Public Safety News

A jail inmate who was charged last year with punching a female custody assistant five times in an attack captured on video surveillance has been sentenced to six years in state prison. Read More

A state appeals court panel ordered new court proceedings Friday for one of two men convicted of the murder of an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Long Beach nearly 16 years ago. Read More

Three days before the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary in unincorporated north Whittier honored the victims with the help of about 60 first responders. Read More

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a driver whose car dragged a deputy during a chase Wednesday, authorities said. Read More

With violent crime on the upswing across the nation, the number of police officers who have died violently in the line of duty is also spiking. Read More

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to collect more data on the effect of having sheriff’s deputies on local school campuses, even as some school districts pushed back against changes. Read More

Five deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were hospitalized following a hazmat situation in Pico Rivera Monday afternoon, officials said. Read More

Symbolic votes in La Mirada, Whittier, and Lancaster suggest discontent with the progressive prosecutor’s policies Read More