Public Safety

Community Law Enforcement

At probation, the new powers that be

Jerry Powers could have predicted as much. The first paragraph of the Los Angeles Daily News story announcing his hiring Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors began with the phrase, “Los Angeles County’s troubled Probation Department has a new chief.” “Every news report, it’s the… [Read more]

• County re-ups with Homeboy

Justice and the Courts

Realignment gets all too real

Even before the ex-inmates have hit the county line, probation officials are seeing problems in California’s massive criminal justice makeover. Inside a cramped, dingy-white building in Alhambra, one of California’s most radical—and some say reckless—experiments in its criminal justice history is unfolding. [Read more]

• Supes OK “win-win” jail phone pact

Disaster Readiness and Relief

Fighting fire with some super friends

Michel Proulx has spent so many autumns in Los Angeles that he’s now a regular at pickup hockey games in the San Fernando Valley. Stéphane Monette has used his off-hours to teach himself to speak Spanish and to surf. [Read more]

• Teaming up for all breeds of disaster