NEW: search over 3000 LAPD misconduct & police shooting/violence files at . LAPD publishes these regularly under SB1421, but doesn't let you search them. We do!
Also available via Pinpoint > Explore > search for "LAPD":
Mass incarceration in the U.S. is a myth. It certainly seems obvious that where there is crime, there must also be punishment. If not, more crime and more victims will be the inevitable result.
@tzsmith
Using facial recognition, we identified a couple of the cops involved in this arrest of a pro-Palestinian protester by an LAPD shadow team. 👇
If you attended, please share high-res images to identify more cops. Don't share protester's identifying details (face, tats, etc)
THREAD: At Saturday's mobilization for Rafah, a shadow team arrested + brutalized pro-Palestinian protestors
While it’s no secret that LAPD actively infiltrate orgs and actions, we felt it necessary to spotlight plainclothes pigs deployed at protests as part of a “shadow team”
LAPD, by its own admission, has about SEVENTY cops so corrupt that they are not allowed to have any contact with the public whatsoever, not even front desk duty. That's over $7M annually down the friggin drain.
The LAPD is a target-rich environment for
@lacontroller
.
LAPD Officer ARLENNE MARTINEZ, welcome to the Brady list!
Police officers hiding their identity and/or straight-up lying about it is why it's so key that the public has access to photographs of LAPD officers.
Yesterday I received a disposition letter for a complaint against this LAPD cop (who lied to me by purposely providing the wrong serial number).
The complaint was SUSTAINED.
How sociopathic is a police unit to have its OWN BRANDED LINE OF GUNS? Look no further than LAPD's "elite" SIS.
SIS cops designed the notorious "Kimber SIS", a powerful .45 caliber pistol with tacky SIS logos machined into it (not kidding).
If it isn't corrupt LAPD cop MARIO ENRIQUE RIOS
#32123
, of Rampart C.R.A.S.H. scandal notoriety, posing with SIS detectives Sandoval, Aguilar, Friedrich, and Ishitani! Learn more about Mario Rios below. 🧵
Rios cuffed 16-yo Eric Vega & took him to rival gang territory not once but at least TWICE. They announced him as a member of a rival gang on squad car's PA so he would get hunted down. The second time Vega was killed.
Should the public be able to identify this cop?
Reminder: Police agencies like LAPD are legally allowed to reject applicants if their IQ is too high.
Looks like
@lapdmetro
might be doing just that. It's the only way to explain these posts by SWAT member Nick Cho.
Here's LAPD Sergeant ANGEL SALVADOR BONILLA retaliating against a cop watcher with a false detention or arrest. (If it's an arrest it'll go on his public record.)
Did Bonilla turn into a vindictive dick with a gun yesterday? Likely not. Yet he's a supervisor. Made > $216k in '23
Holy shit, LAPD destroyed 13 boxes w/ TWENTY-FOUR YEARS of cop shooting files that are subject to disclosure under the CPRA! The cop-loving
@lapdcommission
approved it in June 2022. 🧵
Am I reading this right like
@LAPDChiefMoore
feels free to start destroying investigative files of police misconduct, EVEN IF THEY ARE PENDING DISCLOSURE under
#SB1421
?
@LosCoalition
can they start destroying 1992 OIS records now?
Seems like Edward Kellog,
#37184
, actually has been violent towards women himself:
Back when Kellog was a narc in 2010, he broke a 53-year old woman's arm during an arrest for possession and threw her against a fence. Kellog & co delayed calling an 🚑 for 30 min.
As I made my way back to the parade, SLO Edward Kellogg said “I can’t wait to see your wife” and insinuated that I beat my partner and that’s why I don’t like the police - not the LAPD’s long standing history of repression, dehumanization and destruction of Black bodies
A protester was grabbed and thrown to the ground by the LAPD. A police officer put a knee to the protester’s neck and made the arrest seemingly more complicated and violent. I saw the protester get grabbed but I couldn’t figure out why. Seemed random to me.
2/6
The assistant commanding officer of LAPD's Transit division,
@LAPDEnsley
, has his court date today after injuring (or possibly even killing) someone in a felony DUI.
Will the
@latimes
report on it, or are they waiting for clearance from the LAPD?
LAPD Lieutenant Matthew Ensley has been held in jail without bail for 3 days for a felony DUI arrest. He has a hearing tomorrow morning. So far there’s been no reporting on
@LAPDEnsley
’s arrest.
A high ranking LAPD official is being held w/o bail & we don’t know why 🤔
Holy shit, LAPD destroyed 13 boxes w/ TWENTY-FOUR YEARS of cop shooting files that are subject to disclosure under the CPRA! The cop-loving
@lapdcommission
approved it in June 2022. 🧵
LAPD: Our SIS unit is super secret, you're not allowed to know who's in it
SIS: We have our own custom-branded guns and promote them to the firearms press 🤡🤡🤡
This officer, VICTOR CORRAL, was previously present on a boat on which LAPD officer JASON PEDRO sexually assaulted a minor and possibly got her pregnant. LADA declined prosecution.
LAT has an update. It seems the officer involved, Victor Corral, should have had his conceal carry privileges withdrawn while he was on leave, but that didn't happen. 👀
LAPD Lieutenant MATTHEW MICHAEL ENSLEY has been arrested for a **DUI with injuries***. His serial number is 37229, his POST id B14.
Currently he's jailed by the gang members at
@LKDLASD
.
See this McDonald's logo on this memorabilia board for an LAPD Special Investigation Section (SIS) detective? Weird, right?
It's celebrating one of the most notorious SIS shootings, in which they killed 3 unarmed suspects and severely wounded another.
No shit. But keep in mind the LAPD even PROMOTES utterly corrupt cops! So many examples to choose from: Lt. Richard Ulley, P3 Mario Rios, Capt. Anthony Espinoza, Sgt I Stefanie Alcocer, Det. II Michael Montoya, ...
This LAPD cop SHAY A VAN DEVENTER was arrested for domestic violence.
This is his SECOND felony arrest for domestic violence.
Why does he stay employed by the LAPD?
This is how LAPD Detective Robert B. Rand,
#37406
, treats a victim trying to report an assault. Refuses to take report while on camera, and threatens an illegal arrest.
We paid Det. Rand $343,572.25 🤑 last year.
LAPD Hollywood, last night:
A woman who was assaulted came into the station to follow up. Detective Rand then told her she was NOT allowed to film in the station and threatened to arrest her and the woman who came there to support her.
He lied.
.
@LAPDTopanga
Sergeant IVAN MCMILLAN thinks LAPD officers were being "kidnapped". When LAPD kettles protesters, is that kidnapping?
We paid McMillan $172,478 in 2023.
Today, the
#FBI
released the annual 2023 Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) report. The report shows 60 law enforcement officers were feloniously or accidentally killed or assaulted in the line of duty. Read the report:
Of course it was Judge Baker Guillemet's court room! Our observations substantiate theclaims because those bailiffs all have patterns of abuse and misbehavior!!! Horrible.
Make sure to give the judge a review on our community resource
#courtwatch
Meet the
@LAPDMission
Gang Enforcement Detail (GED)! The unit is essentially disbanded and being investigated by the FBI due to theft, illegal searches, tracking, & sexual misconduct.
Ofcr in charge: Lt Mark Garza
List as of '22, so list may not be 100% accurate as of '23
This is how Det II PATRICK STEVEN ALUOTTO (serial 34682, POST id A07-K55) from
@LAPDHollywood
treats a victim of a criminal assault. In front of multiple cameras. 39 years old, 25y on the force, 2nd highest detective rank, and he pulls this shit.
Detective Aloutto was completely unhelpful.
Then, while I was standing in the spot I’d been for minutes, the corrupt detective Aloutto pushed me out of the way.
LAPD's "Inmate Welfare Fund" made 40% profit on jail phone calls & bail bond ads. What did they cynically spend it on?
Eleven "less-lethal" guns, model FN303.
This is who
@MayorOfLA
lavishes with $4 billion/year. 🧵
Rios has reasons to grin & enjoy his fucking cigar. He was let onto SWAT, making $100,000 in OT alone (!) last year. LAPD gave him a medal for one of his shootings.
Eric Vega should be 43 years old this year. Because of Rios (now SWAT) and Montoya (now SIS), Vega died at 16.
The LAPD just confirmed to me that they “unintentionally destroyed” decades of police shooting investigation documents.
Chief Moore is corrupt as can be.
Al Labrada aka "AirTag Al", ex-2nd in command at LAPD, found guilty by disciplinary hearing of SEVEN counts, incl.
- stalking subordinate with AirTag on her car
- lying to investigators
- witness tampering
Labrada retired in lieu of termination. Might face criminal charges?
LAPD "traffic" officer DANNY BALMACEDA
#37952
caused a crash with his muscle car, injuring a person walking. He got towed, while the victim went to the hospital.
He thinks it's funny.
LITTLE TOKYO:
This morning during KDL’s weekly sweep at Toriumi Plaza, off-duty pig Danny Balmaceda caused a major accident & pinned a pedestrian between his + another car while speeding down 1st St.
The pedestrian left by ambulance while Danny got a quick tow + help from LAPD.
How is it that an LAPD cop can get $1,000 in taxpayer money to pay for PERSONAL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION?
@USConst_Amend_I
The LAPD's spending is just a bottomless pit, a target-rich environment for the
@lacontroller
.
The Los Angeles Police Department is aware of an incident that unfolded from a traffic stop on July 28, 2024 in the Southeast Area, involving use of force.
The incident is under investigation, and the officer involved has been removed from field duties.
@NN35007
@LAPDsucks
Hi, I found 1 matching officers; data as of 2022-08-20:
MORALES, GERARDO, LAPD, serial 33056, DET 1, HWD, M, HISPANIC. 2021 pay: $136296.29 base, $35965.88 overtime, $265149.17 total.
Once again,
@LAPDHQ
under
@LAPDPoliceChief
Choi has illegally delayed disclosing their cops' badge numbers. They have to make a determination within 24 days, not provide "an update" in SIX MONTHS.
It's straight up illegal, and they know it.
LAPD continues its illegal tactics to stall public records requests indefinitely. After a 14-day delay, they keep delaying a decision over and over and over. Completely illegal under California Govt. Code 7922.535.
@LAPDHQ
and
@CityAttorneyLA
don't care.
At Rampart C.R.A.S.H., Rios was partnered with corrupt sicko Det. MICHAEL MONTOYA (now SIS). They also covered up the Shatto Pl shooting ($15M settlement, left a man paralyzed). Couldn't be prosecuted due to compelled statements.
Meet LAPD detective, and all-around sick fuck, MICHAEL MONTOYA.
Montoya was a Rampart scandal main player. He was involved in the infamous Shatto Place incident that left one man dead.
The LAPD cleared him of shooting a man in the chest (who was actually shot in the back).
SIS cops drive around L.A. armed to the teeth. Each cop has:
– 2 semi-automatic pistols in .45 cal
– 1-2 backup handguns in .45 cal
– 12-gauge shotgun
– AR-15 carbine in 5.56mm
– body armor
Doesn't the public have a right to know who these violent sociopaths are?
Another $105M in "unexpected" expenses due to the LAPD raises our city council lavished on them. Over 50 cases of police abuse during protests being litigated.
LAPD is a metastasizing cancer.
In 2021, there were 28 LAPD cops that made $100,000+ in overtime. In 2022, there were **134**, almost 5x as many. See below for the top 10 overtime earners, and how it's costing us... 🧵
They will definitely be sued, but unfortunately the city/county/
@UCLA
will cover everything. The City of LA has gone out of their way to even cover *punitive* damages against LAPD killer cops.
The
@lacontroller
said they have no record on how LAPD spent the millions in the Inmate Welfare Fund, how much it was, or if anything is left.
There's not been a full fiscal accounting in years. Effectively, it's a slush fund operated out of LAPD's Custody Services Division.
LAPD's "Inmate Welfare Fund" made 40% profit on jail phone calls & bail bond ads. What did they cynically spend it on?
Eleven "less-lethal" guns, model FN303.
This is who
@MayorOfLA
lavishes with $4 billion/year. 🧵
The LAPD is violating people's constitutional rights (1A, 4A, 14A, etc.) on such a regular basis that no less than TWENTY-SEVEN
@CityAttorneyLA
employees in the Police Litigation Unit are covering for them. That's $3.9M+ in payroll just for 2023. 💸
The
@latimes
has finally reported Lt. Ensley's arrest. Good: they mention his posting of an anti-DUI message.
Bad: no credit to
@FilmThePoliceLA
for breaking the story. No mention of
@LAPDPoliceChief
avoiding to comment. No mention of Ensley's smears about
@AxumSelassie
.
Exactly one year ago, on March 11, 2023, we filed public records requests
#23
-2391 (& then
#24
-485) with
@LAPDHQ
. We asked for a mapping of officer serial to badge numbers.
After endless illegal stalling and obstruction, this is the entirety of what LAPD has produced so far.
An unmarked LAPD truck from a plainclothes vice unit crashed into a full-on bus. How do you miss a vehicle that large, traveling in a dedicated busway? Another DUI on the job,
@LAPDHQ
@LAPDwestvalley
?
In 2008, LAPD Officer Antonio Vargas, serial number 36521, punched a suspect 5-10 times in the head while holding a flashlight. Vargas & his partner claimed the suspect went for their guns and opened Vargas' ammo pouch. DNA tests did not confirm their story.
@FilmThePoliceLA
Folks are telling me this isn’t even illegal??? I can’t find it anywhere and they cited 10.56.070 which isn’t LAMC. There’s gotta be a complaint in here.
@NN35007
@ShotOn35mm
Hi, I found 3 matching officers; data as of 2022-08-20:
RICH, DAVID EDWARD JR, LAPD, serial 32026, SGT 1, RAMP, M, CAUCASIAN. 2021 pay: $134056.98 base, $937.64 overtime, $224113.62 total.
Behind the Badge at Rampart- Meet Officer Bello. Officer Bello graduated the academy on Friday. This is Officer Bello’s first day in the field and has the first arrest of her career less than 3 hours into her shift. Scroll through to see her being walked through the process.
Good fucking riddance,
@LAPDChiefMoore
. You're fired.
And of course his henchmen tried to obstruct
@FilmThePoliceLA
's 1A rights again. It's like second nature to them.
The tall cop who smugly cleans his stupid sunglasses after brutalizing the protester seems to be NICHOLAS ANTHONY VELASCO, serial 43714, POST id C71-T90, also Rampart.
LAPD still claims the letters "LAPD" are trademarked when it comes to ensuring movies about them are copaganda, but they don't seem to mind when active LAPD cops like SIS Det. MARK AGUILAR (
#30979
) use it for their side businesses.
The LAPD says they "unintentionally" destroyed records from up to 400 of their shootings.
@LAPDChiefMoore
PERSONALLY signed off on it & certified it was legal.
How was this "unintentional"?
The LAPD just confirmed to me that they “unintentionally destroyed” decades of police shooting investigation documents.
Chief Moore is corrupt as can be.
Sample story I found in 1 minute: NoHo LAPD cop PAUL RUMER was allowed to resign in 2010 despite having sex with a 14 yo, child sex abuse images, subjecting vulnerable women he stopped to sexual abuse. Also a racist.
RUMER was an LAPD cop for 7 years.
CW: sex abuse, racist slurs
NEW: search over 3000 LAPD misconduct & police shooting/violence files at . LAPD publishes these regularly under SB1421, but doesn't let you search them. We do!
Also available via Pinpoint > Explore > search for "LAPD":
If I had been your lawyer, I would’ve told you to go ahead and keep it named it Rampart, show the LAPD badges, and say LAPD. You had the right to do that because your show was commentary about the LAPD which is protected speech under first amendment.
Journalists
@FilmThePoliceLA
,
@ACatWithNews
, mayoral candidate
@GinaViolaPeake
, and multiple legal observers were arrested at UCLA!
A cop named Espana arrested Will, either CHRISTOPHER ESPANA from LAPD or possibly EMMANUEL ESPANA from UCPD.
One of the interrogators, DAVID MARK JANUSZ (POST id A63-M65) was promoted to Sergeant on Nov 10, 2018, months after this torture session. As of 8/2023 he was still with Fontana PD.
An extraordinary case of police "psychological torture" in Fontana, CA: When Thomas Perez reported his elderly father missing, cops brought him in for a 17-hour interrogation + coerced him to falsely confess killing his dad.
His dad was alive.
🧵
LAPD also has some of the DIRTIEST fucking cops doing internal investigations. Prime example: Detective II MICHAEL MONTOYA, who was deeply involved in the Rampart CRASH corruption & shootings, then <10y later was on FID "investigating" police shootings.
You have cops that had kids assassinated and admitted they obstructed justice, and the LAPD refused to sustain complaints against them.
The LA Times acts like these shit cops are being “stashed away” on desk jobs. But Mario Rios is a MEMBER OF SWAT.
@NN35007
@RealLDF
@Mariocubillos9
@theloneleshy
@LAPDHQ
Hi, I found 1 matching officers; data as of 2022-08-20:
CUBILLOS, MARIO ANDRES, LAPD, serial 33979, PO 3, CSPB, M, HISPANIC. 2021 pay: $128243.0 base, $32084.43 overtime, $244922.31 total incl. benefits.
LAPD Lieutenant Matthew Michael Ensley, weight 250 lb, had a blood alcohol content of .20 when he crashed and injured 2 people.
He was completely shit faced. Literally off the DMV chart drunk.
LAPD's values on display in its disciplinary report:
LAPD employee steals some gas: 22 days suspension
LAPD cop uses LETHAL FORCE out of policy: 1 day suspension 🤯
Back in March, my nose was broken by two guys outside a restaurant. Within an hour the LAPD was discussing it with the legal representative of the Church of Scientology.
Why?
The LAPD released this email:
Seems like LAPPL "union" director Jamie McBride built a racket out of hiring disgraced & disciplined cops for his private security firm, then cheated them, his clients, and evaded taxes.
Michael Moore's LAPD is threatening and surveilling a Black father for exercising his First Amendment rights, while refusing to identify themselves.
Straight up fascist behavior.
Southern decided to take a picture of me and my child likely to file a report with DCFS.
First she said I was high on drugs, then takes a photo to use in her false report but can’t provide her name and serial number after 7 minutes of asking for it
Corrupt and inept police tool HYDEE FELDSTEIN SOTO,
@CityAttorneyLA
, finally gives up her intimidation lawsuit. She had admitted herself during the campaign that publishing truthful info is protected by the Pentagon Paper precedent, yet she sued
@bencamach0
&
@stoplapdspying
.
The City of Los Angeles has finally agreed to dismiss their lawsuit to censor .
@CityAttorneyLA
filed this case, she's dismissing it, and she's agreed to pay us and
@bencamach0
legal fees for filing an abusive lawsuit.
It doesn't end with guns. SIS also designed gun holsters and a tactical vest. All manufacturers use SIS's name to sell.
SIS detectives attend product demos with journalists & write endorsements (!).
Isn't it a conflict of interest for SIS to promote products by their supplier?
NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy was in rare form at today’s emergency action for Rafah. Here he is egging protesters on to…fight him?
He’s best known for leading aggressive crackdowns on protests and for pepper spraying himself in the face at a march 3 weeks ago.
It's from police radio that we know LAPD delayed calling an ambulance for Jermaine Petit after shooting him. It's police radio that often tells cop watchers what's going down.
Cops want to keep the public in the dark.
There’s no justifiable reason for the NYPD and other police forces’ decision to encrypt radio communications. It’s time to buck this anti-transparency trend.
How to use this bot:
- mention
@WhosThatCop
in a tweet
- in the tweet, include at least the agency: operator and one or more of the following operators:
serial:
badge:
last:
name:
rank:
area:
ethnicity:
Check out the bot's reply feed for examples.
Great work by
@sahrasulaiman
identifying the cop who punched Mr. Mitchell!
Both of our initial guesses were wrong. Guess what: if LAPD would just hold their cops accountable and stop withholding their names we wouldn't be here.
After spending an inordinate amount of time rewatching the body cam footage from the
@LAPDHQ
officer who punched Alexander Donta Mitchell this afternoon, I spotted the officer's name: Sportiello. LAPD has refused to name him and has not responded to requests for confirmation.
You can't make this stuff up. The LA City Council published a FULLY DETAILED BIO of SIS Det. Gordon "Trey" Baskett (
#32050
), including his date of birth (!) and assignment to the LAPD Special Investigation Section (SIS).
Yet
@CityAttorneyLA
and
@MayorOfLA
claim his id is secret?
LAPD has started posting recruitment videos on tiktok again. Saying loud and clear, "What budget crisis? We don't have a hiring freeze." I wish I could troll this hard.
LAPD cop BRAXTON BARRETT SHAW,
#39519
, falsely submitted at least 43 people as gang members. Pleaded guilty, will get probation & lose cop certificate.
Braxton Shaw of the
#LAPD
falsified dozens of field interview cards, labeling 43 people as gang members. Some were added to a state gang database. Body cam footage showed the cards had been falsified. This is wildly corrupt.
LAPD Capt Tippet, under penalty of perjury: Our SIS cops conceal their identity, employer, and don't let themselves be photographed
SIS Det. David Friedrich,
#30946
: Let me post a selfie sporting a lapel pin with the SIS logo
The LAPD SIS looks to be a squad of roving gun nuts. Every single cop on the squad bought FOUR custom-branded "Kimber SIS" .45 pistols.
Yet
@CityAttorneyLA
doesn't want you to know their identities, First Amendment be damned.
How sociopathic is a police unit to have its OWN BRANDED LINE OF GUNS? Look no further than LAPD's "elite" SIS.
SIS cops designed the notorious "Kimber SIS", a powerful .45 caliber pistol with tacky SIS logos machined into it (not kidding).
This piece of shit cop that almost hit me is LAPD Sergeant Cameron Gobble.
Gobble, I’m about to put you through some shit. Gonna teach your punkass a lesson.
LAPD Lieutenant Matthew Michael Ensley, weight 250 lb, had a blood alcohol content of .20 when he crashed and injured 2 people.
He was completely shit faced. Literally off the DMV chart drunk.
It's not just Kimber. SIS detectives also designed the Glock 30S, again in their preferred powerful .45 cal.
Glock even made a COMMERCIAL about (with?) them, calling them by their motto "Silent Professionals". (Glock apparently had not seen their social feeds.)
There are tons and TONS of untold stories about LAPD misconduct in these records. Plus you can search for cops by name or serial number (in quotes). Old & redacted PDFs are OCR'd, even handwriting. Audio is transcribed. Check it out!
LAPD's trigger-happy Special Investigation Section (SIS) isn't beating around the bush: their logo is a cloaked man with a dagger, READY TO KILL.
They have a silver 25th anniversary plaque with it, commissioned by Det Brazzill (
#27106
), challenge coins 🤮, & even a mug.
(img 1) LAPD: Our SWAT operators are the best of the best, they are trained to make life-or-death decisions in a split second with impeccable judgement
(img 2&3) LAPD SWAT guy Nick Cho: hold my phone
Amazing new data on :
- BADGE NUMBERS!!
- cop age
- cop height
- cop weight
Especially badge numbers are huge for identifying cops. Congrats to
@stoplapdspying
!
LA CITY ATTORNEY TARGETING ACTIVISTS 🚨🚨
@CityAttorneyLA
directed head of criminal branch to prosecute an activist who protested outside an Israeli lobbyist’s house. Lawyer said no & then Hydee started to spy on her.
Hydee then pressed LAPD to take action against the activist
How to use this bot:
- send a tweet mentioning
@WhosThatCop
- in your tweet, include e.g. LAPD:23506 (no spaces) to search for the officer with serial number 23506
Check out the bot's reply feed for examples.
LAPD continues its illegal tactics to stall public records requests indefinitely. After a 14-day delay, they keep delaying a decision over and over and over. Completely illegal under California Govt. Code 7922.535.
@LAPDHQ
and
@CityAttorneyLA
don't care.
There is no way to lookup an LAPD cop’s name by their *badge number*. And being that cops refuse to identify themselves, there’s no way to figure out who the cops are.
A year ago we CPRAd (FOIAd) the LAPD roster that includes badge number.
The LAPD still hasn’t released them.