The Latest Breaking News from LAPD

LOS ANGELES — Hate crime reports across Los Angeles are up 13% over last year’s record-setting levels, according to LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who said he believes inflammatory rhetoric on social media was contributing to the increase.

LOS ANGELES — Hours after drawing protesters’ ire with his first in-person appearance in two months at a Los Angeles City Council meeting, Kevin de León was involved in a fight with an activist Friday night that was at least partially caught on video.

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police detectives have served several search warrants as they attempt to find out who recorded a meeting among three L.A. City Council members and a powerful labor leader filled with racist and offensive comments, law enforcement sources told The Times on Tuesday.

Shaun Byrne, 35, was resuscitated in the street by officers from the Los Angeles Police Department

The two men, both from Liverpool, were shot in the Venice Beach area in the early hours of July 30 - Los Angeles Police Department released CCTV in hopes of finding Brandon Manyo Dixon

Bystander Valentina Orellana-Peralta, 14, was killed last year when police officer shot at assault suspect in store

The Los Angeles Police Commission has ruled that an officer violated policy when he fired a rifle at a suspect inside a clothing store last year, killing a 14-year-old girl

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Councilmember-elect Hugo Soto-Martinez is heading to City Hall with what he says is a clear mandate to enact bold, progressive policies on housing, homelessness, transportation and other issues.

LOS ANGELES — A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a couple Thursday night following the Elton John concert at Dodger Stadium, according to a spokesperson with the Los Angeles Police Department.