The Karen Bass File/CHAPTER 17/2023–2026

governing

Running the city

Deficit, homicides, troops and the Olympics.

California National Guard troops in Los Angeles after Trump federalized them, June 8, 2025.
U.S. Northern Command · Source & image context ↗

RECORD / AT A GLANCE

Documented actions; credit disputed

The numbers are documented. Who deserves the credit or blame is argued.

THE EVENTS / THE INVESTIGATION / THE STORY

The chronology.

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Evidence & assessment.

01

The June 2025 raids, the Guard and the curfew

Bass opposed Trump’s troop deployment and imposed her own downtown curfew for a week.

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The deficit and the homicide drop

A $1 billion deficit without civil-service layoffs, and the fewest homicides since 1966.

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The Olympics chairman

Bass told LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman to resign over his Maxwell emails. The board kept him.

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OPEN THE RECORD

Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

  1. Los Angeles Times: Bass enacts downtown curfew and declares local emergency, June 10, 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  2. Reuters: Los Angeles mayor lifts curfew imposed after raids and protests, June 17, 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  3. Reuters: Marines arrive in L.A. under Trump’s orders, June 10, 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  4. PBS NewsHour: Bass says military presence “provoked” the population, June 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  5. Office of Mayor Bass: Labor agreements avert civil-service layoffs in the 2025–26 budget ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  6. FOX 11 Los Angeles: L.A.’s $1B deficit closed; layoffs avoided, 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  7. City of Los Angeles: LAPD 2025 crime data report released ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  8. Los Angeles Times: L.A. homicide rate lowest in decades; why is up for debate, January 6, 2026 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  9. Los Angeles Times: A slimmed-down LAPD seems here to stay, January 24, 2025 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  10. Reuters: Bass calls on LA28 chair Wasserman to resign, February 17, 2026 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

  11. Associated Press: Wasserman says he won’t resign as LA28 chairman, 2026 ↗

    Read the dated record and its stated scope.

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