West Long Beach will be the first area in the city to have a team of mental health specialists responding to certain 911 calls.
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Beach Weekly S10E4: New ASI measures, Long Beach businesses burglarized, SOTU recap & more
Daily Forty-Niner · Beach Weekly S10E4: New ASI measures, Long Beach businesses burglarized, SOTU recap & more
Council members vote yes to fund ALPR equipment, residents frustrated
Additional “spy gear” for the Long Beach Police Department brought up issues of privacy, targeted minority arrests and immigration safety.
Beach Weekly S10E1: Long Beach park updates, LA City Council expands tenant protections, drought conditions & more
Daily Forty-Niner · Beach Weekly S10E1 – Long Beach park updates, LA City expands tenant protections, drought conditions & more
Alex Villanueva concedes, Robert Luna to become next L.A. County Sheriff
An incumbent L.A. County sheriff was unseated for the second time in a hundred years.
Long Beach Measure E passes, establishes police oversight commission
Long Beach will create a police oversight commission after residents voted to pass Measure E.
Beach Weekly S9E11: Angel Stadium commencement, Musk’s Twitter takeover, midterm elections & more
Daily Forty-Niner · Beach Weekly S9E11 — Angel Stadium commencement, Musk’s Twitter takeover, midterm elections & more
Long Beach city council votes on new budget, LBPD faces only 5% in cuts
After just months of deliberation, the Long Beach city council voted to approve a $2.6 billion budget which included cuts across the city, including to the Long Beach Police Department. Cuts, many argue, were made in the wrong areas.
IN PHOTOS: ‘People were murdered and accountability is necessary’
Local activists gathered together to call for the defunding of the Long Beach Police Department at Recreation Park and near campus.
IN PHOTOS: “Happy Birthday, Breonna Taylor”
On what would have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday, Black Lives Matter Long Beach marched through the streets of Downtown Long Beach.