Gangs

Addicted to Incarceration / Huffington Post

May 31, 2011

Sam Slovick Here’s my new HP post; Addicted to Incarceration about last weeks CA prison -Supreme Court Decision, L.A. Law Enforcement and the Prison Industrial Complex. A sharp divide in the recent Supreme Court ruling ordering California to drastically reduce its prison population represents a deeper national division. 33,000 inmates are court-mandated to be released [...]

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PAVEMENT: San Simon’s Revenge

May 26, 2011

*listen to PAVEMENT POD CAST HERE I met Carlos a while back and did a story about him in the LA Weekly. The piece was about the systematic abuse of minority kids in low income areas by law enforcement. The through-line was that cops are shaping young minds as anti social and potentially criminal by [...]

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Sympathy for the Devil photos / LA WEEKLY

October 1, 2009

Previously unpublished photos that take us inside L.A. gang neighborhoods for Sam Slovick’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Crime Stats Say L.A.’s Streets Are Safer Than Ever, So Why Are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?”

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