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Oct 2009

Secret criminal billionaires: Big-rig cargo thefts worth $$$ are hitting L.A.'s port

Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig...

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Oct 2009

Long knives slice up Bratton

It's a mark of the disarray and crisis within Los Angeles City Hall that Police Chief William Bratton, one of the most famous cops in the world, riding high on an era of low crime and sometimes absurdly over-praised accomplishments, is...

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Oct 2009

Some furlough days actually cost California money

A shortage of staff to cover 24-hour shifts at prisons means workers are going in on furlough days and being paid in IOUs that will eventually cost the state -- and its taxpayers -- much more. Staff shortages are forcing tens of thousands...

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Oct 2009

The assassination of Deputy Abel Escalante

Before dawn four weeks ago, some 1,300 cops and federal agents fanned across the badlands of Los Angeles in a massive crackdown on the Avenues gang, inviting along a few reporters to observe them as they quietly approached 42 run-down...