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Sunday Commentary: When to Renew Isn’t Enough

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: When to Renew Isn’t Enough

I worry about the future of Davis. I have expressed this many times, but what has made Davis great is the ...

I worry about the future of Davis. I have expressed this many times, but what has made Davis great is the ability for this city to offer an unparalleled quality of life. And that is in the balance as ...

November 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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‘No Knock’ Warrants Spur Wave of Civil Rights Lawsuits

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 07, 2019
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‘No Knock’ Warrants Spur Wave of Civil Rights Lawsuits

Police are accused of lying to obtain the warrants to conduct military-style raids on the homes of poor p ...

Police are accused of lying to obtain the warrants to conduct military-style raids on the homes of poor people and people of color. By Joshua Vaughn On Sept. 5, 2017, Derrick Davis was preparing a mea ...

September 07, 2019
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UCD Associated Students Narrowly Fail to Pass Resolution to Disarm Campus Police

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 12, 2019
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UCD Associated Students Narrowly Fail to Pass Resolution to Disarm Campus Police

By Raquel Victoria Navarro Vanguard Staff DAVIS -- Exhausted students finally filed out of an Associated ...

By Raquel Victoria Navarro Vanguard Staff DAVIS -- Exhausted students finally filed out of an Associated Students of University of California, Davis meeting very late Thursday night, after weeks of an ...

April 12, 2019
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Illinois Police Killed a Black Security Guard while He Was Doing His Job

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 17, 2018
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Illinois Police Killed a Black Security Guard while He Was Doing His Job

By Paige Fernandez In an alternate reality, Tuesday’s national news headlines would have read: “Active Sh ...

By Paige Fernandez In an alternate reality, Tuesday’s national news headlines would have read: “Active Shooter Heroically Subdued by Brave Security Guard.” Instead, we woke up to news stories announci ...

November 17, 2018
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A Tale of Two When It Comes to Policing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 23, 2018
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A Tale of Two When It Comes to Policing

By Johanna Miller & Simon McCormack New Yorkers know that the New York Police Department will treat u ...

By Johanna Miller & Simon McCormack New Yorkers know that the New York Police Department will treat us differently depending on our zip code and the color of our skin. But many New Yorkers don’t k ...

September 23, 2018
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Stop-and-Frisk Settlement in Milwaukee Lawsuit Is a Wakeup Call for Police Nationwide

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 14, 2018
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Stop-and-Frisk Settlement in Milwaukee Lawsuit Is a Wakeup Call for Police Nationwide

By Nusrat Choudhury In a banner day for police reform, the city of Milwaukee has entered into a settlemen ...

By Nusrat Choudhury In a banner day for police reform, the city of Milwaukee has entered into a settlement agreement to end practices amounting to a decade-long stop-and-frisk program that resulted in ...

July 14, 2018
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Will California Pass the Biggest Change to Police Use of Force in the Nation?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2018
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Will California Pass the Biggest Change to Police Use of Force in the Nation?

It was a rare site to see members of the Senate Public Safety Committee buck objections from law enforcem ...

It was a rare site to see members of the Senate Public Safety Committee buck objections from law enforcement groups used to having their way, and by a 5-2 vote advance AB 931, which would change the v ...

July 01, 2018
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Legislation Moves Forward Requiring Community Oversight of Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2018
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Legislation Moves Forward Requiring Community Oversight of Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology

Earlier this year, the city of Davis became a leader in the move to oversee law enforcement surveillance ...

Earlier this year, the city of Davis became a leader in the move to oversee law enforcement surveillance technology, becoming among the first in the state to require council and community oversight be ...

June 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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GSA Hears Resolutions to Support Measure J, Johansson, Guenther, and Disarming of Campus Police

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 04, 2018
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GSA Hears Resolutions to Support Measure J, Johansson, Guenther, and Disarming of Campus Police

GSA counts votes differently in order to endorse Guenther; many graduate students distrustful of Guenther ...

GSA counts votes differently in order to endorse Guenther; many graduate students distrustful of Guenther’s “soft no” on Measure J by Jenean Docter On Wednesday, the UC Davis Graduate Student Associat ...

May 04, 2018
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A Supreme Court Ruling Could Embolden Police Retaliation against Political Speech

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 31, 2017
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A Supreme Court Ruling Could Embolden Police Retaliation against Political Speech

By Jacob J. Hutt Earlier this year, a photojournalist headed to a Black Lives Matter protest in Times Squ ...

By Jacob J. Hutt Earlier this year, a photojournalist headed to a Black Lives Matter protest in Times Square against the New York Police Department, and took out his camera to film it. As he approache ...

December 31, 2017
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Are Police Implementing Illegal Traffic Ticket Quotas?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 05, 2017
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Are Police Implementing Illegal Traffic Ticket Quotas?

By Steven Brown In a letter to the state’s police chiefs, the ACLU of Rhode Island warned against impleme ...

By Steven Brown In a letter to the state’s police chiefs, the ACLU of Rhode Island warned against implementing traffic ticket quota policies. Nobody likes getting pulled over by the police, but when e ...

December 05, 2017
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Police Assault on Black Students in Kentucky Sparks Calls for Reform

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 22, 2017
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Police Assault on Black Students in Kentucky Sparks Calls for Reform

By Sarah Hinger Families in Louisville, Kentucky, are rightly calling for an end to police in schools fol ...

By Sarah Hinger Families in Louisville, Kentucky, are rightly calling for an end to police in schools following the recent assault on two Black students perpetrated by law enforcement at a local high ...

November 22, 2017
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ACLU Demands Change to Unlawful Pre-Packaged Police Policies

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 16, 2017
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ACLU Demands Change to Unlawful Pre-Packaged Police Policies

(From Press Release) - The ACLU of California and advocacy groups this week sent a letter to Lexipol, a v ...

(From Press Release) - The ACLU of California and advocacy groups this week sent a letter to Lexipol, a vendor of pre-packaged police policies, demanding that it eliminate illegal and unclear directiv ...

April 16, 2017
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Don’t Arm School Police

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 03, 2017
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Don’t Arm School Police

By Harold Jordan There is an emerging national debate about school policing. It is not about whether scho ...

By Harold Jordan There is an emerging national debate about school policing. It is not about whether school police should be armed but about how best to improve school environments and ensure student ...

April 03, 2017
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Executive Order to Stop Crimes against Law Enforcement Lacks Facts

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 18, 2017
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Executive Order to Stop Crimes against Law Enforcement Lacks Facts

By Jeffery Robinson Something does not add up. President Trump put an executive order into effect last we ...

By Jeffery Robinson Something does not add up. President Trump put an executive order into effect last week to, in his words, "stop crime and crimes of violence against law enforcement officers." But ...

February 18, 2017
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Police Use of Excessive Force at Standing Rock

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 28, 2016
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Police Use of Excessive Force at Standing Rock

By Jamil Dakwar In a 4-minute SoundCloud interview with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Angela Bibe ...

By Jamil Dakwar In a 4-minute SoundCloud interview with the Indigenous Environmental Network, Angela Bibens describes the devastating effects of tear gas, rubber bullets, concussion grenades, mace, an ...

November 28, 2016
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Justice Watch: How Race Pervades the Criminal Justice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 06, 2016
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Justice Watch: How Race Pervades the Criminal Justice System

Bill Quigley, Loyola University New Orleans Law Professor, gives 18 examples of how race pervades the cri ...

Bill Quigley, Loyola University New Orleans Law Professor, gives 18 examples of how race pervades the criminal justice system in an article published in the Huffington Post this week. Professor Quigle ...

October 06, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2016
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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tr ...

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tries to turn the issue back to crime. They are not the same issues. New stats came out on Monda ...

September 28, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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What Happens When Milwaukee Police Forcibly Arrest a State Rep and an ACLU Organizer?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 02, 2016
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What Happens When Milwaukee Police Forcibly Arrest a State Rep and an ACLU Organizer?

By Emilio De Torre Last night in the Sherman Park area, Milwaukee police officers in riot gear wrongfully ...

By Emilio De Torre Last night in the Sherman Park area, Milwaukee police officers in riot gear wrongfully arrested two men for no good reason. But this time, the men they arrested had the means to dem ...

September 02, 2016
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Analysis: Can We Cut Our Way to Prosperity?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 30, 2016
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Analysis: Can We Cut Our Way to Prosperity?

In 2008, the Vanguard was ahead of the curve, warning of unsustainable spending practices by the city, pa ...

In 2008, the Vanguard was ahead of the curve, warning of unsustainable spending practices by the city, particularly on pensions and retiree health care – the Vanguard’s warning actually preceded the c ...

August 30, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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