Use of Force Expert Breaks Down Recent Police Killings
At last week’s San Francisco Justice Summit that focused on police use of force, Jeff Adachi called…
Melissa Harris-Perry Explains Blackness and Black Lives Matter
On Wednesday, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi hosted his annual Justice Summit, fittingly on the use…
Monday Morning Thoughts: An Eerily Similar Shooting
There are common denominators in a lot of these police shootings and the killing of Jessica Williams…
Text Message Scandal Goes Deep, Involving More Than 200 Cases
Last year, San Francisco officials conducted an investigation revealing that at least five police officers, long-time officers,…
Contesting Bail to Take on Racial Disparities in SF Jail
By Kamala Kelkar In San Francisco, black inmates are less likely than their white counterparts to get…
Guest Commentary: The Concept of Race Is Nothing But Fiction
By Jeff Adachi Race is the world’s most persistent deception. Throughout history, the color of our skin…
Adachi Asks AG’s Office to Probe SFPD
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi Tuesday urged the California Attorney General to open a civil rights…
Commentary: How Many Bad Apples Does It Take?
It seems like whenever we run a story about a police officer or a group of…
Report Finds SF Public Defender Arrested without Cause
(From Press Release) San Francisco police wrongly arrested a Deputy Public Defender last year and unnecessarily detained…
Legislation Would Allow Access to Police Misconduct Records
In an effort to improve transparency, accountability and trust between law enforcement and the public, Senator Mark…
Truth Lost When Officers View Body Cam Footage
By Jeff Adachi In a few months, 2,000 San Francisco police officers will be outfitted with body…
Why No Charges in Police-Involved Beating in SF?
By Jeff Adachi Nearly 25 years after the Rodney King beating shocked the world, Stanislav Petrov lay…
Brutal Beating by Alameda County Deputy Sheriffs in San Francisco
Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods is up in arms and demanding possible criminal charges against two…
Lawsuit Seeks to End Money Bail System
In a suit that figures to have widespread impact, potentially, to the legal system, a class action…
Is Risk Assessment The Key to Reducing Incarceration?
In an op-ed this week in the Huffington Post, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon wrote, “As…
Jami’s Ordeal Shows Public Defenders Deserve Respect
By Jeff Adachi It was the video seen ‘round the world — a public defender, tiny in…
Study: Shocking Racial Disparities in SF Courts
African-Americans in San Francisco are more likely to await trial behind bars than their white counterparts and…
The Over-Policing of Black Women
By Jeff Adachi While citizens demand answers for the police killings of unarmed men of color nationally,…
Eye on the Courts: Why Bail Reform Could Be the Key to Changing the System
Of all of the problems that face our current criminal justice system, one may have to go…
SF DA at Justice Summit Calls for Body Cameras, Video for All Arrests
This week the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office held its annual Justice Summit. The theme this year…
