AltWeeklies Wire
Suicide in the Cellnew
Inmates kill themselves at a high rate after San Diego County Sheriff's Department refuses to revamp policies.
San Diego CityBeat |
Kelly Davis and Dave Maass |
04-25-2013 |
Crime & Justice
How Many Inmate Deaths Is Too Many?new
San Diego County's incarceration mortality rate leads California's largest jails.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass and Kelly Davis |
03-28-2013 |
Crime & Justice
Al-Shabaab cases takes a turnnew
Four Somali men hope testimony collected in East Africa will prove they didn’t send money to a terrorist group.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
09-19-2012 |
International
Tags: government
Riot in North Bumblef*cknew
A private-prison disaster in Oklahoma reveals the dangers of California's reliance on Corrections Corporation of America.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
03-16-2012 |
Policy Issues
Special Education: An Examination of the FBI Citizens' Academynew
Is the San Diego field office's program an example of good community outreach or plain old cronyism?
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
02-03-2012 |
Features
Occupy Gets Its Own Medical-Marijuana Strainnew
One of the few dispensaries left in San Diego is offering Occupy OG.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
11-28-2011 |
#OCCUPY
San Diego CityBeat Interviews Occupy San Diego All at Oncenew
During the daily open-mic session on Sunday, Oct. 9, San Diego CityBeat music editor Peter Holslin waited his turn in line, then interviewed everyone all at once.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
10-12-2011 |
#OCCUPY
The Darrell Issa cablesnew
WikiLeaks provides a window into a local Congress member’s diplomatic efforts.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
09-20-2011 |
International
Society of Petty Journalistsnew
Who watches the watchdogs? Easy: They watch, snarl and bite at each other, ruthlessly. 2,100 pages of internal SPJ emails dating back to January 2011 reveal a fair amount of smack-talk about various media figures, as well as internal politics regarding local board members perceived as not pulling their weight.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
06-03-2011 |
Media
The Gift of Gabbynew
A former Tucson Weekly writer reminisces on covering Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
01-13-2011 |
Media
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords
The Russia Housesnew
A Dagestani politician isn’t telling the truth about his Wikileak-ed connections to Carlsbad, Calif.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
12-09-2010 |
International
Jailhouse Nosh: An Inside Look at What Inmates Are Eatingnew
Using the sheriff’s email-an-inmate system, San Diego CityBeat sent letters to two-dozen random inmates asking their opinion on jail cuisine. Only De'Andre Daniels, a 20-year-old being held at San Diego Central Jail on an assault-with-a-firearm charge, responded.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
04-14-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Obama Entrapped Me: Medical Marijuana Provider Mounts a Novel Criminal Defensenew
More than most citizens, James Dean Stacy feels betrayed by the candidate for whom he voted for president. Stacy was arrested in September when his medical-marijuana collective, Movement in Action, was raided along with 13 others.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
12-28-2009 |
Drugs
San Diego Pot-Raid Search-Warrant Affidavits Reveal Dubious Undercover Opsnew
California's medical-pot organizations operate in a largely untested gray area of law. Yet, the only clear crime throughout a four-month sting in San Diego was perpetrated by the police.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
10-29-2009 |
Crime & Justice
San Diego Sues Navy, Shipbuilders and Port District to Pay for Bay Cleanupnew
For nearly 30 years after the end of World War II, Naval personnel hosed down trucks and heavy machinery with diesel fuel, then dunked them in a tributary of San Diego Bay. It was all done in the name of "decontamination" -- ironic, because a new suit alleges this is one of dozens of practices cited as primary causes of sediment contamination in the bay.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
10-21-2009 |
Environment
