Where are the cops?

Painting a picture of a city in terror despite reductions in crime, a Los Angeles city official called Monday for a review of a controversial police work schedule and its impact on getting more officers on the street. Daily News.

City Councilwoman Jan Perry took her complaints about the schedule - under which officers work three, 12-hour days - to the council's Public Safety Committee.

"I recognize this is not just a South Los Angeles problem, that it exists in the Valley and the eastside," Perry said. "But I have families that live in fear. That they tell their kids they can't ride their bikes in their front yards in the afternoon. That their kids sleep in bathtubs so they don't get hit when someone drives by and shoots into their house.