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Learn about the history of L.A. uprisings against anti-Black police violence, from Watts to the 1992 uprisings to the summer of 2020. Follow the conversation around police budgets and law enforcement elections and explore proposals to change the criminal legal system and end mass incarceration.

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Mayor Villaraigosa does a turnaround on his stance that L.A. needs more cops pronto and agrees to a cost-conscious hiring freeze.
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L.A. D.A. Cooley decides the way almost all medical dispensaries do business is illegal.
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If you can't vacation where you already live, maybe you ought to move. Nothing like a violent incident in your neck of the woods to remind you of that.
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City Attorney Trutanich wants to give LA cops the ability to arrest known taggers just for hanging out together.
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This installment of producer and director Harry Pallenberg's guest looks at crime. First up, the crime chapter from Harry's film, then a crime tour of Los Angeles.
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Police raids on medical marijuana dispensaries continue--and continue with federal help, despite an Obama promise.
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LAPD Chief William Bratton makes a surprise move out of his office and out of town. His timing and his next step are both in question.
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The LAPD has sufficiently reformed itself to a degree that it no longer requires an outside court-ordered monitor, federal officials say.
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National homeless advocacy groups have marked Los Angeles as the "meanest city in America," and Santa Monica is being sued by the ACLU over treatment of the homeless.
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Politics couldn't help but intrude as well on Michael Jackson's death and memorial, mostly over that all-important political question: who's footing the bill?
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He's sworn he will stay as our mayor, and now his second term--and his second chance to help leave a better L.A.--begins.
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Officers sent by Chief Bratton to disciplinary boards for their violent role in the 2007 May Day demonstrations in L.A. will not lose their jobs.
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