Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates   Law Enforcement News LAPD to Graduate Recruits Friday The Los Angeles Police Department, which is dealing with a shortfall of officers, graduates a new recruit class on Friday. Los Angles police Chief Jim McDonnell, representatives from the mayor’s office, members of the Board of Police Commissioners and the police department’s command staff were due to attend a ceremony at the police academy near Elysian Park, where 26 recruits will become sworn LAPD officers. The graduating class, which includes a Los Angeles Airport Police officer and two Inglewood officers and two San Gabriel Police Department recruits will graduate. The new class is made up of 18 men and three women, all of whom completed more than 900 hours of training over the course of weeks. Thirteen of the graduates are Hispanic, one is Black, three are Asian and five are white. MyNewsLA Nick Reiner to face arraignment on murder charges in killings of parents The 32-year-old son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner is scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges Wednesday in the couple's killings last month at their Brentwood home. Nick Reiner was charged with first-degree murder in the killings of Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, whose bodies were found Dec. 14 inside their home in Los Angeles' Brentwood community. Nick Reiner was later arrested in Exposition Park, south of downtown LA and about 15 miles southeast of Brentwood. The charges include a special circumstances allegation of multiple murders and an additional allegation that Nick Reiner used a knife in the killings. Special circumstances elevate a murder charge to a more severe level. The charges carry the potential for a possible death sentence, if prosecutors pursue capital punishment. That decision will be made later, Hochman said. The Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner classified the couple's deaths as homicides, with both dying from "multiple sharp force injuries." The death certificates note they were killed "with knife, by another." NBC 4 Man Killed While Walking Across Florence-Area Street Identified A 75-year-old man was who killed when he was struck by a vehicle while walking across a street in the Florence area of Los Angeles was identified Tuesday. The crash was reported at 5:49 p.m. Sunday at San Pedro and 83rd streets, according to a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman. The vehicle was going north on San Pedro Street when it struck the man who was moving westbound inside a crosswalk, he said. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver remained at the scene. The victim was identified Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Office of Medical Examiner as Estanislo Garcia. MyNewsLA Woman Arrested for Allegedly Killing Child in Santa Monica Apartment A woman was taken into custody Tuesday on suspicion of fatally injuring her infant child inside a Santa Monica apartment. Santa Monica police said officers were notified shortly before 11:55 a.m. Tuesday that UCLA Police had detained a woman on campus after she made statements indicating she had harmed her child and left the infant inside an apartment in the 2000 block of Broadway. Officers went to the apartment responded to the residence and located an infant inside the apartment with significant injuries, police said. The nature of the injuries were not revealed, nor were the age or gender of the child. Santa Monica Fire Department paramedics took the child to a hospital, where the infant was pronounced dead. Police arrested the woman in connection with the child’s death and booked her at the Santa Monica Jail. Her name was also withheld by authorities. The cause and manner of death will be determined by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. MyNewsLA Police in Southern California arrest man concealing loaded sawed-off shotgun A man is in custody after officers patrolling the San Bernardino County flood control property discovered an illegal firearm, ammunition, stolen property and suspected drugs inside a makeshift shelter. It’s unclear when exactly the incident occurred, but officers with the Colton Police Department are seen in body-worn camera footage approaching a tarp-covered shelter surrounded by debris. “Upon lifting the tarp, three subjects were found inside,” CPD said in a post to Instagram. “One of the subjects initially complied by standing and moving toward the officer but then took a step back toward the couch.” Ultimately, the suspect, wearing what appeared to be a work-style shirt with reflective stripes on it, obeyed the officer’s commands, with the two other subjects also stepping outside the shelter. “As all subjects stepped out, a loaded Maverick Arms 12-gauge sawed off shotgun was seen on the couch directly behind where the [primary] subject had been sitting,” police said. KTLA 5 LEOs respond after man attacks firefighter with screwdriver during water rescue A New Year’s Eve water rescue off an Atlantic City beach turned violent and dangerous when a distressed man in the ocean resisted rescuers and allegedly attacked a firefighter with a concealed weapon, authorities said. Firefighters and police officers were called to the jetty near Rhode Island Avenue Beach at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday after reports of a man in trouble in the water. Responding units from the Atlantic City Fire Department saw an adult male floating just beyond the jetty. He appeared conscious but was not actively swimming, officials said. Battalion Chief Kenton T. Brookings established command and coordinated fire and police operations as crews prepared for a cold-water rescue. Firefighter Dominic Gitto, using a rescue longboard, paddled out to reach the man. During the rescue attempt, the man resisted contact and allegedly tried to stab Gitto with a screwdriver, authorities said. Gitto was able to deflect the weapon and continue rescue efforts despite what officials described as aggressive and erratic behavior consistent with a “psychiatric episode.” The Press of Atlantic City Public Safety News LAFD Chief Moore addresses lessons learned from Palisades Fire, challenging leadership decisions Los Angeles City Fire Department Chief Jaime Moore spoke to the LAFD Board of Fire Commissioners on Tuesday, marking the anniversary of the Palisades Fires, saying it's the department's responsibility for how it prepares, deploys and adapts, and that its "future rests with me," he affirmed. Moore began his comments with recognition and appreciation for the firefighters who battled January's Palisades Fire. "Last January, our firefighters performed with courage, professionalism and commitment under extraordinary, dangerous conditions. They did their jobs, often at great personal risk, and they did not fail the city," Moore said. "At the same time, there were clearly significant shortcomings in our response as a department." He called the Palisades and Lachman Fires defining moments for the department, exposing limitations and system capacity, including staffing availability challenges. A little more than a month after the Palisades fire broke out, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass officially removed then-LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley from her post, citing staffing deficiencies under the chief's direction. "We know that 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke out were instead sent home on Chief Crowley's watch," Bass said at the time. CBS 2 Metro A Line service disrupted after train hits pickup truck, derails in Los Angeles A pickup truck stopped on the tracks of Metro’s A Line was struck by a commuter train Wednesday morning in Los Angeles’ Historic South-Central neighborhood. Sky5 was over the scene at 7:25 a.m., where crews were working to get the front of the derailed Metro Rail train back onto the tracks. The pickup truck that was reportedly hit by the train had already been removed. The incident disrupted service on the A Line, prompting L.A. Metro to issue a service alert on X: “A LINE: Bus shuttles replace train service at San Pedro Station due to a train-auto incident. Northbound trains turn back at Washington Station & Southbound trains will be turning back at Grand Station,” Metro Riders Alerts posted. It was unclear why the truck was stopped on the tracks or how long service would be disrupted. Drivers were urged to avoid the intersection of San Pedro Street and East Washington Boulevard, which will remain closed during the investigation. KTLA 5 About the LAPPL: Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents more than 8,700 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. 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