MORE ON THE ALLEGED LAPD RACIAL PROFILING AND THE KIDS WHO WERE CUFFED Tuesday night, there was an...
Supes Have Closed Door LASD Meeting …Valley Fever Flares in CA Prisons….Privacy Issues…And More
LA COUNTY SUPERVISORS CANCEL TRAVEL TO HAVE CLOSED DOOR MEETING ABOUT LASD CONCERNS There was to...
The Collateral Cost of CA’s Big Cuts to Mental-Health, LASD and Civilian Oversight…and More
EDITOR’S NOTE: After a few months hiatus, Taylor Walker is back posting at WLA. And...
CA DAs’ Creepy Death Penalty Bill Rejected…Jail Deputy Allegedly Beat Informant…. CA Submits Additional Prison Pop Reduction Strategies
CALIFORNIA PROSECUTORS WANT TO TRIM DEATH PENALTY APPEALS, GO BACK TO EXTREMELY PAINFUL FORM OF...
A New Bill Looks at California’s “Day Schools” & the School Push-Out Problem….LAT Editorial on Tanaka Interview…and More
PUSHING KIDS OUT: THE DAY SCHOOLS VERSION There are so many ways for a kid to get lost in our...
HOUSE OF CARDS: Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Trashes Sheriff Lee Baca
EJECTED UNDERSHERIFF PAUL TANAKA ACCUSES SHERIFF BACA OF MISMANAGEMENT, OBSTRUCTION OF...
Homeboy Turns 25…..LASD Talks About Retaliation…WHAT Right to a Speedy Trial?…Feds Visiting LA Jails Tuesday…and More
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES AT 25 “If you want to change the world, change the metaphor,” said...
BETRAYAL OF TRUST – Two Sheriff’s Deputies, Sons of Cop Fathers, Sue LASD for Threats, Retaliation, Conspiracy & More
PROLOGUE Last week two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department deputies, Michael Rathbun and James...
Miranda and Dzhokhar Tsarnaeve….Apologies in Criminal Law….More on the Koch-Bros & the LAT
MIRANDA AND DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV: WHEN WE’RE SURE THAT SOMEONE HAS DONE SOMETHING TERRIBLE, WHEN...
Progress on New Bill Re: Kids in Solitary…..How School Suspensions Backfire….Despair and Hunger Strikes at Git’mo….
SENATOR LELAND YEE’S BILL LIMITING USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT FOR KIDS PASSES OUT OF...
Unlikely Friends: A Film About Brutal Crime & Radical Forgiveness – in a Special LA Benefit Screening Saturday, 5 pm
When I woke up from surgery, as I was laying in ICU, I started to hate the man who shot me. I hated...
Secretly Painting Fr. Greg…..and The Benefits of Judges Shouting at Gov. Jerry
The May issue of Los Angeles Magazine contains a profile of Father Greg Boyle, the founder of...
Jittery Talk at LAT Book Fest About Koch Bros. Bidding for LA Times…How CA Can Get Back Control of its Prisons….and More News
NY TIMES REPORTS KOCH BROTHERS MAY BE FRONT RUNNERS IN BIDDING TO BUY LA TIMES On Sunday the USC...
It’s LA Times Festival of Books Weekend: Be There! (My “Guns in America” Panel Is Sunday)
The LA Times Festival of Books is this weekend—Saturday and Sunday—on the USC campus. ...
G-Dog Movie Opens in Selected Theaters, April 22
This documentary about Father Greg Boyle and his Homeboy Industries, directed by Academy Award...
Two High-Level LASD Supervisors Demoted Over Charity Foot Race Cheating Scandal – UPDATED**
While it doesn’t rise to the seriousness of illegal juicing for the Tour de France, cheating...
Will LAUSD Regulate School Discipline & Ban “Willful Defiance?”….Far Right Lawmakers Say Let States Regulate Weed….LAPD’s Zero Tolerance,
MONICA GARCIA’S STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS On Tuesday, LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia...
LASD Commander Accused of Sexual Harassment Allegedly Bragged About Running Illegal Errands for Baca
As a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed in February by LASD Lieutenant Angela Walton...