A report showing that more than half the $100 million the city of Los Angeles spends each year on homelessness goes to police demonstrates that the city is focused on enforcement rather than getting people…
You’re standing on a Los Angeles street, turning in a circle, looking for a public trash can to toss your empty coffee cup. Keep hunting, because the city maintains only about 1,000 cans…
The scene was tense: Two Los Angeles Police officers approach a man yelling and screaming at the end of a cul de sac. He looks angry and aggressive as he paces back and…
The family of an unarmed homeless man shot and killed by police on skid row is poised to bring legal action, claiming officers used excessive force in the deadly confrontation, a spokesman for…
Two fresh-faced UCLA law students met Carlis Pegues with a smile, eagerly leading the frail, 64-year-old woman into a cramped office to hear her troubles. Pegues, they learned, is locked in a dispute…
Chanting “You can’t kill Africa,” dozens of people on Saturday marched from Los Angeles Police Department headquarters to skid row to protest the fatal police shooting of an unarmed homeless man during a…
As police continued their investigation Tuesday into the fatal police shooting of a homeless man in L.A.’s Skid Row, protesters marched on Los Angeles Police headquarters. Meanwhile, questions about the victim’s background and identity surfaced as…
Los Angeles Unified school board candidate Ref Rodriguez collected $21,000 in campaign donations from employees of his charter school network, Partnerships to Uplift Communities, in his bid to unseat incumbent Bennett Kayser in East Los Angeles’ District 5.…
In California, the effects of President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration reform could be staggering. Obama said his order will protect immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents, provided they pass a…
Dozens Of Countries Take In More Immigrants Per Capita Than The U.S. – NPR From the story: “…in absolute numbers, the U.S. is home to the most foreign-born people — 45.7 million in 2013.…
“We are human beings who live here,” Silvia Hernández says emphatically. She is speaking of Los Angeles’s notorious Skid Row, though she no longer lives there herself. Hernández doesn’t look back fondly on…
Authorities have released numbers on the weeklong clean-up effort in Skid Row from last month. This year, the Los Angeles City Council devoted an extra $2.2 million to the effort, spearheaded by District…