Crime

    Activists raise stakes with renegade farm Benny Evangelista,Carolyne Zinko, SF Chronicle, 4/23/12 TO SEE COMPLETE STORY CLICK ON

The article ”Debtors seethe, sue over collector tactics,” on the front page of today’s Sacramento Bee really resonated with us this morning.  We hear stories like the ones reported in the Bee almost every day–accounts of debt collectors using abusive and profane telephone language, stalking debtors, harrassing them at work and even threatening violence.    As reported in the...

We get quite a few questions about finding the “legislative intent” behind a law. Legislative intent can (sometimes!) be determined by creating a legislative history on the law in question—looking at the debates, comments, changes between drafts, and other information about the bill’s history from introduction to signature. Legislative intent can be used to...

A heavily used and often clogged Sacramento intersection is home to a new red-light photo camera that goes on-line today, according to reports. The new installation, located at the corner of Alhambra and J Street, will send warning citations to violat...

Authorities have identified 38-year-old Jimmy Lee Graves as the sole responsible party for the mayhem that took place around the Sacramento region on Friday. What began as a burglary in West Sacramento escalated into multiple carjackings, a high...

    Senate Democrats Choose Adults Over Student Safety Quash SB 1059 (Huff, R-Diamond Bar), pass watered down SB 1530

    Police Union Suing City of L.A. Over New LAPD Vehicle Impound Policy LA1st, 4/19/12 The Los Angeles Police

    Oakland Police Caught Between Reform and Crime Surge Court order makes fighting crime the second priority in California’s

A man who reportedly shot at police officer and carjacked two separate people on Friday is still on the loose after somehow escaping a huge perimeter around the Highway 80 Yolo causeway. The still unidentified suspect apparently jumped from the el...

Highway 80 between West Sacramento and Davis was closed Friday morning as police searched for an armed robbery suspect who fired shots at unsuspecting store employees who caught him in the act as they were preparing to open for business. … Contin...