The number of homicides in the city has dropped for the third straight year, but there’s one statistic that stands out even more. Investigating the murder of a child is one of the toughest cases cops get, last year that didn’t happen in Sacramento. “I am really excited about that,” said Councilmember Jay Schenirer. In 2018, not a single person under 18 was murdered. Something that hasn’t happened in 35 years.

The Sacramento County’s Department of Human Assistance (DHA) is terminating its invasive automated license plate reader (ALPR) program, following an EFF investigation that found the agency was accessing driver data to investigate welfare recipients without enacting the basic civil liberties safeguards required by California law.

The grandmother of an 8-year-old boy is grieving after he was beaten to death with a hammer while trying to protect his young sister from molestation. Dante Daniels, 8, never made it to his second day of third grade. Early in the morning of Sept. 1, investigators say his mother’s ex-boyfriend, 23-year-old Deandre Chaney Jr., attacked Dante with a hammer.

The lawsuit, the arena, KJ’s talent for diverting public resources for private gain, even the sex-creep stuff: to me, these facts seem to hang together... By Cosmo Garvin.

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