{"id":525361,"date":"2010-04-12T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fd485e7970c"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T23:30:45","slug":"budget-cuts-hamper-lapd-homicide-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525361","title":{"rendered":"Budget cuts hamper LAPD homicide investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n

With the city reeling from its worst financial crisis in decades, the
\nLAPD has stopped paying officers overtime wages, except in rare
\nsituations. In lieu of cash, officials have implemented a strict policy
\nof forcing officers to take time off when they accrue large amounts of
\novertime hours.<\/p>\n

Because of demanding work schedules that routinely
\nrequire them to investigate a case into the night or through the
\nweekend, homicide detectives have been among the first officers to be
\nsent home in significant numbers.<\/p>\n

The drain on homicide squads has hampered investigations, several
\ndetectives and top department officials said in interviews. Detectives
\nsaid their investigations are frequently put on hold while they take
\ndays off, delaying witness interviews and other potentially important
\nleads.<\/p>\n

And, in the crucial first hours after a killing, several
\nsupervisors said they now dispatch fewer detectives to the crime scene.<\/p>\n

Times staff writer Joel Rubin, who covers the LAPD, reports on how the budget cuts are affecting homicide investigations.<\/a> In the video above, he assesses the situation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the city reeling from its worst financial crisis in decades, the LAPD has stopped paying officers overtime wages, except in rare situations. In lieu of cash, officials have implemented a strict policy of forcing officers to take time off when they accrue large amounts of overtime hours. Because of demanding work schedules that routinely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}