LAPD outstaffs most big city police departments
Chief McDonnell says the LAPD is down 1,300 officers. At 2.24 for every 1,000 residents, it still has more per resident than 42 of the country’s 76 big-city police departments.
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Twelve thousand hours above Los Angeles
For a year, I collected the positions broadcast by the LAPD’s helicopter fleet. The resulting 20.9 million points show where helicopters spend their time, where they tend to circle rather than pass through, and how unevenly that time is distributed across Los Angeles.
Most LAPD calls for service aren’t calls from the public
Officers wrote 53.1% of the 3,908,113 records in the LAPD’s Calls for Service data since January 2024, most of them Code 6 entries logging that they were already at a scene.
The LAPD dropped Flock… West Hollywood now has 37 times as many Flock cameras per square mile
Volunteers have mapped 2,190 Flock license plate readers across Los Angeles County’s 88 cities. Per square mile, the City of Los Angeles ranks 67th, far behind both Beverly Hills and Compton.
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Los Angeles County sells patrol to 42 cities. The budget unit that does it closed last year $2.67 million ahead
Forty-two cities buy their patrol from the Sheriff, under a budget unit the county budgets at zero net cost.
