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    Design and Architecture

    Police academy gets a makeover

    Where might you find the safest café in all of LA? How about the one at the Los Angeles Policy Academy in Elysian Park? The public cafe and restaurant at the LAPD's training school is part of an ongoing remodel of an old LA institution that has been freshened up for a new age in policing.

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    By Frances Anderton • Oct 11, 2016 • 1 min read

    Where might you find the safest café in all of LA? How about the one at the Los Angeles Policy Academy in Elysian Park? The public cafe and restaurant at the LAPD's training school is part of an ongoing remodel of an old LA institution that has been freshened up for a new age in policing. DnA producer Avishay Artsy took a tour last month and learned about a building handmade by officers and haunted by a ghost, as well as an education that teaches police how to shoot as well as when not to shoot.

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Avishay Artsy

      Producer, DnA: Design and Architecture

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      Mary Hodges

      Los Angeles Police Department

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      Luann Pannell

      Los Angeles Police Department

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      Gary Lee Moore

      Office of the City Engineer for the City of Los Angeles

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