“It’s been two months since Angelenos woke up to a completely frightening reality on our city streets,” said Los Angeles City ...

On Tuesday, July 8, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, along with the LA County Board of Supervisors ...

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Now that most Los Angeles County residents have received their ballots for the June primary election, it is time to address one of the most significant races in the state of California, namely the ...

Editor’s Note: Since the Gold Rush, California’s youth prisons or “correctional institutions” have been characterized by neglect, violence, and abuse, despite attempts at reform. During the bad old ...

Only in LA Sheriff Villanueva is not alone in his resistance to addressing the issue of deputy gangs. Every LA County Sheriff from Sherman Block forward has failed to take on the corrosive deputy ...

As of Wednesday, May 11, a fourth whistleblower from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come forward to file a civil rights claim that disputes major parts of the story Sheriff Alex ...

This morning, attorney Vincent Miller released the second complaint in a series of civil rights lawsuits brought by a string of department whistleblowers who allege they were retaliated against by ...

Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman has quietly sent out 35 letters to 35 different LA County Sheriff’s deputies. The letters, which are dated Friday, May 12, direct each of the deputy ...

On Friday, September 23, the LA County Sheriffs Civilian Oversight Commission held the sixth of its special public hearings on the issue of deputy gangs. The event, which was held both in person and ...

On Thursday, June 11, of this year, a Southern California jury took less than three hours to acquit two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies of charges alleging that the twosome conspired to file ...