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This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
#Documented/Undocumented • #ProtectingDueProcess

Mayor Bass & a list of mayors of So Cal cities join in federal civil rights lawsuit against Trump’s militarization of immigration

July 9, 2025
Civil Liberties

May your 4th of July weekend be a safe one, and may you find joy in these strange times.

July 4, 2025
Media

David Simon and The Future of News

January 24, 2008
7 Comments

(The serious-looking guys above are Kevin Roderick, creator and editor of LA Observed, and Carlos...

Criminal Justice • Parole Policy • Prison Policy

CRIMINAL JUSTICE III: Catch and Release Prisons

January 24, 2008
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JEANNE WOODFORD was the first female warden in the 148 year history of San Quentin State Prison...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • LA County Jail • LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement • Parole Policy • Police • Prison Policy

The Will to Solve the Problem?

January 23, 2008
5 Comments

All day Tuesday some of the main players in the realm of LA criminal justice got together at the...

Bill Bratton • Criminal Justice • Gangs • Juvenile Justice • LA County Jail • LAPD • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Repairing the Broken Conveyor Belt

January 22, 2008
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All day today I’ll be at the Criminal Justice Conference sponsored and organized by the USC...

Elections '08 • National Politics • Presidential Race

“An African American, a Woman….. and John”

January 22, 2008
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“In a race that involves an African American, a woman and…..John….” began...

Arts • Los Angeles Times • Media

Life Imitates Art at the LA Times – UPDATED

January 21, 2008
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“How come there’s cuts in the newsroom when the company’s still...

Los Angeles Times • Media

LA Times Editor Fired: Deja Vu All Over Again

January 20, 2008
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I step away from the computer for a few hours to, like, have a life, and while I’m out the ...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

Myrtle Beach Voting Machine Debacle

January 19, 2008
5 Comments

Okay, maybe sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But, this sort of thing does not calm fears about...

Elections '08

Nevada Counting: And it’s…Hillary (and Robocalls and Mud)

January 19, 2008
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I’m catching up on weird housekeeping tasks like….um….putting away the last of...

Education • LAUSD

Latest Los Angeles Education Wars: Follow the Money

January 18, 2008
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In that I was teaching all day yesterday, education’s on my mind. So while the presidential...

National Issues • National Politics

Depends on What You Mean by “Preserve”

January 17, 2008
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Today appears to be the morning for focusing (again) on the Bush adminstration’s belief that...

Courts • Environment • National Politics

George Bush and the Whales

January 17, 2008
7 Comments

In one more instance of unilateral I-am-the-decider-ism in which George W. Bush knows better than...

Bill Bratton • Elections '08 • LAPD • Law Enforcement • Presidential Race

Bill Bratton – Past and Future

January 16, 2008
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Joe Domanick has a smart, insightful, authoritative, and wonderfully gossipy story on LAPD Chief...

LAPD • Law Enforcement

Cops, Sanity and Money

January 15, 2008
2 Comments

THE GOOD NEWS: Today the Los Angeles City Council voted 13 to 0 to reopen the discussion as to...

Law Enforcement • Orange County

Mike Carona: “He Shot the Sheriff”

January 15, 2008
21 Comments

To further bastardize the words of the great Bob Marley, “And he also shot his deputy..(Oh...

Life and Life Only

Hoping Not to Get Snowed In….

January 14, 2008
4 Comments

Theoretically, I’m flying out of Vermont today via the Albany airport, and keeping my fingers...

Health Care • Public Assistance • Social Justice

Finding Relief

January 11, 2008
15 Comments

Brand new and very smart writer (and USC graduate student), Matt Mundy has written a strong piece...

Education • State Politics

Schwarzenegger, Topanga and the 10-Percent Solution

January 10, 2008
34 Comments

I’ve just gotten a slew of emails from my neighbors telling me that if Arnold Schwarzenegger...

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