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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

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

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
#Oversight

LASD Oversight Part 3: LA County’s Inspector General has announced his retirement. But he has a lot more to tell us re: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department,

December 17, 2025
LA County Jail • LASD • Law Enforcement • Sheriff Lee Baca

Sheriff Lee Baca is Named Sheriff of the Year—Perplexing Critics

February 26, 2013
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On Monday, the National Sheriffs’ Association announced their choice of Sheriff Lee Baca as...

Bill Bratton • Guns • Law Enforcement • Probation

A Look Inside Pelican Bay’s SHU…LAPD Lt. Sues for Alleged Retaliation After Whistle-blowing…..The NRA’s War Against Research…and More

February 26, 2013
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WHAT DOES CALIFORNIA PRISON “SHU” REALLY LOOK AND FEEL LIKE? Monday, California state...

Charlie Beck • LAPD • Police • Race • Race & Justice • Realignment

South LA Community Meeting on LAPD & Dorner…Paul Tanaka Running & Not Running for Gardena Mayor…and Facts Vs. Fears on Realignment

February 25, 2013
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Last Wednesday night, a gathering of South LA community members met with LAPD Chief Charlie Beck ...

Gangs • Guns • Prison • Prison Policy • School to Prison Pipeline • Solitary • Torture • Uncategorized • Violence Prevention • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

CA Prisons Letting Some Prisoners out of Solitary…..George Will on Solitary as Torture… Denver Schools Attempt to Break “School to Prison Pipeline”….

February 22, 2013
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As more and more civil rights organizations and some lawmakers, push for a reexamination of prison...

Law Enforcement • Life and Life Only

Eat Pizza, Donate Money to Families of 2 Fallen Police Officers

February 21, 2013
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Next week, Monday-Thursday—February 25-28—California Pizza Kitchen has kindly offered...

Freedom of Information • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Prison • Prison Policy • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca • Supreme Court

Sheriff says Extra $61 Million Needed to Keep LASD Jails Safe…Supremes Contemplate FOIA Restrictions…and More

February 21, 2013
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LOS ANGELES SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT NEEDS ANOTHER $61 MILLION TO KEEP ITS JAILS SAFE According...

Children and Adolescents • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • Probation • Unions

Icky Power Struggle at LA County Probation Continues: Now the Supes Wade In—But Not Together

February 20, 2013
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FOUR—NOT FIVE—SUPERVISORS WRITE A LETTER Okay, when we last left the cheery topic of LA...

Charlie Beck • LAPD • Race • Race & Class • Race & Justice

Chief Charlie Beck to Hold Press Conference About Dorner Case…and More

February 19, 2013
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BECK PRESS CONFERENCE TUESDAY MORNING Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck is holding a...

Education • Gangs • Guns • Juvenile Justice • Trauma • Violence Prevention • Youth at Risk

Five Months at Harper High School in Chicago—With 29 Kids Shot at & 8 Dead

February 18, 2013
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EDITOR’S NOTE: WitnessLA is taking Monday off. We’ll be back to our regular reporting...

Foster Care • Guns • LAPD • LASD • Race • Race & Justice • Sheriff Lee Baca • State Government • State Politics

2 More Dorner Stories …Does Baca Play Favorites With Concealed Weapon Permits?….Foster Care & More Dead Kids….Gun Advocates & Death Threats

February 15, 2013
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DORMER, THE LAPD AND A PSYCHOLOGICAL “CEMETERY FULL OF GHOSTS” “We’ve got...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

DORNER: Opening LAPD Board of Rights Hearings, A Former LAPD Cop Says He Lived What Dormer Describes, Audio Questions…and More

February 14, 2013
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WILL DORNER’S CASE BRING A RETURN TO OPEN BOARD OF RIGHTS HEARINGS FOR THE LAPD? LAPD Board...

Law Enforcement • Life and Life Only

Honoring Officer Michael Crain of the Riverside PD, with Grief and Gratitude

February 13, 2013
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Flogging Molly’s song below was the first piece of music played...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

DORNER BREAKING: It’s Over. We Think. SBSD Says Human Remains Found in Cabin – UPDATED

February 12, 2013
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FINAL TUESDAY UPDATE 11:00 pm: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept says investigators have...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

BREAKING: Dorner Surrounded in Big Bear, 2 Officers Shot, 1 Has Reportedly Died, Fluid Situation

February 12, 2013
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1:48 PM: It appears that two deputies were injured by Dorner in a shootout in the Big Bear area. ...

CDCR • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Human Rights • Prison • Prison Policy

The Cost of Bad Justice, in CA, TX and Back to CA Again

February 12, 2013
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INMATE LAWSUITS COST CALIF. $200 MILLION A YEAR (AND THAT’S BEFORE YOU GET TO THE COUNTY AND...

LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

LASD NEWS: Problematic Baca Nephews & Mysterious Cambodian Vests

February 11, 2013
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THE MYSTERY OF THE SURREPTITIOUSLY BOUGHT AND SHIPPED LASD VESTS THAT WENT TO CAMBODIA...

Charlie Beck • LAPD • Lists • Race • Race & Justice

LAPD Chief Beck’s Plans To Reopen the Dorner Dismissal Case Should Be the 1st Step. More Concrete Steps Must Follow

February 10, 2013
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As most of you have doubtless heard by now, in an interview with CBS’s Pat Harvey on...

Gangs • LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

WitnessLA on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? Discussing Jump Out Boys Planned Firing, Deputy Gangs in General, and More – UPDATED

February 8, 2013
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UPDATE: THIS SEEMS TO BE MY WEEK FOR RADIO. I’M GOING TO BE ON WITH SUZI WEISSMAN ON...

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