Recent Streetsblog LA posts about policing

ACT-LA Reimagining Safety transit ambassador Silver Line Station event in 2019. Photo by ACT-LA

Metro Board Approves Steps Toward Reworking Transit Policing

By Joe Linton | Jun 25, 2020 | No Comments

Metro is establishing a Transit Public Safety Advisory Committee that will develop a community-based approach to public safety on the transit system, including shifting resources away from armed law enforcement

ACT-LA wants you to weigh in on reimaging Metro transit safety

Advocates Urge Metro to Reimagine Public Safety Starting at Tomorrow’s Board Meeting

By Joe Linton | Jun 24, 2020 | No Comments

ACT-LA are "calling on Metro to divest from its police budget and reinvest funds into our communities through free fares, improved bus infrastructure and service, and neighborhood stability programs."

Officer Frank Hernández rains blows down on Richard Castillo while his partner stands by with her taser ready in Boyle Heights on April 27. Image captured from LAPD body cam footage.

How Beating of Unhoused Boyle Heights Man Exposes Woeful Inadequacy of LAPD Reform Proposals

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 23, 2020 | No Comments

Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police

Win ‘Policing the Open Road’ Book by Sarah Seo

By Joe Linton | Dec 27, 2019 | No Comments

Donate to Streetsblog L.A. this month and you could win one of four great urbanist books! Click here to donate. Click here for contest details. Today SBLA previews Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah Seo. The 340-page hardback is published by Harvard University Press, and has been autographed by the author. […]

Liliana Cortez with some of the injuries she sustained after being tackled to the ground by officers from USC's Department of Public Safety after she hugged a tree on a sorority's front lawn. She sustained bruising on her arms, shoulders, back, ribs, thighs, knees, calves, and wrists. The photos were taken the night she was released from jail. Images courtesy Liliana Cortez

USC’s Public Safety Officers Tackle, Traumatize Woman for Hugging Tree on Sorority’s Lawn

By Sahra Sulaiman | Dec 6, 2019 | No Comments

"How is USC going to make it right?"

Seagulls circle overhead at 6th and San Pedro in the Skid Row neighborhood in 2012. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Homelessness Coverage that Punches Down: Could We Just Not?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 23, 2019 | No Comments

Three years ago, I got an email asking me to cover the extent to which a homeless person was infringing on the rights of bus riders by taking up residence at a bus shelter. The city had posted notice it was going to do a clean-up there, the sender said, but the deadline had passed […]

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