Frank Stoltze
I came to L.A. as a very young reporter on New Year’s Day, 1991. Two months later, four LAPD officers were caught on videotape beating Rodney King. A year later, the night before the riots/rebellion broke out, I was in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts at an extraordinary rally of rival gangs that had brokered a truce.
Today, I cover Civics and Democracy in L.A. As we face perhaps the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War, I seek to engage with communities and examine the hurdles to becoming involved in the political process. I cover the various social and political movements seeking to improve the lives of Angelenos. I also cover anti-democratic forces.
And after all these years, I still need to figure out the best donut shop in L.A. The best torta. The best (not fanciest) coffee. Best of all I get to meet the smartest, most interesting people and bring their voices to you.
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has finished vetting Garcetti for the nomination. -
The DA called a news conference to tout his accomplishments in his first year in office and wound up fending off questions about whether his policies are fueling crime.
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Data we obtained shows huge drops in the number of cases in which prosecutors have sought longer sentences for defendants accused of using guns during a crime and/or committing a crime for the benefit of a gang.
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After failing to secure enough signatures to place a recall on the ballot earlier this year, the DA's critics say this time around they have already lined up $2.5 million in donor commitments to fund the effort.
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The sheriff faces a tough re-election battle next year, with eight challengers seeking to unseat him.
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More than $338,000 in goods were stolen from stores and malls.
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Claiming Alex Villanueva has created "dysfunction and chaos" in the Sheriff's Department, Robert Luna joins five others seeking to oust the incumbent.
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The company the county hired to conduct the testing also challenges the sheriff's claim that it will share employees' genetic data with China.
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Liu was on duty when he shot and killed Francisco Garcia, 26, at a gas pump at a 7-Eleven in Norwalk in 2016.
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Nearly 80% of officers and civilian employees are fully vaccinated so far.
