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2002 Stories by Jim Crogan

• One More Question

  published October 17, 2002

  Make no mistake about it. Mayor Jim Hahn chose to hold Bill Bratton’s coming-out party last week at the North Hollywood Division station t... More >>

• No One To Tell

  published August 15, 2002

  FBI agent Robert Wright has a compelling story to tell: his account of how the FBI allegedly shut down a criminal investigation into the... More >>

• Another FBI Agent Blows the Whistle

  published August 8, 2002

  When FBI counsel Colleen Rowley dropped her bombshell, a now-famous letter to the director, detailing how bureau higher-ups thwarted attempts... More >>

• The Terrorist Motel

  published August 1, 2002

  What happened at the nondescript roadside motel outside Oklahoma City was just a fleeting encounter during the twisted cross-country odyssey of... More >>

• The Cop Who Stopped the Punch

  published July 25, 2002

  This too was captured on video: As Inglewood police officer Jeremy Morse lifted his hand to punch handcuffed Donovan Jackson again, another... More >>

• An Oklahoma Mystery

  published July 25, 2002

  Either convicted Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were part of a conspiracy, possibly involving Middle Eastern and... More >>

• Dodge City

  published July 11, 2002

  The mainstream press finally has started paying attention to a story the L.A. Weekly broke 10 months ago about warnings that Middle Eastern... More >>

• The Terror Watch

  published May 30, 2002

  For the first time since September 11, the Bush administration is on the defensive about how it handled warnings of possible hijackings by... More >>

• 'We Need Help'

  published May 2, 2002

  IT'S 3:30 P.M., THE DAY AFTER A SIMI Valley jury acquitted four white officers in the Rodney King case. And I am standing at the corner of... More >>

• The L.A. 53

  published May 2, 2002

  FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE DIED in L.A.'s riot 10 years ago. Gunfire killed 35, including eight people shot by law enforcement and two by... More >>

• McVeigh et al.

  published April 11, 2002

  In response to articles published in the L.A. Weekly and Indianapolis Star, U.S. Representative Dan Burton, (R-Indiana) is planning to hold... More >>

• LAPD Fiction

  published March 7, 2002

  The District Attorney‘s Office has decided not to file charges against an LAPD detective who was admonished by a judge for submitting phon... More >>