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...
Tibet Watching
For those of you who want to take your minds off Baer Stearns and the fact that 2 million Americans...
Do We Execute the Innocent?
Much to the dismay of death penalty court watchers, myself included, today the Georgia Supreme...
Slashing & Burning Education: WWFDRD?
Now that California’s education budget is sliding toward the abyss, a local activist asks...
LA Gang Wars IV: Steve Lopez Throws Down
LA Times columnist Steve Lopez has been apologizing a lot in the last 48 hours. Here’s...
LA Gang Wars III: Antonio Finally Sides With Laura
The LA Times and others have been trying to get LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to say whether or not...
What Do You Have To Do To Get Fired Around Here??? – UPDATED
Remember that Assistant principal who made news for his alleged kidnapping and rape of a...