LAPD

Three so-called “after action” reports have now been made public, and all point to problems at the LAPD related to crowd control, training, and planning, not to mention the multi-million-dollar cost to business owners and taxpayers. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday will review three reports that found the Los Angeles Police Department mishandled aspects of its response to the May and June protests against racism and police brutality.

“We will be ready,” that is the word from LA law enforcement leaders if anger over the shooting of Daunte Wright moves to the streets of Los Angeles. Robert Kovacik reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 12, 2021.

Los Angeles law enforcement officials and community leaders gathered Monday to urge calm amid rising civil-rights tensions in Minnesota amid the trial of a former police officer in the death of George Floyd and the weekend fatal police shooting of a Black man during a traffic stop in that city.

A mother is accused of killing her three young children in Reseda and court records show she was in a custody dispute with the childrens’ father. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, April 12, 2021.

The father of three young children killed in an apartment in Reseda over the weekend had made efforts in court to gain custody of the kids in recent weeks, and the mother, now suspected of stabbing the children to death, was due in court Wednesday after she was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation, according to court records.

Neighbors are still just shocked over the news of a mom that killed her three children. They’re lighting candles, and leaving behind stuffed animals to honor these three young lives that were taken. Kim Tobin reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on April 10, 2021.

Three men, including one Los Angeles Police Department officer, were implicated in an illegal football gambling operation and are scheduled to be arraigned on felony charges of bookmaking later this month, authorities announced Friday.

Newly public LAPD body worn video recordings show officers from the Hollywood Division weren’t sure if a man they stopped outside an apartment building on Fountain Avenue was the person described in a 2019 emergency call, which is now the subject of a civil rights lawsuit.

Sgt. Jody Stiger of the Los Angeles Police Department, an expert witness for the prosecution in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, testified Tuesday that the use of force on George Floyd was excessive. Once Floyd was on the ground, “at that point, the officers… should have slowed down or stopped their force as well.”

Antone Austin says he was a victim of racial profiling and thrown to the ground in Hollywood. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, April 5, 2021.

A Mid-City family is still grieving and seeking justice for the death of Steven Lopez, who was shot and killed three years ago while riding his bike.

Shot and killed while riding his bike, Steven Lopez was left to die, cradled in his sister’s arms. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on April 2, 2021.

The I-Team is analyzing the troubling numbers. Eric Leonard reports March 30, 2021.

A man armed with a handgun was shot and killed by police early Monday in the Westlake area, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Los Angeles police officers were stationed at Echo Park Friday morning as efforts continued to move the remaining few homeless out of the park to make way for a $500,000 renovation effort — hours after protesters clashed with authorities near the park.

The Los Angeles Police Department sought the public’s help Thursday in identifying a man allegedly responsible for a hit-and-run crash that left an 11-year-old boy severely injured. The boy was struck on 42nd Street just east of McKinley Avenue on Wednesday at about 4 p.m. by a gray or beige 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe SUV as he ran across the street...

The driver initially stopped, but then got back in the SUV and took off. Police are searching for the driver. As seen on NBCLA March 26, 2021

LAPD declared an unlawful assembly in the area of Echo Park Thursday night as protests continued over the homelessness clean-up. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on March 25, 2021.

Protesters and police clashed on the eve of an expected park closure. Eliana Moreno and Robert Kovacik reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24, 2021.