New projections show that between recruiting shortfalls and attrition, LAPD leaders expect to lose more than 150 officers in the coming fiscal year, leaving a force of about 8,620, which would be ...

8:08 a.m. Jan. 24, 2025: An earlier version of this story misspelled the last name of L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman as Rahman. When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave pay raises to the city ...

Officers who completed 24 weeks of training at the Los Angeles Police Academy attend their graduation ceremony. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...

When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave pay raises to the city’s rank-and-file police officers last year, she sold it as a sensible investment toward regrowing the LAPD to the 9,500-member force it was ...

When Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass gave pay raises to the city’s rank-and-file police officers last year, she sold it as a sensible investment toward regrowing the LAPD to the 9,500-member force ...