Los Angeles Police Department - wikipedia Los Angeles Police Department `` LAPD '' redirects here. For other uses, see LAPD ( disambiguation ). Coordinates : 34 ° 03 ′ 07 '' N 118 ° 14 ′ 40 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 34.051941 ° N 118.244514 ° W ﻿ / 34.051941 ; - 118.244514 City of Los Angeles Police Department Common name Los Angeles Police Department Abbreviation LAPD Patch of the LAPD ( worn on jackets only ) Seal of the Los Angeles Police Department Badge of a Los Angeles Police Department officer Flag of the Los Angeles Police Department Motto `` To Protect and to Serve '' Agency overview Formed 1869 ; 148 years ago ( 1869 ) Employees 12,616 ( 2013 ) Annual budget $1.4 billion Legal personality Governmental : Government agency Jurisdictional structure Operations jurisdiction * State of California, United States Map of City of Los Angeles Police Department 's jurisdiction. Size 503 sq mi ( 1,300 km ) Population 4,030,904 Legal jurisdiction Los Angeles, California, U.S. Governing body Los Angeles City Council General nature Law enforcement Local civilian police Operational structure Overviewed by Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Headquarters 100 West 1st Street Los Angeles, California, U.S. Police officers 10,000 ( 2015 ) Unsworn members 2,773 Commissioners responsible John Mack, Vice-President Andrea Ordin, Member Robert M. Saltzman, Member Alan J. Skobin, Member Agency executives Charlie Beck, Chief of Police Michel Moore, First Assistant Chief -- Operations Beatrice Girmala, Assistant Chief -- Special Operations Jorge Villegas, Assistant Chief -- Administrative Services Debra McCarthy, Deputy Chief -- Professional Standards Divisions 19 Emergency Services Major Crimes Special Operations Support Metropolitan Air Support Emergency Operations Robbery - Homicide Commercial Crimes Jail Juvenile Detective Support Vice Narcotics Scientific Investigations LAX Field Services Central Traffic South Traffic Valley Traffic West Traffic Bureaus 6 Central South Valley West Detective Special Operations Facilities Areas 21 Central Rampart Southwest Hollenbeck Harbor Hollywood Wilshire West Los Angeles Van Nuys West Valley Northeast 77th Street Newton Pacific North Hollywood Foothill Devonshire Southeast Mission Olympic Topanga Police boats Helicopters 26 Planes Horses 40 Dogs 2 Bloodhounds 20 German Shepherds Website www.lapdonline.org Footnotes * Divisional agency : Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction. The Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the Los Angeles police department. With 9,843 officers and 2,773 civilian staff, it is the third - largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department. The department serves an area of 498 square miles ( 1,290 km ) and a population of 4,030,904 people. The LAPD has been fictionalized in numerous movies, novels, and television shows throughout its history. The department has also been associated with a number of controversies, mainly concerned with racism, police brutality, and police corruption. Contents 1 History 2 Organization 2.1 Board of Police Commissioners 2.2 Office of the Inspector General 2.3 Office of the Chief 2.4 Office of Operations 2.4. 1 Structure chart 2.4. 2 Operations -- Central Bureau 2.4. 3 Operations -- South Bureau 2.4. 4 Operations -- Valley Bureau 2.4. 5 Operations -- West Bureau 2.5 Office of Special Operations 2.5. 1 Detective Bureau 2.5. 2 Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau 2.6 Office of Administrative Services 3 Rank structure and insignia 3.1 Supervisory terminology 4 Chiefs of Police 5 Staffing 5.1 Limitations 5.2 Art Theft Detail 5.3 Union 5.4 Cadet program 5.5 Demographics 5.6 Languages 6 Work environment and pay 6.1 Body cameras 7 Resources 7.1 Firearms 8 Awards, commendations, citations and medals 8.1 Bravery 8.2 Service 8.3 Unit citations 8.4 Ribbons 8.5 Marksmanship Badges 9 Fallen officers 10 Controversies and misconduct 10.1 Consent decree 11 See also 12 References 13 External links History Main article : History of the Los Angeles Police Department Venice Police Station in the 1920s The first specific Los Angeles police force was founded in 1853, as the Los Angeles Rangers, a volunteer force that assisted the existing County forces. The Rangers were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group. Neither force was particularly efficient and Los Angeles became known for its violence, gambling and vice. The first paid force was created in 1869, when six officers were hired to serve under City Marshal William C. Warren. By 1900, under John M. Glass, there were 70 officers, one for every 1,500 people. In 1903, with the start of the Civil Service, this force was increased to 200. The CBS radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune in to early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, he was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role. During World War II, under Clemence B. Horrall, the overall number of personnel was depleted by the demands of the military. Despite efforts to maintain numbers, the police could do little to control the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots. Horrall was replaced by retired United States Marine Corps general William A. Worton, who acted as interim chief until 1950, when William H. Parker succeeded him and would serve until his death in 1966. Parker advocated police professionalism and autonomy from civilian administration. However, the Bloody Christmas scandal in 1951 led to calls for civilian accountability and an end to alleged police brutality. The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on - site at the police station. Due to Dragnet 's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker `` became after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation '' at that time. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African - American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show 's previous mainstay. The Police Administration Building at 150 N. Los Angeles St. in 1976 Under Parker, LAPD created the first SWAT ( Special Weapons and Tactics ) team in United States law enforcement. Officer John Nelson and then - Inspector Daryl Gates created the program in 1965 to deal with threats from radical organizations such as the Black Panther Party operating during the Vietnam War era. The old headquarters for the LAPD was Parker Center, named after former chief William H. Parker, which still stands at 150 N. Los Angeles St. The new headquarters is 300 yards ( 270 m ) west in the purpose built Police Administration Building located at 100 W. 1st St., immediately south of Los Angeles City Hall, which officially opened in October 2009. Organization The New Police Administration Building opened in 2009 Board of Police Commissioners Main article : Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners also known as the Police Commission, is a five - member body of appointed officials which oversees the LAPD. The board is responsible for setting policies for the department and overseeing the LAPD 's overall management and operations. The Chief of Police reports to the board, but the rest of the department reports to the chief. Office of the Inspector General The Office of the Inspector General is an independent part of the LAPD that has oversight over the department 's internal disciplinary process and reviewing complaints of officer misconduct. It was created by the recommendation of the Christopher Commission and it is exempt from civil service and reports directly to the Board of Police Commissioners. The current Inspector General is Alexander A. Bustamante who was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney. The OIG receives copies of every complaint filed against members of the LAPD as well as tracking specific cases along with any resultant litigation. The OIG also conducts audits on select investigations and conducts regular reviews of the disciplinary system in order to ensure fairness and equality. As well as overseeing the LAPD 's disciplinary process, the Inspector General may undertake special investigations as directed by the Board of Police Commissioners. Office of the Chief The Office of the Chief of Police is the administrative office comprising the Chief of Staff and the Employee Relations Group. Also reporting to the chief of police is the Director of the Office of Constitutional Policing and Policy, whose office is divided into the Community Policing and Policy Group, Risk Management Legal Affairs Group and Media Relations. The Information Technology Bureau and the Professional Standards Bureau, which includes the Internal Affairs Group, Special Operations Division and Force Investigation Division, also reports directly to the Office of Chiefs. Office of Operations The majority of the LAPD 's approximately 10,000 officers are assigned within the Office of Operations, whose primary office is located in the new Police Administration Building. An Assistant Chief, currently First Assistant Chief Michel Moore, commands the office, and reports directly to the chief of police. The LAPD Office of Operations comprises 21 police stations, known officially as `` areas '' but also commonly referred to as `` divisions ''. The Office of Operations also comprises COMPSTAT ( Computer Statistics ) which maintains crime data. It holds regular weekly meetings within a purpose - built suite in the new Police Administration Building with the Chief of Police and senior officers. COMPSTAT is based on the NYPD CompStat unit that was created in 1994 by former LAPD Chief William Bratton, while he was still a NYPD Police Commissioner. He implemented the LAPD version on becoming Chief of Police in 2002. The 21 police stations or `` divisions '' are grouped geographically into four command areas, each known as a `` bureau ''. The latest areas, `` Olympic '' and `` Topanga '', were added on January 4, 2009. Structure chart Central Bureau South Bureau Valley Bureau West Bureau Central Area ( 1 ) 77th Street Area ( 12 ) Devonshire Area ( 17 ) Hollywood Area ( 6 ) Hollenbeck Area ( 4 ) Harbor Area ( 5 ) Foothill Area ( 16 ) Olympic Area ( 20 ) Newton Area ( 13 ) Southeast Area ( 18 ) Mission Area ( 19 ) Pacific Area ( 14 ) Northeast Area ( 11 ) Southwest Area ( 3 ) North Hollywood Area ( 15 ) West Los Angeles Area ( 8 ) Rampart Area ( 2 ) Van Nuys Area ( 9 ) Wilshire Area ( 7 ) West Valley Area ( 10 ) Topanga Area ( 21 ) Operations -- Central Bureau The Central Bureau is responsible for downtown Los Angeles and Eastern Los Angeles, and is the most densely populated of the four patrol bureaus. It consists of five patrol divisions and a traffic division, which handles traffic - related duties such as accident investigation and the issuing of citations / tickets. The Rampart Division police station. Division Number Division Name Areas Served Central Area Downtown, the Fashion District, the Financial District. Rampart Area Echo Park, Pico - Union, Westlake Hollenbeck Area Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights, El Sereno. 11 Northeast Area Elysian Park, Echo Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hollywood, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Atwater Village, Glassell Park. 13 Newton Area South Los Angeles, portions of Downtown and the Fashion District. Operations -- South Bureau The South Bureau oversees South Los Angeles with the exception of Inglewood and Compton, which are both separate cities that maintain their own law enforcement agencies ( in Compton 's case, a contract with the Los Angeles County Sheriff 's Department ). The South Bureau consists of four patrol divisions, Criminal Gang, Homicide Division and a traffic division, which handles traffic - related duties such as accident investigation and the issuing of citations / tickets. 77th Street Division The 77th Street Area ( # 12 ) serves a portion of South Los Angeles, roughly in an area south of Vernon Avenue, west of the Harbor Freeway, north of Manchester Avenue and points west to the city limits, including the Crenshaw region. A section of South Central Los Angeles that borders Florence, Central and Manchester Avenues to the Harbor Freeway is also part of this division. The division 's address is 7600 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90003. The division also has a Junior Cadets program separate from the cadet program. The junior cadets age range is between 9 and 13 and after age 13 they can join the Cadets. The junior cadets program is exclusive to the 77th street division. Harbor Division The Harbor Area ( # 5 ) serves all of San Pedro, Wilmington and the Harbor Gateway annex south of Artesia Boulevard. This division often works with the Port of Los Angeles Police. The 260 Harbor division members operate out of a $40 - million, 50,000 - square - foot ( 4,600 m ) police station, that was opened in April 2009 on John S. Gibson Blvd. Southeast Division The Southeast Area ( # 18 ), like the 77th Street Division, patrols a part of South Los Angeles. Their area extends to the city limits north of Artesia Boulevard, includes Watts, and areas south of Manchester Avenue. Southwest Division The Southwest Area ( # 3 ) serves all of the city limits south of the Santa Monica Freeway, west of the Harbor Freeway, north of Vernon Avenue, and east of the Culver City / Lennox / Baldwin Hills area. This section also includes the University of Southern California and Exposition Park. Operations -- Valley Bureau The Valley Bureau is the largest of the four patrol bureaus in terms of size ( about 221 square miles ), and oversees operations within the San Fernando Valley. It consists of seven patrol divisions and a traffic division, which handles traffic - related duties such as accident investigation and the issuing of citations / tickets. An LAPD patrol car in the North Hills Mission Division The Mission Area ( # 19 ) community police station began operations in May 2005. This was the first new station to be created in more than a quarter of a century. The Mission Area covers the eastern half of the old Devonshire and the western half of the Foothill Divisions in the San Fernando Valley, including Mission Hills and Panorama City. Devonshire Division The Devonshire Area ( # 17 ) is responsible for the northwestern parts of the San Fernando Valley, including parts of Chatsworth and Northridge. Foothill Division The Foothill Area ( # 16 ) patrols parts of the San Fernando Valley ( including Sun Valley ) and the Crescenta Valley ( including Sunland - Tujunga ). North Hollywood Division See also : North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood Area ( # 15 ) is responsible for Studio City, Valley Village and the North Hollywood Region. Van Nuys Division The Van Nuys Area ( # 9 ) serves the area of Van Nuys, California. West Valley Division The West Valley Area ( # 10 ) is responsible for parts of the San Fernando Valley, including parts of Encino, Northridge, Reseda and Winnetka, where it is based. Topanga Division The Topanga ( # 21 ) community police station began operations in January 2009. It is responsible for parts of the San Fernando Valley that are within the city 's 3rd Council District, including Woodland Hills and Canoga Park, where it is based. Operations -- West Bureau The West Valley Division police station. The West Bureau 's operations cover most of the well - known areas of Los Angeles, including Hollywood, Westwood, the Hollywood Hills area, the UCLA campus and Venice. This does not include Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, which are separate cities from Los Angeles and maintain their own law enforcement agencies. The West Bureau consists of five patrol divisions and a traffic division, which handles traffic - related duties such as accident investigation and the issuing of citations and tickets. Traffic Divisions also conduct DUI enforcement through a DUI Task Force composed mostly of motorcycle or `` motor '' officers. In addition to this overt enforcement activity, the traffic detective bureau houses a Habitual Traffic Offender Unit ( also known as an H2O detail ), which conducts undercover surveillance of habitual DUI offenders and other criminals with suspended driver 's licenses. Hollywood Division The Hollywood Area ( # 6 ) community police station serves the Hollywood region, including the Hollywood Hills, Hollywood Boulevard and the Sunset Strip. Wilshire Division The Wilshire Area ( # 7 ) community police station serves the Mid-Wilshire `` Miracle Mile '' region, including Koreatown, Mid-City, Carthay, and the Fairfax District. Pacific Division The Pacific Area ( # 14 ) community police station serves the southern portion of West Los Angeles, including Venice Beach, Venice and Playa del Rey. Some officers assigned to the Pacific Division are commonly assigned to work with the Los Angeles Airport Police at the Los Angeles International Airport. Pacific Division was formerly known as `` Venice Division ''. West Los Angeles Division The West Los Angeles Area ( # 8 ) community police station serves the northern portion of the West Side. Communities within its service area include Pacific Palisades, Century City, Brentwood, Westwood, West Los Angeles and Cheviot Hills. UCLA, which also has its own police department, and Twentieth Century Fox are both located there. Olympic Division The LAPD Olympic Division Station The Olympic ( # 20 ) community police station opened its doors on January 4, 2009, with an open house on January 17. The Olympic Area will be a small section of the Hollywood Division, and is composed of areas from Rampart and Wilshire divisions. It provides services to a 6.2 - square - mile ( 16 km ) area of the Mid-City region, including Koreatown and a section of the Miracle Mile, with a population of 200,000. The 54,000 - square - foot ( 5,000 m ) station is located at the southeast corner of Vermont Avenue and Eleventh Street and houses 293 officers. The construction cost was $34 million. Office of Special Operations The Office of Special Operations is a new office that was created in 2010. Headed by an Assistant Chief, currently Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala, and the Assistant to the Director, which is a Commander, the office comprises the Property Division, Security Services Division, Custody Services Division, the Detective Bureau, and the Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau. Detective Bureau Badge of an LAPD detective with the badge number 2434. The Detective Bureau, which reports to the Director of the Office of Special Operations, consists of several divisions and sections responsible for investigating a variety of crimes. Investigative Analysis Section Forensic Science Division ( FSD ) Technical Investigation Division ( TID ) Robbery - Homicide Division ( RHD ) Homicide Special Section ( HSS ) Robbery Special Section ( RSS ) Special Assault Section ( SAS ) Cold Case Special Section ( CCSS ) Special Investigation Section ( SIS ) Commercial Crimes Division Detective Support and Vice Division Mental Evaluation Unit Threat Management Unit Juvenile Division Gang and Narcotics Division Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau The Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau provides the Los Angeles Police Department specialized tactical resources in support of operations during daily field activities, unusual occurrences and, especially, during serious disturbances and elevated terrorism threat conditions. Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau was created from the merger of the Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau with the Special Operations Bureau in 2010. LAPD SWAT officers breaching a room Structure of the Counter Terrorism and Special Operations Bureau Major Crimes Division Emergency Services Division Air Support Division Emergency Operations Division Metropolitan Division A, B, C, and G Platoons : Crime Suppression D Platoon : Special Weapons and Tactics ( SWAT ) E Platoon : Mounted Unit H Platoon : Municipal Executives Protection Detail K - 9 Platoon : Canine Unit M Platoon : Administrative and Operations Planning Office of Administrative Services The Office of Administrative Services is a new office that was created in 2010. Headed by an Assistant Chief and the Assistant to the Director, which is a Commander, the office is divided into RACR, the Behavioral Science Services, Fiscal Operations Division, Administrative Services Bureau, and the Police Sciences and Training Bureau. The RACR or Real - Time Analysis & Critical Response Division began operations in March 2006. The RACR is composed of the Department Operations Section, which includes the Department Operations Center Unit, Department Operations Support Unit and the Incident Command Post Unit ; Detective Support Section and the Crime Analysis Section. Rank structure and insignia See also : Police ranks of the United States Senior ranks Insignia Notes Chief of Police Appointment made by the Mayor of Los Angeles, with majority approval of the Police Commission. Must have a college degree and 12 years in law enforcement. Assistant Chief ( Police Deputy Chief II ) Eligible to be appointed to Deputy Chief I after at least one years service as a Commander. Police Deputy Chief I Police Commander Eligibility for rank promotion achieved after completion of required probationary periods. Police Captain III Police Captain II Police Captain I Police Lieutenant II Police Lieutenant I Insignia are worn as metal pins on the collars of a shirt and as shoulder marks on a jacket. Police officers Insignia Detectives Insignia Notes Police Sergeant II Police Detective III At least two years service as Sergeant or Detective before eligibility for promotion to Lieutenant I. Police Sergeant I Police Detective II Promotion based on panel interview / departmental assessment. Police Detective I Police Officer III ‡ At least four years service as a Police Officer before becoming eligible for promotion to Sergeant I or Detective I ( which requires an additional examination and interview ). Police Officer II No insignia At least three years service as a Police Officer before eligibility for promotion to Police Officer III Police Officer I Automatic promotion to Police Officer II upon satisfactory completion of an 18 - month probationary assignment ( 6 months at the academy plus a 12 - month field assessment ). Insignia are worn as embroidered chevrons on the upper sleeves of a shirt or jacket. ‡ Certain Police Officers III in special or hazard pay situations ( Police Officer III + 1s ) are denoted by a Police Officer III insignia and star. These roles can include traffic follow - up investigators, canine training officers, SWAT platoon element leaders, and Senior Lead Officers who coordinate geographical areas. Specialized unit insignia are worn at the top of the sleeve beneath the shoulder for officers assigned to the traffic divisions, and Air Support Division. Officers assigned to area patrol divisions have historically not worn any departmental shoulder patch. Service stripes are worn above the left cuff on a long - sleeved shirt. Each silver stripe represents five years of service in the LAPD. Supervisory terminology The following names are used to describe supervision levels within the LAPD : Position Description Staff Officer Any rank above captain. Commanding Officer Any officer in charge of a bureau, a group, a geographical area, or a division. Director An officer commanding an Office of the LAPD. Field Commander Any officer who takes command at an emergency situation or who is in command at a planned special events. Watch Commander An officer in charge of a specific watch within a division or geographical area. Supervisor An officer engaged in field supervision or in general supervision of a section or unit. Officer in Charge ‡ An officer in charge of a section, incident or unit. ‡ As detectives are considered specialists within the LAPD, they are normally considered to be separate from the uniformed line of command. The senior-most detective is therefore permitted to take charge of an incident when it is necessary for investigative purposes, superseding the chain - of - command of other higher - ranking officers in attendance. Chiefs of Police Further information : List of Los Angeles Police Department Chiefs of Police Since 1876, there have been 56 appointed chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department. William H. Parker was the longest serving police chief in Los Angeles Police Department history, serving for 16 years as Chief of LAPD. Staffing Limitations LAPD officers during an Occupy LA protest The Los Angeles Police Department has suffered from chronic underfunding and under - staffing in recent years. Compared to most other major cities in the United States, and though it 's the third largest police department in the country, Los Angeles has historically had one of the lowest ratios of police personnel to population served. Former police chief William J. Bratton made enlarging the Department one of his top priorities ( Bratton has been quoted as saying, `` You give me 4,000 more officers and I 'll give you the safest city in the world '' ). The Los Angeles Police Department has one officer for every 426 residents. As a point of comparison, New York City has one NYPD officer for every 228 residents. For Los Angeles to have the same ratio of officers to residents as New York City, the LAPD would need to have nearly 17,000 officers. Further points of comparison include Chicago, which has a ratio of one officer per 216 citizens and Philadelphia, whose officer per citizen ratio is 1 to 219. And the same ratio for London 's Metropolitan Police is 1 to 152, to make an international comparison. In recent years, the department had been conducting a massive recruiting effort, with a goal of hiring an additional 1,500 police officers. The city has three specialized agencies, not affiliated with the LAPD directly, which serve the Port, the Airport, and the Unified School District. Art Theft Detail The LAPD 's Art Theft Detail `` is the only full - time municipal law enforcement unit in the United States devoted to the investigation of art crimes. '' The longtime head and often sole member of the unit is Detective Don Hrycyk, who in 2014 was described as being a 40 - year veteran of the department with twenty years as the only known full - time art detective in the United States. According to the LAPD, the unit has recovered over $121 million in stolen works since 1993. The Art Theft Detail is part of the Burglary Special Section of the Detective Bureau of the LAPD. Union The Los Angeles Police Protective League ( LAPPL ) is the labor union for LAPD officers up to the rank of lieutenant. Cadet program The LAPD have their own version of the police explorer programs that are present in many police departments called the cadet program. The program was formerly called the explorer program but it was changed to the cadet program after the police commission broke off their partnership with the Boy scouts over their rules policy of barring gays, atheists and agnostics from being troop leaders. In order to join the cadet program a person must be between the ages of 13 and 21, meet certain academic requirements, have no serious criminal record, meet several other requirements, and complete the cadet academy. An LAPD cadet conducting a hand cuffing drill The newer cadet program shifted focus from the old explorer program which tried to guide members to a career in law enforcement to a program that tries to give cadets a solid foundation in life and to help them prepare for whatever careers they choose by offering things like tutoring and college scholarships to different cadets in need of assistance. The cadets complete courses not only on law enforcement but also on citizenship, leadership, financial literacy and other different skill sets. Cadets work different positions including ride alongs, crowd control, charity assistance, working in stations, and other tasks. The cadet program has posts at all of the LAPD 's regional divisions as well as specialized divisions including the Metropolitan Division and the communications division and as of 2014 there were 5,000 cadets. Demographics Up to the Gates administration, the LAPD was predominantly white ( 80 % in 1980 ), and many officers had resided outside the city limits. Simi Valley, the Ventura County suburb that later became infamous as the site of the state trial that immediately preceded the 1992 Los Angeles riots, has long been home to a large concentration of LAPD officers, most of them white. A 1994 ACLU study of officers ' home zip codes, concluded that over 80 % of police officers resided outside the city limits. Hiring quotas began to change this during the 1980s, but it was not until the Christopher Commission reforms that substantial numbers of black, Hispanic, and Asian officers began to be hired on to the force. Minority officers can be found in both rank - and - file and leadership positions in virtually all divisions, and the LAPD is starting to reflect the general population. The LAPD was in 1910 to hire the first female police officer in the United States, Alice Stebbins Wells. On the LAPD through the early 1970s, women were classified as `` policewomen ''. Through the 1950s, their duties generally consisted as working as matrons in the jail system, or dealing with troubled youths working in detective assignments. Rarely did they work any type of field assignment and they were not allowed to promote above the rank of sergeant. A lawsuit by a policewoman, Fanchon Blake, from the 1980s instituted court ordered mandates that the department begin actively hiring and promoting women police officers in its ranks. The department eliminated the rank of `` Policeman '' from new hires at that time along with the rank of `` Policewoman. '' Anyone already in those positions was grandfathered in, but new hires were classified instead as `` Police Officers, '' which continues to this day. In 2002, women made up 18.9 % of the force. In 1886, the department hired its first two black officers, Robert William Stewart and Roy Green... The LAPD was one of the first two police departments in the country to hire an African - American woman officer, Georgia Ann Robinson in 1919. Despite this, the department was slow at integration. During the 1965 Watts riots, only 5 of the 205 police assigned to South Central Los Angeles were black, despite the fact that it was the largest black community in Los Angeles. Los Angeles ' first black mayor Tom Bradley was an ex-police officer and quit the department after being unable to advance past the rank of lieutenant like other black police officers in the department. When Bradley was elected mayor in 1972, only 5 % of LAPD officers were black and there was only one black captain in the department, Homer Broome. Broome would break down racial barriers on the force going on to become first black officer to obtain the rank of commander and the first black to command a police station, the Southwest Division which included historically black neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles in 1975. According to the LAPD and Latin American Law Enforcement Association, in 2013, the Los Angeles Police Department was 81 % male, 34.9 % of the department was white, 43.6 % of the department was Hispanic / Latino, 11.6 % was African American, 7.2 % was Asian, 2.2 % was Filipino American, and 0.8 % Indian and Other Ethnicities. Languages The LAPD has grown over the years in the number of officers who speak languages in addition to English. There were 483 bilingual or multilingual officers in 1974, and 1,560 in 1998, and 2,500 in 2001 that spoke at least one of 32 languages. In 2001, a study was released that found that Non-English - speaking callers to the 911 and non-emergency response lines often receive no language translation, often receive incomplete information, and sometimes receive rude responses from police employees. The issue of a lack of multilingual officers led to reforms including bonuses and salary increases for officers who are certified in second languages. Currently, over a third of LAPD officers are certified in speaking one or more languages other than English. The department also uses a device called the phraselator to translate and broadcast thousands of prerecorded phrases in a multitude of languages and is commonly used to broadcast messages in different languages from police vehicles. Work environment and pay LAPD officers during a march LAPD patrol officers have a three - day 12 - hour and four - day 10 - hour work week schedule. The department has over 250 types of job assignments, and each officer is eligible for such assignments after two years on patrol. LAPD patrol officers almost always work with a partner, unlike most suburban departments surrounding the city of Los Angeles, which deploy officers in one - officer units in order to maximize police presence and to allow a smaller number of officers to patrol a larger area. LAPD officers patrolling at the Staples Center The department 's training division has three facilities throughout the city, including Elysian Park, Ahmanson Recruit Training Center ( Westchester ), and the Edward Davis Training Center ( Granada Hills ). From spring 2007 through the spring of 2009, new recruits could earn money through sign on bonuses ranging from $5,000 to $10,000. Those bonuses ended in 2009. Sign on bonuses were paid 1 / 2 after graduation from the academy, and 1 / 2 after completion of probation. Also, $2,000 could be added for sign ons from outside the Los Angeles area for housing arrangements. As of July 2009, new recruits earned starting salaries of $56,522 -- $61,095 depending on education level, and began earning their full salary on their first day of academy training. In January 2010, the starting base salary for incoming police officers was lowered by 20 %. At the time If the applicant had graduated from high school their starting salary would be $45,226, if they had at least 60 college units, with an overall GPA of 2.0 or better, their salary would start at $47,043, and if the applicant had fully completed a college degree, the salary would start at $48,880. In 2014 after negotiations between the city and the police officers union reached an agreement on police officer pay that would give pay increases to nearly 1,000 officers who joined the department since the salaries for incoming officers were cut. The agreement also raised starting salaries for officers to $57,420 with an additional increase to $60,552 after 6 months which would become effective in the beginning of 2015. The agreement would also change the current overtime payment system from a deferred payment system, which was implemented to cut costs, to a pay - as - you - go overtime system as well as increasing the overtime budget from $30 million to $70 million. Body cameras Beginning in September 2013, the LAPD started a trial program for the use of body worn cameras with 30 officers in the Skid Row area. Reports from the trial program indicated that the cameras functioned well and that they assisted in deescalating situations although there were some technical issues with the cameras along with slight issues with the cameras falling off of officers during movement. In November 2014 in a sign of body camera purchases to come, the department chose Taser International as the vendor for body cameras to be used by the LAPD after their use in the trial program earlier in the year. On December 16, 2014 Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that the city would purchase 7,000 body worn cameras from Taser for use by the department. Patrol officers will be equipped with the cameras which will be purchased in the next fiscal year in order to outfit all patrol officers by the expected completion date in June 2016. 700 of the cameras will first be deployed to patrol officers in the Central, Mission and Newton patrol areas of the city beginning in January 2015. $1.55 million was raised from private donors to start the body camera program for the initial rollout phase in order to ease budget constraints for the city with another $1 million coming from the National Institute of Justice, a branch of the Department of Justice. In total, the body cameras will most likely cost less than $10 million and will be included in Garcetti 's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget. Before all of the cameras are deployed to patrol officers, the Police Commission will create a policy that governs the use of the cameras and video footage while consulting with department and city officials along with outside organizations including other departments who already use body cameras. While the commission has not created a policy yet as of December 2014, several guidelines were already outlined by the Mayor including that officers would have to turn on the cameras whenever they arrest or detain someone for interrogation, but many public interactions such as domestic violence interviews would not be recorded. The cameras may also be turned off in situations where police use deadly force. Prior to the rollout of any body worn cameras, officers were able to carry personally owned audio recording devices starting in 1994 if they file an application and obtain the requisite permission. Resources Main article : Los Angeles Police Department resources An LAPD policeman armed with an AR - 15 in 2011. Firearms Before the early 1970s, LAPD officers were issued the six - shot double action / single action Smith & Wesson Model 14. 38 Special revolver along with the Smith & Wesson Model 10. From the early 1970s to 1988, officers were armed with the six - shot, double action / single action Smith & Wesson Model 15 revolver, also known as the. 38 `` Combat Masterpiece ''. This was specifically designed at the request of the Los Angeles Police Department. It was a. 38 caliber Smith & Wesson Model 10 variant with non-snag, high - profile adjustable sights. LAPD Model 15s were often modified by an armorer to fire double - action only, meaning officers could not cock the hammer. This was to prevent accidental discharges caused by the short, light single - action trigger pull that some officers used. Many officers and detectives also carried the Model 36 `` Chief 's Special '' as a backup revolver, and often off - duty. In the patrol cars, locked to a steel bar, was an Ithaca 37, 12 - gauge shotgun, loaded with `` 00 '' ( double - aught ) buckshot, nine pellets to the cartridge with one round in the chamber and four in the magazine tube. The shotgun was made specifically for the Los Angeles Police Department, and was called the `` L.A.P.D. Special ''. The shotgun was based on the Ithaca Model 37 `` Deerslayer '', which was a weapon designed to hunt large game with rifled slugs. As a consequence of being designed for use with slugs, it had rifle sights, unlike most shotguns. The `` L.A.P.D. Special '' had a dull parkerized military finish instead of the more usual high gloss blue finish. The barrel was 18 and a half inches long, as opposed to the twenty inches of the civilian version. The advantages of the Ithaca Model 37 Shotgun over the Winchester, Mossberg and Remington models were that the Ithaca weighed a pound less, and could be used with equal ease by right or left - handed shooters due to the unique bottom ejection port and loading chamber it used. The Ithaca 37 is still in use today as the main shotgun carried by LAPD officers, and has been in use since the 1940s. In response to increasing firepower carried by criminals, including fully automatic weapons and assault rifles, LAPD patrol officers were issued the Beretta 92 F. Later, officers were able to carry the Smith & Wesson Model 5906, a semi-automatic 9mm pistol, in addition to a few other approved weapons in 9mm caliber. In response to the North Hollywood shootout of 1997, LAPD officers had the option of carrying the Smith & Wesson Model 4506 and 4566 service pistols in. 45 ACP caliber. Also, due to the North Hollywood incident, qualified officers were issued patrol rifles called UPR ( Urban Police Rifle ) consisting mainly of AR - 15 variants chambered in. 223 after being certified from LAPD Urban Police Rifle School. Until 2002, LAPD officers ' standard issue pistol was the Beretta 92F / 92FS. However, when William Bratton was appointed Chief of the LAPD, he allowed his officers to carry the Glock pistol, a weapon which the two previous departments he was chief at ( the New York City Police Department and the Boston Police Department ) carried. New officers graduating from the LAPD academy are now issued the Glock 22 or Glock 17 but can qualify in a variety of firearms. Officers now have the option to carry Smith & Wesson M&P models on - and off - duty. Officers now have the choice of carrying : Beretta : 9mm : S92F, 92FS, 8045 ( 4 '' barrel ) Smith & Wesson : 9mm : 5906, 3914, 3913, CS9, 6904, 6906. 45 ACP : 4506, 4566, 4516, 4567 Glock : 9mm : Model 17, Model 19, Model 26. 40 caliber : Model 22, Model 23, Model 27. 45 ACP : Model 21, Model 30, Model 36 Along with those handguns, officers have the option of using these rifles while on duty : Colt 5.56 /. 223 : Colt Tactical Carbine Smith & Wesson 5.56 /. 223 : Smith & Wesson M&P15 The LAPD SWAT team carry the Kimber Custom TLE II in 2002, renaming it the Kimber LAPD SWAT Custom II. Before that, LAPD SWAT carried modified Springfield or Colt M1911 pistols. In the ' 80s and early ' 90s SWAT carried Colt RO727s and RO733s. In 2000 they began using the M4A1s. In 2010 LAPD SWAT began issuing Heckler & Koch HK416 rifles. Currently SWAT 's primary weapons are the Heckler & Koch HK416 rifle, the M4 Carbine, the FN SCAR rifle, the Colt 9mm submachine gun, the HK MP5 submachine gun, the Armalite AR - 10 sniper rifle, the Remington 700 sniper rifle, the Barrett M82 sniper rifle, the M14 sniper rifle, the Benelli M4 Super 90 shotgun, and the Remington 870 shotgun. The LAPD recently announced that they will be incorporating a new shotgun, the Benelli M4 Super 90 and officers will go through additional training for the use of the semi-automatic shotgun and will have to privately purchase the gun if they elect to switch from the standard pump - action Remington 870. The LAPD also has 37mm launchers and modified `` beanbag '' firing Remington 870s for crowd control when less than lethal force is needed. Awards, commendations, citations and medals The department presents a number of medals to its members for meritorious service. The medals that the LAPD awards to its officers are as follows : Bravery Medal of Valor ( Solid blue and white ribbon ) : The Los Angeles Police Department Medal of Valor is the highest law enforcement medal awarded to officers by the Los Angeles Police Department. The Medal of Valor is an award for bravery, usually awarded to officers for individual acts of extraordinary bravery or heroism performed in the line of duty at extreme and life - threatening personal risk. Liberty Award : The Liberty Award is a bravery medal for police canines killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The award, which was inaugurated in 1990, is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K - 9 shot and killed in the line of duty. Liberty 's handler received the Medal of Valor for the same incident. So far it has only been awarded once in the LAPD 's history. Police Medal for Heroism : The Police Medal is an award for bravery, usually awarded to officers for individual acts of heroism in the line of duty, though not above and beyond the call of duty, as is required for the Medal of Valor. Police Star : The Police Star is an award for bravery, usually awarded to officers for performing with exceptional judgment and / or utilizing skillful tactics in order to defuse dangerous and stressful situations. Police Life - Saving Medal : The Police Life - Saving Medal is an award for bravery, usually awarded to officers for taking action in order to rescue or attempt the rescue of either a fellow officer or any person from imminent danger. Service Police Distinguished Service Medal Police Meritorious Service Medal Police Meritorious Achievement Medal Police Commission Distinguished Service Medal Community Policing Medal Human Relations Medal Unit citations Police Commission Unit Citation Police Meritorious Unit Citation Ribbons 1984 Summer Olympics Ribbon : Given to any LAPD officer who saw service during the 1984 Summer Olympics from July 28 to August 12, 1984. 1987 Papal Visit Ribbon : Given to LAPD officers who were used during the September 1987 pastoral visit of Pope John Paul II. 1992 Civil Disturbance Ribbon : Given to any LAPD officer who saw service during the 1992 Los Angeles riots from April 29 to May 4, 1992. 1994 Earthquake Ribbon : Given to any LAPD officer who saw service during the 1994 Northridge earthquake from January 17 to January 18, 1994. Reserve Service Ribbon : Awarded for 4000 hours of service as a Reserve Police officer. Marksmanship badges The LAPD also awards Distinguished Expert, Expert, Sharpshooter, and Marksman badges to those who attain progressively higher qualification scores on its range. Bonus pay is given to qualifiers, and some assignments may require such demonstrated weapons skill beyond that earned in basic training. Fallen officers Main article : List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty Randal Simmons, the first LAPD SWAT officer to be killed in the line of duty, on February 7, 2008 Since the establishment of the Los Angeles Police Department, 207 officers have died in the line of duty. Randy Simmons was the first LAPD SWAT officer to be killed in the line of duty in 2008. There have been two memorials to fallen LAPD officers. One was outside Parker Center, the former headquarters, which was unveiled on October 1, 1971. The monument was a fountain made from black granite, its base inscribed with the names of the LAPD officers who died while serving the City of Los Angeles. The old monument located at Parker Center was destroyed in the process of being transported but was replaced by a new memorial at the current police headquarters building. This memorial, dedicated on October 14, 2009, is made up of more than 2,000 brass alloy plaques, 202 of which are inscribed with the names of fallen police officers. The cause of deaths of LAPD officers who have been killed in the line of duty are as follows : Cause of deaths Number of deaths Aircraft accident 8 Automobile accident 29 Bicycle accident Bomb Electrocuted Fall Fire Gunfire 101 Gunfire ( accidental ) Heart attack Heat exhaustion Motorcycle accident 35 Struck by streetcar Struck by train Struck by vehicle Train accident Training accident Vehicle pursuit Vehicular assault 8 Total 207 Two deaths are unsolved, both of off - duty officers : Fred Early, shot in 1972, and Michael Lee Edwards, shot in May 1974. Controversies and misconduct Over the years, the Los Angeles Police Department has been the subject of a number of scandals, police misconduct and other controversies : Before 1950 The widely publicized case of Christine and Walter Collins was depicted in the 2008 film Changeling. In March 1928, Christine Collins reported her nine - year - old son, Walter, missing. Five months later a boy named Arthur Hutchins came forth claiming to be Walter. When Mrs. Collins tried to tell the police that the boy was not her son, she was committed to a mental institution under a Section 12 internment. It was later determined that Walter had actually fallen victim to a child rapist / murderer in the infamous Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. Arthur Hutchins eventually admitted that he had lied about his identity in order to get to Hollywood and meet his favorite actor, Tom Mix. 1950s Bloody Christmas was the name given to the severe beating of seven civilians under LAPD custody on December 25, 1951. The attacks, which left five Hispanic and two white young men with broken bones and ruptured organs, was only properly investigated after lobbying from the Mexican American community. The internal inquiry by Los Angeles Chief of Police William H. Parker resulted in eight police officers being indicted for the assaults, 54 being transferred, and 39 suspended. 1960s In 1962, the controversial LAPD shooting of seven unarmed members of the Nation of Islam resulted in the death of Ronald Stokes, and led to protests of the LAPD led by Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam. 1970s In the 1970s and into the 1980s `` biased policing, '' as it was known in the LAPD vernacular also known as racial profiling was alleged to have been commonplace in the department. This policing alienated the department from minority residents and gained the department a reputation of abuse of power and bias against minority residents. 1980s Early in his tenure as Chief of Police, Daryl Gates re-instituted the use of the choke hold ( placing an arm or flashlight over someone 's throat ) in order to subdue suspects. In 1982, this technique was used and lead to the death of a suspect James Mincey Jr. Following Mincey 's death, the Police Commission barred the use of the chokehold by officers unless it was in a life - threatening situation. An investigation into the use of the choke hold found that sixteen people had died after being restrained by police choke holds. In 1986, Officer Stephanie Lazarus killed her ex-boyfriend's new wife. Despite the victim 's father 's insistence that Lazarus should be a suspect in the murder, she was not considered so by the police. In 2012, DNA evidence led to her arrest and conviction. In 1986, the department purchased a 14 - ton armored breaching vehicle, used to smash quickly through the walls of houses of suspects. The ACLU questioned the constitutionality of the vehicle. Ultimately, the California Appellate Court ruled that the vehicle was unconstitutional, violating lawful search and seizure. In 1988, African - American baseball sportscaster and retired Baseball Hall of Fame player Joe Morgan was detained at Los Angeles International Airport by LAPD and L.A. Airport Police officers after falsely being identified as a drug dealer. He was released when the LAPD realized their mistake in identity. Morgan subsequently filed a civil suit against both the LAPD and the city for the unlawful detention after the city cleared the detective of wrongdoing. The lawsuit would eventually be settled in 1993, and Morgan was awarded $800,000 by the Los Angeles City Council. On 1 August 1988, as part of Chief Gates ' Operation Hammer, directed against gangs, SWAT teams raided four apartments at 39th Street and Dalton Avenue. According to an investigation by the department 's Internal Affairs, the team leader, Captain Thomas Elfmont directed his men to `` hit '' the apartments `` hard, '' to `` level '' them, and to leave them `` uninhabitable. '' The police detained 37 people, making seven arrests. They also found six ounces of marijuana and a small amount of cocaine. The seven were beaten by the police and at the police station forced to whistle the theme to the Andy Griffith Show. Those who refused to comply were beaten again. Nobody was charged with a crime. The city paid four million dollars to settle the matter. On September 4, 1988, LAPD officers raided the home of Roger Guydon looking for drugs. They found nothing. In 1991, Guydon won a $760,000 lawsuit against the city. 1990s See also : Christopher Commission In April 1991 the Christopher Commission was formed in the wake of the Rodney King beating, by then - mayor of Los Angeles Tom Bradley. It was chaired by attorney Warren Christopher and was created to examine the structure and operation of the LAPD. The commission found that there were a significant number of LAPD officers who used excessive force and that the disciplinary structure was weak and ineffective. It also found that hiring practices, as well as their handling of excessive force complaints. Fewer than a third of the suggested reforms were then put into place. On July 1, 1992, John Daniels, Jr., 36, a tow truck driver, was fatally shot by LAPD Officer Douglas Iversen as he was driving away from a service station in South Central. Iversen was charged with second degree murder, and two separate juries were deadlocked on the charge. The case was dismissed by a judge. Daniels ' family received a $1.2 million settlement after filing a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles. Main article : 1992 Los Angeles riots The Los Angeles riots of 1992, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, began on April 29, 1992 when a jury acquitted four LAPD police officers accused in the videotaped beating of an African American Rodney King following a high - speed car pursuit on March 3, 1991. After seven days of jury deliberations, the jury acquitted all four officers of assault and acquitted three of the four of using excessive force. The evening after the verdict, thousands of people in the Los Angeles area rioted over the six days following the verdict. Widespread looting, assault, arson, and murder occurred, and property damages totaled one billion dollars. In all, 53 people died during the riots. Main article : Rampart scandal On 12 October 1996, LAPD Officers Rafael Pérez and Nino Durden entered the apartment of Javier Ovando. They shot the man in the back, paralyzing him from the waist down. They then planted a gun on the unarmed man to make it appear he had attacked them. The two officers then perjured themselves. Ovando was sentenced to 23 years in custody based on their testimony. Later one of the officers admitted his crime. Ovando was released and in 2000 paid $15 million for his injuries and imprisonment. The officers actions lead to the exposure of the Rampart Scandal. By 2001, the resulting investigations would lead to more than 75 officers being investigated or charged and over 100 criminal cases being overturned due to perjury or other forms of misconduct, much based on the plea - bargain testimony of Perez. 2000s On July 10, 2005, while under the influence of alcohol and cocaine, Jose Pena took his 19 - month - old daughter, Suzie, hostage in his home. After police arrived, Pena threatened to kill her and himself after firing at others earlier. SWAT officers were called in. After negotiations to try and release the Pena daughter were unsuccessful, four SWAT officers entered the home and during a gunfight both Mr. Pena and his infant daughter were killed and one officer was wounded. Suzie Pena 's death was the first death of a hostage ever in LAPD SWAT history and the LAPD was criticized for their actions but later on an independent board of inquiry cleared the SWAT officers of any wrongdoing. A judge later dismissed a lawsuit by the mother of Suzie Pena on the grounds that the officers acted reasonably in the case and no negligence was involved. Main article : 2007 MacArthur Park rallies On May Day, 2007, immigrant rights groups held rallies in MacArthur Park in support of undocumented immigrants. The rallies were permitted and initially the protesters followed the terms of the permits but some of the protesters began blocking the street and after warnings by the LAPD the protesters in the street did n't disperse and the rally was declared an unlawful assembly. The LAPD only announced the declaration of the unlawful assembly in English leading to confusion by some in the crowd who only spoke Spanish. Police officers held a line to prevent protesters from entering the street and held the line and did not disperse the crowd until rocks, bottles, and other objects began to be thrown at the police. The officers began slowly advancing and fired rubber bullets and used batons to disperse crowd members who refused to comply with police orders to leave the area. Police were heavily criticized for firing rubber bullets at some journalists and hitting some with batons who did not disperse along with the crowds. Seventeen officers and two sergeants of the metropolitan division were recommended for punishment by a department internal review for their actions in the incident. In 2008, Officer Russell Mecano offered to not arrest a woman in exchange for sex, and offered cash to another woman in exchange for sex. He was convicted and sentenced to more than 8 years. 2010s On July 22, 2012, Alesia Thomas, an African American woman, died in the back of a police car. Thomas was kicked in the upper thigh, groin and abdomen in the back seat of a squad car and later died. Her cause of death was ruled `` undetermined '' and the autopsy report mentioned cocaine intoxication as a `` major '' contributing factor, and also indicated that the struggle with officers `` could not be excluded '' as a contributing factor to her death. It was later revealed that Thomas was also bipolar. Later on LAPD officer Mary O'Callaghan was charged with assault over her actions in the case. As a result of these events, on September 1, 2012, civil rights activists requested an emergency meeting with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to review arrest and use - of - force policies following her death. On August 18, 2012, Ronald Weekley, Jr., a college student, was punched in the face while being arrested after being stopped for riding his skateboard on the wrong side of the street. On August 21, 2012, Michelle Jordan, a registered nurse, was pulled over for holding her cell phone while driving. She was thrown to the ground twice in the course of being arrested after getting out of the car and refusing to comply with an officer 's command to get back in the vehicle. Main article : Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt On February 7, 2013, the LAPD was involved in what Chief Charlie Beck called, `` a case of mistaken identity '' when during the manhunt for murderer and fired LAPD officer, Christopher Dorner, the LAPD and the Torrance Police Department fired upon pickup trucks at two separate locations, believing them to be Dorner. The first incident took place on the 19500 Block of Redbeam Avenue. LAPD officers fired numerous shots into the back of a blue pickup truck, allegedly without warning and injured the two women inside. The second incident, twenty - five minutes later, involved the Torrance Police shooting into the windshield of another pickup truck, narrowly missing the driver. In both cases the victims were not involved with the Dorner case. The Dorner case itself involved allegations of impropriety by other LAPD officers, as Dorner alleged that he had been fired for reporting brutality by his training officer. The manhunt had been triggered by Dorner 's alleged attacks against LAPD and ex-LAPD personnel. In 2013, the city of Los Angeles agreed to pay two female victims of the first incident $2.1 million each to settle the matter. The city of Torrance agreed to pay the victim of the second incident $1.8 million. In May 2014 after much controversy in their own city, the Seattle Police Department transferred two Draganflyer X6 UAV 's to the LAPD. The LAPD stated that the only uses for the drones would be for narrow and prescribed circumstances such as hostage situations but that they would not be put into use until the Board of Police Commissioners and the City Attorney crafted a policy for their use after the LA City Council ordered the policy creation. The decision to use the drones gained significant opposition from community activists including the ACLU and new groups founded after the announcement about drone use including Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and the Drone - Free LAPD, No Drones, LA ! activist groups who protested outside of city hall against the use of drones by the LAPD. On August 11, 2014, an African - American man named Ezell Ford was shot by two LAPD gang detectives after they made an investigative stop of Ford on the street. Ford was unarmed and the officers claimed that he got into a physical struggle with one of them and then reached for their gun, forcing them to fire on Ford, while some witnesses who claimed to have seen the incident alleged that there was no struggle. The autopsy report was ordered to be released by Mayor Eric Garcetti before the end of 2014. On September 11, 2014, African - American actress Danièle Watts was temporarily detained by the LAPD when she and her boyfriend were in Studio City. Watts accused the officers who stopped her of racially profiling her because she was African - American and her boyfriend was Caucasian, claiming that they treated her as if she was a `` prostitute '' and that the officers had been disrespectful to her because she was African - American. LAPD Sergeant Jim Parker who was one of the two officers accused by Watts of misconduct, released a personal audio recording of the entire incident to TMZ. The recording showed that police had received a 911 call about lewd acts in a car and the couple who were described to have committed the lewd acts fit Watts ' and her boyfriend 's description. It also showed that when officers arrived on the scene, Watts ' boyfriend cooperated with police but Watts refused to cooperate and identify herself, accused the officers of racism, and ignored officers requests and walked away from them leading to her being handcuffed and temporarily detained. Following the release of the recording, local civil rights activists called for Watts to apologize to the LAPD for falsely accusing them of racial profiling but Watts refused. The two officers were cleared of any wrongdoing by the department shortly after the release of the audio recordings. In October 2014, the LAPD Office of the Inspector General released a report that members of the department had been using department computers to falsely inflate the number of officers and patrol cars that were on duty at any given time in a method known as `` ghost cars ''. The report found that supervisors of various ranks would check officers into vacant assignments right before the department 's computerized patrol software did its head count and then log the officers off when the count was done. The report found that the practice occurred in at least five out of 21 patrol divisions, and the report also highlighted the causes including understaffing in the LAPD. Consent Decree See also : Consent decree Following the Rampart Division CRASH scandal of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the United States Department of Justice entered into a consent decree with the LAPD regarding numerous civil rights violations. Mayor Richard J. Riordan and the Los Angeles city council agreed to the terms of the decree on November 2, 2000. The federal judge formally entered the decree into law on June 15, 2001. The consent decree is legally binding, and lasted until July 17, 2009, when U.S. District Court Judge Gary Feess terminated it. Under the terms of a transitional agreement approved by Feess, the Board of Police Commissioners and the Office of Inspector General, which monitors the department on behalf of the Board of Police Commissioners, will assume responsibility for keeping tabs on the department 's efforts to fully implement a few still - incomplete or recently finished reforms. If lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice are not satisfied with the oversight by the LAPD 's inspector general, the agreement allows them to object and bring the department back before Feess. The consent decree placed emphasis on several major areas, including management and supervisory measures, in order to promote civil rights integrity, along with revising critical incident procedures, documentation, investigation and review, revising the management of gang units, revising the management of confidential informants, program development for response to persons with mental illness, improving training, increased integrity audits, increasing the operations of the Police Commission and the Inspector General, and increasing community outreach and public information. The consent decree includes several recommendations from the Rampart Board of Inquiry, and several consent decree provisions mandate the department to continue existing policies. Several of the more complex or major provisions in the decree call for things such as the development of a risk management system, the creation of a new division to investigate all use of force now known as Force Investigative Division, the creation of a new division to conduct audits department - wide, the creation of a field data capture system to track the race, ethnicity or national origin of the motorists and pedestrians stopped by the department, the creation of an Ethics Enforcement Section within the Internal Affairs Group, the transfer of investigative authority to Internal Affairs of all serious personnel complaint investigations, a nationwide study by an independent consultant on law enforcement dealing with the mentally ill to help the department 's refine its own system, a study by an independent consultant of the department 's training programs, and the creation of an informant manual and database The Consent Decree Bureau was the LAPD bureau charged with overseeing this process. 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