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.
Before Brief, Deadly Spree, Trouble Since Age 8
LOS ANGELES — It was the summer of 1999, and the parents of Elliot O. Rodger were battling over the boy’s deep and puzzling psychological problems as they struggled through a divorce.
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Limits to Law and Information Sharing, Despite Gunman’s Danger Signs
LOS ANGELES — Elliot O. Rodger was a young college student who had few friends, detested his roommates and spent much of his time alone, reveling in the isolation of a local golf course or the beaches near Isla Vista, where he lived.
The New York Times
Court halts Texas execution over question of intellectual disability
Hours before Texas could carry out the nation’s first execution since Oklahoma botched a lethal injection last month, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the execution on grounds that the inmate’s
In Youth’s Death, Some See a Montana Law Gone Wrong
MISSOULA, Mont. — Teenagers call it garage hopping. The goal was to sneak into an open garage, steal some beer or other items and slip away into the night. It was dumb and clearly illegal. It was not supposed to be deadly.
The New York
Botched Oklahoma execution stirs outrage, may bring changes
After a grisly history of electrocutions, gassings, hangings and firing squads, it is the cold, quiet
CAHRO 2014 Conference: Uniting California for Human Relations & Human Rights is about to begin
People are checking in. The conference will begin shortly. On the day’s agenda: presentations by Congresswoman Jackie Speier and Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, and workshops include such topics as mental health and law enforcement; racial justice and building healthy communities; immigration; youth and human rights; human trafficking; and transgender non-discrimination, training and law enforcement.
From Shooting Victim to Prisoner, Not an Uncommon Passage
Shooting victims in New York are often arrested if they have outstanding warrants, no matter how minor. Andre Daly was
handcuffed over a summons for possessing wine in public.
The New York Times
The Prison Reformer vs. Rikers Island
Joseph Ponte, New York’s newly appointed correction commissioner, and his wife were visiting the city two weeks ago, and while she went apartment hunting, he had a few hours free. So he dropped by Rikers Island to have a look at the jail block where a