The Los Angeles Police Department (Los Angeles Police Department, or briefly, the LAPD) Police Department City Los Angeles in California. The department is one of the Centers is legal in the United States. El IP, with over 9,000 officers and 3,000 crew Urban that. an area of 1209 square kilometers with a population of about 4 million people, covers. El IPde backgrounds a long and controversial and there are up to now over again in literature and cinema, to mention it.