After multiple journalists were detained by Los Angeles Police Department officers while covering the March 25 demonstrations at Echo Park Lake, Chief Michel Moore told police commissioners today that the department is working to reform its credentialing process.
A group of activists that was infiltrated by LAPD informants and undercover officers at its meetings in 2017 demanded answers today regarding the department’s motives for what they say was essentially spying on them.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced the launch of a mental health division — the first of its kind by a prosecutor’s office in California and possibly the nation — to seek opportunities to expand treatment and other services for mentally ill inmates in the criminal justice system.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore sits down for a one-on-one interview the Los Angeles Sentinel Managing Editor, Brandon I. Brooks.