RIALTO POLICE SHOW HOW EFFECTIVE BODY CAMS CAN BE The city of Rialto, CA has seen complaints...
Court Rules Police Are Protected As Whistleblowers….. Judge Awards $3 Million to Parents of Zac Champommier….WWED? What Would Elmore Do?….and More Sheriff Challenger Interviews
9TH CIRCUIT SAYS POLICE ARE PROTECTED AS WHISTLEBLOWERS BY 1ST AMENDMENT The decision on Wednesday...
California Locks Up Too Many Undocumented Kids…Force-Feeding Hunger Strikers…Holder’s Reforms Won’t Stop Racial Disparity…and Andrew Blankstein Leaving LA Times
EXCESSIVE DETENTION OF UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH IN CALIFORNIA According to a newly compiled fact sheet...
Judge Says Force-feeding Striking Inmates OK…..Does LA Really Need Another Gang Injunction?….Muppets Go To Prison…Sheriff’s Challengers Gear Up
CDCR OFFICIALS GET PERMISSION TO FORCE-FEED HUNGER STRIKING INMATES IF CONDITIONS BECOME...
Bill for Youths with Adult Sentences, Baca’s Rehabilitation Credit Bill, Couple Shot by LASD Awarded $4.1 Mil…and More
BILL WOULD GIVE MANY CALIFORNIA JUVENILES SENTENCED AS ADULTS FOR MURDER A SECOND CHANCE SB 260, a...
Baca, Tanaka, and Olmsted…Inmate Phone Rates Cut…Students & Leaders Champion School Discipline Bill, and the LA Police Commission’s New Faces
“PALACE BLOODBATH” TO COME? On Thursday morning former undersheriff Paul Tanaka...
Holder’s Reforms for California, Moving Female Inmates Far Away from Their Families, Hunger Strike, Prop 8, and the LASD’s Missing M-16
CALIFORNIA NEEDS TO TAKE CUES FROM AG ERIC HOLDER’S REFORMS In an Op-Ed for the Sacramento...
Paul Tanaka Reportedly Will Enter Sheriff’s Race Thursday Morning
Controversial former undersheriff Paul Tanaka is scheduled for a 10 am press conference Thursday to...
Olmsted on ABC 7 at 5:30 pm, Wednesday Night
For those who are following the newly-turbo-charged roller coaster ride that is to be the campaign...
Former LASD Commander & Corruption Whistleblower Bob Olmsted Announces Entry Into LA Sheriff’s Race
CHALLENGING BACA On Wednesday morning, retired commander Robert Olmsted, 62, formally announced...
US AG Holder Announces Criminal Justice Reforms, Judge Rules NYPD’s Stop-and-Frisk Violates Rights, Gov. Brown Signs Transgender Student Bill
HOLDER REVEALS FED. SENTENCING REFORMS AND OTHER CHANGES AIMED AT REDUCING THE PRISON POP. Monday...
Contra Costa County’s Awful Juvenile Hall…..Holder to Announce Sentencing Reform…….7 Shells = 15 Years….and More
IS CONTRA COSTA COUNTY “LOCKING UP YOUTH AND THROWING AWAY THEIR FUTURES?” An alarming...
“I can’t fire Sheriff Baca, but you can…” Supervisor Gloria Molina Speaks Out
Normally we don’t post on the weekend, but there are times when issues can’t wait. This...
Examining the Decade-Long National Drop in Crime….Controversy as Calif Considers Private Prisons…Racial Bias and Stand Your Ground Laws
EDITOR’S NOTE: Light posting today as we are working on larger stories, two of which are...
Is Drug Sentencing Reform Really Coming?….In CA Who Will Get Early Release?….Baca Tells LB Rotary Club He’s Running…and More
We may be at the very beginning of a sea change when it comes to drug sentencing, at least on the...
More Shocking Asset Forfeiture Stories…LA City Attorney Addresses Wobbling Offenses…and Sheriff Baca & the LA Times Editorial
ASSET FORFEITURE—ORIGINALLY INTENDED AS A CRIME DETERRENT IN THE 70’S, NOW A GOLDEN...
LA County Supervisors to Look at Juvenile Court-Appointed Attorneys’ Pay…the Horrors of Asset Forfeiture…and More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISOR RIDLEY-THOMAS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF MEAGER FEES PAID TO COURT-APPOINTED...
Don’t run again, Sheriff Baca…Says the LA Times
On Sunday, the LA Times editorial board called for Sheriff Lee Baca not to run again. They made...