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"content": "\u003cp>Critics have repeatedly attacked California Attorney General Kamala Harris for what they say is her slow progress investigating gun owners who are legally prohibited from having them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2001, California created the nation's only database to identify these gun owners, including the mentally ill and those subject to domestic violence restraining orders. It allows the seizure of weapons by law enforcement from people in the prohibited categories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's no record of anyone questioning the existence of the database, which has been praised by gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a decade after it went into effect, the tracking system \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/28/california-struggles-to-seize-illegal-guns-despite-24-million-investment\" target=\"_blank\">has a backlog of thousands of cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8BYkQWLZZVzBnJCjTFnjyHnQGUrRWFhn\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enter Rep. Loretta Sanchez. The Orange County congresswoman is Harris's closest competitor for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer. All three are Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez told Capital Public Radio during an \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.capradio.org/64126\">interview in January\u003c/a> that Harris has squandered state resources, and hasn't even produced a database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided to focus on whether the database exists, and check on how the state funds have been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our research\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The database is officially called the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS). It was created in 2001 after the Legislature passed \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020SB950\">SB 950\u003c/a>, a Republican-authored bill, in response to gun violence across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cross-references all handgun and assault weapon owners in California against criminal records. It's designed to check for individuals who legally purchased or registered a firearm but later committed a crime that would prevent them from owning the gun. Law enforcement agents are charged with tracking down the individuals and trying to confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Attorney General's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The database became active in December 2006, according to Harris's office, four years before she was elected attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the database is not public, it is real. It's been tied to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://crpa.org/bauer-v-harris/\">court challenge\u003c/a> and is the subject of reports by the Attorney General's Office, articles by the press and letters by gun rights groups and gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. It does exist,\" said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office. \"These (enforcement) agents are working these cases every day. ... It's definitely a lot of work. It's time-consuming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The database absolutely exists,\" added Mike McLively, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris.\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1440x1127.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-960x751.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We asked the Sanchez campaign to explain her claim. A campaign spokesman argued that it's correct -- if you add words that greatly change the original statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To date, we don't have that database as it was promised by the (State) Department of Justice in 2013,\" the spokesman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a refresher, here's what Sanchez said originally: \"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still a backlog?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a clear misstatement to say \"we don't have that database.\" But we wanted to see what progress Harris has made reducing its backlog, to better examine Sanchez's claim that \"nothing was done\" and that \"$25 million was spent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approved $24 million in additional funds to reduce the long list of cases. It had grown to more than 20,700 at the time, according to Harris' office. Earlier that year, a Harris aide seemed to suggest that the backlog could be eliminated in a single year, according to \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15138524.html\">news reports\u003c/a> from the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the attorney general pledged to hire 36 enforcement agents with the money. Two years later, only half as many had been hired due to what Harris' office called \"hiring challenges.\" And while state investigations helped clear nearly 7,000 names off the list, the overall backlog had shrunk by only one-fifth during that time, to about 17,500, according to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/armed-prohib-person-system.pdf\">March 2015 report\u003c/a> by the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article17973449.html\">criticized Harris\u003c/a> for what they said was slow progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's comments about the database came five days before the Attorney General's Office issued \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\">another report\u003c/a> on the program. It said the list is now down to about 12,700 cases, which the office called \"a historic low.\" The report makes clear that the list is not static. More than 20,000 people were added to it during the past 2½ years, while about 7,800 dropped off due to death or other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10855575 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg\" alt=\"SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\" width=\"800\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1180x1354.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-960x1102.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the additional funding was approved in 2013, state agents have removed more than 20,500 people, and doubled the average number of guns seized per year, according to the most recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office has spent $15 million of the $24 million, according to the Attorney General's Office. The office's authority to spend the remainder expires May 1, though Harris has asked the Legislature to create a permanent funding stream for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our ruling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in a recent interview that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has done \"nothing\" to address a backlog of cases in a high-profile gun ownership tracking system. The database allows law enforcement to seize guns from people with criminal records and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns -- by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does the program exist, but some progress has been made. The backlog has been cut from more than 20,000 cases to 12,700. That's after Harris's office spent $15 million of $24 million allocated by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some continue to argue that the cases should be cleared more quickly, citing the mass shootings that have continued across the country. But there's no denying that the Attorney General's Office, under Harris, has put a dent in the backlog, allowing for the seizure of thousands of guns. And that's far from \"nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there's room to criticize the pace of the program, Sanchez's statement amounts to a complete misrepresentation of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rate the claim Pants On Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/feb/21/principles-truth-o-meter/\">Click here for more \u003c/a>on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297825900/Senate-Bill-140-Supplemental-Budget-Report\">Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_13841\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/297825900/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a list of sources on this fact check and to read more more fact checks, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFactCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Capital Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez told Capital Public Radio during an \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.capradio.org/64126\">interview in January\u003c/a> that Harris has squandered state resources, and hasn't even produced a database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We decided to focus on whether the database exists, and check on how the state funds have been spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our research\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The database is officially called the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS). It was created in 2001 after the Legislature passed \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020SB950\">SB 950\u003c/a>, a Republican-authored bill, in response to gun violence across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cross-references all handgun and assault weapon owners in California against criminal records. It's designed to check for individuals who legally purchased or registered a firearm but later committed a crime that would prevent them from owning the gun. Law enforcement agents are charged with tracking down the individuals and trying to confiscate their weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855581\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-400x251.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-768x483.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1440x905.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/SeizedGuns-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sample of the firearms seized through the state's APPS program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of California Attorney General's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The database became active in December 2006, according to Harris's office, four years before she was elected attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the database is not public, it is real. It's been tied to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://crpa.org/bauer-v-harris/\">court challenge\u003c/a> and is the subject of reports by the Attorney General's Office, articles by the press and letters by gun rights groups and gun control advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes. It does exist,\" said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the Attorney General's Office. \"These (enforcement) agents are working these cases every day. ... It's definitely a lot of work. It's time-consuming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The database absolutely exists,\" added Mike McLively, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg\" alt=\"California Attorney General Kamala Harris.\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10855585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-800x626.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-400x313.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-768x601.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1440x1127.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-1180x923.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/KamalaHarris-960x751.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Kamala Harris. \u003ccite>(Jason Merritt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We asked the Sanchez campaign to explain her claim. A campaign spokesman argued that it's correct -- if you add words that greatly change the original statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To date, we don't have that database as it was promised by the (State) Department of Justice in 2013,\" the spokesman wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a refresher, here's what Sanchez said originally: \"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Still a backlog?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a clear misstatement to say \"we don't have that database.\" But we wanted to see what progress Harris has made reducing its backlog, to better examine Sanchez's claim that \"nothing was done\" and that \"$25 million was spent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, the Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown approved $24 million in additional funds to reduce the long list of cases. It had grown to more than 20,700 at the time, according to Harris' office. Earlier that year, a Harris aide seemed to suggest that the backlog could be eliminated in a single year, according to \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article15138524.html\">news reports\u003c/a> from the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the attorney general pledged to hire 36 enforcement agents with the money. Two years later, only half as many had been hired due to what Harris' office called \"hiring challenges.\" And while state investigations helped clear nearly 7,000 names off the list, the overall backlog had shrunk by only one-fifth during that time, to about 17,500, according to a \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/armed-prohib-person-system.pdf\">March 2015 report\u003c/a> by the Attorney General's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans in the Legislature \u003ca style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article17973449.html\">criticized Harris\u003c/a> for what they said was slow progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez's comments about the database came five days before the Attorney General's Office issued \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/publications/sb-140-supp-budget-report.pdf\">another report\u003c/a> on the program. It said the list is now down to about 12,700 cases, which the office called \"a historic low.\" The report makes clear that the list is not static. More than 20,000 people were added to it during the past 2½ years, while about 7,800 dropped off due to death or other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10855575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10855575 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg\" alt=\"SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\" width=\"800\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-800x918.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-400x459.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-768x881.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1440x1652.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-1180x1354.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/APPsDatabaseReduction-960x1102.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: California Attorney General’s SB 140 Supplemental Report of the 2015-2016 Budget Package. The above figures represent the end of fiscal year numbers. *This data represents the first six months of FY 15-16.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the additional funding was approved in 2013, state agents have removed more than 20,500 people, and doubled the average number of guns seized per year, according to the most recent report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office has spent $15 million of the $24 million, according to the Attorney General's Office. The office's authority to spend the remainder expires May 1, though Harris has asked the Legislature to create a permanent funding stream for the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our ruling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Loretta Sanchez said in a recent interview that California Attorney General Kamala Harris has done \"nothing\" to address a backlog of cases in a high-profile gun ownership tracking system. The database allows law enforcement to seize guns from people with criminal records and mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the Legislature gave the attorney general $25 million to match up those people who were felons versus those people who were buying guns. Just a database, so that we could weed out what was going on with respect to those people who shouldn't be able to purchase guns -- by existing law. Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don't have that database,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only does the program exist, but some progress has been made. The backlog has been cut from more than 20,000 cases to 12,700. That's after Harris's office spent $15 million of $24 million allocated by the Legislature and governor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some continue to argue that the cases should be cleared more quickly, citing the mass shootings that have continued across the country. But there's no denying that the Attorney General's Office, under Harris, has put a dent in the backlog, allowing for the seizure of thousands of guns. And that's far from \"nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there's room to criticize the pace of the program, Sanchez's statement amounts to a complete misrepresentation of reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We rate the claim Pants On Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2011/feb/21/principles-truth-o-meter/\">Click here for more \u003c/a>on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report on Scribd\" href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297825900/Senate-Bill-140-Supplemental-Budget-Report\">Senate Bill 140 Supplemental Budget Report\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" id=\"doc_13841\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/297825900/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a list of sources on this fact check and to read more more fact checks, go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.politifact.com/california/\" target=\"_blank\">PolitiFactCalifornia.com\u003c/a>\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>From Silicon Valley to Hollywood, Californians lead the world with big ideas. For the latest installment of our “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/big-think\">Big Think\u003c/a>” series, we meet \u003ca href=\"http://patrissecullors.com/\">Patrisse Cullors\u003c/a>. She is the director of truth and reinvestment at the \u003ca href=\"http://ellabakercenter.org/\">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\u003c/a> in Oakland and one of the co-founders of \u003ca href=\"http://blacklivesmatter.com/\">Black Lives Matter\u003c/a>. Her Big Think?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Build a national network of communities to respond to law enforcement violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246038799″ 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>Cullors received a $500,000 racial justice grant from Google to help make her Big Think become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>#BlackLivesMatter\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Black Lives Matter movement started with a simple love note. It was the night the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/07/13/201918229/judge-to-zimmerman-you-have-no-further-business-with-the-court\">jury acquitted George Zimmerman\u003c/a> of all charges in the 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin during an altercation in a gated Florida community. Her friend, Alicia Garza, wrote a series of posts on Facebook that were intended to be an open letter to black people:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Where those folks at saying we are in post-racial America? where those folks at saying we have moved past race and that black folks in particular need to get over it? the sad part is, there’s a section of America who is cheering and celebrating right now. and that makes me sick to my stomach. we GOTTA get it together y’all. Our lives are hanging in the balance. Young black boys in this country are not safe. Black men in this country are not safe. This verdict will create many more George Zimmermans.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And also:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>black people. I love you. I love us. Our lives matter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Cullors says she saw that love note and hash-tagged it. She then “used that hashtag over the next several hours to really just love on black people, and pretty quickly thereafter myself and Alicia spoke and said we need to build this out as a project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cullors, #BlackLivesMatter is an affirmation that embraces the resistance and resilience of black people. It is also a rallying cry to defend black life and create successful black futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10848115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/patrisse_blm-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L to R: Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors co-founded #BlackLivesMatter. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Patrisse Cullors)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A movement began to bubble up, as videos suggesting the use of excessive police force on unarmed black men went viral. There was the death of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/19/nyregion/staten-island-man-dies-after-he-is-put-in-chokehold-during-arrest.html?_r=0\">Eric Garner\u003c/a> and then the fatal shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/08/10/339334625/st-louis-police-black-teen-shot-in-altercation-with-officers\">Michael Brown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not to mention, the deaths of black women like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/us/in-detroit-protests-of-shooting-of-woman-who-sought-help.html\">Renisha McBride\u003c/a>, who was shot on the porch of a suburban home when she sought help after she had car trouble, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424909760/death-of-woman-found-hanged-in-texas-jail-cell-will-be-investigated-as-murder\">Sandra Bland\u003c/a>, who was found dead in her jail cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly people all over the world were talking about Black Lives Matter and using the hashtag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what about all the other people who face law enforcement violence — who don’t have a video. Where do they turn?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How Should Black and Brown Communities Handle Law Enforcement Violence?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Growing up, Cullors says, she witnessed a significant amount of policing and police repression in her Van Nuys neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My brother was almost killed by the Sheriff’s Department when he was 19 years old inside of the L.A. County jails. And my mother had nowhere to go. She called the Sheriff’s Department over and over again and they sent her in circles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This experience is part of the reason why Cullors wants to create a network of rapid responders to help people deal with law enforcement violence. That includes violence at the hand of the police, FBI, ICE officers, California Highway Patrol and correctional officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”Jr3BGiagOQNhfhKXPRC3OReUOIUrFLiQ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know what to do if an earthquake happens in California. People know what to do if a tornado happens. But what happens when your loved one is killed by the police? When your loved one is killed in a jail cell?” Cullors says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know what to do. We’ve seen it time and time again. Families are at a loss. They don’t know who to talk to, they don’t know who to go to because, you don’t go to your murderer to have them give you justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black and brown communities can’t rely on law enforcement to protect black and brown bodies, says Cullors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your loved one is harmed or killed by law enforcement, if they’re illegally arrested, if there’s a raid on your home, you will be able to call a hotline number that will be staffed 24/7 that can help you navigate the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes her idea different is that the rapid responders will be people who live in the community and understand what it’s like to face law enforcement violence firsthand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be a multiracial justice team. Allies can definitely play a role. But really the point is people who are directly impacted, and that often looks like black and brown people, and poor people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She imagines the first responders could help victims file a complaint against the police. And if the complaint isn’t getting attention, they could help stage a protest in the neighborhood or organize to demand that the officer is fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors has already \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/caravan/\">mobilized the teams\u003c/a>. They are all over the state, from Sacramento to Orange County (and in between in Oakland, Stockton, Fresno, Salinas, Los Angeles and San Diego). The next step is to train the teams of rapid responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A Platform to Focus Black Voices\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>She’s also creating a social media platform specific to issues of law enforcement violence and mass incarceration. It will expand the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mobilejusticeca.org/\">Mobile Justice app\u003c/a> that the ACLU and Ella Baker Center created. It allows people to send a recording of questionable police activity directly to the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/01/06/african-americans-and-technology-use/\">We use Twitter and Facebook\u003c/a> to talk about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/19/is-the-internet-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-race\">our stories\u003c/a>, but we don’t own Twitter or Facebook. We need a social media platform that’s owned by the community, sourced by the community and where we know that if we put up our own images and videos, that we own it. This social media platform can’t bring it down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cullors hopes that one day people all over the world will use the platform to organize. And the teams will help create more caring, healthy and safe communities for people of color all over the state.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>You could call it a sequel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embattled San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/13/sfpd-chief-greg-suhr-responds-to-long-list-of-issues-facing-department\" target=\"_blank\">last appeared on KQED's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in July, when he responded to a litany of issues -- and some high-profile scandals -- involving the SFPD and the chief himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr returned to \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> Tuesday morning to face an hourlong discussion of controversies hanging over his police department -- some new and some still dogging the chief six months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245108399\" 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>He began by addressing an announcement Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services would \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/01/department-of-justice-to-conduct-review-of-san-francisco-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">review the SFPD\u003c/a>. 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We’ve actually asked for the independent review, and I think it’s important that everybody realize that this is the Department of Justice, and that it is completely independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos told KQED separately that the lack of a federal civil rights investigation is disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not going to sit very well with a lot of people in the community, who are looking at a Department of Justice investigation about how the Police Department quickly moves to justify officer-involved shootings as within policy, and has a few very dubious officer-involved shootings under their belt right now -- including Mario Woods, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Alex Nieto at the very least,\" Avalos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Comments Have Been Consistent'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said his comments on officer-involved shootings \"have been consistent with what I know at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Feb. 26, 2015, police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Suhr originally told the public that Perez Lopez charged two officers in plainclothes with a knife raised over his head. When an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">autopsy came out\u003c/a> two months later showing Perez Lopez was shot six times from behind, Suhr changed his story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Later on in discussions with the officers, there was discussion that he turned to go after the man that he was originally pursuing with the knife,\" Suhr said, \"so that was consistent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evidence appearing to contradict Suhr's initial statements on the Dec. 2 police killing of Mario Woods came out much faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij5TZuohoRg&feature=youtu.be\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall meeting two days after the shooting, Suhr said cellphone video widely circulated online showed Woods' hand extend toward a police officer before he was shot. 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New policies, which de-emphasize using a firearm when officers confront a suspect with a knife, are expected to come out by mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re committed to being better,\" Suhr said, \"and I think across this country you’re going to notice many, many other police departments adopting probably as much change as maybe we ever have in trying to better contend with people with weapons short of firearms with less than a firearm ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talking about a national effort on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineering training on police use of force\u003c/a>\" run by the Washington, D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum. 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Suhr says he wants to fire them, but nine of the officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">successfully challenged\u003c/a> being disciplined in court, arguing the department sat on the texts for more than two years before beginning an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr filed a declaration in that case that he was \"walled off\" from the evidence, but experts find it hard to believe that the chief wouldn't know about a federal investigation involving dozens of his officers, and the argument failed to convince a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe he got it wrong,\" Suhr said. \"We are appealing, and the only reason that they’re going to remain in that paid status is by order of the court. But they are not back to work, they will not be back to work, they will remain away from the San Francisco Police Department and the citizens of San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Cooperating with Another Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Suhr welcomes and requested the federal review announced Monday, he's consistently spurned a local review with similar goals, according to the attorneys trying to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened a committee\u003c/a> of retired judges and pro bono lawyers to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">investigate transparency and accountability\u003c/a> in the SFPD following the racist texting scandal. 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We’ve actually asked for the independent review, and I think it’s important that everybody realize that this is the Department of Justice, and that it is completely independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos told KQED separately that the lack of a federal civil rights investigation is disappointing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s actually not going to sit very well with a lot of people in the community, who are looking at a Department of Justice investigation about how the Police Department quickly moves to justify officer-involved shootings as within policy, and has a few very dubious officer-involved shootings under their belt right now -- including Mario Woods, Amilcar Perez Lopez and Alex Nieto at the very least,\" Avalos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Comments Have Been Consistent'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said his comments on officer-involved shootings \"have been consistent with what I know at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Feb. 26, 2015, police killing of Amilcar Perez Lopez, Suhr originally told the public that Perez Lopez charged two officers in plainclothes with a knife raised over his head. 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Woods allegedly had a knife and was a suspect in an earlier stabbing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">KQED\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">others\u003c/a> analyzed separate cellphone videos, it became apparent that Woods raised his arm only after the first shots were fired, as he seemed to fall backward in reaction to being shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as interpreting the video with regard to Mario Woods, depending on who looks at it when you slow it way down, that’s going to be a matter for video experts because it appears to show some things to some people and some things to other people,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights attorney John Burris, who is representing Woods' mother in a federal excessive force lawsuit against San Francisco, slowed down the video and compared the audio sound wave of the first gunshot with when Woods' arm is seen rising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was disappointed by the comments that he [Suhr] made shortly thereafter,\" Burris said, \"that sort of suggested he had not seen the video.\"\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/245139485&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/245139485'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Local Changes Mirror National Shift\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the feds recommend, Suhr said he won't wait to make changes following the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most assertive may be a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/07/s-f-mayor-pushes-police-to-fast-track-use-of-force-reform-chief-calls-in-feds\" target=\"_blank\">reworking\u003c/a> of the department's use-of-force policies, an effort currently before the San Francisco Police Commission. New policies, which de-emphasize using a firearm when officers confront a suspect with a knife, are expected to come out by mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re committed to being better,\" Suhr said, \"and I think across this country you’re going to notice many, many other police departments adopting probably as much change as maybe we ever have in trying to better contend with people with weapons short of firearms with less than a firearm ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talking about a national effort on \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.policeforum.org/assets/reengineeringtraining1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">re-engineering training on police use of force\u003c/a>\" run by the Washington, D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum. SFPD joined in shortly after the Woods shooting, and Suhr has made two trips to D.C. to discuss alternatives with police chiefs from across the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Since this shooting, we’ve put things in place like a policy that an officer even directs their firearm at a person, that’s a reportable use of force,\" Suhr said. \"We’ve re-engineered the way we qualify with our firearms to emphasize slowing down, constant threat assessment, minimizing fire. Because even my mother had questions as to why so many bullets in this particular officer-involved shooting of Mario Woods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigoted Texts Still a Scandal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been almost a year since federal prosecutors revealed a collection of racist, homophobic and otherwise \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">offensive text messages\u003c/a> swapped by approximately a dozen SFPD officers. Suhr says he wants to fire them, but nine of the officers \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">successfully challenged\u003c/a> being disciplined in court, arguing the department sat on the texts for more than two years before beginning an internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr filed a declaration in that case that he was \"walled off\" from the evidence, but experts find it hard to believe that the chief wouldn't know about a federal investigation involving dozens of his officers, and the argument failed to convince a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe he got it wrong,\" Suhr said. \"We are appealing, and the only reason that they’re going to remain in that paid status is by order of the court. But they are not back to work, they will not be back to work, they will remain away from the San Francisco Police Department and the citizens of San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Cooperating with Another Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Suhr welcomes and requested the federal review announced Monday, he's consistently spurned a local review with similar goals, according to the attorneys trying to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened a committee\u003c/a> of retired judges and pro bono lawyers to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">investigate transparency and accountability\u003c/a> in the SFPD following the racist texting scandal. 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"content": "\u003cp>New data show the vast majority of women with children seeking refuge in the U.S. who were ordered deported in the last year and a half never had a lawyer. One of those women was 21-year-old María Pérez, who escaped violence in her town in Mexico and in her home. She applied for asylum, but due to confusion missed an all-important court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez lived in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, with her two small children and her husband. She says he was involved with a drug cartel and often beat her. She didn’t trust the police to protect her. After all, she says, they did nothing about the kidnappings, rapes and killings that had become common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/245078175\" 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 cartels showed up ... and corpses appeared all over,\" says Pérez. \"The government didn’t do anything. Nothing. That’s how the government is in Mexico.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez says after her husband’s enemies shot up her house, she took her baby daughter and 3-year-old son and fled north. At the California border, she asked for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Home in Central Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pérez settled in the Central Valley, and she says she tried to do everything the government asked. She traveled every month to San Francisco to check in with immigration authorities. She didn’t have a lawyer, though, and when she got a court date in the mail, she mistakenly showed up at the immigration office again, instead of the courthouse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got there and I asked, 'Where is the court? I was supposed to have court.' But the officer didn’t speak Spanish. He just told me to sign in, and then he gave me a new date to come back. So I thought I had done what I had to do,\" Pérez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851710\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration attorney Laura Polstein (L) confers with Maria Perez. Perez was ordered deported without a day in court, but later won asylum with Polstein's help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-768x528.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Laura Polstein (L) confers with María Pérez, who was ordered deported without a day in court but later won asylum with Polstein's help. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don’t show up to immigration court -- and it looks to the judge like you were told when and where to show up -- you can be ordered deported. That’s what happened to Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/mwc/\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University\u003c/a>, 18,607 women and children seeking asylum in the U.S. were issued final orders of removal between July 2014 and December 2015. Like Pérez, 86 percent of them did not have a lawyer. And also like Pérez, the vast majority simply never made it to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Importance of a Lawyer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, says when potential asylees have legal representation, it makes it easier for judges to be sure they have all the facts before making a decision. That's important, she says, because the stakes are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a judge makes a decision that someone has to go back, they may be sent to a life-threatening situation,\" says Marks, who speaks as an official of her union, not on behalf of her employer, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the United States Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.'\u003ccite>Attorney Laura Polstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Marks says even if you do have a lawyer and make your case to a judge, it’s still hard to qualify for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I compare asylum law to putting together a jigsaw puzzle,\" Marks says. \"You may have enough pieces that we all know what the picture is going to look like, but if there is a piece missing, that case cannot be granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winning Asylum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing deportation, María Pérez started desperately calling attorneys until she found \u003ca href=\"http://centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> in Oakland. Attorney Laura Polstein was able to reopen Pérez’s case, arguing that she did not willfully miss her court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Pérez and her children won asylum in the United States. Polstein says attorneys had to do extensive research and submit multiple news articles, human rights reports and expert affidavits to document the violence by drug cartels in Mexico and the lack of protection for victims of domestic violence. She says the attorney for the government cross-examined Pérez extensively for about two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a legal point of view, this is not something people can do without an attorney, especially if they have a low literacy level,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes many other families who were ordered deported could also have valid claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fU6MN3r3TXf4aiISNYib9Ng7N5b9BkY5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day we have people coming to our doors, and we meet people at court who need attorneys and who we are not able to provide services to,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics from TRAC also show that if women with children have an attorney, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/396/\">their chance to win their asylum cases goes up 14 times\u003c/a>. The overwhelming lack of legal counsel in these cases prompted the bipartisan U.S. Civil Rights Commission to call for \u003ca href=\"http://www.usccr.gov/press/2016/PR_ICE_Deportations_Announcement.pdf\">halting all deportations of women and children from Central America \u003c/a>who are seeking asylum, until their cases can be reviewed to see if they had due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who advocate for restricting immigration say asylum seekers who didn’t show up in court have had their chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t see any reason to use government resources to go back through and give people another bite of the apple when they’ve already abused the system,\" says Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. \"What needs to happen is they should be sent home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Detainees Last Month\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained 121 women and children in early January, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/01/04/statement-secretary-jeh-c-johnson-southwest-border-security\"> also argued these people had exhausted their legal options\u003c/a>. ICE officials say no targeted operations happened in California, but that immigration agents do conduct routine enforcement here. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice says most of the time, officers detain people at their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, María Pérez says she was stopped by officers wearing jackets that said \"police\" outside a McDonald’s, where she went to apply for a job. Even though Pérez has asylum now, she was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was afraid they would take me without even asking me for an ID,\" Pérez says. \"I was worried I’d be separated from my children, who were home with my mom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, Pérez says, she was carrying her work permit with her. She showed it to the officers and they let her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s overcome with relief that she and her kids are safe now.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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So I thought I had done what I had to do,\" Pérez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851710\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Immigration attorney Laura Polstein (L) confers with Maria Perez. Perez was ordered deported without a day in court, but later won asylum with Polstein's help.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851710\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-400x275.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-768x528.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-1440x989.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/PolsteinPerez-960x660.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigration attorney Laura Polstein (L) confers with María Pérez, who was ordered deported without a day in court but later won asylum with Polstein's help. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you don’t show up to immigration court -- and it looks to the judge like you were told when and where to show up -- you can be ordered deported. That’s what happened to Pérez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the nonpartisan \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/phptools/immigration/mwc/\">Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University\u003c/a>, 18,607 women and children seeking asylum in the U.S. were issued final orders of removal between July 2014 and December 2015. Like Pérez, 86 percent of them did not have a lawyer. And also like Pérez, the vast majority simply never made it to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Importance of a Lawyer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, says when potential asylees have legal representation, it makes it easier for judges to be sure they have all the facts before making a decision. That's important, she says, because the stakes are high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If a judge makes a decision that someone has to go back, they may be sent to a life-threatening situation,\" says Marks, who speaks as an official of her union, not on behalf of her employer, the Executive Office for Immigration Review, which is part of the United States Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.'\u003ccite>Attorney Laura Polstein\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Marks says even if you do have a lawyer and make your case to a judge, it’s still hard to qualify for asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I compare asylum law to putting together a jigsaw puzzle,\" Marks says. \"You may have enough pieces that we all know what the picture is going to look like, but if there is a piece missing, that case cannot be granted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Winning Asylum\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing deportation, María Pérez started desperately calling attorneys until she found \u003ca href=\"http://centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a> in Oakland. Attorney Laura Polstein was able to reopen Pérez’s case, arguing that she did not willfully miss her court date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, Pérez and her children won asylum in the United States. Polstein says attorneys had to do extensive research and submit multiple news articles, human rights reports and expert affidavits to document the violence by drug cartels in Mexico and the lack of protection for victims of domestic violence. She says the attorney for the government cross-examined Pérez extensively for about two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From a legal point of view, this is not something people can do without an attorney, especially if they have a low literacy level,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She believes many other families who were ordered deported could also have valid claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every day we have people coming to our doors, and we meet people at court who need attorneys and who we are not able to provide services to,\" says Polstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are people who are truly fleeing persecution, but they are not able to win without an attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics from TRAC also show that if women with children have an attorney, \u003ca href=\"http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/396/\">their chance to win their asylum cases goes up 14 times\u003c/a>. The overwhelming lack of legal counsel in these cases prompted the bipartisan U.S. Civil Rights Commission to call for \u003ca href=\"http://www.usccr.gov/press/2016/PR_ICE_Deportations_Announcement.pdf\">halting all deportations of women and children from Central America \u003c/a>who are seeking asylum, until their cases can be reviewed to see if they had due process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who advocate for restricting immigration say asylum seekers who didn’t show up in court have had their chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t see any reason to use government resources to go back through and give people another bite of the apple when they’ve already abused the system,\" says Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C. \"What needs to happen is they should be sent home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Detainees Last Month\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained 121 women and children in early January, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson\u003ca href=\"http://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/01/04/statement-secretary-jeh-c-johnson-southwest-border-security\"> also argued these people had exhausted their legal options\u003c/a>. ICE officials say no targeted operations happened in California, but that immigration agents do conduct routine enforcement here. ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice says most of the time, officers detain people at their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, María Pérez says she was stopped by officers wearing jackets that said \"police\" outside a McDonald’s, where she went to apply for a job. Even though Pérez has asylum now, she was terrified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was afraid they would take me without even asking me for an ID,\" Pérez says. \"I was worried I’d be separated from my children, who were home with my mom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, Pérez says, she was carrying her work permit with her. She showed it to the officers and they let her go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Up to 1 million revelers are expected to flood the Bay Area this week leading up to Sunday's Super Bowl in Santa Clara. Officials have repeatedly alerted the public to looming traffic nightmares -- but law enforcement officials have been issuing another alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say apart from the crowds and frenzied fun, something darker will be going on: Sex traffickers will be trying to cash in on the annual bash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244884326\" 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>Local law enforcement is asking the public for help rescuing those being exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to team up: Law enforcement, airport workers and all of you out there to be extra vigilant,” says Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The annual game that brings together a lot of men, money and parties is often linked to a big spike in sex trafficking. The Super Bowl has even been called the largest human trafficking event in the country. There’s no evidence to back that up. But for several years the big event has nonetheless been used to shine a bright light on an often hidden industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we have an opportunity to get attention to this issue today,” San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says. \"And we're taking advantage of that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_nnXmrdh20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonprofits and local government agencies are joining with the FBI to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://www.notraffickahead.com/\">No Traffick Ahead Campaign\u003c/a>. It includes training Super Bowl volunteers, bus drivers, airline and hotel workers to watch for signs someone is being coerced, such as apparent subservience or difficulty making eye contact -- even women or girls seemingly “branded” with a signature tattoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also dotted four Bay Area counties with billboards aimed at catching the public’s eye and spurring conversation about sex and labor trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.notraffickahead.com/campaigns/\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10851585 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-800x307.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard from the No Traffick Ahead Campaign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-800x307.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-400x154.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-768x295.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-1440x553.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-1180x453.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-960x369.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard from the No Traffick Ahead Campaign. \u003ccite>(No Traffick Ahead Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bright pink one with a simple image of a cellphone asks, \"Is There an App for Sexual Exploitation? Ask Your Teen.\" Organizers say the question tries to drive home the message that young people are vulnerable to grooming by traffickers using social media, especially since so much sex is now bought and paid for online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, behind closed doors in a special operations center in Oakland, the FBI is working with local police departments scouring websites known for selling sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our game plan is to target traffickers … and johns,” says Bertram Fairries, a special agent with the FBI. Fairries says law enforcement is also shifting its approach toward the sex workers themselves by offering them housing, food, counseling and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even if a sex worker declines the assistance and doesn’t cooperate with authorities, that \"doesn’t mean we're going to turn around and prosecute them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Kate Mogulescu is wary. She's with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legal-aid.org/en/mediaandpublicinformation/inthenews/legalaidexpandsprogramfortraffickingvictims.aspx\">Legal Aid Society in New York \u003c/a>and runs a program for trafficking victims. She says during the 2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey there was a similar public campaign against human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simultaneous crackdown by law enforcement just led to a lot of women being swept up on prostitution charges. “Our experience here was incredibly frustrating,” Mogulescu says. “It was incredibly frustrating to live the experience on the ground in criminal court versus what we were seeing and hearing on the news. They were very, very disparate experiences, and I hope that doesn’t repeat itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851532\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-800x1093.jpg\" alt=\"Quintisha Young calls herself a survivor. She says she was trafficked as a teenager until she was 27.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-800x1093.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-400x547.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-768x1050.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-1440x1968.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-1180x1613.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-960x1312.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quintisha Young calls herself a survivor. She says she was trafficked as a teenager until she was 27. \u003ccite>(Tara Siler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the advocates working with the Bay Area campaign say it's a valid concern that sex workers will be targeted for arrest, especially during the Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's an enormous amount of pressure for law enforcement to produce numbers,” says Sharan Dhanoa, coordinator of the No Traffick Ahead campaign. But, she says, it will be worth it if some of them accept the services and ultimately break free of the exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So for us it's really looking at the bigger picture,” Dhanoa says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bigger picture, she says, includes fighting human trafficking long after the last play of Super Bowl 50.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But for several years the big event has nonetheless been used to shine a bright light on an often hidden industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know we have an opportunity to get attention to this issue today,” San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says. \"And we're taking advantage of that.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/8_nnXmrdh20'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/8_nnXmrdh20'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Nonprofits and local government agencies are joining with the FBI to launch the \u003ca href=\"http://www.notraffickahead.com/\">No Traffick Ahead Campaign\u003c/a>. It includes training Super Bowl volunteers, bus drivers, airline and hotel workers to watch for signs someone is being coerced, such as apparent subservience or difficulty making eye contact -- even women or girls seemingly “branded” with a signature tattoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers have also dotted four Bay Area counties with billboards aimed at catching the public’s eye and spurring conversation about sex and labor trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851585\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.notraffickahead.com/campaigns/\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10851585 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-800x307.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard from the No Traffick Ahead Campaign.\" width=\"800\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-800x307.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-400x154.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-768x295.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-1440x553.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-1180x453.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/TeenBillboard-960x369.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard from the No Traffick Ahead Campaign. \u003ccite>(No Traffick Ahead Campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A bright pink one with a simple image of a cellphone asks, \"Is There an App for Sexual Exploitation? Ask Your Teen.\" Organizers say the question tries to drive home the message that young people are vulnerable to grooming by traffickers using social media, especially since so much sex is now bought and paid for online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, behind closed doors in a special operations center in Oakland, the FBI is working with local police departments scouring websites known for selling sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our game plan is to target traffickers … and johns,” says Bertram Fairries, a special agent with the FBI. Fairries says law enforcement is also shifting its approach toward the sex workers themselves by offering them housing, food, counseling and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says even if a sex worker declines the assistance and doesn’t cooperate with authorities, that \"doesn’t mean we're going to turn around and prosecute them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But attorney Kate Mogulescu is wary. She's with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.legal-aid.org/en/mediaandpublicinformation/inthenews/legalaidexpandsprogramfortraffickingvictims.aspx\">Legal Aid Society in New York \u003c/a>and runs a program for trafficking victims. She says during the 2014 Super Bowl in New Jersey there was a similar public campaign against human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A simultaneous crackdown by law enforcement just led to a lot of women being swept up on prostitution charges. “Our experience here was incredibly frustrating,” Mogulescu says. “It was incredibly frustrating to live the experience on the ground in criminal court versus what we were seeing and hearing on the news. They were very, very disparate experiences, and I hope that doesn’t repeat itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10851532\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851532\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/Quintisha-800x1093.jpg\" alt=\"Quintisha Young calls herself a survivor. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nOfficials with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing services \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2842\" target=\"_blank\">announced a review\u003c/a> of the San Francisco Police Department Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the announcement fell flat for many observers of the SFPD who have joined a growing chorus of calls for a federal civil rights investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/244990349\" 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 difference between a review by the DOJ's COPS office and an investigation by its Civil Rights Division hinges on enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That difference dominated a press conference Monday afternoon where Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr joined the acting Northern California U.S. attorney and COPS office leadership to explain the review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a work in progress,\" Suhr said. \"We look forward to this review and the help of the Department of Justice and doing what we can to rebuild the trust that has been shaken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The processes are similar, at least in the beginning, with authorities comprehensively delving into the Police Department's practices and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform\u003c/a>\" review is voluntary -- Suhr called for it shortly after the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods that galvanized longstanding criticism of his department. And it also doesn't carry with it the threat of enforcement through a federal court that a Civil Rights Division investigation has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With our process, it’s voluntary, so they’re not enforced in a court of law,\" COPS Director Ronald Davis said. \"But I will offer this, they are enforced in a court of public opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Aaron Zisser says that means the city will have to keep a close eye on the process if it expects accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is not going to be up to a court,\" he said. \"It's going to be the public paying attention over a two-year process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zisser said the Civil Rights Division also draws from attorneys with experience in disability rights cases to enforce better procedures when officers encounter people in a psychiatric crisis, which account for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">majority of fatalities\u003c/a> at the hands of the SFPD and may have played a role in the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just nothing that resembles those kind of remedies [in the COPS review],\" Zisser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Northern California District U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch said a consultation with the Civil Rights Division took place, and \"a decision was made to go forward with collaborative reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he couldn't elaborate on how that decision was made, or who made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we the citizens of San Francisco have confidence in this process?\" Karen Fleshman with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition asked, referencing noncooperation of the department and officers' union in local efforts to examine the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that the department and Police Officers Association had engaged in \"a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics\" against his efforts to investigate bias, transparency and accountability in city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that line officers would cooperate with the COPS office review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has actually asked the Department of Justice to come in,\" he said, \"and anybody coming with the Department of Justice -- coming with the full weight of the Department of Justice -- wishes to speak to, that's going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said Monday that Suhr's response raised more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pleased that COPS is performing this review,\" he said. \"Regardless, the motives of a department willing to cooperate with some efforts at reform but not others concerns me. I believe a civil rights inquiry with enforcement authority is more likely to result in meaningful reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee, however, welcomed the review as a response to his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">request last week\u003c/a> for a federal probe of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, the DOJ had to kind of force their way into many cities without the needed cooperation,\" Lee said. \"This is a collaborative effort. We will give up the information that we have. We will allow ourselves to be exposed by way of practices that we have and the practices that we should end and those that we should adopt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 1:44 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nAmid a growing clamor for a federal probe into recent scandals and officer-involved shootings at the San Francisco Police Department, one wing of the U.S. Department of Justice is poised to announce a \"comprehensive review\" of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's likely the Monday afternoon announcement will not be the independent federal investigation that some city leaders, protesters, legal experts and the family of a man shot and killed by SFPD officers two months ago had in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great in terms of a starting point, but by no means is this the top-to-bottom investigation and analysis the community deserves,\" said civil rights attorney Adante Pointer, who is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">representing the mother of Mario Woods\u003c/a>, the 26-year-old black man shot to death by San Francisco police Dec. 2. \"We're happy to see the DOJ is here, but there's more that we're asking for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's announcement will include acting Northern California U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, two officials with the Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a> (COPS), Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stronger federal probe into whether the way the San Francisco Police Department operates routinely violates people's civil rights appears unlikely at this stage. The Justice Department can do that through what's often called a \"pattern-of-practice\" investigation. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has brought lawsuits that launched that level of intervention in Baltimore, Chicago, and Ferguson, Missouri, among other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines'\u003ccite>Professor Franklin Zimring,\u003cbr>\nUC Berkeley Law\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is much less than that,\" said Franklin Zimring, law professor at UC Berkeley. \"There is a marriage of more than convenience here because what San Francisco needs is someone to take the heat off its chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said San Francisco police had a very low rate of fatal officer-involved shootings between 2009 and 2012, when he studied use of force in 14 major police departments. But last year, use of deadly force spiked. Separately, the department was forced to deal with a scandal over a group of officers who were found to have exchanged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines,\" Zimring said. \"It's doing something without doing a lot, and it's win-win. COPS looks good and doesn't invest anything, and the San Francisco Police Department can write a letter explaining that they're doing something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said a voluntary COPS review is the lightest of several actions federal attorneys can take. He said it's \"a kind of mediation\" that allows the Justice Department to offer assistance in improving a police department's programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes that carries with it the implication that it would be a good idea for the police department to cooperate, otherwise the Department of Justice might take stronger measures,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg said stronger action could include an investigation through the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, federal prosecution of individual officers for a particular shooting or incident, court-ordered reform and monitoring (as in Oakland) or a contractual agreement between Justice and the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department.'\u003ccite>Supervisor Malia Cohen\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed says a voluntary COPS review isn't an adequate answer to calls she and \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4222075&GUID=07DD3884-E52F-4082-AA2C-F854CF8EDAA6\" target=\"_blank\">other supervisors\u003c/a> have made for a federal civil rights probe. She says she still wants that, and thinks an enforcement mechanism is important for the Police Department to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s good, but it isn’t completely our request,\" Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represents the Bayview neighborhood in which Woods was shot, echoed Breed's statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we’ve been calling for is an introspective look into the pattern and practices of the Police Department,\" Cohen said. \"I just want to make sure that the DOJ is not making an announcement of the COPS office in lieu of the Civil Rights Division. I welcome both to come in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most detailed call for a federal investigation of the SFPD since the shooting came Friday from the Northern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160129-aclu_letter_requesting_independent_investigation_into_sfpd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ACLU's letter\u003c/a> documents concerns over excessive use of deadly force, biased policing, interactions with mentally ill people, and \"system failures\" around discipline and accountability in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also calls for a \"pattern and practice investigation into the San Francisco Police Department for civil rights violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Early indications show that this will not go far enough to fix the systemic racism and problems in the San Francisco Police Department,\" ACLU staff attorney Micaela Davis said. \"We need the strong DOJ investigation in order to have full accountability on those issues. Anything less is not going to be sufficient.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis referenced Mayor Lee's and Chief Suhr's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">less-than-enthusiastic participation\u003c/a> with District Attorney George Gascón's initiative to probe the Police Departments culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are concerned that the mayor may be using this announcement to take attention away from an ongoing responsibility to cooperate with local efforts and reform,\" Davis said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a work in progress,\" Suhr said. \"We look forward to this review and the help of the Department of Justice and doing what we can to rebuild the trust that has been shaken.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The processes are similar, at least in the beginning, with authorities comprehensively delving into the Police Department's practices and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative reform\u003c/a>\" review is voluntary -- Suhr called for it shortly after the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods that galvanized longstanding criticism of his department. And it also doesn't carry with it the threat of enforcement through a federal court that a Civil Rights Division investigation has.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With our process, it’s voluntary, so they’re not enforced in a court of law,\" COPS Director Ronald Davis said. \"But I will offer this, they are enforced in a court of public opinion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former DOJ Civil Rights Division attorney Aaron Zisser says that means the city will have to keep a close eye on the process if it expects accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Accountability is not going to be up to a court,\" he said. \"It's going to be the public paying attention over a two-year process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zisser said the Civil Rights Division also draws from attorneys with experience in disability rights cases to enforce better procedures when officers encounter people in a psychiatric crisis, which account for the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">majority of fatalities\u003c/a> at the hands of the SFPD and may have played a role in the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s just nothing that resembles those kind of remedies [in the COPS review],\" Zisser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Northern California District U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch said a consultation with the Civil Rights Division took place, and \"a decision was made to go forward with collaborative reform.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he couldn't elaborate on how that decision was made, or who made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can we the citizens of San Francisco have confidence in this process?\" Karen Fleshman with the Justice 4 Mario Woods Coalition asked, referencing noncooperation of the department and officers' union in local efforts to examine the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">said last week\u003c/a> that the department and Police Officers Association had engaged in \"a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics\" against his efforts to investigate bias, transparency and accountability in city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that line officers would cooperate with the COPS office review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has actually asked the Department of Justice to come in,\" he said, \"and anybody coming with the Department of Justice -- coming with the full weight of the Department of Justice -- wishes to speak to, that's going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said Monday that Suhr's response raised more questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm pleased that COPS is performing this review,\" he said. \"Regardless, the motives of a department willing to cooperate with some efforts at reform but not others concerns me. I believe a civil rights inquiry with enforcement authority is more likely to result in meaningful reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee, however, welcomed the review as a response to his \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">request last week\u003c/a> for a federal probe of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the past, the DOJ had to kind of force their way into many cities without the needed cooperation,\" Lee said. \"This is a collaborative effort. We will give up the information that we have. We will allow ourselves to be exposed by way of practices that we have and the practices that we should end and those that we should adopt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 1:44 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nAmid a growing clamor for a federal probe into recent scandals and officer-involved shootings at the San Francisco Police Department, one wing of the U.S. Department of Justice is poised to announce a \"comprehensive review\" of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's likely the Monday afternoon announcement will not be the independent federal investigation that some city leaders, protesters, legal experts and the family of a man shot and killed by SFPD officers two months ago had in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is great in terms of a starting point, but by no means is this the top-to-bottom investigation and analysis the community deserves,\" said civil rights attorney Adante Pointer, who is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/11/mario-woods-mother-suing-san-francisco-amid-calls-for-police-chiefs-resignation\" target=\"_blank\">representing the mother of Mario Woods\u003c/a>, the 26-year-old black man shot to death by San Francisco police Dec. 2. \"We're happy to see the DOJ is here, but there's more that we're asking for.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's announcement will include acting Northern California U.S. Attorney Brian Stretch, two officials with the Department of Justice's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Community Oriented Policing Services\u003c/a> (COPS), Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stronger federal probe into whether the way the San Francisco Police Department operates routinely violates people's civil rights appears unlikely at this stage. The Justice Department can do that through what's often called a \"pattern-of-practice\" investigation. The DOJ's Civil Rights Division has brought lawsuits that launched that level of intervention in Baltimore, Chicago, and Ferguson, Missouri, among other major cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines'\u003ccite>Professor Franklin Zimring,\u003cbr>\nUC Berkeley Law\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This is much less than that,\" said Franklin Zimring, law professor at UC Berkeley. \"There is a marriage of more than convenience here because what San Francisco needs is someone to take the heat off its chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zimring said San Francisco police had a very low rate of fatal officer-involved shootings between 2009 and 2012, when he studied use of force in 14 major police departments. But last year, use of deadly force spiked. Separately, the department was forced to deal with a scandal over a group of officers who were found to have exchanged \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"COPS is going to be helping out the Police Department in two ways: It takes them off the hook from doing something -- a lot better than either firing the chief or putting out bold new guidelines,\" Zimring said. \"It's doing something without doing a lot, and it's win-win. COPS looks good and doesn't invest anything, and the San Francisco Police Department can write a letter explaining that they're doing something.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisberg, a professor at Stanford Law School, said a voluntary COPS review is the lightest of several actions federal attorneys can take. 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I don't think this is a good use of city money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Commander Robert O'Sullivan told march organizer Felicia Jones that the demonstrators did not have a permit and would not be allowed to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday's protest is likely just the beginning of demonstrations hoping to capture national attention as the Bay Area hosts Super Bowl 50 and related celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1,000 people have responded to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/events/955997417814447/\" target=\"_blank\">social media call\u003c/a> to attend a protest on Wednesday that will focus on San Francisco's policies on homelessness and reports of increased citation of the city's homeless leading up to the Super Bowl celebrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They spent $5 million that the NFL is not going to reimburse them for to put on this party for billionaires,\" Simmons said. \"At the same time, they’re kicking out all the homeless people. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 1:10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 29\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón is questioning the sincerity of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/26/mayor-ed-lee-asks-for-federal-probe-into-mario-woods-killing-sfpd\" target=\"_blank\">recent call\u003c/a> by Mayor Ed Lee for a federal probe of police practices and the Dec. 2 shooting of Mario Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/file/144/1/1441-DA%20Letter%20to%20Mayor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a letter released Thursday\u003c/a>, Gascón noted Lee's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/02/no-funding-for-das-police-misconduct-task-force-in-s-f-mayors-budget\" target=\"_blank\">refusal to fund\u003c/a> a review of police incident reports and potentially tainted prosecutions involving officers who sent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, an ongoing scandal that has besieged the department since last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón also accused the Police Department, Police Chief Greg Suhr and the San Francisco Police Officers Association of obstructing the work of \u003ca href=\"https://policylink.app.box.com/BRPFAQ\" target=\"_blank\">a blue-ribbon panel\u003c/a> the district attorney convened to investigate the department's culture and practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the six months since forming the panel, the San Francisco Police Department and POA have engaged in a dizzying array of stonewalling tactics,\" Gascón wrote. He said the police union and Suhr have insisted panel interviews go through the POA and must be conducted on the officers' own time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"6oG2sLtLBP3gdksZR2rX5HvvWqAhSfet\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not the type of transparency and collaboration we would expect from a department and a chief eager to improve,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Lee's office did not respond to requests for comment on Gascón's letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The POA sent a bulletin to members last month saying that it \"rejects [the] premise\" of the blue-ribbon panel and urging any officer contacted to inform the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>POA President Martin Halloran said previously that the panel has no authority to investigate individual officers or \"to go on a witch hunt of my members,\" though he acknowledged no such request had been made. He said the union asked to handle officer interview requests \"as a courtesy,\" and that in general the POA is not against officers being interviewed as subject matter experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Halloran took issue with testimony from one current officer who has already talked to the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, the head of a minority SFPD group called \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a> and a subject of some of the racist text messages uncovered last year, appeared before the panel earlier this month to testify on Police Department culture. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/19/blue-ribbon-panel-hears-testimony-on-s-f-police-and-racism\" target=\"_blank\">She criticized\u003c/a> both the department and the POA for what she called \"disregard\" of black officers and minority communities in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Halloran sent Williams a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153923/S-F-POA-Letter-to-OFJ-President-Yulanda-Williams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> challenging her statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA is disturbed about some of your comments and accusations,\" Halloran wrote. \"For example, you claim that racism is 'widespread' within our department. The POA disagrees. While a handful of officers engaged in racist and homophobic text messaging -- and were condemned for doing so by the POA and by me personally -- there is no evidence that racism is widespread throughout the department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerome Roth, an attorney serving as the panel's general counsel, sent the department a broad public records request Dec. 16 seeking documents from 30 categories, including officer discipline records, arrest statistics, department policies and an accounting of the department's internal affairs investigation into the texting scandal. A Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/18/court-ruling-san-francisco-police-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">blocked\u003c/a> any discipline for nine officers implicated in the scandal last month, ruling the department waited too long to investigate the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department has not responded to questions about its cooperation with the panel, nor to a KQED request for documents and correspondence related to the panel's public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153985/S-F-Blue-Ribbon-Panel-Sunshine-Complaint\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a> with the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force Jan. 12 asking the oversight body to compel the department to produce the requested documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roth wrote that the department responded to just seven of 30 records requests from the panel. And in three of those seven cases, Roth said, the department withheld the requested documents, citing various provisions of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD did not explain why these prohibitions apply or why, per department policy [and city law] such records could not be redacted,\" Roth wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has not updated its response, panel executive director Anand Subramanian said in an email Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the POA had provided a list of names \"they consider relevant\" and insisted that any interviews of those SFPD officers take place at the union's offices with POA attorneys present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The law firm working groups are moving forward with these interviews, despite these constraints,\" Subramanian wrote. \"We are also working to set up an interview with POA leadership.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr sent Subramanian a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/297153238/Response-to-Request-for-Interview-of-Chief-Greg-Suhr\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> Jan. 20 in response to a request for his interview, scheduling a one-hour session for Feb. 2. He also wrote that \"all requests on behalf of the Panel should go through the appropriate labor group or association representing an active employee,\" and that \"any member of the department who chooses to appear before the Panel would do so voluntarily, on their own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr also noted that as of Jan. 25, the department was participating in a voluntary policy review through the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. A former federal prosecutor with knowledge of the Justice Department's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=2807\" target=\"_blank\">Collaborative Reform\u003c/a>\" process said it is similar to \"pattern or practice\" investigation like those underway in \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/justice-department-will-launch-investigation-into-practices-of-chicago-police/\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1272364/ramsey-return-chicago-consult-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore\u003c/a>. However, the process is not as thorough and does not include the threat of federal prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón noted in his letter to Lee that San Francisco ranked eighth in police killings among the 60 largest cities in the U.S. in 2015, and that the Police Department saw a 50 percent increase in officer-involved shootings last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from Gascón's letter:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If the promises you levied in your inauguration speech and in your letter to the Attorney General to repair the \"dissolution of trust between communities of color and law enforcement\" are genuine, and if it will remain should the impassioned pleas from the community for reform fade in the months ahead, then I would ask that you demonstrate an actual commitment to these issues by taking steps now to support the existing investigation. These problems are far too serious and far too systemic to simply pay them lip service. 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Thursday’s conviction on first-degree murder, with special circumstances for a homicide committed during the course of rape and burglary, carries a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this verdict finally puts an end to this case,” David Martz of Manchester, Massachusetts, the victim’s brother, said via text. “My family and Barbara’s friends have suffered long enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848006\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/martz.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10848006\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10848006\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/martz-400x450.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Martz in a photograph included in a 1987 retrospective of her work. \" width=\"400\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Martz in a photograph included in a 1987 retrospective of her work.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police made no progress in solving the crime, which got only passing media attention at the time, for nearly 17 years. In 2002, DNA evidence linked Davis, then in state prison for other offenses, to the crime. At the time of the murder, Davis lived in a Potrero Hill public housing project, about 100 yards from Martz’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In reaching the verdict, the jury rejected arguments from defense attorney Gabriel Bassan that evidence in the case provided what he called “a forensic alibi” for Davis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bassan conceded at the outset of the two-week trial that the DNA in the case, from semen discovered during an autopsy the day after the killing, came from his client. But its presence, he said, was due to a consensual relationship between Martz, 28, and Davis, who was 18 at the time of the murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As proof, Bassan presented a peer-reviewed study carried out by the Denver Police Department and the University of Colorado School of Medicine that sought to determine how quickly sperm deteriorate after sexual intercourse. He contended the study and sperm samples recovered during the autopsy proved that Davis and Martz had sex well before the time of the murder — possibly days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bassan also urged the jury to consider an alternative scenario: that Martz’s longtime boyfriend might have stabbed her in a jealous rage. He accused police of failing to have adequately investigated that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to testimony that Martz and the boyfriend, Bobby Adams, had experienced difficulties in their relationship. He also called a recently discovered witness, a former neighbor of Martz who, while admitting her memory was shaky about the sequence of events, testified that Adams had come to her home in an agitated state the day of the murder and asked to use her telephone. The jury was not allowed to hear testimony that Adams had taken and passed two polygraph, or “lie detector,” examinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing his case, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Ganz argued the Denver sperm study was not conclusive and there was no evidence that Davis and Martz had any contact before the time of the killing. He pointed to the fact Davis had repeatedly denied recognizing her when a police homicide inspector showed him pictures of Martz in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganz also argued Davis had incriminated himself when he made only conditional denials when the inspector, Jim Spillane, asked whether he had burglarized Martz’s home or committed a rape. Davis did not testify during the trial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for about eight hours before returning with its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire case boiled down to the DNA evidence,” said the jury foreman, Tony Smith. “The defense’s position — that between the studies they introduced and what was found in the autopsy proved that the relationship between the defendant and victim took place at a previous time than the murder — it was not believable to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m relieved,” Ganz said after the verdict was announced. “Obviously, this case has taken a long time both to solve and then through the court process. I think the victim’s family deserves this, and I feel bad for them that it took this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very disappointed, obviously,” said Bassan, a former public defender who has represented Davis since shortly after police identified him as the suspect in 2002. “It’s a difficult case any time DNA is involved, and we conceded that it was his DNA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the evidence gave a pretty solid argument,” Bassan added, that Davis did not have sexual contact with Martz the day of the murder. He added that he still believes in his client, who has been imprisoned since the early 1990s for crimes including robbery and an assault committed in prison. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know Mr. Davis in 1985, but I’ve known him for 14 years,” Bassan said. “I truly believe he’s a good, decent person. He’s been a remarkable person to work with. His character is one that I would have no problem with him coming to my home tomorrow, and I just wish that was possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848018\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10848018\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10848018\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis-400x502.png\" alt=\"John Davis, in a photograph dated 1985. \" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis-400x502.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis.png 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Davis, in a photograph dated 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gabriel Bassan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The verdict marks Davis’ second conviction for Martz’s murder and the second time Bassan failed to persuade a jury that the prosecution’s forensic evidence was faulty. A Superior Court jury first found Davis guilty in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state appeals court overturned the conviction in 2010 and ordered a new trial, in large part because of juror misconduct. During deliberations, members of the panel had performed their own calculations on the likelihood of one of Davis’ four brothers being a match for the DNA in the case, a violation of rules that direct jurors to consider only evidence presented during trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco prosecutors’ appeal of that ruling took until 2013 to resolve, at which point Davis was transferred from state prison to city custody to await new proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current trial began Jan. 11 before Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those testifying for the prosecution was Spillane, the homicide inspector who began working the case in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after the verdict Thursday that he identified with Martz, a native of Massachusetts who had studied photography at Vermont’s Goddard College and had come west in the late 1970s to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. She had traveled widely, including extended visits to Peru and Nepal she documented in her photography. In early 1985, she bought a small house on 25th Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was doing the right things, all the things that a young person of that age is supposed to be doing,” Spillane said. He recalled that in the mid-1980s, when Martz was killed, “I was the same age. I was pretty much at the same juncture in my life. I was newly married and looking forward to my future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he developed a bond with Martz’s mother, Elsa, and other family members. Elsa Martz, a Maine resident who died in 2014,\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/DNA-nabs-suspect-in-85-rape-slaying-2561526.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> had stayed in touch with police\u003c/a> in the years after the killing to ensure the case wasn’t forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her mom, her sister, her brother, her boyfriend at the time, her close friends, her roommate — they were such good, decent people,” Spillane said. “… I probably got a little too much involved in this case than I had in others, but I’m glad that I did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Martz praised police and prosecutors for their handling of the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do want to express our gratitude and appreciation for the thorough and caring way Assistant District Attorney Andrew Ganz prosecuted Barbara’s case and for the unflagging dedication of Jim Spillane, Lt. 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He accused police of failing to have adequately investigated that possibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pointed to testimony that Martz and the boyfriend, Bobby Adams, had experienced difficulties in their relationship. He also called a recently discovered witness, a former neighbor of Martz who, while admitting her memory was shaky about the sequence of events, testified that Adams had come to her home in an agitated state the day of the murder and asked to use her telephone. The jury was not allowed to hear testimony that Adams had taken and passed two polygraph, or “lie detector,” examinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In closing his case, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Ganz argued the Denver sperm study was not conclusive and there was no evidence that Davis and Martz had any contact before the time of the killing. He pointed to the fact Davis had repeatedly denied recognizing her when a police homicide inspector showed him pictures of Martz in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganz also argued Davis had incriminated himself when he made only conditional denials when the inspector, Jim Spillane, asked whether he had burglarized Martz’s home or committed a rape. Davis did not testify during the trial. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury deliberated for about eight hours before returning with its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The entire case boiled down to the DNA evidence,” said the jury foreman, Tony Smith. “The defense’s position — that between the studies they introduced and what was found in the autopsy proved that the relationship between the defendant and victim took place at a previous time than the murder — it was not believable to us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m relieved,” Ganz said after the verdict was announced. “Obviously, this case has taken a long time both to solve and then through the court process. I think the victim’s family deserves this, and I feel bad for them that it took this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very disappointed, obviously,” said Bassan, a former public defender who has represented Davis since shortly after police identified him as the suspect in 2002. “It’s a difficult case any time DNA is involved, and we conceded that it was his DNA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the evidence gave a pretty solid argument,” Bassan added, that Davis did not have sexual contact with Martz the day of the murder. He added that he still believes in his client, who has been imprisoned since the early 1990s for crimes including robbery and an assault committed in prison. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know Mr. Davis in 1985, but I’ve known him for 14 years,” Bassan said. “I truly believe he’s a good, decent person. He’s been a remarkable person to work with. His character is one that I would have no problem with him coming to my home tomorrow, and I just wish that was possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10848018\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10848018\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10848018\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis-400x502.png\" alt=\"John Davis, in a photograph dated 1985. \" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis-400x502.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/johndavis.png 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Davis, in a photograph dated 1985. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gabriel Bassan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The verdict marks Davis’ second conviction for Martz’s murder and the second time Bassan failed to persuade a jury that the prosecution’s forensic evidence was faulty. 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During deliberations, members of the panel had performed their own calculations on the likelihood of one of Davis’ four brothers being a match for the DNA in the case, a violation of rules that direct jurors to consider only evidence presented during trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco prosecutors’ appeal of that ruling took until 2013 to resolve, at which point Davis was transferred from state prison to city custody to await new proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current trial began Jan. 11 before Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those testifying for the prosecution was Spillane, the homicide inspector who began working the case in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after the verdict Thursday that he identified with Martz, a native of Massachusetts who had studied photography at Vermont’s Goddard College and had come west in the late 1970s to attend the San Francisco Art Institute. 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