The Los Angeles City Council on Friday confirmed Jim McDonnell as the city’s 59th police chief in a split 11-2 vote, and he was later officially sworn in in front of a crowded room of city leaders.

this would be a significant bump from the current LAPD chief’s salary: Interim police chief Dominic Choi made just under $400,000 in base pay in 2023. The salary for the previous LAPD Chief ...

He has a long history in the city and county, having served with the LAPD for 29 years, then as chief of the Long Beach Police Department, and later was elected to L.A. County sheriff. He most ...

According to a LAPD report, McDonnell's nomination may be considered by the City Council as soon as next Friday. Last year, the City Council approved a new contract with the union representing the ...

According to an LAPD report, McDonnell’s nomination could be considered by the City Council as soon as Friday, Oct. 8. The City Council’s Public Safety Committee advanced McDonnell’s ...

The City Council today confirmed former Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell as the 59th chief of the LAPD, the nation’s third-largest law enforcement agency, despite opposition from some ...

The bust resulted during a narcotics investigation near downtown Los Angeles that involved multiple Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) divisions. The LAPD arrested 28-year-old Jose Alberto Soto ...

LAPD Officer Clifford Proctor, center, walks on crutches in Venice near the scene where he fatally shot Brendon Glenn, an unarmed homeless man, in May 2015. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) An ...

LAPD referenced figures from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency for the Los Angeles area in estimating the drugs to be worth more than $4 million. And, given the DEA's estimate that 2mg of pure ...

Clifford Proctor, who served as an LAPD officer for about a decade, fired two fatal shots into the back of Brendon Glenn, a 29-year-old homeless man, after a dispute with a bouncer outside a bar ...

Even though the robberies spanned different divisions within the LAPD, North Hollywood detectives took over the investigation and identified Garcia as their primary suspect within a month of the ...