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50 Years After Watts Riots, Cops and Community Leaders Heal Old Wounds
For more than 50 years, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts has been known primarily for its combative relationship with police. But lately something's changed.
Watts Bears give back with free Thanksgiving dinner
The Watts Bears served up their first free Thanksgiving dinner Sunday to those in need. The football team, made up of young boys living in housing projects in Watts, are coached by Los Angeles police officers.
Operation Progress helps students succeed in Watts
Operation Progress pairs students in Watts with LAPD mentors. The students are then placed in schools with 100 percent high school graduation rates.
Tigers Pop Warner football clash with Glendale Bears
The Tigers of Lincoln Heights scrimmaged the Glendale Bears at home to a 7-7 tie and the game was amazing.
LAPD urges officers to be community guardians, not warriors on crime
For years, Los Angeles police officers have worked under the shadow of the department’s dark past. But now the department is using that notorious history as a crucial lesson for its officers.
Watts, 50 Years On, Stands in Contrast to Today’s Conflicts
Big questions hang in the air, sometimes asked aloud: Could what happened in Ferguson happen here? Could Watts explode as it did five decades ago? Alternatively, could the improvements in Watts happen in Ferguson? There is a deep generational divide in the answers.
LAPD youth sports program changes hearts, minds in Watts
Los Angeles police officers are on the offense and defense this summer in Watts. They're taking part in Watts Bears, a track and football program that pairs officers with at-risk youth.
The Ramona Gardens Girl Scout Troop Sold Enough Cookies This Year to Go to Disneyland
Girl Scout Troop #431, based in Ramona Gardens in Boyle Heights, sold enough Thin Mints and Tagalongs to cover a field trip to the place next door to the Happiest Place on Earth, Disney California Adventure Park.
Ramona Gardens teen aims for a higher education
Fabian Maciel has big plans for his future. He plans to go to college with a football scholarship, study architecture and graduate, and eventually help his family get out of poverty and subsidized public housing.
After years of calm, a brazen shooting has Jordan Downs on edge again
By all accounts, the act was brazen. At least one person walked into the Jordan Downs housing development last month and opened fire, wounding three people.
Follow the Leaders: Wise Words from Los Angeles Magazine’s Breakfast Conversation on Mentoring
If the latest panel discussion in Los Angeles magazine’s Breakfast Conversation series had a tagline, it would have to be—as Drybar founder and featured speaker Alli Webb quipped—from keeping the city safe to keeping it pretty.
Phil & Emada Tingirides Commander & Sergeant
In 2011, the Community Safety Partnership was born. A collaboration between the LAPD and the city Housing Authority, the program placed an additional 30 officers in public housing developments in Watts.