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My View: Latest Police Incident Was Bad – but Was It Racial Profiling?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 15, 2017
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My View: Latest Police Incident Was Bad – but Was It Racial Profiling?

When video showed police officers attempting to run over Joseph Mann before fatally shooting the man last ...

When video showed police officers attempting to run over Joseph Mann before fatally shooting the man last summer, the Sacramento police were silent. When video showed an officer calling Dazion Flenau ...

April 15, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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Justice Watch: We Don’t Know How Deep Police Misconduct Goes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 18, 2016
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Justice Watch: We Don’t Know How Deep Police Misconduct Goes

The Washington Post reported this week that FBI Director James Comey said we have no idea if there is “an ...

The Washington Post reported this week that FBI Director James Comey said we have no idea if there is “an epidemic of police violence against black people.” He “told a gathering of police chiefs that ...

October 18, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Justice Watch: Do We Actually Know What Implicit Bias Means?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 05, 2016
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Justice Watch: Do We Actually Know What Implicit Bias Means?

The notion of implicit bias has been discussed, sometimes at length here on these pages. One of the bett ...

The notion of implicit bias has been discussed, sometimes at length here on these pages. One of the better discussions came from the 2015 talk by Michael Roosevelt in San Francisco that the Vanguard ...

October 05, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Court Finds Running is Reasonable Response to Police Harassment and Racial Profiling

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 01, 2016
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Court Finds Running is Reasonable Response to Police Harassment and Racial Profiling

By Jeffery Robinson In 2004, University of Virginia football player Marquis Weeks returned a kickoff 100 ...

By Jeffery Robinson In 2004, University of Virginia football player Marquis Weeks returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. After the game he described how he did it: "That was just instinct," Wee ...

October 01, 2016
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Commentary: Did Stop and Frisk Help Decrease Crime?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 27, 2016
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Commentary: Did Stop and Frisk Help Decrease Crime?

Back in 2013, New York’s stop and frisk policies were ended by federal judge Shira Scheindlin who ruled t ...

Back in 2013, New York’s stop and frisk policies were ended by federal judge Shira Scheindlin who ruled that the city had “adopted a policy of indirect racial profiling by targeting racially defined g ...

September 27, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Will Skeptics Listen to Black Republican Senator on Racial Profiling?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 24, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: Will Skeptics Listen to Black Republican Senator on Racial Profiling?

There are those who have dismissed claims of disparate treatment of blacks by the police, arguing that th ...

There are those who have dismissed claims of disparate treatment of blacks by the police, arguing that this is largely an election year ploy to curry favor by Democrats. That of course ignores the fa ...

July 24, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Six National Police Reform Bills Congress Must Pass

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 17, 2016
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Six National Police Reform Bills Congress Must Pass

By Kanya Bennett This week, we continued to mourn the loss of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the D ...

By Kanya Bennett This week, we continued to mourn the loss of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and the Dallas police officers. But the reality is that we've been in mourning for victims of color of p ...

July 17, 2016
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My View II: Reflections on the Last Two Weeks and the Future of Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2016
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My View II: Reflections on the Last Two Weeks and the Future of Policing

In two weeks, I will have been doing this stuff for ten years – which is a long time to be doing somethin ...

In two weeks, I will have been doing this stuff for ten years – which is a long time to be doing something that, in many ways, is constantly evolving. The last two weeks have been very interesting, w ...

July 16, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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What It Feels Like to Be Pulled Over for a Minor Traffic Violation While Black

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 14, 2016
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What It Feels Like to Be Pulled Over for a Minor Traffic Violation While Black

It has been two years since the death of Eric Garner and nearly two years since Michael Brown’s death in ...

It has been two years since the death of Eric Garner and nearly two years since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson set off explosive pushback that has reverberated around the country. We have long know ...

July 14, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Federal Judge: SFPD Target Black People in Drug Law Enforcement

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 06, 2016
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Federal Judge: SFPD Target Black People in Drug Law Enforcement

By Novella Coleman On Thursday a federal district court judge found substantial evidence that San Francis ...

By Novella Coleman On Thursday a federal district court judge found substantial evidence that San Francisco police officers and federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents specifically single ...

July 06, 2016
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Broken Window Theory Debunked?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 05, 2016
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Broken Window Theory Debunked?

For decades policing theories have been based on the idea that, by cracking down on minor offenses, you c ...

For decades policing theories have been based on the idea that, by cracking down on minor offenses, you can drive down more serious crime. A theory proposed by researchers James Q. Wilson and George ...

July 05, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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How the Right and the Left Are Getting San Bernardino Wrong

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 10, 2016
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How the Right and the Left Are Getting San Bernardino Wrong

By Karima Bennoune Editor’s note: On Tuesday at the UC Davis School of Law, the Vanguard co-hosted a disc ...

By Karima Bennoune Editor’s note: On Tuesday at the UC Davis School of Law, the Vanguard co-hosted a discussion “After San Bernardino” on Muslim Extremism and Racial Profiling. Panelists included UC D ...

February 10, 2016
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New Evidence of Racial Profiling Looks at Seat Belt Stops

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 28, 2016
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New Evidence of Racial Profiling Looks at Seat Belt Stops

By Nusrat Choudhury Sam Dubose. Walter Scott. Sandra Bland. 2015 showed in terrible and vivid detail how ...

By Nusrat Choudhury Sam Dubose. Walter Scott. Sandra Bland. 2015 showed in terrible and vivid detail how even routine police traffic stops carry the risk of escalating to arrest or the use of force — ...

January 28, 2016
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Police and Race on MLK Day

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 18, 2016
| (36) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: Police and Race on MLK Day

I’ll admit it, I did not watch the debates last night and, to be frank, I haven’t watched a single debate ...

I’ll admit it, I did not watch the debates last night and, to be frank, I haven’t watched a single debate this pre-primary season. However, as I was reading through my Facebook feed late last night, I ...

January 18, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Settlement in Challenge of Police Surveillance of Muslims

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 09, 2016
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Settlement in Challenge of Police Surveillance of Muslims

Editor’s note: While this relates to a lawsuit in New York, this figures to be a national issue. On Febru ...

Editor’s note: While this relates to a lawsuit in New York, this figures to be a national issue. On February 9 at the UC Davis Law School, at noon, the Vanguard and Law School are co-sponsoring a foru ...

January 09, 2016
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My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 21, 2015
| (22) Comments

My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing

This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed stud ...

This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed students are out of control.” After reading the op-ed, it is easy to criticize the actions of inexp ...

November 21, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Story Behind the Girl in South Carolina

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 02, 2015
| (69) Comments

Monday Morning Thoughts: The Story Behind the Girl in South Carolina

Those quick to jump on parents and the school might be interested to learn that, according to a story in ...

Those quick to jump on parents and the school might be interested to learn that, according to a story in the New York Daily News, State Rep. Todd Rutherford, an influential Democrat, said that the tee ...

November 02, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary II: Troubling Protests in South Carolina, Complex Situation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 01, 2015
| (22) Comments

Sunday Commentary II: Troubling Protests in South Carolina, Complex Situation

Leaving aside any racial implications involved in the incident at the high school in South Carolina, it t ...

Leaving aside any racial implications involved in the incident at the high school in South Carolina, it troubles me greatly that the students would be protesting the firing of school resource officer ...

November 01, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Study Shows Driving While Black Presents Disproportionate Risks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 25, 2015
| (15) Comments

Analysis: Study Shows Driving While Black Presents Disproportionate Risks

While there has been a lot of controversy about the increased focused on biased policing, one of the good ...

While there has been a lot of controversy about the increased focused on biased policing, one of the good results is we are starting to get real data on things that for years were only part of urban m ...

October 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2015
| (7) Comments

ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacrame ...

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacramento office: the ACLU of California Center for Advocacy & Policy. One year ago, we had a sta ...

October 14, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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