by Lindsey Van Ness of Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts Before the...
How a private company has become one of the most powerful voices pushing against police reform, especially of use-of-force standards.
There is a great deal of discretion involved with the practice of policing — a fact that has...
Fired: Latest news on California bill aiming to decertify police for serious misconduct
California is one of only four states without the power to permanently remove law enforcement...
“Where am I going to go?” The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an epidemic of domestic violence. It’s not over yet.
For Lydia, 40, of southeast Los Angeles County, there was nothing safe about staying at home during...
LA County Supes pass aggressive new motion to protect grieving survivor families from law enforcement harassment & retaliation.
A growing number of LA residents with family members who were fatally shot by sheriff's deputies...
This is what happens to child migrants found alone at the border, from the moment they cross into the US, until age 18. (CA is one of the few states that offers them legal help.)
A record number of child migrants have arrived alone at the United States’ southern border this...
A new report and a remarkable new radio series point to deeply troubling issues inside LA County’s foster care system
A new report, shows that 72 percent of all Black children in the County of Los Angles live through...
The Art of Building Exits: How Diversion Programs address the devastating effects of mass incarceration, & why not all such programs are created equal
The landscape of diversion is vast, and the design and implementation of each program matters.
Despite continuing declines in youth incarceration, disparity between Black & white kids in youth lock-ups remains disturbingly high, says new report
For the the last quarter century, the overrepresentation of Black Americans in the nation’s...
Are Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s “criminal investigations” of so-called adversaries chilling oversight of the LASD? A report says yes.
An alarming new report was introduced during the last few minutes of the virtual meeting of the...
Low-Income People of Color Bear Brunt of Rising Pedestrian Deaths (including in Los Angeles)
Los Angeles traffic took a giant dive in 2020, But traffic violence and deaths on LA's streets did...
When LA County Probation Officials Got Repeated Reports that a Staff Member Sexually Assaulted A Teenager, Why Did They Do Nothing?
In mid April, 2019, a teenage girl who was a resident at LA County Probation's Central Juvenile...
Nationwide, the death penalty continues to decline despite the former president’s execution spree
As WitnessLA readers know, last week, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland instituted a...
Watch for an important new #MeToo Behind Bars story later this week
We have a new and disturbing story coming on Thursday of this week that is part of...
Happy 4th of July, 2021
We wish you a joy-filled 4th of July as we honor that day in the summer of 1776 when the remarkable...
US Attorney General Merrick Garland places a moratorium on scheduling federal executions
On Thursday, July 1, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Attorney General Merrick...
Troubling Rise in Jail Deaths Nationally, While U.S. Jail Population Becomes More Female
In a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative, research analyst Leah Wang, points to recently...
Do Threats, Extortion, & Ongoing Failure-to-Cooperate Make Civilian Oversight of the LA Sheriff’s Department Completely Impossible?
"The list of lawful orders that the sheriff has disobeyed gets longer every day," said a very...