Police & Community – Page 6 – 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.

L.A. County sheriff announces inquiry into secret societies of deputies and their matching tattoos

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-07-27T09:51:11+00:00 July 27th, 2018|Police & Community|

Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell has launched a comprehensive inquiry into secret deputy cliques and is looking into whether gangs that condone illicit behavior are operating within his ranks, he said Thursday.

McDonnell’s announcement at a meeting of the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission comes two weeks after allegations surfaced that as many as 20 deputies

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Attorneys’ report slams conditions for migrant children at U.S. detention centers

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-07-20T08:38:55+00:00 July 20th, 2018|Immigration, Police & Community|

Attorneys who recently visited Border Patrol stations, ports of entry and family detention centers filed a scathing report this week alleging that the federal government is not adequately caring for minors in its custody.

Children and their parents interviewed by the attorneys described

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After decades of problems, new allegations surface of a secret clique within L.A. County Sheriff’s Department

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-07-10T08:31:57+00:00 July 10th, 2018|Police & Community|

For decades, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has struggled to combat secretive cliques of deputies who bonded over aggressive, often violent police work and branded themselves with matching tattoos.

A federal judge called out the problem nearly 30 years

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Surest Way to Face Marijuana Charges in New York: Be Black or Hispanic

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-06-01T09:26:03+00:00 June 1st, 2018|Police & Community|

They sit in courtroom pews, almost all of them young black men, waiting their turn before a New York City judge to face a charge that no longer exists in some states: possessing marijuana. They tell of smoking in a housing project hallway, or of being in a car with a

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A California church flirts with an unusual social experiment: to never call police again

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-30T09:21:23+00:00 May 30th, 2018|Intergroup Relations, Police & Community|

Standing on the front steps of First Congregational Church of Oakland late last month, Nichola Torbett issued a declaration.

“We can no longer tolerate the trauma inflicted on our communities by policing,” Torbett, a white church volunteer, said in front of churchgoers who

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New ‘zero tolerance’ immigration crackdown fills border courts

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-18T09:22:11+00:00 May 18th, 2018|Immigration, Police & Community|

The crowded courtroom reeked of stale sweat, and 92 immigrants filled all five benches, leaving standing room only for visitors and court personnel.

“It’s packed in there,” said one of a dozen guards and deputy marshals stationed at the courtroom this week. “This

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In Trump era, LAPD strengthens bonds with immigrants here illegally

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-17T09:19:13+00:00 May 17th, 2018|Immigration, Police & Community|

Al Labrada recalls the terror he felt as a young boy each time he rode from Los Angeles to San Diego on a Greyhound bus and passed through an immigration checkpoint.

Born in Mexico City, he had crossed the border illegally when he

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Hate crimes jump for fourth straight year in largest U.S. cities, study shows

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-16T08:21:20+00:00 May 16th, 2018|Hate Crimes, Police & Community|

Hate crimes in the nation’s 10 largest cities increased by 12 percent last year, reaching the highest level in more than a decade, according to a report released Monday by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino.

The center analyzed hate-crime data reported

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Campus Cops Handling Racism

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-14T09:02:35+00:00 May 14th, 2018|Education, Police & Community|

In the past few weeks, a black student at Yale University had the police called on her for napping in a common room, and two Native American teenagers, prospective students at Colorado State University, were stopped on a campus tour after another parent was reportedly nervous, calling them “creepy” in a 911 call.

While generally much

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Video of an arrest in Vista sparks anger at sheriff’s department

By Carmen Chandler| 2018-05-10T09:00:54+00:00 May 10th, 2018|Police & Community|

The videotaped arrest this week of two men at a domestic-violence call prompted swift condemnation from family members and community leaders Wednesday, as San Diego sheriff’s officials launched an investigation.

Within hours of its posting on social media and the San Diego Union-Tribune

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