OC law enforcement ahead of curve on policing reforms
0Calls for reform in police practices and departments are reverberating nationally in the wake of the killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks by police in Minneapolis and Atlanta. Issues have been raised in a wide variety of areas, most notably the use of force and chokeholds. Law enforcement leaders in many of Orange County’s 23 police agencies and sheriff’s department are already ahead of the curve in implementing reform and discussing the nature of policing. For weeks, numerous mostly peaceful protests have been held throughout the county. While the immediate focus of the police has been on managing the…
It’s been a couple of years, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Department is back with an all-female team for the…
In 2015, when tensions between law enforcement and the black community were at a particularly high point, then-Undersheriff Don Barnes…
In the 1980s, the United States began to see the beginnings of what would later become a nationwide epidemic of…
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department issued the following on Friday, with an update on Saturday: Update: **Victim in Stanton homicide…