Police & Community – Page 15 – 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.

Dallas Police Chief, David O. Brown, Is Calm at Center of Crisis

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

DALLAS — He was hurting, self-effacing and, as he put it, a little fried. At a news conference on Monday, he spoke about the crisis facing law enforcement, his experience as a black man in Texas, guns and division, and what kept him going — “God’s grace and his sweet, tender mercies, just to be

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Study: Blacks Less Likely to be Shot by Police Than Whites

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

If anyone is looking for ammunition to bolster the belief that police are more trigger-happy when it comes to encounters with Blacks than with Whites, they won’t find it in a study by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer, Jr. that was released Monday.

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LA police are helping gay bars learn how to respond to a terrorist attack

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:17+00:00 July 11th, 2016|Police & Community|

More than 3,000 miles away from Orlando, Florida, where a nightclub shooting claimed 49 lives, gay bar owners here in Southern California are being urged to take precautions in the event of a similar attack.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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Surprising New Evidence Shows Bias in Police Use of Force but Not in Shootings

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 11th, 2016|Police & Community|

A new study confirms that black men and women are treated differently in the hands of law enforcement. They are more likely to be touched, handcuffed, pushed to the ground or pepper-sprayed by a police officer, even after accounting for how, where and when they encounter the police.

Science Is Searching For Ways To Stop Police Killings

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 11th, 2016|Police & Community|

Hidden racial stereotypes, marginalized communities, and decades of distrust put both the police and the people they serve in danger. Can science provide the tools to defuse these tensions?

Column The shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile – through the eyes of children

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 8th, 2016|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

I want Daddy.

Those three words from Alton Sterling’s son said everything.

Watching someone die through the lens of a cellphone camera gives most of us a visceral combination of emotions. But seeing the fatal police shootings this week of Sterling and Philando Castile through the eyes of their children stirs an even more raw sense

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Cellphone video shows police fatally shooting unarmed 19-year-old Fresno man

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 7th, 2016|Police & Community|

New cellphone video shows police officers shooting an unarmed 19-year-old Fresno man lying on the ground at a gas station.

LA County sheriff admits flaws in deputy evaluations ‘need to be rectified’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 7th, 2016|Police & Community|

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said Wednesday his department is forging ahead in tackling a watchdog’s concerns about missed opportunities to weed out poor-performing deputies during their one year-probationary period.

Read more in the Los Angeles Daily News.

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Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 7th, 2016|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, to name a few. I don’t think any of us could have imagined how tiny cameras would allow us to see, time and again,

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Alton Sterling Shooting in Baton Rouge Prompts Justice Dept. Investigation

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:18+00:00 July 7th, 2016|Police & Community|

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation on Wednesday into the fatal shooting of a black man by the Baton Rouge, La., police after a searing video of the encounter, aired repeatedly on television and social media, reignited contentious issues surrounding police killings of African-Americans.