Los Angeles Police Department
Summary
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just over 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of 498 square miles (1,290 km) with a population of more than 3.8 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in the United States.The LAPD has been heavily fictionalized in numerous movies and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been involved in a number of controversies, mostly involving racial animosity and police corruption.The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853 as the Los Angeles Rangers, a volunteer force that assisted the existing County forces.
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A tale of two cop-killer hunts shows shifting role of Twitter from Seattle to LA
Three and half years ago, the Seattle-Tacoma area was paralyzed as police searched for a cop-killer, much like greater Los Angeles this past week. On a Sunday morning in 2009, a gunman walked into a coffeshop in Parkland, Wa. , … Read more.
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As renegade cop support pages crop up, Facebook, journalists make choices
Facebook pages are springing up in support of Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former Los Angeles cop now wanted for three murders and the subject of a massive manhunt in California. They raise interesting challenges as journalists in Southern California … Read more.
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Will TV’s long love affair with car chases come to a screeching halt as Fox broadcasts suicide live?
After Fox inadvertently aired live video of a man in Phoenix shooting himself Friday following a car chase, Executive Vice President for News Michael Clemente tried to explain how it happened. He called it a “severe human error. ” True… Read more.
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Beyond the crime scene: We need new and better models for crime reporting
The classic crime beat, dating from at least the mid 19th century, is evolving. It has to evolve. There are good reasons to believe that the routines of “traditional” crime coverage produce a journalism that just isn’t as good as it needs to be. We need to try something new.
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L.A. Times repeats error from 1992 story about Rodney King beating
L. A. riot profiles: In the April 22 Section A, an article consisting of eight short profiles of key figures connected to the 1992 Los Angeles riots said that Rodney… Read more.
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Nancy Meza: Suspension For John And Ken Is Not Enough; Their Hate Speech Needs To Be Taken Off The Air
Last week, the radio disk jockeys of the "John and Ken Show" on KFI AM 640 were suspended for calling Whitney Huston a "crack ho. " To me, and all others who are aware of their show, this type of behavior comes to no surprise. In fact, it is outrageous that they have not already been taken off the air.
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Woody Harrelson: A Man “Rampart”
If “Rampart,” the new film from Oren Moverman, was a song, you would swear that you’d heard it before.
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Trailer Mash 02-10-12
Margaret Hilda Thatcher so loathed her low born roots, runs one interpretation, that she destroyed the entire British working class out of revenge. Her methods were not subtle, as you will see if you skip to 2. 07 of the rather elegiac trailer below for Miners' Hymns, seemingly a portrait of the last days of the Durham mining industry.
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Press credentials don’t help journalists covering Occupy protests in New York, LA
Capital New York | The City Maven Robert Stolarik was freelancing for The New York Times, trying to photograph arrests at World Financial Center on Monday, but officers kept pushing him back and blocking his shots. At one point… Read more.
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