Recent Streetsblog LA posts about LAPD

If You Expect Justice to Be Served on LAPD Sgt. Yanez, Prepare to Be Disappointed

By Damien Newton | Jul 15, 2013 | 8 Comments

(Author’s note: there is some editorializing in this story. The opinions are mine. Unless Bell is quoted saying something, don’t put my words in his mouth. – DN) Following last Monday’s story detailing the likely role an LAPD Sargent took covering up his daughter’s deadly hit and run crash, Streetsblog received a lot of email. […]

Jay Sneed (at podium) offered closing remarks at the forum at USC while Tommie Bayliss waited to speak to senior officers in person (Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog)

A Tale of Two Communities, Part II: LAPD Finds it Stirred Up Hornets’ Nest by Profiling USC Students of Color

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

*This is a sister-story to our recent piece on how the new security measures around USC resulted in the increase in profiling of lower-income youth of color around the campus. Read that story here. “We do not believe at this point that there is any indication that this [incident] was race-based,” Capt. II Paul Snell […]

This is what stopping youth or men of color often looks like, regardless of the reason for the stop. Mikey, Jonathan, and George/Jorge were frisked for weapons on Ave. 50 and York Blvd. in Highland Park in 2013 while waiting for friends. Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog

A Tale of Two Communities: New Security Measures at USC Intensify Profiling of Lower-Income Youth of Color

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 30, 2013 | 33 Comments

“What you got on you?” the 15 year-old girl says the cops pulled up alongside her asked as she walked along Vermont one night. Bundled up in her boyfriend’s jacket to stave off the chilly air, she didn’t realize that they were actually talking to her until she heard one grumble, “Fucking Mexican!” and repeat […]

RIP: Buffered Bike Lane in Front of LAPD Headquarters

By Damien Newton | Mar 1, 2013 | 7 Comments

This weekend, the Bureau of Street Services will be repaving parts of 1st Street in Downtown Los Angeles. After the repaving, the street will be repainted. Part of the repainting will include removing the buffer from the 1st Street Buffered Bike Lane in front of LAPD headquarters between Spring and Main Streets. The good news […]

VROOM! Speed Limit Increases for Sunland Boulevard Roar Back to Council

By Damien Newton | Feb 12, 2013 | 4 Comments

It’s been nearly a year since a speed limit increase was brought before the City Council Transportation Committee, but a new proposed increase on for chunks of Sunland Ave in the San Fernando Valley will be heard tomorrow at 2 p.m. The ordinance would establish speed limits of 40 and 45 miles per hour on Sunland […]

Eyes on the Street: Sepulveda Blvd. Bike Lane Turning Into “Express Lane” for Scofflaws

By Damien Newton | Dec 11, 2012 | 19 Comments

In May, Streetsblog reported that new bike lanes were painted on Sepulveda Boulevard between Venice Boulevard and National Boulevard. The new lanes could connect all the way to the Expo Line Station scheduled for Sepulveda and Exposition, about a half mile north of where the lanes now end. Reader Irwin Chen notes that the lanes […]

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