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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill ...

A friend and reader pointed me over the weekend to a column from Nicholas Kristof entitled, “When We Kill.” The author argues, “Everything you think you know about the death penalty is wrong,” and th ...

June 17, 2019
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Resisting Arrest or Excessive Force?

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 14, 2019
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Resisting Arrest or Excessive Force?

Defendant Held on $200,000 Bail Following Beating Taken At Hands of Police By Marshall Hammons Thursday, ...

Defendant Held on $200,000 Bail Following Beating Taken At Hands of Police By Marshall Hammons Thursday, June 13, 2019 -- An officer and his partner had the defendant off balance against a patrol car, ...

June 14, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the boar ...

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the board. In San Francisco, we have been covering the case of Antonio Carter Bibbs accused of molestin ...

June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Protects Some Victims, but Not All

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 29, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo DA Protects Some Victims, but Not All

I find myself very troubled by the treatment of the victim in the case involving Andres Cordova. What I ...

I find myself very troubled by the treatment of the victim in the case involving Andres Cordova. What I find interesting is that, while I have been a consistent critic of Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, ...

April 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Victim of DV Speaks Out against Cop Who Took Advantage of Her

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 28, 2019
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Victim of DV Speaks Out against Cop Who Took Advantage of Her

Back in February the Vanguard reported on the case of Andres Cordova, in which Yolo County Deputy DA Mich ...

Back in February the Vanguard reported on the case of Andres Cordova, in which Yolo County Deputy DA Michael Vroman hid evidence that former Woodland Police Officer Lear Lutrell had sex with a domesti ...

April 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 31, 2019
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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police offic ...

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police officers involved in shootings, killings and other serious misconduct, as legally required under SB ...

March 31, 2019
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Another Apparent High-Profile DWB Traffic Stop Ends with No Citation, but Children Put at Risk

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 26, 2019
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Another Apparent High-Profile DWB Traffic Stop Ends with No Citation, but Children Put at Risk

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Another apparent “Driving While Black” inci ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Another apparent “Driving While Black” incident here – the second high-profile one in recent months – is making the news because the longt ...

February 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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City Denying Requests to Release Picnic Day Records under New Law

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 21, 2019
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City Denying Requests to Release Picnic Day Records under New Law

As the city wrote on January 10, 2019: “The finding concerning the press release was that the initial pre ...

As the city wrote on January 10, 2019: “The finding concerning the press release was that the initial press release issued by DPD following the Picnic Day incident was inaccurate but there was no find ...

February 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Addressing Police Brutality

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2018
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Addressing Police Brutality

By Dillon Nettles E.J. Bradford. Chikesia Clemons. Ulysses Wilkerson. Sureshbhai Patel. Greg Gunn. These ...

By Dillon Nettles E.J. Bradford. Chikesia Clemons. Ulysses Wilkerson. Sureshbhai Patel. Greg Gunn. These are only a few of the names of those who have been in headlines after being brutalized or kille ...

December 18, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Incident Shows Us that Once the Well is Poisoned, It Is Hard to Restore Faith in the System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 23, 2018
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Commentary: Incident Shows Us that Once the Well is Poisoned, It Is Hard to Restore Faith in the System

When the Westergaards first approached me two years ago, they were very frustrated, not only with the res ...

When the Westergaards first approached me two years ago, they were very frustrated, not only with the result of the police investigation into the very serious collision in which Deb Westergaard suffer ...

October 23, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Police Racially Harass and Retaliate against One of Their Own

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 07, 2018
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Police Racially Harass and Retaliate against One of Their Own

By Mark Fancher To America’s shame, there is nothing novel about police harassment and abuse of young Bla ...

By Mark Fancher To America’s shame, there is nothing novel about police harassment and abuse of young Black men. Consequently, few should be surprised that during an early January morning in 2017, Joh ...

September 07, 2018
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A Cop Yells at Kids and Draws His Gun

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|Date: July 13, 2018
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A Cop Yells at Kids and Draws His Gun

By Kali Cohn Over the past week, a Facebook video went viral, showing an El Paso police officer drawing h ...

By Kali Cohn Over the past week, a Facebook video went viral, showing an El Paso police officer drawing his gun on a group of Latino kids outside a community center and handcuffing the person taking t ...

July 13, 2018
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Two Years after the Police Killing of Philando Castile, Justice Continues to Be Denied

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 07, 2018
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Two Years after the Police Killing of Philando Castile, Justice Continues to Be Denied

By Teresa Nelson On July 7, 2016, the day after the shooting of Philando Castile, artists from the Twin C ...

By Teresa Nelson On July 7, 2016, the day after the shooting of Philando Castile, artists from the Twin Cities came together to create a public mural to process their shock and grief. In stark black a ...

July 07, 2018
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California, Say Her Name

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 14, 2018
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California, Say Her Name

By Novella Coleman As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for p ...

By Novella Coleman As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for police reform, countless stories of Black women and girls subjected to excessive force and polic ...

June 14, 2018
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Letter: Another DPD Victim, Justice for Deb Westergaard

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 07, 2018
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Letter: Another DPD Victim, Justice for Deb Westergaard

By Whitney Covell In April 2016, Deb Westergaard was struck by a truck in the middle of the pedestrian cr ...

By Whitney Covell In April 2016, Deb Westergaard was struck by a truck in the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk on F Street between the Playfields and Community Park. She was knocked unconscious and ...

June 07, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Advocates Applaud Advancement of Bill to Open Police Misconduct Records in California

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 26, 2018
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Advocates Applaud Advancement of Bill to Open Police Misconduct Records in California

(From Press Release) – Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced legislation to open ...

(From Press Release) – Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee advanced legislation to open law enforcement misconduct and use of force records. SB 1421, introduced by Senator Nancy Skin ...

May 26, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Jaywalker Beaten by Sac Officer Agrees to Settlement

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 07, 2018
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Jaywalker Beaten by Sac Officer Agrees to Settlement

‘This outrageous incident provided a perfect opportunity to implement new, modern policies geared towards ...

‘This outrageous incident provided a perfect opportunity to implement new, modern policies geared towards long-term reform’ - Civil Rights Attorney John Burris (From Press Release) - Civil Rights Atto ...

April 07, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Beaten, Tased, and Arrested for Jaywalking While Black

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: March 23, 2018
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Beaten, Tased, and Arrested for Jaywalking While Black

By Mike Meno Johnnie Rush, a Black resident of Asheville, North Carolina, was brutalized by police simply ...

By Mike Meno Johnnie Rush, a Black resident of Asheville, North Carolina, was brutalized by police simply for jaywalking late at night. His story is yet another in the seemingly endless, endemic trage ...

March 23, 2018
| by Vanguard Administrator

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The 2017 Elections Show Criminal Justice Reform Can Be a Winning Issue

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 10, 2017
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The 2017 Elections Show Criminal Justice Reform Can Be a Winning Issue

By Udi Ofer On Election Day 2017, candidates in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York won on p ...

By Udi Ofer On Election Day 2017, candidates in Philadelphia, New Jersey, Virginia, and New York won on platforms that proactively embraced criminal justice reform or rejected fear-mongering attempts ...

November 10, 2017
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My View: The Problem with the Bad Apple Theory of Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2017
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My View: The Problem with the Bad Apple Theory of Policing

The bad apple theory of policing argues that the vast majority of police officers are good and that it is ...

The bad apple theory of policing argues that the vast majority of police officers are good and that it is a few bad cops (or bad apples) that cause the majority of the problems. And there is some tru ...

September 30, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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