A woman stole my wallet and all I got was a lousy detective

The woman who stole my wallet six months ago thinks I’m a psycho victim. The police detective who was assigned to investigate the crime told me so; it was pretty much the only thing about the whole unfortunate incident that I didn’t find [...]

Rate My Cop, a website dedicated to, uh, rating police officers, is back. A huge chunk of the LBPD is listed, but few have ratings—right now the site is about as trustworthy and uninformed as any anonymous forum on the internet. But it’s at least a vague step toward accountability.

This was the view from my living room window (I was the creepy neighbor with the camera lens through the blinds) yesterday morning as the Long Beach Police Department shut down 5th Street between Lime and Olive for two hours and tried to lure a “David” out of the house across the street from me:

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When someone steals your wallet, this is what you pay for

From time to time a Humid Gust of Bad Intent shaped like a female human being may emerge from the bog of eternal deceit and stand immediately behind you in the checkout line at Trader Joe’s. How to know? This creature will be returning a [...]