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In 2000, Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to disband the Los Angeles Police Department's Explorer Program due to the Scouts of America's policies (at the time) prohibiting homosexual, atheist, or agnostic members, which violated city laws preventing associations with businesses that discriminate. [13]
Learn about the elite division of the Los Angeles Police Department that handles specialized crime suppression, K-9, mounted, and SWAT units. Find out its history, objectives, organization, and platoons.
The LAPD is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, with 8,832 officers and 3,000 civilian staff. It has a history of corruption, brutality, and reform, and operates 21 community stations, multiple divisions, and specialized units.
Learn about the history, jurisdiction, and community of the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart Division, one of the most densely populated areas in the city. Find out how Rampart Division serves communities such as Silver Lake, Echo Park, Pico-Union, and Westlake, and how it relates to other divisions and neighborhood councils.
LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the US and provides police, court and jail services in Los Angeles County. Learn about its history, structure, controversies and COVID-19 response.
LAPPL is the police union representing LAPD officers up to lieutenant rank. It advocates for law-and-order policies, political action and education, and has faced controversies over disciplinary process, employee misconduct and budget influence.
Learn about the 77 community areas in Chicago, a system of statistical and planning divisions based on natural boundaries and neighborhoods. Find out the history, use, and reception of the areas, as well as their names, populations, and densities.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah.Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter.