The promise by San Jose’s POA to self-police comes amid a renewed nationwide uprising against law enforcement.

When it comes to addressing the needs of people who make up the city’s diversity, leaders respond with empty gestures, ineffective policies.

Dr. Sharat Lin—president of the San Jose Peace and Justice Center—was jailed on what he says should have been a cite-and-release charge.

Together with families of people killed by police, Silicon Valley De-Bug came up with a practical guide for defunding the San Jose PD.

A local professor calls Hillside Church minister’s use of the pulpit (albeit it a virtual one) opportunistic, insensitive and alarming.

Keith Crosby, the pastor of Hillside Church in San Jose, urges Santa Clara County to ease public health rules on places of worship.

To all black prosecutors, please understand that black people need you. But we need to you to join us in our call for true justice.

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.

San Jose isn’t alone in having a police force shirk the burden of masking up. NYPD has come under fire for the same reason.

Dozens of community members phoned in to express their anger with city leaders and demand that they slash funding to SJPD.

For black people to achieve equal justice, we need to be a part of every aspect of the criminal justice system that directly affects us.

The chief also pledged to prevent cops fired for misconduct from being hired elsewhere, and affirmed his own willingness to do better.

The San Jose Police Department has a roughly $450 million budget, the vast majority of which (about $442 million) covers personnel costs.

Two years after derailing attempts to bolster IPA powers, the San Jose Police Officers’ Association has quietly ceded a compromise.

We caught up with IPA Shivaun Nurre to learn more about her oversight powers and how the public can use them to hold cops accountable.

While weed stores in some parts of the U.S. have been hard hit by looting this week, only two of San Jose’s 16 dispensaries reported break-ins.