L.A. Times (2022) Editorial: Deputies shot an autistic man, then the justice system terrorized him. There’s a better way.

Daily Bulletin (2022), LA supervisors order draft of a ballot measure that would let them remove Sheriff Villanueva

Telemundo 52 (2022), Votan por medida que podría remover al alguacil

Telemundo 52 (2022), Aprueban medida de votación que permitiría la destitución del alguacil

FOX 11 Los Angeles (2022), LA County supervisors approve proposal enabling removal of sheriff

CBS Los Angeles (2022), LA County Supervisors approve new strategy to remove sheriff from office

Frank Stotlze, LA County Supervisors Seek The Power To Eject Elected Sheriffs From Office, LAist (2022)

Holly J. Mitchell, LA County Board of Supervisors Initiates Process for Voters to Grant the Board Authority to Remove Sheriff for Unlawful Actions and Abuse of Power (2022)

Melanie Ochoa and Zev Yaroslavsky, L.A. County Supervisors Mull Asking Voters For Sheriff-Removal Power, AirTalk (2022)

Dana Goodyear, The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis, The New Yorker (June 2022)

Alene Tchekmedyian, As hearing on ‘deputy gangs’ opens, testimony adds to years of allegations, L.A. Times (May 24, 2022)

Katie Cagle, Witnesses: Deputy gangs still active in LA County Sheriff’s Department, Spectrum News 1 (May 24 2022)

Frank Stotlze, Tales Of A Coverup, A Shooting Celebration, And A Work Slowdown At Hearing On Deputy Gangs, LAist (May 24 2022)

KTLA 5 News, Hearing held over alleged L.A. County Sheriff’s Department gangs (May 24 2022)

NBC4I-Team, Court Documents Appear to Show Coverup of LA County Sheriff Deputy Gangs (May 25 2022)

Alene Tchekmedyian, First eyewitness account of Sheriff Villanueva lying in a cover-up revealed in filing, L.A. Times (Apr. 28, 2022)

Editorial: Villanueva’s attempt to intimidate a Times reporter is a gaslighting assault on the press, L.A. Times (Apr. 27, 2022)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: Sheriff Villanueva just showed the world the petty emptiness behind his bluster, L.A. Times (Apr. 27, 2022)

Katie Robertson, Los Angeles Sheriff, Accused of Cover-up, Opens Investigation into Reporter, N.Y. Times (Apr. 26, 2022)

Sam Levin, LA jail guards routinely punch incarcerated people in the head, monitors find, The Guardian (Apr. 8, 2022)

Editorial: The Villanueva saga just gets odder and more destructive, L.A. Times (Apr. 1, 2022)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: L.A. County sheriff shoots his mouth off again, L.A. Times (Mar. 30, 2022)

Alene Tchekmedyian, Fearing bad publicity, LASD covered up case of deputy who knelt on inmate’s head, L.A. Times (Mar. 26, 2022)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: L.A. County’s sheriff leans on his Latino identity. Does he exemplify our worst traits?, L.A. Times (Mar. 24, 2022)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: L.A. County’s sheriff has a strange obsession with how much media coverage Black people get, L.A. Times (Mar. 24, 2022)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: Villanueva’s beef with firefighters, the L.A. Times, Gascón, ‘Latinx’ and more, L.A. Times (Mar. 24, 2022)

Alene Tchekmedyian, Sheriff Villanueva fights subpoena for his testimony on deputy cliques, L.A. Times (Mar. 23, 2022)

Alene Tchekmedyian, Inspector general identifies 41 sheriff’s deputies who allegedly belong to gang-like groups, L.A. Times (Mar. 22, 2022)

Frank Stoltze, Sheriff Villanueva Accused of Intimidating Families Of People Killed By His Deputies, LAist (Mar. 18, 2022)

Editorial: Cyclist stops and searches show need for stronger sheriff oversight, L.A. Times (Nov. 9, 2021)

Gustavo Arellano, Column: L.A. County’s sheriff called me a ‘vendido,’ a sellout. Let’s talk about selling out, L.A. Times (Nov. 6, 2021)

Alene Tchekmedyian et al., Why do L.A. sheriff’s deputies stop and search so many bicyclists? Insiders cite culture and training, L.A. Times (Nov. 4, 2021)

Editorial: The Sheriff Villanueva-style tradition of service is no service to the public, L.A. Times (Nov. 2, 2021)

Alene Tchekmedyian, L.A. County sheriff’s unit accused of targeting political enemies, vocal critics, L.A. Times (Sept. 23, 2021)

Editorial: What do we do about sheriff gangs?, L.A. Times (Sept. 14, 2021), available at ;

Editorial: Alex Villanueva isn’t L.A. County’s only sheriff problem. Let’s rethink the job entirely, L.A. Times (Feb. 5, 2021)

Editorial: Midterm grade for Sheriff Villanueva: Poor, L.A. Times (Dec. 4, 2020), available at

Editorial: Villanueva is the best advertisement for muscular sheriff oversight, L.A. Times (Sept. 17, 2020)