Ex-Los Angeles sheriff blasts wokeness crippling city’s wildfire response: ‘Disaster is not the fires, it’s this ideology’ By . Dana Kennedy. Published Jan. 15, 2025, 12:43 p.m. ET.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is in a tight race to keep his job, with retired Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna emerging as the front-runner. Oct. 17, 2022 Soon after, Villanueva ...

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who was recorded violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman while she filmed a man being handcuffed was found guilty of excessive force Thursday ...

The sheriff in Los Angeles oversees the largest sheriff’s department in the nation, with a $3.6 billion budget and 18,000 employees. Corina Knoll is the Los Angeles bureau chief.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will retest about 4,000 DNA samples after discovering some exam kits used last year and in early 2025 might be prone to "intermittently poor performance ...

Elected four years ago as sheriff of Los Angeles County, Mr. Villanueva, 59, has become one of California’s most polarizing figures, his tenure punctuated with what many see as combative ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Monday he's "extremely confident'' his department has caught the man who shot and killed a sheriff's deputy over the weekend, launching an intense ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruit who was struck by an SUV during a training run last year has died, authorities said. Alejandro Martinez, 27, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy who was recorded violently tackling and pepper-spraying a woman while she filmed a man being handcuffed was found guilty of excessive ...