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 ...

Los Angeles County Supervisor and LA Metro Board Chair Janice Hahn has asked the mega transit agency to display information ...

Los Angeles County paramedics took a person to the hospital after a suspect crashed during a pursuit Friday night.

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

Protesters took to the street while a Homeland Security raid took place in South LA Friday. While some were concerned it was an ICE raid, the LAPD says it was related to a human trafficking ...

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

In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...

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