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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...
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    serving Los Angeles County, California. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United...
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    1889 – June 20, 1949) was an American police officer who served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1926 to 1929, and from 1933...
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    The Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD) is a law enforcement agency in Los Angeles, California, whose duties are to provide police services to...
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    2010) was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. His length of tenure in this position...
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    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 has been...
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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...
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    The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States, maintains and uses a variety of...
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  • Dominic Choi (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    serving as the interim Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department since March 1, 2024. Unanimously appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners...
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    The Board of Police Commissioners is the collective head of the Los Angeles Police Department. It sets the overall policy while the Chief of Police manages...
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    as the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), the Los Angeles...
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    Bernard C. Parks (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from August 1997 to May 2002. Parks is a graduate of Daniel Murphy High School and attended Los Angeles City...
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    The Los Angeles Airport Police is the airport police division of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), the city department that owns and operates two airports...
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    Michel Moore (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    served as the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 2018 until 2024. On June 4, 2018, Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles, appointed...
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  • Willie L. Williams (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles...
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    Charlie Beck (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    retired police officer, formerly serving as the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and subsequently as the Superintendent of the Chicago...
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    The Los Angeles Port Police (LAPP) is a specialized law enforcement agency at the Port of Los Angeles, under the control of the Los Angeles Harbor Department...
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    William Bratton (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009). He is the only person to have led the police departments of the United States'...
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  • The Los Angeles General Services Police was a law enforcement agency that provided police and security officer services to Los Angeles City Hall, Los...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Elton (police)
    was chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department for four years, four months, and five days, which was a comparatively long stint in the first...
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    riotous groups. Huston Irvine, Los Angeles Times (March 26, 1939) In June 1947, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief Clemence B. Horrall ordered what...
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    Rikki Klieman (category American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent)
    William Bratton, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and former Police Commissioner of the New York Police Department. Klieman was born in...
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    Charles A. Jones was chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department for five months and 28 days in the early 1920s. A career policeman who had worked...
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    four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. The incident had...
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    Edward M. Davis (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    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 state senator...
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  • Bayan Lewis (category Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department)
    Lewis (born February 25, 1942) was interim Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1997. Graduate of Pepperdine University in public administration...
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    respective chief of police, and a bit lower than that of the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Simeon Draper, who was one of the original 1857...
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    Galloway was chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department for ten months, and 21 days in 1910. He is remembered as one of a series of "inexperienced...
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    Jim McDonnell (sheriff) (category Los Angeles Police Department officers)
    Previously, McDonnell served as the Chief of Police in Long Beach, California and before that in the Los Angeles Police Department. McDonnell was defeated in...
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