On Tuesday, July 20, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to award a civil rights settlement of...
Former LASD Commander Discusses Baca Leadership….Treating Locked-Up Kids Like Adults…LAPD Chief and the Game Anti-Violence Campaign….Reseda Church Holds Police-Community Town Hall
FOLLOWING FED JUDGE’S REJECTION OF BACA’S PLEA DEAL, FORMER LASD COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF...
LA County Approves Prop. 47 Outreach….Questions About CA’s Upcoming Foster Care Reform…and Kids with Leukemia Become Deputies for a Day
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE FOR PROP. 47 STILL NEED TO SUBMIT REQUESTS—COUNTY...
Fed Judge Dynamites Baca Plea Deal, Says 6 Month Sentence Would “Trivialize the Seriousness” of His Offense”
JUDGE PERCY ANDERSON REJECTS LEE BACA’S PLEA DEAL When the sentencing hearing for former Los...
Violence Prevention Efforts in Los Angeles, a Problematic Study on Racial Bias in Policing, and LAPD Body-Cam Policies
AQUIL BASHEER’S WORK TO REDUCE GANG VIOLENCE IN LA AND ACROSS THE NATION, DURING A TIME OF...
What to Expect When Lee Baca To Be Sentenced Monday Morning
On Monday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson will announce what sentence he believes...
After Baton Rouge: Voices in the Darkness
The LA County sheriff’s deputy union ALADS, struck a good note with its statement on Sunday...
3 Police Officers Shot Dead in Baton Rouge, 3 Injured, 1 Suspect Dead – UPDATED
SHOOTING IN BATON ROUGE: WHAT WE KNOW: *Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers are dead, three...
Report by San Francisco’s Blue Ribbon Panel Finds SFPD is Controlled by Police Union That Obstructs Reform
A book-length report released on Monday by a special blue ribbon panel found that the San Francisco...
CALIFORNIA VOICES: It Could Have Been Me – by Alex M. Johnson
My daily uniform of a suit and tie, my professional degrees, my position - makes me no...
Inspector General Gives LA County Sheriff’s Dept. (Mostly) Good Grades in Report on Jail Force Investigations (Except for Those Pesky Bad Grades)
AUDIT OF USE-OF-FORCE INVESTIGATIONS INSIDE LA COUNTY’S JAILS FINDS MUCH PROGRESS, WITH MORE...
LA Board of Supes Votes to Speed Up Use of Body-Cams for Sheriff’s Deputies
CITING RECENT EVENTS, SUPERVISORS VOTE TO PUSH FOR LASD BODY-CAMS ASAP On Tuesday, members of the...
Conversations After Dallas
DALLAS POLICE CHIEF DAVID BROWN SAYS WE ARE ASKING TOO MUCH OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS David Brown, the...
Two Homeboy Industries Trainees Bring Water to Flint, MI, on Independence Day Weekend
EDITOR’S NOTE: As we make our way through these difficult, division-haunted days, take a...
Sentencing of Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Postponed for One Week
Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca was originally due to be sentenced on Monday, July 11 in the...
Tragedy in Dallas: Five Dallas Police Officers Dead, Seven Others Wounded in Shooting at Protest
UPDATE: THE LONER WHO CAUSED SUCH DAMAGE Although originally, officials—and...
Alton Sterling’s Death, and the Oakland PD Sex Scandal
IN RESPONSE TO VIDEO OF ALTON STERLING SHOOTING: PROTESTS, CALLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, AND AN...
Prison Call Fees Increasing After FCC Cap, How “Legal Financial Obligations” Also Burden Poor Inmates, and More
AFTER FCC PUTS CAP ON EGREGIOUS OUT-OF-STATE PHONE CALL RATES FOR PRISONERS—MAJOR PHONE...