Tag: San Diego Police Department

  • San Diego Police Give Inside Look at Training to Deter Racial Profiling

    Paul Alexander takes notes during a San Diego Police Department presentation on racial profiling June 20, 2015 at the Tubman Chavez Community Center in southeastern San Diego. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks Every year the San Diego Police Department invites the public to experience what police recruits go through in the academy.…

  • Using ‘Darkness’ to Shed Light On Racial Profiling Claims

    With cell phone videos, cop cams and federal audits, law enforcement agencies now have an unprecedented amount of data on their officers. But are they making sense of it? San Diego’s police department has long said ITS data can’t tell us much about racial profiling. Now, independent researchers are taking a stab at it, and…

  • A Few Bad Apples or A Prejudiced System?

    By Brian Myers Last weekend in City Heights marked two radically different responses to law enforcement in diverse and lower income communities. San Diego Police Department Community Liaison Officer David Felkins greeted residents and community groups Saturday morning outside the City Heights Community Development Corporation office on El Cajon Boulevard. They participated in an hour…

  • Emerald Orders Independent Review of SDPD Racial Profiling Data

    By Megan Burks San Diego Councilwoman Marti Emerald has ordered an independent review of police data on racial profiling. Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman presented to the City Council’s public safety committee Wednesday an update on racial data from traffic stops. Like the last round of numbers, it was inconclusive on whether there’s a practice in…

  • The Big Federal Report on SDPD Is Finally Coming

    A long-awaited federal review of the San Diego Police Department officer misconduct policies will be released in mid-March, a Justice Department official said Wednesday. The review, which began almost a year ago, is focusing on SDPD’s policies for handling officer training and misconduct, which police experts and a federal court judge criticized last year for…