The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department,is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles,California,United States. With 8,832 officers and 3,000 civilian staff,it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States,after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department.
Daryl Francis Gates was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position was second only to that of William H. Parker. Gates is credited with the creation of SWAT teams alongside fellow Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer John Nelson,who others claim was the originator of SWAT in 1965. Gates also co-founded the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.
Bernard C. Parks is an American politician who served as a member of the Los Angeles City Council,representing the 8th district in South Los Angeles from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party,Parks served as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from August 1997 to May 2002.
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner. He previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States' two largest cities –New York and Los Angeles.
James Edgar Davis was an American police officer who served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1926 to 1929,and from 1933 to 1939. During his first term as LAPD chief,Davis emphasized firearms training. Under Davis,the LAPD developed its lasting reputation as an organization that relied on brute force to enforce public order. It also became publicly entangled in corruption. Members of the LAPD were revealed to have undertaken a campaign of brutal harassment,including the bombings of political reformers who had incurred the wrath of the department and the civic administration.
William Henry Parker III was an American law enforcement officer who was Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1950 to 1966. To date,he is the longest-serving LAPD police chief. Parker has been called "Los Angeles' greatest and most controversial chief of police". The former headquarters of the LAPD,the Parker Center,was named after him. During his tenure,the LAPD was known for police brutality and racism;Parker himself was known for his "unambiguous racism".
Arthur Clarence Hohmann served as Los Angeles Police Department Chief of Police from 1939 to 1941,when he voluntarily relinquished the position during a police corruption scandal. Hohmann was the 40th Chief of the L.A.P.D.,succeeding acting Chief David A. Davidson in July 1939. He previously had been a lieutenant.
Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. The area is officially known as Central City East.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was formed in 1869,and has since become the third-largest law enforcement agency in the United States. They have been involved in various events in history,such as the Black Dahlia murder,the Watts riots,the 1992 Los Angeles riots,the North Hollywood shootout,the murder trial of O. J. Simpson,and the Rampart scandal.
The 2007 MacArthur Park rallies were two May Day rallies demanding amnesty for undocumented immigrants which occurred on May 1,2007,at MacArthur Park,in Los Angeles.
Special Order 40 is a police mandate implemented in 1979 by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD),its Police Chief Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles City Council preventing LAPD officers from questioning people for the sole purpose of determining their immigration status. The mandate was passed in an effort to encourage undocumented aliens to report crimes without intimidation. The first section of the order states:
Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person.
Officers shall not arrest nor book persons for violation of title 8,section 1325 of the United States Immigration code.
The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is the head and senior-most officer to serve in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The incumbent manages the day-to-day operations of the LAPD and is usually held a four star officer.
George Gascón is an American attorney and former police officer who is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. A member of the Democratic Party and a former member of the Republican Party,Gascón served as the district attorney of San Francisco from 2011 to 2019. Prior to his work as a prosecutor,he was an assistant chief of police for the LAPD,and Chief of Police in Mesa,Arizona and San Francisco.
Charles Lloyd Beck is a retired American police officer,formerly serving as the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and subsequently as the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. A veteran of the department with over four decades as an officer,he is known for commanding and rehabilitating the Rampart Division after the Rampart scandal;and for technology enhancements during his time as Chief of Detectives. He agreed to be interim Superintendent of Police in Chicago in late 2019 while the city searches nationwide for a replacement for retiring Eddie Johnson. Beck took the helm of the Chicago Police Department on December 2,2019 after Johnson was fired. On April 15,2020,Beck stepped down and was replaced by former Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown,who had been nominated by Lightfoot to serve as permanent Superintendent. After his retirement he rejoined the Reserve Corps as a Reserve Police Officer and is assigned to the Office Of The Chief Of Police.
R. Lee Heath served as Chief of Police of the Los Angeles Police Department from August 1,1924 to March 31,1926. Heath had joined the L.A.P.D. in 1904 and was reputed to be the most adroit politician in the department,eventually rising to the level of top cop. He was a police captain when he was appointed chief,replacing Chief August Vollmer,the former Police Chief of Berkeley,California who had served as interim chief for exactly one year.
Christopher Jordan Dorner was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who,beginning on February 3,2013,committed a series of killings against the LAPD in Orange County,Los Angeles County,Riverside County and San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. The victims were law enforcement officers and the daughter of a retired police captain. Dorner killed four people and wounded three others. On February 12,Dorner killed himself after a shootout with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department deputies in the San Bernardino Mountains.
James McDonnell is the former sheriff of Los Angeles County. McDonnell was elected as L.A. County's 32nd sheriff on November 4,2014,defeating former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka. He replaced interim sheriff John Scott on December 1,2014. Scott replaced former sheriff Lee Baca. Previously,McDonnell served as the Chief of Police in Long Beach,California and before that in the Los Angeles Police Department. McDonnell was defeated in 2018 by Alex Villanueva.
Ezell Ford,a 25-year-old African-American man,died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers in Florence,Los Angeles,California on August 11,2014. In the weeks and months that followed,Ford's shooting triggered multiple demonstrations and a lawsuit by Ford's family claiming $75 million in damages.
Stephen Downing is an American screenwriter,producer,activist,and investigative journalist who began his screenwriting career in the 1960s while still working as a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer. Most of Downing's pre-1980 writing and producing credits appeared under pseudonyms to escape notice of the LAPD. Downing is active in the movement to end the international war on drugs and the militarization of police in America. In 2011,Downing became a board member of Law Enforcement Action Partnership,formerly known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP),after years representing the group as a speaker. He left the board in 2019,but is still an advisory board member who gives speeches and writes op-ed pieces on behalf of the group. He also volunteers his time as an investigative journalist,with a focus on police corruption and reform,for a local print newspaper in Long Beach,California. As a television producer and screenwriter he is best known for the series Walking Tall,RoboCop:The Series,T. J. Hooker and MacGyver.
Michel Rey Moore is a retired American law enforcement officer who served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 2018 until 2024.
