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Santa Monica this week settled more lawsuits, bringing its total payout to $229.285 million — the most costly single-perpetrator sexual abuse disbursement for any municipality in the state.
Revelations that police knew of the teenage arrest heightens questions about why Santa Monica police missed repeated warnings the city employee was a predator.
The family of an El Monte police officer who was shot and killed at a motel last year is suing the Los Angeles County Probation Department and Dist. Atty. George Gascón, alleging both committed errors that set the stage for two officers' deaths at the hands of Justin Flores.
Sgt. Timothy Colomey recently gave a deposition in which he further detailed his allegation that a "SWAT Mafia" controls the LAPD's elite tactical unit.
The Los Angeles police have taken into custody several people they say were involved in the shooting death of three women outside a Benedict Canyon home in January.
A gunman opened fire on Tuesday morning on a Los Angeles police detective working in an undercover surveillance unit on the 110 Freeway, authorities said.