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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In announcing he will not enforce any vaccine mandate for his employees, the sheriff toes the line of the anti-vaccination movement. -
A RAND report finds about 17% of the department’s nearly 10,000 sworn personnel responded to the survey, which also found significant support for subgroups.
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Bean founded the Minority AIDS Project and a church for the Black LGBTQ community.
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Vera had once been a favorite of the sheriff's. Now the department says the sheriff has the right to remove top-level officials "whose views do not align with his own agenda."
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A city ordinance requires employees to get their first Pfizer or Moderna shot by Tuesday, and their second shot — or the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine — by Oct. 5.
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Thirty-year-old Nina Cohen of Long Beach was arrested for attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.
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According to the suit, Black people were arrested for roller skating, jaywalking and merely driving in the city of Beverly Hills.
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It's only the third time in more than 20 years that a law enforcement officer in L.A. County has been charged with a crime for shooting someone.
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The deputies — based at the East L.A. station — face a felony charge each of filing a false report, and one faces a felony charge of assault under the color of authority.
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If successful, Eric Strong, a nearly 30-year veteran of law enforcement, would become L.A. County's first Black sheriff.
