A network of organizations across Southern California is building people power against ICE—and many of these groups draw on a ...

On back-to-back nights in August 1969 in Los Angeles, seven people lost their lives: Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger ...

Mr. Wambaugh was there. He joined the Los Angeles police in 1960 as a patrolman after earning a bachelor’s degree in English from California State College (now University) in Los Angeles.

He wrote 'The Onion Field,' 'The New Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' and created the realistic anthology series 'Police ...

Chaos: The Manson Murders, from Errol Morris, looks at the conspiracy theories that continue to surround of the notorious ...

In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...

the son of a police officer. He did a stint in the Marines, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Cal State Los Angeles and joined the LAPD in 1960. Over the course of 14 years ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the writer who mined his years as a Los Angeles Police Department patrolman ... Co. The story of rookie LAPD cops in the early 1960s became his first bestseller and, the following ...

The 'Manson Family' were convicted of the murder of seven people - including film actress Sharon Tate - in 1971 ...

Joseph Wambaugh, a retired Los Angeles Police Department detective turned ... in English intending to become an English teacher. In 1960, he joined the LAPD and returned to CSULA to study English ...