Please Don't Edit or Excerpt This Recording of the Mayor's Town Hall.
Mayor Karen Bass held a town hall in November to take questions from community members about the ongoing ICE raids and LAPD's violent response to the protests over the summer.
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Anthem For No State
An interview with journalist and historian James Stout about his new book, Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava.
An LASD deputy is recovering from hurt feelings after finding a cartoon pig on his coffee cup.
The department says the cartoon undermines public safety and community trust.
2025 Recap
Reflections on an awful year before the new year.
LAPD gets the OK from city council to remain a militarized police department for another year.
A motion to limit the department's deployment of tear gas and 40 mm rubber bullets failed to pass.
The Los Angeles Police Department is likely violating state law by failing to publish its use of force reports from the No Kings protest in June.
State law AB48 requires police to file the reports within 90 days of their protest response.
LAPD projects to defund the city further by overhiring officers, drawing ire from city council.
No funding has been identified to cover the $3.56 million overspending.
The LAPD are defunding the city.
Police liabilities and community service.
Of Note 10/17-10/24
A roundup of notable news
Who Gets to Decide Who Lives or Dies.
The Supreme Court voted not to intervene, and Anthony Boyd's execution in Alabama will go forward tonight.
Don't Rain on Parades
Thousands turn out for No Kings rally in Los Angeles,
They're not sending their best.
An attempt at strongman propaganda exposes ICE's weakness.
Essay
Raptured
We're still here, we still have each other.
Of Note
Of Note 9/15-9/21
Things of note in this week's modern dystopia.
LAPD
In a single day, the LAPD shot 1,040 chemical and less lethal munitions at anti-ICE demonstrators.
The LAPD's numbers, combined with CHP and LASD's use of force reports, bring the total number of less lethals used in June to more than 10,000.
Police
Tally so far: at the anti-ICE demonstrations in June, CHP and LASD fired 9,600 projectiles and chemical munitions at protesters.
Recently published use of force reports outlines their gratuitous and forceful response during June's anti-ICE demonstrations across Los Angeles.
Police State, USA
Do you feel safe, yet?
Not crime, but retribution
Of Note
Of Note: August 11, 2025
The Trump Olympics and saying no to TROs.
FOIA Friday
FOIA FRIDAY: The case of the missing and destroyed Flock Cameras.
The license plate readers keep disappearing and the costs to replace them are adding up.
Little Sheriff's Corvette
A car as copaganda
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Passive Restraints
A judge tells the Los Angeles Police Department to knock it off and stop hurting journalists at protests.
Essay
Flag and Pony Show
Over 30 Days of Occupation in LA
Say Their Names
Erasing Tragedy.
Trader Joe's in Silver Lake painted over a mural dedicated to Mely Corado, who was mistakenly shot and killed by the LAPD.
LAPD
The LAPD is (still) using Surveillance Software That Can Track Your Phone and Social Media.
Cobwebs Technologies, now Penlink Tangles, developed the software utilizing AI to track, surveil, and create profiles of individuals based on online and phone data.