On Monday, September 28, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled in a 17-page...
Is LA County About to Critically Underfund Diversion Just When It’s Needed Most?
Is LA County about to underfund its most important diversion programs, including mental health...
LAPD Officer Attacked and Injured at Harbor Division Station on Saturday Night
An officer of the Los Angeles Police Department was wounded on Saturday night, at around 10 p.m. by...
Building an Alternative Crisis Response System in LA County
In June, in response to the killings of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and others during encounters...
What It’s Going to Take to Fix Policing
The former director of President Obama’s community-oriented policing strategies office warns that...
U.S. Congress Passes Two Bills to Address the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
In some counties comprised primarily of tribal lands, Indigenous women are murdered at rates more...
Prop 17 Could Restore Voting Rights to Tens of Thousands of Californians
By denying voting rights to those on parole, the state has barred many Californians of color from...
Irreplaceable. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, R.I.P.
The New Yorker's Jill Lapore makes the case that the scholar, advocate, and judge that was Ruth...
Citizens Oversight Commissioner Robert Bonner calls for the Resignation of Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Shortly after the noon hour on Thursday, former federal Judge Robert Bonner, who is a member of...
As LA’s COVID-Reduced Jail Population Once Again Surpasses Capacity, the LA County Supes Vote to Create a Jail Population Review Council
In order to reduce the likelihood that coronavirus would slam Los Angeles County’s jail system...
Crime Survivor Groups and Progressive Prosecutors Urge Mayors to Oppose Proposition 20’s Criminal Justice Reform Roll-Backs
As the November elections near, opposition to Proposition 20, which would roll back key portions of...
Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies Shot in Ambush on Saturday Night, Now in Hospital Fighting for Their Lives
At around 7 p.m., on Saturday night, two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies, one male and one...
Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Will Now Have a Path to Employment Through Expungement
On Friday, as more than 1,300 incarcerated firefighters continued to battle record-setting blazes...
WitnessLA on KCRW With Steve Chiotakis Talking About Shooting deaths of Dijon Kizzee and Andres Guardado and the Problems with LASD Oversight
While we’re talking about the LA County Supervisors’ recently passed motion (see story...
LA County Supervisors Have Had it With Sheriff Villanueva’s Failure to Allow Oversight by the Inspector General
Last Thursday evening, September 3, 2020, a vocal and angry web-based crowd showed up for a...
Police ‘Pretext’ Traffic Stops Need to End, Some Lawmakers Say
In a pretext stop, an officer pulls over a motorist for a minor traffic or equipment violation and...
Happy Labor Day – Especially to our Essential & Frontline Workers & First Responders
On this particular Labor Day, we owe much to all our essential workers who, during this strange...
Op-Ed: Despite Months of Protests, NHTSA Still Thinks Cops Can Make Cyclists and Pedestrians Safer
There's just one thing missing from the federal agency's "idea book" on enhancing police support...