La Verne Police Department

If the La Verne Police Department has arrested or is investigating one of your family members, a loved one or even you, you need to know the bail amount (if any) associated with the offense, the legal and factual requirements to convict one for the crime that allegedly took place, the defenses possible and the sentence a judge can impose if one is convicted of the crime.

We at Greg Hill & Associates believe it is also prudent for one to know a few more things before interacting with any branch of law enforcement. It can be useful to know the size of the police or sheriff’s department, the city’s demographics, the most frequent types of crime the department investigates and just a bit about the city’s history to make one’s communication with law enforcement more meaningful, more savvy and perhaps, more respectful. This can lead to a better outcome than if one lacks such perspective.

This article is presented with these goals in mind.

The La Verne Police Department has forty-nine sworn police officers, twenty-five non-sworn personnel and up to twenty-five reserve officers also working to keep law and order in La Verne, a city of 8.55 square miles and a population of 31,063 according to the 2010 U.S. Census.

In 2018, the La Verne Police Department appointed its first woman captain, Colleen Flores.

The city is thirty miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It is bordered on the west by San Dimas, with Pomona to its south and Claremont to its east.

In the 1967 film The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman, the finale wedding scene was shot in La Verne (not Santa Barbara as presented in the movie) at the United Methodist Church of La Verne. The same church was used for the wedding scene in Wayne’s World 2.

According to the 2010 census, the racial makeup of La Verne then was 23,057 (74.2%) White (55.4% Non-Hispanic White), 1,065 (3.4%) African American, 265 (0.9%) Native American, 2,381 (7.7%) Asian, 2,822 (9.1%) from other races, and 1,412 (4.5%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9,635 persons (31.0%).

During 2009–2013, La Verne had a median household income of $77,040, with 7.9% of the population living below the federal poverty line.

According to Neighborhood Scout, the most heavy concentration of crime in La Verne takes place just north of the Frank Bonelli Regional Park and south of the 210 Freeway. The area north of the 210 Freeway has considerably less crime than the area of La Verne on the other side of the 210.

According to Neighborhood Scout, “[t]he crime rate in La Verne is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest, although at 24 crimes per one thousand residents, it is not among the communities with the very highest crime rate. The chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime in La Verne is 1 in 42. Based on FBI crime data, La Verne is not one of the safest communities in America. Relative to California, La Verne has a crime rate that is higher than 69% of the state's cities and towns of all sizes.”

“Importantly, when you compare La Verne to other communities of similar population, then La Verne crime rate (violent and property crimes combined) is quite a bit higher than average. Regardless of how La Verne does relative to all communities in America of all sizes, when Neighborhood Scout compared it to communities of similar population size, its crime rate per thousand residents stands out as higher than most.”

“Neighborhood Scout's analysis also reveals that La Verne's rate for property crime is twenty-two per one thousand population. This makes La Verne a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in La Verne is one in forty-five.”

La Verne Rifa (LVR) is one of the more well-known Hispanic criminal street gangs calling La Verne home. It has been around since the late 1960’s. LVR’s enemy, The Ruthless Klan (TRK), is the other well-known gang in La Verne, but it only became visible in the mid-1990’s.

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Below is the Google Map to the La Verne Police Department.