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This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
#Documented/Undocumented • #ProtectingDueProcess

Mayor Bass & a list of mayors of So Cal cities join in federal civil rights lawsuit against Trump’s militarization of immigration

July 9, 2025
Civil Liberties

May your 4th of July weekend be a safe one, and may you find joy in these strange times.

July 4, 2025
Los Angeles Times • Media

The LA Times: Dulling the Edge of our Fright – UPDATED X 2

July 11, 2008
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The past ten days has produced a dank flurry of ever more disheartening LA Times/Sam Zell news. ...

Homelessness • Public Assistance • Public Health • Street Stories

My Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part V

July 10, 2008
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NOTE: This is part of a continuing series on long-time WitnessLA commenter, Richard LoCicero...

Los Angeles County • Public Health

MLK-Harbor Hospital—the Enabling Continues

July 10, 2008
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Let us get one thing straight at the outset of this conversation: Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor is...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

ON BEING BLUE: A Cop Talks About Cops – Part II

July 9, 2008
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Deputy Chief Charles Beck is the head of LAPD’s Detective Bureau. That means when the story...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

The LAPD and Delay Tactics (Mine, Actually.) – UPDATED

July 8, 2008
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UPDATE: The Jerry Brown news conference this afternoon was to announce a large and, it appears...

LAUSD • Public Health

Does School P.E. Matter? (Correct Answer: Yes, of Course.)

July 8, 2008
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For years, LAUSD has not enforced state laws requiring an average of 20 minutes per day of physical...

Courts • Guantanamo

Truth and Gitmo

July 8, 2008
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If you believe the U.S. military is doing a dandy job figuring out exactly who is the enemy and who...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

ON BEING BLUE: A Cop Talks About Cops – Part I

July 7, 2008
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Whenever I post anything that’s marginally critical of the LAPD specifically, or law...

Bill Bratton • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement • Sheriff Lee Baca • State Government

Searching for Justice In All the Wrong Places

July 7, 2008
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(No. None of these photos have to do with the articles listed below. They’re from this past...

American Artists • American Voices • Arts • Life and Life Only

And crown thy good with brotherhood…

July 4, 2008
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HAPPY 4th!!!! name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> PS: So what songs do you think we should be...

Homelessness • Public Assistance • Public Health • Street Stories

My Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part IV

July 3, 2008
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My computer is having a psychotic break and I’m on my son’s laptop so I’ll make...

Gangs • LAPD • Law Enforcement

Killing the Witness

July 2, 2008
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It is hardly new news to say that witnesses are commonly very reluctant to come forward to testify...

American Voices • Journalism • Media

Clay Felker: 1925 – 2008 “Journalism Has Been My Life”

July 1, 2008
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Clay Felker died today and the tributes are pouring in, as it is right and good and true that they...

Los Angeles Times • Media

Dying for the LA Times

July 1, 2008
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(SAMIZDAT ˈsä-mÄ”z-ËŒdät noun: a system in the Union of...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • State Government

Judging the Death Penalty

June 30, 2008
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On Monday, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice—the committee...

Courts • Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

Innocent Until Proven…Yadda, Yadda, Yadda? Evidently Not.

June 30, 2008
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A couple of alarming articles surfaced over the weekend that are must reads. First there was the...

Homelessness • Public Health • Street Stories

My Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part III

June 30, 2008
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(Just to be clear, this photo is not of Richard) As long as Richard continues to send me journal...

ACLU • American Voices • Civil Liberties • Civil Rights • Journalism • Los Angeles Times • Presidential Race • Wolves

Free Speech is So Scary

June 29, 2008
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Mistaken identities: Charles Black is not the enemy Unless you’re driving in your Prius 5 mph...

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