The mother of an unarmed man shot and killed by police last year applauded a determination by the Los Angeles Police Commission Tuesday that one of the officers’ actions were improper across the board –…
The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners ruled Tuesday on the LAPD officers involved in the shooting death of Ezell Ford, an unarmed mentally ill black man. One officer was found to have acted out…
Six Baltimore police officers have been charged in the death of Freddie Gray as some question whether cops gave Gray what’s known as a rough ride – a practice some in Los Angeles…
Venice homeless advocates early Sunday defied the city’s overnight beach curfew, sipping coffee and star-gazing well past the midnight cutoff. But they failed to draw the attention of police. A pair of Los…
A report showing that more than half the $100 million the city of Los Angeles spends each year on homelessness goes to police demonstrates that the city is focused on enforcement rather than getting people…
You’re standing on a Los Angeles street, turning in a circle, looking for a public trash can to toss your empty coffee cup. Keep hunting, because the city maintains only about 1,000 cans…
The scene was tense: Two Los Angeles Police officers approach a man yelling and screaming at the end of a cul de sac. He looks angry and aggressive as he paces back and…
The family of an unarmed homeless man shot and killed by police on skid row is poised to bring legal action, claiming officers used excessive force in the deadly confrontation, a spokesman for…
Two fresh-faced UCLA law students met Carlis Pegues with a smile, eagerly leading the frail, 64-year-old woman into a cramped office to hear her troubles. Pegues, they learned, is locked in a dispute…
Chanting “You can’t kill Africa,” dozens of people on Saturday marched from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters to skid row to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man during a…
As police continued their investigation Tuesday into the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in L.A.’s Skid Row, protesters marched on Los Angeles Police headquarters. Meanwhile, questions about the victim’s background and identity surfaced as…
Los Angeles Unified school board candidate Ref Rodriguez collected $21,000 in campaign donations from employees of his charter school network, Partnerships to Uplift Communities, in his bid to unseat incumbent Bennett Kayser in East Los Angeles’ District 5.…