Kevin Roderick at LA Observed has the gory details of the NOT-Trutanich endorsements in a story...
Archive - May 2012
Four Members of 18th Street Gang Clique Convicted of Charges Relating to the 2007 Killing of 3-Week-Old Baby Boy
On a warm Saturday night in mid-September 2007, a 22-year-old gang member named Giovanni Macedo...
Michelle Alexander and The New Jim Crow—In Compton Thursday Night
Just about the time that POTUS Obama was snarling traffic getting to his starzilla party in Studio...
LA Times Finds More on Sheriff’s Department clique, “The Jump Out Boys”
The LA Times Robert Faturechi has a follow-up to his story about another LASD clique, specifically...
Saving “LA Youth”—The Nation’s Largest Youth Newspaper Needs Help ASAP
We want our kids to be informed, thinking, confident compassionate, educated people, such a goal is...
The Voices No One Else Can Hear: What It’s like to be a Kid With Schizophrenia
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story by an LA boy named Brian who struggles with schizophrenia, (his...
Obama, Medical Marijuana, Fighting Back. & the Kelly Thomas Case
MAD AS HELL AND NOT GOING TO FUND IT ANY MORE For past months, federal law enforcement has...
Independent Monitor Says Reform in LASD Will Rest on Baca’s Leadership
In Monday, special counsel to the LA County Board of Supervisors, Merrick Bobb, issued his...
Lawsuit Says LAUSD is Paying $10 Million Extra for Waste Pick Up
WitnessLA has acquired some interesting documents this week regarding the ongoing dispute around...
Trying Yet Another 14-year-old as an Adult, Dispute Over LAPD Discipline…and More
by Taylor Walker ANOTHER TRAGIC MURDER, ANOTHER 14-YEAR-OLD KID TRIED AS AN ADULT? Los Angeles...