LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell, second from left, with Capt. James Hwang, left, prepares for the uniform inspection of police recruits during graduation at the Los Angeles Police Academy in May. (Myung J.

As mass protests over the police murder of George Floyd raged across Los Angeles in late May 2020, the LAPD had an unexpected problem. After a week of demonstrations, officers had fired so many ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Immigrant-rights activists protested the LAPD's alleged involvement with ICE after another reported immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday morning. Unión del ...

Encino community leaders on Thursday asked Mayor Karen Bass to increase security following a deadly home invasion and a string of other break-ins in the San Fernando Valley hillside neighborhood.

Above all, he remembers the boots the cops wore when they kicked down the door of his mom’s apartment. They yanked him out of bed and a deep sleep, 12 gang cops in riot gear searching the room of a ...

How the late-20th-century battles over race and policing in Los Angeles foreshadowed the Trump era. Worth a thousand words: A still from the video of the 1992 police beating of Rodney King. The ...

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When an LAPD captain stood up during a meeting this fall and asked Chief Jim McDonnell to explain the role of his most trusted deputy, Dominic Choi, other top brass in attendance waited with ...