Last month the new Human Relations Commission met for the first time and began to try to think about its new charter. Many of the members I do not think really understand what goes on in Davis. But la ...

It's been a week since the Human Relations Commission met for the first time since council dissolved the former group. There have been many charges levied toward the group and there have been many cha ...

Those who only read about the Davis Human Relations Meeting in the newspaper last week may have missed the big story buried under the lead."[T]he commission has been charged with reviewing the city’s ...

I had originally put this in a comment, I'll throw it as it's own entry and follow-up with some thoughts on it...One thing that the Davis Police recognize is that the majority of the crime committed i ...

The People's Vanguard of Davis has acquired this footage taken in January of 2006. It shows an area couple who witnessed a police officer pulling over an African-American UC Davis student. They then t ...

Some interesting tidbits that were overheard this weekend...Acting Police Chief Steve Pierce offers an explanation for the incident at Davis High School. He said that the kid fit the description of a ...

Racial Profiling 101I get a call yesterday from a friend, his son, a Muslim, was sitting outside of school with his backpack on the curb waiting for his father to pick him up from school. Next to him ...

Every so often I get an email worth sharing. Most people end up putting their comments on the blog and that's obviously ideal.But I got this email last night and it was particularly pertinent to the o ...

Diversity Gone from the HRC Last Summer the Davis City Council voted 4-1 to remove every member of the Davis Human Relations Commission from the commission and have them reapply. Only one member--memb ...

Council Strips the HRC of power to look into police issues In a matter of just three months, the City Council disbanded the Human Relations Commission, re-wrote its charter and then appointed new memb ...

The city council meeting last night featured a number of changes to the structure of the commission system. A number of these changes were fairly technical—standardizing the number of commissioners, s ...

In the spring of this year, a member of this community made a public records request for emails from the city council about the police and other peripheral issues. Not enough citizens recognize that w ...