Shirsho Dasgupta

As the Los Angeles Police Department celebrates its 150th anniversary, how much has policing methods and their relationship with communities of color changed?

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department filed 6,008 reports of elder abuse from across Los Angeles County last year — an 11% increase from the 5,406 incidents in 2017. Data from the Los Angeles Police Department show that in 2018, 191 elder abuse incidents were reported in the City of Los Angeles alone, an uptick of 18% from the previous year.

Steve Soboroff, 70, is the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the body charged with policing the police. The five-member board hires and fires the chief, sets policy and decides when one of the city’s 10,000 officers has stepped out of line.
We sat down with him to talk about how algorithmic policing may help or hurt community relations with police, the virtue of body cameras and the case for buying a cop a cup of coffee.

Steve Soboroff, 70, is the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, the body charged with policing the police. The five-member board hires and fires the chief, sets policy and decides when one of the city’s 10,000 officers has stepped out of line.
We sat down with him to talk about how algorithmic policing may help or hurt community relations with police, the virtue of body cameras and the case for buying a cop a cup of coffee.

Crime in Sylmar declined by 17 percent - a significant achievement for a neighborhood with around 80,000 residents. How? Advocates tout "community policing."

Hancock Park, Cheviot Hills, Rancho Park. These wealthy neighborhoods have the highest burglary rates in LA.

LA is too big to reduce to one stat. I broke down crime numbers for every neighborhood in the city. That's 114 neighborhoods.

Violent offenses dipped last year across the city and Los Angeles by many measures is safer than it has been in the last 50 years. But some neighborhoods are still experiencing a surge in crime.
In Downtown, for example, crime reports jumped by 10.4 percent from a year earlier.

A new law threatens the livelihoods of the 3,000 bail agents in California. Here's a look at a prosperous industry having to deal with the threat of extinction almost overnight.

Behind the billion-dollar fashion industry in LA lies an underbelly of exploited workers receiving less than minimum wage and working in sweatshop conditions. Despite state law mandating that all garment workers must be paid at least the minimum wage, many allege that they don’t even get half of the designated amount.

For around a decade, the LAPD has been using data-driven policing methods to prevent property crime. Crime rates however have largely remained steady across the city but the black community is disproportionately being targeted by the police.

A third of California's hospitals employ workers who are not vaccinated against the flu increasing chances of people contracting the disease after they visit a hospital.

A fifth of California's hospital buildings are likely to collapse in the event of an earthquake measuring more than 7.0 on the Richter scale. Many more unlikely to be operational later.

Space enthusiasts from across the world met today at Los Angeles to discuss ways to promote space exploration and to build human settlements on the moon.

Luis Herrera fears losing his home due to the rising price of his apartment. Prop 10 could curb rent hikes.