A puppet show without Kermit: Concrete Folk Variations at The Manual Archives / Photo by Susan Simpson MEET THE PO-PO The public’s invited to meet the police and talk about safety issues at a neighborhood meeting between the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council, the Glassell Park Safety Committee and LAPD. Senior Lead Officer for Atwater Village Gina Chovan, gang detectives and City Attorney Donna Wong will be in attendance. 4 pm // Glassell Park Community......

Yesterday marked the first day for a new approach of policing in Santa Monica. A community patrol model has been adapted, as told by the LA Times. For those who live in Los Angeles, the Senior Lead Officer (SLO) program comes to mind. In Santa Monica, this is how it will work:Under the plan, the 8.5-square-mile city of about 88,000 has been divided into eight areas with nine or 10 officers assigned to each,......

If it were not for the LAPD's e-policing program, we would have never known about the below incident near our home. Are you signed up? Maybe you should be. COMMUNITY ALERT NOTIFICATION LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF FILL IN TEXT HERE [hehehehe] It is not very often that we have a armed street robbery in Studio City but on Thursday June 7th we had one. At approximately 3:55am the vict was walking......

I am probably jinxing myself by saying this, but what the hay, here I go: I have never been pulled over in my life. I told my LAPD Senior Lead Officer (a SLO is like a mini chief of police for a small area in a division) this secret of mine once and he gave me a very conspicuous "oh, really?" giving me the feeling the next time he sees me in my car,......

LAist loves all the blogs in LA and we realize that we don't give enough love to them. It's not because of any reasons other than foolishness and ignorance. Case in point: last week Mack Reed went on an LAPD ride-a-long and wrote a nice long piece in LA Voice about his experience. Apparently he was shown certain aspects of Skid Row by Senior Lead Officer Deon Joseph, that included techniques of dealing with......

Ever wondered why all those police cars were on your street last week? Do you miss detailed crime blotters from your local small town paper? Last Thursday, LAPD announced the redesign of their already slick site with even more slick features such as dynamic Crime Maps and E-Policing. That's right, just type in your address and view incidents in your neighborhood. Sign up for E-Policing and get e-mail updates from your SLO (that's police......