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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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Does your city have too many police officers or not enough? A new study suggests there is an answer, but it's not likely to be one that your city council will care to hear.
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The proposed tax is projected to raise up to $215 million, helping to avoid public safety cuts, including laying off police officers.
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It was perhaps the most sensational interaction captured by the embedded press pool the night the LAPD evicted Occupy L.A. from City Hall grounds. Here's what happened at the trial.
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How should raw milk be handled?
Can art heal a community? More than 50 Orange County artist displayed works inspired by the life and circumstances surrounding the death of Kelly Thomas.
Rodney King on May 1, 1992 in Beverly Hills during a press conference where he called for the end of violence that erupted when the officers accused of beating him were acquitted. | Robert Sullivan/AFP/GettyImages
The face of the 1992 civil unrest was, in many ways, just a face.
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This morning pressed on big questions of liberty, progress, and the fate of a lost dog.
Hundreds of LAPD officers wait to walk into the Occupy Los Angeles protest encampment following the November 30, 2011 raid. | Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
A recent report released last week states that last year's Occupy Los Angeles protest will cost the City almost double the original estimate: $5 million.
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The whitewashing of another mural this morning shows why the new mural ordinance is necessary to bring clear definitions and streamline the process of obtaining permits.
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Efforts to reform the police and sheriff's department to prevent systemwide corruption and violence have been more difficult and complex than determining the moral and legal culpability of the officers who beat Rodney King. Civil rights attorney Robert...
Homeless persons gathering on the sidewalk, Skid Row, Los Angeles, 1996. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Photo courtesy USC Digital Archives
Does the ordinance against urination and defecation make the city safer or more healthy for homeless people?
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The trovadores, the Spanish speaking troubadors of Los Angeles, will not forget May 1, 2007 in MacArthur Park. A group of them has released a CD of songs in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered the pain of police batons and rubber bulle...
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