May 16, 2021 Efforts to Weed Out Extremists Among Police Meet Resistance By Neil MacFarquhar California is one of four states, including Oregon, Minnesota and Tennessee, along with Washington, D.C., that have proposed new laws. Read More 10
September 16, 2020 BlueLeaks Hack Suggests Bad Intel Fueled SJPD’s Violent Response to Recent Protests By Jennifer Wadsworth A leaked trove of law enforcement records shows that police were told to view anti-brutality protesters as an adversarial force. Read More 18
June 8, 2020 SJPD Agrees to Tighten Rules on Riot Guns, Review Controversial Crowd-Control Measures By Jennifer Wadsworth The chief also pledged to prevent cops fired for misconduct from being hired elsewhere, and affirmed his own willingness to do better. Read More 20
June 4, 2020 Op-Ed: Be Mad at Police, But Also at the Prosecutors Who Protect and Enable Their Abuses By Sajid Khan To DA’s offices, black lives—no matter what they tell you—do not truly matter except to rack up convictions and fill prisons. Read More 18
June 3, 2020 Multiplicity of Crises, Years of Police Brutality Stoked Anger Over George Floyd’s Killing By Jennifer Wadsworth San Jose deploys curfews, tear gas and rubber bullets to quell protests. Perhaps it's time for a fundamental rethink of American policing. Read More 74
May 31, 2020 Thousands Demand Firing of San Jose Cop Filmed Antagonizing, Swearing at Protesters By Grace Hase SJPD Officer Jared Yuen’s apparently antagonistic behavior emerged in tens of thousands of posts on social media since Friday’s protest. Read More 64
May 30, 2020 San Jose Woman Arrested on Suspicion of Plowing SUV into Crowd of Protesters By Grace Hase The collision struck at least two people, who were rushed away by ambulance as onlookers screamed in horror at what happened. Read More 21
May 29, 2020 LIVE UPDATES: George Floyd Protest Blocks Freeway in SJ By Silicon Valley Newsroom Many of the demonstrators held signs that read “I can’t breathe,” and “Justice for George Floyd” as they walked from City Hall to the freeway. Read More 36