LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell talks about 2024 crime numbers, response times, the city’s budget shortfall related to the ...

Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers arrested a man suspected of at least nine sexual assaults and four ...

Homicides declined roughly 14% in Los Angeles last year compared with 2023, while 225 fewer people were struck by gunfire ...

Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell held a press conference detailing findings from the ...

Mayor Karen Bass and Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell will be releasing the 2024 citywide crime data ...

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell listens to a member of the public comment during a meeting on Nov. 8. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

The involved officers have been “assigned to home” without police powers, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said during a Tuesday Board of Police Commissioners meeting.

He spent 32 years rising up the ranks to deputy chief and came out of retirement in 2002 to serve as interim police chief.

Overall crime in the city of Los Angeles declined in 2024, with homicides dropping 14% and shooting victims decreasing by 19% ...

the LAPD wrote. In November 2024, Chief Jim McDonnell said he was open to a new evaluation of the department’s pursuit rules, and said more chases were being called-off early because of danger ...

Los Angeles crime rates declined in 2024, with the Hollenbeck Division—home to Boyle Heights—experiencing sharp declines in ...

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