For nearly a decade, the entrance to the city of Compton, Calif., just off the 91 Freeway, was a huge, vacant lot, overgrown by weeds. Surrounded by an eight-foot steel gate, the once-bustling ...

We’re going to reclaim this city and make it safe.” But Jackson, whose last post was supervising inmates’ entrance into the county jails, has his work cut out for him in Compton, a city with ...