Police & Community – Page 19 – 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.

U.S. Police Leaders, Visiting Scotland, Get Lessons on Avoiding Deadly Force

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:22+00:00 December 11th, 2015|Police & Community|

TULLIALLAN, Scotland — The United States and Britain are bound by a common language and a shared history, and their law enforcement agencies have been close partners for generations.

But a difference long curious to Americans stands out: Most British police officers are unarmed, a distinction particularly pronounced here in Scotland, where 98 percent of the

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Police got it right in San Bernardino; not so in other deadly cases

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:23+00:00 December 8th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

If there was any bright spot in the circumstances surrounding last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, it was the performance of law enforcement officers.

Police officers, sheriff’s deputies and federal agents worked together to stop the killers, search the area and investigate the circumstances.

Violent South Carolina classroom arrest adds to ‘school-to-prison pipeline’ debate

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:26+00:00 October 28th, 2015|Education, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

It happens so often in classrooms that it’s almost unremarkable. A student sends a text during class, plays a video game on an iPad or mouths off, drawing a reprimand from the teacher.

Then what?

At Spring Valley High School in Columbia, S.C., a similar scenario ended Monday when a white sheriff’s deputy — summoned after an

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FBI Director: Viral Video Era Affecting Police Work

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:27+00:00 October 27th, 2015|Police & Community|

CHICAGO — Police anxiety in the era of ever-present cellphone cameras and viral videos partly explains why violent crime has risen in several large U.S. cities this year, FBI Director James Comey said Friday.

Comey told several hundred students during a forum at the University of Chicago

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The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:27+00:00 October 26th, 2015|Police & Community|

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rufus Scales, 26 and black, was driving his younger brother Devin to his hair-cutting class in this genteel, leafy city when they heard the siren’s whoop and saw the blue light in the rearview mirror of their black pickup. Two police officers pulled them over for minor infractions that included expired plates

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Sheriff to staff: Stop arresting children on prostitution charges, stop saying ‘child prostitute’

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:27+00:00 October 22nd, 2015|Police & Community, Uncategorized|

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced Wednesday that his department will immediately stop arresting children on prostitution charges.

“They are child victims and survivors of rape,” McDonnell wrote in a letter to his employees. “We must remember that children cannot consent to sex under any circumstance.”

Changing the way such children are viewed, from suspect to victim, falls in

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Facing hostile Black Lives Matter protesters, Garcetti’s South L.A. forum ends abruptly

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:28+00:00 October 20th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti faced throngs of hostile protesters at a community meeting Monday night as chaos descended on a gathering that had been intended as a forum for him to improve his fraught relationship with the black communities of South L.A.

The meeting at Holman United Methodist Church, attended by several hundred, was quickly

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For Offenders Who Can’t Pay, It’s a Pint of Blood or Jail Time

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:37:28+00:00 October 20th, 2015|Police & Community|

MARION, Ala. — Judge Marvin Wiggins’s courtroom was packed on a September morning. The docket listed hundreds of offenders who owed fines or fees for a wide variety of crimes — hunting after dark, assault, drug possession and passing bad checks among them.

“Good morning, ladies

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California’s racial profiling law is ‘terrible’ legislation, police officials say

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:22+00:00 October 5th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

California is about to tackle head on the charged issue of racial bias in law enforcement.

Gov. Jerry Brown this weekend signed legislation mandating that California law enforcement agencies collect — and make public — data on the racial makeup of all those encountered by police.

For civil rights activists, Brown’s action was a big step toward protecting

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Obama Condemns ‘Routine’ of Mass Shootings, Says U.S. Has Become Numb

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:41:22+00:00 October 2nd, 2015|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — President Obama’s rage about gun massacres, building for years, spilled out Thursday night as he acknowledged his own powerlessness to prevent another tragedy and pleaded with voters to force change themselves.

“So tonight, as those of us who are

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