LAPD

Sep 6 2010

Women's Magazine

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Women's Police Officers and Associates will release a commemorative magazine called "100 Years of Women In Law Enforcement'' on Sept. 28.

"We are very excited to produce a magazine that truly represents women as the law enforcement professionals they have worked so hard to become over the past 100 years,'' said LAPD Detective Deborah Gonzales, who heads up the organization.

Sep 2 2010

Sherylla Wilson and Tami McAdory

Dear Editor:

It’s interesting how the police, who were once ordinary people like you and I, propel themselves to superiority by putting on uniforms.

 I am a 26-year-old, African American female and personally, I am so tired of the racism we, as African Americans experience, I could just scream. My mother is an Los Angeles Police Department officer, and I have been trying my entire life to believe that not all agencies or officers are racist. But outside of my family, I’ve been proven wrong.

Aug 30 2010

In the custody of the Los Angles County Department of Children and Family Services

INGLEWOOD - Authorities have contacted the apparent parents of a 4-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister, who were found abandoned in an apartment complex, but so far the children are still in the custody of a child welfare agency, Inglewood police said.

Neighbors told police they saw a woman leave the children at an apartment complex in the 300 block of West Queens Street about 4:30 p.m. this past Saturday, said Inglewood police Lt. Michael Marshall.

Aug 26 2010

Students are safe

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Manual Arts High School was put on lock down yesterday about 11 a.m., after the janitor found a suspicious-looking package in one of the campus restrooms. Students were evacuated to the gymnasium, auditorium, and nearby buildings.

Students were dismissed between 2 and 3 p.m.

The LAPD bombsquad recovered a package and has yet to say, if it was actually a bomb.
No one has been arrested and no motive has been determined.

Aug 26 2010

SEIU United Service Workers West Union protest

CENTURY CITY - Thirteen people were arrested today in Century City during a march and rally in support of recently laid off janitors, police said.
 

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.