Should Oregon police issue commands in Spanish when facing a suspect at gunpoint?
Three McMinnville police officers faced off with Juventino Bermudez-Arenas as he held the large blade he'd just used to kill a 20-year-old Linfield College student. Officers pulled their guns. One, who spoke Spanish, reached for [...]
TULSA - A Tulsa police officer and four volunteers are helping a group of Hispanic kids fulfill one of their dreams. Jesse Guardiola, director of Hispanic outreach with the Tulsa Police Department, took 20 kids on their first trip to a Tulsa Drillers baseball game Sunday. Ten-year-old Leslie Lamas is part of the group who [...]
Today you should know that the New York Times examined tensions between the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office and Tulsa city police over how to treat undocumented immigrants. While the County Sheriff has led a crackdown on immigrants, city police say it is hurting their ability to fight dangerous crime by scaring immigrants from reporting when [...]
Day 20: Tulsa OK - The Politics of crime and immigration
Join Damien Cave and Todd Heisler as they travel up Interstate 35, from Laredo, Tex., to Duluth, Minn., chronicling how the middle of America is being changed by immigration. Follow their journey here and on [...]
While it is satisfying to receive national recognition for a growing effort to better relationships between Tulsa’s Hispanic population, the Tulsa Police Department and Tulsans in general, TPD Officer Jesse Guardiola is more concerned with minimizing what he calls “the perfect storm” of a growing Hispanic gang problem and territory wars over the next five [...]
TULSA, OK -- The Tulsa Police Department is looking to hire again, just as another group of laid off officers comes back to the force. The police department will be testing applicants in mid August, starting the process of hiring the next class of recruits. "It's a new era, the sun is shining [...]
TULSA, Oklahoma - People in Tulsa's Hispanic community are being targeted because of their faith. The victims say they handed over thousands of dollars, jewelry and more, thinking it would be "blessed" but instead the crooks took all of it and ran. One victim explained how the scam works and why she thought it was [...]
TULSA, OK -- More than 200 young Tulsa Hispanic boys spent the day learning how to be successful in life. It was part of a conference to raise awareness and help a vulnerable part of the Tulsa community. It was a different kind of day in the classroom for a group of Latino [...]
