Jun 26th, 2008 · William Bratton, chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, talks about what Thursday's Supreme Court ruling could mean for other cities. He says the reason for those restrictions is to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and children.
Jun 2nd, 2008 · As gangs become more like the Mafia, the Los Angeles Police Department is focusing on catching the shot callers responsible for most of the violence and the drug dealers with the most connections. And they're calling in the feds a lot earlier.
May 1st, 2008 · Last year's big immigration rally in Los Angeles turned into chaos when police in riot gear clashed with demonstrators and news media. In the aftermath, some high-ranking officers of the Los Angeles Police Department were blamed for mishandling the event. That led to big changes in police communication and media relations. Those changes will be put to the test later Thursday, when a May Day rally is held in Los Angeles.
Nov 9th, 2007 · The Los Angeles Police Department is defending a plan to map Muslim communities in the city. The department says it needs the maps to figure out why some communities are more susceptible to "violent, ideologically based extremism." Some critics are calling it racial profiling.
May 7th, 2007 · Jim Tatreau was a captain in the Los Angeles Police Department when he decided to push for a way to clear the backlog of unsolved homicide cases. The veteran officer was one of the first to promote the idea of a cold case investigations team long before the idea became fodder for television shows.
May 6th, 2007 · The Los Angeles Police Department's uneasy relation with the news media is in the spotlight again in the wake of Tuesday night's melee at an immigrant rally in MacArthur Park. TV crews and other journalists were pummeled with batons and rubber bullets as a police riot squad cleared the park.
Dec 18th, 2006 · Skid Row in Los Angeles is a square mile of shelters and missions helping thousands of homeless people. The Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division is headquartered right in the heart of Skid Row. The department has made a special effort to police the area. But its efforts have drawn criticism from advocates for the homeless.
Sep 14th, 2006 · Hundreds of stolen cars are being located, thanks to car-mounted cameras that automatically scan hundreds of license plates as police cars drive through traffic. The system was devised by PIPS Technology. Robert Siegel talks with Detective Damien Levesque of the Los Angeles Police Department about new police-car technology. Levesque works for the department's tactical technology unit, and as he talks with Robert, the car is putting a new license plate scanning system to the test. It takes pictures of license plates on passing cars and compares them with a database - alerting the officer when it finds a stolen car.