To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice. – Desmond Tutu The path for...
Crime Continues to Decline as Does Victimizaton…and More
FBI RELEASES 2010 CRIME STATS SHOWING CRIME NUMBERS KEEP FALLING Despite a still lousy economy, FBI...
Why We Must Not Execute Troy Anthony Davis
Late on an August night in 1989, an off-duty Savannah police officer named Mark Allen MacPhail...
Rise in Assaults on LAPD Officers…Life WITH Parole in CA…New LASD Trouble
The LAPD Union’s blog asks why the disturbing rise in attacks on police...
DANGEROUS JAILS: Part 1 – by Matthew Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is Part One of WitnessLA’s multi-part investigation...
Dangerous Jails, Part 1 Coming on Friday
We’d planned to have Part 1 of our LA Justice Report series Dangerous Jails out Thursday. But...
On Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? About Releasing Women Inmates
I was on Warren Olney’s Which Way LA? on Wednesday night talking about the impending transfer...
Despite Criticism, Why it’s Good That Some CA Mothers in Prison Will Serve Part of Their Sentences at Home
On Monday of this week, the California Department of Corrections announced that up to 4000 of the...
Sentencing by Race…and Post 9/11 Militarization of the Cops
ARE AMERICAN POLICE DEPARTMENTS BECOMING INCREASINGLY MILITARIZED—AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY)? The...
Monday Must Reads (Views and Listens)
TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL The terrible fact is that a staggering 48-percent of all African American...
Nine-Eleven, Ten Years After – Words, Sounds and Images
Some things worth reading or listening to. This American Life has six stories that provide six...
Bill Passes Making it a Crime to Have or Smuggle a Prison Cell Phone
Certainly it is not workable for inmates to have unfettered access to unmonitored phone calls, and...
ChangeLA Fundraiser: Help Train LA’s Next Gen Leadership
If you want to go to a cool party this weekend and congratulate yourself on doing a good deed at...
Redistricting LA County: Competing Groups Fight to Retain or Expand Influence
The first of two hearings on the proposed redrawing of boundaries for the five LA County...
Prop 8 Defenders May Get “Standing” in Court (Should We be Sad or Happy?)
In answer to the above question…..it’s complicated. However, before we discuss the...
On the Road: Back in Business Sept 8
I’m leaving for the North Shore of Oahu for the wedding of my wonderful, soulful, brilliant...
The Military and the Death Penalty
Marisa Taylor For McClatchy has done an excellent three-part series on the military’s use of...
The Idiotic and Wearying Defeat of SB 9 – The Juvenile Life Bill
As many of you may know, SB 9, went down to defeat in the California State Assembly last Thursday. ...