Entries from LAist tagged with 'cops'
October 12, 2008
So let's say you've got some high-quality homegrown all bagged up and ready to go but no one to buy it--I mean, let's face it, the economy these days doesn't leave much room for luxury items--where can you go? Well, the internet, obviously. Since the goods have a pretty fixed street value, eBay might seem out of the question, so the next logical choice for online wheeling, and, in this case, dealing, is the mecca......
Continue Reading "Hemet Cops Bust Dopes Selling Dope on Craigslist"July 9, 2008
LAPD officers were notably "relaxed" on May Day '08; not so much in '07 | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist Over one year after the May 1st protest turned violent in MacArthur park (earning the events of that day in 2007 the moniker "May Day Melee"), 19 members of the LAPD stand apart from the crowd, as they now face punishment for their role in the incident. Multiple civilians were injured, as hundreds of videos......
Continue Reading "19 LAPD Officers to Face Punishment for 'May Day Melee'"June 27, 2008
If your Saturday evening plans have you a) drinking and b) traveling in or through Van Nuys, a word to the wise via the Daily News: "Cops will be out in force tomorrow night in Van Nuys doing a sobriety checkpoint from 6 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday to cut the number of DUI-related traffic collisions." The location of the checkpoint has not been revealed, but the reasoning is as clear as a shot......
Continue Reading "Cops Plan to Run DUI Checkpoint in Van Nuys Tomorrow Night"June 22, 2008
An Anaheim police officer responding to an 8 a.m. indecent exposure report at the Best Western Raffles Inn wound up shot in the leg on the scene. According to reports, the two officers who arrived at the hotel parking lot saw the suspect near his vehicle, and the shots were fired, although it is not clear if it was the suspect doing the shooting. The suspect fled following the incident and has not been found.......
Continue Reading "Indecent Exposure Call Ends in Gunfire; Officer Shot in Leg"April 20, 2008
Move over, Michael Jackson. An Orange County man has redefined the meaning of "crotch grabber." In the early morning hours of April 15th a suspect broke into Fullerton's Erogenous Zone, and helped himself not to the till, but to a rubber replica of porn actress Jenna Jameson's own erogenous zones worth $250. (Unlike Ms. Jameson, however, the item is described as "Open-ended for easy cleaning." Whatta woman!) Determined to get his piece of Jenna, video......
Continue Reading "Robber Snatches Rubber Snatch"March 26, 2008
Photo by discarted via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Today, the Daily News looks into one of the internet's latest fascinations -- RateMyCop.com, a site, which happens to be based locally in Culver City, that gives people the opportunity to review an officer they've had an interaction with. Of course, concerns over officer safety and privacy are at the top of the opponents' lists to the site. "Law enforcement should never be trivialized, and......
Continue Reading "To Rate Your Cop or Not?"March 25, 2008
Photo of the Vincent Thomas Bridge by Jonathan Alcom (Sundogg) via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr We've been covering the city's police force a lot lately -- and before you think those officers just sit around eating donuts all day, you should definitely check out the LA Times guide to the Best Eats on the Beats. (Think Mexican food.) In more fun food news, EaterLA gives us the breakdown of Los Angeles......
Continue Reading "Extra Extra: They've Got Money and Science"January 8, 2008
Just like yesterday, when we announced that while the federal government can rob medical marijuana dispensaries, citizens can't, we find that LAPD officers are not allowed to rob drug dealers. In a separate case from the widely known Rampart Division Scandal, a group of rogue officers held up at least 30 drug dealers in a two year period ending in 2001 according to CBS2 News. After the robberies, which included taking the drugs, money......
Continue Reading "LAPD Not Allowed to Rob Drug Dealers"January 25, 2007
I'm standing on a side street off Pico Blvd and a black SUV swerves out of nowhere and comes to a screeching halt on the sidewalk. Two men jump out clad in black with machine guns. They begin to talk intensely, officially: 1: Weve made our entrance into the area. 2: Thats a roger by my coordinates Then above us on the roof, we hear a voice and all look up fast. 3: Check......
Continue Reading "So Last Saturday Night on Pico Blvd..."September 1, 2006
If you are a "large lady" or "one of the men who loves them", the odds are that you've already heard of Club Moxie, located on the Redondo Beach Pier. For the rest of you who haven't had the opportunity to familiarize yourself, it is a night club that caters to obese chicks, and has a bunch of thuggy chubby-chasers who go there and stir up trouble for our fine beach city.Because I live......
Continue Reading "Fat-girl-nightclub hungry for trouble"