Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LAPD

Widow of hit-and-run victim Francisco Hernandez Rivas being interviewed this morning. Photos by Joe Linton/Streetsblog L.A.

Deadly Father’s Day Hit-and-Run Suspect Caught after Fleeing to Mexico

By Joe Linton | Aug 27, 2019

This morning the LAPD announced details on the capture of hit-and-run suspect Maritza Lara. Lara’s alleged driving under the influence killed Francisco Hernández Rivas. The hit-and-run crime took place around 5:30 a.m. on June 16 – Father’s Day – at the intersection of Parthenia Street and Haskell Avenue in the San Fernando Valley community of […]

Last week, two drivers struck and killed a pedestrian and the intersection of Centinela and Barbara. Image via Google maps

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Traffic Safety Deniers Cynically Attack Venice Blvd Safety Improvements for Crash on Centinela Nearby

By Joe Linton | Jan 2, 2019 | 60 Comments

Two drivers struck and killed Felipe Nunez-Garcia on Centinela, then Westside trolls called for removing safety improvements elsewhere.

California's "absurd" speed law means more deaths on L.A. roads. Palisades Drive car crash photo by Peter Duke via Flickr Creative Commons

L.A. Times Calls California Speed Trap Law “Absurd” and Urges Reform

By Joe Linton | Jul 24, 2018 | 11 Comments

California's archaic state speed law "is an absurd way to govern a public space."

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 | 33 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.

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