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		<title>Jails Commission Adds 2 More Members&#8212;One a Strong Jails Reformer</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/the-supes-jails-commission-adds-another-judge-and-alex-busansky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The special Jail Violence Commission ordered by the LA County Board of Supervisors has added its final two members&#8212;one of whom, in particular, is a very heartening choice.
One of the two, Robert Bonner, is a former federal judge, a former prosecutor, and even a former DEA administrator.   This brings the total number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Takes: Presidential Pardons, 9th Circuit on Grizzlies, &amp; Bratton on Pepper Patrol, The LA Times on Jails Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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GOOD NEWS, OBAMA ISSUES FIRST COMMUTATION OF HIS PRESIDENCY. BAD NEWS:  WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG? AND WHY JUST ONE?
Late Monday, the President pardoned five people and issued one commutation. 
 This is all very nice, of course.  But many of us who follow such things wonder why he has only pardoned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knabe Names Top Cop Jim McDonnell to  Jails Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Don Knabe has broken with the prevailing trend and, instead of nominating an august and respected former judge as his pick for the LA County Supe&#8217;s Jail Violence Commission&#8212;-Knabe picked a guy with his own badge and a gun.
Here&#8217;s how it happened: it seems that Knabe turned to Long Beach Chief of Police Jim McDonnell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Over But the Paperwork: Jerry Powers Will Be Chief Probation Officer for LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s not officially official yet, but deals have been made, hands have been shaken, last minute contractual stumbling blocks have been shoved off the road ahead.  Barring any force majeure, Jerry Powers, the Probation Chief for Stanislaus County will take over LA County&#8217;s very troubled and very large Department of Probation.
The official approval by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Jails Commission Likely to be Approved by Supes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The proposed 5-person Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence will be voted on by the LA County Supervisors today, Tuesday, and it looks as if  the motion&#8212;proposed by Zev Yaroslavsky and Mark Ridley-Thomas&#8212;will likely gather the necessary three votes to pass.
 Other than Yaroslavsky and Ridley-Thomas, none of the other Supes has officially committed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed Jails Probe Widens &amp; Sheriff Says He Knew Nada</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Two important things having to do with the LA County Jails abuse scandal and with Sheriff Lee Baca happened over the weekend. 
 THE WIDENING OF THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION: 
 It is now clear that the FBI&#8217;s probe of the abuse of jail inmates by Sheriff&#8217;s deputies is much wider than simply an investigation into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In FBI Probe Into LA Jails Abuse, Feds Slip Inmate Cell Phone to Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In a well-reported story in Sunday&#8217;s LA Times  Robert Faturechi writes that the FBI is investigating beatings of inmates and misconduct by deputies in the LA County Jail system&#8212;indicating a far wider probe by the Feds into abuse inside the jails than had previously been disclosed. 
This is good news.
It had already been reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predictive Policing:  Good Idea or Bad idea?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/predictive-policing-good-idea-or-bad-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2011/admin/predictive-policing-good-idea-or-bad-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Wednesday, Larry Mantle&#8217;s AirTalk on KPCC focused on a new strategy that the LAPD plans to take for a test drive as a experimental program.  The strategy is called predictive policing and it is already being   tried out by the Santa Cruz PD, reportedly with some success.  Now Los Angeles wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sheriff Backs Off LASD&#8217;s Parolee Proposal</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/the-sheriff-backs-off-lasds-parolee-proposal/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/the-sheriff-backs-off-lasds-parolee-proposal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Tuesday&#8217;s Board Of Supervisor&#8217;s meeting involved much drama, lots of side players, gobs of backroom gossip, weeks of lobbying and finally two presentations&#8212;one by Sheriff Lee Baca, the other by Probation Chief Don Blevins&#8212; both aimed at gaining LA County&#8217;s new state parolee contract. The meeting also featured the revelation that the Sheriff&#8217;s plan costs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening Up Dependency Court for the Safety of Kids</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2010/admin/opening-up-dependency-court-for-the-safety-of-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday the LA County Board of Supervisors will vote on its state legislative agenda for the coming year.  The package includes agenda items that range from topics relating to watershed management and flood control, to a push to steer kids away from sugared beverages. 
Nestled within the 26-page single-spaced list of legislative priorities [...]]]></description>
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