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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
The Long Beach Police Department was founded January 30, 1888, on the day twenty-four-year-old Horatio Davies was elected as the city's first city marshal. From January 1888 to January 1908, the city elected eight different men to serve as city marshal until the city council adopted Ordinance Number 3, New Series, doing away with the office of ...
Killing of Douglas Zerby. The killing of Douglas Zerby occurred on December 12, 2010 in Long Beach, California. Zerby, who was unarmed, was shot twelve times by two Long Beach Police Department officers while playing with a garden hose nozzle. They claimed that they mistook the hose nozzle for a gun and fired at Zerby, killing him, and did not ...
Brown, who worked for the Long Beach Police Department for nearly 27 years, remained an officer for months after the investigation began, until he was suspended without pay upon his arrest.
James McDonnell is the former sheriff of Los Angeles County. McDonnell was elected as L.A. County's 32nd sheriff on November 4, 2014, defeating former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka (who was in federal prison). [1] He replaced interim sheriff John Scott on December 1, 2014. Scott replaced former sheriff Lee Baca (who was also in federal prison). [2]
The Long Beach Police Department wants the public's help in identifying a man suspected of shooting and killing a 17-year-old girl last month. A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot while walking ...
July 30, 2024 at 10:02 PM. A high-speed police pursuit in Long Beach ended in a violent crash Monday evening that reportedly trapped one suspect in a damaged car, from which he called out to ...
San Diego Police officers confer with FEMA Administrator David Paulison during the October 2007 California wildfires.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 509 law enforcement agencies exist in the U.S. state of California, employing 79,431 sworn police officers—about 217 for each 100,000 residents.