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We’ve talked a lot on Midday Edition about what needs to change so tragedies like what happened to George Floyd stop happening. It’s not just about changing police practices but also about examining our own private biases.. and teaching our children about racism and bias. What are schools doing to raise self awareness ? The most common program in San Diego County schools is called No Place for Hate offered free by the san diego chapter of the anti defamation league.

It's not academic for University of San Diego sociology professor Cid Martinez, who studies the relationship between urban poverty, policing and gun violence in California.

San Diego Unified School District’s plan is to open full-time, in-person learning this fall, and also offer parents who don’t feel comfortable sending their kids to school a distance-learning option. Also on KPBS’ San Diego News Matters podcast: Under intense pressure to defund the police, San Diego City Councilmember Monica Montgomery responds to criticism over her vote to increase the police department budget and more of the local news you need.

Doctors at West Chester Hospital were forced to give ivermectin to a COVID-19 patient after his wife went to court. A judge has reversed the order, citing lack of medical support for the treatment.

A day of protests against a police officer who detained a black man earlier this week turned into rioting Saturday in downtown La Mesa that lasted through the night and into the early Sunday morning.

Half of the Guardsmen were deployed to La Mesa and the rest will be deployed elsewhere across the region along with local deputies, sheriff's officials said.

The new footage from an incident that sparked outrage doesn’t reveal new details in a man’s encounter with police officers.

Sharmaine Moseley, executive director of the Community Review Board, says the board is recommending the San Diego Police Department to adopt a de-escalation policy similar to one used in the city of Baltimore.

San Diego’s most at-risk neighborhoods saw an improvement in air quality when the COVID-19 shutdowns began, but pollution levels are already climbing back up.

Harry Sentoso, 63, died after going to work in an Irvine Amazon warehouse in March. His story is profiled in a Los Angeles Times report on the risks faced by workers at those warehouses. His family is asking why Amazon hired additional workers to help with non-essential online purchases, putting those workers' lives at risk.