California | November 11, 2021
USC Professor Refuses To Remove Pro-Police Flag Despite Student Protest
California | November 11, 2021
A professor of engineering and policy at the University of Southern California is refusing to remove a pro-police flag from his office door despite protests from students.
USC professor James Moore has had the flag, an American flag with a “thin blue line,” on his door since the beginning of the fall semester — but he has recently come under fire for it. Moore told The College Fix in an interview that he first received a complaint from a university administrator who called him and suggested that he take the flag down. Then, last week, an article in the university’s campus newspaper, the Daily Trojan, labeled the display a “controversy,” quoting several students who called the flag “inappropriate” and demanded the flag be taken down… (Excerpts from the Daily Wire)
California | September 14, 2021
LAPD Officers Sue Department, City Over Vaccine Mandate
California | September 14, 2021
Six Los Angeles Police Department officers filed a federal lawsuit Saturday challenging the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for workers.
According to the Daily News, the lawsuit claims an ordinance passed by the city last month requiring employees to get vaccinated violates their rights to privacy and due process.
The City Council unanimously passed the ordinance 13-0 with two members absent during its Aug. 18 meeting, requiring all city employees to be fully vaccinated by Oct. 20 unless they have medical or religious reasons to be exempt, the report said… (Excerpts from Newsmax)
California | September 12, 2021
LAPD Employees File Federal Lawsuit Against City Over Vaccine Mandate
California | September 12, 2021
A group of six employees with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city on Sept. 11, claiming that the city’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy violates their rights.
The lawsuit challenges both the city’s mandate and LAPD’s alleged failure to provide a process to submit requests for medical or religious exemptions. The plaintiffs include LAPD employees who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered who believe they should be exempt from the mandate…. (Excerpts from the Epoch Time)
California, New York | May 27, 2021
Cities Reverse Defunding the Police Amid Rising Crime
California, New York | May 27, 2021
One year after the movement to “defund” law enforcement began to upend municipal budgets, many American cities are restoring money to their police departments or proposing to spend more.
In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would reinstate $92 million for a new precinct after scrapping the project last summer. The mayor of Baltimore, who led efforts as a city councilman to cut the police budget by $22 million last year, recently proposed a $27 million increase.
After attacks on Asian-Americans and a rise in homicides in Oakland, Calif., city lawmakers in April restored $3.3 million of the $29 million in police cuts, and the mayor is now proposing to increase the department’s budget by $24 million. Los Angeles’s mayor has proposed an increase of about $50 million after the city cut $150 million from its police department last year.
In the nation’s 20 largest local law-enforcement agencies, city and county leaders want funding increases for nine of the 12 departments where next year’s budgets already have been proposed. The increases range from 1% to nearly 6%…
(Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal)