Daily Sound: Long-awaited Hollywood murder trial gets under way
"Forget the labels, forget the name; Jesse James Hollywood was known as Jesse. He was a 20-year-old who dealt small quantities of high quality marijuana, not a hardcore drug-dealing thug. He lived modestly, took frequent showers and wore clean clothes. He had nothing to do with the slaying of a 15-year-old boy in 2000, whose murder he has been charged with, his attorney said yesterday during the first day of the man’s capital murder trial in Superior Court...."
OC Register: Supervisors ding sheriff again over gun permits
"County supervisors once again took aim at Sheriff Sandra Hutchens on Tuesday, calling her changes to concealed weapons permits "arbitrary and capricious" as they formally responded to a report issued by the grand jury, titled "Let the Sheriff do her job."...'
OC Register Total Buzz: Petitions start for initiative to raise taxes on pensions (you might want to warn your family and friends to be careful what petitions they are asked to sign at the grocery store, post office or shopping center.)
"If it seems like Californians are making a big anti-tax statement today, it’s not stopping Paul McCauley, who wants a new tax on Californians who make more than $40,000 in pensions. Today, he cleared the first stage of bureaucracy and got the green light to begin collecting 433,971 signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot...."
OC Watchdog: $200,000 club: State pensioners who collect 10 times average
LA Daily News: L.A. police union to release cost savings ideas
"...It is unlikely that a new contract will be in place when the current agreement expires on June 30 because the city is seeking a 10 percent pay reduction from officers, according to an e-mail the LAPPL Board of Directors sent to police officers earlier this month...."LA Daily News: Trutanich wins close city attorney race (just a tidbit of info for those NRA aficionados)
"...Weiss attacked Trutanich for some of the criminal defendants he has represented as well as his law partner's handling of cases for the National Rifle Association...."LA Times: LAPD improves its image
"...However, with budget debates raging at City Hall and the City Council considering a proposal to freeze the hiring of new officers, Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasted no time using the report to serve a more immediate need.
"After all the hard work to turn this department around, the years of fighting and struggling and striving to build a larger, more progressive police force, we cannot turn our backs on our officers now," Villaraigosa said at a news conference at which the study was released. "This is not the time to go back to the old ways of the LAPD, to the days when the cops were underfunded and under-equipped, overworked and overextended, pushed to the limit and stretched far too thin. This is the moment to recommit ourselves . . . to a larger LAPD."...'
Desert Sun: DHS on track to expand police force (former LOPD Pat Williams likely scores big for his PD)
"Residents, business owners, city officials and police officers waited late into the night Tuesday to learn whether Desert Hot Springs voters approved Measure A, a local ballot initiative that would add four new officers by increasing and renewing the city's utility users tax through 2020...."
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