Primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles, California, United States
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Common name Los Angeles Police Department Abbreviation LAPD Motto To Protect and to Serve Formed December 13, 1869; 154 years ago (1869-12-13 ) [ 1] Employees 12,000 (2020)[ 2] Annual budget $1.9 billion (2023)[ 3] Operations jurisdiction Los Angeles , California , United States Map showing the LAPD's jurisdictional area Size 503 sq mi (1,300 km2 ) Population 3,979,576 (2019) Governing body Los Angeles City Council General nature Overseen by Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners Headquarters 100 West 1st Street Los Angeles, California, U.S. Police officers 8,832 (2024) Unsworn members 3,000 Commissioners responsibleWilliam J. Briggs II, President[ 4] Dale Bonner, Member Maria Lou Calanche, Member Steve Soboroff, Member Agency executives Dominic H. Choi , Chief of Police Robert E. Marino, Assistant Chief of Operations Blake Chow, Assistant Chief of Special Operations Dominic H. Choi, Assistant Chief of Support Services Lizabeth Rhodes, Director of Constitutional Policing and Policy Divisions
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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 Angeles, California , United States.[ 6] With 8,832 officers[ 6] and 3,000 civilian staff,[ 2] it is the third-largest municipal police department in the United States, after the New York City Police Department and the Chicago Police Department .
The LAPD is headquartered at 100 West 1st Street in the Civic Center district . The department's organization and resources are complex, including 21 community stations (divisions) grouped in four bureaus under the Office of Operations; multiple divisions within the Detective Bureau under the Office of Special Operations; and specialized units such as the Metropolitan Division , Air Support Division , and Major Crimes Division under the Counterterrorism & Special Operations Bureau. Further offices support the Chief of Police in areas such as constitutional policing and professional standards, while the Office of Support Services covers facilities management, personnel, and training, among other areas.
Independent investigative commissions have documented a history of police brutality , corruption , misconduct and discriminatory policing within the LAPD.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] In 2001, the United States Department of Justice entered into a consent decree with the LAPD regarding systemic civil rights violations and lack of accountability that stretched back decades; following major reforms, the decree was lifted in 2013.[ 11] [ 12]
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^ a b Sullivan, Carl; Baranauckas, Carla (June 26, 2020). "Here's how much money goes to police departments in largest cities across the U.S." USA Today . Archived from the original on July 14, 2020.
^ Li, Jinge; Brown, Maddy; Bednar, Nicole; Louis-Jacques, Veronique (April 18, 2023). "Karen Bass increases LAPD budget by 6.3%" . USC Annenberg Media . University of Southern California. Archived from the original on January 17, 2024. Retrieved September 7, 2024 . The LAPD currently operates on a budget of $1.9 billion which represents 16% of L.A.'s overall budget.
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^ a b "Los Angeles Police Department Organization Chart" (PDF) . Los Angeles Police Department. Retrieved April 1, 2022 .
^ a b Leonard, Eric; Blankstein, Andrew (August 7, 2023). "Fewest cops in a generation: LAPD shrinks below 9,000 officers" . NBC Los Angeles . Retrieved August 9, 2023 .
^ Schrader, Stuart (2019). Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing . Vol. 56. University of California Press. pp. 216, 220. doi :10.2307/j.ctvp2n2kv . ISBN 978-0-520-29561-2 . JSTOR j.ctvp2n2kv . S2CID 204688900 .
^ Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Dept (1998). Christopher, Warren (ed.). Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department . Diane Publishing Company. Retrieved April 24, 2021 .
^ Greene, Jack Raymond, ed. (2014). Encyclopedia of Police Science . Routledge. pp. 763–767. ISBN 9780203943175 . Retrieved April 24, 2021 .
^ Felker-Kantor, Max (2018). Policing Los Angeles: Race, Resistance, and the Rise of the LAPD . University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9781469646848 . Retrieved April 24, 2021 .
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