The Police Department has faced harsh criticism that its officers responded to attacks from a small group of agitators by ...

Police have faced allegations of excessive force and being undisciplined. But Chief Jim McDonnell said officers faced ...

Longtime human rights, civil rights activist Juan Jose Gutierrez returns for an update on the emerging police state tactics brought to bare on millions  of  brown people who live and work in L.A and ...

The LAPD’s Metro Mounted Platoon focuses on “crime prevention, crowd management, and handling demonstrations.” But its recent ...

Chief Jim McDonnell wrote that officers faced dangerous, fluid, and violent conditions "when demonstrators began throwing ...

Southland leaders are lashing out again at ongoing immigration-enforcement raids in the area, saying masked federal agents ...

Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles is “unlawful, unconstitutional, and ...

Originating in the Los Angeles Police Department, SWAT units were modeled after elite military units used in Vietnam. By 1982, roughly 60% of U.S. police departments had SWAT teams .

A large number of Los Angeles Police Department officers in riot gear arrived as the crowd continued to build and began dispersing people, moving them away from the federal jail.