LA CITY BEAT
STORMY WEATHER (COVER-1/13/05)
The race for
Mayor may end up a repeat of Hahn vs. Villaraigosa.
GOOD COP BAD COP (7/08/04)
A computer system for tracking
the behavior of LAPD officers has been in the works for over
11 years.
LA WEEKLY
RETHINKING THE LAPD: BY THE NUMBERS (9/05/2002)
Tracking LAPD abuse after a decade of start and stop reform.
WHAT
WERE THEY THINKING? (9/08/00)
Televised police pursuit
reveals possible errors.
CASE
OF THE LUNCH-TIME SHOOTING (7/21/00)
The circumstances surrounding
an off-duty LAPD officer’s fatal shooting of an unarmed jewelry
vendor continue.
THE 911 MYSTERY (5/26/00)
The police report says an off-duty
LAPD cop called 911 for backup before fatally shooting a
jewelry salesman, but a copy of the tape contradicts that
version of events.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
(5/19/00)
An off-duty LAPD officer
puts four bullets in a jewelry peddler’s chest, killing him.
How did it happen?
TRACKING DELAYS (3/31/2000)
A how-not-to guide for monitoring
bad cops.
OFFBEAT
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY PARK (5/6-5/12/1999)
$3 million
in city funds for "junk
land" goes to..a multimillionaire car dealer.
PASADENA WEEKLY
DUE PROCESS
TAKES A HOLIDAY (8/7-23, 2000)
A search through police reports
and court papers suggests an overzealous cop.
TALKIN’ TRASH (7/19, 2001)
California cities are
supposed recycle half their trash to reduce mountains of
solid waste–but lots of them cheat.
CHICANO/LATINO LAW REVIEW
HATE UNLEASHED (FALL, 1995)
Los
Angeles in the aftermath of Prop. 187.
LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL
Counsel For Ralphs Face Investigation (11/01/06)
Some corporate
layers are now under federal investigation for their possible
complicity in a Ralphs Grocery Company scheme that saw the
company lock out thousands of workers during a strike only
to re-hire and pay them under false names.
Courthouse Construction:
Spend Now or Spend More Later (7/17/06)
Six courtrooms in
LA County’s newest courthouse sit unfinished as a burgeoning
local population overcrowds existing facilities. But the
cash-strapped county can’t afford to finish construction.
Crumbling Courthouses Fall Through the Budgetary
Cracks (6/16/06)
Most California courthouses, built in the 1950's,
don’t meet current seismic standards, but the costs to bring
them up-to-code are staggering.
