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.
Recent Articles
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LAPD officer at center of cadet scandal charged with sexual assault of 15-year-old girl
The Los Angeles police officer at the center of a scandal roiling the department’s cadet program has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl who was a cadet, prosecutors announced Friday. Robert Cain, 31, was charged Thursday with two counts each of oral copulation of a person...
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Judge denies ex-Sheriff Lee Baca's request to stay free while appealing his conviction
A federal judge has denied ex-Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s request to remain free while he appeals his conviction on charges that he obstructed an investigation into abuses in the county jail system. In a nine-page ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson found that Baca failed...
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L.A. officials considering changes to gang injunction policy after lawsuit alleges constitutional violations
Los Angeles officials are considering making significant changes to the way they enforce gang injunctions in the wake of a lawsuit that accused the city of violating the constitutional rights of thousands of people, according to court documents made public this week. The American Civil Liberties...
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Alleged white nationalist to face charges in statehouse brawl that left seven stabbed last year
A man described as a white nationalist is fighting extradition to California on assault charges in connection with a brawl between extreme-right groups and counter-protesters that ended with seven people stabbed near the state Capitol last year, officials said. The California Highway Patrol had...
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Teenager, man wounded in shooting near Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, police say
A 15-year-old boy and a man in his 20s were wounded Monday night in what police believe was a gang-related shooting near an entrance to Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. Shortly after 8 p.m. a person walked up to the victims at the corner of Lemon Grove and Van Ness avenues and opened fire, shooting...
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Five injured when teenage DUI suspect hits pedestrians, crashes car in Santa Ana, police say
Five people were injured when a juvenile suspected of drinking and driving slammed a car into two pedestrians and a telephone pole in Santa Ana on Thursday morning, police said. The driver, who was not identified, was traveling at a “high rate of speed” in the 1600 block of South Greenville Street...
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Sacramento law office says it was hit with anti-cop graffiti after lowering flag for slain NYPD officer
The headquarters of a Sacramento law firm known for representing police officers in use-of-force cases was spray-painted with anti-police graffiti after it lowered a “Blue Lives Matter” flag to half-staff in honor of a New York City police officer killed in the line of duty, the firm said Wednesday....
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Police pursuits cause unnecessary deaths and injuries, L.A. County grand jury says
Police chases in Los Angeles County are “causing unnecessary bystander injuries and deaths,” and law enforcement officers need better training to reduce the risk of crashes during high-speed pursuits, according to a new report by the county’s civil grand jury. The report comes after a data analysis...