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#DangerousJails

Dying In LA County’s Jails: Now there are 7 deaths in 2026

January 31, 2026
#NoKings

The No Kings Act & the fatal shootings by ICE of Alex Pretti & Renee Good

January 27, 2026
#DangerousJails

Dying in LA County’s jails: One more death today

January 22, 2026
#DangerousJails

A new deadly year begins in LA County’s Jails

January 14, 2026
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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Charlie Beck

LAPD Chief, NYPD Commissioner Working to Mend the Relationship Between Cops and Marginalized Communities…and More

July 28, 2016
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LAPD CHIEF CHARLIE BECK DISCUSSES RACE, POLICING, AND RECENT HIGH-PROFILE SHOOTINGS ON KPCC’S...

Beating Children • Juvenile Probation • LA County Board of Supervisors • Probation

Supes Meeting: Addressing Juvenile Hall Beating, Transforming a Girls’ Probation Camp, and Placing an Animal Shelter in a Jail

July 27, 2016
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LA COUNTY SUPES TO LOOK INTO ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AT SYLMAR JUVENILE HALL, AND THE COUNTY’S...

Prison

Suicides at CIW, a New Trial After Miranda Rights Violation, and Indigent Defense

July 26, 2016
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A BAFFLING EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE ATTEMPTS AT CALIFORNIA INSTITUTION FOR WOMEN Erika Rocha was 35...

Innocence

LA County Pays $10.1 Million Because an LA Deputy Allegedly Influenced Witness Causing a 16-Year-Old to Go to Prison for 20 Years

July 25, 2016
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On Tuesday, July 20, the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to award a civil rights settlement of...

LASD

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

July 22, 2016
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FOLLOWING FED JUDGE’S REJECTION OF BACA’S PLEA DEAL, FORMER LASD COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF...

Foster Care • Life and Life Only • Propositions

LA County Approves Prop. 47 Outreach….Questions About CA’s Upcoming Foster Care Reform…and Kids with Leukemia Become Deputies for a Day

July 20, 2016
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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE FOR PROP. 47 STILL NEED TO SUBMIT REQUESTS—COUNTY...

LASD

Fed Judge Dynamites Baca Plea Deal, Says 6 Month Sentence Would “Trivialize the Seriousness” of His Offense”

July 19, 2016
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JUDGE PERCY ANDERSON REJECTS LEE BACA’S PLEA DEAL When the sentencing hearing for former Los...

Violence Prevention

Violence Prevention Efforts in Los Angeles, a Problematic Study on Racial Bias in Policing, and LAPD Body-Cam Policies

July 19, 2016
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AQUIL BASHEER’S WORK TO REDUCE GANG VIOLENCE IN LA AND ACROSS THE NATION, DURING A TIME OF...

Sheriff Lee Baca • The Trial of Lee Baca

What to Expect When Lee Baca To Be Sentenced Monday Morning

July 18, 2016
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On Monday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson will announce what sentence he believes...

Race

After Baton Rouge: Voices in the Darkness

July 18, 2016
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The LA County sheriff’s deputy union ALADS, struck a good note with its statement on Sunday...

Law Enforcement

3 Police Officers Shot Dead in Baton Rouge, 3 Injured, 1 Suspect Dead – UPDATED

July 17, 2016
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SHOOTING IN BATON ROUGE: WHAT WE KNOW: *Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers are dead, three...

Law Enforcement

Report by San Francisco’s Blue Ribbon Panel Finds SFPD is Controlled by Police Union That Obstructs Reform

July 15, 2016
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A book-length report released on Monday by a special blue ribbon panel found that the San Francisco...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews • Law Enforcement • Race • Race & Justice

CALIFORNIA VOICES: It Could Have Been Me – by Alex M. Johnson

July 14, 2016
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My daily uniform of a suit and tie, my professional degrees, my position - makes me no...

LASD

Inspector General Gives LA County Sheriff’s Dept. (Mostly) Good Grades in Report on Jail Force Investigations (Except for Those Pesky Bad Grades)

July 14, 2016
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AUDIT OF USE-OF-FORCE INVESTIGATIONS INSIDE LA COUNTY’S JAILS FINDS MUCH PROGRESS, WITH MORE...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD

LA Board of Supes Votes to Speed Up Use of Body-Cams for Sheriff’s Deputies

July 13, 2016
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CITING RECENT EVENTS, SUPERVISORS VOTE TO PUSH FOR LASD BODY-CAMS ASAP On Tuesday, members of the...

Civil Rights • Law Enforcement

Conversations After Dallas

July 12, 2016
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DALLAS POLICE CHIEF DAVID BROWN SAYS WE ARE ASKING TOO MUCH OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS David Brown, the...

Homeboy Industries

Two Homeboy Industries Trainees Bring Water to Flint, MI, on Independence Day Weekend

July 11, 2016
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EDITOR’S NOTE: As we make our way through these difficult, division-haunted days, take a...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Sentencing of Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Postponed for One Week

July 9, 2016
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Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca was originally due to be sentenced on Monday, July 11 in the...

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