Governor Brown’s proposed 2016-17 Budget, released yesterday, begins legislative efforts to keep California’s finances on track while continuing to invest in our future. I believe investments in our infrastructure, education, and healthcare system are critical... More »
The handling of Cleveland’s police killing of the 12-year old Tamir Rice is a haunting echo of the tunnel vision that compromised the Pasadena police’s handling of its killing of Kendrec McDade. In both cases, police officers killing unarmed Black youths made ... More »
In October 2015, the Governor of the State of California, at the urging of the federal government, signed into law the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. The federal government was concerned that California did not have adequate regulation in place t... More »
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce is using misleading scare tactics in its efforts to oppose a minimum wage plan in the city. At a recent City Council hearing, the Chamber warned that people would lose their health care benefits and other government safety net ... More »
Chief Phillip Sanchez’s Response purporting to agree with the OIR McDade Report Recommendation #5 – a Recommendation to conduct administrative investigations in police shooting incidents — is a disagreement masquerading as agreement, just as his Response to Re... More »
Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez has issued his Response to the OIR Kendrec McDade shooting Report. While claiming to agree with the Office of Independent Review Group Recommendation #20 that “individual feedback” be given to Officers involved in shooting... More »
Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez is dismissing the Office of Independent Review Group (“OIR”) Kendrec McDade shooting Report’s criticism that his PD did not conduct any post-criminal investigation fact-finding. The OIR Report’s analysis of this failure po... More »
Correction by authors Our Op-Ed on Tunnel Vision by Chief Beck and Chief Sanchez incorrectly stated that an Officer involved in the Ezell Ford shooting had been disciplined. It is correct that the LAPD Inspector General, by focusing on the events leading up to... More »
The Pasadena PD says it excluded the OIR Group from its administrative review of the shooting of the unarmed African-American Kendrec McDade. The reason given by the PD was that it believed it could not have a frank discussion with them watching. Is that belie... More »
Quickly reading the OIR Report on the Pasadena Police Departments’ shooting of Kendrec McDade suggests the PD acted irrationally like an ostrich sticking its head in the sand to avoid an unwelcome sight. The Office of Independent Review Group (“OIR”) Report re... More »
In our previous Op-Ed, we explored the surprising disclosure in the OIR Report on the Pasadena Police Department’s shooting of the unarmed African-American youth Kendrec McDade that the PD had not given specific feedback on their plethora of mistakes to the Of... More »
I attended a Pasadena City Council meeting on November 23rd where a staff recommendation was passed to “Direct the City Attorney to prepare and return with an ordinance within 30 days adding new sections to Chapter 8 of the Pasadena Municipal Code that pr... More »
