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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.

ICE puts LA jails on ‘non-cooperative’ list for refusing to hold immigrants

By | March 21st, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Several Los Angeles area jails, including one in Van Nuys, made the federal government’s list of facilities where local law enforcement authorities rejected requests to detain undocumented immigrants past their release dates.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday released what federal officials described as a “weekly” report that identifies “noncooperative” cities, including some that are

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California to Trump: Keep ICE out of our courthouses

By | March 16th, 2017|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye asked the Trump administration on Thursday to stop immigration agents from “stalking” California’s courthouses to make arrests.

“Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country’s immigration laws,” she wrote in a letter to Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary 

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ICE agents make arrests at courthouses, sparking backlash from prosecutors and attorneys

By | March 15th, 2017|Immigration, Police & Community|

Octavio Chaidez was walking out of a Pasadena courtroom with a client last month when four men jumped up from a hallway bench and rushed toward them.

The men asked his client’s name. Then they pulled out badges.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Pregnant Inmates Say a Federal Jail Is No Place for Them, and Some Judges Agree

By | March 15th, 2017|Police & Community|

When Stephanie Jorge reported to a federal jail in Brooklyn last year to begin a three-month sentence for bank larceny, she brightly announced that she was pregnant.

The correctional officers showed little interest. Later, on the occasions she began to hemorrhage, the officers would typically refuse to call an ambulance until they could summon three officers

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Probation statistics show increase in use of force at L.A. County juvenile halls

By | August 12th, 2016|Police & Community|

Use-of-force incidents at Los Angeles County juvenile halls have increased in recent months, but probation officials say it’s unclear what’s behind the rise.

Read

more in the Los Angeles Times.

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Some Women Won’t ‘Ever Again’ Report a Rape in Baltimore

By | August 12th, 2016|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — For the past two

years, ever

since 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer, America has been enmeshed in a wrenching discussion about how the police

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Findings of Police Bias in Baltimore Validate What Many Have Long Felt

By | August 10th, 2016|Police & Community|

BALTIMORE — As a black man and a acheter viagra generique canada lifelong resident of this city, Ray Kelly has been stopped by the police more times than he can count. And as a community organizer who tried to document police bias after the death of Freddie Gray, Mr. Kelly, 45, had always expected

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Is a Police Shooting a Crime? It Depends on the Officer’s Point of View

By | July 29th, 2016|Police & Community|

The black teenager had just reached into his waistband for what the New York City police officer assumed was a gun. As the officer, Richard Haste, later told a Bronx grand jury, he thought he was about to die.

In that instant, Officer Haste pictured Thanksgiving, with everyone

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When passions run high over civil rights and race, these Justice Department mediators try to keep the peace

By | July 22nd, 2016|Conflict Resolution, Police & Community|

Paul Monteiro saw the reports on social media — unrest over a black man killed at the hands of police in Baton Rouge — and quickly got on the phone with his regional director in Texas.

“What can you tell me?” he asked. “What more have you learned that can inform how we sort of figure

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