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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. -
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. -
The effort to establish a new civilian oversight body has been going on for years. But it took on new urgency after protests following the death of George Floyd. -
Community members are questioning the use of force during the arrest of a black man in Carlsbad just over a week ago. The family thinks officers were too tough when they arrested 27-year old Marcel Cox-Harshaw. -
Juneteenth, which celebrates the liberation of Black Americans, is taking on a special resonance this year, as protests in support of Black Lives Matter continue throughout the country. -
San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher asked to speed up the creation of a non-law enforcement "Mobile Crisis Response Team" that would respond to nonviolent incidents countywide involving people with behavioral health crises. -
The proposed Commission on Police Practices would review all deaths stemming from interactions with San Diego police, as well as all police shootings. -
A dramatic shift has taken place in the nation’s opinions on policing and race, as a new poll finds that more Americans today than five years ago believe police brutality is a very serious problem that too often goes undisciplined and unequally targets black Americans.
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