“By canceling they essentially ceded to union pressure. And by doing that, they’ve gone back to status quo, which is to review practically none of it,” the company’s CEO said about the city’s body camera videos.
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Vallejo police concealed violent deaths for years, Open Vallejo lawsuit reveals
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All of the victims were Black. All of them were unarmed. Their names are Andrew Lamar Washington, Otis Edward McPeters, Charles Khristopher Gordon, and Michael Todd White.
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Open Vallejo to publish free obituaries
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Honoring the dead should not pose a financial burden to those in mourning.
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‘Twisted to conceal:’ How laws meant to protect children help police evade scrutiny
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Eleven years ago this week, Vallejo police killed 17-year-old Jared Huey. Now, the city of Vallejo is fighting to keep information about his death a secret — and using laws aimed at protecting the reputations of minors to do it.
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Court rules Vallejo illegally destroyed evidence in police killings
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The city of Vallejo violated state law when it destroyed evidence in multiple police shootings, a judge has ruled. Now, officials have just six months to produce other records they have withheld for years.
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Civil rights investigation ‘on the table’ in Vallejo, Bonta says
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Bonta gave the clearest indication to date that his office intends to continue — and potentially deepen — its review of Vallejo police.
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Vallejo police reforms stall despite scrutiny over killings
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In 2020, the California DOJ endorsed 45 reforms for Vallejo police. The department has implemented just two of them.
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Shake-up looms as Vallejo police chief takes time off
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The Vallejo Police Department is hiring a new deputy chief, promoting multiple officers to the upper echelons of its command staff, and disbanding two key programs — all while the police chief is expected to be out of the office for weeks, Open Vallejo has confirmed.
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Vallejo patrol staffing drops below 1975 levels
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Half a century ago, Vallejo had twice as many patrol officers per resident as it does today.
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Deputy police chief arrived impaired to Vallejo homicide, memo alleges
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Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams was notified in March that his second-in-command had been drinking before he showed up to a homicide scene in a department SUV, according to an internal memo obtained by Open Vallejo. Now, sources say the city has opened an outside investigation — which the chief says he knows nothing about.
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Vallejo tolerated officers’ mistakes. Then they killed again.
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The Vallejo Police Department’s flawed handling of fatal police shootings allowed six officers to use deadly force again before their first cases were decided. Experts say the department’s system “isn’t even basement standard practice” and needs oversight.