BILL BRATTON AS CHIEF – LOOKING BACK Frank Stolz has a very good three-part series that gives...
Gavin Bailing, Jerry’s Guy Taping, Antonio Thinking…?
Okay, Gavin Newsom has dropped out of the race for California Governor, for “family”...
On Deadline LA Talking About Choosing the C.O.P
I’ll be on KPFK’s Deadline LA today along with the LA Times’ Joel Rubin talking...
How 2 SCOTUS LWOP Cases May Affect California
The Daily Journal’s Supreme Court reporter, Lawrence Hurley, has written a very good, very...
McDonnell’s USC Visit and a Great Teacher Story
Annenberg grad student, Kevin Grant, has this well-written report of Jim McDonnell’s Tuesday...
Owning LA’s Homelessness
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Every night, 43,000 people in LA County have no place to...
Andre Birotte Jr. 4 US Attorney? Please, Let it Be So!
All morning emails have been flying about the fact that, Wednesday night, Scott Glover of the...
Tom Hayden on Alex Sanchez & the Power of Judges
Tom Hayden opens his latest column in The Nation magazine as follows: I never expected to write...
Tonight: “Which Way LA?” plus KNBC’s “The Filter”
I’m on Which Way LA? tonight ( Wednesday night) at 7 p.m. I’ll be discussing the...
Picking the Chief: 3 Finalists Named & 1 Comes to Class
The timing was perfect. Three weeks ago, when LAPD Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell agreed to speak...
Picking the Chief of Police: And the 3 Are…….
As any avid LAPD watcher knows by now, the short list of three is: First Assistant Chief Jim...
List of 3 for Chief of Police to be Announced Today – UPDATED X2
Waiting for the short list. Last we heard, the Police Commission was going to give the mayor its...
Tod Goldberg Tells Stories
My friend Tod Goldberg is a very funny man who has popularized the term….well, you can find...
Smart Cops, Smart Students…and Wrongful Convictions
Two stories about justice & injustice—and wrongful convictions AN LAPD LIEUTENANT...
The LAPD Officially Moves Into Its New Home
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> One of my very smart Annenberg grad students, Su Liu, happened...
Must Reads: Polanski, Wolves, Tasers & Batons
ROMAN POLANSKI AND SAMANTHA GAILEY: A GIRL’S STARK WORDS STILL ECHO DOWN THE YEARS This is...
The Chief’s Race: A Correction & An Apology
I have come to the conclusion that I owe LA Times reporter Joel Rubin an apology. On Friday...
End of the Week Social Justice Wrap Up
POLICE COMMISSION MAY HAVE THREE CHIEF CHOICES BY TUESDAY—OR NOT According to the LA...