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Jul 2009

Counter-terrorism investigators find alleged identity theft ring

The LAPD, FBI, DMV and district attorney's office teamed up to track a Pakistan native in L.A. and 13 accomplices who allegedly paid DMV workers in several states to provide fraudulent documents. On a spring day last year, a Pakistani man...

25

Jul 2009

California prisons fail to rehabilitate the inmates who need it most

I killed an innocent man by drinking and driving. As a result, many lives were ruined. I feel deep pain and remorse. Because of this, I have had a lot of time to evaluate the state's prison system, which is the largest drain on California'...

24

Jul 2009

Obama calls white policeman who arrested scholar

WASHINGTON - Trying to tamp down an uproar over race, President Barack Obama said Friday he used an unfortunate choice of words in commenting on the arrest of black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and could have "calibrated those words...

24

Jul 2009

L'Affaire Gates

After spending untold millions of dollars in its implementation, the Los Angeles Police Department has at long last been freed from the federal consent decree under which it has been operating for the past eight years. The decision to...