WHO CAN FIX CAMP NOBODY?
Here’s my new LA Weekly feature about juvieniel justice in L.A. WHO CAN FIX CAMP NOBODY? Los Angeles County probation camps offer abuse instead of rehab By Sam Slovick Thursday, Jul 8 2010 “I wouldn’t stop till I saw blood. A lot of blood,” says Jesse Aguiar, smiling easily in his neatly pressed button-up shirt as he [...]
L A WEEKLY SKID ROW COVER SERIES
This is a series of L A Weekly cover stories I did on Skid Row in Los Angeles. I moved to a loft downtown so I was in the thick of it. I still go down all the time. DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW Downtown can be a last chance… or the last stop [...]
IT STARTED WITH A KISS: FINDING SHELTER AMONG THE STRAY CATS
Slovick was an unpolished and unproven talent at the time, but he possessed a sharp eye and a unique voice and, as the street hustler he once was, had an uncanny knack for disarming folks
Choc Nitty
[mp3player width=166 height=99 config=fmp_jw_widget_config.xml playlist=choc-nitty.xml file=Choc Nitty] I met Choc Nitty on Skid Row. I was in the Gang Enforcement Task Force in the Central Division Police station in downtown L.A. when a cop pulled up a six-pack on a computer screen and showed me his picture. He told me how he used this rapper [...]
Sympathy for the Devil photos / LA WEEKLY
Previously unpublished photos that take us inside L.A. gang neighborhoods for Sam Slovick’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Crime Stats Say L.A.’s Streets Are Safer Than Ever, So Why Are Gang Hoods Still So Bloody?”
