Kate Mather

The Los Angeles Police Department has long hailed its cadet program as a successful partnership between police and the city's young residents. The initiative is designed to help cadets develop...

Anaheim police have released a 13-year-old boy from custody following public outrage and protest over videos showing an off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer firing his gun during an altercation...

A 16-year-old fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer in South L.A. called 911 himself before the shooting and left his family a "farewell note," leading investigators to believe...

More than a third of the people shot by Los Angeles police last year had documented signs of mental illness, nearly triple the number from the year before, according to...

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck has recommended criminal charges against an officer who killed an unarmed homeless man in Venice, marking the first time as chief that Beck has...

The threats arrived at the same time on opposite sides of the country. Shortly after 10 Monday night — about 1 a.m. on the East Coast — public school officials...

The ties between San Bernardino mass shooter Syed Rizwan Farook and his shy, younger neighbor ran deep long before last week's massacre at the Inland Regional Center. Enrique Marquez spent...