Criminal Law

You are what You Watch: People's Thoughts and Fears Depend on What TV Crime Shows They Like

​What does it mean if your idea of heaven is to snuggle down in front of the TV and soak in an episode of 48 Hours Mystery or any other real-life crime show? And what kind of person are you if you prefer the swashbuckling antics of David Caruso on a show such as CSI: Miami, or one of the other ma ... More >>

Kamala Harris Declares Victory, Announces Transition Team

Kamala Harris​Kamala Harris declared victory this morning in the razor-close race for attorney general. With almost all the ballots counted, Harris is leading L.A. District Attorney Steve Cooley by 73,102 votes.Proving right off the bat that she will be a different kind of A.G., Harris announced a ... More >>

If Kamala Harris Keeps Lead ...

Victory could put her reforms at odds with new governor

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

L.A. County Settles With Family Of 14-Year-Old Who Died At Juvenile Hall

​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week voted to approve a $400,000 settlement to the family of a boy who died after he showed signs of medical problems for at least five days at a county-run juvenile hall before he was taken to a hospital, where he ultimately died. The five-me ... More >>

Proposition 6: The Most Implosive

A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials

The Steve and Bob Show

Ex-D.A. Philibosian has a good friend in Cooley

Freedom Without Apology

No restitution, no clean records, not even a simple sorry for the wrongly incarcerated in Jessica Sanders’ documentary After Innocence

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

New Count for Three-Strikes Law

D.A. Steve Cooley wants voters to revamp the inhumane measure

The Child in Hard Time

Meet Alonza Thomas, first-time juvenile offender, now superpredator

Bush’s Kingmaker

Alberto Gonzales’ tortured arguments for reigning above the law

All Charges Dropped!

A Kobe Bryant timeline

The Man in Red

Pray tell, what are Steve Cooley’s plans for Cardinal Mahony?

Veil of Secrecy Torched

Judge’s order could bring prosecutors closer to the man in red

Minor Deceptions

Can Steve Cooley win the big one at City Hall?

Slow Road to Rampart Justice

It just might be the LAPD reforms itself faster without outside help

Foul Justice

After 10 years, critics of Three Strikes may get another chance with voters

D.A. Man and Me

Encounters with the many sides of Steve Cooley

Second and Long

Retrial in Inglewood’s videotaped beating case is a test for Steve Cooley

Behind the Robes

Pondering the secrets Cardinal Mahony might hold about the Catholic sex scandal

The Terror War on Drugs

The martyrdom of Steve Treleaven

Dismissing Rampart

Some nagging questions linger despite Steve Cooley’s closing the book on the scandal

The Rampart Verdict

The deeper meaning of LAPD’s biggest scandal may never be known

A Stretch for Garcetti

L.A.'s Ethics Commission gets an insider

Grand Theft

So who the heck made off with the Rampart papers?

No Movie for Rafael Perez

LAPD Fiction

How a detective made up evidence and got away with it

Olson Arrested

Assault on America II

Of secret military tribunals and other mischief to civil liberties

How to Bury A Scandal

Rafael Perez has come and gone but Chief Parks remains unmoved

Rampart Watch

New, harder look produces more charges against cops

Another Lost Rampart Case

Officers get benefit of doubt when Perez is the accuser

A Key Test

D.A. chooses to drag out suspense

In Contempt

Judge Connor went beyond the call of duty to help Rampart officers

Soft on Crime Fighters

Higher-ups ignored problems with drug case, prosecutor alleges

Beyond the Verdict

The real Rampart scandal is citywide

Trying for Justice

The deep meaning of the deeply flawed Rampart trial

Rampart Runneth Over

New allegations hound Rafael Perez

Trouble With the Truth

Rampart whistle blower flunked five lie-detector tests

Getting Even

The bad blood between Gil Garcetti and his challengers

Looking the Other Way

Gil Garcetti’s record of shame on Rampart

Juvenile Injustice

Proposition 21 aims to send thousands of California teenagers to adult prisons

Naming Names

Defense attorneys want details on all the possibly flawed cases involving LAPD officers at the Rampart Station

Magic Marker Dragoon

Pasadena’s Secret Sharers

Lawsuits suggest officials knew coach sought sex with boys

Remorse in High Places

D.A. apologizes for wrongful detention, LAPD doesn't

Sanity Check

Court weighs Kelly's mental state; Lungren presses execution date

Justice Delayed

Two years after, authorities still mum on Riverside deputy beatings

Last Rights

Convicted murderer Horace Kelly is scheduled to be put to death in less than two weeks despite a Supreme Court ban on executing the insane. Why? His lawyers failed to file his federal appeal.