By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — District Attorney George Gascón unveiled a new office titled the Community ...
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District Attorney George Gascón Creates Community Violence Reduction Division to Reduce Gang-Related Crimes
District Attorney George Gascón Creates Community Violence Reduction Division to Reduce Gang-Related Crimes
By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — District Attorney George Gascón unveiled a new office titled the Community Violence Reduction Division in hopes of reducing violent crime by shifting away from punitive m ...
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California National Guard Allegedly Puts Fighter Jets on Alert in Anticipation of Civil Unrest
California National Guard Allegedly Puts Fighter Jets on Alert in Anticipation of Civil Unrest
By Meghan Imperio During the height of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns and BLM protests around the co ...
By Meghan Imperio During the height of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns and BLM protests around the country, reports show that the California National Guard placed an F-15C fighter jet on alert. Me ...
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LA County Resumes Johnson & Johnson Vaccine, after Brief Pause
LA County Resumes Johnson & Johnson Vaccine, after Brief Pause
By Ishani Desai LA County announced that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine is viable to be administered to ...
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Report By Independent Counsel, Gerald Chaleff, of LAPD Response to Protests in May/June 2020
Report By Independent Counsel, Gerald Chaleff, of LAPD Response to Protests in May/June 2020
By Autumn Johansson LOS ANGELES — Mr. Gerald Chaleff authored a report on the LAPD’s response to racial p ...
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Re-Imagine LA Coalition Rejects CEO’s 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget, Urges Full Funding of Measure J
Re-Imagine LA Coalition Rejects CEO’s 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget, Urges Full Funding of Measure J
By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — The Re-imagine LA Coalition denounced the LA County CEO’s plan allocating $ ...
By Ishani Desai LOS ANGELES — The Re-imagine LA Coalition denounced the LA County CEO’s plan allocating $100 million funds to Measure J for the 2021-2022 fiscal year on Monday. As LA CEO, Fesia Davenp ...
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Santa Clarita Activists Demand Justice for Rashad Singletary
Santa Clarita Activists Demand Justice for Rashad Singletary
By Cailin Garcia SANTA CLARITA — On Sunday, protestors gathered on the corner of McBean Parkway and Valen ...
By Cailin Garcia SANTA CLARITA — On Sunday, protestors gathered on the corner of McBean Parkway and Valencia Boulevard with Black Lives Matter posters and flags to demand justice for Rashad Singletary ...
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Los Angeles Rally Honors The Victims of Incarceration and Demands the Closure of Men’s Central Jail
Los Angeles Rally Honors The Victims of Incarceration and Demands the Closure of Men’s Central Jail
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — On the evening of March 29, coalition leaders and community members held ...
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — On the evening of March 29, coalition leaders and community members held a press conference and rally to demand the closure of Men’s Central Jail, advocate for the full ...
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Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station Launch Investigation after Viral Video of Deputies Forcefully Detaining Robbery Suspect
Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station Launch Investigation after Viral Video of Deputies Forcefully Detaining Robbery Suspect
By Cailin Garcia SANTA CLARITA — The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station is conducting a “use of force i ...
By Cailin Garcia SANTA CLARITA — The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station is conducting a “use of force investigation” after a concerning video began circulating on Tuesday night of two Santa Clarita ...
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Youngest Official in LA County Elected in Santa Clarita Community College District
Youngest Official in LA County Elected in Santa Clarita Community College District
By Ishani Desai and Arneet Gurtatta SANTA CLARITA – The youngest official on record in LA County, 20-year ...
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LAPD Unconstitutionally Detains Journalists During Echo Park Protests
LAPD Unconstitutionally Detains Journalists During Echo Park Protests
By Meghan Imperio LOS ANGELES — There have been a number of protests in Los Angeles in the past week as a ...
By Meghan Imperio LOS ANGELES — There have been a number of protests in Los Angeles in the past week as a result of the city planning to close the Echo Park Lake and clear the homeless encampment whic ...
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Manhattan Beach Police Officer Charged with Sending Explicit Messages to Teenager
Manhattan Beach Police Officer Charged with Sending Explicit Messages to Teenager
By Linhchi Nguyen LOS ANGELES — John Cheatham, a Manhattan Beach police officer, was charged on February ...
By Linhchi Nguyen LOS ANGELES — John Cheatham, a Manhattan Beach police officer, was charged on February 25 for sending explicit messages to a 15-year-old girl. Cheatham met the victim at the police s ...
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#EchoParkRiseUp Protestors Organize Against Shutdown of Echo Park Lake Homeless Encampments, Met with LAPD in Riot Gear
#EchoParkRiseUp Protestors Organize Against Shutdown of Echo Park Lake Homeless Encampments, Met with LAPD in Riot Gear
By Cailin Garcia LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of protestors gathered last night outside of the office of LA Cit ...
By Cailin Garcia LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of protestors gathered last night outside of the office of LA City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell to speak out against the removal of homeless encampments at Echo P ...
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New Polling Reveals A Majority of Victims Want Rehabilitation & Crime Prevention, Over Incarceration
New Polling Reveals A Majority of Victims Want Rehabilitation & Crime Prevention, Over Incarceration
By: Sophia Barberini and Lovepreet Dhinsa LOS ANGELES COUNTY - In response to a David Binder Research sur ...
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Court Watch LA Calls on Los Angeles Superior Court to Fix Accessibility Issues Plaguing Remote Hearings
Court Watch LA Calls on Los Angeles Superior Court to Fix Accessibility Issues Plaguing Remote Hearings
By Naomi Cherone LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) promises to provide equal access to ...
By Naomi Cherone LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) promises to provide equal access to justice, but the falsity of this claim has become evident in the court’s poor transition into a ...
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UCLA Teams Up with Stop AAPI Hate Coalition to Combat Anti-Asian Hate and Xenophobia Crisis as a Result of COVID-19
UCLA Teams Up with Stop AAPI Hate Coalition to Combat Anti-Asian Hate and Xenophobia Crisis as a Result of COVID-19
By Meghan Imperio The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a rise in xenophobia against Asian communities ...
By Meghan Imperio The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a rise in xenophobia against Asian communities across the country. Recently, this escalation of violent acts targeting Asian Americans and Pa ...
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Black Americans Face Health Disparities In Blood & Organ Donations
Black Americans Face Health Disparities In Blood & Organ Donations
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — While the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is one of the major health ...
By Anisha Girotra LOS ANGELES — While the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is one of the major health disparities faced by Black Americans today, they are also underrepresented in blood and organ ...
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Recent Report on LAPD Covers the Department’s Troubling History with Deputy Gangs
Recent Report on LAPD Covers the Department’s Troubling History with Deputy Gangs
By Wen Chiang LOS ANGELES — Since last June, when a whistleblower leaked accusations of a supposed “deput ...
By Wen Chiang LOS ANGELES — Since last June, when a whistleblower leaked accusations of a supposed “deputy gang” within Compton’s police station, a report by Loyola Marymount Universities’ Center for ...
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Vaccination Plans for Los Angeles’s Skid Row Community
Vaccination Plans for Los Angeles’s Skid Row Community
By Rachel Kim LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Country struggles to distribute the vaccine to the homeless popul ...
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Faced With Scarcity, California’s Essential Workers Fall Through the Cracks in COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Faced With Scarcity, California’s Essential Workers Fall Through the Cracks in COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
By Dorrin Akbari LOS ANGELES — Millions of workers in frontline industries are being left behind as Calif ...
By Dorrin Akbari LOS ANGELES — Millions of workers in frontline industries are being left behind as California grapples with limited and unpredictable COVID-19 vaccine supply and distribution, putting ...
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Student Opinion: LAPD’s Offensive George Floyd “Valentine’s” Card Is Not Out of Character
Student Opinion: LAPD’s Offensive George Floyd “Valentine’s” Card Is Not Out of Character
By Ivana Ramirez LOS ANGELES — Militaristic. Racist. Cruel. These are just a few of the words used to des ...
By Ivana Ramirez LOS ANGELES — Militaristic. Racist. Cruel. These are just a few of the words used to describe the Los Angeles Police Department’s tendencies. Now, cementing their reputation, the LAPD ...
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