Police & Community – Page 16 – 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.

Minnesota Police Shooting’s Aftermath Is Captured in Gruesome Video

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

A Minnesota man was fatally shot Wednesday night by the police during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb, and the aftermath was captured in a grisly video recorded by the car’s front-seat passenger and streamed live.

It was the second shooting this week of a black man

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San Diego launches campaign to expose ‘Ugly Truth’ about sex trafficking and child exploitation

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:19+00:00 June 28th, 2016|Police & Community|

San Diego County officials on Monday launched a campaign intended to educate the public about sex trafficking and child exploitation.

Dubbed “The Ugly Truth,” the effort will use billboards; radio spots; videos to be played in elevators and at health clubs; and posters to be displayed at bus shelters and on trolleys. It’s expected to run about three

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As activists prepare to protest the RNC, the FBI comes knocking

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:19+00:00 June 27th, 2016|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

About two dozen activists filled a small used-book shop on Cleveland’s west side for an unusual meeting: a training session on what to do when police knock on your door.

Across L.A. County, law enforcement looks for resources to deal with the mentally ill

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:20+00:00 June 20th, 2016|Health, Police & Community|

A slender young woman with brown hair stood on a Commerce street in early March, ignoring a driver’s pleas to move.

She reached down and bent his front license plate, asked him for money and then yanked his windshield wiper off.

She appeared agitated – from drugs, mental illness or both. As Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies prepared to

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For LAPD cops, walking the Koreatown beat filled with mystery, confusion, cultural minefields

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:21+00:00 June 8th, 2016|Police & Community|

It’s a town where people don’t meet your gaze, first names are taboo, and piles of shoes greet you at the doorway. Lifelong friends get in nasty fights over who pays the check, and strangers won’t think twice before asking prying questions about your age or marital status. Here, sometimes yes means no and no means yes.

On California’s death row, too insane to execute

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:21+00:00 June 6th, 2016|Police & Community|

On an August afternoon in 1984, Linda Marie Baltazar Pasnick, a 27-year-old aspiring model, was running errands before a fashion competition when she pulled into the drive-through at a Der Wienerschnitzel.

Supreme Court to Hear Two Death Penalty Cases

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:21+00:00 June 6th, 2016|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two death penalty cases from Texas raising questions about the roles intellectual disability and race may play in capital prosecutions.

African Americans are less trusting of law enforcement in Los Angeles County, poll finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:31:22+00:00 June 1st, 2016|Police & Community|

Despite two decades of efforts to improve relations, Los Angeles County law enforcement is still struggling to build trust among African American residents, according to a new poll.

Undercover police sex stings targeting gay men endure, despite fierce criticism

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:17+00:00 May 27th, 2016|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

Sitting in cars along the edge of the park, four Long Beach police officers waited for the right time to pounce.

The innocuous signal that spurred them to action came when they saw a middle-aged man close his laptop and head toward a public restroom known in the area as a place where men have sex

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San Francisco Forces Out Police Chief After Officer Kills Black Woman

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:34:17+00:00 May 20th, 2016|Police & Community|

SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias.