Is it possible to control police functioning by requiring that they become transparent about their training, staffing, funding and the real priorities of the community? Can we direct resources to where we actually need them?
Berkeley Cops at a raid in south berkeley on 8/17/16. Several BPD officers have no identifying name or badge number. This violates state law PC 830.10. Just for starters...
PHOENIX (AP) — Questions are being raised about the purchase of 1,000 new-model Taser stun guns by the Arizona Department of Public Safety at the request of a procurement officer with ties to the firm.
DPS set out to buy 800 Tasers and accessories in 2009 for about $800...
Early in the morning of March 14, 2010, Mr. Justin Bentley was arrested in the small Northern California town of Orland. There are a number of curious, and downright suspicious, factors involving his arrest and the incidents that led to it.
Robert Gammon in the East Bay Express, May 18, 2011:
It’s not even half over, but 2011 looks as if it might be the Year of the Corrupt Cop in the Bay Area. The only question right now is whether Contra Costa County or San Francisco has the dirtier police officers…
March 31, 2011 (MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press):
NEW ORLEANS – Calling the crimes inexcusable and barbaric, a judge sentenced two former New Orleans police officers to prison Thursday for their roles in the shooting death of an unarmed man whose body was later set...
Angela Woodall for the Oakland Tribune reported on March 17th that nearly half of the tasks ordered by the federal court in 2003 have not been been addressed adequately according to independent monitors, and that the reform process of the Oakland Police Department has...
