Vallejo

[ vuh-ley-oh, -hoh; Spanish vah-ye-haw ]

noun

1. Cé·sar [se, -sah, r], 1895–1938, Peruvian poet.
2. Ma·ri·a·no Gua·da·lupe [mahr-ee-, ah, -noh gwahd-l-, oop, -, oo, -pee, mar-, mah-, ryah, -naw gwah-, th, ah-, loo, -pe], 1808–90, military and political leader in California, serving the Mexican government until 1846; elected senator to the first state legislature 1849.
3. a city in western California, on San Pablo Bay, northeast of San Francisco.

Vallejo

/ -ˈleɪhəʊ; baˈʎɛxo; vəˈleɪəʊ /

noun

1. VallejoCésar (Abraham)18921938MPeruvianWRITING: poet César ( Abraham ) (ˈsesar). 1892–1938, Peruvian poet, living in France and Spain from 1923: noted for his experimental style in such works as Trilce (1922)

Example Sentences

The Police Department in Vallejo, a city of 122,000 on the industrial northern fringe of San Francisco Bay, has been racked with problems in recent years.

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Officials with the city of Vallejo did not respond to requests for comment.

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In 2023, the California Department of Justice sued the Vallejo Police Department, alleging that its officers engaged in a “pattern and practice of excessive and unreasonable force, using enforcement strategies that disproportionately impact people of color, and performing unconstitutional stops, searches, and seizure.”

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Civil rights advocates and family members of people killed by officers of the Vallejo Police Department made a passionate plea Thursday for a state oversight board to launch investigations into whether the officers should lose their badges.

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She described how her son, Ronnell Foster, was killed in 2018 when he was shot seven times by a Vallejo police officer.

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