Police & Community – Page 14 – CAHRO – California Association of Human Relations Organizations

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.

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

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 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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How Fresno is trying to make sense of Black Lives Matter after the shooting of an unarmed white man

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 21st, 2016|Police & Community|

The diverse young crowd filled the pews at a Fresno church late last week to consider what Black Lives Matter might mean in their city.

Like protesters around the nation, they were angered at the police-shooting deaths of Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana.

But it was outrage over the June fatal shooting of

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Florida police shoot autistic man’s caretaker as he lies in street, hands in the air

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 21st, 2016|Disability, Police & Community|

A Florida police officer shot and wounded an autistic man’s black caretaker, authorities said, in an incident purportedly captured on cellphone video that shows the caretaker lying down with his arms raised before being shot.

Obama Faces Growing Expectations on Race and Policing

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 21st, 2016|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — At the White House last week, DeRay Mckesson, a Black Lives Matter activist who was arrested only days before in Baton Rouge, La., for protesting police violence against African-Americans, had a lengthy list of demands for President Obama.

The president

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Black Police Officers Feel the Inner Tug of a Dual Role

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 19th, 2016|Police & Community|

The day after five Dallas police officers were killed in an ambush, Montrell Jackson, a black police officer in Baton Rouge, La., took to Facebook to voice his frustration.

“I’m tired physically and emotionally,” he wrote, questioning the “nasty hateful looks” he received as a police officer and

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She’s the mom of four black men, a former L.A. cop and a major skeptic of ‘justifiable’ police shootings

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 18th, 2016|Conflict Resolution, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Cheryl Dorsey faced a mirror in a Pasadena hair salon, at the beginning of an appointment that would eat up the whole morning and part of the afternoon. Her stylist, Ursula Simpson, carefully braided Dorsey’s locks before weaving in a spectacular lion’s mane of silver curls.

These things take time.

Dorsey could ill afford to spend half

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The Game meets with L.A. gangs in an effort to stop killings

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:16+00:00 July 18th, 2016|Conflict Resolution, Police & Community|

Hip-hop artist the Game urged gang members from across Southern California on Sunday to stop the violence in the midst of the national focus on the recent police shootings of African-American men.

The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, told the hundreds gathered for a town-hall style meeting at a South Los Angeles community center that

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In the Age of ISIS, Who’s a Terrorist, and Who’s Simply Deranged?

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:17+00:00 July 18th, 2016|Extremism, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — In December 2014, a middle-aged man driving a car in Dijon, France, mowed down more than a dozen pedestrians within 30 minutes, occasionally shouting Islamic slogans from his window.

The chief prosecutor in Dijon described the attacks, which left 13 injured but no one dead, as

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Baton Rouge Attack Deepens Anguish for Police: ‘We’ve Seen Nothing Like This’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:17+00:00 July 18th, 2016|Police & Community|

“Officer down!” an officer screamed frantically into his police radio Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, La. “Shots fired! Officer down!”

One of the most dreaded calls in policing triggered a surge of officers to the city’s Airline Highway, not far from Police Headquarters, an agonizing replay of the

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Fresno police release body-camera footage of fatal shooting of unarmed 19-year-old

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:17+00:00 July 14th, 2016|Police & Community|

The chief of the Fresno Police Department took the rare step Wednesday of publicly releasing the body-camera video footage of officers fatally shooting an unarmed 19-year-old man last month — a shooting that has generated fierce protests amid a roiling national debate over police brutality.