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Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312). ## [ Can DONE Threaten Neighborhood Council Stakeholders? ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21337:can-done-threaten-neighborhood-council-stakeholders&catid=312) Mr. Hopp, for reasons of his own, decided to check out all of the City of Los Angeles websites including those of the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment and 99 Neighborhood Councils. He was looking for broken hyperlinks (link rot) on t… ### More Coverage - [The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Los Angeles Time Still Inflates Real Estate Bubbles](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21334:the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-los-angeles-time-still-inflates-real-estate-bubbles&catid=312) - [Keep Politics Out of All Sports In America](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21332:keep-politics-out-of-all-sports-in-america&catid=312) - [Our Nation’s We Shall Overcome Ethos was Sabotaged](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21331:our-nation-s-we-shall-overcome-ethos-was-sabotaged&catid=312) [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/2b/018p-2b7b41d2.png&src=images/stories/Mar-2021/018p.png&thumbnail=610,360,&hash=d0aef679) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21336:30-years-after-rodney-king-lapd-still-corrupt-and-violent-and-brutal&catid=312)Written by Abby Zimet on March 04 2021. Posted in [LOS ANGELES](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=312). ## [30 Years After Rodney King, LAPD Still Corrupt and Violent and Brutal](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21336:30-years-after-rodney-king-lapd-still-corrupt-and-violent-and-brutal&catid=312) The assault lasted several minutes: King kept getting back up, so they kept beating him, says one LA resident today, "like a runaway slave" The brutality by the police department wasn't unusual; what was new, in the days before cell phones… --- [ ![](https://mail.citywatchla.com/component/ajax/?p=cache/3e/018g-3ed8b4a2.png&src=images/stories/Mar-2021/018g.png&thumbnail=1200,1000,&hash=42dad8b8) ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21334:the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-los-angeles-time-still-inflates-real-estate-bubbles&catid=312)### [The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Los Angeles Time Still Inflates Real Estate Bubbles](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21334:the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving-los-angeles-time-still-inflates-real-estate-bubbles&catid=312) Written by Dick Platkin on March 04 2021. 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