Los Angeles

Find alternatives to calling the Los Angeles Police Department.

Typically, people call the police because they are experiencing or perceive an emergency and need immediate assistance. In order to provide the most effective alternatives to calling the police or 911, unless otherwise indicated, the resources included here are limited to those that offer immediate assistance through emergency or crisis services.

The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) is a State of California initiative that provides funding for income qualified residential customers to install solar and battery storage systems on residential property. Solar panel systems provide residents with the ability to generate their own electricity, while battery storage systems can store electricity for use during peak rate periods or in the evenings when solar production decreases.

Every SGIP project will help enhance grid reliability, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote clean energy. It also supports LADWP’s goal to ensure equitable access to clean energy.

Wanted to offer you all a list of Los Angeles based defense and mutual coalitions you can join.

These regional and neighborhood groups are growing and need help in areas like outreach, mutual aid (like food and household item distro), rapid response, patrolling, know your rights training, field medicine, opsec, data analytics, and record keeping.

City Wide Groups:

Los Angeles City Wide https://www.instagram.com/communityselfdefensecoalition/

Car Wash Defense https://www.instagram.com/carwasherxs/

Frontline Medics https://www.instagram.com/frontlinemedics/

No Sleep For ICE https://www.instagram.com/no.sleep.for.ice/

Regional Groups:

Glendale Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/growtogetherglendale/

Pasadena’s Grupo Autodefensa https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQ791YFTIxuD_Nxar5EC3GtuIFtU_3CZuXcVm8OgkQ0DVtpw/viewform

Altadena CDC https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BABA929A6FCC25-58304928-volunteer#/

East Pasadena Defense https://www.instagram.com/eastpasadenacdc/

San GabrielRegion Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIEvZpDG2bThCXkEPXiUuVATTbDgqziC8OKkUDQBLKMwwEhDsTcePUPrelh706m-l5pnd

Highland Park Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/highland_park_cdc/

Boyle Heights CSO https://www.instagram.com/centrocso/

Cypress Park Defense https://bit.ly/NELAonboard

DTLA Community Patrols https://www.instagram.com/dtlaareacommunitypatrols/

KTown Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/ktownrrn_/ https://www.instagram.com/latu_ktown/

West Hollywood / Bev Hills Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKINGR5k8wt9SztdhCPRRS7gsE32g0pCJw12feANlBRCIkEhC-TCupqwKKCT93Nfh-VVSg

North Hollywood has a CDC but I don’t have that info. LATU will. https://www.instagram.com/noho.latenantsunion/

Van Nuys has a CDC at the Home Depot. I don’t know the hours. Try https://www.instagram.com/vannuys_workercenter/.

Mid City Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIHZjRaupiwuPrDEoHe4ABgLHLTFSoOvDy2p60RwWJz9AEhBIdH4VtRo1-e7hRTl420It

West Adams/Mid City Defense Meet online (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88929729055?pwd=BSuNu1tm2WgXQUWbNGbmo5PG3TKvdo.1#success) at 6:30pm - Wed Sept 10 or in person at Solidarity Hall

South Central Community Watch https://signal.group/#CjQKIDjrch7vv73wYJd2SWElg48kg6bwRVGiRARj1iPHYdbMEhB-WP9KbJSFsxiaueeHFBNs

City of Industry CDC Home Depot on Gale Ave at 7:30am every Wednesday

El Sereno Community Care https://www.instagram.com/elserenocommunitycare/

Baldwin Park CDC Every Thursday and Friday from 8am and on at the Home Depot on Puenta Ave

Covina CDC Every Tuesday and Saturday starting at 8am at the Home Depot on Badillo St.

Baldwin Park / La Puenta / West Covina Defense https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Kf-7XMujCYfBtnv-KhooS7t1OviRACOsN6VZJDI63QA/

West Covina CDC Every Tuesday at 8am at Home Depot on Azusa Ave

Corona Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/we_protect_corona/

Fontana Neighborhood Watch https://www.instagram.com/fontana.decolonized/

San Bernardino Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/sanbernardino.we_defend_us/

Moreno Valley Ice Defense https://www.instagram.com/stayalert_morenovalley_perris/

Rancho Cucamonga Community Watch https://www.instagram.com/wekeep.us.safe.ranchocucamonga/

Pamona Watch https://www.instagram.com/weprotectpomona/ https://www.instagram.com/iceoutofpomona/

Hemet Watch https://www.instagram.com/i.c.e_breakers951/

Inland Empire Regional Watch https://www.instagram.com/semillas.inlandempire/

Peace Harbor Patrol via UdB (San Pedro area) https://www.instagram.com/harborareapeacepatrols/

Long Beach Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/longbeachrapidresponse/

Santa Ana Ice Defense https://www.instagram.com/defensasantaana/

Orange County Community Defense https://www.instagram.com/occommunityselfdefense/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/48218157

The institution later said it never intended to get 'political'

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/la-holocaust-museum-deletes-post-saying-never-again-applies-all-people

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

Local leaders are speaking out, condemning the unidentified people who’ve thrown dozens of bags of dog poop at an LGBTQ+ youth center in the city of Bell recently.

Mi SELA, an LGBTQ+ youth resource center for community members across South Los Angeles, has reported multiple instances of finding baggies of dog feces around the building and front entrance ledge over the past several months.

Aside from the homophobia, targeting a youth center is especially vile.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34291884

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34283368

Watts Riots (1965)

Wed Aug 11, 1965

Image: Armed National Guardsmen march toward smoke on the horizon during the street fires in Los Angeles, California, 1965. (Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

On this day in 1965, the Watts Riots began in Los Angeles after police beat Marquette Fry and his family after he was pulled over for drunk driving. The uprising was the largest in city history until the Rodney King riots of 1992, with 34 deaths and $40 million in property damage across a 46 square mile (119 square km) stretch of L.A.

The uprising took place in the context of a highly racialized city, with severely discriminatory housing, educational, and economic practices. The community of Watts was predominantly black and regularly suffered brutality at the hands of police.

After Marquette, along with his brother and mother, were beaten and arrested by police, an angry mob formed and riots broke out. For the next six days, rioters clashed with police and armed National Guardsmen, who had been sent by the thousands to suppress the uprising.

Los Angeles Chief of Police William Parker (incidentally, Parker also coined the phrase "thin blue line" around this time) compared the rioters to the Viet Cong, promising a "paramilitary" response to the disorder. One officer later stated "The streets of Watts resembled an all-out war zone in some far-off foreign country, it bore no resemblance to the United States of America."

Between 31,000 and 35,000 people participated in the riots, while 70,000 people were "sympathetic, but not active" according to John H. Barnhill. Over the six days of rioting, there were 34 deaths (23 of which were the result of police shootings), 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage.

Following the uprising's suppression, a wave of white flight occurred in surrounding areas, leading to significant demographic changes in areas such as Compton and Huntington Park.

A government committee known as the McCone Commission concluded that the cause of the riots was primarily socio-economic, and recommended reforms along these lines. Most of these recommendations were not adopted.

"The whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life."

- Bayard Rustin

• Date: 1965-08-11
• Learn More: www.blackpast.org, en.wikipedia.org.
• Tags: #Riots.
• Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org

Tuesday’s day of action is asking people to not buy products from corporations like Home Depot, Penske, Target, Walmart, McDonald's and a Stater Brothers in Pasadena. Instead, they are encouraging people to support local businesses and street vendors.

Tuesday’s events will also feature 24 hours of marches and rallies across Los Angeles.

12:00 AM-Midnight Fast Food Workers Strike

6:00 AM-Community Takeback of MacArthur Park

10:00 AM-Rally and march at MacArthur Park-Cultural “safe passage” events

12:00 PM-Car Caravan to LA County Board of Supervisors

5:00 PM-Rally at Placita Olvera

6:45 PM-March to Detention Center

Rally, entertainment, and vigil at the end

The link is a PDF and the deadline is very soon. Please apply and share!

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CIVIC OPPORTUNITY COMMISSIONER, CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT COMMISSION

This announcement is a REBULLETIN to open the period for applicants to apply.

WHEN TO APPLY Tuesday, July 22, 2025 to Friday, August 8, 2025.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission is bringing together experts in civilian oversight, law enforcement professionals, and community partners on Thursday, August 7, 2025, to discuss local law enforcement operations associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across the county. The public will be able to provide comments and/or ask questions.

This forum is intended to provide the community with a greater awareness of local law enforcement policies as well as information about ways they can safely and lawfully protest against immigration enforcement practices with which they may disagree.

Register in advance to participate in the meeting. Thursday, August 7, 2025 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

WATCH THE LIVESTREAM

#HelpNeeded (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM6WZxqyV1B/)

Tomorrow, August 5th, 2025: Kern County is holding public hearings on the potential detention center being expanded in California. If built it's supposed to hold 2500 people and will be run by GEO Group. The community in Kern is largely a red/MAGA but there's enough residents who aren't for the project. That being said, folks in California are being encouraged to either meet up in California City to dissent or to at least join the zoom. Details are here: Tuesday Aug 5 at 5 pm at 21000 Hacienda Blvd, California City, or online at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8626875874

Thank you.

The Guardian’s review of records found:

Out of nine “assault” and “impeding” felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges. In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video. One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester. One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government’s most high-profile cases.

That got the adrenaline pumping!

4.5 according to USGS.

Don’t forget to fill out a felt report.

https://archive.ph/Y2rb6

Two staff members from an Ontario surgery center have been charged with allegedly interfering with U.S. immigration officers trying to detain landscapers who ran into the center to escape. Jose de Jesus Ortega, a 38-year-old Highland resident, was arrested Friday morning and is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Riverside, according to a U.S. attorney’s office Central District of California news release. Officials are still looking for the other suspect, Danielle Nadine Davila, 33, of Corona. Both are charged with assaulting a federal officer and conspiracy to prevent by force and intimidation a federal officer from discharging his duties, authorities said. According to video obtained by KTLA-TV, staffers at the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center earlier this month told two agents to leave because they didn’t have a warrant to go onto the property. The agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement were trying to detain 30-year-old Denis Guillen-Solis and two other landscapers who had been working outside and ran into the surgical center when the agents showed up.

Building on the popularity of the seasonal $15 Summer Day Pass promotion, first introduced in 2022, Metrolink will now offer a year-round $15 weekday fare option, called the SoCal Day Pass, which provides unlimited rides on the day of purchase. On Saturdays and Sundays, the price of the SoCal Day Pass will drop to $10 to match the current weekend rate. Up to three kids ages 17 and under will continue to ride free with a fare-paying adult on weekends.

Metrolink is also introducing a new $5 L.A. Zone Day Pass, available seven days a week, that is good for unlimited single-day travel between eight select stations in and around Downtown Los Angeles, including LA Union Station, Cal State LA, Commerce, Montebello/Commerce, Glendale, Burbank-Downtown and both stations serving the Hollywood Burbank Airport.

I hope these new fares stick, I’m definitely going to be taking advantage and going some places I haven’t been before because the train ticket price felt too much for what was essentially a whim.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/22118804

The mother of a U.S. citizen taken into custody during a chaotic immigration enforcement interaction in a retail parking lot on Tuesday is pleading for answers as her son remains unaccounted for nearly 24 hours later.

Adrian Andrew Martinez, 20, was tackled and forcibly detained by several U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a parking lot near the 8600 block of Washington Boulevard. According to his mother, Myra Martinez, Adrian Martinez had clocked in for his shift at Walmart around 5 a.m. and went on a break at approximately 8 a.m. when ICE agents were reportedly seen in the vicinity.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31498992

smh

This shit sucks. Be safe if you're protesting tomorrow. WEAR A MASK. They are using facial recognition. DO NOT GO ALONE. Take a friend/s.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31615310

CBP also said in a statement that its air and marine operations were “not engaged in the surveillance of first amendment activities”, but that they are “providing officer safety surveillance when requested by officers”.

The Department of Homeland Security on Monday posted a video on X that the agency said was DHS drone footage and bore a CBP air and marine operations watermark. It included zoomed in clips of protestors on the streets.

CBP’s confirmation of its drone usage comes after the LA Times also reported that an LAPD helicopter flying over protesters announced to them, “I have all of you on camera. I’m going to come to your house.” The Guardian US contacted the LAPD and has not heard back.

This is not the first time the DHS has flown drones over protests. In 2020, the DHS dispatched drones over at least 15 cities across the US where people gathered to protest about the murder of George Floyd and logged more than 270 hours of surveillance footage. The LAPD has also ramped up surveillance in response to first amendment activity. During the city’s George Floyd protests, LAPD sent requests to Amazon for Ring doorbell footage that specifically sought videos of the protests.