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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 • Elections '08 • Presidential Race • Springsteen

Springsteen…..Wrong for America.

April 20, 2008
4 Comments

I’m running out so am just posting fast, but if you haven’t seen this, it’s...

Elections '08 • Media • National Politics • Presidential Race

Hillary Clinton Slams the Democratic Activists

April 18, 2008
98 Comments

One of the genuine joys of the crazed, often incredibly petty and seemingly unending election...

Prison • Prison Policy • Public Health • State Government • State Politics

We Warned You and Now….WE Get to Pay

April 18, 2008
6 Comments

The Feds have been telling California over and over to fix it’s prison healthcare...

Antonio Villaraigosa • City Government • Gangs • LA City Council

Janice Hahn Makes a Promise

April 17, 2008
11 Comments

After watching a shockingly hideous Democratic debate last night (What is wrong< with Charles...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Supreme Court

Supremes Say Yes (Sort of) to Legal Injection

April 16, 2008
9 Comments

Today, the US Supreme Court voted in the much-watched case of Baze v. Reese that lethal injection...

American Artists • Elections '08 • Presidential Race • Springsteen

The Boss and Barack

April 16, 2008
7 Comments

As WLA commenter Reg has pointed out, today Bruce Springsteen has declared his support of Barack...

Media

Chatting Bloggers on the Radio

April 16, 2008
2 Comments

It appears that, barring acts of God and the like, yesterday’s bumped Warren Olney show Which...

Gangs • Immigration & Justice • LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement

Special Order 40: Truth & Consequences

April 15, 2008
8 Comments

We’ve now seen more than a week’s worth of politically charged emotional fiction...

Antonio Villaraigosa • City Government • Gangs

Antonio, Gangs and the State of the City

April 15, 2008
5 Comments

NOTE: I’LL BE DISCUSSING ALL THIS along with Gang Czar Jeff Carr and some others on Warren...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

Angry White People….Hillary’s Hypocrisy….and the Press

April 14, 2008
16 Comments

Yes, yes, we all know I’m an Obama supporter, but this sort of thing drives me nuts: In the...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Education • Gangs

AV and the State of the City – UPDATED

April 14, 2008
2 Comments

At his 2006 State of the City address, Antonio Villaraigosa officially announced that he was going...

Gangs • Immigration & Justice • LAPD

The Sad Path to Bad Law

April 11, 2008
25 Comments

This is how it always happens. There is a high profile killing of a kid whose death breaks our...

Jail • Law Enforcement • Orange County

Carona’s Jail Time

April 10, 2008
23 Comments

If we needed any more indication (which we don’t) that former OC Sheriff Mike Carona was a...

Crime and Punishment • National Politics • Parole Policy

Bush & Second Chances

April 10, 2008
5 Comments

650,000 Americans are paroled from prison each year. Within 12 months, around half will be back...

American Artists

The Church of Rock and Roll

April 9, 2008
18 Comments

I realize I was quite slow in posting on Wednesday morning. The truth is I was too sleepy and...

Antonio Villaraigosa • City Government • Gangs • LA City Council

THE GREAT LA GANG WARS: Tony C. Does the Right Thing for the Wrong Reasons

April 9, 2008
3 Comments

Well it’s settled, signed sealed and delivered, written in stone…and thoroughly peed on...

Media

The Wa Po’s Pulitzer Girls

April 8, 2008
29 Comments

The Washington Post deservedly won a string of six Pulitzers yesterday. They won for, among other...

Education • Elections '08 • National Issues • National Politics • PTSD • War

Devils, Dust…and the US Army

April 6, 2008
17 Comments

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