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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast August, Anne Hadreas toured Sonoma County's main jail in Santa Rosa to check on the treatment of inmates there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas is an attorney for \u003ca href=\"http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Disability Rights California\u003c/a>, an agency that monitors conditions for mentally ill and disabled people in jails, state hospitals and other facilities. She's visited lots of those facilities, but what she saw in Sonoma County still came as a shock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hadreas and several other attorneys got to what the jail calls its mental health module, they were confronted by highly delusional inmates screaming and crawling on the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the inmates were so disoriented and/or psychotic they were unable to converse with us,\" says the DRC team's report on the visit, made available to KQED in advance of its release Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were really struck by the fact that people were incredibly acute in their need,\" Hadreas recalled in a recent interview. “Higher than we’ve seen in units that are licensed designated hospital units. Something was wrong here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas said the case of one woman in particular stood out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'She flashed her breasts, was unable to respond appropriately to questions, yelled and cried, pounded on the door and screamed with a hoarse voice.' \u003ccite>Disability Rights California report\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medical records showed the woman came to the jail with a long history of being hospitalized for bipolar affective disorder, “often for weeks or months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2015, the DRC report says, the woman was confined to the jail's mental health module several times after being arrested on a series of misdemeanor charges: disturbing the peace, trespassing and “peeking” -- that last one being a peeping-tom offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her history and the fact she was in distress, the DRC report says, at one point the woman went an entire week without being seen by mental health staff. During one stay, the woman \"tore up her cell and flooded it,\" the report says. Jail staff then turned off the water in her cell. After that, the DRC report says, the woman was found \"'bailing urine out of her toilet' with her bare hands and drinking out of the toilet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was obvious, the report says, that the woman \"should have been transferred to a facility that could better meet her needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264551299\" 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 \u003ca href=\"http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/Documents/DRCReportAndSonomaCountyResponse20160516.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DRC's report\u003c/a> says the woman's treatment, or lack of treatment, was part of a pattern of inadequate mental health care in Sonoma County's main jail -- a facility where nearly 40 percent of inmates locked up last year were reported to be mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC team also found that clinical staff administered involuntary injections of powerful, long-acting psychiatric drugs to inmates in routine violation of the strict requirements of state law. And the report says that many inmates in the main jail are held in what amounts to isolation, a situation that both complicates treatment for mentally ill people and makes their medical condition demonstrably worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a formal response, as part of the report, Sonoma County officials challenged the suggestion that the unidentified woman mentioned in the report should have been treated at another facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A review of this inmate's chart shows that while at times she was mentally unstable, she was treated and cared for appropriately at the jail,\" the response says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county says it has already taken steps to correct procedures regarding involuntary injections and that long-acting drugs are no longer being used to treat inmates on short-term holds. County officials also say many of the problems the DRC report identifies will be solved by the construction of a new $48 million mental health facility at the jail.\u003c!--END RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10953989\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Restraint chairs in Sonoma County main jail's mental health module.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restraint chairs in Sonoma County main jail's mental health module. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he conditions the DRC report found in Sonoma County's main jail are a reflection of what mental health experts say is a disturbing reality nationwide: After decades spent \"deinstitutionalizing\" the mentally ill -- removing them from settings like state hospitals in favor of community mental health facilities that have rarely been adequately funded -- correctional facilities are now de facto treatment centers for those suffering from acute psychiatric disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.tacreports.org/storage/documents/2010-jail-study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2010 study\u003c/a> found that in California, nearly four times as many mentally ill people were in jails and prisons than in hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, produced by the National Sheriffs' Association and Treatment Advocacy Center, said that \"in historical perspective, we have returned to the early 19th century, when mentally ill persons filled our jails and prisons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say conditions like those in Sonoma County show jails are simply the wrong place to treat the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff is receiving most of the people on the street with serious mental illness,” said Terry A. Kupers, an East Bay psychiatrist and expert witness on the treatment of people with mental illness in jails and prisons. “The jail was not designed for treating people with mental illness. The person is in jail because they’ve been charged with a crime, and then the sheriff is stuck providing mental health services. Rarely are there adequate funds to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>onoma County correctional and behavioral health staff agree that it’s challenging to meet the needs of such a large and acutely mentally ill population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the toughest problems, they say, is getting people the treatment and medications they need. People with mental illness frequently do not want to admit that they are ill, said sheriff's Lt. Mike Toby, who supervises the main jail’s three mental health units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"OZD3f5mfPM4INIMq7qLoPXG4UG77NYzr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But jails are allowed to medicate inmates against their will only if the jails follow a strict set of procedures outlined in state law. The process includes first detaining an inmate on an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold, commonly known as a 5150, then getting a court's sign-off on a petition finding that the inmate is too incapacitated to grant informed consent for medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC report says that the Sonoma County jail's process violated the legal requirements before administering involuntary injections. The practices were \"illegal and must be stopped immediately,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the woman who was found drinking from her toilet, mental health staff at the jail involuntarily injected her seven times during a 10-week period with several strong antipsychotic drugs used to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other conditions. The effects of some of the medications can last for four to six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953998\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10953998\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Hadreas an attorney with Disability Rights California works in her office in Oakland, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Hadreas, an attorney with Disability Rights California, works in her office in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the DRC investigation found jail staff failed to seek a 5150 hold first, as required by law. And the DRC's Anne Hadreas says that by using such long-acting drugs, the jail denied the woman essential legal rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, we have a right to refuse, and any person, even someone who’s been found to lack capacity, has a right to go to court,” Hadreas says. “But what happens if I go to court and I appeal that and I've already had a shot? I can't remove that medication from my body. So for another month I'm still being medicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--RESPONSE--> In its response to the DRC report -- and in a revised policy dated May 10 -- the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office says it has changed its policies to ensure that mentally disturbed inmates are placed on 5150 holds before steps are taken to administer drugs involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's office and county Behavioral Health Division \"are committed to administering medications in the most appropriate and safe manner possible,\" the response said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--END RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10953933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>awyers, advocates, correctional officers, inmates and their families often use the same phrase to describe the situation of mentally ill inmates in jails like Sonoma's: “Warehoused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kupers, the East Bay psychiatrist, says that medication alone will not help mentally ill people become well. That lack of treatment and frequent isolation leads mentally ill inmates to act out even more, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bipolar woman who flooded her cell and drank from the toilet was being involuntarily medicated, but still behaved erratically. Her impairment was so severe that a court later appointed a conservator to make care decisions for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In truth, the unacceptable behaviors are essentially a protest against terrible conditions,” Kupers said. “But that's not how the staff see them. So they see them as an uncooperative inmate or prisoner. And they give them more medication and then we get the sedative effect, the zombie effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond drugs, what sort of treatment do mentally ill inmates get in the Sonoma County main jail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrists see about 20 inmates a day, according to Sonoma County Mental Health Program Manager Jo Benwell, who works in the main jail. But even the most acute patients receive visits from a psychiatrist only about two to three times a week, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions for therapy in the jail's mental health module are far from ideal, according to the DRC report, with inmates often required to speak to mental health staff through small slots in cell doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benwell says staff focus on providing immediate support instead of focusing on deeper-seated psychological issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t necessarily look at that issue with their parent 20 years ago,” she said. “We really need to help them, support them, with the legal process, which is very anxiety-producing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Disability Rights California report also highlights the isolation of inmates in single cells in the Sonoma jail. While the facility meets the minimum state standard for outdoor recreation time -- at least three hours a week -- the report notes that some inmates reported being released from their cells for just 30 to 45 minutes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report calls that practice \"extreme isolation\" that can be especially harmful to mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document briefly describes one man with bipolar disorder who was booked into Sonoma County main jail’s mental health module after violating parole. He was moved into a “step-down” unit, one designated for inmates who are not acutely mentally ill but not ready to be reintegrated into the general population. Inmates are still isolated in single cells in the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man repeatedly told mental health staff that the isolation was worsening his condition. In one request he wrote: “This is really not good for my mind. ... I’m overwhelmed by this, which is causing me to not sleep, to feel agitated, powerless, depressed and confused. Please help me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health staff told him that he was “doing well” and with “continued good behavior” he might eventually be placed in the general population, where he would have more access to outside areas and human interaction. But, the DRC's Hadreas says, his condition only deteriorated in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC's report notes the jail is trying to increase the amount of time inmates spend outside their cells. For instance, the jail has added low partitions to a day room in the main jail so that higher- and lower-security inmates can be released at the same time without mixing together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve spent probably close to $2 million in facility modifications so that we can improve the socialization of that particular population,” said Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas lauded the sheriff's department's \"creative approach\" to modifying existing jail modules to help more inmates have access to time and space outside of their cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DRC also praised the jail's placement of \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">accessible\u003c/span> cells throughout the facility, which keeps people with physical disabilities from being segregated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report commended the group therapy and anger management programs offered in the step-down units as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10953997 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Mike Toby supervises Sonoma County Main Jail’s three mental health units. He's standing in a unit being renovated to give inmates more outside of cell time.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Mike Toby supervises the Sonoma County main jail’s three mental health units. He's standing in a unit being renovated to give inmates more outside-of-cell time. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring a tour of Sonoma County's main jail earlier in May, Walker said that the inmate population -- which averaged 998 a day in 2015 -- included about 400 mentally ill inmates. He said 58 people were housed in the jail's mental health module and another 163 people were in the step-down units, with the rest spread throughout the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the number of mentally ill inmates has soared over the past 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we opened in 1991 there were 13, and that 13 encompassed the more acute and the less acute,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail's spending on psychotropic medication testifies to the change. During the last five years, the amount spent on such drugs increased by 322 percent, according to state data -- the largest increase for any county in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10953935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said those numbers show that the county is doing a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County is very good in diagnosing mental illness and addressing needs for the mentally ill,” he said. “So you have more people coming into custody, taking medication. And I think it’s a cultural shift here, where the stigma that may follow someone in some of the more rural counties isn’t as strong in Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benwell agreed that the increase was due to a growing population, and a population more used to taking medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That might just be an antidepressant, or, you know, Benadryl, or something for anxiety,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>alifornia law requires jail officials to transfer mentally ill inmates to outside facilities for treatment when necessary. Such treatment, inside jail and out, is mandated to restore an inmate's mental capacity so they can answer to the charges against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records show that, even in dire cases such as the mentally incapacitated bipolar inmate who drank from her cell toilet last summer, Sonoma County rarely transfers inmates. According to state data, Sonoma County reported just one inmate per year getting inpatient care in outside facilities from 2010 to 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County jail's correctional and mental health staff say they'd prefer mentally ill inmates receive treatment outside of jail, but argue that a broken system leaves them with few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major problem, the county said in its response to the DRC report, is that it can find no outside psychiatric hospitals or facilities willing to treat its inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randall Walker, the assistant sheriff, says other treatment options are tough to find. He says it's very hard for someone who hasn’t been charged with a felony to get into a state hospital for treatment, and even if a state facility accepts an inmate, a transfer can take three to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [we] can’t house a person safely, then we try to find those other options,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Mental Health Services Director Mike Kennedy said that the county is doing the best it can with the resources allotted to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're stuck with is having to do the most humane treatment that we can in settings that aren't set up to do it,\" he said. \"Most psychiatric hospitals won't accept jail inmates. So, right there, that option, we don't have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10954003 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker in his office at Main Jail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker in his office at the main jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Sonoma County public defender, Karen Silver represented mentally ill defendants for decades. She says that except for inmates sent to state hospitals, she has never seen someone leave the Sonoma County jail for outside treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a person charged with a serious crime ever be diverted to the mental health system for the temporary purpose of getting them back to competency,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People charged with misdemeanor offenses have an even harder time getting treatment, Silver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve actually told people, families, that have kids in the system that are just charged with misdemeanors that you need to go to the prosecutor and say that you felt your life was threatened, that you need to verbally make this into a felony so that the person gets sent to the state hospital and gets treatment. Because they can always come back here and we can reduce it to a misdemeanor,” she said. “There was no doubt that the state hospital treatment was better than what the jail was able to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's Lt. Toby, who supervises the main jail’s three mental health units, said that many people charged or found guilty of misdemeanors are trapped in a kind of limbo. They are too mentally ill to stand trial and don’t improve enough to make it to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sonoma County says things will get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Sonoma County received a $40 million grant from the state to build a new wing of the jail for mentally ill inmates. The current facility is not overcrowded, but officials said that 72 new beds in the facility will provide a better place to treat mentally ill inmates and those with substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest challenge is just space to program, so that we’re not trying to talk to people through doors and things like that,” Assistant Sheriff Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the new unit will be used for treatment to restore inmates' competency to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts on the mental health of inmates say that's not the way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC's Hadreas compares building new mental health treatment facilities in jails to building more on-ramps to highways: The ramps lead to more traffic on the roads, and the jail facilities lead to more mentally ill people becoming incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrist Kupers says money spent on new jail facilities would be more effectively used for programs outside the jail, such as mental health courts, diversion, therapy and even vocational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without that additional assistance, you're setting people up to fail and fail. And I would say ending up in jail is a failure of the system,” Hadreas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy also sees a systemwide problem. He says part of the blame lies with hospitals for closing down psychiatric treatment centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think for cancer you would refuse this,\" Kennedy said. \"It's a huge problem that needs to be dealt with on a state and federal level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas agrees, saying state officials and agencies -- from Gov. Jerry Brown to the Board of State and Community Corrections, which oversees county lockups -- must find more effective ways to address mental health challenges in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that certainly the BSCC, the governor, the Department of Mental Health can look at from a higher understanding and say, ‘What’s going on here? Can we rework this money in a way that’s actually helpful for people?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read the report:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=312796345 key=key-82NPse3T6uqW4SkTGA5g mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas said the case of one woman in particular stood out.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'She flashed her breasts, was unable to respond appropriately to questions, yelled and cried, pounded on the door and screamed with a hoarse voice.' \u003ccite>Disability Rights California report\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Medical records showed the woman came to the jail with a long history of being hospitalized for bipolar affective disorder, “often for weeks or months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2015, the DRC report says, the woman was confined to the jail's mental health module several times after being arrested on a series of misdemeanor charges: disturbing the peace, trespassing and “peeking” -- that last one being a peeping-tom offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite her history and the fact she was in distress, the DRC report says, at one point the woman went an entire week without being seen by mental health staff. During one stay, the woman \"tore up her cell and flooded it,\" the report says. Jail staff then turned off the water in her cell. After that, the DRC report says, the woman was found \"'bailing urine out of her toilet' with her bare hands and drinking out of the toilet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was obvious, the report says, that the woman \"should have been transferred to a facility that could better meet her needs.\"\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/264551299&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/264551299'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.disabilityrightsca.org/Documents/DRCReportAndSonomaCountyResponse20160516.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DRC's report\u003c/a> says the woman's treatment, or lack of treatment, was part of a pattern of inadequate mental health care in Sonoma County's main jail -- a facility where nearly 40 percent of inmates locked up last year were reported to be mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC team also found that clinical staff administered involuntary injections of powerful, long-acting psychiatric drugs to inmates in routine violation of the strict requirements of state law. And the report says that many inmates in the main jail are held in what amounts to isolation, a situation that both complicates treatment for mentally ill people and makes their medical condition demonstrably worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a formal response, as part of the report, Sonoma County officials challenged the suggestion that the unidentified woman mentioned in the report should have been treated at another facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A review of this inmate's chart shows that while at times she was mentally unstable, she was treated and cared for appropriately at the jail,\" the response says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county says it has already taken steps to correct procedures regarding involuntary injections and that long-acting drugs are no longer being used to treat inmates on short-term holds. County officials also say many of the problems the DRC report identifies will be solved by the construction of a new $48 million mental health facility at the jail.\u003c!--END RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953989\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10953989\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Restraint chairs in Sonoma County main jail's mental health module.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19459_IMG_1600-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Restraint chairs in Sonoma County main jail's mental health module. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he conditions the DRC report found in Sonoma County's main jail are a reflection of what mental health experts say is a disturbing reality nationwide: After decades spent \"deinstitutionalizing\" the mentally ill -- removing them from settings like state hospitals in favor of community mental health facilities that have rarely been adequately funded -- correctional facilities are now de facto treatment centers for those suffering from acute psychiatric disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.tacreports.org/storage/documents/2010-jail-study.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2010 study\u003c/a> found that in California, nearly four times as many mentally ill people were in jails and prisons than in hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report, produced by the National Sheriffs' Association and Treatment Advocacy Center, said that \"in historical perspective, we have returned to the early 19th century, when mentally ill persons filled our jails and prisons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say conditions like those in Sonoma County show jails are simply the wrong place to treat the mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff is receiving most of the people on the street with serious mental illness,” said Terry A. Kupers, an East Bay psychiatrist and expert witness on the treatment of people with mental illness in jails and prisons. “The jail was not designed for treating people with mental illness. The person is in jail because they’ve been charged with a crime, and then the sheriff is stuck providing mental health services. Rarely are there adequate funds to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>onoma County correctional and behavioral health staff agree that it’s challenging to meet the needs of such a large and acutely mentally ill population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the toughest problems, they say, is getting people the treatment and medications they need. People with mental illness frequently do not want to admit that they are ill, said sheriff's Lt. Mike Toby, who supervises the main jail’s three mental health units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But jails are allowed to medicate inmates against their will only if the jails follow a strict set of procedures outlined in state law. The process includes first detaining an inmate on an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold, commonly known as a 5150, then getting a court's sign-off on a petition finding that the inmate is too incapacitated to grant informed consent for medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC report says that the Sonoma County jail's process violated the legal requirements before administering involuntary injections. The practices were \"illegal and must be stopped immediately,\" the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the woman who was found drinking from her toilet, mental health staff at the jail involuntarily injected her seven times during a 10-week period with several strong antipsychotic drugs used to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other conditions. The effects of some of the medications can last for four to six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953998\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10953998\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Hadreas an attorney with Disability Rights California works in her office in Oakland, California.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19470_IMG_1636-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anne Hadreas, an attorney with Disability Rights California, works in her office in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the DRC investigation found jail staff failed to seek a 5150 hold first, as required by law. And the DRC's Anne Hadreas says that by using such long-acting drugs, the jail denied the woman essential legal rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, we have a right to refuse, and any person, even someone who’s been found to lack capacity, has a right to go to court,” Hadreas says. “But what happens if I go to court and I appeal that and I've already had a shot? I can't remove that medication from my body. So for another month I'm still being medicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--RESPONSE--> In its response to the DRC report -- and in a revised policy dated May 10 -- the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office says it has changed its policies to ensure that mentally disturbed inmates are placed on 5150 holds before steps are taken to administer drugs involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff's office and county Behavioral Health Division \"are committed to administering medications in the most appropriate and safe manner possible,\" the response said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--END RESPONSE-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10953933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Involuntary_Holds_in_Fiscal_Year_2013-14_California_Average_Sonoma_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>awyers, advocates, correctional officers, inmates and their families often use the same phrase to describe the situation of mentally ill inmates in jails like Sonoma's: “Warehoused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kupers, the East Bay psychiatrist, says that medication alone will not help mentally ill people become well. That lack of treatment and frequent isolation leads mentally ill inmates to act out even more, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bipolar woman who flooded her cell and drank from the toilet was being involuntarily medicated, but still behaved erratically. Her impairment was so severe that a court later appointed a conservator to make care decisions for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In truth, the unacceptable behaviors are essentially a protest against terrible conditions,” Kupers said. “But that's not how the staff see them. So they see them as an uncooperative inmate or prisoner. And they give them more medication and then we get the sedative effect, the zombie effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond drugs, what sort of treatment do mentally ill inmates get in the Sonoma County main jail?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrists see about 20 inmates a day, according to Sonoma County Mental Health Program Manager Jo Benwell, who works in the main jail. But even the most acute patients receive visits from a psychiatrist only about two to three times a week, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conditions for therapy in the jail's mental health module are far from ideal, according to the DRC report, with inmates often required to speak to mental health staff through small slots in cell doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benwell says staff focus on providing immediate support instead of focusing on deeper-seated psychological issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t necessarily look at that issue with their parent 20 years ago,” she said. “We really need to help them, support them, with the legal process, which is very anxiety-producing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he Disability Rights California report also highlights the isolation of inmates in single cells in the Sonoma jail. While the facility meets the minimum state standard for outdoor recreation time -- at least three hours a week -- the report notes that some inmates reported being released from their cells for just 30 to 45 minutes a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report calls that practice \"extreme isolation\" that can be especially harmful to mentally ill inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document briefly describes one man with bipolar disorder who was booked into Sonoma County main jail’s mental health module after violating parole. He was moved into a “step-down” unit, one designated for inmates who are not acutely mentally ill but not ready to be reintegrated into the general population. Inmates are still isolated in single cells in the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man repeatedly told mental health staff that the isolation was worsening his condition. In one request he wrote: “This is really not good for my mind. ... I’m overwhelmed by this, which is causing me to not sleep, to feel agitated, powerless, depressed and confused. Please help me?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mental health staff told him that he was “doing well” and with “continued good behavior” he might eventually be placed in the general population, where he would have more access to outside areas and human interaction. But, the DRC's Hadreas says, his condition only deteriorated in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC's report notes the jail is trying to increase the amount of time inmates spend outside their cells. For instance, the jail has added low partitions to a day room in the main jail so that higher- and lower-security inmates can be released at the same time without mixing together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve spent probably close to $2 million in facility modifications so that we can improve the socialization of that particular population,” said Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas lauded the sheriff's department's \"creative approach\" to modifying existing jail modules to help more inmates have access to time and space outside of their cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DRC also praised the jail's placement of \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">accessible\u003c/span> cells throughout the facility, which keeps people with physical disabilities from being segregated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report commended the group therapy and anger management programs offered in the step-down units as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10953997\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10953997 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Lt. Mike Toby supervises Sonoma County Main Jail’s three mental health units. He's standing in a unit being renovated to give inmates more outside of cell time.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19464_IMG_1610-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Mike Toby supervises the Sonoma County main jail’s three mental health units. He's standing in a unit being renovated to give inmates more outside-of-cell time. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>uring a tour of Sonoma County's main jail earlier in May, Walker said that the inmate population -- which averaged 998 a day in 2015 -- included about 400 mentally ill inmates. He said 58 people were housed in the jail's mental health module and another 163 people were in the step-down units, with the rest spread throughout the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the number of mentally ill inmates has soared over the past 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we opened in 1991 there were 13, and that 13 encompassed the more acute and the less acute,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail's spending on psychotropic medication testifies to the change. During the last five years, the amount spent on such drugs increased by 322 percent, according to state data -- the largest increase for any county in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10953935\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png\" alt=\"Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder.png 1280w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-400x225.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-800x450.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-1180x664.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Annual_Spending_on_Psychotropic_Medications_in_Sonoma_County_Spending_chartbuilder-960x540.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walker said those numbers show that the county is doing a good job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sonoma County is very good in diagnosing mental illness and addressing needs for the mentally ill,” he said. “So you have more people coming into custody, taking medication. And I think it’s a cultural shift here, where the stigma that may follow someone in some of the more rural counties isn’t as strong in Sonoma County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benwell agreed that the increase was due to a growing population, and a population more used to taking medications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That might just be an antidepressant, or, you know, Benadryl, or something for anxiety,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">C\u003c/span>alifornia law requires jail officials to transfer mentally ill inmates to outside facilities for treatment when necessary. Such treatment, inside jail and out, is mandated to restore an inmate's mental capacity so they can answer to the charges against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But records show that, even in dire cases such as the mentally incapacitated bipolar inmate who drank from her cell toilet last summer, Sonoma County rarely transfers inmates. According to state data, Sonoma County reported just one inmate per year getting inpatient care in outside facilities from 2010 to 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County jail's correctional and mental health staff say they'd prefer mentally ill inmates receive treatment outside of jail, but argue that a broken system leaves them with few options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One major problem, the county said in its response to the DRC report, is that it can find no outside psychiatric hospitals or facilities willing to treat its inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Randall Walker, the assistant sheriff, says other treatment options are tough to find. He says it's very hard for someone who hasn’t been charged with a felony to get into a state hospital for treatment, and even if a state facility accepts an inmate, a transfer can take three to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [we] can’t house a person safely, then we try to find those other options,” Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County Mental Health Services Director Mike Kennedy said that the county is doing the best it can with the resources allotted to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're stuck with is having to do the most humane treatment that we can in settings that aren't set up to do it,\" he said. \"Most psychiatric hospitals won't accept jail inmates. So, right there, that option, we don't have it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10954003\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10954003 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker in his office at Main Jail.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/RS19467_IMG_1620-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonoma County Assistant Sheriff Randall Walker in his office at the main jail. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a Sonoma County public defender, Karen Silver represented mentally ill defendants for decades. She says that except for inmates sent to state hospitals, she has never seen someone leave the Sonoma County jail for outside treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen a person charged with a serious crime ever be diverted to the mental health system for the temporary purpose of getting them back to competency,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People charged with misdemeanor offenses have an even harder time getting treatment, Silver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve actually told people, families, that have kids in the system that are just charged with misdemeanors that you need to go to the prosecutor and say that you felt your life was threatened, that you need to verbally make this into a felony so that the person gets sent to the state hospital and gets treatment. Because they can always come back here and we can reduce it to a misdemeanor,” she said. “There was no doubt that the state hospital treatment was better than what the jail was able to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's Lt. Toby, who supervises the main jail’s three mental health units, said that many people charged or found guilty of misdemeanors are trapped in a kind of limbo. They are too mentally ill to stand trial and don’t improve enough to make it to trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sonoma County says things will get better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, Sonoma County received a $40 million grant from the state to build a new wing of the jail for mentally ill inmates. The current facility is not overcrowded, but officials said that 72 new beds in the facility will provide a better place to treat mentally ill inmates and those with substance abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our biggest challenge is just space to program, so that we’re not trying to talk to people through doors and things like that,” Assistant Sheriff Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the new unit will be used for treatment to restore inmates' competency to stand trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But experts on the mental health of inmates say that's not the way to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DRC's Hadreas compares building new mental health treatment facilities in jails to building more on-ramps to highways: The ramps lead to more traffic on the roads, and the jail facilities lead to more mentally ill people becoming incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Psychiatrist Kupers says money spent on new jail facilities would be more effectively used for programs outside the jail, such as mental health courts, diversion, therapy and even vocational programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Without that additional assistance, you're setting people up to fail and fail. And I would say ending up in jail is a failure of the system,” Hadreas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy also sees a systemwide problem. He says part of the blame lies with hospitals for closing down psychiatric treatment centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think for cancer you would refuse this,\" Kennedy said. \"It's a huge problem that needs to be dealt with on a state and federal level.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hadreas agrees, saying state officials and agencies -- from Gov. Jerry Brown to the Board of State and Community Corrections, which oversees county lockups -- must find more effective ways to address mental health challenges in the jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that certainly the BSCC, the governor, the Department of Mental Health can look at from a higher understanding and say, ‘What’s going on here? 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"content": "\u003cp>Ronnie Johnson, 49, doesn’t know what she will do if she is evicted from her rent-controlled loft in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. She's thinking about moving in with her parents in Washington state or trying to start over in a new city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Johnson, along with the 22 other residential tenants in her building, received an Ellis Act eviction notice from her landlord, known as 1049 Market St. LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Someone's trying to throw you out of your house, in a place where there are no other houses for you.'\u003ccite>Tony Breaux,\u003cbr>\nResident of 1049 Market St.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The eviction — one of the largest Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco since the law was enacted in 1985 — comes after several years of legal battles between the tenants of 1049 Market St. and their landlord. This kind of eviction, officially called an Ellis Act withdrawal, permits building owners to evict residential tenants in order to remove their units from the residential market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, 1049 Market St. LLC intends to rent all of the building’s 86 units as commercial office space. But some of the building’s residential tenants say they won’t leave without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building's Complicated History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though dozens of Ellis Act evictions occur each year in San Francisco, 1049 Market St. is a unique situation and the zoning of the building has been disputed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, the top floor of the six-floor building was permitted for live-work lofts, a type of commercial zoning specifically for tenants who operate a business out of their residence. The first through fifth floors of the building are permitted exclusively for commercial use and were never approved for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952794 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still03-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, many of the units on those floors have been rented to residential tenants since the 1990s. Many of the units have lofted beds and small kitchenettes, and most tenants share communal bathrooms on each floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the landlord issued eviction notices to 39 units on those first five floors, citing plans to demolish the residential units and rebuild the spaces for commercial use. Those tenants have been in legal gridlock with the landlord ever since, and final decisions about the legality of the eviction are still pending in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven sixth-floor units were spared eviction notices because of their live-work zoning. Johnson and her neighbor, Tony Breaux, are the only residential tenants remaining on the sixth floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other sixth-floor tenants have moved out, the landlord has begun renovating the empty units and renting them to businesses. Currently, unit 602 is rented by PritchardPeck Lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Johnson and Breaux were not involved in the 2013 eviction, they have sparred separately with the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Breaux filed a petition with the San Francisco Rent Board against John Gall, one of the owners of 1049 Market St. LLC, after his monthly rent was increased by nearly 13 percent, from $970 to $1,095.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board ruled in Breaux’s favor, stating that no certificate of occupancy had ever been issued for the sixth floor of the building, making his unit illegal and subject to rent control laws. Gall presented a certificate of occupancy to the court in his appeal in 2014, indicating the certificate should be backdated to 1991 — when the units first became live-work lofts. That case is still in litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for Eviction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who operates her own personal training business and has been in the building since 2005, plans to fight the eviction but has already started packing up her apartment. She says she doesn’t plan to leave on her June 23 eviction date, but she wants to be prepared either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is a live-work loft situation, can you even Ellis Act?” Johnson asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Zacks, the landlord’s attorney, concedes there is some ambiguity around live-work units. But he says he believes his client is complying with the Ellis Act, since Johnson and Breaux’s units are residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said if the sixth-floor tenants fight the eviction by citing their live-work commercial zoning, it would then open the tenants up to even more legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are commercial month-to-month tenants, they are not subject to rent control,” Zacks said. “They can be evicted with 30 days' notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Collier, the tenants’ attorney, did not comment on the live-work status of the sixth-floor units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaux, who will turn 79 this year, must vacate his unit next February because of an Ellis Act clause that extends the eviction period for seniors and people with disabilities. He's lived in the loft, decorated with massive wood carvings and an assortment of potted and hanging plants, since 2003. Though he is retired, he still works as a sculptor and musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952799 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Breaux has lived in his loft apartment since 2004.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Breaux must vacate his loft unit next February. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I won’t go,” Breaux said. “We’ll fight this down to the bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction, he says, is like a death sentence. He says it would be nearly impossible to find another rental unit in the city for his current $970 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks says his client intends to pay the tenants of all 23 units relocation fees, in compliance with San Francisco law. The required relocation payment is $5,555 per person, with an additional $3,703 for each elderly or disabled tenant and each household with a minor child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/04/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2016/\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,590. The $5,555 relocation payment would cover less than two months of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warehousing People in Illegal Units\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks places the blame for the situation at 1049 Market St. squarely on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city, cracking down on various code violations in the building, told his client they would either have to bring the building up to code for residential units or convert all residential units back to office space. The cost of bringing the building up to code, according to Zacks, would be too much for his client to reasonably spend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said the city is relying on landlords to maintain below-market-rate units, while the city itself has not done nearly enough to address the regional housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to find folks like this housing where the burden is not on my clients to provide it,” Zacks said. “Is [the housing crisis] really that bad that we will warehouse people in illegal units?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breaux and Johnson have both been in their units for more than 10 years and consider 1049 Market St. their home. Despite the units not being up to residential code, they say the units meet all of their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is criminal what's going on here,\" Breaux said. \"It's the destruction of people's lives.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Ronnie Johnson, 49, doesn’t know what she will do if she is evicted from her rent-controlled loft in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood. She's thinking about moving in with her parents in Washington state or trying to start over in a new city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Johnson, along with the 22 other residential tenants in her building, received an Ellis Act eviction notice from her landlord, known as 1049 Market St. LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Someone's trying to throw you out of your house, in a place where there are no other houses for you.'\u003ccite>Tony Breaux,\u003cbr>\nResident of 1049 Market St.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The eviction — one of the largest Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco since the law was enacted in 1985 — comes after several years of legal battles between the tenants of 1049 Market St. and their landlord. This kind of eviction, officially called an Ellis Act withdrawal, permits building owners to evict residential tenants in order to remove their units from the residential market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this case, 1049 Market St. LLC intends to rent all of the building’s 86 units as commercial office space. But some of the building’s residential tenants say they won’t leave without a fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building's Complicated History\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though dozens of Ellis Act evictions occur each year in San Francisco, 1049 Market St. is a unique situation and the zoning of the building has been disputed for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1991, the top floor of the six-floor building was permitted for live-work lofts, a type of commercial zoning specifically for tenants who operate a business out of their residence. The first through fifth floors of the building are permitted exclusively for commercial use and were never approved for residential use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952794 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still03-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronnie Johnson's loft on the sixth floor of 1049 Market St. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, many of the units on those floors have been rented to residential tenants since the 1990s. Many of the units have lofted beds and small kitchenettes, and most tenants share communal bathrooms on each floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the landlord issued eviction notices to 39 units on those first five floors, citing plans to demolish the residential units and rebuild the spaces for commercial use. Those tenants have been in legal gridlock with the landlord ever since, and final decisions about the legality of the eviction are still pending in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven sixth-floor units were spared eviction notices because of their live-work zoning. Johnson and her neighbor, Tony Breaux, are the only residential tenants remaining on the sixth floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As other sixth-floor tenants have moved out, the landlord has begun renovating the empty units and renting them to businesses. Currently, unit 602 is rented by PritchardPeck Lighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Johnson and Breaux were not involved in the 2013 eviction, they have sparred separately with the landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Breaux filed a petition with the San Francisco Rent Board against John Gall, one of the owners of 1049 Market St. LLC, after his monthly rent was increased by nearly 13 percent, from $970 to $1,095.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board ruled in Breaux’s favor, stating that no certificate of occupancy had ever been issued for the sixth floor of the building, making his unit illegal and subject to rent control laws. Gall presented a certificate of occupancy to the court in his appeal in 2014, indicating the certificate should be backdated to 1991 — when the units first became live-work lofts. That case is still in litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparing for Eviction\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, who operates her own personal training business and has been in the building since 2005, plans to fight the eviction but has already started packing up her apartment. She says she doesn’t plan to leave on her June 23 eviction date, but she wants to be prepared either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If this is a live-work loft situation, can you even Ellis Act?” Johnson asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Zacks, the landlord’s attorney, concedes there is some ambiguity around live-work units. But he says he believes his client is complying with the Ellis Act, since Johnson and Breaux’s units are residences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks said if the sixth-floor tenants fight the eviction by citing their live-work commercial zoning, it would then open the tenants up to even more legal troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are commercial month-to-month tenants, they are not subject to rent control,” Zacks said. “They can be evicted with 30 days' notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Collier, the tenants’ attorney, did not comment on the live-work status of the sixth-floor units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breaux, who will turn 79 this year, must vacate his unit next February because of an Ellis Act clause that extends the eviction period for seniors and people with disabilities. He's lived in the loft, decorated with massive wood carvings and an assortment of potted and hanging plants, since 2003. Though he is retired, he still works as a sculptor and musician.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952799\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10952799 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1920x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Tony Breaux has lived in his loft apartment since 2004.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/eviction_still01-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Breaux must vacate his loft unit next February. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I won’t go,” Breaux said. “We’ll fight this down to the bone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction, he says, is like a death sentence. He says it would be nearly impossible to find another rental unit in the city for his current $970 rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks says his client intends to pay the tenants of all 23 units relocation fees, in compliance with San Francisco law. The required relocation payment is $5,555 per person, with an additional $3,703 for each elderly or disabled tenant and each household with a minor child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.zumper.com/blog/2016/04/zumper-national-rent-report-april-2016/\">median monthly rent\u003c/a> for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,590. The $5,555 relocation payment would cover less than two months of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Warehousing People in Illegal Units\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zacks places the blame for the situation at 1049 Market St. squarely on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the city, cracking down on various code violations in the building, told his client they would either have to bring the building up to code for residential units or convert all residential units back to office space. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim on Wednesday called on Mayor Ed Lee and the San Francisco Police Commission to launch a comprehensive search for a new police chief. Supervisors John Avalos, David Campos, and Eric Mar said they backed the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has come under fire after a series of recent deadly officer-involved shootings and after a number of officers were found to have exchanged racist and homophobic texts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim said she made her decision after a preliminary report from the Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability and Fairness in Law Enforcement found problems in a range of areas in the Police Department. The report said the Police Department does a poor job collecting and sharing crime data and that its police policies target minorities. The panel consists of three retired judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264039711\" 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>\"It's clear that we need change to address systematic problems and bring our city back together again,\" Kim said in an interview with KQED. \"Chief Suhr has served San Francisco for over 30 years and we should thank him for that service. But even he must acknowledge that leading a culture shift in that department would be easier and faster if there was new leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"mO48jWtrvPZJHLjnuyxheOsISM7MVNqm\"]\u003cbr>\nAt a press conference yesterday, Suhr said he is not considering resigning. The Board of Supervisors does not have jurisdiction over removal of the police chief -- only the mayor or Police Commission can fire him. So far, Suhr has received the continued backing of Lee and Police Commission President Suzy Loftus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not saying that we need to ask for the chief's resignation today,\" Kim said. \"What we need to do is start an orderly search for a new chief over the next couple of months -- one that is going to be able to ably serve and lead significant reforms for this department and regain the trust of our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \"should be in search mode for a new police chief,\" Avalos said in a statement emailed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After the public unrest and the revelations of the last week, I don't have a lot of confidence in Chief Suhr's ability and commitment to implement the substantive reforms that are needed in the police department,\" Avalos' statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have reached a point where the chief of police himself has become the focal point of this debate, and it has become a distraction,\" Supervisor David Campos said in an interview. \"And given the seriousness of this report, I don't see how this chief of police can remain in the job and effectively make the systemic changes that are needed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said that while he had \"nothing but respect\" for Suhr's efforts to reform the department, the city needed to bring in someone from outside the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I agree that we need a new police chief,\" Mar told Bay City News. \"It should be a national search and somebody who can effectively deal with systematic racism and bigotry and rebuild trust in our community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10952926\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim-800x495.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim called for a search for a new chief of police.\" width=\"800\" height=\"495\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10952926\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim-800x495.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim-1180x730.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JaneKim-960x594.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim called for a search for a new chief of police. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee proposed yesterday to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/11/s-f-mayor-ed-lee-proposes-17-5m-for-police-reforms\" target=\"_blank\">spend an additional $17.5 million\u003c/a> on the city’s police to help the department institute reforms and reduce violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said yesterday he aims to reduce officer shootings by 80 percent through better training and stricter policies on when guns can be drawn and fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim, who is running for state Senate, said there is no political motivation for the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think at this time it's clear that we need to see right leadership and strong leadership for the Police Department, regardless of what's going on politically externally,\" Kim said. \"It's really clear that the city and residents have made it clear that they want to see new leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco Supervisors Express Support for Chief Suhr\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Scott Wiener, who is running for state Senate against Kim, expressed support for Suhr in an emailed statement. He also said \"Supervisor Kim has limited credibility when it comes to public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] is leading the department in advancing much-needed reforms to reduce the number of officer-involved shootings. The Chief's resignation won't accelerate these reforms. If anything, his removal will delay needed reforms,\" Wiener's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have serious work to do to improve public safety in San Francisco and to formulate and implement much needed reforms. Firing the chief -- and calling for his firing in order to generate press headlines -- won't help achieve either of those goals,\" his statement continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264042349\" 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>Supervisor Mark Farrell also expressed his support for Suhr in an emailed statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since taking the helm in 2011, there has not been a more progressive police chief in San Francisco history. There is no one better positioned to lead our police department and implement the upcoming reforms than Chief Suhr himself. Supervisor Kim is displaying election-year politics at its worst, and it makes my stomach churn,\" the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Katy Tang came out strong in support for the chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those calling for Chief Suhr's resignation will have a rude awakening once they realize that putting someone else in his place will not solve the problems they think it will,\" Tang said in an email Wednesday night. \"It is ironic that there is an effort to remove Chief Suhr, someone who grew up in San Francisco, someone who has walked through some of the toughest neighborhoods as a beat officer, and who has not hesitated to take action against officers who abuse the public's trust and respect for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen called Suhr a \"lightning rod\" and said some reforms are not being properly implemented, but she did not call for his removal. 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He also said \"Supervisor Kim has limited credibility when it comes to public safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He [Suhr] is leading the department in advancing much-needed reforms to reduce the number of officer-involved shootings. The Chief's resignation won't accelerate these reforms. If anything, his removal will delay needed reforms,\" Wiener's statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have serious work to do to improve public safety in San Francisco and to formulate and implement much needed reforms. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov, who did not appear to resist the deputies in the video, had allegedly rammed two marked sheriff's office vehicles with a stolen car, causing minor injuries to one deputy, before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suffered severe fractures to both arms and hands as well as head injuries in the beating. He was hospitalized for 12 days after the beating and underwent multiple surgeries to repair his “crushed” hands, according to his attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Policing that violates our constitutional rights damages the reputation of every person that wears the uniform, and it damages the public's perception of those that are sworn to serve,\" Gascón said in announcing the charges Tuesday. \"When officers take the law into their own hands, they undermine the moral authority of the entire criminal justice system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said his office is still investigating \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/29/new-obstruction-of-justice-allegations-expand-alameda-county-sheriffs-beating-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> of false police statements, bribery, theft and witness tampering made against other Alameda County deputies who were involved in the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petrov also faces gun and drug charges in a federal case that followed a March 8 search of his apartment by the FBI. Gascón said that the cases are unrelated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10913134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10913134\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County Sheriff's deputies beat him with batons.\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-400x333.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-800x667.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1920x1600.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Stanislav-Petrov-in-hospital-bed-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanislav Petrov was hospitalized for almost two weeks after two Alameda County sheriff's deputies beat him with batons. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Michael Haddad)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked why it took nearly six months to bring charges in the videotaped beating, Gascón said cases involving alleged police violence warrant a special level of scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers are constitutionally given the authority to use force during the exercise of their duties,\" Gascón said, continuing;\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are looked upon by the law very differently than the rest of us. Consequently, when we’re looking at these cases we have to look at them through the lens of a constitutional concern as to whether the force was reasonable under the conditions. And there is a tension often that occurs between, between what the law says police officers get to do what the public perceives as being excessive. And that is why it was so important for us to get the video enhanced, it was so important for us to get the right expert in this case.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Adachi criticized the delay in bringing charges, saying, \"It sends a message to law enforcement everywhere as to what’s going to be tolerated. And until today, there really has been no accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, he said he was relieved charges have been filed and added that \"the real hero in this incident\" was the citizen who came forward with the security camera video of the beating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without the video I doubt very much that we would be standing here,\" Adachi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two deputies are expected to surrender by the end of the day Wednesday, with bail set at $140,000 each.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Zoe Lew and from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>WASHINGTON — Motorists are being convicted of driving under the influence of marijuana based on arbitrary state standards that have no connection to whether the driver was actually impaired, says a study by the nation's largest auto club.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is only growing as more states contemplate legalizing the drug. At least three, and possibly as many as 11 states, will vote this fall on ballot measures to legalize marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, or both. Legislation to legalize the drug has also been introduced in a half-dozen states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, six states — Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington — have set specific limits in drivers' blood for THC, the chemical in marijuana that makes people high. Marijuana use is legal in those states for either recreational or medicinal purposes, with the exception of Ohio. The laws presume a driver whose THC level exceeds the threshold is impaired. But the study by \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaafoundation.org/impaired-driving-and-cannabis\" target=\"_blank\">AAA's safety foundation\u003c/a> says the limits have no scientific basis and can result in innocent drivers being convicted, and in guilty drivers being released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is understandably a strong desire by both lawmakers and the public to create legal limits for marijuana impairment in the same manner we do alcohol,\" said Marshall Doney, AAA's president and CEO. \"In the case of marijuana, this approach is flawed and not supported by scientific research.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another nine states, including some that have legalized marijuana for medical use, have zero-tolerance laws that make the presence of THC or its metabolites in a driver's blood illegal -- despite the fact the substances can linger in the bloodstream for weeks after any impairment has dissipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Never Drive, or Never Smoke Pot'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such standards make no sense, said Mark A. R. Kleiman, a New York University professor specializing in issues involving drugs and criminal policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A law against driving with THC in your bloodstream is not a law you can know you are obeying except by never smoking marijuana or never driving,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that determining whether someone is impaired by marijuana, as opposed to having merely used the drug, is far more complex than the simple and reliable tests that have been developed for alcohol impairment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The degree to which a driver is impaired by marijuana use depends a lot on the individual, the foundation said. Drivers with relatively high levels of THC in their systems might not be impaired, especially if they are regular users, while others with relatively low levels may be unsafe behind the wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some drivers may be impaired when they are stopped by police, but by the time their blood is tested they have fallen below the legal threshold because active THC dissipates rapidly. The average time to collect blood from a suspected driver is often more than two hours because taking a blood sample typically requires a warrant and transport to a police station or hospital, the foundation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, frequent marijuana users can exhibit persistent levels of the drug long after use, while THC levels can decline more rapidly among occasional users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Limit 'Picked Out of Thin Air'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado's 5-nanogram limit for THC in blood \"was picked out of thin air by politicians,\" said Robert Corry, a Denver criminal defense attorney. \"Innocent people are convicted of DUI because of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melanie Brinegar, who uses marijuana every day to control back pain, was stopped by police two years ago for having an expired license plate. The officer smelled marijuana and Brinegar acknowledged she had used the drug earlier in the day. Her blood test showed a level of 19 nanograms, well over the state limit. She was arrested and charged with driving while impaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brinegar, 30, who lives in Denver, said she spent the next 13 months working 80 to 90 hours a week to pay for a lawyer to help her fight the charge and eventually was acquitted. People like herself will always test positive for THC, whether they are high or not, because of their frequent use, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It took a good amount of my time and my life,\" she said. \"There is still that worry if I get pulled over (again).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies show that using marijuana and driving roughly doubles the risk of a crash, Kleiman said. By comparison, talking on a hands-free cellphone while driving — legal in all states — quadruples crash risk, he said. A blood alcohol content of .12, which is about the median amount in drunken driving cases, increases crash risk by about 15 times, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Driving with \"a noisy child in the back of the car\" is about as dangerous as using marijuana and driving, Kleiman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exception is when a driver has both been using marijuana and drinking alcohol because the two substances together greatly heighten impairment, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington reports he's holding off on his suggestion to send an official letter to Southwest Airlines protesting its treatment of an Arabic-speaking UC Berkeley student and asking the company to implement new anti-bias training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Worthington said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I held the item over for two weeks as a courtesy because Southwestern has communicated with us that they are actively considering multiple effective ways to respond to the situation. They appear to be looking at what to say to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi and what training adjustments would be appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they refuse to apologize or do not change trainings, we will send a letter to complain. If they take reasonable steps forward we would turn our letter into a thank you.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Tuesday, May 10: \u003c/strong>Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington says that what happened to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi on a Southwest Airlines jet last month shouldn't happen again to anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi is the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2016/04/14/uc-berkeley-student-questioned-refused-service-speaking-arabic-flight/\" target=\"_blank\"> UC Berkeley student\u003c/a> who was removed from a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Oakland -- and then subjected to a search and interrogation by the FBI -- after a fellow passenger overheard him speaking Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/00117b5b.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about instances like that, you need to try to change your policies to try to prevent it as much as possible,” says Worthington. “We’re trying to do that within our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/activists-say-berkeley-police-data-points-to-racial-profiling\" target=\"_blank\">city policies\u003c/a>, and we think it’s very important that Southwest Airlines do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xu9asFNbaOvbOSbAh5CDrlVYH24EWsPt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night on whether to send the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airline said in \u003ca href=\"http://swamedia.com/releases/statement-regarding-customer-situation-on-flight-4620?l=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> after the April 6 incident became public that an Arabic-speaking passenger reported \"what were perceived to be threatening comments\" to the plane's crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement added that Southwest \"responded by following protocol, as required by federal law, to investigate and report to law enforcement agencies any potential threat to civil aviation,\" and that the airline \"would not remove a passenger from a flight without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest didn't respond to requests to elaborate on those procedures. Marketplace's \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/18/world/removed-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Wagner\u003c/a> reached a similar dead-end with Southwest and five other major airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he believes his use of a simple Arabic phrase -- \"Inshallah\" -- got him kicked off his flight. It means \"if God wills\" and serves a function roughly equivalent to \"knock on wood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you've grown up in an Arabic-speaking, predominantly Muslim country, as Makhzoomi did -- he's an Iraqi refugee -- chances are the phrase is tossed around your home quite frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps if Makhzoomi had said “knock on wood,” he would have flown out of Los Angeles without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in an Arabic phone conversation with his uncle before his plane took off, Makhzoomi told him “inshallah,\" he would call him as soon as he landed safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They didn’t treat me as a human being.'\u003ccite>UC Berkeley student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The fellow passenger overheard, and soon, Makhzoomi was sitting in a room being interrogated by the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point they thought I'm a terrorist,\" says Makhzoomi. \"When they asked me about my bag, when they searched me. They treated me as a terrorist, honestly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was searched, patted down and sniffed by security dogs. He was repeatedly asked if he had additional luggage, if he carried a knife, and if he could share \"everything he knew about martyrdom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was upset by the distrust and disrespect he experienced right from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took me out, and you spoke with me in a very nice tone, in a very respectful tone, asking me about myself, just saying, 'This is just a security procedure. ... Would you like to tell me about yourself, and what's your name, and what you do, and what you study?' I would show him my ID and all of that, and they would know that that person is wrong,” says Makhzoomi. \"They didn't treat me as a human being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi mentions his encounter with the Southwest employee who escorted him off the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee -- whom the airline's statement described as an \"Arabic-speaking Southwest manager\" -- attempted to speak to Makhzoomi in Arabic. But Makhzoomi says the employee’s Arabic was so terrible he couldn’t understand it and had to ask to be addressed in English instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Switching to English, the employee asked Makhzoomi about his phone conversation. Makhzoomi explained he'd been talking to his uncle in Baghdad, telling him about a dinner event he'd attended at the World Affairs Council that featured \u003ca href=\"http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/event/11846\" target=\"_blank\">Ban Ki-moon\u003c/a>, secretary-general of the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed the employee video footage of the dinner that he'd recorded on his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMt4gzsBrA&feature=youtu.be&t=45m\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says what happened next shocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee began yelling at him, he says, asking, “Why would you speak in that language? Don't you know that [Arabic] is dangerous to speak in the airports, and what's happening in the airports around the world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi initially apologized, but when the manager began blaming him for the delay, he says he'd had enough. 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If Valiente had failed to show up, Aladdin would have to pay the full $70,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The for-profit bail system that Valiente used to get out of jail is part of a larger system known as \u003ca href=\"https://wp.me/p681tQ-5HI\">money bail\u003c/a>, which enables many defendants to be released before their cases go to court, as long as they post property or cash as collateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next week a federal judge in Oakland will hear arguments that money bail, as currently implemented in San Francisco's jails, violates the Constitution's \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/equal_protection\">Equal Protection Clause\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_quick.asp?i=1154\">60 percent\u003c/a> of people in California's jails haven’t been convicted of a crime, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/about.asp\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>. 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Among them was reality TV star Beth Chapman, wife of Duane Chapman. The husband-and-wife team star in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dogthebountyhunter.com/\">Dog the Bounty Hunter\u003c/a>” and another series, “Dog and Beth: On the Hunt.” They travel around the world helping bail bond agents apprehend defendants who have skipped bail. She argued there is a reason defendants are in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not poor, he broke the law, probably stole your identity,” she said. “He probably robbed your trashcan and got all your checks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jeffrey Clayton, policy director for the American Bail Coalition, the commercial bail industry is saving taxpayers money, because bail agents are administering a pretrial release system, at no cost to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the issue is, it’s a policy judgment of whether we want to use a state program or a private entity,” Clayton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is little evidence showing how well or poorly the current system works. Courts don't track how often people who have bailed out fail to show up — or get out and commit another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, poor defendants pay a high price as a result of the current system. He says many of his clients lose their jobs, homes, even custody of their kids while they are waiting in jail. And he pointed to research showing that defendants are less able to put together an\u003ca href=\"http://www.pretrial.org/the-problem/\"> effective legal defense from behind bars\u003c/a>, even if they are innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judges know that if you keep somebody in jail they’re more likely to plead guilty and their case will be processed faster,” Adachi said. “And it’s a dirty little secret in the system that bails result in guilty pleas just because people want to get out, and that’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlos Valiente did not have to return to jail. His bail was forgiven, and his case was ultimately dismissed. But he still owes Aladdin more than $6,000, which he said he will have to pay off over the next four to five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against San Francisco's bail system went to trial in October. 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"content": "\u003cp>California's Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism Thursday about a challenge to Gov. Jerry Brown's criminal justice initiative. Justices heard oral arguments in a case brought by the California District Attorneys Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is not a challenge to the substance of Brown's initiative, aimed at reducing the state's prison population, but rather to the way in which proponents attempted to speed up the process of getting the measure on the November ballot. A loss in the case would almost certainly end hopes for Brown to get the measure before voters this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262789359\" 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>Brown's measure, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/27/Brown-Rolls-Out-Sentencing-Reform-Ballot-Measure\">introduced\u003c/a> in January, is aimed at reducing the state prison population by giving prisoners a chance for earlier parole and allowing judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide whether a minor should be tried as an adult. In order to expedite the measure's progress toward the November ballot, proponents placed their text inside of an already submitted initiative focused on juvenile justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"An initiative was filed that did change substantive law, in regard to a specific subject matter area,\" said Thomas Hiltachk, a lawyer for the California District Attorneys Association. \"That was then bait and switch, gut and amend, hide the pea, whatever you want to call it, and that initiative proposes a result completely different from the original filing.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment process is allowed under a 2014 law that also established rules for posting measures for public comment. The question before the justices was whether Brown's initiative was \"reasonably germane\" to the measure it replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defense of 2014 Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case arrived at the Supreme Court after a Sacramento Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/25/judge-blocks-gov-browns-prison-population-ballot-measure\">blocked the measure\u003c/a> from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You went from changing a statutory amendment to putting in place a constitutional amendment,\" said Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin, echoing the concerns of the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging from Thursday's oral arguments, it seemed many of the justices believe that lawmakers enacted the 2014 state law with the full understanding that a change similar to Gov. Brown's revision could take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"cn9bWayJ94XO6oBYFdN9DJWP7nPyL4KG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn’t the bill you wanted and there are many other, perhaps better, ways to structure the initiative process,\" said Justice Goodwin Liu. \"But the Legislature chose this way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Legislature also decided to mandate a 30-day public comment period, followed by a five-day window to edit an initiative. Brown's measure wasn't folded into the existing measure until after the public comment period, which opponents say caused \"public harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Legislature knew and chose to ignore that and continue to pursue,\" said Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, \"They thought about it and said, 'It doesn’t matter because amendments or proposals are basically for the proponents' benefit.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As justices gave deference to the perceived intentions of recent lawmakers, lawyers for Brown's measure argued that the court has a history of allowing these kinds of changes to ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This court has upheld far broader reform efforts than the one at issue here,\" said attorney James Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the state attorney general's office also spoke at oral arguments, asking that their office be given discretion in deciding when a change is \"germane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Supreme Court will have to submit a decision within 90 days. In the meantime, the court has allowed Brown's campaign \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/09/supreme-court-oks-signature-gathering-for-browns-parole-measure\">to continue\u003c/a> gathering signatures.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism Thursday about a challenge to Gov. Jerry Brown's criminal justice initiative. Justices heard oral arguments in a case brought by the California District Attorneys Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is not a challenge to the substance of Brown's initiative, aimed at reducing the state's prison population, but rather to the way in which proponents attempted to speed up the process of getting the measure on the November ballot. A loss in the case would almost certainly end hopes for Brown to get the measure before voters this year.\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/262789359&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/262789359'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's measure, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/27/Brown-Rolls-Out-Sentencing-Reform-Ballot-Measure\">introduced\u003c/a> in January, is aimed at reducing the state prison population by giving prisoners a chance for earlier parole and allowing judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide whether a minor should be tried as an adult. In order to expedite the measure's progress toward the November ballot, proponents placed their text inside of an already submitted initiative focused on juvenile justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"An initiative was filed that did change substantive law, in regard to a specific subject matter area,\" said Thomas Hiltachk, a lawyer for the California District Attorneys Association. \"That was then bait and switch, gut and amend, hide the pea, whatever you want to call it, and that initiative proposes a result completely different from the original filing.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendment process is allowed under a 2014 law that also established rules for posting measures for public comment. The question before the justices was whether Brown's initiative was \"reasonably germane\" to the measure it replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defense of 2014 Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case arrived at the Supreme Court after a Sacramento Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/25/judge-blocks-gov-browns-prison-population-ballot-measure\">blocked the measure\u003c/a> from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You went from changing a statutory amendment to putting in place a constitutional amendment,\" said Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin, echoing the concerns of the lower court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judging from Thursday's oral arguments, it seemed many of the justices believe that lawmakers enacted the 2014 state law with the full understanding that a change similar to Gov. Brown's revision could take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn’t the bill you wanted and there are many other, perhaps better, ways to structure the initiative process,\" said Justice Goodwin Liu. \"But the Legislature chose this way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That Legislature also decided to mandate a 30-day public comment period, followed by a five-day window to edit an initiative. Brown's measure wasn't folded into the existing measure until after the public comment period, which opponents say caused \"public harm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Legislature knew and chose to ignore that and continue to pursue,\" said Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, \"They thought about it and said, 'It doesn’t matter because amendments or proposals are basically for the proponents' benefit.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As justices gave deference to the perceived intentions of recent lawmakers, lawyers for Brown's measure argued that the court has a history of allowing these kinds of changes to ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This court has upheld far broader reform efforts than the one at issue here,\" said attorney James Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the state attorney general's office also spoke at oral arguments, asking that their office be given discretion in deciding when a change is \"germane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Supreme Court will have to submit a decision within 90 days. In the meantime, the court has allowed Brown's campaign \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/09/supreme-court-oks-signature-gathering-for-browns-parole-measure\">to continue\u003c/a> gathering signatures.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "Como un Testigo del Fatal Tiroteo de Amilcar Perez Lopez por Parte de SFPD Llegó a Hablar",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262494168\" 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>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. Es duro ver cuando matan una persona que quieres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 7 de diciembre, Rojo acompañó al hombre a una cena con Elvira y Refugio Nieto, los padres de Alejandro Nieto, quien fue baleado a muerte por oficiales de la policía de San Francisco en 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947108\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Press-Conference_03web-1-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvira y Refugio Nieto, cuyo hijo Alejandro Nieto fue fatalmente acribillado por SFPD en marzo de 2014, en una conferencia de prensa el 24 de abril 2015, en la cual el abogado Arnoldo Casillas anunció que una demanda federal de derechos civiles sería entablada en contra del SFPD por la muerte a balazos de Amilcar Perez Lopez. \u003ccite>(Alexis Terrazas/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto explicaron el proceso que ha seguido en el caso de su hijo, y animaron al compañero a que declare, dijeron en una entrevista el 25 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue cuando yo le dije que no se preocupara y que no tuviera miedo”, dijo Elvira Nieto. “Y en su forma de platicar, él se veía que estaba muy nervioso. Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262654832\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. Yo oí que dispararon. Cuando miré eso, sentí que mis pies se me doblaban”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez Lopez corría hacia una calle vacía, dijo el compañero de casa, no presentaba amenaza a los oficiales ni a nadie más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ellos no le avisaron de nada”, dijo. “Ellos nomás dispararon”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las declaraciones de los compañeros de casa motivaron a los investigadores del fiscal de distrito a descender nuevamente a la calle Folsom a finales de diciembre, según Smith y otros en la vecindad, entrevistando a docenas de personas. Desde entonces, la pequeña comunidad de amigos, familia y sus defensores, esperan la decisión de Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr se ha comprometido a terminar efectivamente el uso de fuerza letal en contra de individuos portando armas blancas y el departamento continúa con la expansión del entrenamiento de de-escalación y antiprejuicio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pese a que el departamento realiza estos cambios, continúa confrontado por \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/14/time-and-distance-central-to-controversy-over-san-franciscos-latest-fatal-police-shooting\">recientes controversias\u003c/a>. El 7 de abril, dos oficiales \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district\">mataron a tiros\u003c/a> a Luis Góngora, otro hombre hispanohablante que presuntamente blandía un cuchillo en el distrito de la Misión. Como en el caso de Amilcar Perez Lopez, algunos testigos contradicen el reporte policiaco del incidente, el cual según dice el departamento ocurrió después de que Góngora se lanzara contra los oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alexis Terrazas es el editor en jefe de El Tecolote, un periódico comunitario del Distrito de la Misión. Alex Emslie y Nicole Reinert son reporteros para KQED News. Traducción Mabel Jiménez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Nota del Editor: Este reportaje fue elaborado en colaboración con \u003ca href=\"http://eltecolote.org/content/es/especiales/como-un-testigo-del-fatal-tiroteo-de-amilcar-perez-lopez-llego-a-hablar/\" target=\"_blank\">El Tecolote\u003c/a>. Click \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a> to read in English.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En los 14 meses desde que dos policías encubiertos acribillaron a muerte a un carpintero inmigrante guatemalteco de 20 años en el distrito de la Misión en San Francisco, el uso de la fuerza policial local ha comenzado a cambiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación'\u003ccite>Florencia Rojo,\u003cbr>\nAntigua vecina de Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>La decisión del fiscal de distrito, en cuanto a si presentará cargos criminales en contra de los dos oficiales de policía, quienes acribillaron a Amilcar Perez Lopez seis veces por la espalda, se espera en cualquier día. Esa decisión aterrizará en una ciudad que se ha convertido en la escena de una serie de controversiales incidentes en los que la policía ha baleado a hombres negros y latinos, y lanzará o bien, un enjuiciamiento criminal, o permitirá se proceda con una demanda civil federal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche la historia (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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/262494168&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/262494168'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El nombre de Perez Lopez raramente fue mencionado en las protestas, conferencias de prensa y reuniones durante un año de controversias para el Departamento de Policía, por la obstaculización de reformas y creciente ira pública. La ciudad se encontraba más enfocada en otros dos tiroteos con resultados fatales en los que se vieron involucrados elementos de la policía -- los de \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/alejandro-nieto\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a> en Bernal Heights en 2014, y el asesinato de \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> en Bayview, en 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Muchos meses después de que [Perez Lopez] murió, esto realmente no se abordó”, dijo el Reverendo Richard Smith, un sacerdote y vicario de la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista. “El es inmigrante. El no creció aquí. No tiene un historial de ser conocido de otras personas en el barrio. De cierta forma, puede ser difícil estar conectado con su historia, porque era alguien externo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947102\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947102\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Memorial_03-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El Reverendo Richard Smith durante el funeral de Amilcar Perez Lopez en la Iglesia Episcopal de San Juan Evangelista el 4 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Dhoryan Rizo/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fue el tiroteo en contra de Mario Woods, captado en video con teléfonos celulares desde múltiples ángulos lo que condujo a una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">revisión federal\u003c/a> del departamento de policía, y a la \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/REVISED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reescritura de los reglamentos\u003c/a> que gobiernan el uso de fuerza, en cuanto al procedimiento para la detención física y el uso de armas de fuego se refiere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un jurado \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/10/jury-clears-s-f-police-officers-of-wrongdoing-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió\u003c/a> a los oficiales involucrados en el tiroteo de Nieto tras un altamente publicitado juicio federal de derechos civiles. Con algunas \u003ca href=\"http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/02/amilcar-perez-lopez-san-francisco-police-killing\" target=\"_blank\">notables\u003c/a> excepciones, la investigación en la muerte de Perez Lopez fue apenas un suspiro entre los rugidos de aquéllos exigiendo una reforma policial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero durante el año pasado, una pequeña red de defensores, abogados, investigadores y vecinos, han trabajado tras bambalinas para facilitar una compleja investigación involucrando a un testigo temeroso de represalias policiales y autoridades de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Historias Alternas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los vecinos empezamos a reunir nuestra propia evidencia y comenzamos a hacer nuestra propia investigación”, dijo Florencia Rojo, vecina de Perez Lopez, quien descubrió la escena del homicidio cuando regresaba a su casa el 26 de febrero de 2015, la noche en que éste falleció.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch4>Lea la versión impresa de El Tecolote\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"525\" height=\"415\" src=\"//e.issuu.com/embed.html#0/35404545\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Su casa, tan sólo a una puerta al sur de la de Perez Lopez, fue bloqueada por la policía, así que Rojo viró en la esquina e intentó trepar por el patio trasero de su vecino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es ahí donde conoció a los compañeros de casa del fallecido, cuyo relato del tiroteo difiere significativamente de las múltiples versiones ofrecidas por el jefe de policía, Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante una reunión comunitaria cuatro días después del tiroteo, Suhr dijo que dos oficiales, respondiendo a una llamada de emergencia al 911 que alertaba sobre un hombre portando un cuchillo, se encontraron con Perez Lopez y otro hombre a quien presuntamente perseguía por la calle Folsom, entre las calles 24 y 25. Perez Lopez se lanzó sobre los oficiales a cinco pies de distancia con el cuchillo “elevado por encima de su cabeza”, según Suhr. También durante la reunión, Daniel Perea, capitán de la estación de policía de la Misión, dijo que el segundo hombre, después identificado como Abraham Pérez, le dijo que los oficiales le salvaron la vida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de que una \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsia independiente demostrara\u003c/a> que Perez Lopez recibió seis disparos por la espalda, Suhr cambió sus declaraciones previas. Durante una aparición en el programa \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> de la estación KQED en julio pasado, el jefe de policía dijo que Perez Lopez “se aproximó a los oficiales con un cuchillo y después los oficiales le dispararon y él se dió la vuelta, lo cual explicaría porqué no todos los disparos entraron por el frente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Una representación en 3-D de las trayectorias de las heridas de bala, proporcionada por los abogados civiles de los padres de Perez Lopez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/262995143/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-TAKZ9nairCWwF5w8lzP2&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.3323485967503692\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_58591\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En la escena del crimen esa noche, la discusión fue sobre Amilcar López avanzando”, Suhr clarificó en febrero. “Más adelante, en conversaciones con los oficiales, hubo discusión de que se dió la vuelta para ir detrás del hombre a quien originalmente perseguía con un cuchillo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los oficiales Craig Tiffe y Eric Reboli, autores de los disparos esa noche, hace mucho que regresaron a servicio. Perea dijo en una entrevista reciente que ambos oficiales aún están asignados a la estación de policía de la Misión. Se negó a decir si Tiffe y Reboli han regresado a la unidad de oficiales encubiertos, alegando preocupación por la seguridad de sus oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo que durante el pasado año, la unidad de oficiales encubiertos de la estación de policía de la Misión integró a un supervisor, y ahora cuenta con dos sargentos supervisores y diez oficiales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Intentos de Entrevistas del SFPD\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los investigadores del fiscal de distrito condujeron su propia investigación; siguiendo una pista buscaron contactar a los dos compañeros de casa, de quienes se rumoraba que habían presenciado los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí yo sé lo que pasó”, dijo uno de los compañeros de casa en una entrevista reciente, conducida en español y bajo condición de anonimato debido a su temor de ser objeto de represalias por la policía. “Yo miré bien las cosas cómo sucedieron”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dijo, por la misma razón, que él y el otro compañero temían hablar con los investigadores del Departamento de Policía, e hicieron un pacto de no hacerlo sin la presencia de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947104\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Tiffe_01-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Craig Tiffe, oficial de SFPD durante una protesta fuera de la estación de policía de la Misión el 23 de agosto, 2015. \u003ccite>(Drago Rentería/El Tecolote)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esto frustró la investigación de homicidio conducida por el Departamento de Policía, según declaraciones presentadas por tres oficiales del SFPD en el caso civil federal por muerte injusta presentado por la familia de Perez Lopez en Guatemala. Los oficiales escribieron que los compañeros de casa cambiaron sus historias y evadieron preguntas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El sargento Anthony Ravano declaró que habló con los dos compañeros de casa durante la noche del tiroteo y que ellos habían declarado no haberlo presenciado, que solamente escucharon los disparos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando Ravano y el teniente Daniel Dedet trataron de dar seguimiento, uno de los hombres declaró que un abogado les dijo que no hablaran, y el otro hombre contactado vía telefónica evadió preguntas, colgó y no regresó un mensaje telefónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En resumen, ambos compañeros de casa se han negado a cooperar con la investigación del SFPD después de hablar con abogados civiles de la familia del señor Perez Lopez”, escribió Ravano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fueron vanos los intentos por contactar al hombre en la bicicleta, Abraham Pérez. Los abogados civiles de la familia de Perez Lopez declararon que éste les dijo en una entrevista que Perez Lopez simplemente huía de los dos oficiales encubiertos cuando ellos comenzaron a disparar, y que probablemente no sabía que fueran policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>El Fiscal de Distrito Busca Testimonios\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finales del año pasado, el fiscal de distrito George Gascón comenzó a presionar para obtener entrevistas con los compañeros de casa, según Florencia Rojo y el Reverendo Richard Smith. La oficina del fiscal de distrito declinó dar comentarios para este reporte, dada la investigación en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith dijo que Gascón lo llamó en el otoño pasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“El dijo ‘Esto tiene señas de un mal tiroteo y definitivamente necesito a los testigos oculares aquí y obtener su testimonio’”, dijo Smith, agregando que Gascón refirió poder arrestar a los testigos, pero que prefiere que hablen voluntariamente. “El dijo ‘necesito tener a estos testigos oculares para construir el caso’”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10947106\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10947106\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Guatemala_02-1-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">La familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez recibió sus restos en Guatemala el 6 de abril, 2015. \u003ccite>(Cortesía de los abogados para la familia de Amilcar Perez Lopez.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rojo dijo que recibió una llamada telefónica similar por parte de Gascón. Ella, Smith y otros han trabajado para ayudar a los hombres a superar su temor a las autoridades de inmigración y el trauma de ver a su amigo ser acribillado por policías.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hubo mucho temor y mucha indecisión”, dijo Rojo. “Cuando se rompe tu confianza en la policía y en el cumplimiento de la ley y en las personas que se supone están ahí para protegerte, hablar abiertamente da mucho temor”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Defensores Improvisan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una red, la cual incluye a Smith y a Rojo, ha trabajado para conseguir una abogada de inmigración para los hombres, quienes son indocumentados. La abogada, Laura Sánchez, dijo estar en las etapas iniciales de la solicitud de una visa especial para testigos o víctimas de crimen violento. Su petición de visa, sin embargo, incluye un crimen no relacionado con el tiroteo de Perez Lopez, declaró.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Creo que encontrar representación los hizo sentir más cómodos y seguros para hablar abiertamente sobre lo que han presenciado”, dijo Sánchez. Agregó que, generalmente, aquellos que se encuentran en los EEUU ilegalmente “temen proceder porque temen que alguna autoridad informe a inmigración sobre su paradero”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El estrés es una carga pesada para el compañero de casa que habló recientemente para este reportaje. Dijo que frecuentemente tiene problemas al dormir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo sentía que tenía esa necesidad de hablar porque me estaba muriendo por dentro”, declaró. “Me siento mal por que no se hizo bien la justicia. No estoy bien psicológicamente. 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Pero allí habló de cómo le habían tirado los balazos por la espalda”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Nieto declararon que le dijeron al compañero de Perez Lopez que si más testigos se hubieran presentado en el caso de su hijo, y más pronto, quizá hubieran visto un resultado distinto. A principios de 2015 Gascón \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/13/sf-district-attorney-police-acted-lawfully-in-nieto-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">absolvió a los oficiales\u003c/a> que le dispararon y dieron muerte a Alejandro Nieto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El fiscal de distrito concluyó que los cuatro oficiales, quienes dispararon un total de 59 tiros en contra de Nieto, tenían razón de creer que el objeto que éste llevaba y que presuntamente apuntó hacia ellos era un arma de fuego. Los oficiales descubrieron, después de acribillar fatalmente a Nieto, que él portaba un taser, o arma de aturdimiento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si el caso lo llevan igual que el de Alejando, va pasar lo mismo”, dijo Refugio Nieto. Declaró que el caso de su hijo muestra un prejuicio injusto en favor de los oficiales dentro de los sistemas criminales y civiles. “Alejandro ya no [está]. Nosotros andamos como símbolo de aquí, de la comunidad, para ayudarlos y a ver de qué manera se va hacer todo el proceso del que viene. Amilcar es ahorita el que viene”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Declaraciones en la Iglesia\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aproximadamente una semana después, los defensores organizaron una reunión con los antiguos compañeros de casa de Perez Lopez e investigadores de la oficina del fiscal de distrito en la iglesia de Richard Smith. Florencia Rojo estuvo presente en la entrevista de cuatro horas de duración con los hombres a los que ha dado apoyo desde la noche del tiroteo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uno de ellos dio un recuento de la noche en que Perez Lopez murió durante una entrevista el 28 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Escuche el comentario de los reporteros Alexis Terrazas y Alex Emslie sobre la investigación (en inglés).\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\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/262654832&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/262654832'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nDijo que corrió afuera después de que otro compañero de casa le dijo que Perez Lopez había entrado al apartamento y tomado un cuchillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo que yo quería era evitar algún problema que tuviera Amilcar”, dijo. “Ya lo vimos que venía caminando tranquilo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El antiguo compañero de casa estaba a unas dos casas al norte de Perez Lopez, parado al borde de la entrada y la acera, cuando vio a dos figuras más grandes que surgieron de la oscuridad detrás de su amigo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uno de ellos lo quiso agarrar por detrás, pero sin hablarle”, dijo. “No le habló, ni nada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero Perez Lopez se retorció para liberarse y corrió hacia la calle, entre dos autos estacionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le dijeron, ‘suelta el arma’”, después ambos oficiales dispararon casi instantáneamente, dijo el hombre. “No alcanzó a soltarlo, o en el primer balazo es cuando cayó, pero él soltó el arma al instante. 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