The Los Angeles Police Department may have flaws. But when officers do something outrageously right, credit is deserved. At least six LAPD officers work together as heroes--to drag a suicidal man who's already falling over the building--back onto a rooftop in a video 13 stories high. Determined to jump, the suicidal man bites a female officer's, a woman who continues to hang on. Read more
It'd surely embarrass the Hollywood star who lit up movie screens as a man to know grandson, Clark Gable III, acts like a "boy". The film star's relation plays Jedi with a 'Lightsaber' while LAPD isn't happy about lasers shined on police helicopters. No, a coper's not the Hollywood sign. Yes, it does cost $250,000 to bail out of Los Angeles jail. Read more
The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience movie screening was invite-only, DJ "Kaskade" slated to spin a free show before the the Hollywood event. LAPD dubbed the Los Angeles event a "riot" despite only 3 vandalism arrests. Maybe it was riot gear and bean bags chucked by police that sparked violence toward cop cars. Read more
Who knew a picnic bench could be such a dangerous place. It seems Weatherby Police don't have a lot to do in Kansas: A woman discovered sitting at picnic table--writing 'thank you' cards near Weatherby Lake on a work break--is arrested for first-degree trespassing. Read more
Most people don't want to be in jail but a guy in Provo wanted to be there so badly he refused to reveal his identity to cops. The Utah mystery man arrested on minor charges--now more than three weeks ago--has remained behind bars in Utah while law enforcement tripled his charges. The inmate didn't fall for the 'free phone card' trick. Read more
It seems the LAPD is using kids to nab suspects, or future arrests: The 10-year-old son of Louie Sanchez--the man arrested with Marvin Norwood July 22 in relation to the Bryan Stow beating case--is supposedly the 'tip' to which to which the police department has been vaguely referring. Read more
The hotel maid that accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her in May 2011 in New York is heading to the public for backing, after prosecution sends the signal of plans to potentially ditch her. The woman who claims rape has been identified as Nafissatou Diallo and has gone public--speaking via Newsweek and ABC's "Good Morning America". Read more
It was the unthinkable crime that left Los Angeles police detectives first naming, arresting and charging the wrong person after Bryan Stow sustained brain injury in a severe Dodgers stadium beating. LAPD better hope its new arrests of Louie Sanchez and Marvin Norwood are right after wrong paths in arrests related to the Stow criminal case. Read more
The death toll of 86 has been lowered to 76 as, July 25, Anders Behring Breivik enters court for the first time in the terrorist bombing and youth camp shooting massacre in Oslo--the gunman confesses to the shooting and bomb attacks but denies criminal responsibility. He says he was saving Norway from Muslims. His father wants him dead. Read more