John Seeley

It was not Philly but Pennsylvania‘s second city that the Justice Department chose for its first intervention in big-city law enforcement. The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has been operating under a Department of Justice (DOJ) consent decree since April 1997. Monitored externally and enforced by a federal judge, it’s the......

Photo by Associated Press AP The stomping of fugitive Thomas Jones in Philadelphia captured the attention of TV viewers across the nation last week, but the episode of high-amp policing carries special significance for Los Angeles. Four years ago the City of Brotherly Love took the course now being contemplated......

Northwest flouts council effort to save jobs Storm warnings be damned -- Northwest Airlines et al. are sticking to departure plans they worked out for a couple hundred airport workers. The one-way ticket for these workers -- wheelchair attendants, baggage handlers and skycaps -- comes in the form of layoffs......

It was the kind of sudden drop -- after a rapid ascent -- that could get the most seasoned traveler fumbling for an airsickness bag. Though they never left the airport, service workers at Terminal 2 were indeed feeling sick when they found themselves looking at joblessness only two days......

After two years of labor-management strife, more than 650 baggage handlers, skycaps and wheelchair attendants at Los Angeles International Airport are poised to come in for a soft landing. Their employer, Argenbright Security Inc., has announced a hands-off stance in a representation vote at the end of June. The agreement,......

Photo by Anne Fishbein Loews’ luxury Santa Monica Beach Hotel is undergoing a facelift. Guests who can afford the $365-a-night tariff enter the four-story atrium lobby through a scruffy tunnel lined with green plastic sheeting and lighted by bare bulbs hanging from yellow cords. This renovation is due to be......

As they scramble to restore order and confidence in a department torn by the Rampart scandal, the five mayor-appointed members of the Los Angeles Police Commission have been hit this spring with widespread criticism, and sometimes abuse. They ”can‘t get no respect“ anywhere. They have weathered, with outward aplomb, the......

The night the Lakers beat the 76ers a few Fridays ago, security officers at Staples Center stole the pre-game show: They tried to block about 50 food-concession workers from leaving the sports arena for a brief protest over unfair labor practices. Under threat of termination, 30 returned to their posts......

UCLA’s Anderson School of Management boasts on its Web site of having created “entrepreneurial leaders,” and its student body of future executives and tycoons-to-be are dosed with cutting-edge capitalist theory at an annual cost to them of more than $11,000 per academic year. But the school also can boast of......

Photo by Debra DipaoloIn a year when the candidacies of John McCain and Bill Bradley got a big boost from their calls for campaign-finance reform, you might think a ballot measure aimed at keeping candidates from buying their way into office in California would be a sure thing. Not so......