So will the LAPD, a pioneer in the use of helicopters for law enforcement, soon be buzzing drones over your house as you smoke your favorite herb and become paranoid with fear?

Not likely, cops tell us:

Borell's alleged Twitter avatar.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the FBI suspects 21-year-old Ohio resident John Anthony Borell III -- who's already facing 10 years in prison and a quarter-million-dollar fine for allegedly hacking into two police websites in Utah, of all places -- of posting emails, personal details and nude pics belonging to over 100 law-enforcement officers in the L.A. area.

The late-February breach was an embarrassing one:

Betty Pleasant

Pleasant, whom we love for her pull-no-punches journalism, complains in a May 2 column that while the LAPD has been "working wonders in their relations with young people, they suck when it comes to dealing with old people."

Fight on, Betty.

Shadier than fiction.

It's no secret that the L.A. County Sheriff's Department -- whose reputation with the public has completely disintegrated under Sheriff Lee Baca, in a swirl of scandals including rogue/racist deputies beating inmates to a pulp, prisoners in wheelchairs dragging themselves across the jailhouse floor, and worse -- is a breeding ground for deputy cliques.

Some of the ones who have been outed, over the years:

Patrick Range McDonald

Justice for the trannies of WeHo.

The good news: In a meeting in West Hollywood last night, LAPD officials announced some new measures they'll be taking to avoid transgender maltreatment in the future. Including, most ridiculously...

David Nwachuku

If you remember last year's opening day, then you know why. Among the violence that broke out was the horrific beating of Giant's fan Bryan Stow, who was put in a coma.

The LAPD today said it was prepared to crack down on alcohol drinking not only in the parking lots of Dodger Stadium but in the nearby parks:

Kendrec McDade, 19, was killed by Pasadena police on March 24.

Last Saturday, at a tense community meeting near the crime scene, Pasadena Police Chief Philip Sanchez urged the public to "wait for the judicial process to find out what ultimately occurred."

But that will take months. Impatience was in the air...

"As a cop you do not want to be that guy with the mask on, with the shield, taking on all these protesters," says Thomas Marchese, a sergeant at the Soledad Police Department in NorCal. Yet the 99 percent came to think of law enforcement as the enemy -- likely because "police are the public face of the government," says Marchese.

The active-duty officer is hoping to alter that perspective...

Kendrec McDade was killed by two cops last weekend.

It appears 19-year-old college student and former high-school football star Kendrec McDade really is the next Trayvon Martin.

Kendrec McDade via Twitter

The victim, right.

Originally posted at 9:45 a.m.

While the nation copes with the sickening slaying of 17-year-old black boy Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watchman, we might have our own civil rights battle to fight right here at home.

Frederic Poirot

The paper says that Patrick Smith is his name. And on the steel horse he rode -- allegedly targeting Latinos for traffic tickets.

The department is recommending he be fired:

@shi_Nicholle via Twitter

"rest in peace Kendrec L. McDade, we all miss you always & forever."

Originally posted at 10 a.m.

Friends and former teammates of recently graduated Azusa High School football star Kendrec Lavelle McDade, 19, are mourning his death last Saturday night at the hands of Pasadena police.

CBS

The LAPD's ridiculous-looking hazmat robot.

Of this, the LAPD is well aware. Thus the massive security detail deployed at last night's awards show:

lapdk9.com

What did the K9s do to deserve this security breach?

The hackers first targeted the LAPD in the angry aftermath of the massive, allegedly violent raid of the Occupy L.A. encampment downtown.

And they're back for more Internet payback this week, getting revenge on the cops for "injustices they have allowed through ignorance or naivety" and/or "[failing] to protect the safety of those they took an oath to serve."

David Markland

Is Baca taking desperate measures?

Sources familiar with the inside politics of the department tell us that Baca recently overhauled his defamed executive cabinet.

They say that Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, who has been serving as a sort of "shadow leader" to Baca during this PR nightmare...

Union de Vecinos via Facebook

The old Rampart station is trashed and overrun with criminals.

It's a lot less hip-hop than the last one, but infuriating all the same: "This old station has now been abandoned for at least the past 3 years, and has been a magnet for graffiti, vagrants, and urban decay," writes an Echo Park collective on Facebook event "Reclaim Rampart."

And in the last few months, reports the Eastsider LA, the building has become a hotspot for metal thieves:

Be afraid.

Of three armed robberies in Lancaster over eight days, one of the incidents was caught on surveillance tape. So Sheriff's investigators entered "a clear image of the suspect's face" into "a new law enforcement computerized Facial Recognition Software Program" ...

lewisha1990

And those nighttime exercises will include buzzing, ominous helicopters.

So don't trip out, crackhead at Fourth and Hill streets:

NBC LA

Bigshot.

The L.A. Sheriff's Department is up to its neck right now in allegations of gang-like behavior and beatings by deputies gone rogue.

This cellphone video, shot by Bellflower bus passenger Jermaine Green on Monday night and aired by NBC LA, won't help. It shows two sheriff's deputies climbing onto the bus, confronting a woman pushing a strollerful of pillows (she apparently has special needs) and, uh, socking her in the face.

The cherry on top:

CBS News

They're here. And they're smarter than you.

The LAPD has recruited a new class of canine to help hunt terrorists at LAX, and their nose muscles are as hot and rippling as Schwarzenegger's biceps in the '80s.

Raised and trained on what we imagine to be a thriving puppy boot camp at Auburn University in Alabama, the dogs are a product of precise nature/nurture. By the end of their training, the university claims they can track down a bomb just by getting a whiff of the air somebody walked through...