LAPD employees say goodbye to Parker Center. News. Home Page ... sculpture outside the front door of Parker Center. That 14-foot brass and bronze statue, ... in 2014 from the Los Angeles ...

From 1955 until 2009, when most staff moved to a new administrative building a block away, the Los Angeles Police Department’s Parker Center was as a proud symbol of police modernization and a ...

The LAPD's Police Administration Building opened in 1954 and was renamed Parker Center after then-Police Chief William H. Parker died on July 16, 1966 of a heart attack.

Parker Center, the former LAPD headquarters, hard by Little Tokyo and shadowed every afternoon by City Hall, has been mostly empty since 2009 and increasingly forlorn.

And during that time it represented the best and worst of the Los Angeles police force: both modernized and racially divisive. Since its final occupants moved out in 2013, the Welton Becket-designed ...

Parker Center, considered by many as the symbol of the Los Angeles Police Department's troubled past, appears headed for demolition, but a City Council committee meeting Tuesday could change that ...

Designed by prolific modern architect Welton Becket—who also designed such recognizable Los Angeles landmarks as the Capitol Records Building and the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion—the Parker ...

On Monday, the giant claw of a large piece of machinery tore away at one of the walls of Parker Center, the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parker Center is slowly coming ...