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LAPD jail: LAPD finally opens its new downtown jail - latimes.com

Prisoners were transferred Wednesday from the LAPD's old Parker Center jail to the new $84-million Metropolitan Detention Center. (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times / February 2, 2011)

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By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles TimesFebruary 3, 2011E-mailPrint Text Size

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L.A.'s Red Light Enforcement Cameras 'Not Necessarily' at Most Dangerous Intersections - LAist

Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist

How effective is Los Angeles' Photo Red Light Program? That's the question City Controller Wendy Greuel will be talking about at a press conference later this morning. The enforcement cameras, which record drivers who will eventually receive a ticket in the mail running red lights, are supposed to improve public safety by reducing accidents at the city's highest risk intersections.

Greuel's office, however, said the city's 32 cameras have "not necessarily" been installed at those dangerous intersections, instead making sure there was at least one camera per city council district -- read: politics, mini fiefdoms -- instead of putting them at some state-controlled locations that require additional analysis before a camera can go live.

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This is so not about safety!

YES, YOU ARE A SUSPECT (video provided by Los Angeles Superior Court)

     

[VIDEOS CHOPPED INTO SHORT CLIPS - ALL AVAILABLE HERE] LAPD homicide detectives' video interrogation of LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus. Lazarus is being interrogated re the murder of Sherri Rasmussen, her ex-boyfriend's wife, in 1986.   At the time of the murder, Lazarus had been on the police force two years. It's 24 years later ... Sherri has been on the LAPD force for 26 years and has been promoted to Detective rank ...

violent death ...

Surveillance for Violent Deaths --- National Violent Death Reporting System, 16 States, 2007

Surveillance Summaries

May 14, 2010 / 59(SS04);1-50

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

An estimated 50,000 persons die annually in the United States as a result of violence-related injuries. This report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) regarding violent deaths from 16 states for 2007. Results are reported by sex, age group, race/ethnicity, marital status, location of injury, method of injury, circumstances of injury, and other selected characteristics.

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harris county, tex, used to be death penalty capital of the u.s. | now its LA

A death penalty record

L.A. County led the U.S. in capital sentences in 2009. Prosecutors are being overzealous and inhumane. [LATIMES.COM. Opinion. April 8, 2010]

los angeles courts | "justice for some"

And Justice for Some: L.A.'s Shrinking Court System. TIME (By Kevin O'Leary / Los Angeles Sunday, Mar. 21, 2010)

"Caught in the cross-hairs of California's state budget crisis, the Los Angeles Superior Court — the largest trial court system in the nation — this week laid off 329 employees and closed 16 courtrooms. Facing an unprecedented $79 million shortfall, Presiding Judge Charles W. McCoy said that the courts will lay-off an additional 500 workers and shutter up to a total of 50 courtrooms come September. Announcing the cutbacks in a courtroom closed months ago to save money, McCoy said, "Today is a sad day for justice in Los Angeles." With attrition, McCoy expects the 5,400-employee court system to lose approximately 1,000 employees, a 20% reduction."

"The 16 closed courtrooms handled criminal, family law, civil law along with complex litigation and small claims case loads. Similar cuts are taking place in courts across the state. McCoy says the 100,000 Angelenos who use the courts each day can expect growing case backlogs, longer lines and delays in processing judgments. Among those losing their jobs: clerks, court reporters and supervisors. Judge Marjorie Steinberg says her family law departments are losing mental health professionals who help parents negotiate their disputes before they go to court: "You can imagine how tough that is on a family, and on the children, whose parents are fighting."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1973909,00.html#ixzz0ivUbSPXy