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Hamilton Nolan · 06/21/16 01:40PM
Scientists say the number of annual “extreme heat” days in Los Angeles could increase by 800% over the course of this century. Good thing future L.A. residents will have futuristic air-conditioning in their self-driving cars as they sit in future sweltering traffic jams, wondering where their dreams went wrong.
Second-Class City Is First-Class Hellhole, of Traffic
Hamilton Nolan · 03/15/16 02:13PMThe Mysterious Alleged $100 Million Poker Pot
Hamilton Nolan · 02/19/16 03:37PMHamilton Nolan · 10/29/15 02:59PM
Cops: L.A. Bank Robber at Large After Hitting Three Locations in One Hour
Hudson Hongo · 08/13/15 07:05PM50 Years After the Riots, Watts Projects and LAPD Learn to Co-Exist
Leighton Woodhouse · 08/11/15 11:31AMAt a recent staff meeting at the Southeast Division station of the Los Angeles Police Department, Ryan Whiteman, a tall, barrel-chested sergeant, ran down the mid-year crime stats for Jordan Downs, a public housing development in the Watts neighborhood of South L.A.. Jordan Downs is home to some of the most destitute families in Los Angeles County. “Five generations of abject poverty,” is how civil rights attorney Connie Rice described the 700-unit complex, which looks like a cross between a tenement and a dilapidated army barracks. “It’s Third World America.”
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/15 03:51PM
“The recent handcuffing of an inmate without food for 32 hours is part of a troubling pattern of similar mistreatment in the Los Angeles County jails since [last year]... Inspector General Max Huntsman cited three additional incidents in which inmates were allegedly tethered to objects for prolonged periods.”