We Still Don’t Know How Many Shot by Police
By Kanya Bennett One year ago, the White House released The Final Report of the President’s Task…
Justice for Mario Woods: ACLU Calls for Federal Investigation of the SFPD
by Alan Schlosser Today, the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU Disability Rights Program sent a…
Commentary: Toy Guns Kill People
Yesterday I took my daughter to lunch over at Lamppost Pizza. She likes to get the little…
Death of Man Shot By Paradise Police Officer Leads to More Questions
This week 26-year-old Andrew Thomas died from gunshot wounds sustained on November 26, fired by Paradise Police…
Monday Morning Thoughts: Justice Department Investigates Chicago Police
The Washington Post reports that, once again, the Department of Justice will launch an investigation into patterns…
Eye on the Courts: Changing Landscape for the Judicial System on Death Penalty, Police, Incarceration
Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on the Constitutionality of California’s Death Penalty Last year, U.S. District Judge…
Eye on the Courts: Has the Police Issue Been Miscast As Racial Rather than Class-Based?
In the year since Ferguson, the media and the nation has focused largely on a string of…
Tamir Rice Investigation Shows Fatal Flaws In Shooting and Medical Response
The Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office released a redacted version of their investigation this weekend, and while the…
Judge Finds Probable Cause to Charge Officers in Death of Tamir Rice
A Cleveland Municipal Court Judge, Ronald B. Aldrine, released his opinion on Thursday afternoon that there is…
South Carolina Officer Charged With Murder, Massive Change in Ferguson
This time there would be no mistake, no second-guessing: a white officer is seen on video shooting…
Ferguson Comes to Yolo County
By Cruz Reynoso As we saw in Ferguson, Mo., and we have seen in Yolo County,…
Eye on the Courts: Lack of Reliable Data on Police Killings
In the past few days of discussion over police-involved shootings, we have seen a lot of claims…
Analysis: Video of Hughey Shooting by West Sac PD
DA Declines to File Charges Against Officer Wright – In early January, the Vanguard ran a story…