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		<title>Santa Monica Lions &amp; MT&#8217;s Citizens United Knight, and More</title>
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DID THEY REALLY HAVE TO SHOOT THIS SANTA MONICA MOUNTAIN. LION?
I live in Topanga where we very occasionally see these critters, thus my neighbors and I had a lot of questions about why Santa Monica PD and Fish and Game couldn&#8217;t somehow get its act together enough to dart the confused big cat who unaccountably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANATOMY OF A JAILS COMMISSION MEETING:  Part 1 – A Reluctant Sergeant Testifies</title>
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A SERIES IN THREE PARTS
No one knows for sure if the Jails Commission will matter at all.  It is entirely possible it will issue a fat and earnest report that generates a few news stories, and some congratulatory action on the part of the Board of Supervisors, and then for all practical purposes vanishes.
Yet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/sheriff-lee-baca/2012/admin/anatomy-of-a-jails-commission-meeting-part-1-%e2%80%93-a-reluctant-sergeant-testifies/</link>
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		<title>Ex-felon Re-entry Bills, CA Juvie Strikes Still Count, &amp; Cops Snatch Families&#8217; Bail Money</title>
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THE SUPREMES SAY CALIFORNIA&#8217;S JUVENILE STRIKES COUNT IN ADULT SENTENCING
SCOTUS rejected a challenge of California&#8217;s use of juvenile convictions of 16 and 17-year-olds as adult strikes under the state&#8217;s Three Strikes Law. Plaintiff DeShaun Stauton&#8217;s attorneys argued that because juvenile convictions are decided by a judge, sans jury, their use was a violation of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2012/taylorwalker/ex-felon-re-entry-bills-ca-juvie-strikes-still-count-cops-snatch-families-bail-money/</link>
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		<title>Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed&#8211;and Why It Still Matters</title>
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For a pile of years, my pal, the award-winning Brit investigative journalist, Andrew Gumbel,  has been digging deep into the plot behind the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and all that went wrong with the FBI investigation of that ghastly day.  His co-author,  Roger G. Charles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If LA Wants to Reform Its Pretrial Detention Strategy, Who Would Stand in the Way?  by Matthew Fleischer</title>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:  A few years ago, Florida&#8217;s largest counties noticed that the majority of the  people crowding their jails were awaiting trial. The majority of those being detained were not charged with serious offenses, which meant they could have bailed out, but they simply couldn&#8217;t afford to do so.  So they languished [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/sheriff-lee-baca/2012/admin/if-la-wants-to-reform-its-pretrial-detention-strategy-who-would-stand-in-the-way/</link>
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		<title>1st Annual LA Gang Violence Prevention and Intervention Conference, May 21/22.</title>
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An important 2-day conference to discuss effective and innovative community-based programs aimed at reducing gang violence in Los Angeles, takes place next Monday and Tuesday, May 21 and 22. 
The event, sponsored by the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles, Hospitals Against Violence Empowering Neighborhoods and Los Angeles County Commission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2012/admin/1st-annual-la-gang-violence-prevention-and-intervention-conference-may-2122/</link>
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		<title>It Appears We&#8217;ve Executed an Innocent Man&#8230;..and LASD Transit Officer Claims Right to Execute Unarmed Man</title>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:  THE JAILS COMMISSION STORY IS STILL COMING.  SO STAY TUNED



CARLOS &#38; CARLOS:  THE NAMESAKE AND THE WRONGFUL EXECUTION
Contributing editor at The Atlantic and legal analyst for 60 Minutes, Andrew Cohen, has the story behind the remarkable and disturbing story of the two men named Carlos&#8212;one of whom was executed for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/it-appears-weve-executed-an-innocent-man-and-lasd-transit-officer-claims-right-to-execute-unarmed-man/</link>
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		<title>Unmanned LAPD &#8216;Copters, City Council Votes to Give LAPD Gen Services Cops &amp; Gov. Brown Won&#8217;t Close Youth Prisons After All</title>
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YES, THE JAILS COMMISSION STORY IS STILL COMING.  (COLD-RIDDEN &#38; STILL WRITING.)  BUT,  IN THE MEANTIME&#8230;&#8230;



LAPD DOESN&#8217;T PLAN TO USE UNMANNED COP &#8216;COPTERS TO LOOK IN YOUR PERSONAL BACKYARD&#8230;&#8230;YET (AREN&#8217;T YOU RELIEVED?)
The LA Weekly&#8217;s Dennis Romero has the story:

So cops can now fly unmanned aircraft known as drones, which could be used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lapd/2012/admin/unmanned-lapd-copters-city-council-votes-to-give-lapd-gen-services-cops-gov-brown-wont-close-youth-prisons-after-all/</link>
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		<title>Three Former Jail Supervisors Testify About Gangster-like Deputies, Violence at the Jails and Top LASD Management&#8217;s Repeated Refusal to Intervene</title>
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Post on Monday&#8217;s Jail Commission meeting coming shortly.  Still writing.


EDITOR&#8217;S UPDATE:  I&#8217;m writing a far longer story than I&#8217;d originally intended&#8212;mainly because I think the topic deserves it.  Bottom line, the story will be in Wednesday-ish.
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		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/three-former-jail-supervisors-testify-about-violence-at-jails-and-department-managements-repeated-refusal-to-intervene/</link>
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		<title>CLOSING THE MOST DANGEROUS JAIL:  The First Pretrial Releases of LA Jail Inmates Could Possibly Happen Soon &#8211; by Matthew Fleischer</title>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:  On any given day, the biggest chunk of the County’s jail population&#8212;45 percent&#8212; is made up of people waiting to go to trial. 
Most of that pretrial 45 percent are in for felony charges.  About half of those with a felony charge are accused of violent or sex related crimes.
But this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/sheriff-lee-baca/2012/admin/closing-the-most-dangerous-jail-the-first-pretrial-releases-of-la-jail-inmates-could-happen-soon-by-matthew-fleischer/</link>
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