SF District Attorney: Why Police Officers with Prior Misconduct Shouldn’t Be Trusted
By Ayanna Gandhi SAN FRANCISCO – Chesa Boudin, San Francisco District Attorney, wrote an article for the…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Next Time You Want to Argue It’s Just a Few Bad Apples Look No Further than Vallejo
We hear it all the time, when a police shooting occurs or there’s another incident that cannot…
District Attorney Krasner Files Charges against Officer for Attack on Protesters
By Ayanna Gandhi PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Tuesday announced criminal proceedings against Philadelphia Police…
SF DA’s Office Files Charges against Sheriff’s Deputy
Sheriff’s Deputy Carried an Illegal Assault Weapon in His Backpack into City Hall When Chesa Boudin ran…
New Jersey Legislation Would Open Up Police Officer Files, Expose Misconduct
By Zhuoshan Liu NEW JERSEY – New Jersey recently announced controversial legislation that would dramatically increase the…
Victim Pleads for Charges to be Dismissed against Boyfriend, Charges Police Were ‘Aggressive’
By Julietta Bisharyan FRESNO – During an arraignment in Fresno County Superior Court, the defendant’s girlfriend and…
Boudin Will Not Charge Cases That Rely on Officers with Serious Prior Misconduct
For years, district attorneys working hand in hand with police have looked the other way and minimized…
Past Videos of Police Brutality, as in Solano County, Haunt George Floyd Protests
By Julietta Bisharyan FAIRFIELD – Old videos, including one from 2018 of a Fairfield officer Tasering…
Guest Commentary: Cop’s Memorial Day Killing of Black Man Encouraged by Local DA Culture
by Rory Fleming Minneapolis, Memorial Day 2020. A Black man’s head lies on the asphalt, and the…
Police Practices Experts Square Off in Excessive Force Suit against Stockton Cops
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau STOCKTON – Police practices expert witnesses Robert Clark and R.K. Miller…
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 Stockton…
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,…
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…
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 police…
Who Doesn’t Love the NYPD Slowdown?
By Sarah Lustbader While progressives and reformers wax poetic about reducing low-level arrests, one group is making…
How Warren and Sanders Would Overhaul the Criminal System
By Sarah Lustbader This week, the two most progressive frontrunners for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senators Elizabeth…
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…
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…
SB 1421 Working Group Meet, Discussion Definition of Sustained Complaints
By Marshall Hammons San Francisco – Representatives from various City agencies, departments, and units within SFPD once…
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…
