UCLA Police Department Chief James Herren will retire in June after almost seven years in the position working to improve community relationships and accountability. Herren joined the university as chief of police in 2009. He has since worked to improve interactions between officers and the community, and better prepare officers to handle public safety issues, […]
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Q&A: UCPD representative discusses budget, funding methodology
University police manages a budget of more than $12 million, about 60 percent of which is used to pay its staff. Each year, UCPD’s finance division determines how money is distributed to each department, and aims to solve issues such as deficits. The Daily Bruin recently requested UCPD’s budget for the past five years. Documents […]
Petition calls for dismissal of professor accused of sexual assault
A group of graduate students started a petition that demands the University of California dismiss a UCLA history professor accused of sexually assaulting two students. Preston McBride, president of the History Graduate Students Association, said graduate students started the petition after UCLA officials allowed history professor Gabriel Piterberg to return to teach on campus. Two […]
UCPD looking for man accused of sexually assaulting student
University police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a UCLA student on the Hill early Friday. The student reported an acquaintance assaulted the student in a residence hall at 2:30 a.m. on Friday, according to a UCPD alert. The man was described as Asian, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 155 pounds […]
Former UCLA employee sentenced to two years in prison for embezzlement
A judge sentenced a former UCLA personal assistant to two years in state prison Wednesday for embezzling about $80,000 from a university bank account. Casandra Carmen Jones, a temporary personal assistant who stole money from a university account for more than a year, pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft of personal property, […]
UCLA Center for Policing Equity to relocate to New York
UCLA’s research center that works with police departments to reduce racial profiling and other issues will relocate to New York following an endowment of $2.5 million. UCLA psychology professor Phillip Atiba Goff, who helped start the center in 2007, will also move to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York to occupy […]
Preliminary hearing concludes for men accused of killing UCLA student
Two men accused of killing UCLA student Andrea “Andy” DelVesco in the summer of 2015 will be arraigned a second time after their preliminary hearing concluded Monday. On the final day of the preliminary hearing, Commissioner Mark Zuckman recommended Eric Marquez be tried for aiding and abetting murder and Alberto Medina be tried for murder […]