Patterico has the latest on the LA Times’ apparent blacklisting of LAPD officer and pseudonymous writer Jack Dunphy:

I find this odd. It’s not as though the paper considers law enforcement efforts to combat gangs to be a non-story. After all, they put a story on the issue on the front page of the California section today.
Then again, that story (L.A. gang prosecutions called overzealous) took the anti-law enforcement, ACLU perspective. You know the drill: bitch about the harm gangs are doing, and then bitch again when law enforcement actually tries to do something about the problem. It’s typical L.A. Times “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” journalism, from the loony-left perspective.
So maybe the editors think anti-gang efforts are newsworthy topics only when law enforcement can be slammed.
Or maybe Nick Goldberg has really banned Dunphy, but is just breaking the news to him very slowly.

As Patterico notes, their loss is our — and possibly his – gain. Read the rest of his post to find out why.