by jpitney | Jan 22, 2025 | Crime, Police, Public Service
David GIlmour at Mediaite: Former police officer Michael Fanone, who defended the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots in 2021, said he “fully expects” to “experience violence” at the hands of some of the offenders released by President Donald Trump’s pardons. In...
by jpitney | Dec 26, 2024 | California Politics, Crime
Karen Garcia at The Los Angeles Times: The In-N-Out in Oakland earlier this year became the first location in the restaurant chain to be permanently closed, a decision the owner of the fast-food company recently doubled down on by blaming rampant crime, slow police...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Drugs
Steve Lopez at LAT: When he was a boy of 12 or so, and his parents were busy running the family restaurant, Norm Langer spent hours across the street in MacArthur Park. It was, at the time, an elegant urban oasis, with lollipop palms standing over a lake fed by...
by jpitney | Jun 3, 2024 | California Politics, Crime, Local Government, Technology
Dreier Roundtable Fellow Nathaniel Worley won the Government Department award for best thesis: Police Flight Oversight: LAPD Drone as First Responder Implementation Abstract This thesis explores the feasibility of implementing a Drone as First Responder (DFR) program...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Civility, Congress, Crime, House of Representatives
Phil Kiko and Christine Leonard at The Hill: The vast divide between Democrats and Republicans seems wider than ever. On Capitol Hill, the daily rhetoric is so heated that bipartisan compromise seems elusive. While the current climate may seem insurmountable, strong...
by jpitney | Jan 19, 2024 | Crime
John McMillan at City Journal: When crime throws American cities into disarray—as has happened before and in some places is happening now—it is a bad look for the Left. Start with Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, one of the most influential scholarly books of...
