Posts from May 29, 2026

   The new LAPD headquarters building, opened in 2009 at First and Main streets in downtown Los[…]

  In response to a series of bank robberies in Los Angeles' downtown area in the early[…]

 In addition to the more common gunfire and vehicle collisions, there was a period from the 1910s[…]

 On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 20, 1923, three years after the start of Prohibition in the[…]

Officer Charles Perry "C.P." Williams Sr. was the first black LAPD officer to be killed in the[…]

Officer Vernon Oliver Dinsmore, 23, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department for only eight months,[…]

Officers Levi "Harry" Clester and William Brett were both born in the Midwest -- Indiana and Kansas,[…]

Although LAPD Officer Walter Kreps is officially recognized as the department's first motorcycle officer to be killed[…]

Shortly before noon on Tuesday, June 15, 1920, LAPD Officer Elijah Pierce "Pete" Bradley, 35, was approaching[…]

 When 22-year-old Donald Hathaway moved to Los Angeles from Colorado in about 1916, he held a variety[…]