On Tuesday, September 29, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors took the next step toward...
Archive - September 2020
Judge Rules Against Sheriff Villanueva’s ongoing attempts to rehire former deputy Caren Carl Mandoyan
On Monday, September 28, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled in a 17-page...
Is LA County About to Critically Underfund Diversion Just When It’s Needed Most?
Is LA County about to underfund its most important diversion programs, including mental health...
LAPD Officer Attacked and Injured at Harbor Division Station on Saturday Night
An officer of the Los Angeles Police Department was wounded on Saturday night, at around 10 p.m. by...
Building an Alternative Crisis Response System in LA County
In June, in response to the killings of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others during encounters...
What It’s Going to Take to Fix Policing
The former director of President Obama’s community-oriented policing strategies office warns that...
U.S. Congress Passes Two Bills to Address the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
In some counties comprised primarily of tribal lands, Indigenous women are murdered at rates more...
Prop 17 Could Restore Voting Rights to Tens of Thousands of Californians
By denying voting rights to those on parole, the state has barred many Californians of color from...
Irreplaceable. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, R.I.P.
The New Yorker's Jill Lapore makes the case that the scholar, advocate, and judge that was Ruth...
Citizens Oversight Commissioner Robert Bonner calls for the Resignation of Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Shortly after the noon hour on Thursday, former federal Judge Robert Bonner, who is a member of...