Law Enforcement

Crime alerts for Harbor Gateway, West Adams, eight other L.A. areas
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 10 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Nine neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Harbor Gateway was the most unusual, recording seven reports compared with a weekly average of 1.9 over the last three months. West Adams was the lone neighborhood with a property-crime alert.
Los Angeles Times

Parolees released in L.A. try to stay on straight and narrow
Arnold Ruiz was once the quintessential gang member, complete with shaved head, tattoos, and no fewer than 13 felonies on his rap sheet. Ruiz is enrolled in a downtown L.A.-based rehab program that aims to help him and others with services such as housing and job training. Such efforts have taken on new importance under the state prison realignment program created by Gov. Jerry Brown, which puts increased responsibility on local government agencies for monitoring and helping those who have been released from prison.
Los Angeles Daily News

Missing 101-year-old Glendale man found in hospital
A 101-year-old Echo Park man who had been reported missing was at a Glendale hospital on Monday, having checked himself in after falling while on his way to visit a woman who was not expecting him, police said. Lazaro Alfonso Gamez lives alone in the 4300 block of Willowbrook Avenue and, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement issued Saturday, "suffers from dementia and is in poor mental condition."
Los Angeles Daily News

LAPD Topanga Station hosts open house Saturday
LAPD Topanga Community Police Station will hold its 3rd Annual Open House on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can tour the station, meet officers and check out some of their police vehicles. There will also be informational booths on Neighborhood Watch programs, C.E.R.T., youth programs and Valley Traffic Division. The station is located at 21501 Schoenborn St. in Canoga Park.
Los Angeles Daily News

Doctors say teens go to hospitals after drinking hand sanitizer
Doctors are warning parents about a dangerous new trend after six teenagers drank hand sanitizer and ended up in San Fernando Valley emergency rooms with alcohol poisoning. Teenagers are using salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer, doctors said. "It's essentially a shot of hard liquor," said Cyrus Rangan, director of the toxicology bureau for the Los Angeles County public health department and a medical toxicology consultant for Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times

Oakland police alters crowd-control policy due to Occupy protests
A week before a scheduled May Day protest by Occupy movement demonstrators, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan on Monday announced what he said were major reforms in department crowd-control tactics after injuries and widespread use of tear gas last fall sparked international outrage and triggered hundreds of abuse complaints.
Los Angeles Times

FBI steps up 'Internet Doomsday' awareness malware campaign
PC users infected with a strain of malware called DNS Changer will face their own personal Internet doomsday in July unless they disinfect their computers, the FBI warns. Users have until July 9 to rid themselves of the DNS Changer malware, which can infect Windows PCs and Macs alike. After that, the FBI will throw a switch that prevents infected computers from accessing the Internet.
PC World

Ballot Initiatives

Calif. death penalty ban qualifies for Nov. ballot
A measure to abolish California's death penalty qualified for the November ballot on Monday. If it passes, the 725 California inmates now on Death Row will have their sentences converted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. It would also make life without parole the harshest penalty prosecutors can seek.
Associated Press

Prisons

California prisons detail plan to downsize, cut costs
The California prison system on Monday unveiled an extensive plan to cut spending by billions of dollars, close a prison and return inmates being housed out of state -- all while meeting court-ordered benchmarks on medical care and overcrowding. In three years, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is expected to be 7.5% of the state's total budget, down from an estimated 9.4% in the upcoming fiscal year.
Los Angeles Times

Immigration

Mexican immigration to U.S. slowed significantly, report says
Mexican immigration to the United States, the largest wave of migrants from a single country in the nation's history, has stopped increasing after four decades of surging growth and may be declining, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Hispanic Center. In what the report called a "notable reversal of the historic pattern," the number of Mexicans leaving rose sharply in the five years after 2005, while the new flow of migrants coming from Mexico into the United States fell steeply, Pew demographers found.
New York Times