Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sal LaBarbera
per . Disregarding the many mentions in the context of his job, (murders get a lot of press, and a homicide detective is often interviewed about the investigation), there are two long profiles on his retirementhttps://www.laweekly.com/the-best-and-worst-of-a-legendary-homicide-detectives-9800-days-at-lapd/https://www.latimes.com/local/crime/la-me-lopez-labarbera-20150114-column.html (the ''LA Weekly'' one has some decent bio details not in the article yet) and one shorter one.https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015/01/10/homicide-detective-retiring-after-33-years-with-lapd/ Then a long profile on him two years after his retirement.https://www.kcet.org/shows/link-voices/south-bureau-homicide-detective-sal-labarbera On the one hand, these are local coverage; on the other hand, the greater Los Angeles area is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined, so I don't think "local" is necessarily disqualifying in this instance. '''adding''' Per a source posted at Talk:Sal LaBarbera, the ''LA Weekly'' profile is written by a friend of LaBarbera's, so is not independent for consideration of notability
— User:Schazjmd, 17:35, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BASIC (Wikipedia:Notability)