Los Angeles Times Wednesday August 8, 2001 Home Edition Part A Part A Page 2 A2 Desk 1 inches; 20 words Type of Material: Correction Beatles song--In a Calendar story Friday on pop music from 1966, ...

Homicides are down 13% in Los Angeles in 2013 compared with last year, and the city is on target to have the lowest number of killings since 1966, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.

FEW other police departments in the country are as well known as the LAPD. Jack Webb made it famous for TV viewers in Dragnet, and the popular image of the L.A. policeman as Webb portrayed him was ...