Bestselling crime novelist Joseph Wambaugh, who mined his own experience as a Los Angeles police officer, has died at 88.

Los Angeles Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez is calling on the city to create clearer protocols regarding its immigrant ...

Unlike those on 'Dragnet' and other cop shows, Wambaugh's fictional officers were often compromised and deeply flawed ...

The victim was surrounded by a group of 20 to 30 young bicyclists and “immediately overwhelmed” as they punched and kicked ...

A Los Angeles family is left with a ransacked home after one of the latest immigration raids in the Pico Union neighborhood ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field, ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the writer who mined his years as a Los Angeles Police Department patrolman for a series of bestselling ...

In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...

LA Metro riders can expect to pass though metal detectors at more train stations and be scanned at bus stops to determine if ...

A witness described the monstrous attack as an elderly woman being "assaulted by a drug-crazed naked man" outside her own apartment.