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"content": "\u003cp>The alleged mishandling of death investigations in San Joaquin County inflicted distress and extra costs on grieving families, wasted county resources and potentially impeded prosecutions -- according to two forensic pathologists who quit performing autopsies for the sheriff-coroner last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation into those allegations confirmed that the coroner’s office, under Sheriff Steve Moore, released the wrong bodies to families in 2016 and 2017, and once lost track of a body in the morgue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County chief forensic pathologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The coroner also charged hundreds of families hundreds of dollars each to transport their loved ones to the morgue -- unnecessarily, the doctors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, sheriff’s deputies -- who are also charged with coroner duties -- failed to report deaths to the forensic pathologists that the county was legally required to investigate in a timely manner. The doctors said that prevented them from performing the autopsies and tests necessary to determine how and why the people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Joaquin County, as in most California counties, the elected sheriff is also the coroner and is charged with investigating sudden, suspicious or violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allegations \u003c/a>of misconduct in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office surfaced last year when Dr. Bennet Omalu, the chief forensic pathologist for the county, resigned -- one week after the resignation of his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, also a forensic pathologist. Omalu, world renowned for his discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players, accused Moore of interfering with death investigations in order to protect law enforcement officers. Both doctors said the sheriff prevented them from completing investigations by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withholding\u003c/a> evidence and investigatory \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu declined to comment on specific allegations, but in a recent interview he said: \"We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore said in December that he never interfered with the findings of his forensic pathologists, who determine the cause of death, but that he has the final say on the manner of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do that based on the totality of the circumstances, up to and including the autopsy report provided by the doctor and the investigative report done by the coroner’s investigators,” Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore refused several subsequent requests for interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/SanJoaquinCoronerSmall2way180209.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS28170_IMG_6103-qut-800x600.jpg\" Title=\"Reporter Julie Small on How San Joaquin County Families Have Paid for Coroner Mistakes\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wrong Remains\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most shocking allegations against the coroner involve two cases where staff mixed up bodies in their care and released them to the wrong families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Carmen Rogers, whose husband, Marvin, 54, died of complications from heart disease in a Stockton motel on May 31, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers declined to be interviewed about what happened, but she told her story in a legal complaint against the sheriff. Details of the handling of Marvin Rogers’ death were also revealed in internal sheriff-coroner records obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers agreed to have her husband cremated, and the coroner’s office sent his body to Zapata Funeral Home, according to a computer entry in coroner records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family held a funeral service for Marvin with the urn of what they thought were his ashes in the room; some of his cremated remains were also placed inside 14 necklaces given to his grandchildren, according to the complaint filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29313_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Necklaces that can hold cremated remains for sale in San Joaquin County mortuary. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But about a month after the funeral, Rogers received a call at work from the sheriff’s office, asking her to meet “to discuss an important matter,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint details how sheriff's detectives explained that the coroner’s office had mixed up her husband’s body with the body of another man with the same last name. The funeral home had cremated the other man’s body and sent Carmen Rogers his ashes. The body of her husband, Marvin, remained at the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the mistake Rogers was “distraught,” according to court records -- “she had trouble sleeping, felt anxious, and missed work because she could not concentrate” and sought psychological counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Rogers and her family held a second funeral, with the correct ashes, a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2017, they sued Sheriff Moore and the funeral home for damages, to cover the costs of the second funeral, and for emotional stress and strain. The family is currently in settlement negotiations with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Cremated?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Theresa Zavala, the daughter of the man who had been mistakenly cremated, had no idea where her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala, who lives outside Los Angeles, had not heard from her dad, John Rogers, for months and she filed a missing person’s report, according to her attorney. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office contacted her in July 2017, more than a year after John Rogers’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Reynolds phoned Zavala and said he wanted to meet with her in person to tell her what had happened to her father. According to coroner's documents obtained by KQED, he traded messages with Zavala for months before agreeing to her request to mail the police report and discuss the matter over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers was discovered dead on May 2, 2016, in the back parking lot of Bay’s Bistro, a shuttered Lodi restaurant, according to the coroner’s records. A homeless advocate found John lying on a pile of clothes with his head propped up against a fence. Detectives were able to identify him by a driver’s license in his pocket, but could not locate his next of kin. An autopsy and toxicology test determined the 59-year-old had died of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John’s body had been at the morgue for a month, when, on June 6, 2016, coroner staff mistakenly released his remains to Marvin Rogers’ family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"lQM4UAkvM3BZfRbjPv9Xt2teAPtxfW2V\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case notes about his Oct. 6 call with Zavala, Sgt. Reynolds recounted, “I explained how the incident occurred, our actions upon discovering it occurred, and the steps we have taken to prevent it from happen[ing] again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simran Sekhon, Zavala’s attorney, said the coroner promised to send Zavala her father’s remains — but to this day, she has not received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did not have an opportunity to have a funeral,” Sekhon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala and her two sisters filed claims against San Joaquin County in January, in preparation for a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Mix-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2017 the coroner’s office repeated the mistake -- of releasing the wrong body -- that had caused Carmen Rogers and Theresa Zavala so much distress. Deputies gave a Lodi family the body of a stranger -- a man who shared their father’s last name, but who was decades younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger man, Robert Silva, 45, died on Oct 21, 2017, at Lodi Memorial Hospital from an infection in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, Richard Silva, 88, died of a heart attack at his senior living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week before officials in the coroner’s office realized they had given the wrong body to Richard Silva’s children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, deputies delivered Richard’s body to the family’s chosen funeral home and reclaimed the body of Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 12 computer entry states, “decedent was released in error on 12/04/07... Notification of the error has been made to next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard’s son declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities determined Robert was indigent and cremated his body at the Bay Area Cremation and Funeral Service in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learning From Mistakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Shaw, with the California State \u003ca href=\"http://www.coroners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coroners\u003c/a> Association, said these kind of mistakes are rare, “but we know it does happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who is the supervising deputy coroner for San Bernardino County, said his department once discharged the wrong body to a family, back in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it's the most embarrassing thing to an agency because the trust that we hope to instill in families is completely gone,” Shaw said. “I think if that happened to me, I'd think, ‘What are these boobs doing?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said San Bernardino officials purchased a new casket for the deceased person and paid all the mortuary costs. Luckily, he said, the family was forgiving and did not sue the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said he tells that story as part of a training course he teaches for coroner deputies in California -- as an example of what can go wrong and how to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner adopted new procedures and has not repeated the mistake. Two autopsy assistants and a supervisor have eyes on every release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have adequate staffing.” Shaw said. “We make sure the procedures are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the fact that the San Joaquin County coroner mixed up bodies twice indicates the problem wasn’t adequately addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean if you have two, there's something that they didn't probably put into place,” Shaw said. “It could be a multitude of issues, but it’s terribly embarrassing and wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/coroner/Pages/mec.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical examiner\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, Michelle Jorden, said her office established protocols to reduce the chance of mix-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened here.” said Jorden, who added that each body in her morgue is assigned a case number that’s printed on a toe tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The body will not be released until we have two people look at the toe tags and the matching paperwork,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with adequately tracking bodies in the San Joaquin County morgue date as far back as 2013. That’s when a body went missing for more than six months. Sources close to the office said a technician discovered a badly decomposed body in the morgue. Meanwhile, the person’s relatives had been asking for their loved one for months -- and were told the body was not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years Omalu has recommended purchasing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for tracking bodies and specimens, a standard tool used by hospitals. He said the sheriff told him it was too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one local mortuary in San Joaquin County, staff said that the coroner’s office has released the wrong body to them often enough that they now ask family members to view and identify each body before cremation or burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore declined to answer questions about how bodies are tracked in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Should Pay the $352 Coroner's Fee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sign of mismanagement by the sheriff-coroner -- according to Omalu and Parson -- is that coroner's deputies bring hundreds of bodies to the morgue each year “unnecessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several memos documenting the issue, Omalu and Parson estimated that 40 percent of the bodies brought to the county morgue could have had death certificates signed by a treating physician, because the death was not unexpected or violent. That would spare families a $352 coroner’s transportation fee, and delays before they can cremate or bury a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in one weekend in June 2017, Parson wrote, four out of 11 bodies brought to the morgue could have been handled by outside physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those bodies should have never even come to the morgue,” Parson lamented in a memo. “They should have gone straight to the funeral home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annual reports from the San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office show that in 2015, 351 bodies brought to the morgue -- or 32 percent -- were later referred to outside physicians to sign out. In 2016, it was 34 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total handling fees for those potentially unnecessary transports added up to more than $100,000 each year in revenue for the sheriff's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of the people who died in San Joaquin County may not have noticed they paid a fee for coroner’s services. The cost is publicly posted on the sheriff-coroner website, but mortuary companies pay that fee directly to the sheriff and then bill the families for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic pathologists say the extra work also taxes coroner resources and staff time, including detectives who spend hours contacting doctors to get them to sign death certificates, and autopsy technicians who move and store bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gross inefficiency impacts everybody ... and increases both tangible and intangible costs for the family and for the county,” Omalu wrote in a Sept. 10, 2017, memo.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSome Deaths Overlooked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the two forensic pathologists allege that the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is not investigating some deaths that it should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the family of a Lodi woman who died in January fears they’ll never know the cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Espinosa described what happened to her fiance’s sister in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11648892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29307_transform-1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Espinosa of San Joaquin County \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Espinosa said her fiance's sister, Julie Russell, had been cooking dinner around 7 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2018. Three hours later, she died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-year-old had a case of flu, and possibly pneumonia and heart problems. She also had a history of drug addiction and alcoholism, and her bedroom contained empty liquor bottles and prescription painkillers for her arthritis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s son found her lying on the floor and called an ambulance and then called relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars and an ambulance were already at the house when Espinosa arrived that Monday night to find Russell flat on her back, eyes wide open, foaming at the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinosa does research for law enforcement on cold cases, so she knew the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=27491.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criteria\u003c/a> for a coroner to take a case. She was surprised when the sheriff’s deputy said he wasn’t going to take Russell’s body to the morgue -- even though she thought Russell was an obvious coroner's case. The deputy told her to pick a funeral home instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday the coroner’s office told me they were coming to get her body and that they were going to charge me $350,” Espinosa said. “I said, ‘What are you talking about? She's been at the funeral home for four days. Now you're going to go get her?’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner conducted an autopsy, but Espinosa said she was told the results won’t be available for three to four months. Espinosa said she is supporting Sheriff Moore’s opponent in an upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu and Parson documented other cases where law enforcement officers failed to notify them of people who died under questionable circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent example involves the fetus of a woman who miscarried at 32 weeks, a month after her boyfriend assaulted her. According to an Aug. 25 memo titled “Gross Negligence of Possible Fetal Homicide,” Parson wrote that the woman told a funeral home employee about the assault and the funeral home relayed the information to the detective right after the baby died on July 9, yet no case had been opened on the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked why he didn’t bring this to my or Dr. Omalu’s attention before now and he responded that he’s been busy,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson said by the time she learned of the baby’s death several weeks later, it was far too late to be able to determine whether or not it was related to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply troubled that somewhere along the line, gross negligence occurred in the management of this case allowing a potential fetal homicide to fall through the cracks,” Parson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors say these kinds of mistakes can happen when law enforcement officers are asked to perform medical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patrol Deputies Receive Minimal Training on Death Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Walker, who retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012, said he did not receive enough training on death investigations in the academy for patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I got was a manual with the words ‘coroner cases’ on it,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that wasn’t enough to prepare him to determine who should go to the morgue and who could go directly to a mortuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648883\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1020x870.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1180x1007.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-960x819.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-240x205.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-375x320.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-520x444.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Steve Walker retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you're on patrol, you're doing patrol duties,” Walker said. “You're handling criminal cases and maybe doing traffic -- could be anything from a barking dog to a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said as a patrol deputy he would go days without handling a single coroner’s case, and then have to go to an intensive care unit where someone had died and rifle through binders of medical records full of words he did not understand just to figure out whether a physician could sign the death certificate instead of the coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is up for re-election this year, with a primary in June, and Walker is campaigning for his opponent, Pat Withrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California requires deputies to complete 80 hours of death investigation training within their first year on the job -- and 32 hours every two years after that if their primary job is conducting coroner duties. Detectives in the sheriff-coroner’s office in San Joaquin County fall under this category, but deputies like Walker, who have a variety of duties, receive some initial training, followed by just a few hours of in-service training on coroner cases each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore’s information officer, Deputy Dave Konecny, referred questions about staff training requirements to the San Joaquin County counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New System for Investigating Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel and district attorney both said they are investigating the allegations made by Omalu and Parson, but two months on, neither agency has announced any findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Board of Supervisors has commissioned an analysis of coroner operations, which will include a comparison of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> system with a medical examiner system -- in which a forensic pathologist, rather than a law enforcement official, oversees death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Board of Supervisors and residents want it,” Moore said late last year, “I would fully support separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the coroner’s functions are taken over by a medical examiner, Moore would continue in his elected role as the county sheriff and public administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors hearing, County Administrator Monica Nino said the study on the sheriff-coroner operations will not be ready until April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of the San Joaquin Medical Society criticized “the lack of urgency” in addressing the allegations in a letter to supervisors this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stakes are high,” Dr. Grant Mellor wrote. “We are about to lose two highly respected, hardworking forensic pathologists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson’s last day is Feb 25. Omalu’s decade-long service ends March 5. But both doctors have said they would stay on if county officials could ensure their independence.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The alleged mishandling of death investigations in San Joaquin County inflicted distress and extra costs on grieving families, wasted county resources and potentially impeded prosecutions -- according to two forensic pathologists who quit performing autopsies for the sheriff-coroner last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation into those allegations confirmed that the coroner’s office, under Sheriff Steve Moore, released the wrong bodies to families in 2016 and 2017, and once lost track of a body in the morgue for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We should never, ever, compromise our standards, compromise the integrity and the credibility of the system, especially in this type of work, where people have placed their trust in you to tell them the truth.'\u003ccite>Dr. Bennet Omalu,\u003cbr>\nSan Joaquin County chief forensic pathologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The coroner also charged hundreds of families hundreds of dollars each to transport their loved ones to the morgue -- unnecessarily, the doctors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other instances, sheriff’s deputies -- who are also charged with coroner duties -- failed to report deaths to the forensic pathologists that the county was legally required to investigate in a timely manner. The doctors said that prevented them from performing the autopsies and tests necessary to determine how and why the people died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Joaquin County, as in most California counties, the elected sheriff is also the coroner and is charged with investigating sudden, suspicious or violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648872\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-960x1440.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-240x360.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-375x563.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29306_IMG_2022-qut-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Bennet Omalu \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Dr. Bennet Omalu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/04/autopsy-doctors-sheriff-overrode-death-findings-to-protect-law-enforcement/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Allegations \u003c/a>of misconduct in the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office surfaced last year when Dr. Bennet Omalu, the chief forensic pathologist for the county, resigned -- one week after the resignation of his colleague, Dr. Susan Parson, also a forensic pathologist. Omalu, world renowned for his discovery of a deadly brain disease in professional football players, accused Moore of interfering with death investigations in order to protect law enforcement officers. Both doctors said the sheriff prevented them from completing investigations by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/11/the-officer-tased-him-31-times-the-sheriff-called-his-death-an-accident/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withholding\u003c/a> evidence and investigatory \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/12/22/pathologists-say-san-joaquin-sheriffs-meddling-could-have-compromised-murder-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wrong Remains\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most shocking allegations against the coroner involve two cases where staff mixed up bodies in their care and released them to the wrong families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened to Carmen Rogers, whose husband, Marvin, 54, died of complications from heart disease in a Stockton motel on May 31, 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers declined to be interviewed about what happened, but she told her story in a legal complaint against the sheriff. Details of the handling of Marvin Rogers’ death were also revealed in internal sheriff-coroner records obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers agreed to have her husband cremated, and the coroner’s office sent his body to Zapata Funeral Home, according to a computer entry in coroner records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family held a funeral service for Marvin with the urn of what they thought were his ashes in the room; some of his cremated remains were also placed inside 14 necklaces given to his grandchildren, according to the complaint filed in San Joaquin County Superior Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648886\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648886\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29313_transform-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Necklaces that can hold cremated remains for sale in San Joaquin County mortuary. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But about a month after the funeral, Rogers received a call at work from the sheriff’s office, asking her to meet “to discuss an important matter,” according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint details how sheriff's detectives explained that the coroner’s office had mixed up her husband’s body with the body of another man with the same last name. The funeral home had cremated the other man’s body and sent Carmen Rogers his ashes. The body of her husband, Marvin, remained at the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning of the mistake Rogers was “distraught,” according to court records -- “she had trouble sleeping, felt anxious, and missed work because she could not concentrate” and sought psychological counseling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Rogers and her family held a second funeral, with the correct ashes, a month later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2017, they sued Sheriff Moore and the funeral home for damages, to cover the costs of the second funeral, and for emotional stress and strain. The family is currently in settlement negotiations with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Cremated?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Theresa Zavala, the daughter of the man who had been mistakenly cremated, had no idea where her father was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala, who lives outside Los Angeles, had not heard from her dad, John Rogers, for months and she filed a missing person’s report, according to her attorney. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office contacted her in July 2017, more than a year after John Rogers’ death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Mike Reynolds phoned Zavala and said he wanted to meet with her in person to tell her what had happened to her father. According to coroner's documents obtained by KQED, he traded messages with Zavala for months before agreeing to her request to mail the police report and discuss the matter over the phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Rogers was discovered dead on May 2, 2016, in the back parking lot of Bay’s Bistro, a shuttered Lodi restaurant, according to the coroner’s records. A homeless advocate found John lying on a pile of clothes with his head propped up against a fence. Detectives were able to identify him by a driver’s license in his pocket, but could not locate his next of kin. An autopsy and toxicology test determined the 59-year-old had died of an overdose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John’s body had been at the morgue for a month, when, on June 6, 2016, coroner staff mistakenly released his remains to Marvin Rogers’ family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case notes about his Oct. 6 call with Zavala, Sgt. Reynolds recounted, “I explained how the incident occurred, our actions upon discovering it occurred, and the steps we have taken to prevent it from happen[ing] again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simran Sekhon, Zavala’s attorney, said the coroner promised to send Zavala her father’s remains — but to this day, she has not received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They did not have an opportunity to have a funeral,” Sekhon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zavala and her two sisters filed claims against San Joaquin County in January, in preparation for a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Mix-Up\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2017 the coroner’s office repeated the mistake -- of releasing the wrong body -- that had caused Carmen Rogers and Theresa Zavala so much distress. Deputies gave a Lodi family the body of a stranger -- a man who shared their father’s last name, but who was decades younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The younger man, Robert Silva, 45, died on Oct 21, 2017, at Lodi Memorial Hospital from an infection in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a month later, Richard Silva, 88, died of a heart attack at his senior living facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week before officials in the coroner’s office realized they had given the wrong body to Richard Silva’s children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Dec. 11, deputies delivered Richard’s body to the family’s chosen funeral home and reclaimed the body of Robert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 12 computer entry states, “decedent was released in error on 12/04/07... Notification of the error has been made to next of kin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard’s son declined to comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities determined Robert was indigent and cremated his body at the Bay Area Cremation and Funeral Service in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learning From Mistakes\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocky Shaw, with the California State \u003ca href=\"http://www.coroners.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coroners\u003c/a> Association, said these kind of mistakes are rare, “but we know it does happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw, who is the supervising deputy coroner for San Bernardino County, said his department once discharged the wrong body to a family, back in 2001.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know it's the most embarrassing thing to an agency because the trust that we hope to instill in families is completely gone,” Shaw said. “I think if that happened to me, I'd think, ‘What are these boobs doing?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said San Bernardino officials purchased a new casket for the deceased person and paid all the mortuary costs. Luckily, he said, the family was forgiving and did not sue the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said he tells that story as part of a training course he teaches for coroner deputies in California -- as an example of what can go wrong and how to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Bernardino County coroner adopted new procedures and has not repeated the mistake. Two autopsy assistants and a supervisor have eyes on every release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have adequate staffing.” Shaw said. “We make sure the procedures are there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shaw said the fact that the San Joaquin County coroner mixed up bodies twice indicates the problem wasn’t adequately addressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean if you have two, there's something that they didn't probably put into place,” Shaw said. “It could be a multitude of issues, but it’s terribly embarrassing and wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chief \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccgov.org/sites/coroner/Pages/mec.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medical examiner\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, Michelle Jorden, said her office established protocols to reduce the chance of mix-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hasn’t happened here.” said Jorden, who added that each body in her morgue is assigned a case number that’s printed on a toe tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The body will not be released until we have two people look at the toe tags and the matching paperwork,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Problems with adequately tracking bodies in the San Joaquin County morgue date as far back as 2013. That’s when a body went missing for more than six months. Sources close to the office said a technician discovered a badly decomposed body in the morgue. Meanwhile, the person’s relatives had been asking for their loved one for months -- and were told the body was not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years Omalu has recommended purchasing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for tracking bodies and specimens, a standard tool used by hospitals. He said the sheriff told him it was too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one local mortuary in San Joaquin County, staff said that the coroner’s office has released the wrong body to them often enough that they now ask family members to view and identify each body before cremation or burial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore declined to answer questions about how bodies are tracked in the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Should Pay the $352 Coroner's Fee\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another sign of mismanagement by the sheriff-coroner -- according to Omalu and Parson -- is that coroner's deputies bring hundreds of bodies to the morgue each year “unnecessarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several memos documenting the issue, Omalu and Parson estimated that 40 percent of the bodies brought to the county morgue could have had death certificates signed by a treating physician, because the death was not unexpected or violent. That would spare families a $352 coroner’s transportation fee, and delays before they can cremate or bury a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, in one weekend in June 2017, Parson wrote, four out of 11 bodies brought to the morgue could have been handled by outside physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those bodies should have never even come to the morgue,” Parson lamented in a memo. “They should have gone straight to the funeral home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Annual reports from the San Joaquin County Sheriff-Coroner's Office show that in 2015, 351 bodies brought to the morgue -- or 32 percent -- were later referred to outside physicians to sign out. In 2016, it was 34 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total handling fees for those potentially unnecessary transports added up to more than $100,000 each year in revenue for the sheriff's office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families of the people who died in San Joaquin County may not have noticed they paid a fee for coroner’s services. The cost is publicly posted on the sheriff-coroner website, but mortuary companies pay that fee directly to the sheriff and then bill the families for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forensic pathologists say the extra work also taxes coroner resources and staff time, including detectives who spend hours contacting doctors to get them to sign death certificates, and autopsy technicians who move and store bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This gross inefficiency impacts everybody ... and increases both tangible and intangible costs for the family and for the county,” Omalu wrote in a Sept. 10, 2017, memo.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nSome Deaths Overlooked\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the two forensic pathologists allege that the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office is not investigating some deaths that it should be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one case, the family of a Lodi woman who died in January fears they’ll never know the cause of death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracy Espinosa described what happened to her fiance’s sister in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648892\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-11648892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/29307_transform-1-160x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracy Espinosa of San Joaquin County \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Espinosa said her fiance's sister, Julie Russell, had been cooking dinner around 7 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2018. Three hours later, she died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 60-year-old had a case of flu, and possibly pneumonia and heart problems. She also had a history of drug addiction and alcoholism, and her bedroom contained empty liquor bottles and prescription painkillers for her arthritis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russell’s son found her lying on the floor and called an ambulance and then called relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police cars and an ambulance were already at the house when Espinosa arrived that Monday night to find Russell flat on her back, eyes wide open, foaming at the mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espinosa does research for law enforcement on cold cases, so she knew the \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=27491.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criteria\u003c/a> for a coroner to take a case. She was surprised when the sheriff’s deputy said he wasn’t going to take Russell’s body to the morgue -- even though she thought Russell was an obvious coroner's case. The deputy told her to pick a funeral home instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By Friday the coroner’s office told me they were coming to get her body and that they were going to charge me $350,” Espinosa said. “I said, ‘What are you talking about? She's been at the funeral home for four days. Now you're going to go get her?’ \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coroner conducted an autopsy, but Espinosa said she was told the results won’t be available for three to four months. Espinosa said she is supporting Sheriff Moore’s opponent in an upcoming election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omalu and Parson documented other cases where law enforcement officers failed to notify them of people who died under questionable circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent example involves the fetus of a woman who miscarried at 32 weeks, a month after her boyfriend assaulted her. According to an Aug. 25 memo titled “Gross Negligence of Possible Fetal Homicide,” Parson wrote that the woman told a funeral home employee about the assault and the funeral home relayed the information to the detective right after the baby died on July 9, yet no case had been opened on the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I asked why he didn’t bring this to my or Dr. Omalu’s attention before now and he responded that he’s been busy,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parson said by the time she learned of the baby’s death several weeks later, it was far too late to be able to determine whether or not it was related to the assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am deeply troubled that somewhere along the line, gross negligence occurred in the management of this case allowing a potential fetal homicide to fall through the cracks,” Parson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The doctors say these kinds of mistakes can happen when law enforcement officers are asked to perform medical duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Patrol Deputies Receive Minimal Training on Death Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Steve Walker, who retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012, said he did not receive enough training on death investigations in the academy for patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I got was a manual with the words ‘coroner cases’ on it,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that wasn’t enough to prepare him to determine who should go to the morgue and who could go directly to a mortuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648883\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11648883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-800x683.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-160x137.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1020x870.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-1180x1007.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-960x819.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-240x205.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-375x320.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS29304_IMG_0944-qut-520x444.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Steve Walker retired from the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office in 2012. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Steve Walker)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you're on patrol, you're doing patrol duties,” Walker said. “You're handling criminal cases and maybe doing traffic -- could be anything from a barking dog to a homicide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said as a patrol deputy he would go days without handling a single coroner’s case, and then have to go to an intensive care unit where someone had died and rifle through binders of medical records full of words he did not understand just to figure out whether a physician could sign the death certificate instead of the coroner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore is up for re-election this year, with a primary in June, and Walker is campaigning for his opponent, Pat Withrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California requires deputies to complete 80 hours of death investigation training within their first year on the job -- and 32 hours every two years after that if their primary job is conducting coroner duties. Detectives in the sheriff-coroner’s office in San Joaquin County fall under this category, but deputies like Walker, who have a variety of duties, receive some initial training, followed by just a few hours of in-service training on coroner cases each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Moore’s information officer, Deputy Dave Konecny, referred questions about staff training requirements to the San Joaquin County counsel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A New System for Investigating Deaths\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county counsel and district attorney both said they are investigating the allegations made by Omalu and Parson, but two months on, neither agency has announced any findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county Board of Supervisors has commissioned an analysis of coroner operations, which will include a comparison of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.counties.org/county-office/sheriff-coroner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sheriff-coroner\u003c/a> system with a medical examiner system -- in which a forensic pathologist, rather than a law enforcement official, oversees death investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the Board of Supervisors and residents want it,” Moore said late last year, “I would fully support separation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the coroner’s functions are taken over by a medical examiner, Moore would continue in his elected role as the county sheriff and public administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent Board of Supervisors hearing, County Administrator Monica Nino said the study on the sheriff-coroner operations will not be ready until April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president of the San Joaquin Medical Society criticized “the lack of urgency” in addressing the allegations in a letter to supervisors this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stakes are high,” Dr. Grant Mellor wrote. “We are about to lose two highly respected, hardworking forensic pathologists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 11:20 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local air regulators announced Tuesday that they are issuing two notices of violation against the company that runs the large scrap metal facility in Richmond that was the scene of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/31/smoke-from-scrap-metal-yard-fire-in-richmond-may-have-violated-local-air-standards/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a smoky fire\u003c/a> that forced thousands of residents to stay indoors last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has handed down penalties against the Sims Metal Management facility for illegal open burning and public nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency officials emphasize that they are still investigating the incident and any penalties tied to the case will be levied in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, Richmond city officials have begun to scrutinize the Sims facility\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's Planning and Building Department will review whether Sims is complying with rules governing its work near the Port of Richmond, according to Richard Mitchell, the department's director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Staff is in the process of assembling information related to the recycling facility to determine if the operation is in compliance with the original conditions of approval,\" Mitchell said in an email Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The planning department's review of Sims' conditional use permit was prompted by a request from Richmond Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sims has a sordid history,\" Butt said, referring to the company's Redwood City facility burned by fires several years ago. \"I want to reopen all of this and look into it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has apologized for the fire and pledged to consider making safety changes at its Richmond location, which reopened on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at any improvements to reduce the risk of fires at this facility, including a focus on stockpile size, improving fire breaks, and the use of technology to monitor stockpiles,\" said Sims spokeswoman Jill Rodby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will continue to be a valuable member of the community, and we will maintain our rigorous standards,\" Rodby said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire raises questions about how Richmond should regulate land used by industry so close to residential neighborhoods, said Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia, who has been involved in the county's oversight of Richmond's Chevron refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims' South Fourth Street facility is near several locations that were under the county's shelter-in-place orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want all operators at the port to be acting responsibly, but is this the right use to have at that location?\" Gioia asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of the Richmond Planning Department's review comes several days after Contra Costa County health officials revealed that \u003ca href=\"http://cchealth.org/press-releases/2018/0202-Air-Samples-from-Sims-Metal-Fire.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">air samples\u003c/a> taken during the fire, which took place for at least 11 hours between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, showed high levels of the carcinogen benzene near the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Long-term exposure to benzene can cause cancer. But county health officials emphasized that the health impacts of short-term exposure that were detected Tuesday night are not known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the facility violated hazardous materials regulations was in October 2012, according to Contra Costa County inspection reports obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They included hazardous waste material containers that were mislabeled and not always closed, an undercharged fire extinguisher and bins blocking the facility's aisles. The four violations discovered in that inspection were all corrected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county's hazardous materials program found no violations during a subsequent inspection in late 2014. The agency plans to conduct a new inspection of Sims in the next month or so, according to Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last fire inspection of the facility came in 2015, and it found no violations, according to Fire Chief Adrian Sheppard. Richmond fire investigators have yet to reveal a cause of the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sims, in the meantime, is inviting members of the public to a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss the fire and the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That meeting is scheduled to take place at Nevin Community Center between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated Tuesday morning to include new information from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District about notices of violation it issued against Sims Metal Management.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County’s district attorney said Friday she is not going to follow the lead of her counterparts in San Francisco and San Diego, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/01/31/san-francisco-plans-to-wipe-out-thousands-of-pot-convictions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who are dismissing or reducing\u003c/a> thousands of past misdemeanor and felony marijuana convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Jackie Lacey said petitioning the courts through a process established by the law that legalized recreational pot would be faster for people seeking relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using that process means people who are most in need will \"move to the head of line -- rather than wait for my office to go through tens of thousands of case files.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/02/LAMJConvictionsStoltze180205.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/RS18507_GettyImages-98529926-qut-800x527.jpg\" Title=\"Will L.A. Follow S.F.’s Lead in Wiping Out Pot Convictions? Nope.\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her decision drew criticism from activists, who said the process can be time-consuming and sometimes complicated for non-lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not that easy,\" said Armando Gudino of the Drug Policy Alliance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not simply dismiss all misdemeanors, he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district attorney had the opportunity to make sweeping changes,\" he said. \"By having these convictions removed or reduced, you effectively open up new doors for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal record can disqualify an individual from some jobs and even housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey's decision is significant. The L.A. District Attorney’s Office prosecuted more people for violating marijuana laws than any other prosecutor’s office in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"O82T6QH30Vmi4sRz9XlmrlybqI2SyGd3\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office estimates there were 40,000 felony convictions involving marijuana since 1993. It had no estimate for the number of misdemeanor convictions it handled. Some city attorneys in L.A. County also file misdemeanor cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey said she cannot determine at this time how many of these cases involve people who no longer require that their criminal records be stricken \"for a variety of reasons, including death or incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos said he also has no plans to proactively clear people’s records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos wants to use those old convictions to seek longer jail time, should those people break the law again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s the biggest concern for me,\" he said. \"We couldn’t use those for sentence enhancements.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is unmoved by the argument that the war on drugs left many otherwise law-abiding people of color with a criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What people call the drug war -- we got peace officers who put their lives on the line,\" Ramos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of California’s 58 district attorneys has the authority to decide whether to continue to use \"something that is no longer a crime\" against people, said Loyola Law School Professor Stan Goldman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"o0EezDRP61vfqVGVZQMoHa5uEM7bvUpu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re really in new territory here,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office of Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas did not respond to a request for comment. Riverside County District Attorney Michael Hestrin's office said it does not have a comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists hope to step in to help if local prosecutors won’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Drug Policy Alliance already had plans to conduct four clinics where people can learn how to petition the courts to expunge their previous pot convictions. The first is March 17 at L.A. Trade Tech.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area city of Richmond recently made an unlikely move that got the attention of its largest employer and taxpayer, Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It followed other municipalities and counties across California that have filed lawsuits against oil companies, alleging that the energy giants knowingly contributed to climate change and should begin paying for it. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employing the legal strategy that brought states major payouts from tobacco companies decades ago, the plaintiffs are demanding that oil interests begin writing checks to protect Californians against rising seas, crippling drought and harmful air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal viability of the lawsuits is unclear; the cases are in early stages. But if any succeed, the implications are profound: The state is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up coastlines, protect infrastructure and retrofit roads and bridges in response to rising seas. And if companies are persuaded to drill and refine less oil, California has a much better chance of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions on the schedule it has set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Richmond, plaintiffs include the cities of Imperial Beach, Oakland, Santa Cruz and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hbsslaw.com/uploads/case_downloads/climate_change/2017-09-19complaintforpublicnuisance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco,\u003c/a> and the counties of Marin, San Mateo and Santa Cruz. The Los Angeles City Council is considering its own suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has not joined in, something environmental groups say is a failure of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accountability is critical,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The state of California can and should file a case seeking money damages and also an injunction against ongoing activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Justice has sued the Trump administration two dozen times over policies that include several related to the environment. Asked whether the state would join the cities and counties or consider filing its own suit against the oil companies, the Justice Department declined to comment about potential future action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city-county suits began six months ago when Imperial Beach, in southern San Diego County, sued a handful of oil companies. Richmond, surrounded on three sides by water and imperiled by rising seas, joined the fight Jan. 22. Its city council voted unanimously to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180122_docket-C18-00055_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue\u003c/a> 29 oil producers, even if it meant taking on Chevron, whose tax payments -- $45 million in 2016 -- account for 25 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a pretty important corporate citizen,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “we are a waterfront city -- Richmond has 32 miles of shoreline on the bay. Part of our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise: our transportation systems, neighborhoods and commercial areas, and thousands of acres of waterfront park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those vulnerable venues is Chevron’s refinery, which sits at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Completed in 1902, this refinery, the state’s largest, was immediately dubbed “the colossus.” The facility today employs more than 3,400 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-240x213.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-375x333.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-520x461.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leah Casey, the spokeswoman for Chevron’s Richmond refinery, said in a statement that lawsuits like the local ones “will do nothing to address the serious issue of climate change. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is a global issue that requires global engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt said the city sued “out of frustration, because I know that these fossil fuel companies are aware of the long-term costs and damage of the widespread consumption of fossil fuel.” He said Richmond was already planning for the sea’s rise but had not yet calculated mitigation costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits are filed in state court under California’s public nuisance law, which allows legal actions against activities that are “injurious to health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City filed a similar claim against five of the world’s largest oil companies in federal court, asking that the cost of mitigating damage done by the companies as a result of their contribution to climate change be charged to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenges also assert that the oil industry has known for decades that burning fossil fuels accelerates climate change. The Richmond complaint states, “The industry has known for decades that business-as-usual combustion of their products could be ‘severe’ or even ‘catastrophic.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies were so certain of the threat that some even took steps to protect their own assets from rising seas and more extreme storms,” the complaint goes on, “and they developed new technologies to profit from drilling in a soon-to-be-ice-free Arctic. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Bay Area city of Richmond recently made an unlikely move that got the attention of its largest employer and taxpayer, Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It followed other municipalities and counties across California that have filed lawsuits against oil companies, alleging that the energy giants knowingly contributed to climate change and should begin paying for it. Literally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employing the legal strategy that brought states major payouts from tobacco companies decades ago, the plaintiffs are demanding that oil interests begin writing checks to protect Californians against rising seas, crippling drought and harmful air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal viability of the lawsuits is unclear; the cases are in early stages. But if any succeed, the implications are profound: The state is already spending hundreds of millions of dollars to shore up coastlines, protect infrastructure and retrofit roads and bridges in response to rising seas. And if companies are persuaded to drill and refine less oil, California has a much better chance of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions on the schedule it has set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides Richmond, plaintiffs include the cities of Imperial Beach, Oakland, Santa Cruz and \u003ca href=\"https://www.hbsslaw.com/uploads/case_downloads/climate_change/2017-09-19complaintforpublicnuisance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco,\u003c/a> and the counties of Marin, San Mateo and Santa Cruz. The Los Angeles City Council is considering its own suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has not joined in, something environmental groups say is a failure of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accountability is critical,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity. “The state of California can and should file a case seeking money damages and also an injunction against ongoing activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Justice has sued the Trump administration two dozen times over policies that include several related to the environment. Asked whether the state would join the cities and counties or consider filing its own suit against the oil companies, the Justice Department declined to comment about potential future action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city-county suits began six months ago when Imperial Beach, in southern San Diego County, sued a handful of oil companies. Richmond, surrounded on three sides by water and imperiled by rising seas, joined the fight Jan. 22. Its city council voted unanimously to \u003ca href=\"http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/climate-change-litigation/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/case-documents/2018/20180122_docket-C18-00055_complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sue\u003c/a> 29 oil producers, even if it meant taking on Chevron, whose tax payments -- $45 million in 2016 -- account for 25 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a pretty important corporate citizen,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “we are a waterfront city -- Richmond has 32 miles of shoreline on the bay. Part of our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise: our transportation systems, neighborhoods and commercial areas, and thousands of acres of waterfront park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those vulnerable venues is Chevron’s refinery, which sits at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Completed in 1902, this refinery, the state’s largest, was immediately dubbed “the colossus.” The facility today employs more than 3,400 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11648046\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11648046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-160x142.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-240x213.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-375x333.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/tomButtwater-600x532-520x461.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Our city is vulnerable to sea-level rise,” Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said. \u003ccite>(Julie Cart/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leah Casey, the spokeswoman for Chevron’s Richmond refinery, said in a statement that lawsuits like the local ones “will do nothing to address the serious issue of climate change. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is a global issue that requires global engagement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt said the city sued “out of frustration, because I know that these fossil fuel companies are aware of the long-term costs and damage of the widespread consumption of fossil fuel.” He said Richmond was already planning for the sea’s rise but had not yet calculated mitigation costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits are filed in state court under California’s public nuisance law, which allows legal actions against activities that are “injurious to health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New York City filed a similar claim against five of the world’s largest oil companies in federal court, asking that the cost of mitigating damage done by the companies as a result of their contribution to climate change be charged to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenges also assert that the oil industry has known for decades that burning fossil fuels accelerates climate change. The Richmond complaint states, “The industry has known for decades that business-as-usual combustion of their products could be ‘severe’ or even ‘catastrophic.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Companies were so certain of the threat that some even took steps to protect their own assets from rising seas and more extreme storms,” the complaint goes on, “and they developed new technologies to profit from drilling in a soon-to-be-ice-free Arctic. Yet instead of taking steps to reduce the threat to others, the industry actually increased production while spending billions on public relations, lobbying, and campaign contributions to hide the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slow unraveling of the decades-long industry cover-up of the medical harm from cigarettes turned the tide in the tobacco cases, according to Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the UCLA School of Law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlson, who is advising some of the plaintiffs’ lawyers, said that courts will take into account the oil-industry-funded campaign to discredit climate science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That matters in California,” she said. “If you can show evidence that a defendant engaged in a campaign to obfuscate, it’s more than just a nice detail. Evidence helps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With much at stake, oil companies are pushing back hard. ExxonMobil has responded with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4345487-Exxon-Texas-Petition-Jan-2018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demand\u003c/a> to depose lawyers representing the California cities and counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says it is a victim of a conspiracy, and cities and counties are being disingenuous: When they issue municipal bonds, they portray risk from climate change as unpredictable, not the fault of oil firms, as the lawsuits claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies have also filed motions to move the cases to federal courts, where they believe there are precedents more favorable to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of legal claims intended to monetize the consequences of a warming planet is growing. 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"content": "\u003cp>California's attorney general will assess sweeping changes at the San Francisco Police Department that were recommended by federal officials before the U.S. Department of Justice abruptly ended its oversight in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced an agreement with San Francisco and its police department at SFPD headquarters Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t tell you how important it is to have independent eyes overseeing these reforms,\" he said. \"Accountability, transparency, confidence and trust -- they all come from giving people a sense that there will be an independent review of the work that’s being done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the California Department of Justice will evaluate and publicly report on how the SFPD is applying the 272 recommendations made by the DOJ under the Obama administration's Collaborative Reform Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents the district where the fatal daylight police shooting of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> was recorded by several bystanders in late 2015, said completing the federal reforms will answer long-ignored concerns of San Francisco's black residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today feels good because it is the culmination of all those tears, the blood that has been spilled, that we stand before you recognizing that finally policies are stepping up and catching up,\" she said. \"It brings us one step closer to bringing truth and transparency to heal the rifts that we have been experiencing for generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial review\u003c/a> of the SFPD by the federal DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services -- or COPS -- found “concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,” including use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions. It grew from an outcry over a series of fatal police shootings in 2015 and 2016, and repeated calls from advocates and then-Mayor Ed Lee's request for a court enforceable \"pattern-or-practice\" investigation of the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that legally binding probe was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/feds-launching-comprehensive-review-of-s-f-police-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed over\u003c/a> in favor of the relatively new collaborative reform program, through which the COPS office made nonbinding recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a years-long evolution of SFPD's federal oversight, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi repeatedly called for the state attorney general's office to undertake its own \"pattern-or-practice\" investigation, which is authorized by state law. Becerra's announcement Monday again falls short of that goal, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under the terms and conditions of this [memorandum of understanding], the Cal DOJ is not exercising its authority under California Civil Code, section 52.3, subdivision (b),\" \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/DOJ%20MOU1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the agreement\u003c/a> executed Monday says. \"Cal DOJ agrees that this MOU is a collaborative effort and is not a pattern or practice investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state is taking over assessing San Francisco's progress on the federal government's nonbinding reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the COPS office would \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/19/justice-department-ends-oversight-of-s-f-police-department-city-pledges-to-continue-reforms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer provide resources or guidance\u003c/a>. It also advised San Francisco that it would no longer review the proposed reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, when the U.S. Department of Justice concluded the work, they were in the process of writing the first assessment report that never got released and won’t be released,\" Police Chief William Scott said Monday. \"It’s one thing for us to report what we’re doing. It’s another thing for somebody totally independent to come in and assess what we’re doing and report to the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said the department has made significant progress on more than half of the recommendations. SFPD has fully implemented body cameras and completely rewritten rules governing officer use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Scott said, overall uses of force were down 18 percent in 2017, and citizen complaints of officer misconduct dropped by 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD has also started automatic audits of all electronic communications, such as emails and text messages, between officers on city-issued devices. That change speaks directly to a major scandal involving about a dozen officers who swapped racist, sexist and homophobic \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text messages\u003c/a> that were unearthed in 2015 through a federal criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much work remains, Scott said, noting that fewer than half of the recommendations on officer accountability have been carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ll be here all day if I list out everything that still needs to be done,\" Scott said. \"We know we have a lot of work to do, but the point we’re trying to make here is that -- the attorney general has made it, the mayor has made it, both supervisors have made it and I’ve made it. We’re committed to doing this work and we won’t stop until it’s done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among issues that have yet to be addressed is an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initiative\u003c/a> that would have the San Francisco District Attorney's Office take over officer-involved shooting investigations. The district attorney has created and staffed a specialized unit for that purpose, but the final signoff has been stalled for over a year in negotiations with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal Collaborative Reform effort came with a cost-free team of attorneys and law enforcement consultants, San Francisco is now going to have to pay to get graded. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today feels good because it is the culmination of all those tears, the blood that has been spilled, that we stand before you recognizing that finally policies are stepping up and catching up,\" she said. \"It brings us one step closer to bringing truth and transparency to heal the rifts that we have been experiencing for generations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/12/federal-review-of-sfpd-finds-major-faults-in-every-area-assessed/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial review\u003c/a> of the SFPD by the federal DOJ's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services -- or COPS -- found “concerning deficiencies in every operational area assessed,” including use of force, bias, community policing, accountability, recruitment, hiring and promotions. It grew from an outcry over a series of fatal police shootings in 2015 and 2016, and repeated calls from advocates and then-Mayor Ed Lee's request for a court enforceable \"pattern-or-practice\" investigation of the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that legally binding probe was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/feds-launching-comprehensive-review-of-s-f-police-department/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed over\u003c/a> in favor of the relatively new collaborative reform program, through which the COPS office made nonbinding recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a years-long evolution of SFPD's federal oversight, San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi repeatedly called for the state attorney general's office to undertake its own \"pattern-or-practice\" investigation, which is authorized by state law. Becerra's announcement Monday again falls short of that goal, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under the terms and conditions of this [memorandum of understanding], the Cal DOJ is not exercising its authority under California Civil Code, section 52.3, subdivision (b),\" \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/DOJ%20MOU1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the agreement\u003c/a> executed Monday says. \"Cal DOJ agrees that this MOU is a collaborative effort and is not a pattern or practice investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the state is taking over assessing San Francisco's progress on the federal government's nonbinding reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the COPS office would \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/19/justice-department-ends-oversight-of-s-f-police-department-city-pledges-to-continue-reforms/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer provide resources or guidance\u003c/a>. It also advised San Francisco that it would no longer review the proposed reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, when the U.S. Department of Justice concluded the work, they were in the process of writing the first assessment report that never got released and won’t be released,\" Police Chief William Scott said Monday. \"It’s one thing for us to report what we’re doing. It’s another thing for somebody totally independent to come in and assess what we’re doing and report to the public.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said the department has made significant progress on more than half of the recommendations. SFPD has fully implemented body cameras and completely rewritten rules governing officer use of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Scott said, overall uses of force were down 18 percent in 2017, and citizen complaints of officer misconduct dropped by 9 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD has also started automatic audits of all electronic communications, such as emails and text messages, between officers on city-issued devices. That change speaks directly to a major scandal involving about a dozen officers who swapped racist, sexist and homophobic \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">text messages\u003c/a> that were unearthed in 2015 through a federal criminal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But much work remains, Scott said, noting that fewer than half of the recommendations on officer accountability have been carried out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we’ll be here all day if I list out everything that still needs to be done,\" Scott said. \"We know we have a lot of work to do, but the point we’re trying to make here is that -- the attorney general has made it, the mayor has made it, both supervisors have made it and I’ve made it. We’re committed to doing this work and we won’t stop until it’s done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among issues that have yet to be addressed is an \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/24/s-f-das-effort-to-take-lead-in-police-shooting-cases-stalls-as-officers-union-seeks-negotiation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initiative\u003c/a> that would have the San Francisco District Attorney's Office take over officer-involved shooting investigations. The district attorney has created and staffed a specialized unit for that purpose, but the final signoff has been stalled for over a year in negotiations with the police officers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal Collaborative Reform effort came with a cost-free team of attorneys and law enforcement consultants, San Francisco is now going to have to pay to get graded. The agreement with the California Department of Justice says the Police Department will hire a consultant who will report both to the state and SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Attorney General's Office declined to say when its first assessment of the Police Department would be completed. An SFPD official estimated it could come as soon as April.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the 1930s, parents across the U.S. were panicked. A new film, “Reefer Madness,” suggested that evil marijuana dealers lurked in public schools, waiting to entice their children into a life of crime and degeneracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The propaganda film captured the essence of the anti-marijuana campaign started by Harry Anslinger, a government employee eager to make a name for himself after Prohibition ended. Ansligner’s campaign demonized marijuana as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Inciardi-War-on-Drugs-IV-The-Continuing-Saga-of-the-Mysteries-and-Miseries-of-Intoxication-Addiction-Crime-and-Public-Policy-4th-Edition/PGM294306.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dangerous drug\u003c/a>, playing on the racist attitudes of white Americans in the early 20th century and stoking fears of marijuana as an “assassin of youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the decades, there’s been a general trend toward greater social acceptance of marijuana by a more educated society, seeing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/smart-justice/war-marijuana-black-and-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">harm caused\u003c/a> by the prohibition of marijuana. But then, on Jan. 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-update-marijuana-enforcement-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an Obama-era memorandum\u003c/a> suggesting federal agents should let states regulate control of marijuana and focus their efforts on other drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Re-criminalizing marijuana in light of current research findings, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my own research of more than 15 years\u003c/a>, makes Sessions’ proposed crackdown on legal marijuana look worse than reefer madness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like myself, who regularly talk with people who are actively using hard drugs, know that legal cannabis can actually \u003ca href=\"http://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce the harmful effects\u003c/a> of other drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/embed/sbjHOBJzhb0\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reefer madness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Re-criminalizing marijuana is a decision that makes little sense unless we consider the motives. History can shed some light here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media mogul William Randolph Hearst supported \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.1984.9967643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the criminalization of marijuana\u003c/a>, in part because Hearst’s paper-producing companies were being replaced by hemp. Likewise, DuPont’s investment in nylon was threatened by hemp products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anslinger’s tactics included \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist accusations\u003c/a> linking marijuana to Mexican immigrants. His campaign included stories of urban black men who enticed young white women to become sex-crazed and instantly addicted to marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anslinger’s campaign succeeded beyond his aims. His fearmongering was based more on fiction than on facts, but it made him head of the Bureau of Narcotics for 30 years. The social construction of cannabis as one of the most dangerous drugs was completed in 1970, when marijuana was classified as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Schedule I drug\u003c/a> under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning it had high potential for abuse and no acceptable medical use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later, the classification remains and Anslinger’s views endure among many policymakers and Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spurious relationships\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, marijuana critics often cite studies that show a connection between marijuana use and a host of negative outcomes, like use of harder drugs, criminality and lower IQ. Anslinger used the same tactics to incite fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a correlation does not mean a causation. Some of these studies used flawed scientific methods or relied on false assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647333\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11647333 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw.jpg\" alt=\"Antique advertisement warning about dangers of marijuana\" width=\"1000\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1935 U.S. government advertisement warning about dangers associated with marijuana. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://origins.osu.edu/article/43/images\">origins.osu.edu\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One popular myth, which started in Ansligner’s campaign and continues today, is that marijuana is a gateway to heroin and other opioids. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00280.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research dispelling this as a causal connection\u003c/a>, opponents of marijuana legalization continue to call marijuana a \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-are-politicians-still-referring-to-marijuana-as-a-gateway-drug-39348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“gateway drug.” \u003c/a>Studies on the brains of long-term marijuana users suggested a link between marijuana use and lower IQ. But later investigation showed that low IQ might actually be caused by smaller orbitofrontal cortices in the brains of children. Children with smaller prefrontal cortices are significantly \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/long-term-marijuana-use-effects-on-the-brain-2014-11/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to start using marijuana early in life\u003c/a> than those with larger prefrontal cortices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One well-designed study that looked at marijuana use and brain development on adolescent twins over 10 years found no measurable link between \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/twins-study-finds-no-evidence-marijuana-lowers-iq-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marijuana use and lower IQ\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a review of \u003ca href=\"https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 studies on medical marijuana\u003c/a>, over 63 percent found positive effects for debilitating diseases – such as multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, Parkinson’s disease and pain – while less than 8 percent found negative health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most harmful effect of criminalizing marijuana may not be its restriction on medical uses, but its devastating cost to American society, which experienced a \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/10/cory-booker/how-war-drugs-affected-incarceration-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 percent increase in incarceration due to the war on drugs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Portugal Experiment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tragedy in this policy is that decriminalizing drugs has shown to lower drug use – not increase it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Portugal had one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst drug problems in Europe\u003c/a>. Then, in 2001, a new drug policy decriminalized all drugs. Drug control was taken out of the criminal justice system and put under the Ministry of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminalization-portugal-lessons-creating-fair-successful-drug-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five years after Portugal’s decriminalization\u003c/a>, drug use by young people was down. Teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18, for example, were 27.6 percent less likely to use drugs. What’s more, the number of people going to treatment went up, while drug-related deaths decreased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years later, Portugal still had lower rates of heroin and cocaine seizures, and \u003ca href=\"http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower rates of drug-related deaths\u003c/a>, compared to the rest of Europe. Cannabis use in Portugal is now the lowest among all European countries. Moreover, Portugal’s policy change contributed to a reduced number of drug addicts with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Portugal Experiment” shows what happens when we take an honest look at a serious societal drug issue. Taking a tactic used by Anslinger, opponents of marijuana legalization claim it will lead to more use by young people. However, in states that legalized medical marijuana, \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2017.1389801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use by young people\u003c/a> did not increase or even went down. Recent data show that use of marijuana by teens decreased even in states that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/21/one-of-the-greatest-fears-about-legalizing-marijuana-has-so-far-failed-to-happen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalized marijuana for recreational use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. battles an \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/the-opioid-epidemic-in-6-charts-81601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>, states where marijuana is legal have seen \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w21345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fewer deaths from opioid overdose\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More studies are finding medical marijuana patients were using marijuana as \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.01.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a substitute for pain pills\u003c/a>. After a medical marijuana law was passed, \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of prescription medication\u003c/a> for which marijuana could serve as a clinical alternative fell significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a deadly opioid epidemic, more of the medical establishment is beginning to acknowledge the potential of marijuana as a \u003ca href=\"http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.13677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safer therapy for pain than opioids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Listening to those who are suffering\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/women-on-ice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my own field research\u003c/a>, I’ve conducted hundreds of interviews with people who used heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other really dangerous drugs. Most of them used drugs to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social isolation, and emotional or physical pain, which led to addiction\u003c/a>. They often told me that they used marijuana to help them stop using more problematic drugs or to reduce the side effects of withdrawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a lot of ways, that was my sanity,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283845/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a young man\u003c/a> who had stopped all drugs but cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana became \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.3109/16066359.2011.566654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a gateway out\u003c/a> of heroin, cocaine, crack and other more deadly drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Institute of Medicine released a report in 1999 suggesting the development of \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20170424-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medically useful cannabinoid-based drugs\u003c/a>, the American Medical Association has largely ignored or dismissed subsequent studies on the benefits of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in many states\u003c/a>, people can use marijuana to treat illnesses and pain, reduce withdrawal symptoms and combat cravings for more addictive drugs. They can also choose to use cannabis oil or a variety of \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042615580991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthier ways than smoking for consuming cannabis\u003c/a>. This freedom may be jeopardized by a return to criminal marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Worse than ‘Reefer Madness’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a century after Anslinger’s campaign, “Reefer Madness” is \u003ca href=\"http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_54e46818-95d2-5f18-83b8-8e312714f832.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocked in the media\u003c/a> for its flagrant propaganda, and Anslinger’s influence on drug policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is shown as an example of government corruption\u003c/a>. The ignorance and naiveté of “Reefer Madness” is seen as a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we have to ask, what kind of people want to re-criminalize cannabis today? What are their motives? Who profits from continuing to incarcerate people for using marijuana? Whose power will be diminished when a drug that has so many health benefits is provided without a prescription? \u003cimg src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/89821/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/profiles/miriam-boeri-144873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miriam Boeri\u003c/a> is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bentley University. This article was originally published on \u003ca href=\"http://theconversation.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Conversation\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/sbjHOBJzhb0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/sbjHOBJzhb0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>Reefer madness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Re-criminalizing marijuana is a decision that makes little sense unless we consider the motives. History can shed some light here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Media mogul William Randolph Hearst supported \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01639625.1984.9967643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the criminalization of marijuana\u003c/a>, in part because Hearst’s paper-producing companies were being replaced by hemp. Likewise, DuPont’s investment in nylon was threatened by hemp products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anslinger’s tactics included \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanderbilt.edu/ctp/The_New_Jim_Crow.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist accusations\u003c/a> linking marijuana to Mexican immigrants. His campaign included stories of urban black men who enticed young white women to become sex-crazed and instantly addicted to marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anslinger’s campaign succeeded beyond his aims. His fearmongering was based more on fiction than on facts, but it made him head of the Bureau of Narcotics for 30 years. The social construction of cannabis as one of the most dangerous drugs was completed in 1970, when marijuana was classified as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Schedule I drug\u003c/a> under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning it had high potential for abuse and no acceptable medical use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 50 years later, the classification remains and Anslinger’s views endure among many policymakers and Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Spurious relationships\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, marijuana critics often cite studies that show a connection between marijuana use and a host of negative outcomes, like use of harder drugs, criminality and lower IQ. Anslinger used the same tactics to incite fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a correlation does not mean a causation. Some of these studies used flawed scientific methods or relied on false assumptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647333\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11647333 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw.jpg\" alt=\"Antique advertisement warning about dangers of marijuana\" width=\"1000\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw.jpg 1000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-960x708.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-240x177.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-375x276.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/01/reefer2-file-20180112-101514-1knb8dw-520x383.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1935 U.S. government advertisement warning about dangers associated with marijuana. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://origins.osu.edu/article/43/images\">origins.osu.edu\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One popular myth, which started in Ansligner’s campaign and continues today, is that marijuana is a gateway to heroin and other opioids. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00280.x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research dispelling this as a causal connection\u003c/a>, opponents of marijuana legalization continue to call marijuana a \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-are-politicians-still-referring-to-marijuana-as-a-gateway-drug-39348\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">“gateway drug.” \u003c/a>Studies on the brains of long-term marijuana users suggested a link between marijuana use and lower IQ. But later investigation showed that low IQ might actually be caused by smaller orbitofrontal cortices in the brains of children. Children with smaller prefrontal cortices are significantly \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/long-term-marijuana-use-effects-on-the-brain-2014-11/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more likely to start using marijuana early in life\u003c/a> than those with larger prefrontal cortices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One well-designed study that looked at marijuana use and brain development on adolescent twins over 10 years found no measurable link between \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/twins-study-finds-no-evidence-marijuana-lowers-iq-teens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marijuana use and lower IQ\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a review of \u003ca href=\"https://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000884\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">60 studies on medical marijuana\u003c/a>, over 63 percent found positive effects for debilitating diseases – such as multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, Parkinson’s disease and pain – while less than 8 percent found negative health effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most harmful effect of criminalizing marijuana may not be its restriction on medical uses, but its devastating cost to American society, which experienced a \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jul/10/cory-booker/how-war-drugs-affected-incarceration-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 percent increase in incarceration due to the war on drugs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The Portugal Experiment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The tragedy in this policy is that decriminalizing drugs has shown to lower drug use – not increase it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2000, Portugal had one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radical-drugs-policy-is-working-why-hasnt-the-world-copied-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worst drug problems in Europe\u003c/a>. Then, in 2001, a new drug policy decriminalized all drugs. Drug control was taken out of the criminal justice system and put under the Ministry of Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminalization-portugal-lessons-creating-fair-successful-drug-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Five years after Portugal’s decriminalization\u003c/a>, drug use by young people was down. Teenagers between the ages of 16 and 18, for example, were 27.6 percent less likely to use drugs. What’s more, the number of people going to treatment went up, while drug-related deaths decreased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifteen years later, Portugal still had lower rates of heroin and cocaine seizures, and \u003ca href=\"http://hdl.handle.net/10419/170879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lower rates of drug-related deaths\u003c/a>, compared to the rest of Europe. Cannabis use in Portugal is now the lowest among all European countries. Moreover, Portugal’s policy change contributed to a reduced number of drug addicts with HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Portugal Experiment” shows what happens when we take an honest look at a serious societal drug issue. Taking a tactic used by Anslinger, opponents of marijuana legalization claim it will lead to more use by young people. However, in states that legalized medical marijuana, \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/08897077.2017.1389801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use by young people\u003c/a> did not increase or even went down. Recent data show that use of marijuana by teens decreased even in states that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/12/21/one-of-the-greatest-fears-about-legalizing-marijuana-has-so-far-failed-to-happen/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legalized marijuana for recreational use\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the U.S. battles an \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/the-opioid-epidemic-in-6-charts-81601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opioid epidemic\u003c/a>, states where marijuana is legal have seen \u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w21345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fewer deaths from opioid overdose\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More studies are finding medical marijuana patients were using marijuana as \u003ca href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2017.01.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a substitute for pain pills\u003c/a>. After a medical marijuana law was passed, \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1661\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use of prescription medication\u003c/a> for which marijuana could serve as a clinical alternative fell significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faced with a deadly opioid epidemic, more of the medical establishment is beginning to acknowledge the potential of marijuana as a \u003ca href=\"http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.13677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safer therapy for pain than opioids\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Listening to those who are suffering\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://clcjbooks.rutgers.edu/books/women-on-ice/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my own field research\u003c/a>, I’ve conducted hundreds of interviews with people who used heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other really dangerous drugs. Most of them used drugs to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520293472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social isolation, and emotional or physical pain, which led to addiction\u003c/a>. They often told me that they used marijuana to help them stop using more problematic drugs or to reduce the side effects of withdrawing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a lot of ways, that was my sanity,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4283845/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a young man\u003c/a> who had stopped all drugs but cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marijuana became \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.3109/16066359.2011.566654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a gateway out\u003c/a> of heroin, cocaine, crack and other more deadly drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Institute of Medicine released a report in 1999 suggesting the development of \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.3928/00485713-20170424-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">medically useful cannabinoid-based drugs\u003c/a>, the American Medical Association has largely ignored or dismissed subsequent studies on the benefits of cannabis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-marijuana-laws-map-medical-recreational.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in many states\u003c/a>, people can use marijuana to treat illnesses and pain, reduce withdrawal symptoms and combat cravings for more addictive drugs. They can also choose to use cannabis oil or a variety of \u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042615580991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthier ways than smoking for consuming cannabis\u003c/a>. This freedom may be jeopardized by a return to criminal marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Worse than ‘Reefer Madness’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Almost a century after Anslinger’s campaign, “Reefer Madness” is \u003ca href=\"http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/article_54e46818-95d2-5f18-83b8-8e312714f832.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mocked in the media\u003c/a> for its flagrant propaganda, and Anslinger’s influence on drug policy \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/harry-anslinger-the-man-behind-the-marijuana-ban/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is shown as an example of government corruption\u003c/a>. The ignorance and naiveté of “Reefer Madness” is seen as a bygone era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we have to ask, what kind of people want to re-criminalize cannabis today? What are their motives? Who profits from continuing to incarcerate people for using marijuana? Whose power will be diminished when a drug that has so many health benefits is provided without a prescription? \u003cimg src=\"https://counter.theconversation.com/content/89821/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic\" alt=\"The Conversation\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Immigration agents made no arrests in serving audit notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tactic isn't new: I-9 audits have been a tool for federal immigration enforcement since the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is new is the publicity and the political spin that the administration seems to be wanting to put on this,\" South Bay congresswoman Zoe Lofgren said. \"It’s the first time in my memory that a federal law enforcement agency has overtly said they’re taking action based on politics, and that’s a chilling development in a republic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homeland Security Investigations conducted 1,360 workplace audits between October 2016 and September 2017, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. 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He said a new state law he authored last year provides some protection from immigration enforcement at workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Donald Trump is hopeful that workers are going to quit their jobs and we’re here to say: Do not quit your jobs,\" he said. \"If an employer receives notice of an audit, they’re required to let their workers know, to give notice to their workers, and to let their workers know what information they are providing to ICE.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren said the state-law mandated notifications could presumably lead some unauthorized workers to leave their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there is somebody with a fake ID, they will quit and find another job,\" Lofgren said. \"I don’t know how that helps the American economy, but that’s probably what will happen. They’ll go down the road to work at a different restaurant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE declined to specify which businesses it plans to audit, although some were reportedly restaurants. 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They can result in fines or lay a foundation for criminal prosecutions of business owners, according to an agency spokesman, but they can also result in deportation proceedings against employees who are living and working in the U.S. without authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The actions taken this week reflect [Homeland Security Investigations'] stepped-up efforts to enforce the laws that prohibit businesses from hiring illegal workers,\" ICE spokesman James Schwab said in a written statement. \"HSI’s worksite enforcement strategy is focused on protecting jobs for U.S. citizens and others who are lawfully employed, eliminating unfair competitive advantages for companies that hire an illegal workforce, and strengthening public safety and national security.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers say workplace audits are more likely to expose otherwise law-abiding undocumented immigrants than those who pose a criminal threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public statements by ICE Acting Director [Thomas] Homan indicate that the agency intended to target California, and this week’s raids appear to be the result of those efforts,\" House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a written statement. \"Targeting hardworking immigrants in order to make a political point and punish California does nothing to make us safer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homan has repeatedly criticized California over the \"sanctuary state\" law that strictly limits the cooperation of local law enforcement with federal immigration authorities when undocumented immigrants are booked into jail for reasons other than immigration enforcement. 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