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November 20, 2009
Police in Peru say gang members killed people to drain their fat for cosmetics
Do Long Island Police Ignore Hate Crimes?
November 19, 2009
The wave of crime besetting Puerto Rico seems to be out of control with 800 murders being committed here so far this year, but the island’s top police official says the problem does not fall exclusively within his department.
The University of Panama indefinitely suspended classes on Wednesday after confrontations between students and police during a protest against alleged U.S. involvement in plans to build new military installations.
November 18, 2009
Pennsylvania State Police officials meet with Chambersburg Area Hispanic leaders about traffic stop procedures
November 13, 2009
Reaction to internal affairs investigation touches on Hispanic/police relations – Dallas
November 12, 2009
Monterrey (Mexico’s 3r-largest city) has fired almost a quarter of its traffic police for failing tests designed to detect corruption and ineptitude. And half of Monterrey’s traffic cops were ordered to undergo more training after performing poorly on the tests. Only a bit more than a quarter were found to be completely fit for the job.
November 10, 2009
Heroic Texas Latino officer says policewoman at Fort Hood ‘erased a lot of prejudice’ – (interesting)
Charlie Beck, the mayor’s nominee to head the Los Angeles Police Department, told Hoy Newspaper he will make a particular effort to reach out to Latinos through community meetings and by conducting news conferences and any other police function in English and Spanish.
Roberto Rodriguez: Beaten by police and running to victory – November 7 marks 30 years since he won his first police brutality trial in East L.A.
November 9, 2009
Soldiers wary of often corrupt Mexican police
November 5, 2009
A former Memphis police officer has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for stealing money from Hispanic motorists while on duty.
A top Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) official confirmed that officers were conducting a training exercise at CSUN that involved members of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) earlier this semester. – Members said they were targeted and profiled by LAPD officers during their first meeting on Sept. 2. & that they were followed, harassed and intimidated by “undercover police officers” during a ceremony to welcome first-time freshmen to their organization.
October 29, 2009
Immigrant Hispanic community protests law-enforcement action in Ohio’s far northeast corner
October 27, 2009
Police Leaders from Across the Country Call For Immigration Reform – Law Enforcement Officials Describe Impact of Broken System on Public Safety and Community Trust
October 26, 2009
Sacramento Police Chief Rick Braziel has joined other chiefs in the nation in calling for an immigration overhaul that considers legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants.
In Dallas, Drivers Ticketed for Inability to Habla Ingles – over the past three years, wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English
October 15, 2009
Some state and local police are having second thoughts about working with the federal government to enforce immigration laws.
Hundreds of Thousands of Puerto Rican Workers, Faith Leaders, Students and Citizens to Unite in Hato Rey on October 15 – National March Will Protest Massive Cuts in Essential Public Services; Republican Administration Under Investigation for Civil Rights Violations Against High School Students
October 14, 2009
A 21-year-old Montgomery County man Hector Hernandez whose criminal case helped trigger new police policies in Montgomery Count regarding illegal immigration was sentenced to 50 years in prison Thursday for killing a 14-year-old honor student aboard a transit bus last year
October 13, 2009
Calderon Government Sends in Police to Take Over Electrical Company and Bust Union
October 12, 2009
Hispanics make up a record 25.7% of the New York Police Department.
October 9, 2009
Immigration advocates protest 287(g) – Mayor attempting to move forward a proposal to deputize local police as federal immigration agents – Morristown, NJ
Mexico aims to make Baja safer for U.S. tourists – Task force will be made up of bilingual officers; primarily will serve Americans – Initial plan is to create a force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor of Baja
October 7, 2009
A Chihuahua state human rights commissioner investigating accusations against police and soldiers in this violent border city revealed that he fled several weeks ago to El Paso, Texas, in the face of death threats. – Gustavo de la Rosa
An Arizona sheriff known for aggressively cracking down on illegal immigration has been stripped of some of his special power to enforce federal immigration law, and he claims the Obama administration is taking away his authority for political reasons. – Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio
October 5, 2009
A training program sponsored by law enforcement aims to reduce crime in the Hispanic community in the South Carolina Lowcountry.
Police: Maria Gurrolla’s immigration status was “not relevant” to solving assault and abduction of Gurrolla’s days-old son – If someone posing as the IRS attacked you at work, would the press interview your accountant? – The case of Yair Anthony Carillo abduction
September 30, 2009
Police in Framingham, Mass., say an illegal immigrant from Guatemala entered a police station, told officers he had stolen another man’s identity and asked to be deported because he could no longer make ends meet in America.
NASHVILLE: Amber alert issued for abducted 4-day-old baby – Yair Anthony Carillo – Police believe a woman posing as an immigration worker went to Carrillo’s home and demanded his mother Maria Gurrolla, give her the baby. When refused, the woman stabbed her.
September 29, 2009
Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
September 24, 2009
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office recently launched its most recent initiative: Spanish classes for deputies.
September 22, 2009
ICE refuses to cross-deputize Davis County deputies – Utah politicians angry that the police agency was turned away.
September 15, 2009
Eight members of the norteño band Los Tecateros were arrested on charges of selling drugs and beating up a man, Mexico City police said Monday.
September 8, 2009
In a strange twist, police busted a Hispanic man for tossing a bottle and a piece of wood at parishioners of a Hispanic church in an area of Long Island long plagued by racial strife — and charged him with a hate crime. (wt!@$)
Christhian Munguia Garcia
September 7, 2009
Sony Mexico raided for ‘unauthorised’ Alejandro Fernández material – Mexican police have seized CDs by one of Latin music’s biggest stars following a legal dispute between him and his record label
September 2, 2009
Police: Anti-Hispanic Notes Left at Suffolk Church – Long Island, NY
September 1, 2009
Rio Grande Valley sheriffs ponder federal immigration enforcement program – 287(g)
Norman Andrade takes over as police chief 20-year veteran is first Latino to lead department – Merced, CA
August 27, 2009
Albertville’s request that its police officers be federally certified in enforcing immigration law is scaring Hispanic people into moving away, according to an advocate for the local Hispanic community. -Alabama
August 26, 2009
Police: Criminals targeting hispanics in Salt Lake City
The Demopolis Police Department is hosting a weeklong workshop called “Survival Spanish,” where regional law enforcement officers learn how to do their jobs in a growing multilingual society. – Alabama
Former El Paso Police Chief Carlos Leon was involved in a serious motorcycle accident this morning near the town of Mesilla in New Mexico
Police in the Mexican border city of Tijuana say they have arrested six men for stealing pieces of the U.S. border fence to sell as scrap metal.
August 25, 2009
LAPD Bicycle Police in Mexico City
The Department of Homeland Security is requiring counties that participate in its illegal-immigration enforcement program 287(g) to agree to a new focus on violent criminals.
August 24, 2009
David Bejarano has become the first Latino chief of the Chula Vista Police Deparment.
Escondido police chief Jim Maher accused of targeting Hispanics
A Texas program to increase law enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border by temporarily reassigning state troopers from other parts of the state is contributing to a critical personnel shortage in the Texas Department of Public Safety
August 21, 2009
March in East Haven, Connecticut, protests police harassment of Latino community
Mexico City has suspended its anti-kidnapping chief over a rescue attempt fraught with catastrophic errors in which police killed two of their own FBI-trained commanders and a captor shot the kidnapped woman.
August 18, 2009
LULAC leads rally against Tasers in New Mexico
August 17, 2009
A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.
August 13, 2009
A jury in U.S. federal court has convicted four Puerto Rican police officers in the beating death of a man in their custody.
Hispanic men have been targeted in a series of strong-arm street robberies in the Central Neighborhood of San Mateo, according to police Capt. Kevin Raffaelli.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo attended a reception Wednesday for newly sworn-in U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the White House hosted by President Barack Obama.
August 12, 2009
Police in the northern Mexico city of Monterrey have been told not to sit in parked patrol cars observing traffic, because officials suspect they could be spying for criminal gangs or drug cartels.
Police have accused a TV presenter in Brazil of being involved in organised drug trafficking and ordering killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings.
August 11, 2009
Kansas City police reach out to Hispanics in Northeast area
In 2008, police arrested Latinos for pot possession at four times the rate of whites, and blacks at seven times the rate of whites in NYC
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) said Monday that it’s time for the federal government to aid police and prosecutors seeking Mexican nationals who commit violent crimes in the United States and flee to Mexico.
August 10, 2009
Authorities charged an FBI agent with negligent homicide on Friday in the alleged “friendly fire” shooting death of a Puerto Rican policeman during a gunbattle with kidnappers last year.
Top 3 Guatemalan police officials fired over drugs
Busts of corrupt US border police rise
Selling tamales on the streets of Los Angeles is a dangerous game of hide-and-seek. Tamale vendors, or “Tamaleros,” have to avoid obstacles like gangs, traffic, police and health inspectors to make only about $30 a day.
July 23, 2009
Police chiefs press for immigration reform – About 100 police chiefs and administrators from Framington, Mass., to San Diego joined Department of Homeland Security officials in Phoenix for a National Summit on Local Immigration Policies
July 20, 2009
Beautiful weather, enthusiastic bands and dancers and good food and drink all combined for a large turnout at the Wilson Police Department’s 5th annual Hispanic Outreach Summer Festival held Saturday afternoon at Toisnot Park. – North Carolina
July 16, 2009
New Haven’s Civil Service Commission, a focus of the Supreme Court reverse discrimination ruling for firefighters, has approved a police promotion list that does not include any Hispanics.
July 15, 2009
An armed gang shot dead a mayor in northern Mexico, capping a vicious 48-hour period that has seen 30 people killed, including 12 police officers in the west of the country – Chihuahua
July 14, 2009
Georgetown’s first Hispanic police officer retires after 35 years – Robert Hernandez saw the department grow from four officers to about 80.
More Immigration Non-Solutions – why expand the 287(g) program?
Senate Bill 81 was recently signed into law and it gives officers the ability to question the citizenship status of those they pull over. Latino leaders from all over the Beehive State gathered for an emergency meeting to discuss the implications of the new law.
Tickets on sale now for the 15th annual California Latino Peace Officers Association’s Oct. 10 awards dinner
Hispanic politics can be a tricky business inside the NYPD.
June 25, 2009
Crooks preying on Hispanic residents, Memphis police say
June 23, 2009
‘Three-Ring Circus’ Of Immigrant-Bashing in Mesa, Ariz. May Have Hastened New SFPD Chief George Gascon’s Departure
June 19, 2009
Speak English well, or get a ticket by federal law – Truckers face hefty fine for breaking law that says they must be able to talk with police. – Authorities last year issued 25,230 tickets nationwide for violations
June 18, 2009
As Hate Crimes Rise, Police Chiefs Call Immigration System an Obstacle to Prosecution
June 8, 2009
Dozens of people are estimated to have been killed in clashes between police and indigenous activists protesting oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagu
June 7, 2009
In recognition of the local Hispanic population’s growth — and, perhaps its vulnerability to criminals — the New Orleans Police Department is adding to the duties of its first and only Spanish-language translator. – Janssen Valencia
16 Dead in Acapulco:: Soldiers fought for two hours with armed men apparently holding police hostage at a house in Acapulco, leaving one soldier and 15 gunmen dead, a military official said Sunday.
June 6, 2009
A recent legal review revealed a Mexican identification card issued to more than 231,000 people in the Valley fails to meet Arizona traffic law, leaving some immigrant motorists subject to arrest during routine stops. While the Mexican government billed the matricula consular card as a secure document for U.S. transplants, police agencies said the card is invalid
June 5, 2009
Mexican police found 11 bodies – most with their hands and feet cut off – inside an abandoned car in the border state of Sonora Thursday in violence attributed to drug traffickers battling for control of the region.
June 2, 2009
Mexico detains 29 police officers for drug ties
June 1, 2009
Dover police recruit Latino officers – Connecticut
April 22, 2009
Former U.S. officers to train Mexican police in cartel fight
April 13, 2009
Fewer than half of Hispanics in the United States believe they will be treated fairly by police or the courts, showing a level of distrust greater than that of whites but less than blacks, according to surveys. – Pew Hispanic Center
April 10, 2009
At a time when Latinos are interacting more than ever with police, courts and prisons, their confidence in the U.S. criminal justice system is closer to the low levels expressed by blacks than to the high levels expressed by whites, according to a pair of nationwide surveys by the Pew Research Center.
March 24, 2009
Some East Haven residents and Latino community gathered at a senior center wanting a chance to clear the air. Recent accusations of racial profiling by some East Haven police officers had some people wanting answers.
March 19, 2009
Ten Republican congressmen — including one from North Carolina — said Wednesday that a civil rights investigation of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office could have a chilling effect on other state and local police agencies that seek to crack down on illegal immigration.
March 18, 2009
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Thousands of Mexican soldiers took a tighter grip on policing in the violence-scarred border city of Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday and the retired general in charge of police emphasized the military dominance by announcing city officers will be stripped of their weapons while on patrol.
MEXICO CITY – The chief of one of this capital’s police forces was arrested on charges he hired hitmen to kill a municipal prosecutor, Mexican media reported on Tuesday. Alvaro Acosta Teran
March 15, 2009
Tour aiming to change immigration policy stops in Dallas
March 14, 2009
Latino business leaders and residents spoke out on Thursday about what they describe as a pattern of racial profiling, harassment and intimidation by police officers in the town of East Haven. – Connecticut
March 13, 2009
Trumann Police learn basics of street Spanish – Arkansas
March 11, 2009
Driving While Latino – In many communities across Chicagoland, Latino motorists are more likely to be stopped by police and more likely to have their vehicles searched than whites, a Chicago Reporter investigation has found
January 28, 2009
Cleveland Officers Reach Out To Hispanic Community, Search For Killer Continues
January 15, 2009
New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked more than half a million people last year, 80% of them black and Hispanic, a civil-rights group said Thursday.
January 2, 2009
Adrian Garcia to be sworn in as Harris County’s first Hispanic sheriff – Texas
December 18, 2008
DPS veteran will be first Hispanic to direct Texas Ranger division – Antonio “Tony” Leal
