The newest issue of Los Angeles Magazine includes a feature on California prisons by my friend, Joe...
Ted Hall, Arnie Quinones & Camp 16: Part 2 – the Inferno
The memorial for LA County firefighters Captain Ted Hall and Specialist Arnie Quinones will be held...
Ted Hall, Arnie Quinones & Camp 16: Part 1 – Inmate Grief
When I posted a less detailed version of the above story ten days ago, after the news of Hall and...
Obama’s Health Care Moment: Speaking Personally – UPDATED
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> There are now more than thirty million American citizens who...
Spankings, Prisons and Assemblyman Michael Duvall
Duvall sb 18xxx floor speech 8.31.09 from CA Assembly GOP on Vimeo. OC Assemblyman Michael Duvall...
IDing Problem Cops – LASD Says It Has a System
On Tuesday, a study was released that indicated that a sheriff’s deputy who received more...
Gang Czar Guillermo Cespedes – A News Round Up
A pile of stories were hastily reported and written yesterday about Guillermo Cespedes and his...
Los Angeles Gets a New Gang Czar
At a press conference this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce his choice for a new...
Prisons and Torching Money
Playing catch up from the three day weekend, here are three pieces about the ongoing prison...
Moyers 2 Obama: Remind Us of Our Greatness as a Democracy
“This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it’s life and...
WLA’s Last-Gasp-of-Summer Reading List
These are sobering times. The Station fire, the largest fire in LA County history, has been deemed...
Luis Rodriguez on Tagging and Trutanich
Novelist, poet, memoirist, teacher, advocate Luis Rodriguez writes about City Attorney Carmen...
The Willingham Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
In December 21, 1991. the house that Cameron Todd Willingham shared with his wife and his three...
Police Commission Wants Your Input Re: Picking a New Chief
The Los Angeles Police Commission will hold a series of four public forums in order to get public...
Fatality at USC Radisson Hotel – UPDATED
Sometime shortly before 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, a man, approximately 30-years-old, jumped, fell, or...
Putting Civil Rights on the National Agenda Again
Monday’s NY Times had an editorial about Attorney General Eric Holder’s determination...
Prison Budget Hell: The Neverending Story
With all the fire news, there has been little or no discussion about the fact that on Monday, the...
Firefighters Arnie Quinones & Ted Hall: A Hero Story
Firefighters are, by definition, heroic. But in some cases, the heroism is more direct. We know...