In the upcoming April 17 issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran investigative reporter...
Archive - March 2008
The James Q Wilson Factor – Part Deux
It turns out I was not the only person annoyed by Sunday’s James Q. Wilson Op Ed. Texas...
The James Q Wilson Factor
In Sunday’s LA Times Opinion section, famous conservative criminology prof, James Q. Wilson...
Royal Government
Three separate stories tonight—one on television, two on radio—addressed the idea that...
Who’s Driving the Latest Reverend Wright Controversy?
For days we saw (over and over and over) that Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright has, at...
The City Grieves
LA Times story here, Daily News here, LAFD blog here.
Cut Education, Wound the Economy?
Two thousand students, administrators and education advocates gathered at Cal State Long Beach on...
Another &^%$##&$ Gang Plan: THE SEQUEL
FINALLY….SOME GOOD NEWS Yesterday I was critical of what appeared to be one more gang...
Suicide on the Force
Yesterday, the LAPD’s chief psychologist, Kevin Jablonski, told the Police Commission that...
Another &^%$##&$ Gang Plan?
Yesterday a press release went out announcing that the new “Countywide Gang and Violence...