Policing the Police

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🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

As a California law lifts the barriers to accessing police records, journalists team up to comb through the mountains of documentation.

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0:00.0	A month ago, a California district attorney decided not to charge two Sacramento police officers
0:05.6	in the shooting death of Stefan Clark, a 22-year-old father who was killed unarmed last year
0:12.5	outside his grandmother's home.
0:14.9	Hundreds came together to protest the police shooting of Stefan Clark, an unarmed black man
0:20.2	shot 20 times by officers.
0:22.6	He was found holding only a cell phone.
0:24.9	We all call for change, and we call for change right now.
0:31.0	Right now.
0:31.3	What do we want?
0:32.2	Citizens were outraged at the non-prosecution, yes, but not shocked.
0:38.5	California not only has one of the highest rates of police killings in the country,
0:43.4	it has been notoriously secretive about its internal investigations.
0:48.2	On January 1st, a blow was struck for transparency with the passage of Senate Bill 1421, which vastly increases access
0:57.3	to such records, but the timing could have been better. The new law comes just as journalistic
1:03.6	resources have been decimated by the collapsing media economy. Who has the staff anymore
1:10.0	to rummage through endless thousands of documents?
1:13.2	So now comes a relatively new journalistic approach. Collaboration, 30-some news organizations
1:20.4	across the state sharing the arduous task. It's called the California Reporting Project.
1:30.2	Andy Gilbertson is an investigative reporter for the public station KPCC and co-host of the podcast Repeat, which traced a string of deputy
1:37.3	police shootings in South Los Angeles. Annie, welcome to OTM. Happy to be here. The investigations
1:43.8	until now were conducted by internal affairs, police investigating police, and police determining the narrative.
1:53.4	Yeah, absolutely.
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