I read your article (Feb. 20) on homelessness in Los Angeles, "Mayor Takes Credit for Crackdown on L.A.'
Citizens, clergy members and politicians joined battle at a landmark community meeting on Thursday to try to rout drug dealers, car thieves, muggers, rapists and murderers from their neighborhoods.
outstanding job of telling about the crime wave going on at Lawndale's Leuzinger High School.
Police work is dangerous, and the hours are nothing to brag about.
I have given Mayor Tom Bradley the benefit of the doubt a couple times and voted for him, despite his veto of a park acquisition I favored and his wishy-washiness on issues like Louis Farrakhan and Rose Bird.
The University of California's nine campuses "are among the most crime-ridden campuses in the
television under an Azusa Crime Stoppers Program proposed by Police Chief Lloyd J.
Elliot Currie writes in his review of my book "Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America" (The
The President's Commission on Organized Crime will recommend today that the government develop a
James (Jack White) Licavoli, 81, identified by federal authorities as head of organized crime in
Even in a blue jail jump suit, Richard Howard Payton had the restrained and respectful look of a gentleman last week as he sat before the judge in San Fernando Superior Court waiting to hear his sentence.
textbook of crime tips on a computerized bulletin board popular with teen-agers, authorities said Thursday.
Homicides, auto thefts and assaults increased in the first six months of 1986 in the areas of Los Angeles County under the Sheriff's Department jurisdiction, but rapes and gang killings decreased markedly, according to figures released Tuesday.
Joining a nationwide observance, residents across the San Fernando Valley turned their "Lights On Against Crime" Tuesday.
At twilight one day last fall, a California legislative aide parked near her Sacramento bank's automated teller machine, which was at the side of the bank, in an alley between the bank and a car dealer's lot.
Co. on Thursday by denying that he ever knowingly did business with organized crime.
Branding it an "open and blatant" haven for drug pushers and prostitutes, the City Council revoked the business license of the Glenmore Hotel last week, closing a decades-old downtown structure that long ago went to seed.
Sentencing for Tarzana businessman and reputed organized-crime figure Jack Catain has been
Every so often, something happens to suggest that the reasonable people who are supposed to be running the world have as uncertain a grip on it as everybody else.
Police and detective shows nearly always end with the criminal being caught; the implied message is that he is going straight to prison while the people whom he victimized will get back to the business of normal living.