Boomer Vicente

The ASUC inter-semester committee convened Wednesday to discuss student safety and passed three bills, including one urging the campus to amend the summer sessions nonrefundable cancellation fee.

The UC Berkeley Police Review Board held its annual public meeting Friday afternoon to discuss its activity over the course of 2016 and hear feedback from the public on UCPD’s conduct.

A recently released report on crime in Berkeley revealed a 17.9 percent increase in the city’s instances of violent crime in 2016 as compared to 2015.

The campus saw a decrease in sex offenses and a decrease in theft between 2014 and 2015, according to UCPD’s Annual Security Report released Saturday.

Berkeley City Council voted July 19 to adopt a resolution calling on the city to divest from private prisons and to send a letter to the city’s business partners requesting them to do the same.

At a time when police violence and oversight has become the subject of ever-increasing controversy across the nation, many in Berkeley — and in the commission itself — feel that the Police Review Commission is unable to adequately address today’s foremost police issues.

Protesters gathered in downtown Oakland on Thursday night to condemn the recent actions of police officers across the country, which have resulted in several arrests along with a halted freeway and various acts of vandalism.

In Tuesday’s election, Alameda County saw a higher number of ballots submitted but a lower overall voter turnout than in the previous election year.

ASUC executive and senate hopefuls, accompanied by hundreds of supporters, flooded the Arthur Andersen Auditorium in the Haas School of Business on Friday evening to learn the results of the 2016-17 ASUC elections.

With voting for the ASUC elections beginning Monday, The Daily Californian is fact-checking some of the more significant assertions made by candidates at its annual ASUC elections forum held last week.