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The NYPD Is Tossing Out Hundreds of Misconduct Cases — Including Stop-and-Frisks — Without Even Looking at Them
The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review ...
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Student’s Vanguard: Stressing About Parenthood As a Twenty Year Old: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory Says I Am Probably Not The Only One
As per an opinion piece written by the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and published in The New York Times, “becoming a parent can be understood as signing up for a lifetime of joy and worries.” ...
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Guest Commentary: U.S. Presidential Candidates and Media Network Refuse To Acknowledge Gun Violence
During the second U.S. Presidential debate, I heard Kamala Harris clearly say that the issues affecting Americans are not being addressed. I agree. In the run up to this debate, there were ...
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2024 Davis City Council Candidate Question 2: Sales Tax / Measure Q
Every week between now and the November Election, the Vanguard will ask the District 2 Candidates (the only contested council election this year) one question. They are asked to limit their response ...
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My View: UCD Law Professor Examines Whether New Information Can Lead to Support For Housing
A new paper this week from UC Davis Law Professor Chris Elmendorf and some colleagues explores whether housing supply skeptics learn – the answer they posit is yes, they do, “And when they do, they ...
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Guest Commentary: Denouncing Claims in Complaint by Businesses Threatening Berkeley for Failing to Remove Encampments
Where Do We Go? today denounced defamatory allegations in a much-publicized complaint for injunctive relief in which various Berkeley businesses are named as plaintiffs. As of today the complaint has ...
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Senators Launch Bipartisan Inquiry to Protect Inmate-on-Staff Sexual Abuse
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter here Friday regarding prison staff safety oversight to Colette S. Peters, Director of the Federal Bureau of ...
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Dark Gardening: Deconstructing Independent Carceral Journalism Using Gwendolyn Brooks’ Poem “To Prisoners”
She’d already been gone over a month by the time the August edition of All Of Us Or None slid into my pod at Valley State Prison (VSP) and gave me reason to stop my EBSCO search, close my laptop and ...
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COURT WATCH: Yolo Judge Finds Probation Violated Despite Although Defense Claims Prosecution Relied on Facts Not in Evidence
WOODLAND, CA – Superior Court Judge Daniel Wolk this past week here in Yolo County Superior Court ruled there was a probation violation despite claims by the defense that a deputy district attorney ...
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Keeping Tally: Imprisoned Citizen Journalist Ruminations on the Impact of the Arts and Humanities within the Carceral State
Be it handball, cards, or dominoes, “keeping tally” is one of those everyday prison parlance references you’ll hear spoken aloud anytime somebody needs to keep score—it’s as common as “top of the ...
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Guest Commentary: Crisis of In-Custody Deaths at Sacramento County Jail
This is a follow-up to an article published last week entitled, “In-Custody Deaths Still Lacking Transparency and Accountability at Sant Rita Jail and Beyond.” After our piece went to press in the ...