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One police commissioner broke ranks from her colleagues by arguing that a proposed salary of nearly half a million dollars was too high for the next LAPD chief given the city’s financial constraints.
An additional 526 vote centers will open this weekend across L.A. County for early voting.
Both officers were released from the hospital Saturday morning after being treated for minor wounds.
Two reports, one submitted to the L.A. Police Commission and the other released by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, criticize UCLA and the police response to the spring pro-Palestinian encampment, which ended in violence and arrests.
The proposed $507,000 annual salary for incoming Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell is on the high end of the pay range advertised for the position.
Jim McDonnell’s single term as L.A. County sheriff from 2014 to 2018 involved dealing with powerful union resistant to major disciplinary reforms. He’ll face a similar challenge as the LAPD’s next chief.
A confluence of sporting events on Friday — a Lakers game, USC football, and the East L.A. Classic in addition to the Dodgers hosting the Yankees — will have the police department working overtime.
Los Angeles police said the victims were homeless people caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout, and that two suspects had already been arrested for allegedly participating in a flash mob-style robbery.
An LAPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice Beach in 2015 will face criminal charges based on the recommendation of a special prosecutor hired by Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón.
Once a member of the vaunted Robbery-Homicide Division, Det. Kristine Klotz alleges she was demoted after calling out harassment by a male supervisor.
