Following up on the Ombudsman Position Did anyone catch the Davis Enterprise last night; you might have seen the announcement of the new Ombudsman, Robert Aaronson. Buried in the niceties and praise f ...

I remain skeptical of the mechanism put in place by the Davis City Council for reviewing the police. I do not think the ombudsman position has enough teeth to it. I also do not believe that the suppor ...

Breaking News—According to reliable sources, I have been told that Davis is set to hire Robert Aaronson as the police ombudsman. He is currently the Independent Police Auditor for the City of Santa Cr ...

In an article by Claire St. John in yesterday's Davis Enterprise, she quotes David Greenwald, husband of the former chair of the HRC:Handling allegations of police misconduct would be removed from the ...

As I waited at the police station with a neighbor of mine who had just had her laptop stolen along with some cash from her home, we fell into an inevitable conversation about how short-handed the poli ...

This is the final installment in the seven part series. I’ve spent the last six entries discussing the weaknesses and problems that the current Davis Ombudsman Ordinance faces. During the course of th ...

In yesterday’s segment, I discussed problems with the lack of representation for specific communities most affected by the police. A reader made a good point that in addition to the lack of representa ...

The following is part five in our series looking at police oversight in Davis. In addition to the PAC, the City Manager and the Police Chief have created a Citizen’s Advisory Board. An advisory board ...

Part IV of the seven part series takes a lot at the Police Advisory Committee. The names for the Police Advisory Committee were barely announced when Bob Dunning of the Davis Enterprise was singing it ...

This is part three of the seven part series examining the Davis Police Ombudsman and Police Oversight system.The following is from the Davis City Staff’s report to council on the function of the ombud ...

This is part of two of a seven part series examing the Davis Police Ombudsman Position. Yesterday, I reviewed the Davis City Council’s attitude toward police oversight in general and speculated that t ...

On the night that Davis City Council put the Human Relations Commission on “hiatus” one comment caught my attention. Outgoing Councilman Ted Puntillo said: “They told us their concerns of no oversight ...

We've all heard of the crime of "driving while black," there are a number of derivations of it. But now according to the 8th circuit court, driving with money can get your money taken away. Eighth Cir ...

I was flipping channels the other night right after the revelations about the terror plot were uncovered. I came upon Scarborough Country, the host is Joe Scarborough, a retired Republican Congressman ...