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02
Feb 2010
Many of the city's top advocates for the homeless recently sent a letter to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa asking him to take "reexamine Skid Row" and reconsider how the city deploys police in the Center City East area.
In 2006, following...
02
Feb 2010
LOS ANGELES -- When a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant.
They sent a warning on Twitter...
02
Feb 2010
Starting Monday night, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department began releasing hundreds of inmates held in the county jails.
As many as 500 inmates could be released by the end of the week as a result of a new state law increasing the...
02
Feb 2010
As the Los Angeles City Council weighed options to address a $208-million shortfall, Councilman Bernard C. Parks on Monday ordered the city's top budget analyst to prepare a plan that could include layoffs of police officers and...