As stories of state violence against Black men and boys occupy many of the calls for police reform, countless stories of Black women and girls subjected to excessive force and police misconduct remain untold. We must say their names.
On June 5, California voters paid more attention to their local top prosecutor races than ever before. In elections where the incumbent has historically gone unchallenged, there were more contested DA races in California than in recent memory — or perhaps ever before. Although incumbents retained
Danny Pham, a 27-year-old Westminster native, was serving a six-month sentence in an Orange County jail for a non-violent offense. He was close to completing his sentence. Instead, he ended up dead.
Law enforcement agencies are deploying secret and invasive surveillance technologies to collect sensitive location and biometric data, target local activists, and feed ICE's deportation machine.
Police in California have a problem with deadly force. Last year, police shot and killed 162 people in the state, half of whom did not have guns.
Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra provided all California public school leaders with the policies they must adopt by July to protect students from immigration enforcement while at school.