William Bratton

Drug-related arrests of 3 Providence police officers latest mark on troubled department. After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a "hard day" for the department.

Dispute over crime exhibit including RFK's clothes shows scars remain for victims' families. A dispute over an exhibition of gruesome evidence from famous crimes escalated Thursday, showing that time does not heal the scars to murder victims' families even after four decades.

Los Angeles sees 10 percent drop in violent crime during 2009. Violent crime in Los Angeles has dropped about 10 percent from last year, and the surrounding area saw similar declines despite double-digit unemployment in California coupled with the bad economy, authorities said Thursday.

LA City Council confirms, swears in Charlie Beck as new police chief. The Los Angeles Police Department has a new chief.

Mayor picks deputy chief, department insider to become LA police chief. A respected Los Angeles Police Department veteran credited with cleaning up a devastating corruption scandal was picked by the mayor Tuesday to become the next police chief of the nation's second-largest city.

A 32-year veteran who helped clean up a corruption-plagued division of the Los Angeles Police Department was unveiled Wednesday as the city's new top cop.

Pprosecutors: No charges to be filed against LA police officers in May Day melee. Criminal charges won't be filed against 30 Los Angeles police officers who fired rubber bullets and pummeled demonstrators with batons at a pro-immigration rally two years ago, prosecutors said Friday.

LAPD chief leaving post for lucrative private-sector job after successful 7-year tenure. Crime was rising, officer morale slumping and fallout from a corruption scandal was still smoldering when William Bratton arrived in 2002 to head a police department with a tattered reputation. Even the police buildings were crumbling.

Los Angeles police chief: Hunting illegal immigrants could deter crime reporting. Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton said Tuesday the LAPD must stay out of the business of collaring illegal immigrants if it wants to keep solving crimes.

Los Angeles officials unveil $437 million downtown police headquarters. The Los Angeles Police Department has been handed the keys to its new headquarters.

AP Enterprise: Police across the US stop and question more than 1 million people each year. A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street. These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by police using a law-enforcement practice called stop-and-frisk that alarms civil libertarians but is credited by authorities with helping reduce crime.

LAPD Chief Bratton honored by Queen of England for helping US, UK improve policing. Los Angeles police Chief William Bratton is being honored by the queen of England for his contributions to law enforcement.

Retiring Los Angeles police chief William J. Bratton has book deal; set for release in 2011. William J. Bratton, who last week abruptly announced he would retire as head of the Los Angeles Police Department, has a book deal.

Retiring Los Angeles police chief William J. Bratton has book deal; set for release in 2011. William J. Bratton, who last week abruptly announced he would retire as head of the Los Angeles Police Department, has a book deal.

The police chief who became famous for spearheading a zero tolerance crackdown on crime in New York and Los Angeles announced that he will retire from the force.

Police chief Bratton shocks LA with resignation, decision to join private security firm. Police Chief William Bratton stunned the city Wednesday, saying he will step down after a seven-year tenure when crime rates plummeted to 1950s levels and once-contentious relations between officers and diverse communities improved.

Judge tosses lawsuit filed by mother whose toddler was killed in LA police shootout. A judge abruptly dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19-month-old girl who died when her father used her as a human shield during a furious gun battle with police.

Los Angeles leaders believe city's police have shed scandalous image. Eleven years after an anti-gang cop was arrested for stealing six pounds of cocaine from an evidence room, city leaders believe the Los Angeles Police Department has dashed the image of corruption and abuse spawned by revelations of the theft investigation.

LA leaders celebrate end of US government oversight of police department. City leaders on Monday celebrated the end of eight years of federal oversight of the Los Angeles Police Department, which had been prompted by U.S. Department of Justice allegations of a long pattern of abuses.

US judge releases Los Angeles police from federal oversight spawned by corruption scandals. A federal judge on Friday released the Los Angeles Police Department from a decade-long consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that was aimed at ensuring reforms after a corruption scandal.