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LAPD Calls Ghost Guns an `Epidemic’ in LA, with 400% Increase Since 2017

City News Service, Margaret ShuttleworthOctober 18, 2021

The proliferation of ghost guns — some of which can be put together within 30 minutes — has increased “exponentially over the last year” and has become an “epidemic,” according to a Los Angeles Police Department report that will be reviewed by the police commission tomorrow.bThe virtually untraceable weapons, which don’t have serial numbers, have increased by about 400% in Los Angeles since 2017, according to the LAPD’s data on recovered firearms. “The current trend shows these figures will continue to grow exponentially,” the LAPD said in its report, which notes that 3D printing allows the components to be more accessible.

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Man Killed in South Los Angeles Shooting

City News ServiceOctober 12, 2021

A man is dead after being shot in the Hyde Park neighborhood of South Los Angeles and police today are continuing their
investigation into his death.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired at approximately 10 p.m. Monday at 6725 Fourth Ave. near South Van Ness Avenue and found a 25-year-old man with gunshots wounds, said a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman.

Police Commission OKs Plan For More Funding, Training for LAPD
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Police Commission OKs Plan For More Funding, Training for LAPD

City News ServiceSeptember 28, 2021

   The Los Angeles Police Department — which has a $1.76 billion budget this fiscal year — had initially submitted a proposal seeking an additional $66.7 million to incorporate 106 recommendations from three reports that found the department mishandled aspects of its response to last year’s protests against racism and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis.

City Council Approves Curren Price Motion for $5 Million to Help South LA Recover from Bomb Squad Blast
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City Council Approves Curren Price Motion for $5 Million to Help South LA Recover from Bomb Squad Blast

City News ServiceSeptember 21, 2021

The Los Angeles City Council today passed a motion introduced by Councilman Curren Price to identify $5 million in funding — some of which would come from the Los Angeles Police Department budget — to help a South Los Angeles neighborhood recover from a massive explosion set off by an LAPD bomb squad error that injured 17 people and forced many residents from their homes.

Nearly 3,000 LAPD Employees Seek Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate
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Nearly 3,000 LAPD Employees Seek Exemptions to Vaccine Mandate

City News ServiceSeptember 14, 2021

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said today that the department will wait for instructions from city officials on how to interpret exemption requests for the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, following a report that thousands of employees plan to pursue religious or medical
exemptions to the rule.“We have seen a number of our personnel who have filed for an intent to have an exemption, based on either medical or sincerely held religious belief,” Moore told the Los Angeles Police Commission. He added that “the department will wait for the city to provide instructions relative to the
interpretation and what will happen to those intentions to file.”

Community Demands Answers at Second LAPD African American Forum
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Community Demands Answers at Second LAPD African American Forum

Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff WriterAugust 5, 2021

The Rev. Dr. D. Najuma Smith-Pollard, pastor of Word of Encouragement Community Church and program manager of USC Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, asked Moore for the procedure for civilians to serve on boards, commissions and panels that are connected to LAPD.