A song for May Day, 2012, “Jack of All Trades” THE FBI HEROICALLY STINGS, THEN...
SCOTUS Declines to Let Baca Legally Off the Hook in Jail Stabbing Case; So What Does That Suggest for Paul Tanaka’s Legal Future?
On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal that could have shielded Sheriff...
4/29/1992 – 4/29/2012: Letters From the New LAPD About Then and Now
Interviews with and essays by some of those in the LAPD who were around in 1992, and were forever...
Death Penalty Initiative Qualifies, DA Candidates Opine (Badly), LA Thinks About April 30, 1992…& Much More
by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker While WLA was dark earlier this week, a few things happened...
EDITOR’S NOTE: WitnessLA Will Be on Haitus Until Friday 4/27
WitnessLA is going to be dark for a few days this week while I am in New York City to take part in...
Sheriff’s Department Probes Yet Another Secret Deputy Clique
Secret deputy cliques within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s department have been a problem for the...
The LA Times Festival of Books This Weekend! Just Go!
Today, Friday, Festival of Books weekend begins with the LA Times Book Awards tonight, followed by...
Levon Helm: 1940 – 2012. Godspeed.
To paraphrase what was once written about Raymond Chandler, Levon Helm sang as if pain hurt and...
Juvenile Justice Cuts, Death Penalty Deterrence, The Controversial LA Times Photos….& More
by Taylor Walker IS DEATH PENALTY A DETERRENT? More than three decades after the moratorium...
LA Probation Officers Stop Jobless Kids From Working at Homeboy Industries
WHY HAVE SOME JUVIE PROBATION OFFICERS BANNED HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES? by Matthew Fleischer On first...
Probation Dept. Is Asked for Solutions to Its Realignment Problems, Comes Back with Nada to Speak of
Earlier this month, the LA County Supervisors passed a motion authored by Supervisor Mark...
Disasterously Faulty Forensics, Shuttered Courts and Bad Sentencing
by Taylor Walker DID A DECADE OF FAULTY FBI FORENSICS RESULT IN HUNDREDS OF WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS...
New Prison Phone Strategy, Death Row Guy Attorney… & No Fiction Pulitzer
With Taylor Walker NEW UMBRELLA PHONE TECHNOLOGY WILL BLOCK CELL PHONE CALLS FROM PRISON SAYS...
On The Young Turks Network Show – the Point…Talking Death Penality
NOTE: I don’t know why the video vanished between last night and this morning. I”m at...
Monday Must Reads: The LAPD Makes an Enlightened Move, SCOTUS Deals With Cocaine…& More
by Celeste Fremon and Taylor Walker LAPD SAYS IT WILL HAVE SEPARATE AREA FOR TRANSGENDERED INMATES...
Must Reads: Cop Mini-Cams, LWOP by Another Name & More
by Taylor Walker & Celeste Fremon WILL SAN JOSE COPS WEAR MINI-CAMS FOR WATCH-DOGGING...
Will the James Austin Jails Plan Suffer the Fate of the Vera Report Before It?
JAMES AUSTIN PLAN…MEET THE VERA REPORT by Matthew Fleischer The mood outside of the Los...
Thursday Must Reads: CA Juvie Facilites, an ICE Dention Dependant Town …& More
by Taylor Walker TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE CA’S COSTLY JUVENILE PROGRAMS? SF...