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Bureaucratic hoops let parolees hide behind privacy laws
You’d think the same state legislators who backed the release of thousands of parolees from state prisons into local communities would at least ensure that local police could know the identity of these...
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Thank you, Commissioner Skobin
To say that Los Angeles Police Commissioner Alan J. Skobin will be missed is an understatement. As many of you may know, the longtime commissioner has been nominated by the mayor to serve as a fire...
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The LAPD today
The 20th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots has been welcomed by countless news stories and retrospectives on this important event in our city’s history. But many of these retrospectives have...
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AB 109 delivers an insult to justice
AB 109, the state’s new prison realignment law, will go down as one of the worst pieces of legislation ever enacted in California. As the list of its failures continues to grow, the only possible...
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Once again, a failure to follow precedent at the 9th Circuit
“We’ve given police a simple, common-sense rule to deal with vehicles that are left unattended because the driver has been placed under arrest.”If those words had been used by the 9th Circuit Court of...
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California legislature’s U-turn on law and order issues
One of the low points in the history of victims’ rights was the Rose Bird Supreme Court. Relying on the doctrine of “independent state ground,” the court issued scores of headshaking decisions...
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The Kings, the fans and the LAPD: A great week in L.A.
When the L.A. Kings took a 3-0 lead in the first period of the sixth game of the Stanley Cup playoffs against the New Jersey Devils, the LAPD issued a citywide tactical alert from an abundance of...
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Needed officer privacy legislation stymied in Sacramento
State Senate Governance and Finance Committee Chair Lois Wolk.After the home addresses of more than a dozen LAPD members were posted anonymously on the Internet, Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles)...
View ArticleUSC journalist maligns LAPD detectives
One would expect a news story questioning the integrity of hard working LAPD detectives to be backed by thorough reporting and years of experience investigating shootings and murders. But none of these...
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California voter imperative: Stop payroll deception on November ballot
It was a big week for the U.S. Supreme Court. Last Monday, the Court threw out key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, struck down automatic life sentences without parole for...
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Jury convicts man of attempted murder of LAPD officers
On Oct. 15, 2008, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier flagged down two police officers working the Olympic Area transition team. The mail carrier had been hit in the head by Romeo Ramos after...
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Revealing their true colors by their silence and votes
Dramatically overstated “unfunded liabilities” of public pension systems are a cornerstone of the arguments used by public-pension opponents. They deliberately and drastically lower the amounts of...
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Positive law enforcement fatality trend no cause for complacency
It comes as something of a relief that recent trends in law enforcement fatalities were reversed nationwide in the first half of 2012, even as we continue to mourn the 53 officers who died in the line...
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Crime statistics in an era of municipal budget woes
We would like to believe that it is a genuine commitment to putting public safety first that has given L.A. a national ranking it can be proud of. In calling Los Angeles the “safest big city in...
View ArticleA path to poverty
We’ve used this space on at least three occasions in the past two years to warn of the dangers of pushing Americans out of traditional defined pensions and into 401k plans. Our point has been that...
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Truth triumphs over payoff demand
Photo by Lawrence K. Ho (Los Angeles Times)Last week, the jury in a federal civil rights case came to a swift and correct decision on who was responsible for the death of Manuel Jamines; it was...
View ArticlePolice work is not always pretty
A former Los Angeles police chief once observed, “Police work is not always pretty. But in my 36 years of law enforcement, I've learned not to make a judgment until I have all the facts.”Chief...
View ArticleSkateboarding into Victimhood Superstardom
The following article by Jack Dunphy was originally posted on PJMedia.com on August 27, 2012, and is reposted here with his permission.Oh how comforting is the mantle of victimhood, how rosy and...
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STOP the Special Exemptions Act - NO on Prop 32
Police officers, firefighters and the rest of California’s middle class will be silenced if big corporations have their way this November.Prop 32 is NOT what it seems. It was intentionally written to...
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Prison realignment: Troubling trend points to need for fixes
October 1 will mark the first anniversary of the prison realignment legislation signed into law by Governor Brown. With nearly a year’s worth of data, it is not too early to assess whether the law,...
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