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.
In a first, LAPD voluntarily releases body camera video of a suspect who died in custody
Los Angeles police have released video connected to an incident that ended in the death of a man in South L.A., marking the first time the department has done so after the city Police Commission voted to reverse the LAPD's longstanding policy of withholding such video from the public.
FBI offers $25,000 reward for suspect sought in armed sexual assaults in Los Angeles
Greg Alyn Carlson, a suspect in several armed sexual assaults in Los Angeles, fled the region in late 2017,
