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City will kick back 70 percent of room tax revenue to developers who build new luxury hotels. Members of council majority say deal will spur development. Mayor calls it “corporate welfare.”
Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada took over the department last year after a string of fatal police shootings and a downtown riot. His reforms have been praised as crucial steps toward rebuilding trust, but some say he hasn’t done enough.
A year after police led to a riot outside Anaheim City Hall, there has been little progress toward addressing problems that were exposed.
After years of gains, recent police shootings have pushed the level of distrust between the police department and Latinos back to where it was a decade ago, when the department kept dossiers on Latino leaders.
Already tense relations between Anaheim’s Latino community and the city’s police department are in danger of boiling over after two police shootings and a crowd control effort gone awry.