JULIE WALMSLEY

I wrote about tire slashings in Silver Lake for this month's Los Feliz Ledger. Pending corrections will update the map and copy to accurately reflect the area that gets hit: Effie Street and Crestmont, Maltman, and Golden Gate avenues. According to one of the unnamed sources mentioned in the story, about 90 percent of the activity is within a 100-yard radius of the corner of Effie Street and Golden Gate Avenue. I didn't have the editorial space to go as deep as I wanted to. Within this story, there were several issues which merit examination: The use of the senior lead officer system in the LAPD - the very relationships that keep the police in touch with neighborhoods keep benevolent residents from criticizing, not wanting throw the officer who's become their friend under the bus The larger trend of property crime in Los Angeles, overshadowed by a recent spike in violent crime What it actually takes to arrest and prosecute any offender, and why it's not hard to ...

Macabre tweets, then Facebook groups, and now a burgeoning product line in support of the late Christopher Dorner's rage against the LAPD. Joining the bumper stickers and t-shirts declaring "Not Dorner. Please do not shoot." is a poster in the style of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama campaign poster, including the 2008 campaign's "HOPE" tagline. These posters are on an exterior wall outside the Metro PCS store on Sunset Blvd. at Laveta  Terrace in Echo Park.