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 A week before George Floyd was killed, Jane Nguyen created a bar graph. Nguyen, co-founder of Ktown for All, an activist group that advocates for the homeless, plugged numbers into Excel from the budget that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti released a few weeks earlier. City spending on housing appeared on Nguyen’s graph as a sliver compared to over $3 billion...

An investigation was underway Saturday morning into the detainment of former “Saturday Night Live” cast member and comedian Jay Pharoah by Los Angeles police in Tarzana. Pharoah said in a video posted to his Instagram account Friday that he was jogging in the area of Ventura Boulevard and Corbin Avenue in late April when four officers stopped him and ordered…

Two off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officers were detained Sunday after a third LAPD officer was shot and injured at a camp site in an unincorporated area near Apple Valley in San Bernardino County, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.

New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in a shooting during a home invasion early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, multiple sources tell NBC News.

Family and marriage therapist Amie Harwick died due to blunt force injuries to her head and upper body, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Police Department supervisor who fatally shot an unarmed man near the border between Los Angeles and Culver City mistook a bicycle part in his hand for a gun, police reported Friday. Police received a call around 12:40 p.m. Saturday about a “man with a gun” and a Pacific Division patrol field supervisor in the area, Sgt. Colin…

Prosecutors have filed extortion, domestic violence, and several other charges against a former LAPD officer — who was accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to extort his one-time girlfriend, herself an LAPD detective and the wife of former LAPD assistant chief Jorge Villegas. Danny Reedy, who has not been arrested, was named in a criminal complaint filed for warrant Monday…

An LAPD officer suspected of fondling a dead woman’s body was charged by prosecutors and arrested Thursday, authorities said. David Rene Rojas was booked by LAPD internal affairs detectives on a warrant that accused him of having sexual contact with human remains, according to the LA County District Attorney’s Office. Rojas, 27, was arrested without incident at his home...

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean says she lost her crown because of a comment she made about gay marriage and not because she had been skipping appearances. Prejean told Matt Lauer on NBC‘s “Today” show Friday that she “absolutely” had been dethroned because of the comment, when she said marriage should be between a man and a woman....

What could be more comforting than stuffing your dead pet in a pillow?

Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives mobilized across Los Angeles and Riverside counties early Friday to carry out raids that resulted in the arrests of three suspects in last weekend’s fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer, law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

Police say a suspect is still at large and two people are injured after a shooting on Lincoln Road early Saturday morning.

A U.S. Army veteran was plotting a large-scale terror attack in Los Angeles as revenge for the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

A rare English bulldog puppy is on its way home thanks to cooperation between police officers in Illinois and the Los Angeles Police Department.

A man accused of posing as an interested home buyer at open houses, then returning to steal items in a series of burglaries at celebrity and high-end homes for sale in Los Angeles, has been arrested, police said Wednesday.

A Los Angeles Department bomb squad responded to a Bel-Air neighborhood Saturday night due to a suspicious package.

Two women were detained Tuesday when one of them allegedly threw a powdery substance in the direction of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck during yet another raucous meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission.

A 16-year-old girl alleges that a Los Angeles police officer, who supervised her in the police cadet program, sexually abused her and gave her a pill to induce abortion when he thought she was pregnant.