Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights

For the paper, Knox and his colleagues analyzed data on nearly 3 million Chicago Police Department patrol assignments. They found that compared to white officers, Black and Hispanic officers made far fewer stops and arrests and used force less often especially against Black civilians. They also found female officers used less force than their male counterparts. This is the best evidence to date that officer demographics have an influence on policing, said Harvard sociologist Joscha Legewie, who was not involved in the study. It’s an old question, and one that’s really hard to answer.

"Join us for a virtual conversation with Ashara S. Ekundayo and Lucia Momoh the curators of Collective Arising: A Positionality of Insistence from Black Bay Area Artists, which explores how contemporary Black artists in the Bay Area formed interdisciplinary collectives (such as the Nure Collective, 3.9 Collective, The Black Aesthetic, 5/5 Collective, CTRL+SHIFT Collective, and HouseFullofBlackWomen) to amplify the voices of Black women, men, and non-binary people. These collectives helped push Northern California in a boldly progressive direction at a pivotal moment for the nation. Collective Arising, to be on view in summer 2022, will include a multiplicity of media from painting and sculpture to mixed media, photography, sound, live performance, and video." https://museumsc.org/events/?eid=7817

As a driver of radicalization, misogyny works alongside racism, antisemitism, and xenophobia to drive white supremacy. But most analyses of hate neglect the way...s in which gendered violence operates within extremism. We need solutions centered in transformative justice. Learn more: https://bit.ly/37aUGmN

An agency was hired by County of Sonoma to help create vaccination process for farmworkers. Their logic is lets go ask The Farm Bureau how we should do things. ...They had a "community stakeholder meeting" yesterday without a professional interpreter, the registration for it was all in English, and in the meeting one farmworker, the only one present, had his hand up for many minutes and all the white folk kept talking ignoring him, and meanwhile others sipped their wine. Literally they were drinking wine while farmwrokers were left out. This is the solution to them to ensure farmworkers get culturally competent vaccination response/access. Asking the mostly white owners and a white supremacists organization to lead the way in this effort is not the right way...I hope the wine people sipped during the meeting has lots of bitter smoke mixed along with the blood and sweat of the overtime pay they have always advocated against for farmworkers. I hope those who complain "why farmwrorkers first and not restaurant folk" choke (but not die) on their wine. I hope those who said "why not give the vaccines to people who actually want them (since some farmworkers are afraid of vaccines)" also choke (but not die) on their ugly Carbenet. The person interpreting (who was clearly not qualified nor a professional) mistranslated something saying along the lines of, "we need to put up with these farmwrokers and also with indigenous farmworkers." The word "soportar" is not "support." It means something is unbearable or an inconvenience, ora weight on you. I guess maybe she did interpret correctly after all...they are just putting up with us and our families... [addendum after posting: I am not trying to focus the issue just on Leap Solutions. Most other agencies would probably follow a similar logic of going to Farm Bureau or to the owners and never include the actually impacted people/farmworkers. To get hired by government takes lots of bureaucratic and governmental experience in doing contracts and doing proposals. The problem here is also all that the majority of the organizations were complicit with their silence and lack of indignation. At least a few kept writing in the chat that a farm worker was raising his hand and he should be allowed to speak, but to me that's not enough. Lives are on the line. Who feeds you or makes the wine possible?Who harvests, plants, grafts, and prunes?]

We must carry each other

How can we trust that you will address the suffering that white supremacy causes on a day to day basis in the shadows if you can't even address the white supremacy that happens right in front of you in your house? Does your silence speak to your agreement is the question."

Please join us for an important discussion at our next meeting of the Human Rights Commission. We will be discussing the status of the CHR Report on Protest Policing, and the ongoing lack of attention from local government to the human rights abuses alleged therein. We will be spotlighting community service with our featured guest Heather Jackson from Sonoma County Acts of Kindness. And we will welcome SIX NEW COMMISSIONERS to CHR, and elect our new Vice Chair. PLEASE JOIN U...S! https://sonomacounty.ca.gov//Commission-on-Human-Rights-M/

The NYPD’s aggressive response to protests that swept the city after the death of George Floyd heightened tensions and undermined public trust in the ability of the police to protect the rights of citizens, a probe by the Department of Investigation has found. NYPD officers used excessive enforcement against protesters including kettling, or hemming in a group of demonstrators, mass arrests, and employing batons and pepper spray, investigators wrote in a report released Friday morning.

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! FOR SANTA ROSA RESIDENTS ONLY: please take this community survey on the "Ethnic Studies With a Cop" program so that the community can provide data driven feedback to the City of Santa Rosa. Gracias!... https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSeQxYqszHkUJaDSK/viewform

The California Department of Education hearing on Police in Schools, which calls into question policing narratives about how School Resource Officers benefit our students

Sonoma Valley Parents and Students! Please take this survey to make your views known about whether you want police officers in your schools. DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE RIGHT NOW by the school district. CLINK THE LINK TO ANSWER SURVEY QUESTIONS. https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSc_dwEml5uWgThNz/viewform

The report includes six areas of focus to improve equity for people of color in, and near, Mill Valley. These areas were government strategies, law enforcement, affordable housing, cultural and recreational engagement, economics and education through community partnerships.