September 18, 2020 Mayor, Concerned Citizens Push Back on Loaded Language Woven into San Jose PD Protest Report By Grace Hase Internal correspondence among the department's top brass consistently refer to the George Floyd demonstrators as "rioters." Read More 10
September 16, 2020 San Jose Council Shoots Down Mayor’s Rubber Bullet Ban By Jennifer Wadsworth The City Council on Tuesday voted 10-1, with Mayor Sam Liccardo dissenting, to keep the projectiles as an option for unruly protests. Read More 15
September 14, 2020 SJPD Report Details its Handling of the George Floyd Protests By Grace Hase The nearly 250-page report details everything from use of force to an hourly play-by-play of what happened during the protests. Read More 4
September 13, 2020 SJPD’s Body-Cam Footage of Protests Leaves a Lot Out By Jennifer Wadsworth While the new videos offer some fresh perspective of the George Floyd demonstrations, there’s a lot missing from the official narrative. Read More 6
July 20, 2020 Lawsuit: SJPD Enabled Brutality Against Protesters by Failing to Adequately Train Officers By Jennifer Wadsworth The complaint claims San Jose failed to teach officers how to use reasonable crowd-control tactics, exposing bystanders to excessive force. Read More 34
July 2, 2020 After Years Teaching SJPD to Rein in Bias, Former Trainers Say They’ve Lost Faith in Reform By Kyle Martin Frank Ponciano and Derrick Sanderlin, who spent years teaching police to check subconscious biases, now wonder if SJPD is too broken to fix. Read More 20
June 10, 2020 Hundreds of Rubber Bullets Later, San Jose Confronts the Human Toll of Forceful Tactics By Jennifer Wadsworth More than a week has passed since SJPD responded to protests with alarming force. How many people were hurt in the fray is still unclear. Read More 46
June 9, 2020 San Jose Police Defend Use of Force at George Floyd Protests By Grace Hase Dozens of community members phoned in to express their anger with city leaders and demand that they slash funding to SJPD. Read More 16
June 8, 2020 San Jose Mayor Says Defunding Police Would Harm People of Color, Deepen Racial Inequities By Jennifer Wadsworth The San Jose Police Department has a roughly $450 million budget, the vast majority of which (about $442 million) covers personnel costs. Read More 19
June 6, 2020 SJPD Maims Activist Who Helped Train Officers About Implicit Bias By Jennifer Wadsworth Because of the injury inflicted by a rubber baton round that hit his groin, Derrick Sanderlin may never be able to have kids. Read More 17