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Judge Chastises Cops for ‘Sloppy Police Work’ in Felony in Vandalism Case

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|Date: August 03, 2020
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Judge Chastises Cops for ‘Sloppy Police Work’ in Felony in Vandalism Case

By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court judge admonished the prosecution for pres ...

By Josué Monroy SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento County Superior Court judge admonished the prosecution for presenting a flawed case, based on “shoddy” police work and questionable identification last week i ...

August 03, 2020
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Leading Prosecutors Call for Prosecutorial Reform, Redefining ‘Camaraderie’ with Police

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|Date: June 25, 2020
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Leading Prosecutors Call for Prosecutorial Reform, Redefining ‘Camaraderie’ with Police

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider NATIONAL – St. Louis Police Chief Attorney Kimberly Gardner and Philadelphia Di ...

By Jaden Jarmel-Schneider NATIONAL – St. Louis Police Chief Attorney Kimberly Gardner and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner are making a national call for prosecutors to more effectively ho ...

June 25, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 70 – Calvin Handy Discusses Race and Policing

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|Date: June 22, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 70 – Calvin Handy Discusses Race and Policing

Since May 25 and the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in Minnesota, protesters have taken t ...

Since May 25 and the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in Minnesota, protesters have taken to the streets and the nation has been debating policing and the legacy of racism. Everyday Inju ...

June 22, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Why Do We Police Protests against Police Violence?

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|Date: June 02, 2020
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Guest Commentary: Why Do We Police Protests against Police Violence?

By Sajid Khan Why do we need police at the protests against their very existence? Wouldn’t it be safer an ...

By Sajid Khan Why do we need police at the protests against their very existence? Wouldn’t it be safer and smarter to just let our citizens and people express themselves and not pit them against alrea ...

June 02, 2020
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De-Escalating Police Response to Mental Health Crises

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|Date: March 06, 2020
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De-Escalating Police Response to Mental Health Crises

At last week's Justice Collaborative symposium, Justice Guarantee Convening, a panel of speakers addresse ...

At last week's Justice Collaborative symposium, Justice Guarantee Convening, a panel of speakers addressed the issue of deescalating police response: Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, Melina ...

March 06, 2020
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Housing, Law Enforcement Among the Issues Addressed by Supervisor Candidates

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|Date: February 12, 2020
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Housing, Law Enforcement Among the Issues Addressed by Supervisor Candidates

It was a late candidates forum beginning well into the evening on Tuesday night on the UC Davis campus, b ...

It was a late candidates forum beginning well into the evening on Tuesday night on the UC Davis campus, but the three candidates for the Fourth District Supervisor race, just three weeks prior to Elec ...

February 12, 2020
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a numbe ...

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a number of officers got caught up sending not only racist jokes, but making derogatory statements abo ...

July 16, 2019
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UC Students Resolve to Disarm Campus Police as State Use-of-Force Legislation Looms

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|Date: May 19, 2019
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UC Students Resolve to Disarm Campus Police as State Use-of-Force Legislation Looms

By Raquel Victoria Navarro DAVIS, CA – Student community leaders and a roomfull of supporters fought for ...

By Raquel Victoria Navarro DAVIS, CA – Student community leaders and a roomfull of supporters fought for and succeeded in passing Resolution XIV through the Associated Students of UC Davis Thursday ni ...

May 19, 2019
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My View: The Problem with the Bad Apple Theory of Policing

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|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
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Missouri Should Try Listening to Protesters Instead of Attacking Them

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|Date: September 28, 2017
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Missouri Should Try Listening to Protesters Instead of Attacking Them

By Thaddeus Talbot “I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,” sa ...

By Thaddeus Talbot “I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,” says Maleeha Ahmad, one of the protesters who was pepper-sprayed by police officers in St. Louis ...

September 28, 2017
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The Nature of Violence

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|Date: August 13, 2017
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The Nature of Violence

By Connor Gorman When most people think of violence they tend to picture physical confrontation, weapons, ...

By Connor Gorman When most people think of violence they tend to picture physical confrontation, weapons, assault, etc. but what doesn’t typically come to mind are such things as PTSD, homelessness, a ...

August 13, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: When an African American Confronts the Police

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|Date: July 09, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: When an African American Confronts the Police

More than 35 years ago the British punk band The Clash sang, “When they kick at your front door, How you ...

More than 35 years ago the British punk band The Clash sang, “When they kick at your front door, How you gonna come? With your hands on your head – Or on the trigger of your gun…” But in America, the ...

July 09, 2017
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Time to Address School Policing Issues

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|Date: October 08, 2016
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Time to Address School Policing Issues

By Harold Jordan Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America ...

By Harold Jordan Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America — they’re happening in our nation’s K-12 schools, too. Increasingly police have become “embedde ...

October 08, 2016
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When Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer

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|Date: August 27, 2016
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When Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer

by Peter Bibring and Catherine Wagner Earlier this month, a too familiar tragedy unfolded in East Los Ang ...

by Peter Bibring and Catherine Wagner Earlier this month, a too familiar tragedy unfolded in East Los Angeles when Los Angeles police officers shot and killed 14-year-old Jesse Romero. Witness account ...

August 27, 2016
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Bad Laws Produce Bad Law Enforcement

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|Date: August 22, 2016
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Bad Laws Produce Bad Law Enforcement

By David W. Brown The police shooting and killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown on Aug ...

By David W. Brown The police shooting and killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, sparked civil unrest in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. The weeks that followe ...

August 22, 2016
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Milwaukee Feels Like a Police State

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|Date: August 21, 2016
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Milwaukee Feels Like a Police State

When I Was a Kid in Sherman Park, There Were Problems With Police. Now It Feels Like a Police State. By J ...

When I Was a Kid in Sherman Park, There Were Problems With Police. Now It Feels Like a Police State. By Jarrett English When I was a kid living in the Milwaukee neighborhood of Sherman Park in the ear ...

August 21, 2016
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Commentary: Should BLM Be Held Accountable For Dallas?

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|Date: July 10, 2016
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Commentary: Should BLM Be Held Accountable For Dallas?

The line between group accountability and personal responsibility is not as clear as many want to see it. ...

The line between group accountability and personal responsibility is not as clear as many want to see it. After all, many want to ban guns or make them harder to obtain when a crazed individual gross ...

July 10, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

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|Date: July 09, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people w ...

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people who shouldn’t be police officers and protect the public and their colleagues from those individu ...

July 09, 2016
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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

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|Date: June 28, 2016
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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only of ...

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only officer charged with murder, and the question has shifted as to what prosecutor Marilyn Mosby sho ...

June 28, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

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|Date: January 23, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a criti ...

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a critical dimension to economic inequality in California: racial inequality. People of color are uniq ...

January 23, 2016
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