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(For a fee, Spokeo hands over bundles of personal information profiling just about anyone whose personal data can be gathered via publicly available sources.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo reported that Robins was in his 50s, had obtained a master’s degree and earned an annual six-figure income. In reality, when he discovered the false online profile several years ago, he was in his mid-20s and unemployed. The case was filed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins argued that the false profile harmed his job prospects. His lawyers claimed Spokeo had violated his rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo, a Pasadena-based company, sought to dismiss the case. It argued Robins couldn’t prove that he’d actually experienced any tangible harm as a result of the inaccuracies. But a federal court rejected that argument. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the lower court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now four Silicon Valley firms — \u003ca href=\"http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/13-1339-Spokeo-Inc.-v.-Robins-Br.-for-Amici-eBay-Inc.-et-al.-Jun....pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eBay, Google, Yahoo and Facebook\u003c/a> — have jointly filed a brief in support of Spokeo.com, while some consumer advocacy organizations are rallying behind Robins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/supreme-court-spokeo/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case\u003c/a>. A decision is expected by June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big tech firms supporting Spokeo argued that a ruling in Robins’ favor could incentivize class-action lawsuits targeting deep-pocketed tech companies, even in cases where no one was harmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If any of the millions of individuals who interact with [Google, Facebook and Yahoo!] is willing (or is enticed by a plaintiff’s attorney) to allege that a generalized practice or act violated a law providing a private cause of action and statutory damages, then she could launch a putative class action on behalf of herself and millions of other ‘similarly situated’ users. She could pursue a multi-billion dollar statutory damages claim despite the lack of injury to herself or any other class member.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robins is represented by Chicago-based Edelson PC, a prominent law firm that \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202741426439/Privacy-ClassAction-Firm-Opens-SF-Office\" target=\"_blank\">recently opened an office in San Francisco’s\u003c/a> startup-saturated SoMa district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm specializes in privacy law, and has targeted tech giants, including Google and Facebook, with class-action suits in the past. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times profile\u003c/a> dubbed Jay Edelson Silicon Valley’s “least friended man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Dore, a partner with the firm, said Robins’ case was filed after the firm received a high volume of complaints alleging inaccurate profile data displayed on Spokeo.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of false information can cause distinct harm,” Dore said. For example, he said, imagine a scenario where you’ve met someone via an online dating website and “you find out the person you’re going on a date with appears to be married.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Edelson PC’s cases have served to highlight a range of hot-button privacy issues in the face of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, the majority are settled out of court — Edelson claims to have won $1 billion in settlements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rather than settle the Robins suit, Spokeo has opted to push back, raising the stakes for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those many issues that seem to be boring or narrow, and end up being really huge,” explained G.S. 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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the lower court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now four Silicon Valley firms — \u003ca href=\"http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/13-1339-Spokeo-Inc.-v.-Robins-Br.-for-Amici-eBay-Inc.-et-al.-Jun....pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eBay, Google, Yahoo and Facebook\u003c/a> — have jointly filed a brief in support of Spokeo.com, while some consumer advocacy organizations are rallying behind Robins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/supreme-court-spokeo/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case\u003c/a>. A decision is expected by June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big tech firms supporting Spokeo argued that a ruling in Robins’ favor could incentivize class-action lawsuits targeting deep-pocketed tech companies, even in cases where no one was harmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If any of the millions of individuals who interact with [Google, Facebook and Yahoo!] is willing (or is enticed by a plaintiff’s attorney) to allege that a generalized practice or act violated a law providing a private cause of action and statutory damages, then she could launch a putative class action on behalf of herself and millions of other ‘similarly situated’ users. 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"content": "\u003cp>The official statistics for shootings by police in America are \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/03/06/391269342/system-for-reporting-police-killings-unreliable-study-finds\">bad to nonexistent\u003c/a>. The totals are underreported, and the Justice Department admits it doesn't have crucial details such as the race of people shot, and whether they were armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after the police killing of Michael Brown, this lack has become an embarrassment. But that's slowly beginning to change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take, for instance, the nation's second-largest metro area, where \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">KPCC\u003c/a> in Pasadena has created a \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/explore/\">database of shootings by law enforcement officers in Los Angeles County\u003c/a> from 2010 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC analyzed paperwork from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, which reviews police shootings; the L.A. County medical examiner provided the ethnicity of fatal shooting victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those five years, KPCC found, police shot 375 people, and half of those shootings -- 187 -- were fatal; no officers were prosecuted. Of the people shot, about one in four was unarmed. And 24 percent of those shot and killed were black, \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/stories/black-people-shot-at-disproportionate-rate/\" target=\"_blank\">while African-Americans make up 8 percent\u003c/a> of the L.A. County population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10753837\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10753837\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData-800x628.jpg\" alt=\"KPCC analyzed summaries of officer-involved shootings by the Los Angeles County District Attorney from 2010-2014. Explore the full series.\" width=\"800\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData-800x628.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData-400x314.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData-1180x926.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData-960x754.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/KPCCData.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">KPCC analyzed summaries of officer-involved shootings by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office from 2010-2014. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/\">Explore the full series\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>. \u003ccite>(KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dataset also includes a breakdown of factors such as the justifications given by police who shoot suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, 148 people were shot for moving their hands out of sight or reaching for their waistbands; of those, 47 turned out to be unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When Is Use Of Force Justified?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether that proportion seems high is up for debate. As \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/stories/unarmed-and-dangerous/\">KPCC's reporting about those shootings\u003c/a> puts it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"[Michigan State University criminologist William Terrill] said he doesn't think missing hands alone are enough to justify self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'If they were shooting all the suspects that reach or don't show their hands when the officer wants them to,' he said, 'I can't imagine the number of police shootings – if the public thinks there's a high number now – I can't imagine what there would be.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Commander Rod Kusch, whose homicide bureau investigates all deputy shootings, disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'There is nothing that requires us to actually wait and see the gun or wait to see the knife,' he said. Deputies' 'background, training and experience' with armed suspects triggers a self-protection response when a suspect's hands disappear, he said.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>American police have considerable leeway in these situations because of two Supreme Court rulings in the late 1980s. In essence, the court held that officers may use deadly force if they have a reasonable belief that the suspect poses imminent danger of bodily harm to them or someone else. In addition, officers may not be judged based on information they didn't have at the moment they employed deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, on Monday, the Supreme Court bolstered the protections for officers, when it ruled that an officer in Texas could not be sued for shooting into a fleeing car from a highway overpass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say these standards are only fair, and without them they would live in constant fear of being second-guessed after the fact. They say if they had to worry about being prosecuted for honest mistakes or for misreading a threat, they wouldn't be able to do their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side, groups such as Black Lives Matter say this benefit of the doubt has gone too far. They say prosecutors are too deferential to police, and overly aggressive use of force routinely gets a pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Growing Efforts To Collect Statistics\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missing from this debate are good numbers. The federal government has tried — and failed — to get police agencies to report details about the use of deadly force. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's been a year since \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-prop-47-drug-possession-20141103-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">California voters embraced Proposition 47\u003c/a>, reducing low-level offenses like drug possession and petty crime from felonies to misdemeanors and allowing people to clear past felonies from their records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the discussion since then has centered around two narratives: Supporters point to the tens of thousands of people \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/22/proposition-47-gives-former-felons-a-new-chance\" target=\"_blank\">being given a second chance,\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=1846\" target=\"_blank\">falling county jail and state prison populations, \u003c/a>and the state's historically low crime rates. Opponents note \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/10/10/prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">spikes in crime in some communities\u003c/a>, saying police are now forced to give tickets instead of arresting criminals for low-level crimes and questioning whether drug addicts \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/03/16/50392/unintended-consequence-how-prop-47-tanks-drug-cour/\" target=\"_blank\">will really get the help they need without the threat of jail time\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But one year after Prop. 47 took effect, \u003ca href=\"https://www.acluca.org/Prop47/\" target=\"_blank\">a new report\u003c/a> by the American Civil Liberties Union of California finds a more nuanced picture. Looking at hundreds of pages of public records from the state's 58 counties, the organization discovered wild variations in terms of policing, jail policies and rehabilitation opportunities for misdemeanor offenders -- and that there's still a lot of work left to be done to fulfill Prop. 47's promise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232609630\" 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>Some local law enforcement officials have complained there’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-proposition-47-falsehoods-arrest-20151027-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">no reason to take someone into custody for a misdemeanor \u003c/a>and have let the number of arrests fall. But other counties are arresting far \u003cem>more\u003c/em> low-level criminals than \u003cem>before\u003c/em> Prop. 47 passed, the ACLU found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"V8imR8EY5PTgwl0MSkQh8BJ0ZdaGbrgf\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While jail populations fell right after Prop. 47's passage with the immediate release of thousands of offenders, some counties are now packing their jails with far more misdemeanor offenders than before. Because of this, jail populations are on the rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, some counties are putting misdemeanor criminals on probation while others aren’t -- and, according to the report, the decisions about who to supervise all seem pretty arbitrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, director of criminal justice and drug policy at the ACLU of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the successes of the first year, local agencies are still deciding how they will respond to Prop. 47. Unfortunately, there is still some resistance among law enforcement. As California enters Prop. 47’s second year, local law enforcement, behavioral health departments and county governments need to work together to address societal issues that have long challenged our communities, including mental illness, substance use disorders and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU praises counties for their quick response to Prop. 47's passage, saying they are \"to be commended for the speed with which they addressed resentencing,\" of people behind bars. It calls out some historically conservative counties, including Kern, Fresno and Placer, for quickly embracing creative strategies around drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10753752\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10753752\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1440x984.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-960x656.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the report notes that while thousands of people on probation and as many as 1 million with years-old felonies could still be eligible to have their records cleared, they have only two more years under the measure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to allocate more resources to resentencing efforts, the ACLU recommended, including outreach to let people know they may be eligible. And the state should simplify the process for cleaning up criminal records, the report states, including making it automatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report pushes back on the narrative by some in law enforcement that Prop. 47 left them with no option but to ticket petty thieves, drug users and car burglars, noting people with misdemeanor charges are taking up more and more jail beds in some counties such as Riverside, where the number of inmates convicted of misdemeanors doubled from March 2014 to March 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inconsistencies extend beyond jail beds. It seems some sheriff's departments are prioritizing low-level arrests, while others are ignoring Prop. 47 crimes: They are up 77 percent in Fresno and down 10 percent in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for the associations that represent district attorneys and sheriffs in California said those variations are not surprising: Crimes have always been treated differently around the state, largely based on local community priorities. Aaron McGuire of the State Sheriff's Association called some of the report's findings hypocritical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In a sense they are saying while we decriminalized drug possession, we should still be arresting and prosecuting people for drug possession,\" he said, noting that those actions require the same amount of taxpayer resources regardless of whether a person is charged with a misdemeanor or felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Sean Hoffman of the District Attorney's Association said prosecutors and police agencies haven't been given the resources they need to make such a huge shift in policy succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the policy recommendations they outline in there highlight what we see as one of big flaws with Prop. 47, which is that none of the, or very little of the, infrastructure was in place and funded to support these individuals when we decide we are not going to deal with this as much as a criminal justice issue as we are social, substance abuse, mental health issue,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report says counties need to identify more funding to help people with mental health and drug treatment through existing sources, including health care money, and ensure prevention strategies don’t ignore people until they are charged with felonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until Prop. 47, counties largely focused on programs and services for people facing or convicted of felony offenses. Through Prop. 47, voters reduced several of those offenses to misdemeanors. They did not, however, intend for these individuals or offenses to be ignored,\" the report states. \"The intent of Prop. 47 is to shift toward programs to connect people who commit these petty offenses to the services they need to prevent future offending, including mental health care, substance use disorder treatment and supportive housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU also believes that probation departments need to use scientific assessments to decide which misdemeanor offenders would benefit from supervision; and that police need more options than just handcuffs to help the drug addicted and mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We encourage policymakers and advocates to use the information in our report to start a conversation around how local governments and communities can work together to make the most of the opportunity before them,” said Dooley-Sammuli. “California is in the spotlight as other states consider enacting similar reforms, and the choices we make now will have repercussions not only for our communities here at home, but in the decisions being made across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While jail populations fell right after Prop. 47's passage with the immediate release of thousands of offenders, some counties are now packing their jails with far more misdemeanor offenders than before. Because of this, jail populations are on the rise again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, some counties are putting misdemeanor criminals on probation while others aren’t -- and, according to the report, the decisions about who to supervise all seem pretty arbitrary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prop. 47 is the law, but it is not the new normal,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, director of criminal justice and drug policy at the ACLU of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the successes of the first year, local agencies are still deciding how they will respond to Prop. 47. Unfortunately, there is still some resistance among law enforcement. As California enters Prop. 47’s second year, local law enforcement, behavioral health departments and county governments need to work together to address societal issues that have long challenged our communities, including mental illness, substance use disorders and homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU praises counties for their quick response to Prop. 47's passage, saying they are \"to be commended for the speed with which they addressed resentencing,\" of people behind bars. It calls out some historically conservative counties, including Kern, Fresno and Placer, for quickly embracing creative strategies around drug treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10753752\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10753752\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail.\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-800x547.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-400x273.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1440x984.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-1180x806.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/JailMirror-960x656.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inmate uses a mirror to look outside his cell at the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail. \u003ccite>(ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the report notes that while thousands of people on probation and as many as 1 million with years-old felonies could still be eligible to have their records cleared, they have only two more years under the measure to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to allocate more resources to resentencing efforts, the ACLU recommended, including outreach to let people know they may be eligible. 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"content": "\u003cp>The murder and racketeering trial of Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is finally underway. It's a highly anticipated faceoff between federal prosecutors who argue the Chinatown tong leader was a criminal mastermind and defense attorneys who say the government spent millions in an unsuccessful attempt to entrap an ex-con who had gone straight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/232463808\" 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>In opening arguments Monday, federal prosecutor Waqar Hasib asked the jury to picture a rainy day in San Francisco's Chinatown -- Feb. 27, 2006 -- when a man donning a ski mask was buzzed into former tong leader Allen Leung's shop at 603 Jackson St. The man shouted \"robbery\" in English, but Leung's offer of money went unanswered. Moments later, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-KILLING-IN-CHINATOWN-Allen-Leung-a-power-in-2500019.php\" target=\"_blank\">Leung was shot\u003c/a>. He bled to death on the floor of his office. Several thousand dollars were left at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity. ... Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.'\u003ccite>Waqar Hasib,\u003cbr>\nAssistant United States attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This was not some random robbery,\" Hasib told the jury. \"This was something much darker, much more sinister. The evidence will show that this was a hit -- a coldblooded gangland-style hit ... ordered by that man over there, Raymond Chow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 162 charges that Chow is facing, he stands accused of soliciting the murders of not only Leung but also a man prosecutors describe as a rival from another tong, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mendocinosheriff.com/press/view.cgi?1236365\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Tat Kong\u003c/a> -- killed in the Mendocino County town of Fort Bragg two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, Hasib said, is about much more than the two murders, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case is about this group of people engaging in this pattern of criminal activity,\" he said. \"Like planets revolving around the sun, this case is about the man at the center of that criminal universe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow, who has done time in the past for racketeering, drug trafficking, arson, armed robbery and attempted murder, insists he is innocent of all charges and plans to testify in his own defense. His lead attorney, Tony Serra, told the jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/shrimp-boys-day-in-court.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Chow is a changed man\u003c/a> whom the FBI spent millions trying -- and failing -- to trap in crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence will not show that my client murdered or participated in the murder of anyone, period,\" Serra told the jury. He said the government added the murder charges to its sweeping criminal indictment at the last minute and only after securing the testimony of several cooperating witnesses with lengthy criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these insiders, these cooperators, they jumped on the bandwagon right at the end, in order ultimately that they secure leniency with the sentencing that many of them face,\" Serra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government's investigation has already resulted in several guilty pleas -- including that of former state Sen. Leland Yee, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">in July admitted \u003c/a>committing wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, firearms trafficking and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both defense lawyers and prosecutors say they'll prove their cases using the same secretly recorded statements, mostly collected by an FBI agent posing as a foul-mouthed East Coast Mafia member with business opportunities for members of Chow's Ghee Kung Tong. With the help of another agent who speaks Cantonese and posed as a \"Shrimp Boy\" groupie, agent David Jordan infiltrated the group in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At one point Raymond Chow tells David Jordan, 'I don’t commit crimes myself, but I know lots of people who do. Would you like to meet them?' \" Hasib said. \"Almost immediately after meeting each one of these people -- sometimes within minutes, seconds -- David Jordan is able to conduct criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that point on, Chow's relationship with Jordan followed a predictable pattern, according to the prosecution. Chow would make an introduction -- or approve money laundering, drug trafficking, gunrunning or fencing of stolen property deals -- and Jordan would carry them out with an alleged Chow associate. The defense says the FBI provided almost $500,000 in fake black-market cigarettes alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the deals, Jordan would bring Chow an envelope full of cash, and Chow would verbally refuse it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You will hear that Raymond Chow always stays an arm's length away from the criminal activity, says, 'No, no, no, I don’t want the cash,' \" Hasib said. \"But every time, Raymond Chow takes the envelope and drops it in his pocket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra argued Chow was living on charity as a respected member of the Chinese community and hoping to soon publish a book about his life. But accepting money, he said, doesn't mean Chow was interested in or even aware of the crimes going on around him.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"lGt0DjgfvJuQJl1RXQDzU0yzg2ZoNGAh\"]\u003cbr>\n\"He gave up that life,\" Serra said. \"But he’s not a policeman. He’s not some kind of minister. He’s not going to go out and try to clean up some of the criminal activity that goes on in Chinatown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra and his team are arguing that the FBI spent millions attempting to entrap an innocent man -- not only by giving cash to Chow and fronting thousands to be laundered but also by wining and dining suspects at fancy restaurants and high-end hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serra said the FBI spend more than $1 million on those kinds of out-of-pocket expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite you to dislike that,\" he told the jury. \"It should trouble you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the jury was excused for the day, the government questioned Serra's math and said jurors should be allowed to know that much of their expenses were recovered through the illegal cash and property seizures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer expressed concerns about Serra's argument and said he'd consider letting prosecutors inform the jury about the government's position on the expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first day of the criminal trial ended with two law enforcement witnesses called by the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first San Francisco police officer to arrive at the scene of Allen Leung's killing testified about the scene as prosecutors flashed a photographs of Leung's body -- face-down in a pool of blood -- and played a recording of the 911 call his wife made. 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And Barry Dugar is presumed innocent, and I expect as the case moves along we will be able to show he actually is innocent and for that very reason we are entering pleas of not guilty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar’s arrest last week stunned many who \u003ca href=\"http://richmondstandard.com/2015/07/basketball-program-overcomes-neighborhood-feuds-to-win-as-team-needs-funds-for-vegas-trip/\">viewed him\u003c/a> as a force for good in the city despite his past troubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all just want to pause and breathe, because it’s really unbelievable,” Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles said. “It’s really difficult to believe that this man that we’ve come to know as seemingly, you know, caring and kind and thoughtful and community-oriented and really wanting to make a difference in his community, like this is the man that we got to know and to hear what’s really been going on, it’s so, so shocking. It really is. I’m still pretty floored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar was convicted in 1990 for lewd acts on a child under 14, but as a first-time offender only served 9 months in Contra Costa County Jail, Richmond police said. He was reportedly jailed again in 1994 for not registering as a sex offender. In 2004, he was convicted of annoying or molesting a person under 18 and served four years in San Quentin. In 2009 and 2011 he was sent back to prison for parole violations, he was released in 2013, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after his last release from prison, Dugar started making a name for himself around Richmond as a committed community activist. Many in Richmond knew Dugar had done time, but he seemed to have turned his life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar started three group homes, all unlicensed: one for the formerly incarcerated, one for the homeless and one for teenage boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar showed up at City Council meetings. He started a group called \u003ca href=\"https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=03776084\">The Remember Us People Project\u003c/a> dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated people in the city. Dugar planted trees on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/bay-area-turns-out-to-honor-mlk-day/img_0801\">Martin Luther King\u003c/a> Day. He volunteered at events sponsored by NBA star \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedrewgooden.com/video/nba-player-drew-gooden-brings-school-supplies-advice-to-richmond-kids/\">Drew Gooden\u003c/a>, who grew up in Richmond and now plays for the Washington Wizards. Dugar fed the homeless at Thanksgiving. City and county officials awarded Dugar a \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracosta.ca.gov/documentcenter/view/37664\">$25,000 grant\u003c/a> to build a community garden in North Richmond. \u003ca href=\"http://nutiva.com/community/outreach/\">Nutiva\u003c/a>, a natural food company based in Richmond, sponsored $10,000 for garden projects at Dugar’s transitional homes. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.saffronstrand.org/\">Saffron Strand\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness, gave Dugar an award for his work in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now some residents are asking how Dugar managed to get a group home for boys up and running in Richmond despite his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The allegations against Mr. Dugar, if true, are shocking and profoundly disappointing,” Nutiva spokeswoman Megan Farina wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a betrayal,” said Linda Schneider, who runs the nonprofit Self-Sustaining Communities. She worked with Dugar installing the North Richmond community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that the positive things Dugar was doing in the community, specifically with young men — encouraging them to volunteer on Election Day and participate in community events — got the attention of some local parents and guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that they found out about the home was by word of mouth,” Richmond police Sgt. Matt Stonebraker said. “Their guardians have dropped them off there and they’ve heard he’s doing positive things and they thought that it would be a safe place for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Dugar had half a dozen boys living in his group home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stonebraker said Dugar was registered as a sex offender, but was not under any type of supervision because he had served out his sentence. 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In 2009 and 2011 he was sent back to prison for parole violations, he was released in 2013, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after his last release from prison, Dugar started making a name for himself around Richmond as a committed community activist. Many in Richmond knew Dugar had done time, but he seemed to have turned his life around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar started three group homes, all unlicensed: one for the formerly incarcerated, one for the homeless and one for teenage boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugar showed up at City Council meetings. He started a group called \u003ca href=\"https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=03776084\">The Remember Us People Project\u003c/a> dedicated to helping formerly incarcerated people in the city. Dugar planted trees on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/20/bay-area-turns-out-to-honor-mlk-day/img_0801\">Martin Luther King\u003c/a> Day. He volunteered at events sponsored by NBA star \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedrewgooden.com/video/nba-player-drew-gooden-brings-school-supplies-advice-to-richmond-kids/\">Drew Gooden\u003c/a>, who grew up in Richmond and now plays for the Washington Wizards. Dugar fed the homeless at Thanksgiving. City and county officials awarded Dugar a \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracosta.ca.gov/documentcenter/view/37664\">$25,000 grant\u003c/a> to build a community garden in North Richmond. \u003ca href=\"http://nutiva.com/community/outreach/\">Nutiva\u003c/a>, a natural food company based in Richmond, sponsored $10,000 for garden projects at Dugar’s transitional homes. And \u003ca href=\"http://www.saffronstrand.org/\">Saffron Strand\u003c/a>, a local nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness, gave Dugar an award for his work in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now some residents are asking how Dugar managed to get a group home for boys up and running in Richmond despite his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The allegations against Mr. Dugar, if true, are shocking and profoundly disappointing,” Nutiva spokeswoman Megan Farina wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a betrayal,” said Linda Schneider, who runs the nonprofit Self-Sustaining Communities. She worked with Dugar installing the North Richmond community garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that the positive things Dugar was doing in the community, specifically with young men — encouraging them to volunteer on Election Day and participate in community events — got the attention of some local parents and guardians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way that they found out about the home was by word of mouth,” Richmond police Sgt. Matt Stonebraker said. “Their guardians have dropped them off there and they’ve heard he’s doing positive things and they thought that it would be a safe place for them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Dugar had half a dozen boys living in his group home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stonebraker said Dugar was registered as a sex offender, but was not under any type of supervision because he had served out his sentence. 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Now, she worries no one in Richmond will want to house formerly incarcerated people at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the number one fears that people have around housing people who are formerly incarcerated or with felonies is housing a possible Barry Dugar,” she said. “He has just become the poster child of the bogeyman that everybody is afraid of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she hopes this case won't further stigmatize people coming out of jail or prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only thing that I wanted to do when I came home was have an opportunity to just be successful and get my kids back and rebuild my family,” Torres said. “That’s the hope of a lot of folks.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The latest front in the debate over religious freedom is all about an 8½-by-11-inch piece of paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular piece of paper is a notice -- one the state of California will soon require to be posted in places known as crisis pregnancy centers. These resource centers, often linked to religious organizations, provide low-cost or free services to pregnant women, while encouraging these women to not have abortions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new notice is mandated by the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\">Reproductive FACT Act\u003c/a>, and would make it clear that abortion is legally available in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several pregnancy centers are \u003ca href=\"http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9776\">suing the state\u003c/a>, asking for the law to be struck down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the clinics engaged in the lawsuit is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.unplannedparenthood.net/\">East County Pregnancy Care Clinic\u003c/a> in El Cajon, Calif., just outside San Diego. The center \u003ca href=\"http://www.ecpcc.org/FlexPaper_1.4.0_flash/ltli.pdf\">describes itself\u003c/a> as \"a religious, nonprofit, pro-life, free medical clinic licensed by the State of California.\" It sits on the corner of a busy intersection, surrounded by strip malls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big sign out front says \"free pregnancy tests.\" That's one way they get women in the door, according to executive director Josh McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is not a physician, though the clinic does have medical advisers who are doctors, he says. When we recently visited, he didn't permit NPR to talk to the staff at the clinic, who are all either registered nurses or volunteers. But he did offer to show us around, and walk us through the process of what happens to clients who come to the clinic thinking they may be pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these women make appointments, he says, but the clinic also receives one or two walk-ins a day. The staff sees about 800 women a year, and that number is on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746419\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Roughly 800 women a year seek a free pregnancy test, counseling and other services at this center in El Cajon, Calif. The clinic encourages its clients to not get abortions, but a new law requires it to also prominently post information about where to find abortion services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roughly 800 women a year seek a free pregnancy test, counseling and other services at this center in El Cajon, Calif. The clinic encourages its clients to not get abortions, but a new law requires it to also prominently post information about where to find abortion services. \u003ccite>(Becky Sullivan/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, clients fill out paperwork in the lobby, he explains, then are assigned to a volunteer that he describes as an \"advocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These volunteer advocates, who are not medical professionals, take the client into a small room called the library. There the volunteer leads the client through a conversation about her situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure says his volunteer will ask the client a series of questions to get at these issues: \"Why do they think they're pregnant? [Are] they living with somebody? Is it a husband, boyfriend? What are the circumstances going on in their life? And if the pregnancy does happen to be positive, what are they thinking about right then?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library has two shelves with books like \"What To Expect When You're Expecting,\" anatomy models that show the size of the fetus at four weeks gestation, eight weeks, and so on; and VHS tapes about abortion and abortion providers. McClure says the tapes are from the 1970s and are hardly ever used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a client speaks with the advocate and reviews the pamphlets, she is taken to an exam room to take a pregnancy test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"M4rOaJozAw7Lo3CWjUDiCwq31cHpMXLu\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exam room looks like any medical examining room, with clean linoleum floors, health pamphlets and a box of rubber gloves on the counter. In the center of the room is an exam table with a sheet of white tissue paper laid out over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where a registered nurse would hand the patient a specimen cup to get a urine sample and do a pregnancy test, McClure says. It's the same test you might buy at a drugstore, he says, but here it's free, funded by donations. The RN signs off on the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pregnancy test is positive, the nurse tells the client there are three options: parenting, adoption or abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to talk about the benefits, responsibilities and side effects of all three,\" McClure says. \"We would say, if it's an unplanned pregnancy, there really aren't any good solutions. They're all hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discussion of parenting, the nurse talks about the responsibility of an 18-year commitment to another human life, and the resources in the client's life that may be helpful. The nurse asks whether the boyfriend or husband would be involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing adoption, the clinic goes over several different options: familial adoption to a family member, local or national adoptions and open or closed adoption. McClure says the clinic works with several adoption agencies and will refer clients to the one that best suits her preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do let them know, that if there's drug abuse, the reality is if you're not going to straighten your life out by the time the baby is here, that [Child Protective Services] would be coming to take that child,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to abortion, the nurses do not tell clients where they can get an abortion or refer them to abortion providers, McClure told us. But they will talk about the clinic's view of the risks of an abortion and the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally,\" McClure says, \"the further along you go, the more expensive and more invasive and more risks there are. Risk of sterility is one. Perforated uterus is another. And then, of course, emotional side effects as well. All the information we're giving about the side effects is backed by research and referenced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure didn't mention during our tour that at least some claims in that pamphlet used to train the clinic's nurses and volunteers are disputed by leading research organizations. For example, the suggestion that there might be a link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer has been studied and eventually dismissed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/abortion-miscarriage-risk\">National Cancer Institute\u003c/a> and other medical groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic's pamphlet also states that abortion \"significantly increases the risk\" for conditions such as \"clinical depression and anxiety\" and \"suicidal thoughts and behavior.\" But an American Psychological Association task force on mental health and abortion had a different take in its recent review, recognizing that \"abortion encompasses a diversity of experiences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the APA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/abortion/\">task force report\u003c/a> in 2008, \"the best scientific evidence published indicates that, among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single, elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver that pregnancy. The evidence regarding the relative mental health risks associated with multiple abortions is more equivocal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a pregnant woman at McClure's clinic has been briefed by the staff on how their organization views the risks of abortion, she is brought to a room where she can get an ultrasound scan, free of cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"In its "care closet," the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic keeps donations of diapers, baby clothes, wipes, maternity clothes and other items to help clients who can't afford such supplies on their own.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its 'care closet,' the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic keeps donations of diapers, baby clothes, wipes, maternity clothes and other items to help clients who can't afford such supplies on their own. \u003ccite>(Becky Sullivan/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, McClure tells us, the ultrasound image is enlarged and projected onto a big flat-screen TV. Women often decide against abortion, he says, after they see the ultrasound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have an image on a screen, all the cloudiness of what we're talking about kind of goes away,\" McClure says. \"They're able to see for themselves: OK, arms, legs, eyes, head. Bingo — that's a baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last stop is a closet full of diapers, wipes, baby clothes, blankets and maternity clothes — all available for free to clients who have trouble affording those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the end of the tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these things — no step in that process — would have to change under the Reproductive FACT Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law requires centers like the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic to post a sign in the lobby that says, in \u003ca href=\"http://www-archive.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/css/sec526pt2.htm\">22-point type\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services (including all FDA-approved methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for eligible women. To determine whether you qualify, contact the county social services office at [insert the telephone number].\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If the center is not a licensed medical clinic, the sign would state:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This facility is not licensed as a medical facility by the State of California and has no licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises the provision of services.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McClure says a sign in the lobby is not how or when he wants his clients at the clinic to hear about abortion. It goes against everything his center stands for, he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people responsible for the law requiring this new sign is \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a62/\">Autumn Burke\u003c/a>, who represents Inglewood in the California Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke tells NPR that her interest in the issue started the day she went to get her phone fixed at a shop near a clinic that performs abortions. Protesters outside the clinic gave her pamphlets, she says, making claims that she knew weren't true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It [said] that abortion causes breast cancer,\" Burke recalls, \"that if you are on birth control boys will not like you, or they will take advantage of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, one of Burke's colleagues in the California Assembly asked her to co-sponsor the Reproductive FACT Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I thought, 'You know what? This is timely,' \" Burke says. \"Making sure women have the correct information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of health and medical groups, including the regional district of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the California Nurses Association and the Primary Care Association, also \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\">supported the legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke acknowledges that some crisis pregnancy centers do give good help to women who want to have babies. But she says that others give false information to women or pose as clinics, even though they don't have a medical license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke says the law is for those bad actors, and that putting up this sign in these centers wouldn't be much different than a notice from the health department or the building inspector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a 'Wash Your Hands' sign on the wall,\" says Burke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificjustice.org/brad-dacus---president.html\">Brad Dacus\u003c/a> of the Pacific Justice Institute, one of the groups suing the state of California over the new law, could not disagree more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like telling the Alcoholics Anonymous group that they have to have a large sign saying where people can get alcohol and booze for free,\" Dacus says. \"It's like telling a Jewish synagogue that they can have their service, and do their thing, but they have to have a large sign where people can go to pray to receive Jesus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus's organization has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/suits-filed-to-stop-state-compelled-speech\">filed a challenge\u003c/a> to the law in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. cities, including Austin, Texas, Baltimore and San Francisco, have passed similar legislation and have faced similar legal challenges — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California so far is the largest jurisdiction in the country to pass a law requiring these centers to inform women about the availability of abortion services. If the law holds up, it could make way for measures like it in other cities and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Dacus says that if the case has to go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop the law, so be it. To him, the legal battle is all about upholding the right to religious freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people are not allowed to carry out their faith, and act and actually exercise their faith — not just have their private beliefs, but actually exercise their faith — then we really don't have religious freedom,\" Dacus says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits against the Reproductive FACT Act are now making their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kristin Ford, representing the office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, says, \"We will vigorously defend the state law in court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big sign out front says \"free pregnancy tests.\" That's one way they get women in the door, according to executive director Josh McClure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure is not a physician, though the clinic does have medical advisers who are doctors, he says. When we recently visited, he didn't permit NPR to talk to the staff at the clinic, who are all either registered nurses or volunteers. But he did offer to show us around, and walk us through the process of what happens to clients who come to the clinic thinking they may be pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these women make appointments, he says, but the clinic also receives one or two walk-ins a day. The staff sees about 800 women a year, and that number is on the rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746419\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Roughly 800 women a year seek a free pregnancy test, counseling and other services at this center in El Cajon, Calif. The clinic encourages its clients to not get abortions, but a new law requires it to also prominently post information about where to find abortion services.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CrisisClinic-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roughly 800 women a year seek a free pregnancy test, counseling and other services at this center in El Cajon, Calif. The clinic encourages its clients to not get abortions, but a new law requires it to also prominently post information about where to find abortion services. \u003ccite>(Becky Sullivan/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First, clients fill out paperwork in the lobby, he explains, then are assigned to a volunteer that he describes as an \"advocate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These volunteer advocates, who are not medical professionals, take the client into a small room called the library. There the volunteer leads the client through a conversation about her situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure says his volunteer will ask the client a series of questions to get at these issues: \"Why do they think they're pregnant? [Are] they living with somebody? Is it a husband, boyfriend? What are the circumstances going on in their life? And if the pregnancy does happen to be positive, what are they thinking about right then?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The library has two shelves with books like \"What To Expect When You're Expecting,\" anatomy models that show the size of the fetus at four weeks gestation, eight weeks, and so on; and VHS tapes about abortion and abortion providers. McClure says the tapes are from the 1970s and are hardly ever used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a client speaks with the advocate and reviews the pamphlets, she is taken to an exam room to take a pregnancy test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The exam room looks like any medical examining room, with clean linoleum floors, health pamphlets and a box of rubber gloves on the counter. In the center of the room is an exam table with a sheet of white tissue paper laid out over it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's where a registered nurse would hand the patient a specimen cup to get a urine sample and do a pregnancy test, McClure says. It's the same test you might buy at a drugstore, he says, but here it's free, funded by donations. The RN signs off on the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the pregnancy test is positive, the nurse tells the client there are three options: parenting, adoption or abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to talk about the benefits, responsibilities and side effects of all three,\" McClure says. \"We would say, if it's an unplanned pregnancy, there really aren't any good solutions. They're all hard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the discussion of parenting, the nurse talks about the responsibility of an 18-year commitment to another human life, and the resources in the client's life that may be helpful. The nurse asks whether the boyfriend or husband would be involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In discussing adoption, the clinic goes over several different options: familial adoption to a family member, local or national adoptions and open or closed adoption. McClure says the clinic works with several adoption agencies and will refer clients to the one that best suits her preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do let them know, that if there's drug abuse, the reality is if you're not going to straighten your life out by the time the baby is here, that [Child Protective Services] would be coming to take that child,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to abortion, the nurses do not tell clients where they can get an abortion or refer them to abortion providers, McClure told us. But they will talk about the clinic's view of the risks of an abortion and the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Generally,\" McClure says, \"the further along you go, the more expensive and more invasive and more risks there are. Risk of sterility is one. Perforated uterus is another. And then, of course, emotional side effects as well. All the information we're giving about the side effects is backed by research and referenced.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McClure didn't mention during our tour that at least some claims in that pamphlet used to train the clinic's nurses and volunteers are disputed by leading research organizations. For example, the suggestion that there might be a link between abortion and an increased risk of breast cancer has been studied and eventually dismissed by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/abortion-miscarriage-risk\">National Cancer Institute\u003c/a> and other medical groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinic's pamphlet also states that abortion \"significantly increases the risk\" for conditions such as \"clinical depression and anxiety\" and \"suicidal thoughts and behavior.\" But an American Psychological Association task force on mental health and abortion had a different take in its recent review, recognizing that \"abortion encompasses a diversity of experiences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the APA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/abortion/\">task force report\u003c/a> in 2008, \"the best scientific evidence published indicates that, among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single, elective first-trimester abortion than if they deliver that pregnancy. The evidence regarding the relative mental health risks associated with multiple abortions is more equivocal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once a pregnant woman at McClure's clinic has been briefed by the staff on how their organization views the risks of abortion, she is brought to a room where she can get an ultrasound scan, free of cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746427\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746427\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"In its "care closet," the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic keeps donations of diapers, baby clothes, wipes, maternity clothes and other items to help clients who can't afford such supplies on their own.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-800x599.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-1440x1079.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-1180x884.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/CareCloset-960x719.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its 'care closet,' the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic keeps donations of diapers, baby clothes, wipes, maternity clothes and other items to help clients who can't afford such supplies on their own. \u003ccite>(Becky Sullivan/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There, McClure tells us, the ultrasound image is enlarged and projected onto a big flat-screen TV. Women often decide against abortion, he says, after they see the ultrasound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you have an image on a screen, all the cloudiness of what we're talking about kind of goes away,\" McClure says. \"They're able to see for themselves: OK, arms, legs, eyes, head. Bingo — that's a baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last stop is a closet full of diapers, wipes, baby clothes, blankets and maternity clothes — all available for free to clients who have trouble affording those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the end of the tour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these things — no step in that process — would have to change under the Reproductive FACT Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the law requires centers like the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic to post a sign in the lobby that says, in \u003ca href=\"http://www-archive.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/css/sec526pt2.htm\">22-point type\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>California has public programs that provide immediate free or low-cost access to comprehensive family planning services (including all FDA-approved methods of contraception), prenatal care, and abortion for eligible women. To determine whether you qualify, contact the county social services office at [insert the telephone number].\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If the center is not a licensed medical clinic, the sign would state:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This facility is not licensed as a medical facility by the State of California and has no licensed medical provider who provides or directly supervises the provision of services.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>McClure says a sign in the lobby is not how or when he wants his clients at the clinic to hear about abortion. It goes against everything his center stands for, he tells NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the people responsible for the law requiring this new sign is \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a62/\">Autumn Burke\u003c/a>, who represents Inglewood in the California Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke tells NPR that her interest in the issue started the day she went to get her phone fixed at a shop near a clinic that performs abortions. Protesters outside the clinic gave her pamphlets, she says, making claims that she knew weren't true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It [said] that abortion causes breast cancer,\" Burke recalls, \"that if you are on birth control boys will not like you, or they will take advantage of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, one of Burke's colleagues in the California Assembly asked her to co-sponsor the Reproductive FACT Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I thought, 'You know what? This is timely,' \" Burke says. \"Making sure women have the correct information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of health and medical groups, including the regional district of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the California Nurses Association and the Primary Care Association, also \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB775\">supported the legislation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke acknowledges that some crisis pregnancy centers do give good help to women who want to have babies. But she says that others give false information to women or pose as clinics, even though they don't have a medical license.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burke says the law is for those bad actors, and that putting up this sign in these centers wouldn't be much different than a notice from the health department or the building inspector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a 'Wash Your Hands' sign on the wall,\" says Burke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificjustice.org/brad-dacus---president.html\">Brad Dacus\u003c/a> of the Pacific Justice Institute, one of the groups suing the state of California over the new law, could not disagree more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like telling the Alcoholics Anonymous group that they have to have a large sign saying where people can get alcohol and booze for free,\" Dacus says. \"It's like telling a Jewish synagogue that they can have their service, and do their thing, but they have to have a large sign where people can go to pray to receive Jesus.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dacus's organization has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificjustice.org/press-releases/suits-filed-to-stop-state-compelled-speech\">filed a challenge\u003c/a> to the law in federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some U.S. cities, including Austin, Texas, Baltimore and San Francisco, have passed similar legislation and have faced similar legal challenges — with mixed results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California so far is the largest jurisdiction in the country to pass a law requiring these centers to inform women about the availability of abortion services. If the law holds up, it could make way for measures like it in other cities and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Dacus says that if the case has to go all the way to the Supreme Court to stop the law, so be it. To him, the legal battle is all about upholding the right to religious freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If people are not allowed to carry out their faith, and act and actually exercise their faith — not just have their private beliefs, but actually exercise their faith — then we really don't have religious freedom,\" Dacus says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuits against the Reproductive FACT Act are now making their way through the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As San Francisco’s Police Commission moves toward adopting a body-camera policy by early December, there’s growing concern among city residents, legal scholars and attorneys that allowing officers to view body-camera videos of incidents in which they are potential criminal suspects exposes a double standard in investigations involving police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed practice could also conflict with a 26-year-old Supreme Court precedent on how to determine when a use of force is lawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘This is not a bloodless conversation, and this is not a bloodless policy.’\u003ccite>Nadia Kayyali,\u003cbr>\nElectronic Frontier Foundation activist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And if police commissioners set to discuss the policy again Wednesday land the other way — and don’t allow officers involved in shootings to review footage before being interviewed — police say it will set them up to be trapped in “gotcha” statements that don’t exactly match what’s on the video. The San Francisco Police Officers Association, the union representing rank-and-file members of the department, says that would end all voluntary cooperation with homicide investigations following a shooting or in-custody death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the biggest issues on a national level,” UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Rory Little said in an interview from Washington, D.C., where he was attending a conference on the legal issues surrounding police body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231446151″ 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>“People are struggling with this all over the country,” Little said. “San Francisco, as is often the case, is both a leader in thinking in this area and representative of the national-level controversy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, San Francisco is not, by a long shot, the first Bay Area jurisdiction to wrestle with the nuances of body-camera policy. The Police Department has floundered for over four years in its attempts to launch an eventually abandoned pilot program. All Oakland field officers have worn body cameras since 2013, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/oakland-police-department-body-camera-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that department’s policy\u003c/a> does not allow officers involved in shootings to view body-camera footage before they’re interviewed. Officers are required to watch the footage at the end of the interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If best evidence is the goal, then reviewing the video provides that ability. If gotcha is the goal … officers invoking their Fifth Amendment rights shall be a normal course of business.’\u003ccite>Officer Kevin Lyons,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The member will be given the opportunity to provide additional information to supplement his/her statement and may be asked additional questions by the investigators,” Oakland’s policy says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, this issue in the department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288251246/SFPD-Draft-Body-Worn-Camera-Policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft policy\u003c/a> has exposed a stark divide between officers slated to wear the devices and civilians hopeful that deploying the devices could bring greater transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Draft Policy, Investigations and Law\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict played out at a recent Police Commission meeting dedicated to gathering public input on the department’s draft body-camera policy. The policy would allow officers to review video for most routine matters, but it contains suggested “carve-outs” in the following circumstances:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>In an officer-involved shooting or in-custody death\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>If an officer is the subject of a criminal investigation\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Or at the discretion of the Chief of Police or his/her designee\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The draft isn’t entirely clear on what should happen under those circumstances, though, according to Little. The list is followed by this qualification, which, Little said, appears to undo the exceptions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For the above listed circumstances, the Department’s administrative or criminal investigator will coordinate with the member or the member’s legal representative to arrange the viewing of the BWC recording prior to the member’s interview.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The police union and public defender’s office clashed about what the draft policy actually means. The union insists it would allow members to review footage before being interviewed; the public defender’s office says it doesn’t allow that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”zRuW5gtnbcLXpAsclD5bSJxwNGjDqUew”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle over the body-camera policy parallels a conflict built into the Police Department’s protocols for investigating officer-involved shootings. On one hand, officers are protected by the Fifth Amendment right to avoid incriminating themselves, and thus can’t be forced to give a statement. On the other hand, they’re bound by Police Department policies that require them, as employees, to cooperate with investigations. They can be fired if they refuse to give a statement, according to Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigations of officer-involved shootings in San Francisco are highly complicated, SFPD internal affairs Sgt. John Crudo said, due not only to the conflict between constitutional rights and labor law, but also the potential for several jurisdictions, Police Department divisions and city departments to become involved. Crudo produced this “plain-English” description of the process, drawn from state and federal law and several department general orders:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=288238790 key=key-gCE3prEiUln623d9w30E mode=slideshow]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Interviews [of involved officers] are conducted by the investigators as close to the time of the incident as possible,” Crudo said. “It’s important to understand this interview is provided voluntarily. … The officer retains their Fifth Amendment rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the outset of an interview, homicide investigators, along with a district attorney’s investigator and a prosecutor, tell the officer he or she is not under arrest and is free to go — a formality called a Beheler advisement or admonishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I want to know that an officer’s report, which is often taken as a true and accurate depiction of events, was not tailored to fit what is visible on the video footage,’\u003ccite>Chelsea Ducote,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“No suspect in an incident can be forced to make a statement against themselves, to self-incriminate,” Crudo said. “That’s a constitutional right. It’s guaranteed in the Fifth Amendment. That includes police officers. However, a police officer can be compelled to make a statement at the risk of their job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement can be compelled through what’s called a Lybarger admonishment, after the California Supreme Court case Lybarger v. City of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Urge Review\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conflict rarely arises now, according to SFPOA President Martin Halloran, but he has repeatedly promised that would change if officers involved in shootings are not allowed to view body-camera footage before their interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re not allowed to view the footage, they will be advised by their counsel not to provide that voluntary statement,” he said. “I believe this will be less transparent. It will be taking a step backward here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran was joined by more than a half-dozen current and former San Francisco officers, who urged the commission to allow “pre-interview review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘As a former prosecutor, it’s not something I would normally do with a suspect. I would not normally show a suspect evidence before I interview them.’\u003ccite>Rory Little,\u003cbr>\nUC Hastings law professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Homicide investigator Chris Canning was among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My fear personally is that if officers are unwilling to give a voluntary statement,” he said, “I will be unable to, in a timely manner, recreate an incident with available evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Kevin Lyons asked commissioners to put themselves in the shoes of a beat cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When video evidence is reviewed by the district attorney, public defender, law enforcement and attorneys, it is reviewed for days, weeks, if not months, and then dissected frame by frame,” he said. “If best evidence is the goal, then reviewing the video provides that ability. If gotcha is the goal … officers invoking their Fifth Amendment rights shall be a normal course of business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys with the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and San Francisco Bar Association say there’s nothing wrong with allowing an officer to provide a supplemental statement later — the procedure Oakland follows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gives them a perfect opportunity to give a full report,” Deputy Public Defender Chris Hite said, “but also it doesn’t take away the perceptions officers would have without video.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Objective Reasonableness’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An officer’s perception is central to a 1989 Supreme Court ruling that further clouds the issue. \u003ca href=\"https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/490/386/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Graham v. Connor\u003c/a> established an “objective reasonableness” standard for deciding the legality of a use of force by a police officer under the Fourth Amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ‘reasonableness’ of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight,” according to the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re trying to get to the truth, and we want to give the officer an opportunity to have a full context of what occurred.’\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco district attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Internal Affairs Sgt. Crudo described Graham’s impact on officer-involved shooting investigations this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Investigators] are going to want to know what training and experience the officer has, what information was known to the officer when force was used,” he said. “It’s not what information is out there, but what did the officer know, what did the officer act upon? What did the officer see and perceive at the time force was used, and why did the officer act or react using force?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law professor Little said there is no shortage of research finding that, even without an intent to mislead, viewing video of an event will alter recollections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All human perception is influenced by what we think the evidence shows,” he said. “It is useful to get a witness’s perception before their perception is altered by whatever they think the evidence might be against them. … I have to say that as a former prosecutor, it’s not something I would normally do with a suspect. I would not normally show a suspect evidence before I interview them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón — a former cop who served as San Francisco police chief — supports allowing officers to view video before being interviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to get to the bottom of things,” he said. “We’re trying to get to the truth, and we want to give the officer an opportunity to have a full context of what occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Disagrees\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming majority of San Francisco residents testifying before the Police Commission disagree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to know that an officer’s report, which is often taken as a true and accurate depiction of events, was not tailored to fit what is visible on the video footage,” San Francisco resident Chelsea Ducote told the commission. “I want transparency. I want accountability. 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The list is followed by this qualification, which, Little said, appears to undo the exceptions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>For the above listed circumstances, the Department’s administrative or criminal investigator will coordinate with the member or the member’s legal representative to arrange the viewing of the BWC recording prior to the member’s interview.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The police union and public defender’s office clashed about what the draft policy actually means. The union insists it would allow members to review footage before being interviewed; the public defender’s office says it doesn’t allow that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle over the body-camera policy parallels a conflict built into the Police Department’s protocols for investigating officer-involved shootings. 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