Later this week, I’ll have a new story on the mess that is LA County probation and some...
Criminal Justice
The Mehserle Trial – Why is LA So Uninterested?
On Thursday, a friend who works for works for public radio in San Francisco emailed me and asked if...
The Sad Bad Lesson of John Gardner & Parole System Failure
On Wednesday of this week, the Inspector General of California, David Shaw, issued a 35-page...
Tuesday Round-Up
SUPREMES AGREE TO HEAR CASE AGAINST (EXTREMELY VILE) FUNERAL PROTESTERS On top of his grief over...
NBC’s The Filter: School Strippers, A Controversial Scholarship, & More
I was on NBC’s The Filter on Wednesday night. As usual, we talked very speedily about a list...
Desperate for Expungement: When a Record Keeps You From Work
Even before the economic downturn, 60 percent of all employers surveyed on the topic said that they...