Police & Community – Page 36 – 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.

Edward M. Davis: Late LAPD Chief’s Anti-Gay Letter Circulates on Internet, Sparks Memories of 1976 Melrose Avenue Bathhouse Raid

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:22:34+00:00 March 1st, 2013|LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

A letter from anti-gay former LAPD Chief Ed Davis is circulating on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ showing Davis’ harsh 1975 response to Sharon D. Cornelison, former president of the Christopher Street West Association.

In Bay Area, a Fragile Relationship Between Muslims and F.B.I.

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:22:35+00:00 March 1st, 2013|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Early one morning in 2007, Muhammad Chaudhry showed up at the Islamic Center of East Bay in Antioch, Calif., and found seven bullet holes in one of the building’s front windows.

Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:22:35+00:00 February 28th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Incarceration rates for black Americans dropped sharply from 2000 to 2009, especially for women, while the rate of imprisonment for whites and Hispanics rose over the same decade, according to a report released Wednesday by a prison research and advocacy group in Washington.

With Inquiry, an Attempt to Reassure Los Angeles

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:22:38+00:00 February 11th, 2013|Police & Community|

LOS ANGELES — Police Chief Charlie Beck stood in front of a bank of television cameras on Sunday afternoon facing what seemed like two impossible tasks: luring in a fugitive former police officer accused of three murders and simultaneously assuring the public that his department was not backsliding on accusations of racism and corruption.

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Glendale Unified, police settle suit over racial profiling

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:22:39+00:00 February 7th, 2013|Education, Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

The ACLU of Southern California announced Wednesday that it had reached settlements with the city of Glendale and the Glendale Unified School District on behalf of eight Latino students who alleged that officials engaged in racial profiling and illegal searches during a 2010 incident at Hoover High School.

Unarmed man killed by deputies was shot in the back, autopsy says

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-28T09:05:17+00:00 January 28th, 2013|Police & Community|

Jose de la Trinidad of Culver City was shot seven times that November night, all from behind, according to his autopsy report.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-trinidad-shooting-20130128,0,7049256.story

Latino gang members accused of terrorizing Compton black family

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T17:12:14+00:00 January 25th, 2013|Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

Two Latino gang members have been arrested on suspicion of hate crimes after allegedly waging a campaign to force a black family to move from Compton, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said.

Family of man killed by Santa Ana police disputes city’s explanation

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-16T16:59:33+00:00 January 16th, 2013|Police & Community|

Binh Van Nguyen’s family says he was startled from sleep by officers who weren’t in uniform, and that he couldn’t have gunned his car at them because of how it was parked.

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-father-shot-20130116,0,4520765.story

An Anaheim woman demands respect for her neighborhood

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-14T16:26:45+00:00 January 14th, 2013|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Yesenia Rojas has taken it upon herself to be the voice of the working-class Latino immigrants on Anna Drive — ‘the men and women who put in long days at exhausting jobs, and their children.’

Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anna-drive-20130114,0,7387050.story

Lawyers, Saying DNA Cleared Inmate, Pursue Access to Data

By Carmen Chandler| 2013-01-04T16:45:09+00:00 January 4th, 2013|Police & Community|

MOUNT OLIVE, W.Va. — Convicted of robbing and raping an 83-year-old woman, Joseph A. Buffey at 19 was no one’s idea of a choirboy. A marijuana smoker and high school dropout, he was out thieving on the night in question 11 years ago and broke into the Salvation Army near the woman’s home to steal