Email Author Celeste Fremon

2003 Stories by Celeste Fremon

• Marking the Chief

  published December 4, 2003

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov L.A. Police Chief William Bratton has a fast mouth and an ego the size of Wyoming. He has also racked up some... More >>

• Bugs and Politics

  published November 6, 2003

  The waves of flame raging from Ventura to San Diego counties have been fed primarily by a bad-luck combination of high winds and an abundance... More >>

• Market Massacre

  published July 24, 2003

  Shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday — just as this issue of the Weekly describing the joys of the Santa Monica Farmers Market was goin... More >>

• Flying the Flag

  published July 24, 2003

  Last week the L.A. City Attorney’s Office filed a new gang injunction targeting 31 members of the Rolling 60s Crips, a South Lo... More >>

• Small and Deadly Threat

  published June 26, 2003

  The 1999 shooting death of Margaret Mitchell, a 55-year-old homeless woman, by LAPD Officer Edward Larrigan looked like a classic example of... More >>

• The Blue Bottom Line

  published June 19, 2003

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• A Bear Trap

  published June 12, 2003

  To date, four separate investigations have examined the Rampart scandal. In February, LAPD Chief William Bratton announced that the... More >>

• Life After a Missile Attack

  published May 1, 2003

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• Stop the War — or the Dogs Get It

  published April 17, 2003

  On April 1, the fliers began appearing around the North Central Animal Shelter, near 26th and Figueroa streets. "We Will Kill Our Pets To... More >>

• Blue Canaries

  published April 17, 2003

  On a recent Wednesday afternoon, 200 Los Angeles police officers — most dressed in T-shirts and jeans, a quarter of them women — slouch in... More >>

• Out of Time

  published March 20, 2003

  FLAVIO ARAGON WAS 19 WHEN HE BLED TO DEATH one overheated summer afternoon in 1994. Nine years later, Flavio's sister, Maria Lupita Sanchez,... More >>

• The Ticking Stopwatch

  published March 13, 2003

  THE LAPD's DEPUTY CHIEFS and commanders shift restlessly when 44-year-old John Miller, the just-appointed head of the... More >>

• Toppling Pyramids

  published February 13, 2003

  THE HERCULEAN JOB OF TRANSFORMING the Los Angeles Police Department took one more small step forward when the LAPD’s top-level cops go... More >>

• Life at Ground Zero

  published January 30, 2003

  L.A.’s Police Chief Bill Bratton unveiled the first stage of what he promises will be a complete restructuring of the way the department deal... More >>

• View From Parker Center

  published January 16, 2003

  Photo by Sobodan DimitrovMeeting with the LAPD’s new chief, Bill Bratton, for the first time, one hardly knows what to expect. Is he th... More >>