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...
Happy Easter
Although my own kid is 22, I still force, wheedle, cajole him into an Easter hunt every year in...
Two Cases, Two Kinds of Justice: PART 2 -UPDATED
6 PM UPDATE: Sara Jane Olson has just been taken back to prison. It seems that the CDCR counted...
Two Cases, Two Kinds of Justice
Six years ago, Kathleen Soliah AKA Sara Jane Olson, a former member of Symbionese Liberation Army...
Homeboy: The Biz of Reclaiming Lives
Nothing is simple. I hear that one of our poets from the Homeboy Stories Project has been...
One Murder in Particular – UPDATED
Kevin Roderick at LA Observed posted a link to this Op Ed that ran in the Long Beach Press Telegram...
Race and Murder in LA
The R word is the word of the week. At very different ends of the racial spectrum there was...
“…it is where we start. It is where our union grows stronger”
Whatever candidate you want to see become President, whatever your party or political leaning...