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The policies unanimously adopted by the group on Wednesday are the culmination of a project that began last June with the creation of a committee tasked with exploring the hot-button issue, according to the regional police leadership group. -
The request comes amid a major push for police reform and defunding across the nation in the wake of the in-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. -
Lawmakers are wondering why, amidst a global pandemic, the Border Patrol is getting involved with local law enforcement and under what authority. -
Leslie Furcron, 59, was hospitalized in an intensive-care unit in a medically induced coma after she was struck in the forehead with a projectile during a police protest last month. -
The majority of callers asked for the police to be defunded, with funds going toward marginalized and vulnerable communities instead. Speakers asked for the money to be used for homeless outreach, mental health services, racial equity commissions and rent-assistance programs, among myriad other ideas. -
KPBS Midday EditionChristy Lopez, a professor at Georgetown Law School and a co-director of the school’s Innovative Policing Program, says "defunding the police" doesn't mean zeroing out budgets. It means to reduce the demands placed on police and redirecting funding to mental health care, housing and other social programs. -
La Mesa city officials said they are committed to creating more transparency in the police department, especially following the events of the past weeks. -
The video shows the arrest of a female protester downtown Thursday night by several men, who don’t identify themselves before whisking her away, in unmarked minivans. One of the men threatened to shoot the other protesters if they followed the vans.
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La Mesa police Chief Walt Vasquez announced after a full review of the evidence, the police department will not pursue prosecution in the case of Amaurie Johnson, a 23-year-old black man arrested on May 27 at an apartment complex near the Grossmont Trolley Station. -
In recent days, a group of armed would-be vigilantes in Santee have stood watch outside local shopping centers. They said they’re responding to protests that have broken out in the area against police violence — and that they have the backing of local law enforcement.
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