“Anyone who has been in that system knows it could use scrutiny,” says attorney Dawn Kusumoto, who once worked as a legal advocate for abused children and is now counsel for the state Senate’s Select Committee on Juvenile Justice, which is in the process of amending Schiff’s bill to ...
“I don’t bad-mouth the groups. I think they’re trying,” said Sgt. Wes McBride of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department gang unit. “But there are too few workers versus the thousands of gang members. I applaud their efforts and they’ve got to keep plugging, but it’s ju...