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		<title>Arresting Alex Sanchez: Part 10 &#8211;  Judge Manual Real is Removed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals made the surprising decision to remove  controversial Judge Manual Real from the federal RICO case that involves Alex Sanchez.  
This news shocked nearly everyone who is closely tracking the Sanchez matter.  Yanking a federal judge from a case is anything but business as usual. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Rolls Out an Are-U-Ready-to Get-Out-of Gangs? Test&#8230;.&amp; other Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This month LA&#8217;s Gang Reduction and Youth Development office (GRYD)&#8212;which runs the city&#8217;s gang intervention and prevention programs&#8212;will roll out a brand new strategy  ostensibly designed to determine how ready a gang member is to get out of his or her gang, and thus how ready they are to receive services that might aid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence Prevention: Barking With the Choir and Standing With the Despised</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Nearly 20 years ago The California Wellness Foundation was one of the first organizations of consequence  to promote the recognition that violence was not merely a crime problem.  It was a serious public health issue. 
As part of their focus on the topic, every year Wellness puts on a Violence Prevention Conference at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads (Views and Listens)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL
The terrible fact is that a staggering 48-percent of all African American males will drop out of high school.  Tavis Smiley explores what amounts to a national tragedy and looks at what to do about it.  
The PBS show debuts Tuesday night in LA, but check listings for your cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Round-Up: Psychopaths, Parks Closing, Bad DA Behavior and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EVEN DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION, CALIFORNIA KEPT ITS PARKS OPEN, BUT ALL THAT CHANGES IN SEPTEMBER
Speaking personally, I am still having a hard time believing that the state&#8217;s scheduled parks closure will truly occur, but Timothy Egan&#8217;s NY Times Op-ed brings home the mind-numbing reality that California may really shutter some of its most irreplaceable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Tony Rackauckas, It&#8217;s About That Constitutional Thingy, Says Fed Judge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 09:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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In a significant victory for the So Cal ACLU, on Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and the City of Orange Police Department had violated the Constitutional rights of more than 60 people by enforcing a highly restrictive gang injunction against them, without ever giving those same individuals a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Humes Examines the Case Against Alex Sanchez</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/ed-humes-examines-the-case-against-alex-sanchez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arresting Alex Sanchez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
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When California Lawyer Magazine contacted Pulitzer-winning author/journalist, Edward Humes, to write something about the case of Alex Sanchez (published in their February issue),  Humes said he first took the story assignment because he was intrigued by the notion that someone as beloved as gang intervention leader Sanchez  was said to be living an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Patt Morrison&#8217;s Show Monday, Re:  LAPD Gang Units &amp; Financial Disclosure</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2011/admin/on-patt-morrisons-show-monday-re-lapd-gang-units-financial-disclosure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on Patt Morrison&#8217;s show on Monday afternoon along with Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon of the LAPD,  a smart guy who is the man who heads up the department&#8217;s South Bureau.  Also on was my pal, Aquil Basheer, the long time gang and violence intervention specialist who runs an excellent community intervention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the Gang Money, Part 3:  Six Suggestions for Moving Forward</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2010/admin/follow-the-gang-money-part-3-6-suggestions-for-moving-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2010/admin/follow-the-gang-money-part-3-6-suggestions-for-moving-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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Two of the 39 recent graduates of The Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy or LAVITA



Earlier this year, Witnessla and Spot.Us collaborated on our first joint project under the banner of The LA Justice Report. 
The resulting two-part investigation was called Follow the Gang Money, and was reported and written by Matt Fleischer.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOLLOW THE GANG MONEY: Part 3&#8230;.ONE LAST UPDATE</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2010/admin/follow-the-gang-money-part-3-coming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE:
Alright, it&#8217;s finished.  AND it&#8217;s going up late tonight, rather than dumping it midday.
And so now I&#8217;m leaving the computer behind to go get A Christmas tree. (Wooo-hooo!)


Due to circumstances&#8212; rain, minor floods,  unruly puppies and other forces majeure&#8212;beyond my control (like, for example, the need to finish final grading for [...]]]></description>
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