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'The best of us': Hundreds gather to honor slain El Monte officers

LOS ANGELES — Joseph Santana wanted to be an El Monte police officer, just like his stepfather.

Los Angeles Times

Horrific details emerge about deadly ambush of El Monte police officers

LOS ANGELES — The rookie and his training officer knocked on the door of an El Monte motel room, where they’d been called to investigate a report of domestic violence.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Ignore the early reviews. California’s criminal justice reform movement fared well on Election Day

Despite what you may have heard, Tuesday was a fairly good day for criminal justice reform in California.

Los Angeles Times

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Anita Chabria: No, the criminal justice reform movement isn't dead. But it may need to grow up

Would you like to see more Black and Latino men locked up in prison?

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Fear over crime and homelessness in California paid off in some primaries. Will it carry over to November?

Less than three years after earning a major win for a national movement seeking to elect progressive prosecutors, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin was recalled from office Tuesday night.

Los Angeles Times

Chesa Boudin, San Francisco DA raised by radicals in Hyde Park, ousted in heated recall

Political experts say the political newcomer who narrowly won in 2019 was in the crosshairs of outside forces that made him an easy target for public frustration.

Chicago Sun-Times

LA Democrats failed to mount united campaign against Sheriff Villanueva despite anger

LOS ANGELES — To pull off his improbable win in 2018, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva convinced liberal Democratic voters he was one of their own.

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San Francisco’s bitter DA recall could set back national justice reform movement

SAN FRANCISCO — Hours after winning election as San Francisco district attorney in 2019, Chesa Boudin stood, beaming, inside a packed dive bar in the Mission District.

Los Angeles Times

From more cops to defund: Candidates for LA mayor differ on crime and policing

LOS ANGELES — One candidate wants to make the Los Angeles Police Department larger than it has ever been. Another envisions a future where America's second largest city no longer needs police. The others have staked out middle ground.

Los Angeles Times

A 'no party preference' prosecutor could shake up California attorney general's race

As a prosecutor, Anne Marie Schubert has thrived on being able to pull off what seemed impossible.

Los Angeles Times

Given chance to avoid jail and criminal charges, mentally ill, addicted and homeless people in LA pass

LOS ANGELES — A diversion program in Los Angeles designed to keep mentally ill, addicted or homeless adults out of jail and instead provide treatment and housing is having little success, according to statistics provided by police officials.

Los Angeles Times

‘America could be truly free’: John Legend on his fight to overhaul the criminal justice system

The Grammy-winning singer speaks to the Guardian about mass incarceration and his campaign to elect progressive prosecutors

The Guardian - US

Man accused of attacking Dave Chappelle is charged with unrelated attempted murder

LOS ANGELES — The man accused of attacking comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl earlier this month was charged Thursday with attempted murder in connection with a stabbing last year.

Los Angeles Times

The attack on Dave Chappelle didn't constitute a felony, LA DA says

George Gascón has defended his decision not to pursue a felony charge, saying the attacker had a folding knife on him but didn't use it. Gascón also says he will work on safety at performance venues.

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Why Is Dave Chappelle's Stand-Up Not Included In Netflix's Upcoming Comedy Specials?

Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) will not include Dave Chappelle’s segment in the streaming version of its recent comedy festival, but the exclusion is not based on the assault that occurred while Chappelle was in performance.

Los Angeles Times

LA city attorney charges suspect in Dave Chappelle attack at Hollywood Bowl

LOS ANGELES — Hours after Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s office declined to file felony charges against a man who tackled comedian Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl, City Atty. Mike Feuer announced late Thursday afternoon that his office had filed four misdemeanor counts against the suspect.

Los Angeles Times

DA won’t charge suspect in Dave Chappelle attack with assault with a deadly weapon

LOS ANGELES — While police say the man who tackled comedian Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl had a replica gun with a knife, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón’s office declined Thursday to file felony charges.

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles DA's office is at war with itself. How does anything get done?

LOS ANGELES — In normal times, the convicted sex offender's request for leniency would have been met with a swift, emphatic "no" from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

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Killer of LA philanthropist Jacqueline Avant is sentenced to 150 years in prison

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Tuesday sentenced the man convicted in the murder of Jacqueline Avant to 150 years to life in prison, saying he shot a "highly vulnerable" 81-year-old woman in the back and then giggled about it afterward.

Los Angeles Times

Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant's killer shot her in the back, laughed and bragged about it, records show

LOS ANGELES — The man who pleaded guilty to the murder of Jacqueline Avant in her Beverly Hills home last year shot her in the back and later laughed and bragged about the killing, according to court records reviewed by The Times.

Los Angeles Times

17 LA gangs have sent out crews to follow and rob city's wealthiest, LAPD says

LOS ANGELES — More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city's wealthiest residents in a new and aggressive manner, sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing expensive jewelry, according to police.

Reason

Conservatives Say They Care About the Constitution. Until They Talk About Criminal Justice.

Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the nation's first Supreme Court justice to have served as a public defender, and the first since Thurgood Marshall to have experience as a defense attorney. That's good.

Los Angeles Times

Nicholas Goldberg: We're swinging back toward 'tough-on-crime' before progressive reforms have had a chance

Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón, the cop-turned-reformer who came to office in 2020 promising to transform the justice system so it "works for everyone," is fighting for his political life.

The Guardian - US

How a single case challenged the LA prosecutor’s reform agenda: ‘Nobody is happy’

The developments show how media coverage of horrific crimes can help derail criminal justice reform

Los Angeles Times

Anita Chabria: The Hannah Tubbs case is a self-inflicted wound on Gascón and criminal justice reform

LOS ANGELES — Somewhere inside the Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar, 26-year-old Hannah Tubbs is serving her sentence for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old child in a Denny's bathroom nearly a decade ago.

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