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News
April 11, 2013
Lucky to Be Alive
A couple's devastating encounter with Lee Baca's COPS HIT deputies
Blogs
March 6, 2013
Paul Tanaka, Sheriff's 2nd-In-Command & Once Head Of Troubled L.A. County Jails, Retires
Paul Tanaka, the controversial second-in-command at the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, heavily criticized for his oversight of a troubled jails system, is retiring, the department announced this afternoon. The undersheriff is also the mayor of Gardena and won a third term in yesterday's election ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Lee Baca Named America's 'Sheriff Of The Year' Despite Jail Violence
In a middle finger to all those journalists and civil libertarians in town who have accused the L.A. County Sheriff's Department of allowing unjust beatings of jail inmates to persist during the last decade or so, the National Sheriffs Association has named Lee Baca its Sheriff of the Year. Baca ha ... More >>
News
December 20, 2012
Readers Take on the Sheriff, Our Theater Critics -- and Our Treatment of Kristen Stewart
News
December 13, 2012
Too Much Mr. Nice Guy: How Lee Baca Let Paul Tanaka Run Amok in County Jails
How did progressive L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca end up running some of the nation's most violent jails? By letting Paul Tanaka do whatever he wants.
Blogs
September 28, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca, Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Slammed For Jail Violence
We call him the Teflon Sheriff because, despite more than a decade's worth of serious problems inside the L.A. jail system, woes that include gang-like cliques of tatted-up deputies, you keep electing Lee Baca as the county's top cop. Nothing seems to stick. Well, that might have changed today:
Blogs
September 26, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca: Go to Jail, Get Your Face Broken? PHOTOS
No surprise here. L.A. County Jail deputies sometimes stomp on, bash in, and literally break inmates' heads: That according to an ACLU report issued today, 48 hours ahead of the much-anticipated final findings of a separate Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence. The ACLU says in a summary that the ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2012
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca Spent Over One Month Outside L.A. Amid Horrific 2012 Jail Scandal
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa isn't the only local politician leaving his municipal duties in the dust, these days, in pursuit of a higher political calling. A records request run by diligent county-watcher Eric Preven earlier this summer shows that L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca -- who we l ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2012
Paul Tanaka, Sheriff's No. 2, Encouraged His Cops to Work on 'Edge' of Law -- Report
See also: *Men's County Jail Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards. L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca says he didn't know his deputies were allegedly beating inmates (and even visitors) at the jail facilities he's supposed to be overseeing. Findings from the Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence unleashed ... More >>