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Dec 8 8:17 am
  • breaking news

UPDATE: Authorities reopen Bluff Heights roads after FBI evacuation

Fernando Haro Garcia

Several streets near Colorado Place and Third Street were closed Thursday morning as agents in armored vehicles and military-style fatigues helped serve a warrant, authorities said.

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Mar 21 8:33 am
  • LBPD

UPDATE: Former Long Beach officer pleads guilty to child pornography charge

City News Service

Anthony Brown, 58, of Lakewood, was charged in September last year with three counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  

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Feb 3 2022 12:06 pm
  • LBPD

Former LBPD helicopter pilot sues department, alleging decades of discrimination

Kelly Puente

Long Beach Police Cpl. Mike Colbert said he experienced wide-ranging harassment, racial slurs and jokes from his fellow officers as the department’s only Black helicopter pilot.

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Dec 10 2021 10:18 am
  • LBPD

Long Beach police officer suspended after investigation into racist messages

Fernando Haro Garcia

The department said in a statement they are also reviewing previous use of force incidents and arrest reports made by Officer Maxwell Schroeder, who was also named this week in an extensive investigation by the Los Angeles Times

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Nov 18 2021 3:29 pm
  • Metro

Metro committee advances motion requiring contracted police to be vaccinated

City News Service

According to the motion, the Long Beach Police Department must enforce its vaccination mandate by July 2022 or lose its contracts with Metro.

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Oct 22 2021 9:55 am
  • police chief

City releases public survey asking community feedback in selection of new police chief

Cheantay Jensen

The 14-question survey asks questions that gauge important interpersonal skills and moral values, ideal experience and qualifications, as well as career priorities they’d like to see in the new chief.

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Sep 9 2021 4:29 pm
  • LBPD

Police Chief Robert Luna to retire at end of year

Brandon Richardson

“After many weeks of reflection and thoughtful consideration, I have made plans to retire at the end of this year,” Luna said in an email to city officials obtained by the Post.

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Aug 30 2021 12:04 pm
  • LBPD

Long Beach is now using a sedative to detain people during certain police calls

Anthony Pignataro

Over the past four months, LBFD paramedics have used the drug midazolam on more than three dozen people as part of a new pilot program meant to bolster coordination between the police and fire department, city officials recently announced.

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Aug 9 2021 7:00 am
  • 2021 budget

Tasked with converting helicopter pilots to civilians, LBPD still looking for solution

Jason Ruiz

The budget adopted by the council last September called for about $10 million in cuts to the LBPD with a proposal to convert six sworn pilot positions to two civilian positions.

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Jul 23 2021 6:12 pm
  • facial recognition

LBPD already uses facial recognition technology, but a fight’s brewing over whether it should

Jeremiah Dobruck

Facial recognition technology has become a hot-button issue in Long Beach. Some city commissioners are arguing the LBPD should stop using it.

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