Tuesday, December 16, 2025

MARK GROUBERT: LA is now the only big city in America that does not have a homicide division they laid off over 1300 cops and the detectives left in homicide got rolled into a long standing division in Los Angeles Police Department called Robbery Homicide

I'll show you the other two clips in a second.  At this time, this is at 8:30 last night, the bodies are laying in there in the house for 5 hours.  [Alan Hamilton] will go on to say that he has no search warrant.  He will also go on to say that he can't enter the house.  He will also go on to say that they can't find the County Coroner, a guy who should be available 24/7, we covered the John Belushi situation at the Chateau Marmont in one of the early episodes.  The County Corner was there within 20 minutes as per crimes in LA.  This is now I want to say 5 hours, no search warrant, completely insane.  Why you need a search warrant in an active crime investigation is, of course, preposterous.  But there is more to this, and the situation is breaking news that nobody caught.  And one of the breaking news things that came out of this press conference, which he admits later at the end of the press conference, was that there was no longer any Homicide division in the city of Los Angeles.  LA is now the only big city in America that does not have a homicide division.  They laid off over 1300 cops and the detectives that were left in Homicide got rolled into a long-standing division in Los Angeles Police Department called Robbery Homicide.  So there's some confusion about that.  Robbery Homicide is a homicide that occurs during a robbery, separate division of LAPD. LAPD, like every other big city police force up until November 1st of this year, unannounced, not on their website, no press conference, no press release quietly, according to out of the mayor's office, quietly did away with LAPD Homicide.  So this guy has shown up from Robbery Homicide, now there is no robbery here, and he is saying that it's going to be handled by Robbery Homicide.  And to me, as a reporter in LA, this was a huge freaking story.  Nobody is picking up on this.  This is because of defunding the police.  They did away with 1,300 detectives and the gang squad and the entire division, and whoever survived got rolled into Robbery Homicide.  He explains this later on.  This press conference goes off the rails.  There's a lot of press, and he can't handle it and begins to talk down to the reporters who were merely asking normal questions about "Why he's not in the house?"  "Are there any suspects?"  He won't even acknowledge there were murders involved here.

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