United Against Police Terror – San Diego

Uaptsd.org would like to inform the community of the following timeline according to our records; the phone call to the Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board took place on November 4th, 2015, the interview with VOSD took place on November 9, and November 19th 2015,  we recieved the outcome of the complaint by mail on January 2, 2016,  this article as well as the CLERB’s hearing, were both published on January 12, 2016.  Our apologies for the representative we called on November 4th, 2015 was from CLERB and not the Sheriff’s department.

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/activist-group-says-no-progress-made-on-threat-investigation/

It’s been four months since a local police watchdog group received a hateful email that it says was traced back to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, but it remains unclear what, if any, results have come from the department’s internal investigation.

United Against Police Terror, the organization that received the email, filed a formal complaint with the Citizens’ Law Enforcement Review Board, which oversees sheriff’s internal investigations.

The profanity-laced email called the group scum and compared the protestors in Ferguson last fall to animals, among other things.

At the time, the Sheriff’s Department would not confirm or deny that the email came from one of its employees, but it did launch its own investigation.

Since then, nobody from the Sheriff’s Department or review board has followed up with the group, said group spokesperson Cat Mendonca.

“It doesn’t give us any assurance that they’re going to find this person,” said Mendonca.

Mendonca contacted the Sheriff’s Department in October to find out about the status of the complaint. She said she spoke to department spokeswoman Melissa Aquino, who told her that the department was waiting on some responses as part of its investigation. Mendonca also said that Aquino told her she could only provide limited information, but would follow up in about a week. That follow-up, Mendonca said, never happened.

Indeed, Mendonca said that no one from the Sheriff’s Department or the citizens’ board has made any attempt to contact her or anyone else from her organization.

Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell refused to confirm Mendonca’s conversations with Aquino or anything else about the case. She only said that she would not comment because it was a personnel matter.

State law protects law enforcement agencies from disclosing personnel information. That includes investigations into complaints and any resulting disciplinary action.

Citizens’ Review Board Executive Officer Patrick Hunter said that the complaint is being investigated but could not provide any information on a specific case.

“Complaints are received, we have the opportunity to speak to complainants, witnesses, deputies — anyone involved. Then our investigators put together a report for the board to review.” Hunter said. “It can take anywhere from two to three months, sometimes longer for things like murder.”

He also said that board investigations must be completed one year from the date the complaint was filed. After that, a copy of the board’s findings and recommendation, if any, is provided to the officers involved, the law enforcement agency and the person who filed the complaint.

Join Artful Activist San Diego, United Against Police Terror – San Diego and Overpass Light Brigade – San Diego for visual demonstrations on what Faulconer IS NOT ADDRESSING.

*Faulconer has done nothing about the lack of oversight by Law Enforcement Agencies and the violence officers are imposing on the City of San Diego, his office’s DA (Bonnie Dumanis) fights with federal courts about body camera footage disclosure.
List of lives stolen at the hands of SD Law Enforcement (collected on a grassroots level)
http://goo.gl/7kcvjE
Lives brutalized by SD Law Enforcement
http://goo.gl/rIJb8z

*Faulconer has stayed silent about the “Tiny House” programs which started around the county and when tried to be implicated here the SDPD arrested and destroyed a homeless person’s Tiny dwelling.
Homeless man arrested for his donated tiny house – 10News
http://goo.gl/ENRfGS

*Faulconer was also was a guest Speaker for one of the most controversal political consultation group’s annual conference; ALEC, this group is known to rob city penisons funds and nunerous other human right violations.
www.alecexposed.org

*Faulconer is BAD for the people, BAD for San diego, leading the majority into the same poverty.

This is not what San Diego needs, come rise with us, let the Mayor know this is not going to be the New Year he wants, This is our city.

We will be doing the Light Brigade if enough respond to this event, the flush the politician game, and some projections as well.

Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with freedom of speech. The Court overturned a man’s conviction for the crime of disturbing the peace for wearing a jacket in the public corridors of a courthouse that displayed the phrase, “Fuck the Draft”.

The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, prohibits states from making the public display of a single four-letter expletive a criminal offense, without a more specific and compelling reason than a general tendency to disturb the peace. Court of Appeal of California reversed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California

Click here for UAPTSD.ORGS Copwatch Log Entry Form

We need the community to step up and start ‪#‎copwatching‬ in your neighborhood. Many allies believe in creating direct action but that is NOT enough!
We need to build statistical data, identify trends, and map areas in San Diego where there is the MOST police interaction.
Here is a copwatch log entry form, please help us in the fight against police terror and be on the ground with us doing the work.

Click here for Uaptsd.org’s LEO MISCONDUCT COMMUNITY COMPLAINT FORM

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING THIS FORM: Please describe the incident that led to this complaint, telling what happened from beginning to end. Be as clear and specific as you can be. What aspect(s) of the incident was improper (your specific complaint).

http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/no-person-can-see-that-video-and-come-to-the-conclusion-that-my-brother-was-attacking-a-police-officer/
• For the first time, the family of Fridoon Rashawn Nehad is speaking out about the circumstances surrounding his death in a disputed police shooting.

• Nehad, the 42-year-old mentally ill man killed by a San Diego police officer, spent time in an Afghan prison camp before emigrating to the United States to reunite with his family.

• After Nehad’s death, his family described numerous struggles in getting basic information from SDPD. And they discussed the horror of watching the still-secret surveillance camera footage that captured the shooting.

Here’s link to Dropbox folder w/ Women Occupy – San Diego‘s Cover Letter and Ballot Proposal filed with the San Diego City Clerk on Tuesday, January 5, 2016:

Source: Community Review Board Submitted to the San Diego City Clerk for November Ballot

http://www.kusi.com/story/30883297/citizens-demanding-transparency-in-police-shootings
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – About a dozen people got together to demand justice for those who they say had their lives stolen at the hands of San Diego Law Enforcement.

The group – which consisted of community activists and lawyers – said it’s asking for transparency and for independent reviews of officer-involved shootings.

“We believe any institution that investigates itself has a built in conflict of interest … This must change,” said Martha Sullivan of Women Occupy San Diego.

The group said they intend to file a ballot proposal Tuesday of a charter amendment to make a citizen review board on police practices truly independent.

Meanwhile the police department released a statement in response to Monday’s gathering:

“The San Diego Police Department is committed to providing the highest quality police services to America’s Finest City.  We respect every person’s first amendment right to freedom of speech and to assemble peacefully to express their views.”

The group said it’s hoping to build community pressure for a release of the full list of names from shooting deaths at the hands of San Diego Law Enforcement.