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Neighbors Spying on You? New Program Spreading Across the US Takes Neighborhood Watch to Scary New Level

Uzma Kolsy, Salon. March 31, 2012.

Suspicious Activity Reporting asks citizens to keep an eye out on their neighbors -- but the results could be terrible.

6 of the Biggest Unsolved Celebrity Deaths, From Biggie to the Black Dahlia

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. March 12, 2012.

On the 15th anniversary of the Notorious BIG's death, these cold cases still plague Los Angeles cops.

People Locked in Tiny Cages, Crying in Pain: What I Saw and Heard When the LAPD Threw Me in Jail for Exercising My Right to Protest the Oligarchy

Yasha Levine, eXiled Online. December 2, 2011.

Don't believe the PR. There was nothing peaceful or professional about the LAPD's attack on Occupy LA -- or the way detainees were later treated.

The New Surveillance Society: How "Community" Policing Follows Your Every Move

Nancy Murray, Kade Crockford, TruthOut and ACLU Massachusetts. September 8, 2011.

A new notion of "community policing" has emerged, where monitoring communities has taken the place of solving crimes.

LAPD report: 320 racial profiling cases and none had merit

Pam Spaulding, Pandagon. May 3, 2008.

Racial profiling claims prove hard to verify.

LAPD Remodels Racial Profiling To Target Muslims

Tammy Johnson, ColorLines. November 10, 2007.

Tammy Johnson: As a result entire communities have been branded as "at-risk" and are being placed under surveillance

Los Angeles Police Are Gentrifying the City's Skid Row -- with Force

Jessica Hoffmann, Colorlines.com. October 20, 2007.

As the affluent take the city, poor Black residents are being pushed out with force.

More Than Half of ‘Armed’ Suspects Shot by LA Sheriff Were Not Armed

Jorge Rivas, December 31, 1969.