Police & Community – Page 41 – 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.

Editorial: Sparring, again, over race

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:51+00:00 March 27th, 2012|Police & Community|

From the Los Angeles Times:

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum accuse President Obama of trying to score political points in remarks he made about the slaying of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.

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Op-Ed Goldberg: Playing the race card again

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:30:51+00:00 March 27th, 2012|Police & Community|

From the Los Angeles Times:

The comfortable way is to blame Trayvon Martin’s death on ‘the system,’ and ‘the system’ is a white thing.

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LAPD officer profiled Latinos in traffic stops, internal probe concludes

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:44+00:00 March 27th, 2012|Police & Community|

From the Los Angeles Times:

Officer Patrick Smith is alleged to have stopped Latino motorists because of their ethnicity and falsified his records to say they were white. A disciplinary panel could vote to dismiss him.

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Op-Ed: Rodriguez: Vandalized by speech

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:44+00:00 March 26th, 2012|Police & Community|

From the Los Angeles Times:

A public square awash in racial invective is sure to alienate many Americans and weaken democracy.

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School District Told to Replace Web Filter Blocking Pro-Gay Sites

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:44+00:00 March 26th, 2012|Education, Police & Community|

From The New York Times:

CAMDENTON, Mo. — Students using the computers at Camdenton High School here in central Missouri have been able to access the Web sites for Exodus International, as well as People Can Change, antigay organizations that counsel men and women on how to become heterosexual.

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Taking On Police Tactic, Critics Hit Racial Divide

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:44+00:00 March 23rd, 2012|Police & Community|

From the New York Times:

ALBANY — Black and Latino lawmakers, fed up over the frequency with which New York City police officers are stopping and frisking minority men, are battling what they say is a racial divide as they push legislation to rein in the practice.

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‘It Could Have Been Me’: a Black-Studies Graduate Student Responds to the Killing of Trayvon Martin

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:44+00:00 March 22nd, 2012|Education, Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

A perspective on the Trayvon Martin shooting…

“The murder of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager from Sanford, Fla., who was gunned down by a neighborhood-watch volunteer who said he acted in self-defense, has sparked outrage and grief, especially among black Americans. The teen, who the shooter told police looked “suspicious,” was wearing a hoodie as he

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Rutgers University Spycam Case Stirs Debate Over Hate Crime Laws

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:45+00:00 March 20th, 2012|Education, Hate Crimes, LGBTQ+, Police & Community|

NEW YORK — There was a verdict in the Rutgers webcam spying case, but no resolution to a broader question that hovered over it: To what extent are hate crime laws a help or a hindrance in the pursuit of justice?

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Religous of the Sacred Heart of Mary

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:45+00:00 March 19th, 2012|Education, Police & Community|

This particular organization is working for social justice…..

http://www.rshm.org/ministries/Working_for_Justice

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Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute Personalizes a Struggle

By Carmen Chandler| 2016-12-02T18:34:45+00:00 March 15th, 2012|Police & Community|

From the New York Times:

THE visitors were old and young, black and white, from neighborhoods nearby and cities on the other side of the world. But on a recent morning in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, they were all stopped in their tracks by one particular display….

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