IN THE MEANTIME… MAKE SURE YOU’RE ON THE CALIFORNIA JUSTICE REPORT LIST If you...
Archive - September 2015
Nine Stockton Police Take Down Teen, Bernie Sanders’ Bill to End Private Prisons, and Glossip’s High-Profile Stay of Execution
As many as nine Stockton police officers wrestled a 16-year-old to the ground after he was stopped...
Veterans in Jail, the New Prez of the LAPD Commission, and LAPD Chief Beck on Body Cams
NEW HOPE FOR LOCKED-UP VETS: A SAN DIEGO JAIL MODULE TAILORED TO TREAT VETERANS’ INVISIBLE...
Who Pays for Incarceration?
REPORT GOES BEYOND THE $80 BILLION THE US SPENDS ON PRISONS TO REVEAL THE COLOSSAL FINANCIAL BURDEN...
A Look at Controversial Law Enforcement Bills on CA Gov. Jerry Brown’s Desk…and One Education Bill
CALIFORNIA BILLS AWAITING GOV. BROWN’S SIGNATURE WOULD CREATE NEW FELONIES AND PUT MORE...
Crime Victims Work to Cure for Both Grief & Violence in Los Angeles….and Beyond
Legal Affairs journalist Mark Obbie, writing for Slate, is on Part 5 of his exceptional series on...
Fear Wins as SB 443, the Asset Forfeiture Reform Bill, Goes Down in Flames
If one has been convicted of a crime, it makes sense that any ill gotten gains produced by...
LA County Supe Mike Antonovich Bizarrely Slams the ACLU—Again
On Tuesday at the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Sheriff Jim McDonnell had just...
Bills to Pay Attention to as CA Closes in on the End of the Legislative Session
CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE BILL THAT HAD POTENTIAL TO RIGHT SERIOUS WRONGS HAS BEEN WATERED DOWN, AND...
New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton’s Law Enforcement Legacy
Ken Auletta has a not-to-be-missed profile of New York police commissioner (and former LAPD Chief)...