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LAPD gets the OK from city council to remain a militarized police department for another year. A motion to limit the department's deployment of tear gas and 40 mm rubber bullets failed to pass.

I wrote about the LAPD getting the OK from city council to remain militarized this year. A motion to limit tear gas and 40 mm rubber bullets failed after a contenious back and forth with LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell.
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This short-documentary was the reason I wanted LAPD’s headshots. It started with just the people involved with this story but when I was typing the request, I just said, “fuck it, all of them”

we started on this before AI existed and gladly say that not a single robot touched the project the entire way #NewsNotSlop

This piece has been a long time in the making. I know the work and rejection that's gone into it, and it's great to see Ben has finally published it.

LAPD made no mention of CSP's connection to the shooting in early public messaging about the incident, despite the involved officers having intimate knowledge about the neighborhood - its gangs, its layout, its culture and people - through their work in the program. At the same time, CSP sat on the verge of becoming its own bureau, a move that would establish the community policing program as a core element of LAPD's organizational structure. CP's connection to the shooting was never publicly mentioned until Inadvertent obtained records about the incident almost four years later through a lawsuit.

@bencamach0.bsky.social published his investigative piece about LAPD shooting at a crowd of party goers. After a long fight for the public records, he found out there was more to the story than what the LAPD told the public and internal investigators.
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This short-documentary was the reason I wanted LAPD’s headshots. It started with just the people involved with this story but when I was typing the request, I just said, “fuck it, all of them”

And they were heavily redacted (at first).

This is by far one of the longest stories I've ever written. The story went through at least 5 iterations before we even received the final batch of documents that LAPD tried for so long to hold onto. Those were the ones that revealed CSP's connection to the shooting.

This project was made possible with the LA Press Club’s Charles M. Rappleye Investigative Journalism Award. Special thanks to the Law Office of Shakeer Rahman and The People’s Law Project LA.

YouTube video by West Side Storytellers The Blue Hand: LAPD Improperly Used A Search Warrant To Investigate A Shooting Victim

what LAPD never told the public or internal investigators.

The investigation further revealed an underreported and rare issue: search warrants that circumvented court oversight and became untraceable due to LAPD mishandling.

Short-doc about what we are calling shadow warrants youtu.be/Xh3ZlDegq9o

LAPD Shot At A Party Then Improperly Used A Search Warrant To Investigate A Shooting Victim LAPD’s community policing program avoided scrutiny for a shootout a month before the program became its own bureau. Data revealed search warrant practices were leading to untraceable warrants.

A 5 year investigation into an LAPD shooting revealed that an officer with LAPD’s Community Safety Partnership shot at crowds of partygoers in South Central LA. After suing for records twice, footage & documents showed...

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Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,

So-called "smart" devices are pushed heavily for the holidays, but be mindful of what you're opting that gift recipient into. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white attackers killed as many as 300 people, most of them Black — has died at age 111, the mayor said. She told Congress in 2021 that she lived through the massacre 'every day' reut.rs/4pt18LJ

NEIGHBOR KIDNAPPED HERE ABOLISH ICE painted on Seattle sidewalk in yellow paint

Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation Locking down signal

The secure messaging app @signal.org makes it easy to chat without sacrificing security.

If you're getting started with Signal, learn how, and if you are already a user, we help you tighten its security.

The contract itself is not listed on the city’s public document portal, I’ve asked the city clerk to forward it to me.

To clarify: the cases he’s getting paid for are against city but have very much to do with him and his alleged conduct as chief, although he is not a named party.

counsel* (i depend on voice function too much when im on the go, sorry yall)

On the stand**

Former SAPD Manager’s Lawsuit Exposing SAPD’s Gang-Like Activity Begins Trial Current and former cops are set to testify about retaliation, harassment and discrimination claims made by former police manager Rita Ramirez. How did we even get here?

Former SAPD Chief David Valentin has been on his stand since yesterday.

Plaintiff’s council today revealed that the City of Santa Ana entered into a $50k contract with Valentin to get him to cooperate on the various lawsuits against the city and him.

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The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment? Rigorous, principled, independent journalism is an essential part of movement building.

Movement journalism isn't just a nice thing to have: It's essential to expose injustice, uplift movements, and share visions for our collective futures.

Amazing @femmfeministe.bsky.social and I wrote about why resourcing journalism is important, especially right now!

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The Los Angeles Police Department is likely violating state law by failing to publish its use of force reports from the No Kings protest in June. State law AB48 requires police to file the reports within 60 days of their protest response.

I also didn't like to do my homework on time, but I wasn't breaking the law like LAPD is likely doing by not posting their use of force reports from the No Kings protest in June.

New from me:
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made some graphics to go with my story

read if you haven't yet!

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A border patrol questions an elderly man with a cane in a parking lot before taking him.

Border Patrol has been targeting the elderly heavily. Today in Santa Ana, that’s almost all they took, including this man and his cane.

People held at the Core Civic-run ICE jail in Kern County, California are denied medical care, access to their attorneys, and, for disabled detainees, the most basic accommodations, according to a class action lawsuit filed by the ACLU and others. www.thecarceralreport.com/p/people-at-...

shoutout to @bane.slop.exchange for contributing the visuals for this piece. we had gone out to shoot and i really took my time in getting my own good shots...and then accidentally deleted all of them at some point. Rafa had my back tho

Birds Of A Feather Flock Together: Santa Ana And ICE’s Efforts To Surveil You SAPD’s new mass surveillance system comes as ICE drafted plans to set up a 24/7 social media surveillance team in Santa Ana. Mayor Amezcua in denial.

my first story on mass surveillance is out: inadvertent.substack.com/p/birds-of-a...

co-publishing with @calonews.bsky.social

The chief and cops that continue to shoot journalists and interfere with our work need to be held in contempt.

From the horse’s mouth, the LAPD does not want to follow the federal injunction handed down to them.

No consequences = no accountability