CRIME & SAFETY

From the gang-members-first,-law-enforcement-officers-second dept. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department doesn’t have a great track record. In addition to the usual stuff expected from law enforcement agencies (biased policing, zero accountability, civil rights abuses, excessive force deployment), the LASD has been home to deputy gangs pretty much since its inception.

A toddler was shot outside a hamburger restaurant in South Los Angeles, prompting police to search for two suspects.

Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Shea Sanna joined "Sunday Night in America" host Trey Gowdy to discuss the consequences of LA District Attorney George Gascon's "soft-on-crime" policies.

Los Angeles police are trying to track down a big rig driver after a 26-year-old crashed into the back of the truck and died.The fatal crash happened during the early morning hours of June 3 on Lankershim Boulevard near Cayuga Avenue in Sun Valley. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, a 26-year-old woman was driving north on Lankershim when she rear-ended the trailer of the semi. The collision caused the woman to lose control of her blue 2015 Nissan Versa and rollover. When firefighters arrived at the scene the woman was already dead. Police are describing this crash as a hit-and-run since the truck driver did not stop to help the woman. The big rig was last seen driving north on Lankershim. Investigators are looking for any motorists that witnessed the crash and asking for help locating the truck driver. If you witnessed this collision, police urge you to contact Valley Traffic Division Detectives, Officer Hansen at (818) 644-8255 or Officer Freeman at (818) 644-8115. Those wishing to stay anonymous can submit their tips to LA Crime Stoppers.People who submit information that leads to the resolution of this hit-and-run collision can receive a reward of up to $50,000. 

A SoFi Stadium employee is accused of hurting a 12-year-old girl after he flipped her mom’s hot dog cart while the woman was using the restroom. Marlene Morales was watching the cart with her siblings at a concert outside the stadium Saturday when several witnesses say the employee flipped the cart, scattering the family’s potential earnings onto the ground.

Christy Lee Anderson, 42, was found dead on the 22900 block of Sherman Way in West Hills, according to Lt. Aimee Earl, investigator for the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner. Anderson was first listed as a missing person by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Saturday evening...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sunday circulated photos of a 40-year-old bipolar Northern Californian woman who may be in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles.

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a Romanian crime ring in Southern California targeting debit cards issued by the state for food and welfare benefits. The victims’ money is stolen when using California debit cards without chips. The technology behind magnetic strips on debit and...

An investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed in downtown Los Angeles Sunday evening. It happened around 10:40 p.m. at the intersection of Hill and West 1st streets.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A man is in custody after leading a police chase across Los Angeles County's South Bay. SkyFOX was first over the scene in San Pedro as the Gardena Police Department chased a suspect believed to have stolen the red pickup truck he was in. The chase eventually ended in Torrance after officers pulled off a PIT maneuver and then cornered the red pickup truck.

LOS ANGELES, CA – A jail surveillance video caught an incarcerated man’s head being violently smashed into a solid concrete jail wall by sheriff’s deputies at the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail without any obvious reason, according to a newly released 15-second video obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union.

A Pomona man with a wholesale food business in Industry faces a possible 21 years in federal prison for trying to sneak in frozen roasted eels adulterated with unsafe animal drugs that already had been rejected by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Kevin Sheng Hsiang Fang, 41, and Yong...

Keenan Anderson, a Black man, died hours after Los Angeles police officers repeatedly tased him in January. The coroner's office said the manner of death was not determined.

A Resident Described the Man as Posed With a Towel or Sheet Around His Head. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office identified 81-year-old Harold Schwabe as a man that was found dead on the Lachman fire road, CirclingTheNews reported. The news site reported that a local resident described the...

Two men attacked and robbed an 80-year-old man after following him home in Rowland Heights. The victim was returning home from shopping at the 99 Ranch Market on Nogales Street around 1:30 p.m. Sunday when two men in a car with no front plate followed him several miles to his home on Ravenfall Avenue off Nearbank Drive, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

Police are searching for a man wanted for the unsolved murder of a woman in Inglewood. On Nov. 6, 2020, Inglewood Police responded to the 200 block of Nutwood Street around 11:39 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, the victim, Jodeci Daniels, was found fatally shot. The suspect is...

Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA: A person was found stabbed to death outside a Metro station late Sunday night prompting a homicide investigation. The stabbing was reported around 10:45 p.m., June 4, at 1st and Hill Streets in front of the Civic Center/Grand Park Metro Station in Downtown Los Angeles.

INGLEWOOD (2UG) – Owners of several Inglewood restaurants have taken to social media declaring they no longer feel safe as their businesses continue to be vandalized. The Martin family owns the popular Fiesta Martin restaurants which have been broken into multiple times over the years. After reporting the thefts...