This morning the LA Times published a full and official retraction of its Tupak Shakur story. ...
10 Survival Tips for Barack and Hillary
It seems that tonight Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both attending the same rubber chicken...
School Age and on Skid Row
Years ago Parenting Magazine asked me to do an article on a homeless mother with children. The...
LA to FEDS: BACK OFF on Medical Marijuana!
On Wednesday, the LA City Council passed a resolution that asks Federal law enforcement to mind its...
Just Say NO to Murder? How about NO to Politics?
I don’t want to seem like a killjoy, but I don’t think asking politely is quite the...
GOT GRADUATION? Evidently Not, From LA to Detroit
Yesterday, another horrifying report came out about urban graduation rates. This particular...
Writing Guantanamo
In the upcoming April 17 issue of the New York Review of Books, veteran investigative reporter...
The James Q Wilson Factor – Part Deux
It turns out I was not the only person annoyed by Sunday’s James Q. Wilson Op Ed. Texas...
The James Q Wilson Factor
In Sunday’s LA Times Opinion section, famous conservative criminology prof, James Q. Wilson...
Royal Government
Three separate stories tonight—one on television, two on radio—addressed the idea that...
Who’s Driving the Latest Reverend Wright Controversy?
For days we saw (over and over and over) that Barack Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright has, at...
The City Grieves
LA Times story here, Daily News here, LAFD blog here.
Cut Education, Wound the Economy?
Two thousand students, administrators and education advocates gathered at Cal State Long Beach on...
Another &^%$##&$ Gang Plan: THE SEQUEL
FINALLY….SOME GOOD NEWS Yesterday I was critical of what appeared to be one more gang...
Suicide on the Force
Yesterday, the LAPD’s chief psychologist, Kevin Jablonski, told the Police Commission that...
Another &^%$##&$ Gang Plan?
Yesterday a press release went out announcing that the new “Countywide Gang and Violence...
More Cops on the Street for Less $$? Go Laura!
In an era of dire city and state budget slashing, LA City Controller Laura Chick released a report...
Sara Jane Olson….and Michael Duc Ta
As the perplexing tale of Sara Jane Olson’s release and rearrest continues, I am still unable...