A bill announced Wednesday would abolish a mandatory sentence enhancement affecting approximately...
As The New York Times Condemns “Crack Baby” Journalism, the Orange County Register Revives It.
As 2018 turned to 2019, The New York Times published two stunning editorials with profound...
Chronic Shortage Of Deputies At LA Sheriff’s Department Forces City of Lancaster To Form It’s Own “Hybrid” Police Force
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is unable to fulfill its policing contract with...
Urban Sheriffs Flee ICE Program as Small Counties Join Trump’s Deportation Push
By Tim Henderson, Stateline Activists in North Carolina’s two largest cities, Charlotte and...
California Governor’s Opening Salvo: Scrapping Its Juvenile Justice System
California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to “end the juvenile justice system as we know it” on...
2 Months Bring 3 Tragic Shooting Deaths of California Peace Officers
California and its law enforcement agencies have taken a string of extremely painful blows in the...
Justice Spending in the Budget, Plus Gov. Newsom Says the Juvenile Justice System Will Move From Corrections Dept. to Health and Human Services
California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed the first iteration of his $209 billion budget for...
55 Prosecutors and Law Enforcement Officials Sign Statement Supporting St. Louis’ Prosecutor’s “Brady List”
On Wednesday, 55 current and former prosecutors and law enforcement officials signed a statement in...
In 7 Years, the LASD Jailed 173,000 Women at a Cost of $752 Million
Between 2010 and 2016, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department booked 173,023 women into...
Is LA County’s Mira Loma Women’s Jail Project Dead? And Did the New Sheriff Help Kill It?
It’s not yet a done deal, but absent some kind of dramatic intervention, it appears that the...
Dispatch From San Quentin: Sticks and Stones
Editor’s Note: As many readers are aware, WitnessLA has been publishing a series of...
CA Supremes Shut Down Deputies’ Union’s Attempt to Block New Transparency Law
On Wednesday, January 2, the California Supreme Court shut down a San Bernardino Sheriff’s...
Counting Prison Inmates Differently Could Shift Political Power to Cities
By Tim Henderson More states plan to count state prisoners as residents of their home communities...
Some of Our Best Work From 2018
This past year, WitnessLA published various stories and investigations that we know made a...
A New Year’s Eve Message From WitnessLA
This has been a full, complicated, and always interesting year in the world of justice in Los...
Los Angeles Ends 2018 With Violent Crime Down!—Along With Other CA Cities
“For the first time in 5 years, violent crime and homicides are [down] in L.A.” Los...
Op-Ed: Recidivism Risk Assessments Won’t Fix the Criminal Justice System
By Stephanie Lacambra, Jeremy Gillula, and Jamie Williams, Electronic Frontier Foundation The...
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year
WitnessLA’s posting will be lighter until 2019 rings in. Then we’ll be back in full...