Police & Community – Page 24 – 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.

‘Disturbing’ video shows deputies beating man after horse pursuit

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 10th, 2015|Police & Community|

Concern was growing over the actions of San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies who were captured on video by a television news helicopter beating a suspect after a pursuit Thursday.

For Mentally Ill Inmates, a Cycle of Jail and Hospitals

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 10th, 2015|Health, Police & Community|

It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone.

But in jail, Mr. Megginson, who is 25 and has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals

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Video of Walter Scott Shooting Reignites Debate on Police Tactics

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 9th, 2015|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — Nothing has done more to fuel the national debate over police tactics than the dramatic, sometimes grisly videos: A man gasping “I can’t breathe” through a police chokehold on Staten Island, a 12-year-old boy shot dead in a park in Cleveland. And now, perhaps the starkest video yet, showing a South

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Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:43:25+00:00 April 6th, 2015|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

ROME, Ga. — Before she fell on hard times and got into trouble with the law, Ashley Diamond had a wardrobe of wigs named after her favorite divas. “Darling, hand me Aretha” or Mariah or Madonna, she would say to her younger sister when they glammed up to go out on the town.

Ferguson Police Tainted by Bias, Justice Department Says

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:09+00:00 March 5th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday called on Ferguson, Mo., to overhaul its criminal justice system, declaring that the city had engaged in so many constitutional violations that they could be corrected only by abandoning its entire approach to policing, retraining its employees and establishing new oversight.

Ferguson Police Routinely Violate Rights of Blacks, Justice Dept. Finds

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 March 4th, 2015|Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — Ferguson, Mo., is a third white, but the crime statistics compiled in the city over the past two years seemed to suggest that only black people were breaking the law. They accounted for 85 percent of traffic stops, 90 percent of tickets and 93 percent of arrests. In cases like jaywalking, which often

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Out of Prison, and Staying Out, After 3rd Strike in California

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 27th, 2015|Police & Community|

LOS ANGELES — William Taylor III, once a lifer in state prison for two robbery convictions and the intent to sell a small packet of heroin, was savoring a moment he had scarcely dared to imagine: his first day alone, in a place of his own.

CAHRO’s Brian Levin: Motive Sought in Horrendous Killings of Muslim Students

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:10+00:00 February 20th, 2015|Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

The horrendous killings of three young Muslim-American university students near the University of North Carolina by an atheist man Tuesday evening has prompted authorities there to look at the incident as a possible hate crime. Initial police statements citing a dispute over a parking space as a potential motive were subsequently expanded to include a

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F.B.I. Director Speaks Frankly About Police View of Blacks

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:11+00:00 February 12th, 2015|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, on Thursday delivered an unusually frank speech about the relationship between the police and black people, saying that officers who work in neighborhoods where blacks commit crimes at higher rates develop a cynicism that shades their attitudes about race.

New York City to End Solitary Confinement for Inmates 21 and Under

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:50:12+00:00 January 13th, 2015|Police & Community|

New York City officials agreed on Tuesday to a plan that would eliminate the use of solitary confinement for all inmates age 21 and under, a move that would place Rikers Island at the forefront of national jail reform efforts.