This California city has a history of police using deadly force. Its first Black police chief looks toward reform
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When Shawny Williams joined the Vallejo, California, police department in the fall of 2019, he was taking the reins of a police force known for its use of deadly force.
By the time Williams was sworn in that November, Vallejo officers had fatally shot 18 people in less than a decade, according to KTVU. Between 2005 and 2017, the Bay Area community of 122,000 people had the third-highest rate of police killings per capita in the state, an NBC Bay Area investigation found. "Vallejo is like a distillation of the problems that a lot of places, I think, are facing," Geoffrey King, the founder of nonprofit news site Open Vallejo, told W. Kamau Bell in Sunday's "United Shades of America" episode, "Policing the Police."More Related News