Los Angeles has lost its first active duty police officer to COVID-19. Valentin “Val” Martinez, an officer in the Mission division area of the San Fernando Valley, passed away Friday.
The Los Angeles City Council has approved a motion to replace police officers with unarmed community responders for some non-violent calls.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore ignited a firestorm Monday night with a bizarre statement made during a press conference with LA mayor Eric Garcetti.
The California Department of Justice will conduct an investigation into the LAPD’s CalGang database of suspected gang members amid allegations that innocent people were added to the system.
Several Los Angeles police officers are accused of falsely identifying innocent people as gang members in an effort to inflate department statistics.
LAPD anti-terrorism officials are investigating.
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office has agreed to drop criminal charges against a Cal State L.A. professor and Black Lives Matter leader accused of disrupting L.A. Police Commission hearings and assaulting members of the LAPD.
“It is the equivalent of putting a Nazi swastika on the side of a Jewish school,” said Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz.