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Last year, in the midst of local and national uproar over police brutality and some news-grabbing racist incidents in Santee, San Diego County leaders promised that the county would do more to address issues of racial justice and equity.
In the span of two months last summer county supervisors revived the defunct Human Relations Commission, expanded the powers of the county’s independent Citizen’s Law Enforcement Review Board and voted to establish its first ever Office of Equity and Racial Justice, which will work across county departments to identify systemic bias within the organization.
Those actions were just the beginning of the task and, to be honest, I had some skepticism about whether all the talk about change would be followed by significant, tangible action. Look around San Diego County; there is no shortage of racial justice issues that still need to be addressed.
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