Editing Fontana, California (section)

===Law enforcement===
The Fontana Police Department employs 207 sworn officers, as well as civilian personnel.<ref>{{cite web|title=FY21-22 and FY22-23 Adopted Operating Budget|url=https://www.fontana.org/DocumentCenter/View/35965/FY21-22-and-FY22-23-Adopted-Operating-Budget|publisher=Fontana.com|accessdate=November 5, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Census Fontata, California|url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fontanacitycalifornia/PST045219|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=November 5, 2021}}</ref> The department was established in October 1952.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oaths of Office Given To Fontana Police Force|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19521018.1.17&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|publisher=California Digital Newspaper Collection.com|accessdate=November 5, 2021}}</ref>

In 2013, there was a 60% gap between the minority share of the city's population (85.6%) and that of the Fontana Police Department (25.6%), the largest gap of any city in the US with a population greater than 100,000.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maciag |first=Mike |date=2015-08-19 |title=Where Police Don't Mirror Communities and Why It Matters |url=https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-police-department-diversity.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726134058/https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-police-department-diversity.html |archive-date=2024-07-26 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=[[Governing (magazine)|Governing]] |language=en}}</ref>

In 2016, two members of the Fontana Police Department, David J. Moore Sr. and Andrew Anderson, filed a lawsuit, alleging racial discrimination by the Fontana Police Department.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Avalos |first=Carlos |date=2017-02-06 |title=23 Years On, FPD's Evidence Tampering Under Scrutiny |url=https://sbcsentinel.com/2017/02/23-years-on-fpds-evidence-tampering-under-scrutiny-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223200307/https://sbcsentinel.com/2017/02/23-years-on-fpds-evidence-tampering-under-scrutiny-2/ |archive-date=2024-02-23 |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=San Bernardino County Sentinel |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last1=Speri |first1=Alice |last2=Harmon |first2=Stuart |date=2024-10-29 |title=An Insurrectionist Once Helped Lead This Police Department. Insiders Speak Out About Its Culture of White Supremacy. |url=https://theintercept.com/2024/10/29/fontana-police-racism-white-supremacy/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=[[The Intercept]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Among other allegations, the lawsuit alleged that in 1994 Fontana Police tampered with the corpse of Black murder victim Jimmy Earl Burleson by planting a piece of chicken in the decedent's hand, photographing the victim in this pose, and circulating the photo among the Fontana Police Department for a number of years; the photo in question was later published in the ''San Bernardino County Sentinel'' in 2017.<ref name=":1" /> The lawsuit was settled in 2024.<ref name=":2" />

In August 2018, Fontana police coerced a [[false confession]] from a man named Thomas Perez Jr. for the murder of his father, after Perez had reported his father missing. Fontana police officers interrogated Perez for 17 hours, falsely claiming that his father had been found dead with stab marks and "wore a toe tag at the morgue," and that they would have Perez's pet dog euthanized as a result of his actions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saavedra |first=Tony |date=2024-05-23 |title=Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for 'psychological torture' inflicted by police to get false confession |url=https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523225453/https://www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/fontana-pays-nearly-900000-for-psychological-torture-inflicted-by-police-to-get-false-confession/ |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=[[The San Bernardino Sun]] |language=en-US }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Levin |first=Sam |date=2024-05-24 |title='Psychologically tortured': California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/california-fontana-payment-man-tortured-police |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524203941/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/california-fontana-payment-man-tortured-police |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |access-date=2024-05-25 |work=[[The Guardian]] |issn=0261-3077 }}</ref> After Perez falsely confessed, he was left alone in the interrogation room, where he was captured on video trying to hang himself.<ref name=":0" /> Perez's missing father was confirmed to be alive the same day.<ref name=":0" /> In May 2024, Fontana agreed to settle a lawsuit by Perez against the city for $898,000.<ref name=":0" />