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San Diego police tonight shot and wounded a 25-year- old man in custody who slipped out of handcuffs at police headquarters and grabbed an officer's back-up gun. -
Amidst new scrutiny of police use of force, especially on people of color, the family of a young Latino man shot to death by a San Diego Sheriff's Deputy three years ago is again asking for justice. -
Amidst a national reckoning surrounding police budgets and law enforcement’s use of force, students took to the streets on Friday to call on San Diego Unified School District to remove its police department from schools. -
A KPBS analysis of more than 9,400 district police records shows that Black youth are up to four times as likely to be arrested or detained as their white peers. -
KPBS Midday EditionThis November, California voters will decide whether the state should restore voting rights to nearly 40,000 people on parole for a felony. -
The arrest of a Black Lives Matter protester, captured on video, prompted calls for an investigation. But SDPD says the results will likely remain secret, because of state law regarding personnel. -
Jesus Cecena, 59, was convicted of killing Officer Archie Buggs, 30, who was shot four times after he stopped a car driven by Cecena in the Skyline neighborhood. -
Officers are now required to make de-escalation a priority while on patrol, and they must intervene if they witness a fellow officer using excessive force.
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The petition asks that a San Diego Superior Court judge order the city of La Mesa and the police department to produce the name of the officer who fired a beanbag projectile at 59-year-old Leslie Furcron on the night of May 30. -
Office of Equity and Racial Justice for San Diego County and having Mobile Crisis Response Teams that use clinicians instead of law enforcement for mental health and homeless services.
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