by jpitney | Apr 15, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Transportation
Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...
by jpitney | Mar 30, 2025 | California Politics, Crime
Summer Lin at LAT: The family of a a woman who was strangled to death last year during a conjugal visit with her husband at a Northern California prison has called for reforms after a second woman was killed in a similar manner. Tania Thomas, 47, was killed in July...
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...
