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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
#Oversight

LASD Oversight Part 3: LA County’s Inspector General has announced his retirement. But he has a lot more to tell us re: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department,

December 17, 2025
Elections '08 • Presidential Race

Palin 2: Mudflats Speaks…. UPDATED

August 29, 2008
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UPDATE: More Alaska response at Mudflats. And for those of you who’d like to dig a little...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

Sarah Palin: And She Could Play One On Television

August 29, 2008
24 Comments

Here’s the good news: Sarah Palin is so good-looking, dynamic and charismatic that she could...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

HISTORY

August 28, 2008
38 Comments

IT WAS BARACK’S NIGHT TO RIDE INTO HISTORY. As you can see, I live blogged below. But, in...

Elections '08 • National Politics • Presidential Race

BILL & JOE SPEAK: Live blogging

August 27, 2008
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THE BIG DOG BARKS I’ll be live blogging in a minute. Some tech issues, but it’ll all...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

HILLARY NIGHT: I’m Not Live Blogging….But Zach Is… (UPDATE: Evidently, I lied. I too live blogged.)

August 26, 2008
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6:55 PM, Tuesday: I can’t live blog because then I’d have to take Mark Warner and his...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

Michelle…. Home Run

August 25, 2008
40 Comments

Ted Kennedy’s appearance and video was an inspirational tear jerker designed to draw the...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Medical Marijuana • The Feds

Medical Marijuana—the AG Separates the Clinics from the Crooks

August 25, 2008
22 Comments

From time to time here, I’ve taken issue with the DEA’s 100-agent raids on LA...

Economy • Education • Elections '08 • Media • National Politics • Presidential Race

MONDAY’S MUST READ REPORT

August 25, 2008
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As we gear up for this week’s Democratic convention, here are a bunch of must-read stories...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

It’s Biden! (UPDATED)

August 22, 2008
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Wooo-hoooo!!!!!!!!!! CNN has confirmed. (So has AP and NBC and Fox.) He’s smart...

Courts • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Prison • Prison Policy • State Government • State Politics

Parole and Race in California Prisons

August 22, 2008
11 Comments

It’s Criminal Justice Friday….with two stories where there are no perfect, slam-dunk...

Charter Schools • Education • LAUSD

Q & A with Departing Charter School Queen, Caprice Young,

August 21, 2008
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Education watchers were caught off guard when it was announced yesterday that Caprice Young, the...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Environment • State Government • State Politics

Who is Leading Whom in California’s Sane City Planning Movement?

August 21, 2008
13 Comments

FYI: Read this LA Times article about the global warming-related, anti-urban sprawl bill making...

Immigration & Justice • LA City Council • LAPD

Leimert Park, the Shaws & the Wrong Cops – Part 2 – UPDATED

August 20, 2008
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UPDATE: Michael Higby at Mayor Sam’s Sister City has done more poking around on this issue...

Courts • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Prison • Prison Policy • State Government • State Politics

Jerry Brown & the Attack of the “Judgeocracy.”

August 19, 2008
6 Comments

Like a top that now spins ever faster, going nowhere, powered mostly by its own unstoppable...

Immigration & Justice • LAPD • Media

The Sunday “Raid” in the Park, the LAPD….and Jamiel’s Law.

August 19, 2008
15 Comments

An alarming story was careening around the web all day Monday. It began on Mayor Sam’s...

Crime and Punishment

Najee Ali Sentenced to 4 Years Lock-Up for Bribery Attempt

August 18, 2008
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Community activist and sometimes irritant to….well….all kinds of people, Najee Ali was...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs • LA City Council • LAPD • LASD • Public Health • Sheriff Lee Baca

The Death of Bo Taylor, Part 2: Funerals & City Politics

August 18, 2008
12 Comments

This past Friday two events occurred, each of which will potentially affect the future of gang...

Crime and Punishment • Juvenile Justice

Questioning California’s Maximum Security Adolescents

August 15, 2008
25 Comments

As more and more bills come due—and not in a good way—from California’s nearly...

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