Subject: Los Angeles Police Department

• Beating Mexicans and Fox News Reporters

  Yesterday, with little or no warning, LAPD officers attacked unarmed Fox News personnel as well as men, women, children and the elderly gathered peacefully in Los Angeles--during the May 1 immigration rallies. Women? Children? Elderly? And Fox News personnel? We can guess that those cops rarely read, but don't they watch TV while they inhale Budweiser and Snickers bars? Fox? You know, guys—O'Reilly, Hannity, Gibson, Ailes and Murdoch. You know, the 24-hour-a-day "elevated threat leve

  May 2, 2007

• Bizarro World (Immigrant Beatdown Edition)

  Last year, I wrote a piece comparing the different responses that OC and LA law enforcement officials took with the pro-amnesty marches. My, how the times have changed. Now it's the LAPD putting the beatdown on activists, just like their OC counterparts last year, while OC's finest just looked on. Now it's the LA mayor skipping town so he doesn't have to address the immigrant masses, just like SanTana mayor Miguel Pulido did last year, while OC's own Howard Hughes actually spoke to the small ral

  May 3, 2007

• Over Spitzer's Objection, Gov Delays New Death Chamber

  You've got to wonder how state assemblyman Todd Spitzer--a former Orange County supervisor, prosecutor and LAPD reserve officer--tolerates continual Sacramento BS even within his own Republican Party. McClatchy news reported today that GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--who oddly still enjoys The Terminator image--"personally asked" officials at San Quentin Prison to delay construction of a new death chamber that was set to premiere this May. Schwarzenegger's excuse? Spitzer--rightly frustrated

  April 20, 2007

• Dumping Umberg

  This just in from the Los Angeles Police Protective League: LAPPL REVOKES ENDORSEMENT OF TOM UMBERG Los Angeles, June 1, 2006- In a highly dramatic move, the Los Angeles Police Protective League today withdrew its endorsement for Tom Umberg, who is running for State Senate District in the 34th District (Garden Grove). The move follows Umberg's support in the State Assembly of AB1882, a bill that could jeopardize the safety of Angelenos and local visitors. It is extremely unusual for the LAPPL

  June 1, 2006

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Head Butting Cars Isn't Healthy

  Not Sure Why His Head Continued to Slam Into My Baton: Norberto Santana, Jr. at the Register reports that an unidentified “28-year-old inmate at the Orange County jail died Friday after deputies used a taser gun to subdue him.” Damon Micalizzi, the taxpayer-paid flack assigned to get Sheriff Michael S. Carona good ink, claimed, “Deputies tried to do what they could to remove him from other inmates. A confrontation ensued, a taser was deployed and then he was taken to the nursing station f

  October 13, 2007

• Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: A Sanchez Cookbook!

  Police State: Politicians of both major political parties who are frightened by police unions have written laws that give police incredibly wide latitude to use force against citizens and keep their own wrongdoings secret. And, of course, police departments routinely grab even more power for themselves. Case in point: buried in a Los Angeles Times article this morning on police misconduct at a MacArthur Park immigration protest was a jewel straight out of a Philip K. Dick novel. In 1996, LAPD w

  October 27, 2007

• Getting Ready to Battle the Illegals

  Tomorrow is May Day, celebrated by socialists across the globe and by illegal immigrants in the United States to march for amnesty (as an Aztlanista, I can tell you the shared dates ain't no coincidence, I tell ustedes what). Locally, pro-amnesty folks will meet at SanTana's Civic Center Plaza at 2 p.m., while the loyal opposition known as the California Coalition for Immigration Reform will protest outside the Mexican Consulate off Broadway and Civic Center Drive at eight in the morn. Of cours

  April 30, 2008

• Sheriff Sandra Hutchens' Green Dream Team

  The last time Orange County's sheriff announced the department's new management team, Bill Clinton was president, gasoline cost less than a buck fifty, people could afford their mortgages, and you didn't have to remove your shoes to enter buildings or airport terminals. Everything was better then--except at the OCSD. Mike Carona, our cry-on-cue glorified bailiff turned womanizer/pompous ass/N-word-tossing/federal indictee in a gold-star-studded uniform, had surrounded himself with future convict

  July 23, 2008

• There's Something About Pacific Health

  Remember the wandering homeless patient we wrote about a few months back who had been shipped from an Orange County hospital to L.A.'s Skid Row and dumped there? Well such incidents have been the subject of a federal investigation initiated in 2006 after the LAPD began looking into reports of hospitals dumping homeless patients on the streets. The results of that investigation exploded yesterday with the federal raids of three hospitals and the arrest of a hospital CEO in Los Angeles for alle

  August 7, 2008

• The Year in Oval Office Bootie Calls

  January 7, 1999

• Ex-LAPD Cop Admits Guilt in OC Kiddie Picture Arousal Case

  A visibly nervous Ralph Cameron Lakin II (pictured) stood out this morning in Superior Court Judge Steven Bromberg's courtroom not just because he wore a natty suit (tan slacks, green coat and floral-patterned tie), but also because the other criminal defendants awaiting attention were hoodlums or drug addicts while he served as a veteran cop in the Los Angeles Police Department. On May 26, 2007, Lakin was captured at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival secretly filming the cro

  January 13, 2009

• It's a Quick Read 23

  Orange County Register: Not only did your sales tax rise today, but the federal tobacco tax more than doubled. . . . Orange County health clinics for low-income residents will receive federal stimulus dollars. . . . Former Garden Grove police chief Frank Kessler, 76, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling funds as a Canyon Lake city councilman. After 18 years of service to Garden Grove, where he also served as a mayor and councilman, Kessler retired in 1994 and moved with

  April 1, 2009

• Angelina Jolie Takes on a Serial Killer and the System in Clint Eastwood's 'Changeling'

  October 30, 2008

• The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

  May 15, 2008

• Letters

  October 27, 2005

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 12, 2002

• Natural Causes

  October 3, 2002

• CD Review

  Various Artists, Super Cool California Soul 2: Raw and Rare Soul from the West Coast 1966-1982 (Ubiquity)

  May 10, 2007

• Tomorrow's Misery Today

  OnDVD: Children of Men

  March 29, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  June 8, 2006

• The Gilchristification of OC

  March 30, 2006

• It Makes Television Smart

  March 9, 2006

• Dr. Jihad

  March 2, 2006

• New Reviews

  February 23, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  January 19, 2006

• 'If They Get Beaten, Then They Asked for It'

  August 25, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  July 28, 2005

• Peter Torres, City Council District 9

  December 16, 2004

• Terror-Fied

  July 8, 2004

• Who's Your Daddy

  May 13, 2004

• Episode 16

  January 15, 2004

• The Thin Boo Line!

  Orange Countys 31 scariest cops!

  November 6, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  August 28, 2003

• Ann Coulters Pillow Case

  July 24, 2003

• Our Dark Blue Places

  February 27, 2003

• Bored to Death

  May 16, 2002

• Flame Thrower

  May 9, 2002

• What a Riot!

  March 14, 2002

• New Music

  September 27, 2001

• Pompeii Dog

  August 9, 2001

• Damn System!

  March 22, 2001

• Wiggedy-Wiggedy

  August 31, 2000

• This Space Reserved for Disabled Thugs

  August 3, 2000

• Drug Stink

  July 20, 2000

• Pat Boone Talibanizes ACLU Over LAPD Special Order 40

  Pat Boone. American.The ACLU says the California Court of Appeals decision today to uphold the Los Angeles Police Department's use of Special Order 40--a decades old policy prohibiting officers from using immigration status to initiate investigations--"strikes a balance between immigrants' rights to equal protection and officers' duty to protect communities."That makes former bubble-gum singer-turned-evangelical Christian commentator and former owner of Orange County's KDOC-TV Channel 56 Pat Boo

  June 17, 2009

• A Shameless Way To Escape Jury Duty

  During the jury selection phase in a Santa Ana murder trial this afternoon, a twenty-something Orange County Asian male pulled a maneuver I can't recall having witnessed in two decades of covering trials: He guaranteed that he wouldn't become a juror by manipulating both the prosecution and the defense.This backpack-toting person, whose name is sealed but who claimed he works for a local legal consulting firm that locates experts for litigation, told defense lawyer Derek Bercher that, "I think

  June 17, 2009

• La Voz de Aztlan Trying to Erase Its Most Infamous Jew-Bashing Moment

  In its latest screed, the Jew-bashing, gay-trashing La Voz de Aztlán (run by former Buena Park employee and eternal loon Hector Carreón) turns the tragedy that was the murder of an Arizona girl and her father by one branch of Minutemen Know Nothings into an opportunity to put a Jewish sheen on anti-Mexican sentiment. It got me thinking about Carreón's most infamous insertion of his anti-Semitism into an irrelevant topic: the South Central Farm fiasco of 2006.Quick recap: a group of farmers to

  June 30, 2009

• Crime Time: Methed Mom, Nitrous Oxide, a Full Moon, a Gutted Black Cat and a Skateboarding Giant Ax Carrier

  It's our weekly Weekly roundup of Orange County police calls--with suspect mugs!TUESDAY, JULY 7Courtesy of Cypress Police DepartmentAlison Le Anne EbertAt Least She Left the TV On Officers responding to an anonymous, 4:45 a.m. report of child abuse in a home in the 8500 block of La Homa Street in Cypress discovered two girls, ages 9 and 11, who had been left alone overnight amid knee-high trash piles, toilets overflowing with human feces, frozen bugs inside a refrigerator and unfrozen bugs and m

  July 14, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 3, 2009

• Court Slams LAPD For Illegally Seizing Medical Marijuana Profits

  ​In a remarkable opinion issued today with potential Orange County implications, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blasted the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for committing "highly objectionable," "tainted," "reckless," "misleading" and "illegal" conduct in a 2005 attempt to seize more than $186,400 from a legally compliant Southern California medical marijuana distributorship.The justices showed no patience for LAPD's efforts to keep the cash for itself and then l

  October 20, 2009