LAPD Academy Graduation

What:    
LAPD Graduation of 36 new police officers 

When:   
May 26, 2025
9:00 a.m.

Where:   
Los Angeles Police Academy
1880 North Academy Drive, Elysian Park
Los Angeles, California 90012

Who:      
Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell
Representatives from the Board of Commissioners and Mayor's office
Police Department Command Staff and their special guests

Why:      
Graduating officers have completed 1,035 hours of training over the course of 32 weeks.  There are 32 males and 4 females in the graduating class. The ethnic breakdown of the class is 10 Caucasians, 13 Hispanics, 4 African Americans, 7 Asians and 2 Filipinos.

Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell will inspect the class. 

Comments

[M]

Isn't this giving out a little bit too much info? How many Cop haters read this site and might just show up to this ?

[Willie Doit]

I love the race breakdown Chief. I thought all cops were only one color, blue?

I guess not...

[Glenn E. Orton]

Congradulations to the newest members of the finest police department in the world. Be proud!! From a former graduate class of march 1969

[Pete Malloy]

Congrat's to all the new Rook's. Not that they or anyone else will ever read this. I wonder how many man hours and cost could have been put toward new equip. for these officers but was wasted on this Blog site. . .

[pete mitchell]

Why are we going down through the break down of officers by race? I thought that LAPD doesn't care about race or sex, just as long as you hire the best people for the job. They are all BLUE!!!!! Don't discriminate.....

[Samantha Sang]

Depends on where you are coming from, I see no problem with the racial breakdown. In fact I think it is good for the cops and the public to be able to relate to one another. The public of different racial origin will feel assured when they know that the LAPD does not consist of Caucasians alone.

In feel that race and sex breakdowns just get in the way of what this is really about. The Graduation of young men and women who are willing to lay down their lives for us and their accomplishment of graduating from the police academy. Anyways if you just look around you would see that all officers aren’t Caucasians alone!!! I don't even remember when the LAPD was a Caucasian only police force. Lets not discriminate against anyone here, I don't care what race they are, just as long as they are the best and we don't get overly focused on race and end up with another Rampart... Good Luck Guys and make us proud of our Police Force…

[Jack T.]

>How many Cop haters read this site
>and might just show up to this ?

This might be tough for you, but maybe you could actually think before you type.

There will be dozens of cops at the event. Armed cops. So what would the "cop haters" do? Heckle? Throw water balloons? There would be plenty of cops ready to bust them for disorderly conduct and the like.

"Too much information"? Who are you, Chicken Little?

I think it's an excellent idea to invite the public to this kind of event. Sure, probably few people will show up who don't know a graduate, but by extending an invitation, it opens the LAPD up to the public.

(On the same token, it would be good to publicize Police Commission meetings open to the public. How about that for a future blog news entry, editors?)

[C.F.]

Congrats to all of the graduating class of 2006! Especially to my little cousin who has made his family very proud! Stay safe! Love you D.

[Cynthia Lopez]

Personaly as a hispanic 20 year old mother inrolled in school of criminal justice, i am so glad to hear that our colors of race are uniting together in this field. :) congrats to all the graduates!!!!!

[LT Kimble]

As an African American candidate I am extremely happy that the racial breakdown of the current class has been listed. I now do not have to wonder about what the class environment will be like. I am very pleased with the diversity of the class. Diversity is exactly what southern California is made of and I hope that the future class will have the same diversity as this class. I just completed my Psychological evaluation today and I am looking forward to working with each of you soon.