A worker prepares to clean a portable restroom that the homeless use near a line of campers that make up the Ballona Creek homeless encampment along Jefferson Boulevard in Marina Del Rey on May 24. “We’ve got to be willing to stand up and say enough is enough,” said L.A. City Councilmember Traci Park, who ran on a promise to …
At the Compton sheriff’s station, it’s called a ghost gun: a weapon a deputy says he spots on a suspect but that is never found when colleagues respond to the scene and search for it. “In reality, they’ve never seen the gun,” L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Austreberto Gonzalez said under oath. “Accepting the deputy’s testimony, there is evidence that the …
