Police make three arrests in Long Beach’s first 2008 shooting
Eight days after three people were shot and a fourth–25-year-old Jonathan Fernandez–
was fatally wounded at a New Year’s Eve party, Long Beach police announced three arrests Wednesday.

The birth of criminal profiling
The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell–of whom I know nothing–has an excellent piece up on the magazine’s website about the origins of criminal profiling, and how it may or may not have led to the capture of a pipe bomber in 1950s New York.