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"content": "\u003cp>It's 8:30 a.m. and the sun is already heating up the artificial turf at Banning High School's football field. Some 70 ninth- and 10th-graders line up on their stomachs for pushups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of these kids, the \"pushup ready\" pose looks like a cross between an aborted yoga position and a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Come on! Butts down, hips off the ground, shoulders over your hand!\" barks Los Angeles Fire Capt. Eddie Marez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One, sir!\" the sleepy students shout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Didn't say 'up' yet. Start all over!\" Marez yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, dressed in blue T-shirts and shorts that say \"LAFD Academy,\" try again in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don't make it to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning workout at this school in L.A.'s Wilmington neighborhood is part of two new LAFD magnet school programs. The department hopes to inspire future firefighters or emergency medical technicians — and recruit more women and minorities — in a department that remains nearly 97 percent male and about 50 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, L.A. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/story/trying-change-fdnys-longstanding-lack-diversity/\">isn't alone\u003c/a>. Nationally, the firefighting ranks are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-reports/fire-statistics/the-fire-service/administration/firefighting-occupations-by-women-and-race\">largely white and overwhelmingly male\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide a better level of service to the public when we walk into somebody's home for a medical call, and if they see a female or a Hispanic or an Asian person, they can connect with us better,\" says L.A. Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas. \"It's not only a challenge for the Los Angeles Fire Department, it's a challenge for all fire departments: We are all competing to hire from a very small population of females\" who want to join the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're trying to excite students about a career in firefighting or emergency response, it doesn't hurt to fire up Engine 38 and simulate battling a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot near Banning High's football field, Marez barks: \"Let's go ladies, let's put this fire out!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Melgoza, 14, and a friend get ready to let rip with a large fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You got about 100 pounds here between the two of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, God!\" Melgoza says, apprehensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're gonna be just fine,\" the veteran fire captain cautions. \"Open it up nice and slow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls tighten their grip on the hose. As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. He plans to add two more firefighting magnet programs next year. \"My vision for the future is that we develop a feeder pool so that we can set (the students) on the right course for whatever they do life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrazas knows that, in all likelihood, only a small percentage of these students are likely to end up as firefighters or EMTs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I look at the bigger picture,\" the chief adds. \"If we don't hire them as firefighters, we are going to develop better citizens. We are going to help them, hopefully, pursue education. Go to college, the military. Whatever they decide to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Didn't say 'up' yet. Start all over!\" Marez yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, dressed in blue T-shirts and shorts that say \"LAFD Academy,\" try again in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don't make it to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning workout at this school in L.A.'s Wilmington neighborhood is part of two new LAFD magnet school programs. The department hopes to inspire future firefighters or emergency medical technicians — and recruit more women and minorities — in a department that remains nearly 97 percent male and about 50 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, L.A. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/story/trying-change-fdnys-longstanding-lack-diversity/\">isn't alone\u003c/a>. Nationally, the firefighting ranks are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-reports/fire-statistics/the-fire-service/administration/firefighting-occupations-by-women-and-race\">largely white and overwhelmingly male\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide a better level of service to the public when we walk into somebody's home for a medical call, and if they see a female or a Hispanic or an Asian person, they can connect with us better,\" says L.A. Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas. \"It's not only a challenge for the Los Angeles Fire Department, it's a challenge for all fire departments: We are all competing to hire from a very small population of females\" who want to join the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're trying to excite students about a career in firefighting or emergency response, it doesn't hurt to fire up Engine 38 and simulate battling a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot near Banning High's football field, Marez barks: \"Let's go ladies, let's put this fire out!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Melgoza, 14, and a friend get ready to let rip with a large fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You got about 100 pounds here between the two of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, God!\" Melgoza says, apprehensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're gonna be just fine,\" the veteran fire captain cautions. \"Open it up nice and slow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls tighten their grip on the hose. As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. 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"content": "\u003cp>Former employees of Wells Fargo tell NPR that a toxic high-pressure sales culture at the bank drove some workers to deceive customers and open unauthorized accounts — even in the bank's own headquarters building in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo is embroiled in a scandal for taking advantage of customers by opening as many as 2 million accounts without their consent. The bank fired 5,300 mostly lower-level workers over the wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wells Fargo says those workers represent a tiny fraction of employees. The bank basically says they were bad apples who have been fired and who are not representative of the broader culture and practices at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/496508361/496508362\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare look inside the bank, former workers tell NPR that wrongdoing was widespread, even at the bank branch in the very building where the CEO and senior management team worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"zyRzkgDgRLS2aSRqhctLYYnVWVBHRgRv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TlYSlCWls5roH3fmSMng65sTqmkhZKIA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Former employees of Wells Fargo tell NPR that a toxic high-pressure sales culture at the bank drove some workers to deceive customers and open unauthorized accounts — even in the bank's own headquarters building in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo is embroiled in a scandal for taking advantage of customers by opening as many as 2 million accounts without their consent. The bank fired 5,300 mostly lower-level workers over the wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wells Fargo says those workers represent a tiny fraction of employees. The bank basically says they were bad apples who have been fired and who are not representative of the broader culture and practices at the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/496508361/496508362\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a rare look inside the bank, former workers tell NPR that wrongdoing was widespread, even at the bank branch in the very building where the CEO and senior management team worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo's embattled CEO, John Stumpf, has been spending long hours defending himself in congressional hearings trying to explain the scandal engulfing his bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wrongful sales practice behavior,\" Stumpf told the Senate banking committee, \"goes against everything regarding our core principles, our ethics and our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stumpf says the bank never directed nor wanted employees to provide products and services to customers that they did not want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11115950\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11115950 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg\" alt=\"Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on September 20, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-800x562.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-400x281.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-1180x828.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/Stumpf-960x674.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf testifies about the unauthorized opening of accounts by Wells Fargo during a Senate hearing on Sept. 20, 2016. \u003ccite>(SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But former Wells Fargo employees have been watching that testimony — and the ones we spoke to say, in no uncertain terms, they aren't buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bulls***,\" says one former employee who we'll call Worker #1. She doesn't want to use her name for fear that talking to NPR will prevent her from getting a job at another bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Stumpf is not describing the Wells Fargo she worked at for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the whole foundation of Wells Fargo is cross-sell, cross-sell, cross sell,\" she says, referring to the bank's sales approach of offering customers with, for example, a checking account many other types of products, too — credit cards, home loans, lines of credit, etc. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that in principle. But Worker #1 says that in practice Wells Fargo pushed it beyond reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody needs a ridiculous amount of products,\" she says. And the sales culture was so intense she says that some workers even in the headquarters and other San Francisco branches resorted to deceptive practices to make their sales goals. \"That completely contradicts what he's saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This employee is upset about what the bank did and how she was treated. But it didn't start out that way. Standing on the street last week looking up at the corporate headquarters building, she remembers back in 2007, showing up for her first day of work at the branch here. She says she was excited and a little overdressed. She was wearing stiletto heels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I probably had about a pound of hairspray in my hair,\" she says. \"I felt proud, and my parents were proud of me for getting a job at headquarters. I was very hopeful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 hadn't even finished college yet, so this seemed like a big break. But right away, she said, working as a \"personal banker\" in the branch here was not what she expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the number of products she was expected to sell — checking and savings accounts, credit cards — seemed really high: at least eight products a day. Sometimes it was even more. During a sales push called \"Jump into January\" former employees say they were expected to sell 20 products a day. That just seemed impossible to Worker #1, and she says the pressure on her and her co-workers to sell was disturbingly intense. \"We were all miserable, and it was just soul-crushing to walk in every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik, who also worked at the headquarters branch and wants to use only his first name, describes the sales pressure this way: \"It was every day, man. It was literally every day. It was a grind-house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11116005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11116005 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo on 1 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/WellsFargoBank-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Crocker branch of Wells Fargo at 1 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, where former employees say the sales pressure was also intense and the deceptive practices widespread. \u003ccite>(Ariel Zambelich/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Erik says mornings started with a huddle, where managers pressed workers to meet their \"solutions goals.\" Each credit card or home equity loan or other product was called a solution. And all day long workers were told to sell solutions, sell solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was multiple occasions where I saw my co-workers were cracking under the pressure,\" Erik says. \"Tears, crying, constantly getting pulled into the backroom having one-on-ones for coaching sessions.\" Erik says. \"You know, there was a lot of coaching happening,\" and he winks. Why the wink? Erik is a big strong-looking guy. He played sports all through college. He says this wasn't really \"coaching.\" Managers called it that, but it was just leaning on employees to sell more solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says if you didn't meet your sales goals, that's when employees would have to have these so-called coaching sessions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.'\u003ccite>Wells Fargo employee #1\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 remembers two managers would approach her desk, reprimand her and march her past her colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like being called into the principal's office,\" she says. \"Sit down at the large conference table, no windows in this room, they shut the door, lock the door.\" Then, she says, managers would give her a \"formal warning\" and tell her to sign it. And she says they'd tell her, \"If you don't meet your solutions, you're not a team player. If you're bringing down the team, then you will be fired and it will be on your permanent record.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she was in her early 20s, like many of the lower-level sales people in the office. She says she was afraid to lose her job, especially because this started back when the economy was still in bad shape. \"You were stuck and it was the feeling that no other employer is going to want you because we will ruin you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employee #1 says after one of these coaching sessions, she threw up in the wastebasket under her desk. Erik compared the job to being in an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former branch manager we spoke with in the downtown area said he didn't think many managers would be so specific as to outright threaten people with their jobs. Another former worker said his managers would try to be nice about the warnings. But both said that basic message, that your job was on the line, would be conveyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sales culture at Wells Fargo helped the bank's bottom line. Wells Fargo expanded the number of products it sold to millions of customers, and from 2006 to 2015 the bank's stock rose 67 percent. It has since fallen, after news of the banking scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo in San Francisco between the years 2004 and 2011. And they all said a pressure-cooker sales environment at the bank pushed some of their co-workers to deceive customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erik says no managers directly told him to do anything deceptive with customers. He says they'd ask him: \"Where are you at?' What you got going? How are you gonna get there?\" And then repeat, \"How are you gonna get there?\" And Erik says as long as you hit your numbers, nobody asked any questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat, who also just wants to use his first name, remembers one co-worker issuing lines of credit for customers who never applied for them. \"There was this banker who — he had this unbelievable loan volume and I was thinking, wow, is he that good of a sales person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Pat says he figured out what was happening after customers started showing up at the branch to complain. They had applied for a home equity loan. That was OK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But then they also have a personal line of credit for like $20,000 that they didn't ask for. So then I realized how he was doing all his loans, because he was basically tagging on other loan products in the same application so they wouldn't really notice when they signed the documents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators say deceptive practices like this at Wells Fargo were illegal, though in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/08/493130449/wells-fargo-to-pay-around-190-million-over-fake-accounts-that-sparked-bonuses\">$185 million settlement last month\u003c/a> the bank did not admit wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR spoke with former employees who worked at Wells Fargo between 2004 and 2011. They said deceptive practices were widespread. Accounts were being opened without customers' knowledge. And they said managers knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo says this wasn't the culture of the company. But these workers were not in some backwater branch. They were in the branch on the first floor of the headquarters building, where the CEO himself and the senior management team worked just upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We contacted Wells Fargo to ask about all this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wells Fargo issued the following statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Although the vast majority of our team members do the right thing, every day, on behalf of our customers, these allegations and accusations are very serious. And if any of these things transpired, it's distressing and it's not who Wells Fargo is. Our Board announced last week that it will lead an internal investigation into retail banking sales practices and related matters, and we have agreed to other independent reviews as part of our agreements with the City of Los Angeles, the CFPB and the OCC. Our leadership accepts full responsibility for all unethical sales practices in our retail banking business, and fully committed to doing everything possible to fix this issue, strengthen our culture, and take the necessary actions to restore our customers' trust. This includes our decision to end product sales goals for all of our retail bankers, starting this month.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the bank's decision to end product sales goals was an acknowledgement that the sales culture had gotten out of control at Wells Fargo, Oscar Suris, executive vice president for corporate communications, said, \"We felt definitively removing product sales goals would remove a risk that we can't tolerate and remove an area of concern for the public that we feel needs to be removed so we want to take that off the table entirely.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as what happened to Erik: The big, athletic former Wells Fargo banker said after working for the bank for a little more than a year, he was having physical reactions to the amount of stress he was under, \"upset stomach, nerves, eye-twitching.\" So his quit his job. \"It just got to a point where it was like, I just can't handle this, man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worker #1 says eventually she pushed back and refused to meet the sales goals because, she told her managers, there was no ethical way to do it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Want to be smarter? More focused? Free of memory problems as you age?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so, don't count on brain games to help you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the conclusion of an exhaustive evaluation of the scientific literature on brain training games and programs. 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Pretty soon, another group, with more than 100 scientists, published a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cognitivetrainingdata.org/the-controversy-does-brain-training-work/response-letter/\">rebuttal\u003c/a> saying brain training has a solid scientific base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you had two consensus statements, each signed by many, many people, that came to essentially opposite conclusions,\" Simons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to clarify the issue, Simons and six other scientists reviewed more than 130 studies of brain games and other forms of cognitive training. The evaluation included studies of products from industry giant \u003ca href=\"https://www.lumosity.com/\">Lumosity\u003c/a>, which has been a prominent sponsor of NPR and other public radio programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We went through each paper and tried to look at the kind of evidence it provided,\" Simons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meant asking questions like: How big was the study? Did it have an appropriate control group? Do the results support the marketing claims made by companies?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists found that \"many of the studies did not really adhere to what we think of as the best practices,\" Simons says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the studies included only a few participants. Others lacked adequate control groups or failed to account for the placebo effect, which causes people to improve on a test simply because they are trying harder or are more confident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were some good studies, Simons says. And they showed that brain games do help people get better at a specific task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can practice, for example, scanning baggage at an airport and looking for a knife,\" he says. \"And you get really, really good at spotting that knife.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was less evidence that people got better at related tasks, like spotting other suspicious items, Simons says. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of people marched through the streets of El Cajon on Wednesday night, protesting the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/police-shoot-and-kill-black-man-near-san-diego-probe-underway/\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting of an unarmed black man\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 911 caller had reported that her brother was acting erratically and walking into traffic. She told police that he was mentally ill and unarmed, Andrew Bowen of KPBS reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took nearly an hour for police to arrive on the scene. About a minute after they arrived, one of them shot Alfred Olango, The Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Olango did not have a weapon, but was in a \"shooting stance\" pointing a vape at officers, an account witnesses dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cajon police have been criticized for not sending a team specifically trained to deal with psychiatric emergencies; the department says they had a clinician in the field dealing with another call related to mental illness, and that that team was \"not immediately available\" for the call about Olango.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cell phone footage of the shooting exists, but has not been made public. El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, who has seen the video, said Wednesday it was \"not tremendously complicated to figure out what happened\" from the footage, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pinT9nmjAUFqsMbYdH8iNDbenOxJrsQ8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how he would feel if it were his own child in the video, Wells said, \"I saw a man who was distraught, and a man acting like he was in great pain. And I saw him get gunned down and killed. If he was my son, I would be devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department, the FBI and the district attorney are investigating the shooting, the AP reports, and the two officers involved are on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Two-Way \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495743615/police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-leads-to-protests-in-san-diego-suburb\">previously reported\u003c/a>, police say that after Olango pointed the object, one officer opted for nonlethal force, while another used a gun:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After police arrived on the scene, Davis said, the man drew an 'object' from his pocket, 'placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One officer on the scene discharged a Taser. Another officer — the one who 'had the object pointed at him,' Davis says — 'simultaneously' fired a gun, shooting the man several times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofelcajon.us/Home/Components/News/News/2867/384\">now say\u003c/a> the object that alarmed officers was a \"vape smoking device\" with a 3-inch-long silver cylinder and a 4-inch-long box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters reports that one of the officers on the scene had extensive mental health training. It was the other officer who shot and killed Olango, the wire service says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 452px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11109683\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer.\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg 452w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer. \u003ccite>(El Cajon Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said they saw Olango's hands in the air when he was shot, but police say the cellphone footage from a bystander corroborates the officers' account of a \"shooting stance.\" They have released a still image from the video, but not the footage, which they say the bystander voluntarily turned over to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the protesters on Wednesday called for the release of the full video. A lawyer for Olango's family said police are \"cherry-picking\" from the video, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos of the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which don't show the incident itself, were streamed online. One showed a woman who says she is Olango's sister, mourning and distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just called for help, and you came and killed him,\" she said. \"I told you guys he's sick. You guys came and killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, Calif., on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At protests on Wednesday night, an El Cajon businessman \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/sep/28/mostly-peaceful-protests-continue-el-cajon-after-p/\">told member station KPBS\u003c/a> that the shooting goes past questions of justice. \"This goes into the morality of humanity. Everybody ought to be conflicted about this,\" he said. \"Imagine if this was you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protester, local civil rights activist Estella Del Rios, said that El Cajon's district attorney has never determined a police shooting was unjustified. She called for an outside investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life,\" Del Rios told KPBS. \"A life that matters. And I just want to say we demand, as a community, a federal prosecution. We know there's a photo out there that tells just one story, one side of the story. The family needs answers. They need it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP has more on Wednesday night's protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After dark, scores of people gathered quietly around candles lining a curb in front of bloodstained pavement at the strip mall where Olango was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The spot in front of fast-food restaurant has become a makeshift altar with a mound of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More than 200 people marched in the streets near the site, yelling 'no justice, no peace, no racist police!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police in riot gear, some of them with dogs, faced off with protesters occasionally, bringing some tense moments, but mostly kept their distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no reports of any violence or arrests.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Olango was a refugee from Uganda, the AP reports, who had a part-time job in a furniture store. He had a history of run-ins with the police, with convictions for selling cocaine, receiving stolen property and drunken driving. He had served time in federal prison for possessing a gun as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer representing Olango's family told the AP that Olango was a loving father who was having an emotional breakdown after his best friend's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wire service also spoke to a woman named Agnes Hassan, originally from Sudan, who says she and Olango spent time in a refugee camp together. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of people marched through the streets of El Cajon on Wednesday night, protesting the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/police-shoot-and-kill-black-man-near-san-diego-probe-underway/\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting of an unarmed black man\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 911 caller had reported that her brother was acting erratically and walking into traffic. She told police that he was mentally ill and unarmed, Andrew Bowen of KPBS reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took nearly an hour for police to arrive on the scene. About a minute after they arrived, one of them shot Alfred Olango, The Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Olango did not have a weapon, but was in a \"shooting stance\" pointing a vape at officers, an account witnesses dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cajon police have been criticized for not sending a team specifically trained to deal with psychiatric emergencies; the department says they had a clinician in the field dealing with another call related to mental illness, and that that team was \"not immediately available\" for the call about Olango.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cell phone footage of the shooting exists, but has not been made public. El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, who has seen the video, said Wednesday it was \"not tremendously complicated to figure out what happened\" from the footage, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how he would feel if it were his own child in the video, Wells said, \"I saw a man who was distraught, and a man acting like he was in great pain. And I saw him get gunned down and killed. If he was my son, I would be devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department, the FBI and the district attorney are investigating the shooting, the AP reports, and the two officers involved are on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Two-Way \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495743615/police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-leads-to-protests-in-san-diego-suburb\">previously reported\u003c/a>, police say that after Olango pointed the object, one officer opted for nonlethal force, while another used a gun:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After police arrived on the scene, Davis said, the man drew an 'object' from his pocket, 'placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One officer on the scene discharged a Taser. Another officer — the one who 'had the object pointed at him,' Davis says — 'simultaneously' fired a gun, shooting the man several times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofelcajon.us/Home/Components/News/News/2867/384\">now say\u003c/a> the object that alarmed officers was a \"vape smoking device\" with a 3-inch-long silver cylinder and a 4-inch-long box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters reports that one of the officers on the scene had extensive mental health training. It was the other officer who shot and killed Olango, the wire service says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 452px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11109683\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer.\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg 452w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer. \u003ccite>(El Cajon Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said they saw Olango's hands in the air when he was shot, but police say the cellphone footage from a bystander corroborates the officers' account of a \"shooting stance.\" They have released a still image from the video, but not the footage, which they say the bystander voluntarily turned over to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the protesters on Wednesday called for the release of the full video. A lawyer for Olango's family said police are \"cherry-picking\" from the video, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos of the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which don't show the incident itself, were streamed online. One showed a woman who says she is Olango's sister, mourning and distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just called for help, and you came and killed him,\" she said. \"I told you guys he's sick. You guys came and killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, Calif., on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At protests on Wednesday night, an El Cajon businessman \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/sep/28/mostly-peaceful-protests-continue-el-cajon-after-p/\">told member station KPBS\u003c/a> that the shooting goes past questions of justice. \"This goes into the morality of humanity. Everybody ought to be conflicted about this,\" he said. \"Imagine if this was you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protester, local civil rights activist Estella Del Rios, said that El Cajon's district attorney has never determined a police shooting was unjustified. She called for an outside investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life,\" Del Rios told KPBS. \"A life that matters. And I just want to say we demand, as a community, a federal prosecution. We know there's a photo out there that tells just one story, one side of the story. The family needs answers. They need it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP has more on Wednesday night's protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After dark, scores of people gathered quietly around candles lining a curb in front of bloodstained pavement at the strip mall where Olango was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The spot in front of fast-food restaurant has become a makeshift altar with a mound of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More than 200 people marched in the streets near the site, yelling 'no justice, no peace, no racist police!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police in riot gear, some of them with dogs, faced off with protesters occasionally, bringing some tense moments, but mostly kept their distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no reports of any violence or arrests.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Olango was a refugee from Uganda, the AP reports, who had a part-time job in a furniture store. 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"disqusTitle": "WATCH: Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Faces House Panel Over Fake Accounts",
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"content": "\u003cp>Days after he agreed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/27/495649072/report-wells-fargo-considers-clawing-back-executive-pay-over-fake-account-scanda\">forfeit outstanding stock awards\u003c/a> worth about $41 million over his bank's creation of millions of unauthorized customer accounts, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is facing more questions on Capitol Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We should have done more sooner,\" Stumpf told members of the House Financial Services Committee, adding that he and Wells Fargo will keep working on the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In last week's hearing, Stumpf was criticized by Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Banking Committee, and that was the case again today. Consider two early exchanges, in which Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., went back to back in grilling Stumpf, with Maloney taking Stumpf to task over his personal financial gains, and McHenry asking about the bank's culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing began at 10 a.m. ET and ended around 2:30 p.m.; we've isolated those exchanges in the House panel's YouTube feed (and you can read them below):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtI47VHkehM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's a sample from Maloney's portion:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Stumpf, we know now that whistleblowers first contacted the Consumer Financial Control Board about the fraud at Wells Fargo in mid-2013. And you said in your Senate hearings last week that you first found out about the fake accounts in late 2013. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-wells-fargo-sale-pressure-20131222-story.html#page=1\">L.A. Times article\u003c/a> about the scandal was published in Dec. 21, 2013.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding up a printout of a form Stumpf filed, Maloney said it \"shows that on Oct. 30, 2013, you sold $13 million worth of Wells Fargo stock on the open market. That is by far the largest open-market sale of Wells Fargo stock that you made in your nine years as CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ITIAqW4xOjHDtd0d74c79PtjIsXFpTtn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So my question is: Did you dump $13 million of Wells Fargo stock, which you did through your family trust, right after you found out that your bank had been fraudulently opening hundreds of thousands of scam accounts, ripping off your customers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Stumpf began, \"Thank you for your question. First of all, the vast majority of our employees go to work every day\" — but Maloney cut him off: \"Excuse me, that was not my question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Maloney reiterated that the timing of the sale was \"very, very suspicious, and it raises serious questions,\" Stumpf said that he currently holds \"four times as many\" shares as he's required to hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wells Fargo CEO eventually told Maloney, \"I sold those shares, and I sold them with proper approvals, with no view about anything that was going on with sales practices, or anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Maloney said, \"Well, it seems very, very suspicious that your largest sale was right after your $1.8 trillion bank was turned into a school for scoundrels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By firing thousands of lower-level employees, Stumpf shifted blame, Maloney said. Noting that some of those former employees are now suing the company, she added, \"It seems that when you found out about the fake accounts, instead of helping your customers, you first helped yourself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's a sample of Stumpf's exchanges with McHenry\u003c/strong>, whose home turf includes two banks that are now part of Wells Fargo — First Union and Wachovia. The bank has thousands of employees in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's sad to me is the impact of this on them,\" McHenry said, noting that Stumpf had trumpeted the mergers as a blend of compatible corporate cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry then recited from Wells Fargo's code of ethics, particularly the CEO's message, which includes this line: \"We are all responsible for maintaining the highest possible ethical standards in how we conduct our business and serve our customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressman noted that the code also lays out principles of accountability at every level of the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning from the paper to face Stumpf, McHenry concluded, \"You clearly have failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry added, \"You have broken, and your company has broken, long-standing law. You've broken long-standing ethical standards that you have within your company. ... You've defrauded your customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His frustration growing evident, McHenry asked the bank executive, \"How can you rebuild trust, and how can you get through this thing? What standards are you holding yourself to that sends a message to the rest of these folks in your organization?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his reply, Stumpf said, \"The culture of the company is strong, and I don't\" — but this time, it was McHenry who cut him off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's really hard to say that when you're before Congress for the second time,\" McHenry said, \"and behind you was all the settlements you've had ... for problematic relationships you've had with your customers, by taking their money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he had earlier, Stumpf again cited the hundreds of thousands of Wells Fargo employees \"who've made their life's work and careers out of helping customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, McHenry said, those same employees are why he's registering \"severe disappointment\" in Stumpf's leadership of the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You broke the law. We make the law in Congress. This is not new stuff, that all of a sudden Congress changed some rules, and you can't have your employees create fake accounts and take fees from customers unknowingly, unwittingly. That is, there's never in human history when that has been an ethical 'OK.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry then told Stumpf, \"So for you to say that the culture is OK, this seems to me that you're just tone-deaf to this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the hearing, Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., peppered Stumpf with questions about why he hadn't resigned or been fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't believe some of what I'm hearing here,\" Meeks said at the start of his allotted time, midway through the hearing. He then listed a string of steep fines and penalties that Wells Fargo has paid under Stumpf's leadership — including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-bank-agrees-pay-12-billion-improper-mortgage-lending-practices\">$1.2 billion the bank agreed to pay\u003c/a> earlier this year for its mortgage practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a chart here that shows you've been penalized almost systematically, every year since you have been in charge,\" Meeks said, noting that Stumpf has been Wells' CEO since 2007 and its chairman and CEO since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering Meeks' charge that \"there's no responsibility,\" Stumpf replied by saying something he said several times Thursday: that he holds his job \"at the pleasure of the board.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then the whole board needs to go,\" Meeks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing that Stumpf operates under a double standard, Meeks noted that Wells Fargo had fired 5,300 employees when they were found to have done wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, something is going wrong at this bank,\" the congressman added, shaking his printout of the bank's penalties as he spoke, \"and you are the head of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later exchange, Meeks said that at Wells Fargo, Stumpf has led \"what basically has been a criminal enterprise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening remarks, Stumpf had refused to accept the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/20/494738797/you-should-resign-watch-sen-elizabeth-warren-grill-wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpf\">contentions made by Sen. 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The firm says it fired some 5,300 employees who were found to have created false accounts.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Carrie Tolstedt, the retiring Wells Fargo executive who led the unit that was found at fault in the scandal, created a stir when it emerged that she would be leaving the bank \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493791920/wells-fargo-units-leader-departs-with-125-million-after-group-incurs-record-fine\">with nearly $125 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Earlier this week, Wells Fargo announced that Stumpf would not receive a salary while the bank investigates the case.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The bank also said that Tolstedt is forfeiting outstanding stock awards worth about $19 million, and \"will not be paid severance or receive any retirement enhancements.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On Monday, former Wells Fargo employees filed a class-action lawsuit seeking $2.6 billion in damages, saying they and others were fired for following the law. 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That is by far the largest open-market sale of Wells Fargo stock that you made in your nine years as CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So my question is: Did you dump $13 million of Wells Fargo stock, which you did through your family trust, right after you found out that your bank had been fraudulently opening hundreds of thousands of scam accounts, ripping off your customers?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Stumpf began, \"Thank you for your question. First of all, the vast majority of our employees go to work every day\" — but Maloney cut him off: \"Excuse me, that was not my question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Maloney reiterated that the timing of the sale was \"very, very suspicious, and it raises serious questions,\" Stumpf said that he currently holds \"four times as many\" shares as he's required to hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Wells Fargo CEO eventually told Maloney, \"I sold those shares, and I sold them with proper approvals, with no view about anything that was going on with sales practices, or anything else.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, Maloney said, \"Well, it seems very, very suspicious that your largest sale was right after your $1.8 trillion bank was turned into a school for scoundrels.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By firing thousands of lower-level employees, Stumpf shifted blame, Maloney said. Noting that some of those former employees are now suing the company, she added, \"It seems that when you found out about the fake accounts, instead of helping your customers, you first helped yourself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And here's a sample of Stumpf's exchanges with McHenry\u003c/strong>, whose home turf includes two banks that are now part of Wells Fargo — First Union and Wachovia. The bank has thousands of employees in North Carolina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's sad to me is the impact of this on them,\" McHenry said, noting that Stumpf had trumpeted the mergers as a blend of compatible corporate cultures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry then recited from Wells Fargo's code of ethics, particularly the CEO's message, which includes this line: \"We are all responsible for maintaining the highest possible ethical standards in how we conduct our business and serve our customers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The congressman noted that the code also lays out principles of accountability at every level of the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning from the paper to face Stumpf, McHenry concluded, \"You clearly have failed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry added, \"You have broken, and your company has broken, long-standing law. You've broken long-standing ethical standards that you have within your company. ... 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This is not new stuff, that all of a sudden Congress changed some rules, and you can't have your employees create fake accounts and take fees from customers unknowingly, unwittingly. That is, there's never in human history when that has been an ethical 'OK.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McHenry then told Stumpf, \"So for you to say that the culture is OK, this seems to me that you're just tone-deaf to this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the hearing, Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., peppered Stumpf with questions about why he hadn't resigned or been fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't believe some of what I'm hearing here,\" Meeks said at the start of his allotted time, midway through the hearing. He then listed a string of steep fines and penalties that Wells Fargo has paid under Stumpf's leadership — including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wells-fargo-bank-agrees-pay-12-billion-improper-mortgage-lending-practices\">$1.2 billion the bank agreed to pay\u003c/a> earlier this year for its mortgage practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have a chart here that shows you've been penalized almost systematically, every year since you have been in charge,\" Meeks said, noting that Stumpf has been Wells' CEO since 2007 and its chairman and CEO since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Answering Meeks' charge that \"there's no responsibility,\" Stumpf replied by saying something he said several times Thursday: that he holds his job \"at the pleasure of the board.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then the whole board needs to go,\" Meeks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arguing that Stumpf operates under a double standard, Meeks noted that Wells Fargo had fired 5,300 employees when they were found to have done wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, something is going wrong at this bank,\" the congressman added, shaking his printout of the bank's penalties as he spoke, \"and you are the head of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a later exchange, Meeks said that at Wells Fargo, Stumpf has led \"what basically has been a criminal enterprise.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening remarks, Stumpf had refused to accept the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/20/494738797/you-should-resign-watch-sen-elizabeth-warren-grill-wells-fargo-ceo-john-stumpf\">contentions made by Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 29 Sept 2016:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill this month allowing the retrieval of lost or abandoned crab traps after crab fishing season has closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current law doesn't allow anyone to disturb traps belonging to another person; the new law establishes a permit that grants a person the authority to collect lost or abandoned crab traps belonging to others, and provides a fee for each trap turned in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also requires crab fishermen to pay a fee for each trap of theirs turned in, and prohibits the renewal of their fishing permit until the fee is paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are fewer than 500 North Atlantic right whales left in the world. And now, one less: This weekend, one of the 45-ton creatures was found dead off the coast of Maine, completely entangled in fishing line — head, flippers and all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was not an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, an\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-blue-whale-rescue-coast-entangled-20160628-snap-story.html\"> endangered blue whale\u003c/a> wrapped in fishing gear was seen struggling off the coast of Dana Point in Southern California. Rescuers were unable to extricate it before it swam away. And earlier this month, rescuers unsuccessfully tried to free an\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/whale-729059-entangled-humpback.html\"> entangled humpback\u003c/a> whale near Newport. Spotters say they believe the humpback eventually found its way free of most of the gear, though they're unsure if there's anything still trapped in its mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While any kind of fishing gear can be lost or abandoned at sea, gillnets, crab pots and traps are the most common types that continue to \"ghost fish\" — entrapping marine animals like whales, seals, sea lions and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the West Coast saw 61 whale entanglements — \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/NMFS_3-21-2016_entaglements.pdf\">a record number\u003c/a> that is nonetheless likely to be broken this year. So far in 2016, there have been 60 reports of entanglements as of late September. Why it's happening is unclear. Researchers say there's more derelict gear in the water today, and more reported sightings, but population numbers and migratory patterns of whales have also shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens when a whale becomes entangled is grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gear is really, really heavy and when a whale comes in contact with it, it thrashes around to shed the gear,\" says Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. Sometimes that works; sometimes it entangles the whale even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it can drown the whale immediately, or it can happen over weeks, because they get so tired,\" she says. \"They eventually die of exhaustion. If the gear is in their mouths, it impedes their ability to feed. It can amputate their tails or other parts of the body. And for younger whales, the gear may wrap around them, but the whale keeps growing and it cuts into their flesh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat the problem, Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"http://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-09-23-governor-brown-signs-mcguire%E2%80%99s-whale-protection-bill\">The Whale Protection & Crab Gear Retrieval Act\u003c/a> into law on Friday. A first of its kind for the state, the new law is designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear by creating financial incentives for the state's Dungeness and rock crab fishermen to collect any abandoned gear they find during the offseason. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_FINAL.pdf\">estimated\u003c/a> 40,000 Dungeness crab pots may be lost every year between California and the Canadian border. And that's just one fishery in one region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, plucking lost gear out of California waters was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an existing law that made it unlawful to move, damage or disturb any trap that belongs to another person. And you [couldn't] have gear on your boat outside of the season,\" says Monsell, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/project_pages/whale-entanglement/Charter2016.pdf\">fishing gear group\u003c/a> that worked on strategies to reduce whale entanglements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11108041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-400x558.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil. \u003ccite>(Projeto Tamar Brazil/Marine Photobank/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other types of fishing gear, crab pots are traceable to the owner. Fishermen who collect abandoned gear in the offseason will be paid a recovery bounty by the owner who lost the trap. Fishermen who do not buy back their lost or abandoned traps will not be allowed to get their vessel permit for the following season. In California, the Dungeness crab season typically runs Nov. 15-June 30, although last year's season was delayed because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/07/455049713/why-a-neurotoxin-is-closing-crab-season-in-california\">a toxic algae bloom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing everything we can,\" says longtime crabber Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association in San Francisco. \"Three or four years ago we got trap limits. No one can throw more than 500 traps. We've decreased the gear in the water, and we're looking at that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Oregon also have postseason recovery programs, but unlike California's, fishermen are allowed to keep or sell the gear they retrieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all entanglements come from abandoned or lost gear. Whales can be caught up in active fishing gear, too, especially when changing ocean conditions move prey, like schools of anchovies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Unusual-Number-of-Whales-Seen-in-San-Francisco-Bay-379273711.html\">closer to shore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Entanglements are a hard issue. When you have a whale, you don't know if it's active or abandoned fishing gear,\" says Sherry Lippiatt, California Regional Coordinator, NOAA Marine Debris Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast isn't alone in being a problem spot. It's estimated there are more than \u003ca href=\"http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/lobster/fishery/trap-debris/\">85,000 derelict traps\u003c/a> in the Florida Keys, affecting 79 species and killing 630,000 lobsters a year. An estimated 450,000 pots used to catch blue crab are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/ghost-story-1.18647\">lost each year\u003c/a> in Louisiana. In the Chesapeake Bay, where nearly half of all U.S. blue crabs are landed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19671\">160,000 crab pots go astray\u003c/a> annually. And according to the environmental group \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/news/working-our-partners-remove-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-maine-waters\">World Animal Protection\u003c/a>, of the 3 million lobster pots that go into the water in Maine, an estimated 10 percent are lost each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the group launched the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ghostgear.org/\">Global Ghost Gear Initiative\u003c/a> to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108042\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 532px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg\" alt=\"World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine.\" width=\"532\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11108042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine. \u003ccite>(Kristian Whipple/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager with World Animal Protection, says that each year around the globe, 640,000 tons of gear is getting lost in the ocean. \"It adds up. Very little of it is getting pulled out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lost gear has been known to travel great distances. \"Colleagues in the U.K. found lobster pots from Maine and Canada on the shores of the U.K. That gear crossed the ocean,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghost gear can continue to trap fish and shellfish — and impact the health of a fishery. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found that removing just over 34,000 derelict pots allowed the fishery to harvest an additional 13,500 metric tons of crab worth $21.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other financial incentives to getting abandoned gear out of the water. Influential groups like Seafood Watch take ghost gear \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/standard%20revision%20reference/2015%20standard%20revision/mba_seafoodwatch_fisheries_criteria_final.pdf?la=en\">into account\u003c/a> when rating a fishery if there's strong evidence that it's a problem, while the Marine Stewardship Council's certification includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/documents/scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-requirements-version-2.0\">criteria\u003c/a> on effects from gear loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rochmanlab.com/\">Chelsea Rochman\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies ocean debris, including derelict fishing gear, says that while the new California legislation is helpful, she's not sure whether it will ultimately save whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of marine debris and derelict fishing gear, it's a first step. But what's special about this law is that the fishermen are on board. It incentivises them to pick up their gear,\" she says. \"I think it's a great first step.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins says that's because fishers had a voice at the table when the working group first sat down to address the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to be proactive and get ahead of this. Now, at the end of the season, we can pick up the gear and get it out of the ocean, because we love whales like everyone else,\" says Collins. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was not an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late June, an\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-blue-whale-rescue-coast-entangled-20160628-snap-story.html\"> endangered blue whale\u003c/a> wrapped in fishing gear was seen struggling off the coast of Dana Point in Southern California. Rescuers were unable to extricate it before it swam away. And earlier this month, rescuers unsuccessfully tried to free an\u003ca href=\"http://www.ocregister.com/articles/whale-729059-entangled-humpback.html\"> entangled humpback\u003c/a> whale near Newport. Spotters say they believe the humpback eventually found its way free of most of the gear, though they're unsure if there's anything still trapped in its mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While any kind of fishing gear can be lost or abandoned at sea, gillnets, crab pots and traps are the most common types that continue to \"ghost fish\" — entrapping marine animals like whales, seals, sea lions and sea turtles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the West Coast saw 61 whale entanglements — \u003ca href=\"http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/fisheries/pdfs/NMFS_3-21-2016_entaglements.pdf\">a record number\u003c/a> that is nonetheless likely to be broken this year. So far in 2016, there have been 60 reports of entanglements as of late September. Why it's happening is unclear. Researchers say there's more derelict gear in the water today, and more reported sightings, but population numbers and migratory patterns of whales have also shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens when a whale becomes entangled is grim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gear is really, really heavy and when a whale comes in contact with it, it thrashes around to shed the gear,\" says Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. Sometimes that works; sometimes it entangles the whale even further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes it can drown the whale immediately, or it can happen over weeks, because they get so tired,\" she says. \"They eventually die of exhaustion. If the gear is in their mouths, it impedes their ability to feed. It can amputate their tails or other parts of the body. And for younger whales, the gear may wrap around them, but the whale keeps growing and it cuts into their flesh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To combat the problem, Gov. Jerry Brown signed \u003ca href=\"http://sd02.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-09-23-governor-brown-signs-mcguire%E2%80%99s-whale-protection-bill\">The Whale Protection & Crab Gear Retrieval Act\u003c/a> into law on Friday. A first of its kind for the state, the new law is designed to reduce the number of whales caught in fishing gear by creating financial incentives for the state's Dungeness and rock crab fishermen to collect any abandoned gear they find during the offseason. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.pcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/FEP_FINAL.pdf\">estimated\u003c/a> 40,000 Dungeness crab pots may be lost every year between California and the Canadian border. And that's just one fishery in one region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now, plucking lost gear out of California waters was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was an existing law that made it unlawful to move, damage or disturb any trap that belongs to another person. And you [couldn't] have gear on your boat outside of the season,\" says Monsell, a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/project_pages/whale-entanglement/Charter2016.pdf\">fishing gear group\u003c/a> that worked on strategies to reduce whale entanglements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108041\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1115\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11108041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-800x1115.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-400x558.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d-960x1338.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-2_enl-206ec1ff00a7c23481ec6741b6ebff93bfcc792d.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ghost net, entangling 17 deceased sea turtles, was discovered days after a storm off the coast of Bahia, Brazil. \u003ccite>(Projeto Tamar Brazil/Marine Photobank/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Unlike many other types of fishing gear, crab pots are traceable to the owner. Fishermen who collect abandoned gear in the offseason will be paid a recovery bounty by the owner who lost the trap. Fishermen who do not buy back their lost or abandoned traps will not be allowed to get their vessel permit for the following season. In California, the Dungeness crab season typically runs Nov. 15-June 30, although last year's season was delayed because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/07/455049713/why-a-neurotoxin-is-closing-crab-season-in-california\">a toxic algae bloom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're doing everything we can,\" says longtime crabber Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association in San Francisco. \"Three or four years ago we got trap limits. No one can throw more than 500 traps. We've decreased the gear in the water, and we're looking at that again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Washington and Oregon also have postseason recovery programs, but unlike California's, fishermen are allowed to keep or sell the gear they retrieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all entanglements come from abandoned or lost gear. Whales can be caught up in active fishing gear, too, especially when changing ocean conditions move prey, like schools of anchovies, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Unusual-Number-of-Whales-Seen-in-San-Francisco-Bay-379273711.html\">closer to shore\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Entanglements are a hard issue. When you have a whale, you don't know if it's active or abandoned fishing gear,\" says Sherry Lippiatt, California Regional Coordinator, NOAA Marine Debris Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Coast isn't alone in being a problem spot. It's estimated there are more than \u003ca href=\"http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/crustaceans/lobster/fishery/trap-debris/\">85,000 derelict traps\u003c/a> in the Florida Keys, affecting 79 species and killing 630,000 lobsters a year. An estimated 450,000 pots used to catch blue crab are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/news/ghost-story-1.18647\">lost each year\u003c/a> in Louisiana. In the Chesapeake Bay, where nearly half of all U.S. blue crabs are landed, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/articles/srep19671\">160,000 crab pots go astray\u003c/a> annually. And according to the environmental group \u003ca href=\"https://www.worldanimalprotection.us.org/news/working-our-partners-remove-lost-and-abandoned-fishing-gear-maine-waters\">World Animal Protection\u003c/a>, of the 3 million lobster pots that go into the water in Maine, an estimated 10 percent are lost each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the group launched the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ghostgear.org/\">Global Ghost Gear Initiative\u003c/a> to tackle the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108042\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 532px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg\" alt=\"World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine.\" width=\"532\" height=\"788\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11108042\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4.jpg 532w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/ghost-fishing-gear-3_enl-03fe162e6637b04ebdcf5cf1768c546d320fa3e4-400x592.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Animal Protection and the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, in partnership with local fishermen, removed ghost fishing gear off the coast of Portland, Maine. \u003ccite>(Kristian Whipple/Courtesy of World Animal Protection)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager with World Animal Protection, says that each year around the globe, 640,000 tons of gear is getting lost in the ocean. \"It adds up. Very little of it is getting pulled out,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lost gear has been known to travel great distances. \"Colleagues in the U.K. found lobster pots from Maine and Canada on the shores of the U.K. That gear crossed the ocean,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghost gear can continue to trap fish and shellfish — and impact the health of a fishery. In the Chesapeake Bay, researchers found that removing just over 34,000 derelict pots allowed the fishery to harvest an additional 13,500 metric tons of crab worth $21.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other financial incentives to getting abandoned gear out of the water. Influential groups like Seafood Watch take ghost gear \u003ca href=\"http://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/standard%20revision%20reference/2015%20standard%20revision/mba_seafoodwatch_fisheries_criteria_final.pdf?la=en\">into account\u003c/a> when rating a fishery if there's strong evidence that it's a problem, while the Marine Stewardship Council's certification includes \u003ca href=\"https://www.msc.org/documents/scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-scheme-documents/fisheries-certification-requirements-version-2.0\">criteria\u003c/a> on effects from gear loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rochmanlab.com/\">Chelsea Rochman\u003c/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto who studies ocean debris, including derelict fishing gear, says that while the new California legislation is helpful, she's not sure whether it will ultimately save whales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In terms of marine debris and derelict fishing gear, it's a first step. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the manslaughter charge against Shelby was announced, the Tulsa Police Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/Tulsa-Police-Department-50187668662/\">said on its Facebook page\u003c/a> that \"several demonstrations\" were taking place in the city. It added that there was \"no credible information\" to suggest that any of the gatherings, protests or rallies will not be peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noting that he had contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office about the case immediately after the shooting, Chief Jordan promised earlier this week, \"We will achieve justice in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Justice Department is carrying out a civil rights investigation into Crutcher's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crutcher's sister Tiffany Crutcher welcomed the prosecutor's announcement, saying, \"We want a conviction, and when that happens, this is a small victory, but we know we have to get ready to fight this war.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin released a statement Thursday saying she hoped the decision to charge the officer provides some peace to Crutcher's family and the people of Tulsa. She adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[W]e must remain patient as the case works its way through the justice system, where a jury likely will be asked to decide whether officer Betty Shelby is guilty of the crime. And we must remember that in our justice system, officer Shelby is innocent until proven guilty.\u003cbr>\n\"No matter how you feel about the prosecutors' decision in this case, I hope Oklahomans will respect the views of your friends and neighbors because we still have to live peacefully together as we try to make sense of the circumstances that led to Mr. Crutcher's death.\u003cbr>\n\"I want to compliment Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan and Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler as well as the citizens of Tulsa for keeping peace and order during this difficult time. I continue to ask that all of us keep the Crutcher and Shelby families in our prayers.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Seconds before he was shot, police dashcam and helicopter footage show, he had walked to his car with his hands held over his head as Officer Betty Shelby walked behind him, her gun raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll post the helicopter video \u003ca href=\"https://vimeopro.com/user18042709/september-16-2016-tulsa-police-officer-involved-shooting\">and link to more footage here\u003c/a>, with the warning that some of the video is graphic and may be difficult to watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_CWr5iSLY]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the recording from the Tulsa police helicopter, an officer is heard saying of Crutcher as he walks in front of Shelby, \"Looks like that's a bad dude, maybe on something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers had been called to the scene by passers-by who had reported a vehicle abandoned in the road. \"He took off running,\" a woman told a 911 operator, saying that the man said his vehicle might blow up. She added, \"I think he's smoking something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelby, who is white, was one of four police officers who were standing at the rear bumper of Crutcher's car as he stood next to his vehicle around 7:45 p.m. Friday. She's also the officer who shot him once, in the upper body — and who then radioed, \"Shots fired.\" Police say another officer used his Taser on Crutcher at nearly the same time he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to assure our community, and I want to assure all of you and people across the nation who are going to be looking at this, we will achieve justice, period,\" Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan said Monday, as his department released the videos. He called the footage \"very disturbing; it's very difficult to watch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Shelby's attorney, Scott Wood, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/crimewatch/justice-will-be-achieved-in-terence-crutcher-shooting-tulsa-police/article_ceb93e3d-2ce1-539b-bb89-b849a224e16f.html\">told the Tulsa World\u003c/a> that Shelby believed Crutcher was reaching for something inside his car, and that he hadn't been following her commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm going to tell you right here and now: There was no gun on the suspect or in the suspect's vehicle,\" Jordan said of Crutcher. The police chief said he contacted the U.S. Attorney's Office about the case immediately after the shooting, and he added, \"We will achieve justice in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan said that the first time he watched the police-cam footage was when he viewed it with Crutcher's family — something he said he did on Sunday, to give the slain man's relatives a chance to see the video before anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After watching the video and seeing what actually happened,\" said Tiffany Crutcher, Terence's twin sister, \"we're truly devastated. The entire family is devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Crutcher then went on to tell the media gathered in Tulsa, \"You all want to know who that big 'bad dude' was. That big 'bad dude' was my twin brother. That big 'bad dude' was a father. That big 'bad dude' was a son. 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"content": "\u003cp>There's a new term that has become popular in city planning circles: tactical urbanism. The idea is that small experiments, done cheaply and quickly, can make cities better, and more nimble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the tactics are guerrilla methods: citizens might paint a crosswalk where they believe one should exist, or post their own road signs where they find the official ones confusing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, DIY urbanists have been leaving their mark on cities — and now city governments are trying to bring them into the fold to harness their ideas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'How can they say no to kids?'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first glance, the battle for a bike lane in Burlington, Vermont, seems like the sort of thing that plays out in town meetings everywhere. A group of concerned citizens wanted a protected bike lane by the elementary school downtown, to make it safer for kids to get to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are a few things that make this case different. For starters, the bike lane was really a symbol of something bigger: showing that streets could be made better for everyone, and that citizens could lead the way through experimentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5152_custom-9cc78e27c74ab46a1a1d72d73f1ca1167a24ccab-e1473958488937.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5152_custom-9cc78e27c74ab46a1a1d72d73f1ca1167a24ccab-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This is Church Street, a pedestrian-only thoroughfare in downtown Burlington.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Church Street, a pedestrian-only thoroughfare in downtown Burlington. \u003ccite>(Laurel Wamsley/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peggy O'Neill was one of the strongest advocates for the bike lane. She and her family had just come back from a semester in Bogota, Colombia, the city that \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELa5CHsUepo\">invented Ciclovia\u003c/a> — closing streets to cars, and opening them to everything else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the entire city,\" she explains. \"Avenues, huge avenues! Open to bicycles. Dogs. Skateboard riders. Rollerbladers. Everything! Not cars. So you have this privilege and priority in the streets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was fired up to bring some of Bogota's ideas to Burlington. Along with many others, O'Neill tried to get the city to approve the protected bike lane for a week, a day, or just an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every meeting I would go in feeling optimistic,\" she says. \"How can they say no to kids?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's exactly what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was incredibly discouraging,\" O'Neill says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Empowering citizens\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We really wanted to say yes to it,\" says Miro Weinberger, Burlington's mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he wants Burlington to be the sort of place where citizens' energy can flourish — noting that city governments can be the instigators of tactical interventions, too. He points to New York City, and the success that city had in remaking Times Square from a traffic-choked bottleneck into an incredibly popular pedestrian plaza. And New York started \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/1194840510031/times-square-s-pedestrian-makeover.html\">by just trying it out\u003c/a>, one Memorial Day weekend, with some orange plastic barrels to reroute cars and lawn chairs to sit on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5175_custom-8715fac4d800c93425dc21012e689439e3077805-e1473958634686.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089126\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5175_custom-8715fac4d800c93425dc21012e689439e3077805-800x263.jpg\" alt=\"(Left) Mayor Miro Weinberger wants Burlington to be best biking city on the East Coast. (Right) Jason Van Driesche stands in Local Motion's trailer full of tactical urbanism supplies. Van Driesche believes DIY methods can spur permanent change.\" width=\"800\" height=\"263\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Mayor Miro Weinberger wants Burlington to be best biking city on the East Coast. (Right) Jason Van Driesche stands in Local Motion's trailer full of tactical urbanism supplies. Van Driesche believes DIY methods can spur permanent change. \u003ccite>(Laurel Wamsley/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of Mayor Weinberger's vision is to make Burlington the best biking city on the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we've got a long way to go to get there,\" he says, \"and we think it will be accelerated if citizens are empowered to help us do some of the work that's going to be necessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city created a tactical urbanism policy, making it easier to greenlight projects like O'Neill's. And it published a 50-page \u003ca href=\"https://www.burlingtonvt.gov/DPW/Tactical-Urbanism-and-Demonstration-Projects\">tactical urbanism guide\u003c/a>, offering ideas for projects citizens might propose, from curb extensions that shorten pedestrian crossings, to wayfinding signs that make it easier to explore the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'I need to be strategic'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brendan Hogan is another bike lane advocate. At Open Streets, Burlington's now-annual, much smaller version of Ciclovia, people of all ages biked past, on a mile and a half of streets closed to cars. O'Neill and her family were there, making pedal-powered smoothies on the back of a bike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089127\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5581_custom-1d13868d97f72c6f7185beb0922df88fc1e92442-e1473958703958.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11089127 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5581_custom-1d13868d97f72c6f7185beb0922df88fc1e92442-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"O'Neill and fellow bike lane advocate Brendan Hogan stand with Hogan's son George on a blocked off street during Open Streets in Burlington.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peggy O'Neill and fellow bike lane advocate Brendan Hogan stand with Hogan's son, George, on a blocked-off street during Open Streets in Burlington. \u003ccite>(Laurel Wamsley/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hogan said the city's new efforts felt like a victory, even though he didn't get everything he wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city was not ready for a bunch of citizens proposing changes to their streets, us laypeople without civil engineering degrees,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hogan says their efforts laid the groundwork -- for both the city and the citizens -- to do this kind of thing in the future. And for advocates like Jason Van Driesche, deputy director of the Vermont walking and biking nonprofit Local Motion, the unsanctioned methods still have an appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd be lying if I didn't say that at times I have been sorely tempted to go out with a can of spray paint and paint a damn white line on the street. But my better self remembers that if I want something permanent, I need to be strategic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Burlington and other cities adopt the scrappy tactics of their citizens, they'll need to show that they can make good on tactical urbanism's original principles — to move faster, try new things and not be afraid to fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=With+Citizens%27+Help%2C+Cities+Can+Build+A+Better+Bike+Lane+%E2%80%94+And+More&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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For starters, the bike lane was really a symbol of something bigger: showing that streets could be made better for everyone, and that citizens could lead the way through experimentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089125\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5152_custom-9cc78e27c74ab46a1a1d72d73f1ca1167a24ccab-e1473958488937.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089125\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5152_custom-9cc78e27c74ab46a1a1d72d73f1ca1167a24ccab-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"This is Church Street, a pedestrian-only thoroughfare in downtown Burlington.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is Church Street, a pedestrian-only thoroughfare in downtown Burlington. \u003ccite>(Laurel Wamsley/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Peggy O'Neill was one of the strongest advocates for the bike lane. 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And New York started \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/1194840510031/times-square-s-pedestrian-makeover.html\">by just trying it out\u003c/a>, one Memorial Day weekend, with some orange plastic barrels to reroute cars and lawn chairs to sit on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11089126\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5175_custom-8715fac4d800c93425dc21012e689439e3077805-e1473958634686.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11089126\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/vt-img_5175_custom-8715fac4d800c93425dc21012e689439e3077805-800x263.jpg\" alt=\"(Left) Mayor Miro Weinberger wants Burlington to be best biking city on the East Coast. (Right) Jason Van Driesche stands in Local Motion's trailer full of tactical urbanism supplies. 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