Features
School Shootings: Can They Be Stopped?
From Sandy Hook to Uvalde, shootings bring anguish and a frustrating search for solutions
Karen Bass and Rick Caruso: A Blueprint Debate
Debate: Caruso and Bass debate homelessness, public safety and whether to charge Donald Trump
Police Violence and the Call for Help
Confrontations with traumatized suspects too-often end in shootings. Is there another way?
Eric Garcetti: Reflections from L.A.’s mayor
Crime and COVID, rising homelessness and restive politics — Garcetti looks back on nine years as chief executive of Los Angeles.
Prisons in a Pandemic
An ambitious data project reveals the extent of COVID’s spread inside American prisons
Focus on Policing: To Abolish or To Reform?
Lorenzo Jones and the deep questions of American policing
Focus on Policing: Bernard Parks
The former LAPD chief and Los Angeles city councilmember considers American policing and its critics
Working for Safety
Jorja Leap spearheads an effort to examine the LAPD’s work in Nickerson Gardens and beyond
Closing Note: Hope in the Ruins
This year of crisis has upended politics, public health and policing, among many other walks of life. It now moves to an election.
Sketches
Whither the California Electorate?
As California prepares to re-elect Gavin Newsom, Angelenos face a choice for their future
Editor’s Note
California is big, diverse and complicated. The challenge of governing this state is huge.
Governing Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on governing through crises
The Struggles of Family
Zachary Slobig on the combined effects within his family of COVID-19 and national policing protests
Of “bad apples” and police culture
Some see policing problems as the work of a few bad officers. Others see cultures of racism and brutality. Here’s how to tell the difference.