LASD Won’t Name Deputies Involved in Killing of Fred Williams III at Otherwise Uninformative Inquest
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LASD once again proves unwilling to cooperate in an inquest into a questionable shooting by a deputy.
Recent Streetsblog LA posts about racial profiling
Black and Brown Residents Speak to Urgency of Deep Systemic Transformation, Offer Insights Regarding Reinvestment
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"We’re done paying for an institution that produces racism, violence, and poverty," said Carlos Cázares. "We are done talking. It’s time to put money where the people are at."
How Beating of Unhoused Boyle Heights Man Exposes Woeful Inadequacy of LAPD Reform Proposals
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Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
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"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice
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There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.
Family of Man Crushed by Train During Altercation with Police over Fare Seeks Answers, Justice
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The family is afraid that a full accounting is a long ways off. Detectives told them that they may not have an answer or see the video of the incident until the investigation is complete - six months to a year from now.