The Vallejo city attorney’s office has long resisted public scrutiny of the police department’s frequent shootings. With a new law poised to force the release of shooting records, a lawyer and a detective made a decision no court can reverse.| Open Vallejo
In 2020, the California DOJ endorsed 45 reforms for Vallejo police. The department has implemented just two of them.| Open Vallejo
Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams was notified in March that his second-in-command had been drinking before he showed up to a homicide scene in a department SUV, according to an internal memo obtained by Open Vallejo. Now, sources say the city has opened an outside investigation — which the chief says he knows nothing about.| Open Vallejo
The tradition is known at the highest levels of Vallejo city government and to Solano County's district attorney, sources say.| Open Vallejo
After years of impunity, the police in Vallejo, California, took over the city’s politics and threatened its people.| The New Yorker
