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Petersen-Perez provoked the Police Chief of Palo Alto into appearing to admit to a policy of racial profiling, resulting in both widespread media coverage as well as activism in cities outside of Palo Alto, then he led a successful campaign leading to her resignation and change in police policy.
Gustavo Alvarez, a gay resident of Palo Alto, California, settled his lawsuit against its police department after accusing it of violating his civil rights, resulting in a settlement that included ...
Wayne Benitez, a retired officer with the Palo Alto Police Department, took a plea deal in the 2018 assault of a man he was arresting. Ex-Palo Alto cop pleads guilty to 2018 assault during arrest ...
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The Palo Alto Police Department decided to stop using tasers to detain bicyclists after a 2012 incident in which a 16-year-old boy, who had bicycled through a stop sign, was injured after police officers pursued him, fired a taser at him and suddenly braked their patrol car in front of him, causing the boy to crash. [119]
The first announced employee was former Daily News editor Diana Diamond, later a columnist at the Palo Alto Weekly. [1] [2] The New York Times did an in-depth report on the competition among Palo Alto newspapers, and much of the article focused on Price, who was described as a contrarian. [3] Price said he considered the term a badge of honor.
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The de facto leader of the anti-recall campaign is LaDoris Cordell, a retired California Superior Court judge and staunch advocate of criminal justice reform. When I visited her in her sunny Palo Alto ranch-style house, she estimated that during her 19 years on the bench, she had sentenced thousands of people.