LA City Council moves toward developing unarmed crisis response model

The Los Angeles City Council took a step toward developing an unarmed model of crisis response by authorizing the city administrative officer to revise and release a Request For Proposals for the program that would divert nonviolent calls for services away from police officers.

Nearly 3,000 LAPD employees seek exemptions to vaccine mandate: report

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that the department will wait for instructions from city officials on how to interpret exemption requests for the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, following a report that thousands of employees plan to pursue religious or medical exemptions to the rule.