For some reason there is no official tally of police shootings in America, although it seems like...
Reports on Body Cams and Education in Juvie Detention….Who’s Right About Whether Prop. 47 Increased Crime?…and John Oliver Talks Re-Entry
GRADING HOW WELL POLICE AGENCIES ROLLING OUT BODY CAMS SAFEGUARD CITIZENS’ CIVIL RIGHTS Law...
Exploring What’s Next on the Criminal Justice Reform Agenda
CALIFORNIA’S JUSTICE REFORM LEADERS GET TOGETHER AT THE “SMART ON SAFETY” SUMMIT TO...
“Fake” Classes Lawsuit Settled, Training Campus Cops to Work With Kids, & LASD Excessive Force Allegations
SETTLING MAJOR LAWSUIT, CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE TO PROTECT STUDENTS FROM FAKE AND FILLER CLASSES On...
Stanford Report Looks at Prop 47 Data, LA Sheriff Records Videos About Prop 47, SF Has a New Sheriff…and More
A STANFORD REPORT SAYS THERE’S NOT A CONNECTION BETWEEN PROP. 47 AND CRIME...
New Child Welfare Czar, Teen’s Transformation in Juvie Probation Camp, and Oprah Interviews Bryan Stevenson
LA COUNTY SUPES OFFICIALLY APPROVE JUDGE MICHAEL NASH AS LA’S NEW CHILD WELFARE CZAR On...
Federal Judge Sends a Message With 8-Year Prison Sentence for LA Sheriff’s Sergeant in Jail Visitor Abuse Case
A MESSAGE OF DETERRENCE On Monday morning, federal Judge George H. King sentenced former Los...
Why It’s Important That LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and the LASD Are Making Child Sex-trafficking a Priority
THE LOS ANGELES SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT AND SEX TRAFFICKED KIDS A few days ago, I spoke with Los...
Prop. 47 and Diversion Courts, Judge Michael Nash Interview, and Solitary in CA Jails
OP-ED: WHAT WILL BECOME OF DRUG COURTS, POST-PROP. 47? Before Prop. 47 reduced certain low-level...
Judge Michael Nash Tapped for LA Child Welfare Czar, Prop. 47 Arrests, and the OC Jailhouse Snitch Scandal
LA SUPES EXPECTED TO APPOINT UNIQUELY QUALIFIED JUDGE MICHAEL NASH TO BE LA’S CHILD WELFARE...
More on the LASD Deputy Who Vanished….. Heroin Use and the Rise in Numbers of Foster Kids…The Need for Civil Attorneys…& Prop 47
THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY WHO DISAPPEARED, & THE MEN WHO WOULDN’T...
LA County Probation Chief Jerry Powers to Answer Board’s Questions as Rumors of a Problematic Relationship Swirl
UPDATE: Although the closed-door meeting referenced in the story below resulted in “nothing...
Solitary Statistics, Opposing Prop. 47 Views, and Miranda Rights
SURPRISING DATA SHOWS 20% OF INMATES IN THE US WERE PUT IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT Nearly one-fifth of...
Did California Voters Go Wrong With Prop 47?
When Proposition 47 passed nearly a year ago, last November, it did so by a healthy 17-percent...
The Troubling Case of the Vanishing LA County Sheriff’s Deputy
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTY JON AUJAY? In 1998, LA County...
LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell Says There’s No Such Thing as a Child Prostitute
On Wednesday morning, it was standing room only on the 8th floor of the downtown LA Hall of Justice...
A New Bill to Stop Locking Kids Up for Dumb, Non-Criminal Stuff
CONGRESSMAN TONY CARDENAS SAYS STOP LOCKING KIDS UP FOR RUNNING AWAY, SKIPPING SCHOOL, TRYING A...
Cops for Reform, Calls and Visits in State Prison (Plus New FCC Rules), Mentally Ill & Warehoused in Jails
MEET THE “LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS TO REDUCE CRIME AND INCARCERATION” A group of 130...