San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2010 by Bobbie Stein and Rachel Lederman
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/28/EDV91EKR9F.DTL
When Oakland police brass meet this week to review what went wrong after the July 8 Johannes Mehserle verdict, they should not overlook their own crowd control policy. Had the department followed this policy, it could have minimized property damage and also avoided police-inflicted injuries and wrongful arrests of demonstrators.
The Sacramento Bee, November 9, 2009 by Bobbie Stein
http://www.sacbee.com/1190/story/2314027.html
According to the FBI’s new Uniform Crime Report, in 2008 there were more than 1.7 million people arrested and more than 500,000 men and women in jail or prison for drug offenses. You don’t have to be a radical to understand that a smarter approach to drug policy will go a long way toward both easing the prison population and saving money.
East Bay Express, September 24, by Bobbie Stein
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/retro__in_spection/Content?oid=835439
“There is no question that we live in difficult times. Still, we should not be willing to surrender our rights in the name of war and fear. After all, the ostensible justification for this “war on terror” is freedom and democracy.”