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The Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States. [ 5] With 8,832 officers [ 5] and 3,000 civilian staff, [ 2] it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
Law Enforcement Exploring, commonly referred to as Police Explorers or Police Scouts, is an American vocational education program that allows youth to explore a career in law enforcement by working with local law enforcement agencies. Founded on July 12, 1973, it is one of the Exploring programs from Learning for Life, a non-Scouting affiliate ...
The 2000 DNC brought about the birth of the Los Angeles media center for Independent Media Center (IMC) (also known as Indymedia.org). It became the fastest independent media collective to go from inspiration, after clashes between police, protesters and indie journalists at the November 1999 World Trade Organization WTO summit in Seattle, to having live satellite transmission capabilities and ...
The Board of Police Commissioners is the collective head of the Los Angeles Police Department. It sets the overall policy while the Chief of Police manages the daily operations of the department and implements the board's policies and goals. The board meets every Tuesday in a public hearing room at police headquarters where the public may ...
The next chief of the Los Angeles Police Department will need to be a turnaround wizard. But she or he is unlikely to be handed what a turnaround chief needs on Day One: a PET scan of LAPD’s ...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States, maintains and uses a variety of resources that allow its officers to effectively perform their duties. The LAPD's organization is complex with the department divided into bureaus and offices that oversee functions and manage ...
LAPD Deputy Chief Robert Arcos at an inspection of officers in 2017. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times) Recruiters are scheduled to conduct another round of interviews with the 10 or so contenders behind ...