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'Ghost stops': Lieutenant claims LAPD officials were warned about troubled gang unit
A Los Angeles police lieutenant has filed a legal claim against the city, alleging his superiors ignored his warnings about misconduct in an anti-gang unit until it became a public scandal ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, ex-LAPD officer who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
He resigned from the Los Angeles Police Department in 1974 ... in which members of an elite anti-gang unit based in the city’s tough Rampart neighborhood beat and framed suspected gang members.
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Los Angeles saw decrease in violent crimes in 2024, officials say
LAPD's Operations-Valley Bureau saw the most significant decrease, with 28% fewer homicides in 2024 than last year. In communities where the Gang Reduction and Youth Development (GRYD) program and ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, ex-LAPD officer who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
Those later books were set in an LAPD that had been tarnished by the 1991 beating of Rodney King and the department’s so-called Rampart station scandal, in which members of an elite anti-gang unit ...