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Los Angeles Police Department

American municipal police department

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The City of Los Angeles Police Department, commonly known as the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), is the municipal police department of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is one of the largest municipal police departments in the country. The city's 2026–27 budget plan provides funding for about 8,555 sworn officers and 2,338 civilian positions.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Los Angeles Police Department” is american municipal police department. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Angeles, Police and Department, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Angeles, Police and Department is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Los Angeles Police Department” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.