Libor Jany covers the Los Angeles Police Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2022, he covered public safety for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Jany studied communications at Mississippi State University.
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Los Angeles Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez is calling on the city to create clearer protocols regarding its immigrant sanctuary laws after Los Angeles police officers were spotted during a local enforcement operation.
The Los Angeles Police Commission made the request on Tuesday following allegations of racist and sexist comments made by recruitment officers.
A suspect arrested by California Highway Patrol officers on Friday afternoon allegedly stole numerous antiques from a residence burned in the Jan. 7 fire.
After his funeral recently, Arthur ‘King Bobalouie’ Moses was remembered as an early member of the Crips and a founder of the Pirus, one of the nation’s first Bloods gangs.
If the Trump administration seeks to deport Los Angeles police officers who benefit from the Obama-era program known as DACA, it’s unclear what — if anything — the department could do to intervene.
A Los Angeles police sergeant was arrested after authorities say he hit and killed a pedestrian in Tustin while intoxicated and left the scene.
A man claims an off-duty LAPD officer chased him with a gun in Westchester last spring after talking to a woman in a parking lot. The officer’s lawyer said he stepped in after seeing girlfriend “accosted” and boxed in by two men.
Capt. Silvia Sanchez claims her decision to review the arrest of a 16-year-old girl put her on a collision course with the union for more than 8,000 rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers.
The department is down hundreds of officers from its 2019 ranks and projects that it will continue to dwindle in fiscal year 2025.
Three victims and an assailant are in critical condition, among six who were struck by gunfire in a gang-related shooting in MacArthur Park, authorities said.