Los Angeles police have resumed the impounding of vehicles belonging to unlicensed drivers according to this Associated Press story. The practice had been suspended two weeks ago due to concerns about a 2005 Ninth Circuit ruling in the Oregon case of Miranda v. City of Cornelius, which Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has since determined does not affect the local law. The story reports that most of the cars impounded belong to illegal immigrants.

A South Carolina woman was arrested yesterday when she arrived at the courthouse to pay a traffic ticket in what police discovered was a stolen car. The Associated Press reports that Amber Helton was found guilty of driving without a license last week. Police were tipped off that she would show up to pay the fine in a car stolen last month in Tennessee.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's legal challenge to federal judicial consideration of inmate releases has been dismissed by the Ninth Circuit as reported in this San Francisco Chronicle story by Bob Egelko. The three judge panel will hold its first inmate release hearing on September 24.

South Africa made bad policy choices on crime, according to a researcher with the Institute for Security Studies. Antony Altbeker "said the wrong crime strategies were chosen from the outset thanks in part to the 'naive notion' that prevention was better than cure and that the police could be employed as 'armed social workers'." Deon de Lange reports for the Independent Online.

NYDP: The New York Daily News has this editorial on the case of People v. Taylor noted yesterday. "The high court must respect the jury's determination, no matter how much the judges personally oppose the death penalty."