On July 1, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón will launch a new artificial intelligence...
Racial Justice
Dispatch From San Quentin: Racial Politics in CA’s Prisons, Part 1
Editor’s Note: This essay, by James King is one of a series of essays WitnessLA is publishing...
Black Kids Far More Likely to Be Tried As Adults & Sentenced to Adult Prisons, According to New Report
Arrest rates for youth have fallen nearly 75 percent since a high in 1994, but despite the stats...
Thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“…I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless...
First California DOJ Report on Bias in Policing Looks at Complaints Against Officers
California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA) publicly released its first...
‘Ban the Box’ Laws May Be Harming Young Black Men Seeking Jobs
EDITOR’S NOTE: The cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have both adopted “ban the...