Crime has people scared.

Missed it last week, but former State Sen. Joe Dunn, a Democrat and a trial attorney by profession, has switched teams and joined the opposition as chief executive of the California Medical Association. "The world turned upside down," says OC's Red County blog. Writes a reader: "Akin to Dick Cheney putting on a galabiyah, picking up an AK-47 and moving to Afghanistan to attend a jihadi training camp and become Bin Laden's driver." The CMA, as a rule, loathes trial attorneys.

Neighborhood trick or treaters will be welcomed at Getty House, the mayor's official residence in Windsor Square, about 7:30 pm.

AFTER THE JUMP: Brewer's deal, Chief Bratton's latest political endorsement and a media move — plus more of course.

$300,000 a year salary plus benefits for four years, a car and $45,000 a year in expenses. (Much better than a vice admiral.) Romer had been paid $250,000 a year and declined $100,000 in bonuses. Times, Daily News

The police crackdown on Skid Row has scattered the street homeless into other areas of the city.

The media op is at the Police Protective League office at 11 am.

Evan George, late of the Los Angeles Alternative, begins today as a reporter at the Downtown News.

Former Times editor John Carroll and an Editor & Publisher reporter guest on KPCC's "Patt Morrison."

The nation's leading publisher of Spanish language newspapers bought Vista Magazine, called "the No. 1 dual language general interest publication." This is the sixth company acquired by ImpreMedia, and the second this year following the acquisition of La Prensa in Orlando and Tampa.

Kevin MacDonald was named the nation's scariest academic by Old Trout magazine. "The 62-year-old tenured psychology professor is the man that hate groups hope will make anti-Semitism respectable...An intellectual star of the radical right, he is cited by the likes of former Klan leader David Duke to justify neo-Nazism."