Here is Nieman Reports‘ coverage of our Aftermath trauma conference at Harvard — for those who couldn’t be there!
The whole conference was incredibly moving, and I had the honor of joining this esteemed panel:
“When Crime is Just the Beginning of the Story”
For more Aftermath panels and stories, see my Press page.
Seems like years since I first reported on this case (actually, it has been), but here’s some big news:
Musician Convicted in Nuestra Familia Case
Nuestra Familia Case: Monterey County’s Connection
Got to do a radio interview today with some excellent guests who know all about gang violence.
Sandip Roy interviewed Prof. Victor Rios of UC Santa Barbara, Stockton Peacekeepers Jose Gomez and Ralph Womack, and me on San Francisco’s KALW 91.7 fm show “Your Call.” The show was about Project Ceasefire and other strategies to deal [...]
Well, my series on the Boston Ceasefire program and how it’s coming to Salinas and other California cities finally ran in the Monterey County Herald.
Here’s the main story, others are linked on the right side of the page:
Ceasefire: A two-day series on the innovative program to stop gang shootings
I was as shocked as anyone to learn that Alex Sanchez, former-gangster-turned-outreach-worker and head of Homies Unidos, was indicted this summer in a federal RICO case for allegedly still calling shots with MS-13 gang members.
I was even more shocked to read Tom Hayden’s unbridled defense of Sanchez in several articles for The Nation, and his [...]
Good story on NPR this week giving background about California’s Folsom prison, and our state’s prison problems in general: Folsom Embodies California’s Prison Blues | by Laura Sullivan.
I spent a day inside Folsom in 2003, and it’s amazing how much has changed for the worse even since then, when inmates were already doubled up in [...]
An ignoble distinction… Salinas just matched San Jose’s murder total for the year: 18. Except San Jose is a city of nearly 1 million and Salinas is 150,000 on a good day.
And it’s barely August.
I’ve spent the last week covering shootings, four dead and four wounded, including a 14-year-old boy. I know I’m supposed to [...]
Got to hang out at the Ninth Circuit Judiciary Conference this week and caught Janet Napolitano’s opening talk:
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano says U.S. faces an eventful fall
Kind of unfortunate headline, though. I don’t think she was actually predicting the total collapse of the United States. Yet.
If so, well, you read it here first, folks.
And, [...]
I just added two articles to my “Stories” page:
One is an interview with Daniel Ellsberg (remember the Pentagon Papers?) on the role of whistleblowers today.
The other is an investigation I did in 2002 about a freewheeling investment adviser from the high-tech boom days. His tale was kind of a preamble to today’s financial meltdown. The [...]
And here is the just-out brochure describing the National Network for Safe Communities, the (very) innovative gang and drug crime initiative unveiled Monday at the US mayors’ conference in Providence. Looks like 30 cities (and counting) are on board so far, including Stockton and Sacramento from my fair state. And Salinas? Not yet, anyway. Hmmm…
Just [...]