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California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s announcement Wednesday that he had begun to implement a new law which he helped write as an Assembly member requiring his office to investigate fatal police shootings is one more landmark for criminal justice reform in the Golden State.
It comes on the heels of then-San Diego Assemblymember Shirley Weber winning historic approval in 2019 for the state law she wrote to limit the circumstances in which police may use lethal force, an action in response to officers killing unarmed people often Black men in dubious circumstances.
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For years, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board has decried the fact that hundreds of U.S. military veterans many from California have been automatically deported after committing new crimes because of a strict interpretation of a 1996 federal law. These veterans all qualified for citizenship but didn’t fill out the necessary paperwork. They should be allowed to come home, for America the nation they served is their rightful home.
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Like other agencies, the San Diego Police Department has a problem with trust among people of color. Over the years, when studies show disparate treatment of Black and Latino people, SDPD officials’ first instinct seems to be to downplay the findings and, by extension, complaints about police encounters. This led The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board to write last month that the city needs action, not platitudes, to improve policing.
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San Diego’s 101 Ash Street deal generated new headlines this week after it was revealed a real estate expert the city had described as its voluntary adviser on this and a similar long-term lease-to-own arrangement for Civic Center Plaza received nearly $10 million from a company that brokered the two deals. That development led City Attorney Mara Elliot to file a lawsuit to void both agreements and recover more than $44 million from the sellers.