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Jun 24, 2026
Six officers were found to have violated department policy, but it is unclear if they faced any consequences....
Jun 01, 2026
The civil rights claim comes after a Fairfield police officer was recorded repeatedly punching 16-year-old Maurice Williams last month....
Aug 25, 2023
The discussion emphasized the pain of police violence in search for effective reform and safety....
Apr 10, 2023
Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at UCLA, wrote in her new book Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable that a federal judge “had firsthand knowledge of a pattern of substantial claims of constitutional violations by Vallejo police.”...
Dec 14, 2022
In an interview with the Sun on Wednesday, McConnell said the amount of destruction “is not yet fully and truthfully known.”...
Dec 01, 2022
The records were destroyed in early 2021 before their destruction was allowed under city policy....
Jul 13, 2022
Officers may have obtained refurbished or replacement badges to obscure a tradition of bending the tips of their badges to mark on-duty shootings....
Mar 31, 2022
For the last two decades, some members of the Vallejo Police Department have bent the tips of badges belonging to officers after they were involved in an on-duty shooting....
Jan 04, 2022
The city of Vallejo has paid $12.7 million in settlements in 23 civil rights lawsuits for incidents since Jan. 1, 2012....
Sep 21, 2021
The lawsuit alleges that two other Fairfield officers pushed a man to the ground during a traffic stop in January 2019 and that Joseph slammed his wife down to prevent her from filming it....
Mar 24, 2021
The Appeal examined 17 fatal shootings by the Vallejo police over the last decade and found at least six cases where the person shot may have been unarmed....
Feb 08, 2021
VALLEJO– The families of relatives killed by law enforcement will rally at the...
