednesday afternoon, with a majority of votes counted, 57.1 percent of voters supported the measure, 42.9 percent opposed, according to the Los Angeles County registrar. The measure’s ...
