Tag: San Diego Police Department
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That Other Time SDPD Used Body Cameras
A San Diego Police Department officer makes a traffic stop on Imperial Avenue. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Liam Dillon San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne’s big reveal at last week’s City Council committee hearing on racial profiling was a request to outfit patrol officers with body cameras. Video and audio tapes of police…
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Recruiting a Police Force That Looks Like San Diego
Benjamin Kelso, head of the local Black Police Officers Association. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Lisa Halverstadt Law enforcement experts and community leaders often say a police department should look like people in the neighborhoods they serve. San Diego’s police force isn’t quite there yet. Racial breakdowns going back to 2010 show the department…
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Where the Mayoral Candidates Diverge on Racial Profiling
By Liam Dillon Both San Diego mayoral candidates believe the police department needs more resources to combat racial profiling and plan to push for more cops and better pay if they’re elected. This is nothing different than Democratic City Councilman David Alvarez and Republican Councilman Kevin Faulconer have said throughout the campaign. Alvarez and Faulconer…
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Police to Overhaul Racial Profiling Data Effort
By Liam Dillon San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne said Tuesday that the department will overhaul its racial data collection policies on traffic stops. “We’ve got to build that system almost from scratch,” Lansdowne told KPBS’s “Midday Edition.” Listen to it here. Lansdowne said he’s meeting with local civil rights and neighborhood advocacy organizations to…
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Police: ‘We Do Our Very Best to Reach Everyone’
Police Chief William Lansdowne let a key check on racial profiling slide because he hadn’t heard it’s a concern in the community. Here’s what the department does to open lines of communication, and why some voices aren’t being heard. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Assistant Police Chief…