…Working to ensure that people in our community don’t die from lack of access to food and water is not enabling. It doesn’t “pull them back to the city.” It’s basic human decency and there is no excuse for withholding these basic needs from people.

A Guardian analysis in 2015 found that homeless people were 6.5 times more likely to be killed by police than the rest of the population. And police largely don’t have an answer when encampment residents ask them where they should go, as most local jurisdictions lack the supportive and affordable housing necessary to house the more than 567,000 living unsheltered in the US.

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Two young Chico police officers, on the night in 2017 they gunned Desmond Phillips down, told conflicting stories to investigators about what Phillips was doing in the seconds before he was slain.

Desmond Phillips was killed by police on March 17, 2017.

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, apparently uncomfortable with those discrepancies, brought Desmond’s killers together nearly three weeks later for a group re-interview that “no competent investigator” would have conducted…

When the council voted to disband the Climate Action Commission, they gave no public notice; in fact, very much the oppostie. The agendized item was to confirm appointees to the commission…