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Police Practices Experts Square Off in Excessive Force Suit against Stockton Cops

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|Date: January 20, 2020
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Police Practices Experts Square Off in Excessive Force Suit against Stockton Cops

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON – Police practices expert witnesses Robert Clar ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON – Police practices expert witnesses Robert Clark and R.K. Miller – both former cops and both paid thousands of dollar each to opine for client ...

January 20, 2020
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Officer Admits in Stockton Lawsuit to Using ‘Distraction Blows’ on Teen

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|Date: January 17, 2020
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Officer Admits in Stockton Lawsuit to Using ‘Distraction Blows’ on Teen

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON – The civil rights trial against the city of St ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON – The civil rights trial against the city of Stockton and two of its sergeants – including one with a history of shooting and killing suspects ...

January 17, 2020
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Officer Accused of Knocking Teeth Out of Black Teen in 2011 Denies Culpability in Stockton Court

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|Date: January 16, 2020
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Officer Accused of Knocking Teeth Out of Black Teen in 2011 Denies Culpability in Stockton Court

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON, Ca – It’s been nearly nine years in the making ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON, Ca – It’s been nearly nine years in the making, but the civil rights lawsuit against two Stockton police officers involved in the arrest and ...

January 16, 2020
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Complaints about Police Abuse: Strip Search and Rectal Exam

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|Date: December 28, 2019
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Complaints about Police Abuse: Strip Search and Rectal Exam

According to a complaint, police in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, subjected Tylus Allen Jr. to invasive ...

According to a complaint, police in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, subjected Tylus Allen Jr. to invasive searches, all of which turned up nothing. By Aaron Morrison A federal civil rights lawsuit alle ...

December 28, 2019
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Trial Nears – After Nearly 9 Years – of Stockton Cop Accused of Beating Teen

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|Date: December 06, 2019
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Trial Nears – After Nearly 9 Years – of Stockton Cop Accused of Beating Teen

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON, CA – Nearly nine years after a Stockton City p ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON, CA – Nearly nine years after a Stockton City police officer allegedly beat him while his mother was getting gas at a convenience store, Josep ...

December 06, 2019
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Who Doesn’t Love the NYPD Slowdown?

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|Date: September 04, 2019
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Who Doesn’t Love the NYPD Slowdown?

By Sarah Lustbader While progressives and reformers wax poetic about reducing low-level arrests, one grou ...

By Sarah Lustbader While progressives and reformers wax poetic about reducing low-level arrests, one group is making it happen: the NYPD. Not out of some newfound understanding about the moral and pra ...

September 04, 2019
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How Warren and Sanders Would Overhaul the Criminal System

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|Date: August 23, 2019
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How Warren and Sanders Would Overhaul the Criminal System

By Sarah Lustbader This week, the two most progressive frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomin ...

By Sarah Lustbader This week, the two most progressive frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, added their criminal justice proposals to ...

August 23, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 2

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|Date: August 08, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 2

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings La ...

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings Law School on Tuesday in a candidates forum sponsored by Eastern Neighborhood Democratic Club, AC ...

August 08, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 1

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2019
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District Attorney Candidates Meet in Candidate Forum in San Francisco – Part 1

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings La ...

San Francisco – District Attorney candidates vying for an open seat in November met at the UC Hastings Law School on Tuesday in a candidates forum sponsored by Eastern Neighborhood Democratic Club, AC ...

August 07, 2019
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SB 1421 Working Group Meet, Discussion Definition of Sustained Complaints

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|Date: August 07, 2019
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SB 1421 Working Group Meet, Discussion Definition of Sustained Complaints

By Marshall Hammons San Francisco - Representatives from various City agencies, departments, and units wi ...

By Marshall Hammons San Francisco - Representatives from various City agencies, departments, and units within SFPD once again lined the tables at Police Headquarters on Monday, 8/4/19. Two weeks prior ...

August 07, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Death Penalty, Media Coverage and the Court Watch

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|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?

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

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|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
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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
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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
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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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