Recent Streetsblog LA posts about policing

Jermaine Welch shows off the shoe he had custom painted in Nipsey Hussle's honor while waiting for Hussle's funeral procession to pass through the intersection at Crenshaw and Slauson on April 11. Hussle was killed in front of his store, The Marathon, on March 31. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Nipsey Hussle Understood Cities Better than You. Why Didn’t You Know Who He Was?

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 15, 2019 | 22 Comments

"I swore to tell the world if I made it out/The truth about these L.A. streets and all what they about"

A jogger finishes his last lap around Evergreen Cemetery while police and reporters alike speculate on his potential criminality. [Screengrab of ABC7 footage]

Boyle Heights Jogger Detained, Cited During Hunt for Suspect that Drove into Metro Tunnel

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 27, 2018 | 19 Comments

Officers held the East L.A. native for 45 minutes, threatened him with jail time, then cited him for an outstanding issue he thought he'd resolved years ago

The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 9, 2018 | 9 Comments

There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.

Jay Sneed (at podium) offered closing remarks at the forum at USC while Tommie Bayliss waited to speak to senior officers in person (Sahra Sulaiman/LA Streetsblog)

A Tale of Two Communities, Part II: LAPD Finds it Stirred Up Hornets’ Nest by Profiling USC Students of Color

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 13, 2013 | 3 Comments

*This is a sister-story to our recent piece on how the new security measures around USC resulted in the increase in profiling of lower-income youth of color around the campus. Read that story here. “We do not believe at this point that there is any indication that this [incident] was race-based,” Capt. II Paul Snell […]

New security gates appeared along Exposition Blvd. recently as part of USC's effort to make its campus more secure for students. (photo courtesy of Jonathan Weiss)

How Far is Too Far?: Fortress USC and the Struggle to Keep Students Safe

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 15, 2013 | 93 Comments

WHEN I BEGAN MY GRAD PROGRAM at USC in 2001, I lived north of campus a few blocks on Hoover Street. As my daylight hours were generally occupied with classes and teaching responsibilities, I tended to get my long-distance runs in well after dark. Instead of being able to clear my head as I did […]