Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LAPPL

LAPD patrolling Metro - capture from 2017 Metro video

Metro’s “Reimagining Public Safety” Proposal, First Step: Just Keep Paying Police and Sheriff

By Joe Linton | Mar 14, 2023 | No Comments

The current proposal is a three-year extension of the ~$130 million/year multi-agency contract negotiated back in 2017, not a fully-fleshed-out reimagined approach to public safety advocates and many transit users had hoped to see

Few things unite Angelenos like attacks on beloved transit booster Kenny Uong. The use of his image by the L.A. Police Protective League suggesting he was being menaced by a Black man set off a social media firestorm over the weekend. WeHo Councilmember Chelsea Byers' tweet was one of many expressing anger and concern about the police union's scarepost.

Police Protective League Deletes, Reposts, Apologizes for, then Deletes Apology for Racist Scaremongering Tweet about Crime on Metro

By Joe Linton and Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 28, 2023 | No Comments

The tweet also falsely claimed Metro had defunded LAPD. But no apology was made for that.