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One prosecuted a man shot by an ICE officer in South L.A. The other missed court deadlines in another man's detention case.
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The Pomona Unified School District will place two school resource officers back on high school campuses in a deeply divided community where activists have fought for years to end the contract.
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Officials say 635 hate crimes were reported last year, the largest number since 2008.
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Nearly 80% of officers and civilian employees are fully vaccinated so far.
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Andrew Cachu was 17 when he killed Louis Amela in 2015. The Amel family's lawyer says his relatives feel "betrayed" by the DA.
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This is the first trial of an L.A. County law enforcement officer in more than two decades.
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The sheriff based his claim largely on the fact that nearly half of his deputies have either stated they are not vaccinated or have so far refused to reveal whether they are. But there's no indication those deputies will end up defying the county’s vaccine mandate en masse and leave or be fired.
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He was charged three years ago for the 2016 killing of an unarmed motorist at a Norwalk gas station.
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Sheriff Alex Villanueva claims he could lose up to 44% of his workforce, which he says would cause an “imminent threat to public safety.”
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L.A. County’s Inspector General is looking into allegations of racial discrimination raised by a joint LAist-ProPublica investigation on high school campuses in the Antelope Valley.
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It's one of the largest awards ever in L.A. County involving an off-duty police officer who killed someone.
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Eddie Gonzalez, the former Long Beach Unified School District school safety officer, shot and killed the 18-year-old Rodriguez last month near Millikan High.
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LAist learned this statistic after making a request for data from the city of Beverly Hills following a class-action lawsuit that claimed police their engage in a pattern of racial discrimination.
