This post was updated Nov. 14 at 11:31 p.m. A draft LAPD report Nov. 5 found policing agencies failed to coordinate in response to the UCLA Palestine solidarity encampment. Read more...
Photo: LAPD officers form a line in Dickson Plaza during the Palestine solidarity encampment in the spring. A new report found that LAPD lacked coordination and resources in their activity during the encampment. (Myka Fromm/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Nov. 28 at 8:50 p.m. Nathan Hochman won the race for Los Angeles County District Attorney, unseating incumbent George Gascón. Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and United States assistant attorney general, won the race by more than 540,000 votes as of Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Nathan Hochman, the district attorney-elect, is pictured. Hochman beat incumbent George Gascón. (Courtesy Nathan Hochman)
Los Angeles County residents are in the process of electing five LA Superior Court judges. George Turner Jr. is leading for Office No. 39 with 56.33% of the vote. Read more...
Photo: The Richard H. Chambers Court of Appeals is pictured. Five candidates were elected as Los Angeles Superior Court Judges on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Ken Lund/Wikimedia Commons)
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Two initiatives on November’s ballot aim to shift California’s policies on criminal justice, but with each in a different direction. Proposition 36 would increase some drug and theft crimes from misdemeanors – usually minor crimes punishable by up to a year in jail – to felonies, the most serious type of crime. Read more...
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This post was updated Nov. 4 at 1:42 a.m. Los Angeles County voters will vote for their next District Attorney this November, putting the future of LA criminal justice in voters’ hands. Read more...
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This post was updated Oct. 23 at 12:03 a.m. UCPD police officers detained a person with spray paint cans outside Royce Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Around 12:35 p.m., the officers handcuffed someone wearing a red dress. Read more...
Photo: UCPD detain and handcuff a person with spray paint cans outside Royce Hall. (Sam Mulick/Daily Bruin senior staff)
