Sacramento’s police budget soars as crime rates, staffing fall
Despite a decline in reported crime, Sacramento’s police budget has doubled over the past decade, while the number of sworn officer positions has decreased. At…
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Study finds California’s embattled justice reform measure reduced racial disparities
Prop. 47 has been a political lightning rod, but independent research suggests it’s had a positive effect on at least one ugly legacy of the…
When the psychic pirate met the social media detective
An online match. A parking lot stabbing. And the social networking sleuth who tracked him down. A self-described pickup artist and psychic was apprehended in another…
Hugs, not stabs: Sacramento police respond to trio of road rage incidents
There is such a thing as an illegal hug, in case you were wondering. The unwelcome show of intimacy went down during the evening of…
Let's all give Pepper Spray Cop a hug!
Remember Pepper Spray Cop? You know, former Lieutenant John Pike of the UC Davis Police Department, who sprayed all those Occupy demonstrators in November 2011?…