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They make bad choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Direction in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are just not treatment facilities,” said San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey, who specializes in treating patients with severe mental illness and violent criminal histories. “No matter how nice you make it, it’s still run by the Sheriff’s Department, not by mental health professionals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That debate in San Francisco culminated in December, when a group of people opposed to San Francisco’s plans to build a replacement jail similar to Sonoma’s Behavioral Health Center shouted down a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on funding the project. Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters removed three protesters after cutting through the chains that they’d attached to seats in the board’s chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city scrapped its plans and relinquished an $80 million grant from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco took a big bold move in saying, ‘No, we’re not going to build a new jail,’ ” Lacey said. “It’s unfortunate that that money is only being offered to build jails; it’s not being offered to build treatment facilities, and that’s where we constantly come down the line. There is a lot of money to incarcerate people, and the money for the treatment just doesn’t show up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacey is part of a group that’s pushing an alternative to jail construction. 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It’s setting counties up to have more jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many sheriffs say they don’t choose the inmates they receive, and a lot of jail renovation and construction projects are now geared toward improving conditions for an increasing number of mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">‘Jails are just not treatment facilities.’\u003ccite>San Francisco-based clinical social worker Kathleen Lacey\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Plus, crowding in local lockups has also become less of an issue since the implementation of a second colossal change in criminal justice policy enacted in late 2014 — Proposition 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative reclassified lower-level property and drug felonies to misdemeanors, and jail populations dropped by 8,752 in four months, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1210\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, counties are building nearly 10,000 new jail cells with state funding, according to data from the Board of State and Community Corrections. 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"content": "\u003cp>Luis Gongora was shot a total of six times by two San Francisco police officers on April 7, moments after the officers responded to a Mission District street and confronted the homeless man who was allegedly holding a large kitchen knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3116700-S-F-Medical-Examiner-s-Report-Luis-Gongora.html\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Examiner's report\u003c/a> released Thursday found Gongora was shot in the forehead, as well as the back of his left shoulder, his right upper back, his chest and twice in his right forearm.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"kgnPWyWgcGeJBXzi1XmlGlTby22YfrII\"]\u003cbr>\nBlood tests found stimulants in his system, including an intoxicating level of methamphetamine. Gongora's toxicology report also notes THC and caffeine in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department typically does not comment on open shooting cases, but the department did release \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">pieces and interpretations\u003c/a> of some witness statements in the days following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gongora had been in the U.S. for several years and had sent money home to his family in Mexico, according to the Guardian's \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/12/luis-gongora-san-francisco-police-shooting-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth report\u003c/a> on his life and death. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Luis Gongora was shot a total of six times by two San Francisco police officers on April 7, moments after the officers responded to a Mission District street and confronted the homeless man who was allegedly holding a large kitchen knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3116700-S-F-Medical-Examiner-s-Report-Luis-Gongora.html\" target=\"_blank\">Medical Examiner's report\u003c/a> released Thursday found Gongora was shot in the forehead, as well as the back of his left shoulder, his right upper back, his chest and twice in his right forearm.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBlood tests found stimulants in his system, including an intoxicating level of methamphetamine. Gongora's toxicology report also notes THC and caffeine in his blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department typically does not comment on open shooting cases, but the department did release \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">pieces and interpretations\u003c/a> of some witness statements in the days following the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gongora had been in the U.S. for several years and had sent money home to his family in Mexico, according to the Guardian's \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/aug/12/luis-gongora-san-francisco-police-shooting-homelessness\" target=\"_blank\">in-depth report\u003c/a> on his life and death. On Shotwell Street, where he was killed, he was known as a member of a homeless camp who collected bottles and cans and often kicked a soccer ball up and down the block.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gongora's death came about five months after the fatal police shooting of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, which saw the beginning of an effort to depose \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings/\" target=\"_blank\">former SFPD Chief Greg Suhr\u003c/a>, and about six weeks before the fatal \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview/\" target=\"_blank\">shooting of Jessica Williams\u003c/a>. Suhr resigned hours after Williams' death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveillance video originally published by \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Video-shows-San-Francisco-police-shooting-7237146.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate\u003c/a> showed two officers, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/15/sfpd-names-sergeant-officer-who-fatally-shot-homeless-man/\" target=\"_blank\">later identified\u003c/a> as Sgt. Nate Steger and Officer Michael Mellone, move out of the camera's frame as they shout commands to \"get on the ground\" and \"put that down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//player.hearstdigitalstudios.com/5707e35ce694aa03cbe66121?width=100%25&autostart=0&aratio=16:9\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the officers started to fire beanbag rounds from a pump-action shotgun, then the other started shooting his firearm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire interaction, from first command to final gunshot, played out in less than 30 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said at a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">townhall meeting\u003c/a> a week after the Gongora shooting that he had emphasized fostering \"time and distance\" when officers encounter erratic suspects with knives, and that \"there'll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn't happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney Adante Pointer is representing Gongora's family in a legal claim against the city, an initial step toward a lawsuit, which Pointer said is coming \"sometime in the near future.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said some of the wound trajectories indicate officers were behind Gongora when they fired. He said the shot to Gongora's forehead, from front-to-back, but with a downward trajectory, indicated \"that Mr. Gongora was either on the ground or on his way there, which would have rendered him not a threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On bruising from the beanbag rounds, Pointer said \"some of them were from the rear, which means that he was not charging or lunging at them when he sustained these shots.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said both the toxicology results and a discussion of Gongora's low-level criminal history were irrelevant to officers' decision to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's just a shameless attempt to besmirch this man's character in the eyes of the public,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Medical Examiner's report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/325852554/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-DGxvcFnwX1s1IporDahx\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/325852554\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_325852554\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/325852554\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of people marched through the streets of El Cajon on Wednesday night, protesting the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/police-shoot-and-kill-black-man-near-san-diego-probe-underway/\" target=\"_blank\">police shooting of an unarmed black man\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 911 caller had reported that her brother was acting erratically and walking into traffic. She told police that he was mentally ill and unarmed, Andrew Bowen of KPBS reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took nearly an hour for police to arrive on the scene. About a minute after they arrived, one of them shot Alfred Olango, The Associated Press reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say Olango did not have a weapon, but was in a \"shooting stance\" pointing a vape at officers, an account witnesses dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Cajon police have been criticized for not sending a team specifically trained to deal with psychiatric emergencies; the department says they had a clinician in the field dealing with another call related to mental illness, and that that team was \"not immediately available\" for the call about Olango.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cell phone footage of the shooting exists, but has not been made public. El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, who has seen the video, said Wednesday it was \"not tremendously complicated to figure out what happened\" from the footage, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"pinT9nmjAUFqsMbYdH8iNDbenOxJrsQ8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how he would feel if it were his own child in the video, Wells said, \"I saw a man who was distraught, and a man acting like he was in great pain. And I saw him get gunned down and killed. If he was my son, I would be devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department, the FBI and the district attorney are investigating the shooting, the AP reports, and the two officers involved are on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Two-Way \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495743615/police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-leads-to-protests-in-san-diego-suburb\">previously reported\u003c/a>, police say that after Olango pointed the object, one officer opted for nonlethal force, while another used a gun:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After police arrived on the scene, Davis said, the man drew an 'object' from his pocket, 'placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One officer on the scene discharged a Taser. Another officer — the one who 'had the object pointed at him,' Davis says — 'simultaneously' fired a gun, shooting the man several times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofelcajon.us/Home/Components/News/News/2867/384\">now say\u003c/a> the object that alarmed officers was a \"vape smoking device\" with a 3-inch-long silver cylinder and a 4-inch-long box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters reports that one of the officers on the scene had extensive mental health training. It was the other officer who shot and killed Olango, the wire service says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 452px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11109683\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer.\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg 452w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer. \u003ccite>(El Cajon Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said they saw Olango's hands in the air when he was shot, but police say the cellphone footage from a bystander corroborates the officers' account of a \"shooting stance.\" They have released a still image from the video, but not the footage, which they say the bystander voluntarily turned over to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the protesters on Wednesday called for the release of the full video. A lawyer for Olango's family said police are \"cherry-picking\" from the video, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos of the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which don't show the incident itself, were streamed online. One showed a woman who says she is Olango's sister, mourning and distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just called for help, and you came and killed him,\" she said. \"I told you guys he's sick. You guys came and killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, Calif., on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At protests on Wednesday night, an El Cajon businessman \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/sep/28/mostly-peaceful-protests-continue-el-cajon-after-p/\">told member station KPBS\u003c/a> that the shooting goes past questions of justice. \"This goes into the morality of humanity. Everybody ought to be conflicted about this,\" he said. \"Imagine if this was you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protester, local civil rights activist Estella Del Rios, said that El Cajon's district attorney has never determined a police shooting was unjustified. She called for an outside investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life,\" Del Rios told KPBS. \"A life that matters. And I just want to say we demand, as a community, a federal prosecution. We know there's a photo out there that tells just one story, one side of the story. The family needs answers. They need it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP has more on Wednesday night's protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After dark, scores of people gathered quietly around candles lining a curb in front of bloodstained pavement at the strip mall where Olango was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The spot in front of fast-food restaurant has become a makeshift altar with a mound of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More than 200 people marched in the streets near the site, yelling 'no justice, no peace, no racist police!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police in riot gear, some of them with dogs, faced off with protesters occasionally, bringing some tense moments, but mostly kept their distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no reports of any violence or arrests.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Olango was a refugee from Uganda, the AP reports, who had a part-time job in a furniture store. He had a history of run-ins with the police, with convictions for selling cocaine, receiving stolen property and drunken driving. He had served time in federal prison for possessing a gun as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer representing Olango's family told the AP that Olango was a loving father who was having an emotional breakdown after his best friend's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wire service also spoke to a woman named Agnes Hassan, originally from Sudan, who says she and Olango spent time in a refugee camp together. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cell phone footage of the shooting exists, but has not been made public. El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, who has seen the video, said Wednesday it was \"not tremendously complicated to figure out what happened\" from the footage, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how he would feel if it were his own child in the video, Wells said, \"I saw a man who was distraught, and a man acting like he was in great pain. And I saw him get gunned down and killed. If he was my son, I would be devastated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department, the FBI and the district attorney are investigating the shooting, the AP reports, and the two officers involved are on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Two-Way \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/28/495743615/police-shooting-of-unarmed-black-man-leads-to-protests-in-san-diego-suburb\">previously reported\u003c/a>, police say that after Olango pointed the object, one officer opted for nonlethal force, while another used a gun:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After police arrived on the scene, Davis said, the man drew an 'object' from his pocket, 'placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly toward the officer, taking what appeared to be a shooting stance.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One officer on the scene discharged a Taser. Another officer — the one who 'had the object pointed at him,' Davis says — 'simultaneously' fired a gun, shooting the man several times.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofelcajon.us/Home/Components/News/News/2867/384\">now say\u003c/a> the object that alarmed officers was a \"vape smoking device\" with a 3-inch-long silver cylinder and a 4-inch-long box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reuters reports that one of the officers on the scene had extensive mental health training. It was the other officer who shot and killed Olango, the wire service says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109683\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 452px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11109683\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer.\" width=\"452\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1.jpg 452w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/cajon-8b838944d0b04f4d09deaaaf6f3438307d09a977-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police in El Cajon, Calif., provided this image, which they say is a still from a bystander's cellphone video of the shooting of Alfred Olango on Tuesday. Police say the man was pointing an object — which turned out not to be a weapon — at an officer. \u003ccite>(El Cajon Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Witnesses said they saw Olango's hands in the air when he was shot, but police say the cellphone footage from a bystander corroborates the officers' account of a \"shooting stance.\" They have released a still image from the video, but not the footage, which they say the bystander voluntarily turned over to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the protesters on Wednesday called for the release of the full video. A lawyer for Olango's family said police are \"cherry-picking\" from the video, the AP reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Videos of the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which don't show the incident itself, were streamed online. One showed a woman who says she is Olango's sister, mourning and distraught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just called for help, and you came and killed him,\" she said. \"I told you guys he's sick. You guys came and killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109682\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, Calif., on Wednesday night.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/gettyimages-611049372_custom-9a64cef4392447124979c0e4743732e4f414d72c-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters sit in front of a police line in El Cajon, a suburb of San Diego, on Wednesday night. \u003ccite>(Bill Wechter/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At protests on Wednesday night, an El Cajon businessman \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/sep/28/mostly-peaceful-protests-continue-el-cajon-after-p/\">told member station KPBS\u003c/a> that the shooting goes past questions of justice. \"This goes into the morality of humanity. Everybody ought to be conflicted about this,\" he said. \"Imagine if this was you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another protester, local civil rights activist Estella Del Rios, said that El Cajon's district attorney has never determined a police shooting was unjustified. She called for an outside investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a life,\" Del Rios told KPBS. \"A life that matters. And I just want to say we demand, as a community, a federal prosecution. We know there's a photo out there that tells just one story, one side of the story. The family needs answers. They need it now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP has more on Wednesday night's protests:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"After dark, scores of people gathered quietly around candles lining a curb in front of bloodstained pavement at the strip mall where Olango was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The spot in front of fast-food restaurant has become a makeshift altar with a mound of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"More than 200 people marched in the streets near the site, yelling 'no justice, no peace, no racist police!'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police in riot gear, some of them with dogs, faced off with protesters occasionally, bringing some tense moments, but mostly kept their distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were no reports of any violence or arrests.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Olango was a refugee from Uganda, the AP reports, who had a part-time job in a furniture store. He had a history of run-ins with the police, with convictions for selling cocaine, receiving stolen property and drunken driving. He had served time in federal prison for possessing a gun as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawyer representing Olango's family told the AP that Olango was a loving father who was having an emotional breakdown after his best friend's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wire service also spoke to a woman named Agnes Hassan, originally from Sudan, who says she and Olango spent time in a refugee camp together. She described him as an educated man with mental problems, saying that both of them suffered in order to get to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not right,\" she told the AP, wiping away tears. \"My heart has just broken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It all started in late spring, when a now 19-year-old woman, known then by her pseudonym, Celeste Guap, told several news outlets she’d had sex with dozens of police officers from seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies, some when she was underage. She said the officers she slept with knew she was involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, salacious and damning details continued to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next chapter in the case opened last Friday, as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police Officer\u003c/a> Brian Bunton was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to obstruct justice and engaging in an act of prostitution. On that same day, the\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\"> Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> moved to discipline nine of its officers for their involvement with the scandal. The disciplines ranged from one termination to letters of reprimand for five officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many, the scandal isn’t just about the one woman, now known by her real name, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106716 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Abuslin's attorney Pamela Price is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abuslin’s lawyer, Pamela Price, told reporters at a press conference two weeks ago that she had heard from other potential victims via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you step back from it, how is it possible that this many officers could be engaged in this kind of activity over this period of time and she be the only one?” Price told KQED in an earlier interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, despite the resignations and reprimands and coming prosecutions, none of the agencies involved have said publicly whether other victims have surfaced during their internal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Perpetrators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former victims say this type of police sexual misconduct is not a one-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola Brantley, co-founder and former executive director of MISSSEY, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking, says sexual misconduct between police and people involved in the sex industry happens quite often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re talking about a highly vulnerable population of individuals. It’s very, very common,” Brantley said. “Part of the abuse is the abuse that you receive at the hands of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley said she herself was abused by a San Francisco police officer when she was 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Brantley wrote, “[the officer] was assigned to my high school and part of a program I was also a part of called Youth Court. It began with him targeting me, getting my telephone number off the program list and building trust with me over hours and hours on the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley wrote that the officer was later terminated from SFPD, accepted a plea deal and did no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her email, she wrote that the experience impacted her ability to feel safe and reduced her confidence in people with power and authority. Today Brantley helps others through training and consulting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was at MISSSEY, Brantley says, “We’d have girls that would come in all the time and talk about being raped by police officers” or talk about how “police would not put pressure on their traffickers as long as they were allowed to have sexual contact with the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenges of Documenting Abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Special Agent Marty Parker works extensively with local law enforcement agencies around the Bay Area to combat human trafficking. She cautioned against taking all reports of police sexual misconduct at face value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she couldn’t comment specifically on the Bay Area scandal, Parker said, “...one thing that a lot of the agencies investigate pretty regularly are people out there who present to these girls as law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"IggFgitgB5iUVxy2DO1TF8ansQOXJPYr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get that a lot. There’s always open cases at Oakland PD and other departments as well, where they’re picking up these girls and then demanding sex and stating that they’re law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a lot of the victims don’t even realize when they’re assaulted by someone who isn’t a real officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Lutnick, a senior research scientist with nonprofit RTI International, has been doing research on the sex industry for over 20 years. Some of her most recent work has been focused on the experiences of young people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said her findings are similar to what other researchers have found. “Young people are reporting that they’re experiencing violence more often from law enforcement officials than from any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That violence can be physical. It can be sexual ... it’s common for police officers to sexually assault them in exchange for not being arrested,” Lutnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the abuse happens during the context of an undercover operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social worker Lutnick spoke with during the course of her research told her about how a police officer in Southern California sexually abused her underage client during an undercover prostitution operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said the youth reported to the caseworker that she got into a man’s car and fondled him while they drove to a gas station and ATM to take out money. The youth said she fondled him for at least five minutes before the man identified himself as law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward the youth told the caseworker, “I don’t understand. If he’s an undercover cop and I’m a minor, isn’t he not supposed to, you know, let me do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Undercover Operations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it doesn’t appear that any of the police sexual misconduct involving Jasmine Abuslin happened during undercover operations, her story has highlighted the importance of training and policies when it comes to how police deal with people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, each police department determines its own policies and procedures. In an effort to better understand how and when police sexual misconduct occurs, KQED requested the policies and procedures for undercover operations from the San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department did not respond in time for publication and the Richmond Police Department issued no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has put its \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak058215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">policies and procedures online\u003c/a>. That policy was updated on Feb. 28, 2014, to include language under the section entitled “Safety Briefing”. The language in H-J outlines the physical contact officers are not allowed to have with subjects of vice/undercover human trafficking investigations, but it also outlines what is allowed, including “unprompted touching”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>H. Undercover officers \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">shall not initiate\u003c/span> the touching of a subject or officer's\u003cbr>\ngenitals (e.g. testicles, penis, labia, clitoris, and vagina) or intimate parts\u003cbr>\n(e.g. breast or buttocks). An unprompted touch of an officer by a subject\u003cbr>\ndoes not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. The touching of a subject or officer's clothed or covered genitals or intimate\u003cbr>\nbody parts (aka \"cop check\"), not initiated by the officer, to further a police\u003cbr>\nobjective is allowed unless the subject is a known juvenile or the officer\u003cbr>\nreasonably believes the subject is a juvenile;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Skin to skin touching of a subject or officer's genitals (e.g. testicles, penis,\u003cbr>\nlabia, clitoris, vagina) is strictly prohibited. An unprompted touch of an\u003cbr>\nofficer by a subject does not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the Oakland Police Department several times by phone and email to discuss its policies and procedures for undercover operations. The department did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Marsh is a human trafficking expert who has trained police across California on best practices. He worked for the Westminster Police Department in Southern California for over 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh explained that the language in H-J in Oakland’s policies is there to keep officers safe and to make sure they're not held accountable in situations that are beyond their control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the person being prostituted will try to prove you’re not a cop and so they’ll reach over and try to grab your genital area or grab your hand and put it on their breast or their crotch area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said \"cop checks\" are one of several reasons his department didn’t do street stings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microphones and pinhole cameras can be used to help keep officers accountable during undercover operations, but the ideal situation is one where there is no disrobing or touching involved, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk well enough and you understand how to interact with people ... and ask the right questions, you never have to take your clothes off at all,” Marsh said. “Long before that part comes up, you’ve gotten your solicitation and you’re out the door and no one’s the wiser for you being an officer and that person is not victimized other than having to go through the solicitation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said this approach leads to “a lot less finger-pointing, a lot less potential for traumatizing anyone or getting a complaint for inappropriate conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether undercover officers need to have direct physical contact is dependent on the sophistication of the vice unit and what they have experience doing, as well as what the district attorney of that jurisdiction will accept as far as the terms of a solicitation, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving Forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing the agencies involved in the scandal need to do to rebuild public trust is to conduct ethics training for their entire departments, according to John Vanek, a consultant and retired lieutenant from the San Jose Police Department, who managed the department’s Human Trafficking Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what he’s read about the scandal, Vanek said, “It appears that people in supervisory and or management positions may have failed in their responsibility to respond when they suspected that something wrong was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> has said that lieutenants and sergeants are among those facing discipline in that department. It is unclear whether any of the Oakland officers facing discipline are managers or supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106801 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom about police sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Sept. 7 press conference where Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced discipline against 12 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police officers\u003c/a>, Schaaf said, “We will be changing several of our policies and training requirements to increase officer awareness and ability to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and exploitation and better help victims to escape such abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the mayor’s office, to get more details on the training and policy changes and to see if the changes will be departmentwide, but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek said what’s happened in the Bay Area is a failure in leadership. He said while no one can control every member of an agency, “it is the leader’s responsibility to instill ethical and professional behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek referred to Abuslin’s situation as being “exceptionally sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears she was victimized by many people and ultimately she was victimized by and taken advantage of by police officers,” Vanek said. “And it is police officers that need to be the most trustworthy people in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Oakland Police Department's policies and procedures for undercover operations below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=325661373 key=key-crTLLP80azlY0YMWXQ1H mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It all started in late spring, when a now 19-year-old woman, known then by her pseudonym, Celeste Guap, told several news outlets she’d had sex with dozens of police officers from seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies, some when she was underage. She said the officers she slept with knew she was involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, salacious and damning details continued to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next chapter in the case opened last Friday, as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police Officer\u003c/a> Brian Bunton was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to obstruct justice and engaging in an act of prostitution. On that same day, the\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\"> Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> moved to discipline nine of its officers for their involvement with the scandal. The disciplines ranged from one termination to letters of reprimand for five officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many, the scandal isn’t just about the one woman, now known by her real name, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106716 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Abuslin's attorney Pamela Price is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abuslin’s lawyer, Pamela Price, told reporters at a press conference two weeks ago that she had heard from other potential victims via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you step back from it, how is it possible that this many officers could be engaged in this kind of activity over this period of time and she be the only one?” Price told KQED in an earlier interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, despite the resignations and reprimands and coming prosecutions, none of the agencies involved have said publicly whether other victims have surfaced during their internal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Perpetrators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former victims say this type of police sexual misconduct is not a one-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola Brantley, co-founder and former executive director of MISSSEY, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking, says sexual misconduct between police and people involved in the sex industry happens quite often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re talking about a highly vulnerable population of individuals. It’s very, very common,” Brantley said. “Part of the abuse is the abuse that you receive at the hands of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley said she herself was abused by a San Francisco police officer when she was 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Brantley wrote, “[the officer] was assigned to my high school and part of a program I was also a part of called Youth Court. It began with him targeting me, getting my telephone number off the program list and building trust with me over hours and hours on the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley wrote that the officer was later terminated from SFPD, accepted a plea deal and did no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her email, she wrote that the experience impacted her ability to feel safe and reduced her confidence in people with power and authority. Today Brantley helps others through training and consulting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was at MISSSEY, Brantley says, “We’d have girls that would come in all the time and talk about being raped by police officers” or talk about how “police would not put pressure on their traffickers as long as they were allowed to have sexual contact with the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenges of Documenting Abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Special Agent Marty Parker works extensively with local law enforcement agencies around the Bay Area to combat human trafficking. She cautioned against taking all reports of police sexual misconduct at face value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she couldn’t comment specifically on the Bay Area scandal, Parker said, “...one thing that a lot of the agencies investigate pretty regularly are people out there who present to these girls as law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get that a lot. There’s always open cases at Oakland PD and other departments as well, where they’re picking up these girls and then demanding sex and stating that they’re law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a lot of the victims don’t even realize when they’re assaulted by someone who isn’t a real officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Lutnick, a senior research scientist with nonprofit RTI International, has been doing research on the sex industry for over 20 years. Some of her most recent work has been focused on the experiences of young people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said her findings are similar to what other researchers have found. “Young people are reporting that they’re experiencing violence more often from law enforcement officials than from any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That violence can be physical. It can be sexual ... it’s common for police officers to sexually assault them in exchange for not being arrested,” Lutnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the abuse happens during the context of an undercover operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social worker Lutnick spoke with during the course of her research told her about how a police officer in Southern California sexually abused her underage client during an undercover prostitution operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said the youth reported to the caseworker that she got into a man’s car and fondled him while they drove to a gas station and ATM to take out money. The youth said she fondled him for at least five minutes before the man identified himself as law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward the youth told the caseworker, “I don’t understand. If he’s an undercover cop and I’m a minor, isn’t he not supposed to, you know, let me do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Undercover Operations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it doesn’t appear that any of the police sexual misconduct involving Jasmine Abuslin happened during undercover operations, her story has highlighted the importance of training and policies when it comes to how police deal with people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, each police department determines its own policies and procedures. In an effort to better understand how and when police sexual misconduct occurs, KQED requested the policies and procedures for undercover operations from the San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department did not respond in time for publication and the Richmond Police Department issued no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has put its \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak058215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">policies and procedures online\u003c/a>. That policy was updated on Feb. 28, 2014, to include language under the section entitled “Safety Briefing”. The language in H-J outlines the physical contact officers are not allowed to have with subjects of vice/undercover human trafficking investigations, but it also outlines what is allowed, including “unprompted touching”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>H. Undercover officers \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">shall not initiate\u003c/span> the touching of a subject or officer's\u003cbr>\ngenitals (e.g. testicles, penis, labia, clitoris, and vagina) or intimate parts\u003cbr>\n(e.g. breast or buttocks). An unprompted touch of an officer by a subject\u003cbr>\ndoes not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. The touching of a subject or officer's clothed or covered genitals or intimate\u003cbr>\nbody parts (aka \"cop check\"), not initiated by the officer, to further a police\u003cbr>\nobjective is allowed unless the subject is a known juvenile or the officer\u003cbr>\nreasonably believes the subject is a juvenile;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Skin to skin touching of a subject or officer's genitals (e.g. testicles, penis,\u003cbr>\nlabia, clitoris, vagina) is strictly prohibited. An unprompted touch of an\u003cbr>\nofficer by a subject does not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the Oakland Police Department several times by phone and email to discuss its policies and procedures for undercover operations. The department did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Marsh is a human trafficking expert who has trained police across California on best practices. He worked for the Westminster Police Department in Southern California for over 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh explained that the language in H-J in Oakland’s policies is there to keep officers safe and to make sure they're not held accountable in situations that are beyond their control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the person being prostituted will try to prove you’re not a cop and so they’ll reach over and try to grab your genital area or grab your hand and put it on their breast or their crotch area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said \"cop checks\" are one of several reasons his department didn’t do street stings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microphones and pinhole cameras can be used to help keep officers accountable during undercover operations, but the ideal situation is one where there is no disrobing or touching involved, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk well enough and you understand how to interact with people ... and ask the right questions, you never have to take your clothes off at all,” Marsh said. “Long before that part comes up, you’ve gotten your solicitation and you’re out the door and no one’s the wiser for you being an officer and that person is not victimized other than having to go through the solicitation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said this approach leads to “a lot less finger-pointing, a lot less potential for traumatizing anyone or getting a complaint for inappropriate conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether undercover officers need to have direct physical contact is dependent on the sophistication of the vice unit and what they have experience doing, as well as what the district attorney of that jurisdiction will accept as far as the terms of a solicitation, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving Forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing the agencies involved in the scandal need to do to rebuild public trust is to conduct ethics training for their entire departments, according to John Vanek, a consultant and retired lieutenant from the San Jose Police Department, who managed the department’s Human Trafficking Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what he’s read about the scandal, Vanek said, “It appears that people in supervisory and or management positions may have failed in their responsibility to respond when they suspected that something wrong was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> has said that lieutenants and sergeants are among those facing discipline in that department. It is unclear whether any of the Oakland officers facing discipline are managers or supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106801 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom about police sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Sept. 7 press conference where Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced discipline against 12 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police officers\u003c/a>, Schaaf said, “We will be changing several of our policies and training requirements to increase officer awareness and ability to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and exploitation and better help victims to escape such abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the mayor’s office, to get more details on the training and policy changes and to see if the changes will be departmentwide, but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek said what’s happened in the Bay Area is a failure in leadership. He said while no one can control every member of an agency, “it is the leader’s responsibility to instill ethical and professional behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek referred to Abuslin’s situation as being “exceptionally sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears she was victimized by many people and ultimately she was victimized by and taken advantage of by police officers,” Vanek said. “And it is police officers that need to be the most trustworthy people in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Oakland Police Department's policies and procedures for undercover operations below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When prisons chief Matt Cate was called in to meet Governor-elect Jerry Brown at the end of 2010, and was told about the governor's plan to reduce the state prison population, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first impression honestly was, ‘I understand why we need to do something big with the prison population and with the budget, but this seems too big to me,' \" Cate recalled recently, adding that he warned the governor that Brown would be blamed if someone got out of jail or prison and hurt someone. \"I remember meeting with the governor and saying ... it's a big risk politically. I wanted to make sure he understood it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was facing a huge budget deficit and was under a federal court order to cut its prison population by 30,000 inmates. Brown's plan, dubbed \"realignment\" because it sought to shift criminal justice responsibilities from the state to county governments, was the governor's attempt to comply with the court order without simply opening up the doors of state prisons and letting inmates walk free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"PLWLUlPqOJxHbMsZiIF8QHoIhrtbLyuh\"]\u003cbr>\nIt called for people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to start serving their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. And it made county probation departments, instead of state parole agents, responsible for supervising many more offenders after they were released from prison or jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember talking to sheriffs, and the police chiefs, the district attorneys, even the probation chiefs -- everyone was very skeptical,\" said Cate. \"But once they all understood we had to do something, there were six months of heated negotiations about what that would be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While law enforcement groups came on board, many remained wary of realignment -- and Republican lawmakers and other law-and-order politicians warned that the massive policy change could lead to \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2011/04/13/gov-gets-cops-nod-to-move-cons-to-jails-gop-says-blood-on-streets/\" target=\"_blank\">\"blood in the streets.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a decade later, most public officials say -- and research shows -- that those fears have not come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study of realignment's impacts was released this spring, spearheaded by researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California. UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin worked on what \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/releasing-low-level-offenders-did-not-unleash-a-crime-wave-in-california/2016/03/17/7d376adc-e4b5-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?utm_term=.baaced3fa380\" target=\"_blank\">she calls the first \"systematic, scientific analysis\" of realignment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say it's been a success ... realignment didn't unleash a crime wave, and not only that, it had no impact on violent crimes and very little impact on property crimes,\" she said. \"That tells me we can downsize our prisons, at least in California, without harming public safety. It's an important message for other states to listen to. Letting counties manage offenders locally, I think, is a great way to address the ballooning prison population without harming public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PPIC researchers said in a paper \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_916MLR.pdf\">released this week\u003c/a> that the change has not resulted in less spending on corrections overall -- it's just shifted down to the county level -- and that jails are now facing crowding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under realignment, each county was given funds from the state and had the flexibility to implement realignment the way it wanted to. Probation departments took the lead, because they are responsible for overseeing offenders when they are released -- and all of them affected by realignment would be released. Kubrin said her research shows that the counties with the most success -- including the lowest recidivism rates and highest re-entry success rates -- were the counties that embraced a model of rehabilitation instead of simply relying on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador County Probation Chief Mark Bonini has led his department for nine years, and heads the statewide association that represents probation chiefs. He said there's still work to be done, but \"if the needle leans one way or another, I would say it leans toward success.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation departments, he said, have far more resources at their disposal now to do the important work of helping offenders get jobs, stay sober and improve their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are more safe in that we are providing programming to a piece of the population ... that weren't getting those services before,\" he said, noting that the offenders impacted by realignment were coming back to communities before -- just with less support. \"We knew them already, we knew their families. ... I feel like we are doing better now than the state was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the flexibility offered by the state in implementing such a complicated policy shift was key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that was, I think, a cornerstone of realignment and a real positive was that counties could set things up the way they wanted to,\" Bonini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is such a fan. Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said he thinks realignment, when combined with another major policy change enacted by voters, has led to increased crime rates. He said the PPIC study looked at only a few years of crime rates and that in 2015, violent and property crimes increased significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames not just realignment, but Proposition 47, which made drug possessions and many property crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies. It resulted in further drops in the prison population, and some emptying of county jail beds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no question in my mind that the 10 percent increase in violent crimes we have experienced, the increased property crimes, rapes, robberies, murders -- that there's a nexus between that and realignment and Prop. 47,\" he said. \"I know the governor was under tremendous pressure, that he felt compelled to come up with something to relieve prison overcrowding, and he has accomplished that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Totten believes that compliance came at the expense of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lenore Anderson helped write and push Proposition 47 as head of a group called Californians for Safety and Justice. She disagrees with Totten's assessment of what realignment and Proposition 47 have done -- but agrees it's hard to disentangle their impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fearmongering is how we got to a bloated and costly prison system in the first place,\" she said. \"So much of the so-called tough-on-crime era was shepherded in by a lot of hysteria and myth -- hysteria about crime and myth about the best way to stop it. So it came as no surprise to me that realignment faced pushback, and pushback that sounded pretty familiar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said realignment was the start of a trend toward a more \"balanced\" approach to criminal justice that she believes will ultimately make California safer by helping people deal with the root causes of crime, not just punishing them for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate is now head of the California State Association of Counties, representing county governments in the Capitol. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When prisons chief Matt Cate was called in to meet Governor-elect Jerry Brown at the end of 2010, and was told about the governor's plan to reduce the state prison population, he was skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My first impression honestly was, ‘I understand why we need to do something big with the prison population and with the budget, but this seems too big to me,' \" Cate recalled recently, adding that he warned the governor that Brown would be blamed if someone got out of jail or prison and hurt someone. \"I remember meeting with the governor and saying ... it's a big risk politically. I wanted to make sure he understood it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, California was facing a huge budget deficit and was under a federal court order to cut its prison population by 30,000 inmates. Brown's plan, dubbed \"realignment\" because it sought to shift criminal justice responsibilities from the state to county governments, was the governor's attempt to comply with the court order without simply opening up the doors of state prisons and letting inmates walk free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nIt called for people convicted of many nonviolent crimes -- like drug dealers and shoplifters -- to start serving their sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. And it made county probation departments, instead of state parole agents, responsible for supervising many more offenders after they were released from prison or jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember talking to sheriffs, and the police chiefs, the district attorneys, even the probation chiefs -- everyone was very skeptical,\" said Cate. \"But once they all understood we had to do something, there were six months of heated negotiations about what that would be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While law enforcement groups came on board, many remained wary of realignment -- and Republican lawmakers and other law-and-order politicians warned that the massive policy change could lead to \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/politics/2011/04/13/gov-gets-cops-nod-to-move-cons-to-jails-gop-says-blood-on-streets/\" target=\"_blank\">\"blood in the streets.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half a decade later, most public officials say -- and research shows -- that those fears have not come to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285259846'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most comprehensive study of realignment's impacts was released this spring, spearheaded by researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California. UC Irvine criminologist Charis Kubrin worked on what \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/releasing-low-level-offenders-did-not-unleash-a-crime-wave-in-california/2016/03/17/7d376adc-e4b5-11e5-a6f3-21ccdbc5f74e_story.html?utm_term=.baaced3fa380\" target=\"_blank\">she calls the first \"systematic, scientific analysis\" of realignment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say it's been a success ... realignment didn't unleash a crime wave, and not only that, it had no impact on violent crimes and very little impact on property crimes,\" she said. \"That tells me we can downsize our prisons, at least in California, without harming public safety. It's an important message for other states to listen to. Letting counties manage offenders locally, I think, is a great way to address the ballooning prison population without harming public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PPIC researchers said in a paper \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_916MLR.pdf\">released this week\u003c/a> that the change has not resulted in less spending on corrections overall -- it's just shifted down to the county level -- and that jails are now facing crowding problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under realignment, each county was given funds from the state and had the flexibility to implement realignment the way it wanted to. Probation departments took the lead, because they are responsible for overseeing offenders when they are released -- and all of them affected by realignment would be released. Kubrin said her research shows that the counties with the most success -- including the lowest recidivism rates and highest re-entry success rates -- were the counties that embraced a model of rehabilitation instead of simply relying on incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amador County Probation Chief Mark Bonini has led his department for nine years, and heads the statewide association that represents probation chiefs. He said there's still work to be done, but \"if the needle leans one way or another, I would say it leans toward success.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation departments, he said, have far more resources at their disposal now to do the important work of helping offenders get jobs, stay sober and improve their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we are more safe in that we are providing programming to a piece of the population ... that weren't getting those services before,\" he said, noting that the offenders impacted by realignment were coming back to communities before -- just with less support. \"We knew them already, we knew their families. ... I feel like we are doing better now than the state was.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the flexibility offered by the state in implementing such a complicated policy shift was key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that was, I think, a cornerstone of realignment and a real positive was that counties could set things up the way they wanted to,\" Bonini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is such a fan. Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten said he thinks realignment, when combined with another major policy change enacted by voters, has led to increased crime rates. He said the PPIC study looked at only a few years of crime rates and that in 2015, violent and property crimes increased significantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He blames not just realignment, but Proposition 47, which made drug possessions and many property crimes misdemeanors instead of felonies. It resulted in further drops in the prison population, and some emptying of county jail beds as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no question in my mind that the 10 percent increase in violent crimes we have experienced, the increased property crimes, rapes, robberies, murders -- that there's a nexus between that and realignment and Prop. 47,\" he said. \"I know the governor was under tremendous pressure, that he felt compelled to come up with something to relieve prison overcrowding, and he has accomplished that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Totten believes that compliance came at the expense of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lenore Anderson helped write and push Proposition 47 as head of a group called Californians for Safety and Justice. She disagrees with Totten's assessment of what realignment and Proposition 47 have done -- but agrees it's hard to disentangle their impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fearmongering is how we got to a bloated and costly prison system in the first place,\" she said. \"So much of the so-called tough-on-crime era was shepherded in by a lot of hysteria and myth -- hysteria about crime and myth about the best way to stop it. So it came as no surprise to me that realignment faced pushback, and pushback that sounded pretty familiar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said realignment was the start of a trend toward a more \"balanced\" approach to criminal justice that she believes will ultimately make California safer by helping people deal with the root causes of crime, not just punishing them for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cate is now head of the California State Association of Counties, representing county governments in the Capitol. He said Brown's big gamble resulted in a big success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a lot of guts,\" he said. \"And it paid off for him eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Joseph Bower has seen a lot of changes in \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinitycounty.org\">Trinity County.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re sitting in his pickup truck a few miles from his house in central Trinity. About 10 years ago, nothing but forest surrounded this winding dirt road. Now it’s lined with marijuana farms. Cannabis plants pop out everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road cuts through \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/01/business/fi-dope-county1\">Trinity Pines,\u003c/a> a private subdivision tucked in National Forest land. There are hundreds of lots where people farm medical marijuana for dispensaries. And, in the surrounding National Forest, drug cartels have been caught growing for the black market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1809px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108314\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Unknown.gif\" alt=\"A gif showing the massive number of marijuana grows that have appeared in a slice of Trinity Pines over the last 10 years.\" width=\"1809\" height=\"905\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gif showing the massive number of marijuana grows that have appeared in a slice of Trinity Pines over the last 10 years. \u003ccite>(Google Earth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We pass a heap of trash with an old camper someone dumped by the side of the road. The words “haul away” are sprayed in black on its side. “That’s what you get,” Bower says. “Junk, junk, junk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says many of the newer marijuana growers are outsiders with no regard for the local community. He says they are \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/marijuana-camps-cited-in-trinity-pines-area-ep-376600984-355188411.html\">sucking streams dry and dumping pesticides.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I'm fine with growers who want to live here as long as they obey the rules and don't create environmental problems.' \u003ccite>Joseph Bower, Environmentalist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Joseph Bower and his wife, Susan, have lived in Trinity County for close to 40 years. “I'm fine with growers who want to live here, live on the land, send their kids to school, pay their taxes,\" Bower says. \"As long as they obey the rules and don't create environmental problems.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannabis farming is a way of life in the \u003ca href=\"http://hightimes.com/culture/10-shots-of-harvest-season-in-the-emerald-triangle/\">\"Emerald Triangle\"\u003c/a> counties of Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity. But it's also a source of tension. Over the last decade people have been flooding in, hoping to strike it rich by cultivating cannabis. The industry could grow even faster if Californians pass \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_64,_Marijuana_Legalization_(2016)\">Proposition 64\u003c/a> and legalize recreational marijuana. With the way \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/21/polls-voters-favor-legalizing-pot-outlawing-capital-punishment/\">the polling looks now\u003c/a>, it seems like there’s a good chance that will happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says if voters decide to legalize marijuana this November, the problems in Trinity won't just go away. They could even worsen under the pressure of bigger businesses and more competition. Legalization has smaller growers in the area worried as well. You can \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/25/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot/\">read this story\u003c/a> about two small-time cultivators in \u003ca href=\"http://www.humboldtgov.org/\">Humboldt County \u003c/a>who have a plan to survive as the industry balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285101185\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says it's up to local communities to keep the \"green rush\" in check. In Trinity, the pressure of the industry is bringing people together who have been at odds for decades. Environmentalists like Bower are now joining forces with their mortal enemies -- loggers like Clarence Rose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose lives in \u003ca href=\"http://weavervilleonline.net/\">Weaverville\u003c/a>, about an hour's drive from Joseph and Susan Bower's home. With around 3,600 people, Weaverville is the largest town in Trinity County. It, too, is surrounded by marijuana grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here.' \u003ccite>Clarence Rose, logger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If we can start to get the message out that this county is no longer a pushover for exploitative growers, that would be huge,” Rose says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose moved to Trinity in the '70s when logging was king. “Trinity County had seven sawmills,” Rose says. “You could start from nowhere, and by hard work over the years you could become part of the middle class. Those opportunities don't exist the way they did once. So people are turning to other means to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to Trinity, Rose fought against environmentalists like Bower for decades in what's known here as “the timber wars.” Now the two have a common enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here,” Rose says. “We're being taken advantage of by people with all kinds of different motives, but all revolving around money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose wishes there were no marijuana farms in Trinity County, but he says that is not possible. Marijuana cultivation is too entrenched. So he is joining forces with a third ally in this unlikely coalition: small-time, mom-and-pop cannabis farmers like Liz McIntosh and her husband, Duncan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The understanding that there is big business that wants to come into our community has pushed all the moderates together,” Duncan says. “It got the dialogue moving that cannabis wasn't really the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duncan and Liz formed an organization of small growers called \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/trinityfarmsforcompliance/\">Trinity Farms for Compliance\u003c/a>. They meet as often as once a week, frequently at a pub in Hayfork called \u003ca href=\"http://www.northerndelightshayfork.com/\">Northern Delights\u003c/a>. The organization worked with environmentalists and loggers to urge the local Board of Supervisors to pass \u003ca href=\"http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/local/article_e4157d1a-748a-11e6-b075-a3573ddd07b4.html\">an emergency marijuana growing ordinance\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Either we're going to work with them or we're going to lose everything.' \u003ccite>Duncan McIntosh, small business marijuana grower\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The ordinance sets guidelines for cultivation and establishes a permitting process like they have done in nearby \u003ca href=\"https://humboldtgov.org/2159/Commercial-Medical-Marijuana-Permitting\">Humboldt County. \u003c/a>It has provisions to try and slow down the number of big new growers pouring into Trinity. Liz says the ordinance limits farms to 10,000 square feet and requires every grower to be a resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz and Duncan hope the ordinance becomes adopted for the long term so that small growers can get legal. “None of us have our permits,” Duncan says. “It's a little anxious for everybody because we don't know if we're going to stick our necks out and get our heads cut off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz says there is still lots of work to do, but forming this unlikely coalition has been a big first step. Liz and Duncan say they never thought they would be sitting down with loggers and environmentalists to hash out policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duncan says, “Either we're going to work with them or we're going to lose everything.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end Bower, Rose and the McIntoshes all want the same thing: to protect their community and rural way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of our California Counts collaboration with four California public media organizations to cover the 2016 election. 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You can \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/25/will-small-marijuana-growers-stay-competitive-if-california-legalizes-pot/\">read this story\u003c/a> about two small-time cultivators in \u003ca href=\"http://www.humboldtgov.org/\">Humboldt County \u003c/a>who have a plan to survive as the industry balloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285101185&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/285101185'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bower says it's up to local communities to keep the \"green rush\" in check. 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It, too, is surrounded by marijuana grows.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here.' \u003ccite>Clarence Rose, logger\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If we can start to get the message out that this county is no longer a pushover for exploitative growers, that would be huge,” Rose says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose moved to Trinity in the '70s when logging was king. “Trinity County had seven sawmills,” Rose says. “You could start from nowhere, and by hard work over the years you could become part of the middle class. Those opportunities don't exist the way they did once. So people are turning to other means to make a living.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After moving to Trinity, Rose fought against environmentalists like Bower for decades in what's known here as “the timber wars.” Now the two have a common enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11108321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11108321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg\" alt=\"Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-400x242.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-800x485.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-1180x715.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/HillsideGrow-960x582.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hundreds of medical marijuana growers have set up operations in the private lots of Trinity Pines. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in this green-rush phase and it's attracted people from all over the country who know that we're vulnerable here,” Rose says. “We're being taken advantage of by people with all kinds of different motives, but all revolving around money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rose wishes there were no marijuana farms in Trinity County, but he says that is not possible. 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