Bird justice: Observer's vigilance protects downtown L.A. ravens
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 00:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Marcos Saldana watched from work for years as a pair of ravens raised their young in a nest at the vacant Hall of Justice. But this year he became concerned that renovations could harm the protected birds.To work in the file room of the downtown criminal courts building is to be a librarian of evils. Its shelves hold the official records of rapes, murders, robberies and thousands of other offenses prosecuted in the courthouse and the clerks there know the ugliness of society by name and case number.