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Photo courtesy of the Kenny Family On the second anniversary of the killing of Stacy Kenny by Springfield Police Department (SPD) officer, Kenny’s family released an independent review of police protocols. The report by the California-based OIR Group calls for systemic change in SPD’s policies, as well as 33 reform recommendations.  The report comes during a chaotic period for SPD.  Last week, the city released an independent review of SPD’s response to the July 29 Thurston protest, which found that the police department made errors in handling the event. Days ago, SPD Chief Rick Lewi...

AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes (This is the second in a series of articles regarding Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon’s appearance at a local Democrat Club meeting, where he made several inflammatory claims. Part 1 can be found here.) During the 2020 campaign for Los Angeles County District Attorney, George Gascon hammered incumbent Jackie Lacey on the issue of officer-involved shootings and alleged excessive force incidents, saying that she wasn’t holding officers accountable. He and his campaign team reviewed “dozens” of officer-involved shootings and told the communit...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) chose to keep the names of the deputies involved in the October 16 shooting of 25-year-old Fred Williams III in Willowbrook under wraps at the medical examiner’s inquest last Thursday. Such a claim is deeply suspect for a number of reasons, not least of which includes LASD’s overt hostility to both the inquest process and transparency, more generally. But in practical terms, it meant that the inquest would yield little to nothing in the way of new information. Both the shooter and his partner pleaded the Fifth to protect themselves agai...

Need to get in touch with us? Contact circulation at circulation_[at]_record-journal.com× Should this man still be in jail? DUI arrest, detention spark protest at Meriden court complex Should this man still be in jail? DUI arrest, detention spark protest at Meriden court complex John Jairo Lugo, community organizing director of United Latina en Acción New Haven, speaks during a protest in front of the Meriden Police Department on West Main Street on Tuesday. Leaders in the community from several organizations gathered together to rally against claims of violations of the Connecticut TRUS...

Need to get in touch with us? Contact circulation at circulation_[at]_record-journal.com× Should this man still be in jail? DUI arrest, detention spark protest at Meriden court complex Should this man still be in jail? DUI arrest, detention spark protest at Meriden court complex John Jairo Lugo, community organizing director of United Latina en Acción New Haven, speaks during a protest in front of the Meriden Police Department on West Main Street on Tuesday. Leaders in the community from several organizations gathered together to rally against claims of violations of the Connecticut TRUS...