On September 21, the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC) released a Comparative Analysis of the California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory (RIPA) Board’s 2022 and 2023 Annual Reports. This comparative analysis follows an earlier report released in December of 2022 which identified significant flaws in the RIPA Board’s approach to assessing the state of racial profiling in basic traffic enforcement statewide — misleading Californians to believe that racial profiling is more pervasive than the data suggests. Read More »

A significant legal battle that began in 2018 recently came to an end, resulting in four Los Angeles Airport Police Department (LAXPD) officers winning a major class-action adverse employment action […] Read More »

In the newest episode of The Layover With LAAPOA, LAAPOA President Marshall McClain sits in conversation with Simi Valley Police Chief Charles “Steve” Shorts. Shorts is a 33-year law enforcement […] Read More »

Labor Day is more than an extra day off marking the unofficial end of summer. For anyone who works for a living, it’s an important reminder that the wages, benefits and legal protections we take for granted didn’t always exist, but had to be fought for and protected through decades of collective action. Read More »

By David E. Mastagni and Taylor Davies-Mahaffey  Amid increased scrutinization of deadly officer-involved shootings, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vindicated the objectionably reasonable standard in analyzing lawsuits involving the […] Read More »