LAPD Olympic Station

Thank you for the unforgettable LA welcome you gave my friend.
30 minutes after I picked her up at LAX, her and I were facedown on Santa Monica Blvd with about 20 officers surrounding us with guns and a helicopter shining on us. Her and I (2 white 30-​year-​olds from New Hampshire) were mistaken for a Latino man and woman in a different make and color car who committed a crime in the area. I told her not to make any sudden moves when we were ordered to place our hands out the windows of my car before we had to get down on the ground at 3 am… y’know, based on current events. She was pretty close to shitting her pants at that point. :)
When I asked what it was all about, I received NO answers for about 30 minutes. This was after having my wallet taken from my pocket and being placed in the back of a police car with my hands cuffed behind my back. :) That’s where I watched them search my car from and perform a background check on me after demanding my SSN and my current employer, etc. :)
After a witness of the crime eventually came by, and confirmed we weren’t the suspects; again, different race, appearance, vehicle, etc., they were very LOL and «thanks/​sorry ’bout that!»
I LOVED when one of the officers shouted out «TICKET!» after noticing I still had a dealer plate on the front of my car.
I’m *pretty* sure the nightmares have stopped, and I’m driving at night again without craving a Xanax.
Thanks again, guys. It felt like I was in one of those big Hollywood productions, but funded by my taxes. :)

This is the most horrible experience I have ever had with police officers. For a couple of years, my neighbors would always have some kind of party every weekend. having a party is fine but when they are being so noisy at 4 AM all the time, that’s when it becomes a problem! They do this every weekend and everyone in my apartment complex is so sick of it. I understand that you want to party at times but there’s no need to blast your music so loudly that the apartment starts vibrating and shaking. We all got so sick and tired of it that we all gathered, 5 people in total, and called the police to get their help. They showed no effort in helping us at all. And we even went to the station personally to complain about the noise and how long it has been going on. It’s been going on for 2 years! And this happens every weekend! Like cmon officers! That’s insane! What do i see when we walk into the station? We see a Korean officer that’s trying to ignore us by making fake phone calls because he doesnt want to talk to us while the other officer is just staring at us as if we all had two heads. They said that they would send help and we waited for 6 hours. No one showed up at all and we called them almost every hour to get an update on when they would be coming. So useless. Why are we even paying taxes anyway? Our taxes goes straight to the police when they dont try to help us. All they care is about giving people tickets and crime. They dont care about people like us. Someone needs to get severely injured just for them to come over. Its so messed up that its not even funny. I call them every weekend hoping that they will come and help us but I am left disappointed every single weekend.

Extremely disappointed with my experience last night. I called out LAPD to help me with a neighbor dispute. A female became irate, threatening, and reckless over an ongoing parking dispute. She threatened to bring her boyfriend so he and my fiancée could, I guess, go head to head over this nonsense of an issue. I felt threatened and scared. I turned to LAPD but was devastated at their lack of support. 2 officers who now I refer to as «thugs with a badge» because they weren’t kind enough to give me their names, came out to interview me first then spoke to the poor excuse of a mother (she was acting «ghetto» while her two children were in the back of the car!!). I overheard her lying to them and making ME look like the assailant so I come out and asked if I can be present during their interview because I deemed it unfair for her to lie about me. Of course they told me to go back inside my apt, which I did. I left the door open to my apt expecting them to come back and talk to me more after their conversation with that woman. Nope, they left. Didn’t give me their business card or anything. Just flat out left, without giving me some guidance or referral as to how I should handle this threatening situation.
I drove to Olympic station where I spoke to Sgt Powers who did nothing but defend his «boys» saying they didn’t need to go back to speak to me, they didn’t need to give me a business card, it’s not standard procedure, then became frustrated with me and said «what do you want me to do?!»
If not standard procedure, isn’t it common courtesy?
Can these guys at LEAST act like they care? I know she can’t be arrested for verbally insulting me but can you give me some kind of guidance before it turns into physical violence? I feel alone in this situation. Very disappointed in their lack of sympathy for their citizens.
What’s even more funny, they had a stand in their office that asked visitors to rate their service. It’s all a joke. If you’re not being beat, shot, or stabbed they don’t care.
I’m sorry to talk about PD this way because I’ve always defended them for the hard work they do but my experience crushed all of that. Now I can understand why people dislike police officers.

I rated 1 because Unilocal says I have to rate, this station is like a Negative 10 000 stars! Try another police station !!! I called frantic at 5am SEVERALLY times due to my neighbor getting beat up by her boyfriend & they neverrrrrr came ! That poor girl could’ve been kilt! Smh talk about protect & serve Huh … They give you a speeding ticket faster than they come to help now a days. So anyways I called & complained & the officer tells me %95 of the officers don’t live in LA (So! but they work out here & I would expect them to do their job)
So that is the excuse he gives me. Word to the wise don’t count on the police they aren’t worried about anyone unless a news camera is there or it counts toward their paycheck. Please be careful & if your life is in danger do what you have to do, but don’t count on 911 if this is your local police station!

This police station is really useless. One time I lost my wallet and the thief was constantly using my credit card (I could check on my online account statement) and the officers did nothing about it. When we called a police officer to go check it out, they would refuse to answer their phone. (I know this because I heard the two officers that i was talking to were talking amongst each other and that’s what they said) i eventually ended up going to the places myself because the police wouldn’t help me
Today, I called the police three times because a car in front of my house wouldn’t stop alarming. I called around 2am, 2:30, and 7am. At 2am, they said they will tie the car. Second time they just said a police will come out. 7am) these are the officer’s direct words «idk how long it will take but a police officer will come out». Not once did the police drive by.

It’s people like OFFICER RODRIGUESthat give police officers a bad name. We had recently had our storage locker broken into. We were told to file a report. When we arrived at the station, we were treated quite rudely by OFFICER RODRIGUES. Once he found out there was a detective on the case, rather than helping us fill out a report, he couldn’t dismiss us fast enough. OFFICER RODRIGUES needs to remember that he is there to serve the community. As inconvenient as it may be, that is his job. It is people like OFFICER RODRIGUES why the Public never supports the police. When the detective finally called us, it turns out we do need typo file a separate report. OFFICER RODRIGUES shouldn’t have been in such a hurry to get home to trim his pornstache. The stigma that police officers are nothing but punk kids that are over compensating for whatever crappy lives they lived, had been quite reinforced by OFFICER RODRIGUES.

My car was broken into end of February and I was so reluctant to go to the Olympic station due to their very bad reviews. I am a very passionate person and a huge believer in doing what is right, so I decided to go and give it a try. I had to go to the Olympic station mainly because my place falls within their jurisdiction. I did have to wait over an hour to get to speak with an officer, but from that point on I was shocked at their amazing costumer service. My building’s security camera recovered the while burglary and I was able to bring all the evidence with me. Within 2 days I had a very nice officer come to my place to take fingerprints from car, then on the same week I had 3 investigators stop at my place to collect the surveillance recording and within a month, the criminal was arrested. I was so happy when I received a call fro the Olympic officer politely letting me know the criminal had been arrested.
Thumbs up to these officers that worked so hard to provide not only an amazing costumer service, but also kept their word.
Keep up the good work guys — It made a huge difference!
(I am a very tough reviewer and for me to take the time to write this, it means a lot!)

Is this place for reals??? I came to report a hit and run for a crime someome did amd they make me wait 30 minutes when im the only one here with three officers giggling around. They act likr Im the felony asking me questions in the most degrading tone and theyre just so annoyed when im just here to file a report. Im so discouraged by this police statiom and ashamed to call it my hometown community station.

I recently had my car broken into so they told me to come in.
No one is ever in this station, and they have different community meetings in a meeting room in the lobby.
The officer that helped me was really nice and helpful, the only problem is that I waited forever because of people ahead of me. I guess I would want that kind of attention from an officer if I was in a real crisis so I can’t hate.

Nice and clean, helpful police officers.

+Helpful once I got to talk with an officer.
–Long wait line.

We had a terrible experience with this police department! One morning 7 officers from this station unexpectedly showed up at my house and demanded to search it. I asked to see the warrant, and they told me they didn’t need one. I was a pre-​law major who worked at a criminal defense law office and for the attorney general’s office. I know the law– they needed a warrant. I have nothing to hide, but at the same time I don’t want them going through my home with no reason (and there was no legit reason). When they told me they were going to search the home without a warrant and without my consent I told them that I wanted to call their superior. They refused and said they’d arrest me and take my children if I didn’t let them enter. I told them I wanted to call my attorney and they said no. When I knocked on the neighbor’s door to get a witness, I was told that I was not allowed to leave my porch and that I needed to return immediately. They kept me and my children in our pjs on the porch while they went through our stuff without our permission. Much, much more happened, and throughout the process it only got worse. We now have Internal Affairs and the FBI investigating. I’m a law abiding citizen who respects those who serve our communities, but these guys really need to get it together.