The Honolulu Police Commission raised concerns about the Honolulu Police Department’s (HPD) disproportionate impact on Pacific Islanders, Native Hawaiians and Black people during instances of use of force, Honolulu Civil Beat reports.
The “significant racial disparities” in use of force were discovered in a report released in November 2020, which wasn’t discussed by the commission until a meeting on Wednesday.
According to the report, more than a third of incidents that included use of force involved Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, who only make up a quarter of Hawaii’s population. Black people were involved in 7.4% of incidents despite making up only 2-4% of the population.
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Civil Beat Sues Honolulu Police To Make Officer Overtime Data Public - Honolulu Civil Beat
HPD has refused to hand over information that is routinely shared in other cities. Reading time: 2 minutes.
Honolulu Civil Beat filed a lawsuit Friday to get data from the Honolulu Police Department on the amount of overtime each officer has worked in the past five years.
The suit comes after HPD’s denial of a public records request Civil Beat filed in November for data showing all HPD employees, their job titles and their overtime totals from 2015 through 2020.
“This is really straightforward information about how taxpayer money is being spent,” said Brian Black, an attorney representing Civil Beat in the case and executive director of The Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest.
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Hawaii Judiciary Launches Virtual Series On Racial Inequity
The series will feature sessions on data and criminal justice, implicit bias training and webinars related to the Black Lives Matter movement. Reading time: 3 minutes.
Hawaii’s criminal justice system isn’t immune to racial bias and the Judiciary is committed to addressing that racial inequity, Hawaii Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald said Friday.
He spoke at a Zoom webinar, the first of a series of free virtual panels the Judiciary is hosting along with the Hawaii State Bar Association about achieving racial equity in Hawaii. Friday’s event focused on Black Lives Matter in Hawaii.