Los Angeles police officers have opened fire 25 times so far this year, nearly matching the total number of shooting incidents for all of 2024 in less than seven months. After the latest incident, in which police fatally shot a man with a replica rifle in Boyle Heights on Monday,

Four days after the body of a young boy was found near a dumpster in Panorama City, a suspect has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the case, authorities said.

Protests come and go, but police must earn the trust of the communities they patrol if they want to fight crime and maintain order over the long term.

The Los Angeles Police Department is pursuing a vehicle in the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday morning. Police are reporting that the driver may be armed. They say the pursuit began around 9:40 a.m. near Vanowen Street and Nobel Avenue near the Valley Presbyterian Hospital in the Van Nuys area.

A man waving and pointing a machete in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday was eventually shot by an LAPD officer. He is expected to survive.

The July 10 order stems from a lawsuit the First Amendment Coalition filed against the department on behalf of the Los Angeles Press Club.

The LAPD is probing the discovery of a boy's body near a Panorama City dumpster, with the Juvenile Division-Abused Child Unit handling the homicide case.

A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Los Angeles police officers from using rubber projectiles and other so-called less-lethal munitions against reporters covering protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

A robbery suspect dressed in what appeared to be a woman's sundress and wearing a large straw hat threatened a doughnut shop's staff with a knife and airsoft gun before