Tweet A man who spent 34 years in jail for murder had his sentence overturned when a Los Angeles judge agreed he did not commit the crime. CBS Los Angeles reports Kash Delano Register (53) became a free man in downtown Los An...
Tweet A Compton teen held in a capital murder case has been released after a last-minute discovery of new evidence. Charges against him have been dismissed. NBC Los Angeles reports that Justin Marquis Scott (19) had been char...
Tweet Crime rates in Los Angeles County have been declining for decades, but a recent weekend brought a spate of homicides that may threaten this trend. NBC 4, Los Angeles, reports that across seven communities in the county,...
Tweet Overcrowding and budget issues in Los Angeles County haveled to thousands of inmates serving time as little as 40 percent of their sentences. The Los Angeles Times investigated early releases at county jails through rec...
Tweet Civil gang injunctions, used in Los Angeles County for more than 30 years as a tool to fight crime, are coming under fresh fire as a grass-roots effort to challenge them gains momentum. The Daily Breeze reports that the...
Tweet Technology is everywhere these days—including in California police departments, where the ‘big data' trend has arrived in the form of software that attempts to anticipate crime before it happens. The predictive policing...
Tweet In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, state lawmakers are considering a heavy stack of gun-control bills that could make California the most heavily legislated state in the country when it comes to firearms. The San Jose ...
Tweet Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) data analyzed by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database shows that weekly crime reports are up significantly in 11 neighborhoods across the city. The Times reports that six neigh...
Tweet The highly criticized realignment plan for California's overcrowded state prisons, set in motion by Gov. Jerry Brown in 2011, may be helping to keep low-level criminals from becoming repeat offenders. In addition to red...
Tweet The Los Angeles city attorney's office has revised its filing guidelines, and as part of the process, 91 violations that were classified as misdemeanors are now considered infractions. On July 25, commanding officers of...
Tweet Over the last five years, misdemeanor drug arrests in California have fallen by almost 50 percent, due in large part to legislation passed in 2010 that redefined charges for minor marijuana possession. Figures from the ...
Tweet More people throughout the state of California are being arrested and charged with DUI, due to increased police presence in the form of sobriety checkpoints, crackdowns, and zero tolerance policies. NBC Los Angeles repo...
Tweet The state of California is under a court order to reduce its prison populations. Now, former supervisor Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is looking to introduce a potential solution to this issue through an ordinance that would ex...
Tweet A California rally and protest in support of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin led to law enforcement officials arresting a total of 17 people, including eight juveniles, and a lockdown at the Mall of Victor Valley. Aro...
Tweet California's DNA collection program continues to be challenged by civil libertarians who say the program is too broad. Currently in California, when a person is arrested for a felony, he or she is required to submit a mo...
Tweet It has been estimated that on any given day more than 70,000 young people are held in juvenile detention facilities across the United States. This is the highest rate of any developed nation. According to a recent a stud...
Tweet With talk of lowering the legal blood alcohol limit, the federal government is considering offering incentives to states that lower the legal limit to .05 from the current level of .08. By lowering the legal alcohol limi...
Tweet Many Republican law makers, law enforcement officials and victims' rights groups argue that the shift in California's penal system pushed through legislature by Gov. Jerry Brown a couple years ago has spurred crime rates...
Tweet Four Democrats and four Republicans brought their efforts to success when they completed crafting a new immigration bill April 16. The 844-page bill was broad in scope, addressing illegal immigration, new visa programs f...
Tweet Results from a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that more than half of Americans support the legalization of marijuana. We have definitely seen a shift in the way Americans view marijuana over the last cou...
Tweet Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, the Los Angeles Superior Court's department that helps resolve cases before going to court will be closed by June 8. According to Mary Hearn, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Sup...
Tweet Marijuana charges in the state of California can result in harsh penalties such as days or months in jail and fines starting at $100. If you are arrested for possession, you should consult with an experienced drug offens...
Tweet The Los Angeles police department does not take domestic violence lightly. According to the LAPD, more than 2 million women and more than 1 million children are victims of domestic abuse each year, and this is something ...
Tweet Federal law prohibits the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from collecting information on or tracking the purchase of guns. In 2003, Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Kansas first attached an amendment, now ca...
Tweet An increasing number of county judges are using split sentences, thanks to California's new felon imprisonment law, which now requires low-level offenders to serve time in county jail instead of state prison. According ...
