Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A woman is in custody – but not before leading a police chase with a possible stolen Kia across Los Angeles County. The woman drove across South Los Angeles, Gardena ...
August 15, 2024 at 12:35 AM. LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A motorcyclist is in handcuffs – but not before leading a dramatic police chase where he may have been clocked at going more than 140 ...
August 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM. LOS ANGELES - Two people, a man and a woman, in custody – but not before they were involved in a dangerous police chase stretching across the 10 Freeway in Los ...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area. The all-volunteer, Los Angeles-specific Los Angeles Rangers were formed in 1853 to assist the LASD. They were soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, another volunteer group.
In 2003, Los Angeles television station KCAL reported a quadrupling of ratings when police pursuits aired. [12] That same year, the Los Angeles Police Department asked news media to reduce coverage of chases, claiming that coverage encourages suspects to flee and may potentially endanger viewers who attempt to view the chase in person. [13]
Daniel Victor Jones (April 15, 1958 – April 30, 1998) was an American man who died by suicide on a Los Angeles freeway in 1998. The incident was broadcast on live television by news helicopters. Jones took his own life as a form of protest towards health maintenance organizations after he had been diagnosed as HIV-positive several months ...
The suspect in an allegedly stolen vehicle led authorities on a dramatic chase across Los Angeles County on Tuesday afternoon before it ended in a citizens arrest.
August 31, 2022 at 8:58 PM. A Los Angeles police car dash cam of a pursuit shows officers chased a fleeing motorist at high speed for at least 80 seconds before the suspect went through a red ...