Los Angeles Police Department

LAPD officers fatally shoot armed man in Boyle Heights

2013-05-21 09:01:00

Los Angeles police Monday night shot and killed a man who they said pointed a gun at them when they tried to stop him. No officers were injured in the incident, which was reported shortly before midnight near the intersection of South Gless and East 3rd...

LAPD officer accused of lewd acts on two girls due in court

2013-05-21 06:32:00

A Los Angeles police officer was due in court Tuesday on charges he committed lewd acts on two girls under 10 years old. Miguel Angel�Schiappapietra, a six-year veteran of�the�LAPD, was arrested Saturday, said LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith. According to the...

LAPD officer arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct with children

2013-05-20 15:49:00

A Los Angeles police officer was arrested near Castaic�this weekend on suspicion of committing lewd acts with children, department officials said Monday. Miguel Angel�Schiappapietra, a six-year veteran of the LAPD, was arrested Saturday, said LAPD Cmdr....

Newton: Decision time for L.A.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

As the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles has played out over the last two years, the complaints I've heard most often are that none of the candidates has reached for big ideas, that the field has lacked big personalities and that the two finalists are...

Judge formally ends LAPD consent decree

2013-05-16 12:36:00

The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. In a brief, three-line order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess formally...

Police search for man who tried to lure young girls into cars

2013-05-16 15:22:00

Los Angeles police searched Thursday for at least one man who tried to lure female victims into a car, authorities said Thursday. Four separate incidents in the Cypress Park area have been reported since October 2012. In two of those cases, the same...

West L.A. man pleads not guilty in bomb-making case

2013-05-16 18:53:00

A West Los Angeles man pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than half-a-dozen felony counts related to the Los Angeles Police Department's�seizure of more than 17 pipe bombs from his residence Robert Colt Wilson, 29, faces seven criminal counts:...

Two wounded in separate shootings near L.A. Coliseum

2013-05-18 15:06:00

Two men were wounded in separate shootings near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum late Friday and early Saturday, police said. A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded while stopped at a traffic light Friday night, police said. About 9:40 p.m, the man...

Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources

2013-05-18 18:00:00

OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...

Villaraigosa denounces two attack ads in mayoral campaign

2013-05-16 20:29:00

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa waded into the increasingly negative campaign for mayor, calling for the removal of two ads that attack mayoral candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel but were not created by either candidate's campaign....

In low-profile race, Zine and Galperin have a feisty final debate

2013-05-17 00:00:00

In their feisty final debate before election day, controller candidates Dennis Zine and Ron Galperin repeatedly hammered an insider-versus-outsider theme, seeking to convince voters they would be best prepared to be the city's next chief auditor and...

Two men wounded in LAPD shootings in Sylmar, East Hollywood

2013-05-18 12:31:00

Two male suspects were shot and wounded by Los Angeles police officers in confrontations in the San Fernando Valley and in East Hollywood on Friday night, authorities said. The first shooting occured about 9:15 p.m. in Sylmar after police tried to...

Folasade Aremu, a freshman economics major, participates at a sit-in at USC to protest how Los Angeles police acted when responding to a weekend party near campus.

2013-05-06 00:00:00

Los Angeles police surrounded a home Friday morning in Venice, where a shirtless burglary suspect was perched on a rooftop.

2013-04-26 09:51:00

File-This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday March 30, 2013 shows Tobias Dustin Summers who is a child-kidnapping suspect.

2013-04-24 00:00:00