Part 2 of Aero Bureau Audit Reportedly Finds Improper Flights (But Not Much...
UPDATED: (Scroll down for update and Audit} Part 2 of the much delayed audit of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s Aero Bureau, the elite LASD division that oversees the department’s aircraft, is...
View ArticleAre LA County Tax Payers Getting What They’ve Paid for When it Comes to the...
THE SUPES WANT TO KNOW: WHY ARE SOME AREAS OF LA COUNTY GETTING MUCH BETTER SERVICE FROM THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT THAN OTHERS? The fact that the residents of the unincorporated areas of LA County...
View ArticleNew Head of National Juvie Justice Office (Finally) Named….Priest Accused of...
AFTER 4 YEARS OF LAGGING, OBAMA NAMES HEAD OF THE DOJ’S JUVENILE JUSTICE DIVISION (OJJDP) On Friday, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Robert Listenbee, Jr. as the head of the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Dorner Surrounded in Big Bear, 2 Officers Shot, 1 Has Reportedly...
1:48 PM: It appears that two deputies were injured by Dorner in a shootout in the Big Bear area. He appears to be cornered in a cabin. According to the LA Times, the incident began when Dorner was...
View ArticleDORNER BREAKING: It’s Over. We Think. SBSD Says Human Remains Found in Cabin...
FINAL TUESDAY UPDATE 11:00 pm: San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Dept says investigators have located charred human remains within the cabin. Forensic ID comes next. And so the tragic and exhausting day...
View ArticleHonoring Officer Michael Crain of the Riverside PD, with Grief and Gratitude
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Flogging Molly’s song below was the first piece of music played under the montage honoring the life of Michael Crain, a much-beloved officer, ex-Marine, husband and father of two, a...
View ArticleDORNER: Opening LAPD Board of Rights Hearings, A Former LAPD Cop Says He...
WILL DORNER’S CASE BRING A RETURN TO OPEN BOARD OF RIGHTS HEARINGS FOR THE LAPD? LAPD Board of Rights disciplinary hearings used to be open to the public-–until 2006 when a famous California Supreme...
View ArticleEat Pizza, Donate Money to Families of 2 Fallen Police Officers
Next week, Monday-Thursday—February 25-28—California Pizza Kitchen has kindly offered to give 20 percent of your dinner check, drinks included, to the families of Riverside Police officer Michael...
View ArticleA Look Inside Pelican Bay’s SHU…LAPD Lt. Sues for Alleged Retaliation After...
WHAT DOES CALIFORNIA PRISON “SHU” REALLY LOOK AND FEEL LIKE? Monday, California state legislators began discussing the issue of isolation policy in the state’s prisons. The U.S. Congress has begun...
View ArticleSheriff Lee Baca is Named Sheriff of the Year—Perplexing Critics
On Monday, the National Sheriffs’ Association announced their choice of Sheriff Lee Baca as “Sheriff of the Year.” The award—which is given “to recognize a sheriff who has shown unusual initiative and...
View ArticleLASD Gets $$….Allegations Ongoing for Pasadena PD Officers…Supremes Hear DOMA…
SUPES VOTE TO GIVE SHERIFF ASKED FOR $22 MILLION FOR PATROLS At Tuesday’s LA County Board of Supervisors’ meeting the board voted to give the sheriff’s department $22 million to help shore up the LASD...
View Article$1.1 Million Judgement for LASD Shooting With or Without “Malice”……People are...
JURY AWARDS $1.1 MILLION TO PALMDALE TEENAGER SHOT BY LASD DEPUTY WHILE ON BIKE WITH TOY GUN This week a jury awarded 19-year old William Fetters $1,127,600 in medical bills and damages for pain and...
View ArticleThe War on Cops—that Isn’t….Rethinking Anti-Bulling Policies…Reporters &...
A WAR ON COPS? When police officers are murdered, in addition to the unbearable hole it leaves in the lives of family, fellow officers and friends, it is a blow to all the rest of us, a deeply painful...
View ArticleCA DAs’ Creepy Death Penalty Bill Rejected…Jail Deputy Allegedly Beat...
CALIFORNIA PROSECUTORS WANT TO TRIM DEATH PENALTY APPEALS, GO BACK TO EXTREMELY PAINFUL FORM OF EXECUTION & BLOCK INFORMATION ON DRUG COCKTAIL ON DEATH BY INJECTION. SENATE COMMITTEE SEZ, “UH….NO.”...
View ArticleWhy “The Hangover” Producer Goes to Prison…..Santa Clara’s Juvie Facility...
One of California’s most committed, practical, gets-his-hands-dirty, knowledgable and impassioned advocates for locked-up kids is Scott Budnick—who in his day job is the executive producer for all...
View ArticleSCOTUS Sez OK to DNA Swab at Arrest, Scalia Protests….Crime in Schools Down,...
In a 5/4 decision on Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement officers can take one’s DNA if one is arrested for a serious offense, a decision that elicited howls of protest from certain...
View ArticleDorner Report Leak Reveals Firing of Rogue ex-LAPD Officer Found “Justified”
The findings of the reexamination of the firing of former LAPD officer Christopher Dorner are not expected out until later this month, but civil rights attorney Connie Rice told AP reporter, Tami...
View ArticleLong Beach Chief Jim McDonnell Will NOT Run for Sheriff Against Lee Baca
We’d been hearing the rumors for weeks, that after a long exploratory period in which Long Beach Chief of Police Jim McDonnell seriously considered running for Los Angeles Sheriff against Lee Baca, he...
View ArticleRacially Biased Justice in the News: Weed Arrests, NYC’s Stop & Frisk….and a...
It’s been three and a half years since Michelle Alexander’s essential book, The New Jim Crow, appeared in book stores and laid out, with an avalanche of unignorable facts, her thesis that Jim Crow and...
View ArticleLA Sheriff’s Deputy Claims She was Fired for Not Backing up Partner’s False...
Both ABC 7 and NBC 4 have story about former LA Sheriff’s deputy Penelope Armstrong who is suing the Sheriff’s Department, claiming she was fired for refusing to go along with what she says was her...
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