CAHRO is a strong advocate for community policing as a vehicle for preventing conflicts between law enforcement agencies and the communities they are charged with serving. If police agencies have a strong positive relationship helping neighborhoods address causes of crimes by providing resources and support we believe they will establish avenues of communication that will prevent major conflicts from escalating.
California’s mentally ill inmate population keeps growing. And state money isn’t enough to meet needs, lawmaker says
Gov. Jerry Brown has earmarked $117 million in his new state budget to expand the number of treatment beds and mental health programs for more than 800 mentally ill inmates found incompetent to stand trial.
State officials said
Students With Disabilities Are Largely Ignored by Colleges’ Assault Prevention, Study Finds
Students with disabilities are not “on the radar” of colleges’ efforts and policies to prevent sexual assault, a new federal study has found.
The study, conducted by the National Council on Disability, a federal agency, suggests that undergraduates with a disability are more likely to be sexually assaulted than are their peers without a disability, and
Less cooperation with ICE? LA County’s sheriff oversight panel could recommend it
Ideas to further limit cooperation between the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and federal immigration officials were met with cheers and jeers from community members Thursday at a civilian oversight meeting in downtown Los Angeles.
The recent passage of Senate Bill 54, sometimes referred to as a “sanctuary state” law, already limits the ability of
LGBTQ college student is stabbed 20 times in an ‘act of rage,’ but was it a hate crime?
They both went to high school at the elite Orange County School of the Arts, but the classmates weren’t particularly close.
Blaze Bernstein, home on winter break from the University of Pennsylvania, messaged with Samuel Woodward on Snapchat. On Jan. 2, Woodward drove over and picked him up….
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Police often ill-equipped to handle hate crimes
Less than half of people who are victims of hate crimes file reports with police, and an even lesser percentage see a conviction. In an attempt to examine the scale and effects of hate crimes in the U.S., ProPublica earlier this year launched the project “Documenting Hate.” The project’s manager, journalist Rachel Glickhouse, joins Alison
Why is collecting accurate hate crime statistics so difficult?
Allison Kolarik was making signs for an upcoming ‘Stand Against Hate’ rally in Asbury Park on Sept. 3 when she heard two guys yelling at her friends outside.
Police Failed on Many Fronts at Charlottesville Rally, Review Finds
The police badly mishandled white supremacist protests in Charlottesville, Va., in August, by failing to coordinate among agencies, give officers the gear they needed or keep protesters and counterprotesters separate, a former federal prosecutor reported on Friday.
In a report more than 200 pages long, Timothy
Prosecutors say this housing complex is a hotbed for gang crime, and they think its owner should live there
In recent months, a police informant made a dozen drug buys at a sprawling apartment complex that sits on the northern edge of Baldwin Village. In the last few years, authorities seized half a dozen firearms there and investigated multiple shootings and robberies.
Los Angeles prosecutors say the Chesapeake Apartments, a 425-unit complex spread over more
In St. Louis, Protests Over Police Violence Disrupt Economy, and Win Attention
ST. LOUIS — Chris Sommers, who runs a chain of successful pizza restaurants here, has long supported both sides in the fierce standoff between police officers and black residents playing out in this city.
He donated to civil rights groups after the August 2014 shooting of Michael Brown
A Big Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations
Usually, we behave better when we know we’re being watched. According to decades of research, the presence of other people, cameras or even just a picture of eyes seems to nudge us toward civility: We become more likely to give to charity, for example, and less likely to speed, steal or