Commentary: Police Audit’s Finding Obscures Troubling Currents Beneath the Surface
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city released the findings from their first…
Commentary: We Have Made Progress on Policing Locally, But We Need To Continue To Move in the Direction of Reform
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – From a jail in Birmingham, Dr. Martin Luther…
Guest Commentary: Wanted – Leadership Substance, Not Spin
By Francesca Wright It has been over a year that community members have been asking City Council…
Council Asked to Agree to Partnership with Yolo County on Crisis Now
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – The city council on Tuesday will receive a…
Sunday Commentary: Davis Can and Should Do More on Police Reform
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I have been closely watching discussions across the state on police…
Commentary: Will a Speeding Crackdown in Davis Disproportionately Impact Black and Brown People? History Says It Will
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Before the Nextdoor admins removed the discussion there…
Commentary: Davis Needs to Go Further on Police Reform – They Should Follow the Models
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Recently the city council has been pushed to do more…
Sunday Commentary: We Are Not Going Far Enough
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – This weekend in her monthly Vanguard column Mayor Gloria Partida…
Commentary: Davis Mayor on Reimagining Policing and the Police Budget
By Gloria Partida The City continues to advance towards a new way of delivering public safety in…
Commentary: In Order to Enact Change Our Leaders Must Have a Sense of Urgency
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – It made for interesting theater on Tuesday night—a well-organized and…
ASUCD Passes a Resolution to End the Use of Degrading Terms Like ‘Illegal’ and ‘Alien’
By David M. Greenwald UC Davis – As UC Davis “strives to create, foster, and maintain an…
Protestors Outside City Hall Demand City Council Act on Public Safety
By Jordan Varney DAVIS — A car caravan, organized by Yolo County Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),…
Guest Commentary: Toward a Director of Public Health and Safety in Davis – Blueprint and First Steps
by Robb Davis On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, the Davis City Council created a budgetary “placeholder” to…
Community Activists Continue to Press for Changes to Policing
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – The city council last week heard the first round of…
Guest Commentary: Pride Celebration Remembers Fallen Activists in LGBTQ Rights Struggle
by Gloria Partida This weekend The Davis Phoenix Coalition, which puts on the City’s Pride Celebrations, produced…
Commentary: ‘The Arc of the Moral Universe is Long but It Bends Toward Justice’
By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Fifteen years ago next month was one of the lower…
Guest Commentary: Reimagining Policing in Davis
by Mayor Gloria Partida I, along with many in our Nation, breathed a sigh of relief when…
Pastor Eunbee Ham Speaks Out for Black Lives and against Racialized Violence (Video)
Following the conviction of Derek Chauvin in George Floyd’s murder and the death of other Black men…
Sunday Commentary: Despite the Conviction, the System Is Broken and Systems of Oppression Must Be Dismantled
By David M. Greenwald The consensus this week seems to be the verdict in the Derek Chauvin…
Speaker: “Racialized violence and its varying dynamics in those that have been rendered different stem from the same source of white supremacy.”
Community Gathers in Recognition of Victims of Police Violence By David M. Greenwald Davis, CA – Passionate…