August 4, 2020 Op-Ed: Automated Traffic Enforcement Can Ease Some of Bay Area’s Policing Problems By Ted Stroll It’s time to give cameras a chance, ending the Driving While Black phenomenon and reducing traffic chaos in Bay Area streets. Read More 2
July 22, 2020 WATCH: Day One of San Jose’s George Floyd Protests By Silicon Valley Newsroom This security camera footage reveals what transpired in the first afternoon of George Floyd protests in downtown San Jose. Read More 2
July 20, 2020 WATCH: Day 2 of San Jose’s George Floyd Protests By Silicon Valley Newsroom This video, which has been edited from several hours to just two, documents the hours from afternoon to midnight on May 30. Read More 12
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 18, 2020 WATCH: Never-Before-Seen Footage Shows Third Day of San Jose’s George Floyd Protests By Silicon Valley Newsroom San Jose Inside requested video from the security cameras installed on the Santa Clara Street side of City Hall. Here’s the first batch. Read More 9
July 18, 2020 Rep. Anna Eshoo Calls Feds to Task for Surveillance Overreach By Emanuel Lee The congresswoman joined 22 of her colleagues in demanding answers about government surveillance of peaceful protesters. Read More 3
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
July 1, 2020 Good Samaritans, SJDA Raise Money to Help Struggling Downtown San Jose Businesses By Emanuel Lee By the end of last week, 18 independent shops and eateries in the heart of the city had received $1,700 each from fundraising efforts. Read More 3
June 29, 2020 Campbell Police Chief Defends Planned BearCat Purchase By Grace Hase The BearCat has been on the Campbell Police Department’s wish list ever since it returned a V150 armored rescue vehicle to the DOD. Read More 18
June 25, 2020 DA Won’t Prosecute Curfew Violators—But San Jose Might By Jennifer Wadsworth Assistant District Attorney Terry Harman affirmed as much in a June 10 memo that her office shared with reporters earlier today. Read More 8