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SACRAMENTO — A month after taking over as California attorney general, Rob Bonta has put the Department of Justice on a hard pivot, launching a series of initiatives to refocus the agency on problems inside the state after it spent four years fighting the Trump administration on national issues. In the last few weeks, Bonta has announced the creation of a Racial Justice Bureau to combat hate crimes and biased policing, financial help to local law enforcement agencies struggling with a backlog of untested rape evidence kits and expanded the Bureau of Environmental Justice to better target p...

A month after taking over as California attorney general, Rob Bonta has put the Department of Justice on a hard pivot

Cases in San Diego and San Leandro will test the stricter standards on when officers can shoot to kill. Training of officers on the new law is inconsistent.

/ Kathleen Bils in her home in the North Park neighborhood in San Diego, California on May 1, 2021. May 1st is exactly one year since Bils' son Nicholas "Nicky" was shot and killed by a San Diego County Sheriff's Deputy after escaping a park ranger truck in handcuffs outside the county jail. Nicky was mentally ill, Bils' said that her son was afraid of the police. He was 36 years old when he died. Cases in San Diego and San Leandro will test the stricter standards on when officers can shoot to kill. Training of officers on the new law is inconsistent. On opposite ends of California, two women...

Print Continue to article content State Sen. Steven Bradford likened the movement to “a tidal wave.” | Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via AP California's police reform push remains challenging despite leftward shift But they still have a tough road ahead. An early legislative battle between Democrats offered a reminder of the issue’s thorny politics, even in a deep-blue state — and cast a shadow on other policing bills, from a new duty-to-intercede standard to expanded misconduct disclosure requirements. Moderate Democrats nearly blocked a closely watched officer decertification bill i...