James Queally
James Queally writes about crime and policing in Southern California. Since coming to The Times he has also traveled to Ferguson, Mo., and Cleveland to cover large-scale protests involving police use-of-force and the 2016 election. A Brooklyn native, he came to The Times in 2014 after covering crime and police news for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. In that time he profiled Frank Lucas, the drug kingpin who inspired the film “American Gangster,” and wrote a series of stories that revealed how the state’s largest police departments failed to solve thousands of nonfatal shootings, which led to policy changes.
Harvey Weinstein gets a win: Part of criminal case against him is dropped
Manhattan's district attorney has decided to drop part of the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein. The tossed charge involves allegations made by one of the three accusers in the case, Lucia Evans, who was among the first women to publicly accuse Weinstein of sexual assault.
'It's public grief' — At close of 'Suge' Knight saga, Terry Carter's family focuses on the man who died, not the man who killed him
In the years since Terry Carter died, his widow and daughters have suffered through a public spectacle that included the airing of a video of their husband and father's death on TMZ. Speaking out for the first time, they want people to focus on who Terry was, rather than the man who killed him.
