Black Lives Matter

Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the inquiry as skeptics distrust local law enforcement, suspecting the deaths are lynchings, not suicides.

The timing couldn't be worse for small businesses in California just starting to reopen from the pandemic, then damaged amid anti-racism uprisings.

Aiming to reduce police shootings in a state that has more than 100 of them each year, the California legislature passed a bill Monday setting a tougher standard for police to use deadly force, allowing officers to fire their guns only “when necessary in defense of human life.”  Gov. Gavin Newsom said he intends to […]

Republican Steven Bailey thinks police shootings should be investigated by the state, rather than local prosecutors—a view shared by some progressive Democrats.