California lawmakers could set new education requirements for police officers, but the bill has critics from all sides — including former Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who authored the state’s watershed 2021 police reform bill.
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Local representatives from an international group called the Cops Off Campus Coalition say eliminating school police departments will contribute to a more just society and free up resources for students. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that state Capitol flags are being flown at half-staff in honor of married San Diego Police Department detectives killed last week in a wrong-way freeway crash in San Ysidro. -
More than 2,000 rape kits from a dozen San Diego County law enforcement agencies have been tested following their delivery to an independent lab, the latest milestone in a three-year project to clear the county's untested sexual assault kit backlog, the San Diego County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. -
A loud noise was heard across San Diego County Tuesday evening, but it was unclear what caused the boom. -
A vehicle fire that left a man gravely injured in Escondido led deputies to find a woman dead inside a San Marcos home, and homicide detectives were investigating. -
KPBS Midday EditionDubbed Operation Trojan Shield, the San Diego-based FBI-led operation was centered around the creation of an encrypted phone company called ANOM. -
A vigil to honor two San Diego Police Department detectives — a married couple who died in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 — was scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday at a park in the Harmony Grove Village neighborhood of Escondido. -
A swarm of earthquakes shook Imperial County on Saturday morning, the largest of which was a magnitude 5.3 reported near El Centro according to the US Geological Survey. -
In a Friday morning press conference, Mayor Todd Gloria decried a nationwide epidemic in gun violence. But he and other leaders did not offer clear solutions. -
The changes to policing in La Mesa one year after a destructive riot, local governments spend millions of dollars on public relations campaigns and Scripps Health recovers from a cyber attack.
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