“He’s been inside the department for 42 years,” Steve Soboroff, the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, said of Chief Beck. [The Los Angeles Times]Advertisement Continue reading the main story• A nonprofit group has sued to stop the authorities from evicting hundreds of people at a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Trail. [The Fresno Bee]• The Los Angeles Clippers executed a blockbuster trade on Monday, sending the team’s franchise player, Blake Griffin, to the Detroit Pistons. And the Chargers bolted for Los Angeles last year. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U.C.

Source: New York Times January 30, 2018 14:00 UTC