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A jury awarded $13.1 million in damages Wednesday to two male Los Angeles police officers who sued the city for gender discrimination, alleging they were singled out in an internal investigation into whoever drew a Hitler-like mustache on an arrestee.The case stems from a January 2017 incident in which officers Stephen Glick and Alfred Garcia and their two female police partners responded to a suspected drunk driving collision, according to their suit.The officers arrested a motorist. After he was found passed out in his…

Before screaming “Fire in the hole!” and detonating a cache of confiscated fireworks on a residential street two years ago, Los Angeles police Det. Damien Levesque repeatedly walked away from critical discussions about the safety of the operation.He was the supervisor on the scene, yet he brushed off a warning from a senior bomb technician that too many fireworks were being discharged at the same time, according to the Los Angeles Police Department inspector general’s report which referred to Levesque only as…

An email from a Los Angeles police officer that surfaced online Thursday said law enforcement was planning to arrest homeless people en masse during a scheduled cleanup — prompting the department to issue a condemnation of the email, and the city controller to promise an investigation.“Everyone will be arrested and all their belongings will be taken away by sanitation,” the email said.Hollywood resident and LAPD critic William Gude, who posts on Twitter under the account @FilmThePoliceLA, tweeted a screenshot just before…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Black men are the most common victims of killings committed by off-duty police officers in the U.S., according to a new Yale-led study. In an analysis of 242 incidences in which people were killed by police officers when they were off duty between 2013 and 2021, a research team found that nearly…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eugenia Rho believes in the importance of first impressions, especially during vehicle stops. An assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, Rho is the lead author of a new research paper that illustrates how a law enforcement officer's first 45 words during a vehicle stop with a…

No matter how much fame one attains in their life, they can never be above the law. This statement was recently proven correct when the popular Tollywood actress Dimple Hayathi was summoned by Jubilee Hills police. A case was registered against her for hitting a parked vehicle that belonged to an IPS officer. It was reported that the actress and her friend had hit this particular vehicle a few times before as well. The actress was seen leaving the Jubilee Hills police station with her friend in her BMW 5 Series sedan.…

California has agreed to pay $24 million to the family of a man who died after yelling “I can’t breathe” as officers pinned him to the ground and tried to draw his blood following a traffic stop, attorneys for the family said Wednesday.The deadly encounter in March 2020 came just months before the police killing of George Floyd, who uttered the same phrase to Minneapolis officers more than 20 times. Video of the final moments of Edward Bronstein in a California Highway Patrol maintenance yard in Altadena, however, would…

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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuates a violent "war on cops." In a new study, researchers assessed if and how patterns of firearm assault on police officers in the United States were influenced by the police murder of Floyd.…