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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
Gangs • Public Health

If Gang Violence is a Disease…. What is the Cure?

May 4, 2008
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One of this morning’s must reads is the Alex Kotlowitz article in today’s New York...

Civil Liberties • Immigration & Justice • LAPD

May Day……A Year Later

May 2, 2008
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I’m working on a deadline but will have more posting later today…. In the meantime:...

Gangs • LAPD • Los Angeles Times

Community Gang Cops

May 1, 2008
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A story in this morning’s LA Times gives an intelligent, nuanced glimpse of some South LA...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

Wright and the Responsibility of the Media

April 30, 2008
2 Comments

Often Jon Stewart gets it right. Last night he got it very right. Unlike every other news outlet...

Bears and Alligators • Environment • Wolves

Killing Wolves

April 30, 2008
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I’ve been monitoring this issue with a sinking heart. And now it appears that worst fears...

Courts • Education • War on Drugs

The Drug War’s War on Students

April 29, 2008
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In 2001 Education Week told this story about the Bush Administration’s decision to be hard...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race • Religion

Sigmund Freud….. Meet Jeremiah Wright – UPDATED X 2

April 29, 2008
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UPDATE 2: Barack Obama held a press conference this morning and came out forcefully and...

American Artists • Media • Social Justice • Unions • Writers and Writing

Calvin Trillin, The Wire & the AFL-CIO

April 29, 2008
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Two Southern California events and one national contest that you might want to know about.. ...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

Real World Questions, Please

April 28, 2008
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In yesterday’s New York Times Elizabeth Edwards slapped the media upside the head for its...

American Artists • Los Angeles Times • Writers and Writing

High on Books – UPDATED

April 27, 2008
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***************************************************************** UPDATE: For those of you who...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

End Game

April 25, 2008
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name="wmode" value="transparent"/> So who’s right? And what does it mean? Maureen Dowd says...

Literature & Justice • Los Angeles Times • Los Angeles Writers

El Lay Celebrates Books – And LA Writers Do Radio

April 25, 2008
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OKAY, FIRST THE BOOKS: The LA Times Festival of Books takes over the UCLA campus this weekend. All...

Crime and Punishment • Journalism • Media • War on Drugs

The *Real* Wire: Life Imitates Art in Baltimore’s Shadow World

April 24, 2008
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Another of the talented LA Weekly writers who’ve migrated elsewhere in the past year is...

Los Angeles County • Public Health

The Economy and Hurting LA Kids

April 23, 2008
3 Comments

Yesterday, LA County health officials issued an annual report showing that the number of reported...

Prison • Prison Policy

Prison Nation or Rogue State???

April 23, 2008
11 Comments

One more primary election down. Five thousand four hundred seventy eight to go. (Or at least...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs • LA City Council

LA & GANG Intervention: Finding What Works

April 22, 2008
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When the LA Times snatched David Zahniser from the LA Weekly last summer, it was a very, very smart...

Bill Bratton • City Government • Gangs • Immigration & Justice • LA City Council • LA County Jail • LAPD • Law Enforcement

Should Cops Be La Migra? – UPDATE

April 21, 2008
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If my schedule will cooperate, I’m going to try to sort through the various views of Special...

Media • National Politics • War

War’s Message Machine

April 21, 2008
26 Comments

This weekend’s Must Read Story Award goes to……. ….The piece on the cover of...

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