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    James Edgar Davis (February 8, 1889 – June 20, 1949) was an American police officer who served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)...
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    The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is the head and senior-most officer to serve in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The incumbent...
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    The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles...
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    enforcement officer who was Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1950 to 1966. To date, he is the longest-serving LAPD police chief. Parker...
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    Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the...
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    separate Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement services within the city of Los Angeles, which is the county seat of Los Angeles County...
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    The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was formed in 1869, and has since become the third-largest law enforcement agency in the United States. They have...
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    South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying...
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  • corrections officer at Rikers Island after being beaten by two white police officers, and then became a police officer himself in 1991. In 1990, Davis had started...
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    Airborne Division. After the war, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and later the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, acting as the...
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    areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department...
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    Edward Michael Davis (November 15, 1916 – April 22, 2006) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1969 to 1978, and later a California...
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    The 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the mayor of Los Angeles, California. A top-two primary was held on June 7...
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    and appointed officers, including the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, the Los Angeles Fire Department...
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    the city or county of Los Angeles, California. Those not born in Los Angeles have their places of birth listed instead. Los Angeles natives are also referred...
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    a police force. The City of Compton is a Los Angeles area middle-class suburban community and dubbed the Hub City because it is 11 miles from Los Angeles...
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  • intelligence squad, Earl E. Kynette, was convicted and sentenced to two years to life. Police Chief James Davis and 23 other officers were forced to resign...
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    The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, United States, on October 1,...
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    American municipal police officer. He served on the vice squad and the intelligence squad of the city of Los Angeles, California police department. Kynette...
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    District Judge James K. Bredar approved the decree in early April 2017, with commitment from Mayor Catherine Pugh and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to make...
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    The Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 was a racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, California, United States that occurred on...
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    San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank has a population...
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    Tom Bradley (mayor) (category Los Angeles Police Department officers)
    politician, athlete, police officer, and lawyer who served as the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993. Tom Bradley was Los Angeles' first Black mayor...
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    a 70,240-seat sports and entertainment indoor-outdoor stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, United States. SoFi occupies the former...
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    and co-founder of BLM-LA Kevin James Mayors Eric Garcetti, 42nd mayor of Los Angeles Labor unions Los Angeles Police Protective League Organizations...
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  • multiple times by counter protestors, leading to clashes. On May 2, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) raided and dismantled the encampment, arresting...
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  • California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is a public university in Los Angeles, California. It is part of the California State University...
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    National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial (detail) in Washington, D.C. Memorial, Alameda County, California Memorial, Los Angeles Police Department Memorial...
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