The police claim they never broke the law while censoring us, Given it's status as the most violent, corrupt and incompetent police department this side of the Rockies, that's not saying much.
The Los Angeles Police Department announced in April [2008] that it had investigated 320 complaints against its officers last year for alleged “racial profiling” and found that not a single one was valid. The Los Angeles Times reported that that was at least the sixth consecutive year that LAPD reported a perfect record on racial profiling.
The number of hate crimes in Los Angeles County soared by 28 percent last year to the highest level in five years, with the largest number of incidents in the San Fernando Valley, officials said Thursday. The increase - to more than 760 - comes even as the Sheriff's Department and Los Angeles Police Department reported a 5 percent to 6 percent reduction in overall crime.
Hate crimes against Jews totaled one in 10 of all hate crimes in the county last year. And so far this year, several incidents already have been reported in the Valley alone - Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss' Sherman Oaks office also was defaced with swastikas and anti-Semitic writings, "KKK" was spray-painted on a car in Granada Hills, and a high school teacher in Burbank said anti-Semitic remarks were written on a classroom blackboard.
Study detects bias in LAPD
By Rachel Uranga, Staff Writer
Suggesting that racial bias colors the LAPD, a study released Monday found that officers stopped and detained African-Americans and Latinos disproportionately more than whites.
"The results of this study raise grave concerns that African-Americans and Hispanics are over-stopped, over-frisked, over-searched and over-arrested," Ayres wrote.
The department has come under increasingly heavy scrutiny in recent years for alleged racial profiling.
Over the past five years, nearly 1,200 citizens have filed complaints alleging that officers racially profiled them. But the department hasn't substantiated a single one of those claims.
"Los Angeles officials have yet to acknowledge the scope of the problem of racially biased policing," he wrote, "or to fully embrace solutions."
LAPD rejects study finding racial profiling by officers
Chief Bratton tells oversight panel that a Yale scholar's report fails to take into account many important factors and is 'of no value.'
By Joel Rubin
January 14, 2009
The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday rejected the findings of a study that found its officers frequently discriminate against African Americans and Latinos when making traffic and pedestrian stops.
Police Chief William J. Bratton said the study, released in October by Yale University legal scholar Ian Ayres and promoted by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, was "of no value."
"We live in an imperfect world. There are many issues and questions for which unfortunately there are no perfect answers. This issue of bias and profiling is one of those issues," he said. "I've got a lot of concerns about their conclusions. This department does not engage in racial profiling."
The Los Angeles City Council is expected today to renew two $50,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of individuals responsible for hate crimes in the San Fernando Valley.
The first $50,000 reward is for information leading to the person who spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic remarks on four walls in a Tarzana neighborhood.
The graffiti was discovered Jan. 17 along Wells Drive, between Tampa and Louise avenues.
Another $50,000 reward is expected to be renewed in the case of a Molotov cocktail attack at the Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus in West Hills. The attack occurred about 2 a.m. Feb. 18 at 22622 Vanowen St.