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Lea este artículo en español. On opposite ends of California, two women who have never met are united by grief and purpose. This month, Kathleen Bils laid a memorial stone in a flower bed on the San Diego street where a sheriff’s deputy shot her son one year earlier. Some 500 miles north, at a marina on the eastern edge of San Francisco Bay, Addie Kitchen recently held a memorial in the city where a police officer killed her grandson.  “I want people to understand that our children are important to us and that we want justice,” said Kitchen, a retired prison guard. “We want the of...

Assembly Bill 118 is another bill returning from 2020 — but this one was vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The CRISES Act would create pilot programs to allow community-based organizations to respond to 911 calls rather than police. Author Sen. Sydney Kamlager (D-Los Angeles) says 70% of 911 calls are for nonviolent, noncriminal issues and could be handled by social workers or mental health professionals. Kamlager said the governor returned the bill last year over concerns about housing the program in the Department of Emergency Services. This time, she hopes to house it in the state’s social ...

/ In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, California State Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, addresses a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The chairman of the California Legislative Black Caucus says he wants ‘no more kneeling and social media posts. We’ve had enough of the performative acts.’ Hours before a jury found former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of George Floyd’s murder, California’s Black state lawmakers turned up the pressure on their colleagues to support stronger police accountability measures in 2021. “No more kneeling and social media po...

Progressives place reform hopes on Rob Bonta as California attorney general FacebookTwitterEmail SACRAMENTO — There are California Democrats and then there’s Rob Bonta. The five-term Assembly member represents an Oakland-based district where two-thirds of voters are registered Democrats and is one of the most progressive lawmakers in Sacramento. He has advanced protections for renters and detained immigrants, sought to add warning labels to soda cans and proposed a wealth tax. His colleagues will decide this week whether Bonta, 49, will become the state’s next attorney general, replacin...

Stopping killer cops: Do US police reforms go far enough? 20 Apr, 2021 10:46 PM 12 minutes to read A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times A demonstrator at a protest following the death of Daunte Wright, an unarmed black man killed by police, in Brooklyn Centre, Minneapolis. Photo / Victor J Blue / The New York Times New York Times By: Steve Eder, Michael H. Keller and Blacki Migliozzi In February, Illinois enacted a law that rewrote many of th...