Congratulations to Officer Cris Costa for being selected as the recipient of the 2020 Richard A. Rose Career Achievement Award.  Cris is a 27-year veteran of the Long Beach Police Department and one of the founding members of our Mental Evaluation Team (MET).  He has spent his career deali...

Friday, September 13, 2019 marked the last day of the legislative session in Sacramento. Any bill going to the Governor for signature must pass both houses of the legislature no later than the end of business that day.  Traditionally, this last week of work in Sacramento is the craziest time of...

Over the last two years, a small group of elected officials in Sacramento have proposed dangerous legislation that was specifically intended to send law enforcement officers to prison following an officer involved shooting (OIS).  In 1989, the US Supreme Court, in Graham vs Connor,  establ...