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An independent discipline panel and a demand for access to all body worn camera video: L.A. Supervisors seek ways to force oversight on a recalcitrant Sheriff Villanueva.
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The county’s Inspector General says the Sheriff’s Department has denied his requests to view body cam video and other records, so he wants county counsel to compel the department to provide access so he can properly investigate allegations that deputies have harassed families of people killed by law enforcement. -
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The department says the man had a handgun, but it won’t confirm that it was a replica gun recovered at the scene.
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Norrington was granted parole after serving 15 years for attempted murder, a crime he committed when he was 22. He's determined to prove the parole board made the right decision.
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The 62-year-old Cecil Rhambo rose to assistant sheriff during his 33-year career at the Sheriff's Department, so he could present a serious threat to Villanueva.
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Nicholas Burgos was experiencing a mental health crisis inside Harbor-UCLA Medical Center last fall when Deputy Dalia Gonzalez shot him multiple times. Burgos died almost a month later.
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Officials say they found both commercial grade and homemade explosives "under unsecured tents and next to cooking grills."
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New data out Thursday on firearms sales in California shows that there was a record increase in the number of handguns legally sold in the state in 2020. From 2019 to 2020 there was a 65.5 percent increase in handgun sales and a 45.9 percent increase in long gun sales, according to the office of state Attorney General Rob Bonta.
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The Pomona Unified School District will no longer have police officers on campus starting with the upcoming school year. School board members approved a new budget last night without any funding for Community School Resource Officers.
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In issuing the sentence, the judge noted Chauvin's cruelty toward Floyd and the abuse of authority.
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The suit claims Christopher Bailey was not resisting in any way when the deputies repeatedly punched, choked and tasered him during a May 2020 traffic stop.
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An L.A. County judge this week ruled Measure J unconstitutional. The measure, passed by L.A. County voters, reallocates budget money to social services and jail diversion programs.
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People with a mental illness or a substance use disorder or who are unhoused will be eligible for the pilot program if they’re arrested for certain misdemeanors or non-violent felonies.
