Teachers out-earn the police in 46 out of 440 California cities… none of them in LA County
The median LAPD officer has made a Los Angeles Unified teacher’s yearly salary by September 15, and the median Oakland officer by May 18.
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Police officer pay vs. teacher salary in 440 California cities
What the median police officer made in 2024 and what the median teacher is paid in the school district that serves each city. The officer is paid more in 394 of the 440.
LA County has one in nine of America’s parking businesses… nearly twice as many as Texas
The Census Bureau counts 1,355 businesses that park cars in Los Angeles County, more than in any state but New York and California. One ZIP code in Koreatown has one fewer than the state of Kentucky.
LA’s biggest delivery robot company lost $101 million last year pitching “no driver wages” to investors
Serve Robotics lost $55.80 for every hour its robots were ready to take an order at the end of last year. The first advantage its investor deck lists for them is ‘No driver wages.’
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One LAFD administrator made 950k last year and he’ll probably make $1.1 million this year
An LAFD battalion chief was paid $948,271 in 2025, and $653,485 of it was overtime.
302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, 15 did.
Nearly half of LA’s $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
LA’s bus lane cameras issued $42.8 million in fines last year
The streets where tickets were recorded cover an estimated 31 miles.
LA’s three Olympic Games couldn’t be more different from one another
The Los Angeles Coliseum will soon become the only venue on earth to have sold tickets to three Olympic Games.
LA’s no-cost Olympics will probably cost $1.15 billion
That covers police personnel.
A house across the street pays more property tax than the Los Angeles Country Club
Los Angeles ranks 93rd of the 100 largest American cities for park space, while twelve private country clubs sit on 1,896 acres assessed at $317 million.
Metro Micro carries four riders an hour and burns through $2 million a month
Metro runs two shared-mobility programs.
Parking fines weigh 10 times as much in LA’s poorest communities
Annual fines issued per household equal 0.426 percent of median household income in the poorest tenth of city census tracts, compared with 0.043 percent in the richest.
Los Angeles has lost a third of its film jobs in four years, and 2026 is running below the strike year
Motion picture employment in Los Angeles County peaked at an annual average of 149,800 in 2022.
Los Angeles County’s cities write it $613 million a year for services they don’t provide themselves
Police is the big one at $379 million, but the county also sells its cities fire protection, road maintenance, tax collection, sewers, parks, probation services and a coroner.
About 1% of the money in the CD9 runoff comes from CD9
Jose Ugarte and Estuardo Mazariegos have raised $909,553 from named donors so far, and we estimate about $36,000 of it came from people who live in Council District 9.
