Los Angeles Police Department

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The City of Los Angeles Police Department, commonly known as the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), is the municipal police department of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is one of the largest municipal police departments in the country. The city's 2026–27 budget plan provides funding for about 8,555 sworn officers and 2,338 civilian positions. The LAPD is headquartered at 100 West 1st Street in the Civic Center district. The department divides Los Angeles into 21 geographic patrol areas grouped under four geographic bureaus. Other parts of the LAPD handle investigations, traffic and transit policing, counterterrorism, training, technology, internal affairs, aviation, SWAT, and other specialized work. Independent commissions, courts, historians, journalists, and government investigations have documented a long history of police brutality, corruption, misconduct, racial discrimination, and problems with accountability within the LAPD. After the Rampart scandal, the United States...

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