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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Hosted By Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Capitol Chat: Police Use of Force Bills

Friday, April 5, 2019 | Sacramento, CA
Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio / File
 

Andrew Nixon / Capital Public Radio / File

California lawmakers are considering a pair of competing bills to regulate how and when police officers can use deadly force.

One bill authored by state Sen. Anna Caballero (D-Salinas Valley) and backed by law enforcement groups would include changes that parallel recent recommendations by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to the Sacramento Police Department in the wake of Stephon Clark’s death in March 2018.

The other bill authored by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) with support by civil rights groups would enact even more dramatic changes.

For this week’s Capitol Chat, Ben Adler breaks down the two competing bills with an update on how lawmakers are tackling the thorny issues involved.

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