Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LAPD

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

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.

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 […]

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