Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LAPD

Slimm, 25, Los Ryderz member, on his bike in Ted Watkins Park in Watts. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 1, 2018 | 32 Comments

"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."

Sherman Way's posted speed limit is 35mph. Is it safe for motor vehicles to exceed this?

How Can Vision Zero Work When L.A. Continues to Prioritize Speed?

By Don Ward | Mar 6, 2018 | 23 Comments

Rather than raise speed limits, let’s lower design speeds, so the mistakes are less impactful when they inevitably happen

Officer drags Bethany Nava off the train at Westlake/MacArthur Park for not removing her foot from the seat where it was propped up. [Image: still from video taken by Brock Bryan.]

Teen Hauled Off Metro Train, Cuffed for Putting Her Feet Up

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 23, 2018

As he films the scene unfolding in front of him at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station, Metro passenger Brock Bryan calmly pleads with an LAPD officer to stop manhandling a young woman he dragged off the train for putting her foot up on the seat.

The Rosa Parks Station in Watts, looking toward Long Beach. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Strategy Center Files Lawsuit Seeking Arrest, Citation, and Deployment Data from Metro, Law Enforcement Agencies

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 18, 2017 | 10 Comments

Between May and September of this year, the lawsuit Public Counsel filed on behalf of the Labor/Community Strategy Center (LCSC) this past December 13 states, both Metro and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) failed to adequately respond (or respond at all) to multiple requests for public records regarding policing and fare enforcement practices, breakdowns […]

Breakdown of Vision Zero 2017-18 budget approved today. Image via Councilmember Mike Bonin

L.A. City Council Approves $27.2M For Vision Zero 2017 Budget

By Joe Linton | May 18, 2017

Today the L.A. City Council approved $27.2 million in funding for Vision Zero, primarily for pedestrian safety improvements.

Ceebo Tha Rapper shoots a video near 65th and Broadway, where 25-year-old Ezell Ford was shot and killed by the police, answering critics that thought his first video called for violence against the police. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Friday Ruminations on Profiling, Policing, and Planning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 3, 2017 | 8 Comments

Stories highlighting the unique vulnerability of people of color - particularly men of color - in the public space remind planners and advocates that it is really hard for people to "reclaim" their streets and public spaces if trying to do so puts them in peril.

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