A 62-year-old South Los Angeles was convicted for shooting a police helicopter in an incident that prosecutors said could have ended in tragedy. The shooting occurred in August 2025 when officers with ...

Douglass Byers was convicted of firing a rifle shot that pierced the tail of an LAPD helicopter in South L.A. last year.

The Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT unit rarely resorts to using force and does not glorify violence as one former member alleged, a newly released internal report concluded. Police Chief Michel ...

A woman who used to work for the Los Angeles Police Department was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with SWAT officers following a domestic dispute at her Van Nuys home, police said. A ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...