The Tigers of Lincoln Heights scrimmaged the Glendale Bears at home to a 7-7 tie and the game was amazing.

For years, Los Angeles police officers have worked under the shadow of the department’s dark past. But now the department is using that notorious history as a crucial lesson for its officers.

Big questions hang in the air, sometimes asked aloud: Could what happened in Ferguson happen here? Could Watts explode as it did five decades ago? Alternatively, could the improvements in Watts happen in Ferguson? There is a deep generational divide in the answers.

Los Angeles police officers are on the offense and defense this summer in Watts. They're taking part in Watts Bears, a track and football program that pairs officers with at-risk youth.

Girl Scout Troop #431, based in Ramona Gardens in Boyle Heights, sold enough Thin Mints and Tagalongs to cover a field trip to the place next door to the Happiest Place on Earth, Disney California Adventure Park.

Fabian Maciel has big plans for his future. He plans to go to college with a football scholarship, study architecture and graduate, and eventually help his family get out of poverty and subsidized public housing.

By all accounts, the act was brazen. At least one person walked into the Jordan Downs housing development last month and opened fire, wounding three people.

If the latest panel discussion in Los Angeles magazine’s Breakfast Conversation series had a tagline, it would have to be—as Drybar founder and featured speaker Alli Webb quipped—from keeping the city safe to keeping it pretty.

In 2011, the Community Safety Partnership was born. A collaboration between the LAPD and the city Housing Authority, the program placed an additional 30 officers in public housing developments in Watts.

Resident volunteers and employees of the Housing Authority of Los Angeles (HACLA) put up the outdoor decorations, including wooden Christmas trees and snowmen and an inflatable Santa. Workers hung banners from street lamps along Lancaster Avenue, the housing complex’s main drag, that read Happy Holidays Ramona Gardens.

Authorities expect that a major raid this week on the Big Hazard gang will have long lasting benefits for Boyle Heights residents, particularly those who live in Ramona Gardens.

The last time someone was killed inside the Jordan Downs Housing Development in Watts, a man chased 48-year-old Antonio McNeil and shot him in a drug dispute in broad daylight. Video cameras installed in the development captured the chase and subsequent killing.