In the mid 1990’s, Parenting Magazine, which was then briefly trying its hand at more serious...
Will Certain CA Assembly Dems Grow a Spine and Vote YES on SB 9?
The LA Times editorial board is rightly urging the California Democrats who sank the identical bill...
Hot New School Reform Book Blames Unions Solely & Misses Mark
Like many who are sickened by low graduation rates and sub-basement test scores, I have been ...
Judge Fails to Rule for Years on Possible Wrongful Convictions
This troubling story about multiple cases of justice preposterously delayed by the same US District...
AB 9, the CA Juvenile Life Bill Passes Hurdle & Hunger Strikes Make Progres
FIRST THE LATEST NEWS ON AB 9 The AP has the story: A controversial bill headed for a vote in...
Predictive Policing: Good Idea or Bad idea?
Wednesday, Larry Mantle’s AirTalk on KPCC focused on a new strategy that the LAPD plans to...
Should Neuroscience Change Our Idea of Sentencing…and Other Issues
CAN NEUROSCIENCE HELP US SENTENCE MORE EFFECTIVELY? An intriguing new book by Professor Deborah...
The Secret History of Guns, Drug Running Grandmas… and More
THE SECRET HISTORY OF GUNS In September’s issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Adam Winkler has a...
Monday Must Reads: Bratton, the 2nd Amendment, Patient Dumping and More
BRATTON REALLY, REALLY, REALLY WANTED TO BECOME BRITAIN’S TOP COP You gotta love Bill. ...
Honoring Officer Nick Armstrong: Number 49
On August 7, Nick Armstrong became the 49th law enforcement officer killed by gunfire in America...
What Should We Do If We Wrongly Execute Someone? (& Related Stories)
Since the advent of DNA evidence, America has been dealing with an ever growing list of men and...
Probation Commission May “Affirm Confidence” in Embattled Probation Chief
In something of a Hail Mary move in the hope of finding some way to rebuild the crumbling support...
LAT DCFS Sequel, The Kids for Cash Case, Rights for Freed Felons….and More
A SECOND SMART LA TIMES EDITORIAL ABOUT THE LA COUNTY FOSTER CARE SYSTEM AND THE POLITICAL WINDS...
Monday Must Reads
Raging Against the LA Times Book Section cuts, an upbeat story about helping Foster Car kids get to...
Topanga Canyon Experiences Unfortunate Outbreak of Undead
(AND YOU THINK YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAS PROBLEMS) So-o-o-oooo, I was driving home up Topanga Canyon...
LA Times Editorial Slams Supervisors and Own Coverage Re: DCFS
Over the Weekend the LA Times editorial board ran a stellar essay that righteously slams the LA...
Controller Wendy Gets Down With LA Women for Some Candid Chatting
On Thursday, July 28, LA City Controller Wendy Greuel hosted the fourth of what she calls her...
Cops Surfing With Kids….And a Former Death Row Inmate Comes Home
Everyone with any sense who has made a study of successful law enforcement agrees with the virtues...