Walking While White (female and old)
By Tia Will I have a confession to make. I sometimes break the law deliberately. Yes, I…
Victim of Sac PD Beating Speaks to Media for First Time
The beating of Nandi Cain, who was walking home from work in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood…
Victim of Police Beating Caught on Video Says Abuse Continued at Jail
Youth Who Was Beaten And Punched 20 Times By Sacramento Police Officer Anthony Figueroa During Questionable Jaywalking…
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…
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…
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…
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 yards…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Francisco police…
Broken Window Theory Debunked?
For decades policing theories have been based on the idea that, by cracking down on minor offenses,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
