On Sunday, the Sacramento Bee broke it’s first story in a series detailing its own...
A Quick Favor
Okay, here’s the deal. We could get the entire first LA JUSTICE REPORT investigation funded...
Launching THE LA JUSTICE REPORT
THE PARTNERSHIP Spot.Us and WitnessLA.com have launched an extremely cool new partnership...
Follow the Gang Money: How is LA Using Our $25 Million?
FOLLOW THE GANG MONEY: HOW IS LA USING OUR $25 MILLION? For our first LA JUSTICE REPORT project...
It’s Kagen
While many of us were spending Mother’s Day blissfully ignoring politics and other pesky...
Happy Mom’s Day
Photo by Howard Ruby
Moms in Prison on Mother’s Day
In 1999, Sister Suzanne Jabro took a small delegation of women to Vally State Prison at Chowchilla...
Judicial Activism is in the Eye of the Beholder
WHOSE ORIGINALISM? Many conservatives have long been busy waving around the term “judicial...
Dangerous Jails: The Alarming 2010 ACLU Report
On Wednesday, the ACLU of Southern California issued a report on LA County’s Men’s...
Los Phoenix Suns
Another reason not to boycott Arizona, no matter how much you loath that new law. (If you...
LA Federal Jail Fight
Wednesday, 11:27 p.m. An out of control fight has jumped off at the LA Metropolitan Detention...
Nicole Bershon is the new Inspector General
As I had suspected (and hoped), the new LAPD Inspector General is Assistant IG, Nicole Bershon. ...
Will the LAPD’s New Inspector General Be a Woman?
Former LAPD Inspector General Andre Birotte was confirmed in early February by the US Senate as the...
iCops: California’s Internet SWAT Team
LA Times reporters, David Sarno and Jessica Guynn, have a very good piece on REACT, the task force...
The Education/Prison Disparity – 2010 Version
Okay, comparative cost time: The state of California spends 35 percent of its budget, or nearly $50...
The Weed Wars
The shifting landscape when it comes to attitudes about marijuana laws—plus the changing...
Pulitzer Winners Laker and Ruderman & Tainted Justice
The 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting was awarded to reporters Barbara Laker and...
The NEW New Haven Model of Teacher Evaluations
The New York Times editorial pages are praising a new system for teacher evaluation that the New...