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Since November, 2001, L.A. PoliceWatch has published information online about police misconduct in the Los Angeles area, including summaries of press-reported police shootings, recent important published opinions in the federal and California courts, and complaints of police beatings, shootings, false arrests, illegal searches, harassment, and prisoner abuses, providing contact information for thousands of victims to attorneys.

If you have been a victim of unlawful conduct by police in the Los Angeles area, or if you are a qualified civil rights attorney who is interested in further information, please call  the L.A. PoliceWatch hotline (213) 387-3325. Dare to break the police code of silence.

On this website, you will find news about recent incidents of police use of force, as reported in the local press; summaries of recent cases ruling on signficant police misconduct issues; useful forms, including a sample form for use in reporting police misconduct to the LAPD, and filing notice of intention to sue a government law enforcement employer, as well as a sample form for making a California Public Records Act request for information from a law enforcement agency. You can use this website to contact LA Police Watch, help fund LA Police Watch, or read That's How It Works, the police misconduct blog.