RESIDENTS URGED TO TURN IN FIREARMS.Byline: James Nash Staff Writer LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Chief William Bratton and community leaders called on residents Friday to turn in unregistered firearms, saying the guns are a growing menace on the streets of Los Angeles. Reducing the number of guns in Los Angeles is a critical component of the chief's goal of reducing homicides by 20 percent this year compared with 2003. Bratton said Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . officers confiscate To expropriate private property for public use without compensating the owner under the authority of the Police Power of the government. To seize property.When property is confiscated it is transferred from private to public use, usually for reasons such as about 30 illegal firearms daily. ``Once again we are looking to the public to give us assistance to make this a safer city,'' Bratton said at a news conference at LAPD headquarters, where police displayed an AK-47, Uzi, sawed-off rifles and semiautomatic handguns. ``We cannot expect to keep crime down when thugs have access to guns like these and continue to use them.'' Although many of the weapons displayed Friday were seized in South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. , police also found a cache of firearms at a home in the west San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. while responding to reports of a loud party, said Capt. Jeri Weinstein. Councilman Dennis Zine, a retired LAPD traffic sergeant, said police aren't able to reduce the homicide rate single-handedly. ``The Police Department can only do so much. It's incumbent on the public to get involved.'' James Nash, (213) 978-0390 james.nash(at)dailynews.com To report illicit firearms, call the LAPD's hotline at 1-877-LAWFUL. |
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