The California Act to Save [Black] Lives? Race, Policing, and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma in the State of California

In January 2020, the California Act to Save Lives became law, raising the state’s standard for justifiable police homicide to cover only those police homicides that were “necessary in defense of human life.” Although the Act was introduced in the wake of protests against officer-involved shootings of Black and Latinx people, the Act itself does…