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Armed With Just a Badge, Los Angeles’ First Policewoman Protected the City’s Most Vulnerable in the Early 20th Century
Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...
55 vintage photos show what life was like for women in the 1920s
The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the ...
Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, complaint alleges
A complaint reviewed by The Times accuses officers of voicing open discrimination against potential recruits and colleagues ...
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Details of LAPD probe into racist, sexist remarks raise recruitment woe
New details of a complaint filed with the Los Angeles Police Department alleging officers in the recruitment office used ...
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LAPD officers secretly recorded making racist comments, complaint alleges
The alleged remarks were secretly recorded. According to an explosive Los Angeles Times investigative report, an officer working in LAPD’s recruitment office recorded dozens of conversations for ...
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Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Los Angeles Police Recordings Just Went Public...They’re Worse Than You Can Imagine
The officers were identified by the LA Times as Sgt. Denny Jong, who is Asian, Lt. Louis Lavender, who is Black, Ofc. Shirley Burgos, a Latina, Ofc. Christian Flores, a Latino, and an officer ...