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The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department

The LAPD: Not Your Model Police Department – But Definitely Theirs   Los Angeles has long served as a proving ground where the counterinsurgency tactics later adopted by police throughout the United States were first domestically deployed. Ever since the … Continue reading

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The People v. Charlie Beck: An Indictment of Five Years of LAPD Abuse

  Shortly after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck submitted formal notification of his intent to serve another, 5-year term atop the United States’ third largest police force, the sycophantic, Los Angeles media – long-storied and ever-faithful propagandists to the city’s powerful … Continue reading

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“While Their Eyes Were Watching Don: On the Systemic Supremacisms That Really Run LA”

  “It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few.” – 1 Maccabees, 3:18   A racist, real estate tycoon and a beautiful young woman far his junior enjoyed prime, courtside seats … Continue reading

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No H.O.M.E. For Nazis in Beverly Hills

There has been a long-running, “low-grade street war” against the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in Greece. In the Ukraine’s ongoing Euromaidan demos, it is said that neo-fascists “make up about 30% of protesters.” President Nicholas Madura recently invoked the specter of fascism to describe the … Continue reading

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“Watchdog or Lapdog?” (1991 Revisited)

[ed. After talking to a veteran comrade about our most recent posts (on Sheriff Baca, Fullerton and the LAPD), he dug through his archives and produced the following long-form article about police accountability, originally published in 1991 in “Minority Trendsletter,” a … Continue reading

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We Go

  With sadness tinged with hope… There’s a quote at the top of our blog that merits some consideration today, on this all-too-quiet morning after a jury in Orange County acquitted two Fullerton pigs, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, in the … Continue reading

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On the Sith Order Of Things and Lee Baca’s Doge

“This is the way of our Order. An individual may die, but the Sith are eternal.” ― Darth Zannah Like a true Sith Lord, 16-year Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca didn’t assume leadership of his dark order until his mentor, … Continue reading

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The Battle for Wall Street

(ed. Originally published September 12, 3013 – here!) The Battle for Wall Street The ring of a bicycle bell chimes repeatedly through the air – breaking the monotony of the muzak version of “La Cucaracha” resounding in loops from a … Continue reading

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A Clean, Well Lighted Place for the Banality of Evil (Part 2)

(ed. Originally published August 25, 2012 – here!) The drugs, as they so sadly do, finally wore off after a few hours of fitful sleep snuck in between seemingly arbitrary holding-cell changes and perfunctory, peanut butter and jelly sandwich lines. … Continue reading

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A Clean, Well Lighted Place for the Banality of Evil (Part 1)

(ed. Originally published August 25, 2013 – here!) “I’m sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o’clock. He should have killed himself last week.” – Ernest Hemingway, ‘A Clean, Well Lighted Place’ There is a photo of a … Continue reading

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