Jeffrey Anderson

Second and Long

Jeffrey Anderson
When Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Commander Charles Heal testified last summer as an expert witness in an Inglewood videotaped police-assault case, he was reluctant — and it showed. Heal testified that he would not have charged police Officer Jeremy Morse for slamming a teenager’s head into the hood of a......
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Ghosts in the Machine

Jeffrey Anderson
Photos by Virginia Lee Hunter After five months of sweeping floors and breathing the stale air inside El Centro Immigration Services Processing Center, Gilmer Leyva enters the interview booth with the bearing of a desperate man. Wearing a blue T-shirt that identifies him as a low-risk inmate, with his identification......

Behind the Robes

Jeffrey Anderson
Photo by Tom Wilmshurst As the most insidious church scandal in U.S. history unfolds, pedophilic priests can expect to receive hard justice. But what about the man in the red hat? Cardinal Roger Mahony has emerged as a self-styled reformer, yet more than 300 alleged victims claim he has concealed......

A Trip to Purgatory

Jeffrey Anderson
Photos by Ted Soqui THE CAMPUS OF WHAT USED TO BE Camarillo State Hospital is practically desolate on an overcast day in October. At first, the only signs of life among the verdant grounds, cloistered hallways and walled courtyards nestled in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains are maintenance......