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He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"9FpI3t7q3A7Kw7HUEIazkGIcCBR7A8yE\"]\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Thursday's sentencing of former San Francisco police Officer Reynaldo Vargas marks \"the final chapter in a very sad story\" for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer accepted federal prosecutors' \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/266192616/U-S-v-Reynaldo-Vargas-Government-s-Sentencing-Memorandum\" target=\"_blank\">recommendation\u003c/a> for lighter punishment in exchange for Vargas' cooperation in a federal corruption trial that's sending two of his former colleagues to prison for longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring with his onetime partner, Edmond Robles, and their supervisor, former Sgt. Ian Furminger, to steal property from suspects in 2009. Vargas pleaded guilty last October to charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs, distribution of marijuana, conspiracy to commit theft and theft, before the jury trial of the three officers began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drug charges stemmed from Vargas' decision to give a pound of marijuana to two informants, which he described when he testified for the prosecution in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As wrong as this sounds, it was kind of an altruistic gesture,\" Vargas said on the stand. \"I wanted to give them something to -- something they could use to make some money for themselves,\" Vargas said. \"They were very down on their luck. My intent with it was ultimately it was just going to be destroyed. I thought that was kind of a waste. At least if they had it, they could do something with it. They could obviously sell it -- that was her expertise -- and make some money for themselves to get themselves off the street into a hotel room, eat, that sort of thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann asked the former narcotics officer, \"So your intention -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was to give heroin addicts marijuana to sell on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas answered, \"Yes.\" He went on to testify that Robles and Furminger eventually knew about the transaction, as well as about times he collected money and property from searches of suspects' homes, keeping the proceeds and sharing them with Furminger and Robles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger was convicted in December of two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Increasing national attention on issues of use of force, transparency and inequity in the criminal justice system hasn’t been lost on California state legislators, who are pushing dozens of bills aimed at enhancing law enforcement accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is following and advocating for many of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The national attention on police conduct and police abuses has absolutely led to a large number of bills on this issue this year,” says Natasha Minsker, director of the recently expanded ACLU’s Sacramento-based Center for Advocacy and Policy. “What’s yet to be seen, and what we hope for, is that it actually leads to real reforms being enacted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘The concern that there would be a conflict of interest between a district attorney and officers they may work with is unfounded.’\u003ccite>Peace Officers Research Association of California\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That observation is a rare example of common ground between groups like the ACLU and law enforcement organizations like the California State Sheriffs’ Association, which is also keeping a close watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are certainly more bills on these topics this year,” said Cory Salzillo, the association’s legislative director. “I think it’s because of the media attention on events in other places like Ferguson and Staten Island.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the eight bills the ACLU is highlighting have been placed on either the Senate or Assembly appropriations “suspense file,” meaning the appropriations committees of either house won’t hear the bills until after the state budget is finalized. The hold is meant for high-cost legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason the bills carry big price tags, Minsker says, is that several of them are seeking better data collection — and the agencies that would be providing that data are also the ones providing the cost estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people we’re trying to get information about, those are the people who provide the estimate of the cost,” Minsker says. “And the cost is coming back shockingly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">953\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">619\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) would greatly expand the data that state and local law enforcement agencies are required to report to the California attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB953 updates the definition of profiling to include gender identity and would require all local law enforcement agencies to deliver quarterly reports to the attorney general on all traffic, public transportation and pedestrian stops by July 2017. Most police departments in the state collect only traffic stop data with a few identifying characteristics of the subject, such as race.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10533302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"RS6677_115011610-sfi\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB11&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB11\u003c/a> Peace Officer Training: Mental Health\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB29\u003c/a> Peace Officer Training: Mental Health\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB227\u003c/a> Grand Jury Investigations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB411\u003c/a> Photographing/Recording Police\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB601&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB601\u003c/a> CDCR Data Dashboard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB629&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB629\u003c/a> “Lynching”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB86&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB86\u003c/a> Special Prosecutor Investigations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB619&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB619\u003c/a> Use of Force Data Collection\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB953\u003c/a> Racial Stop Data Collection\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1118&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB1118\u003c/a> Procedural Justice Training\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bill would require a slew of data for every stop, including an officer’s perception of the subject’s race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, English proficiency and physical or mental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Peace Officers Research Association of California opposes AB953, arguing that officers already receive rigorous training on combating racial profiling and that police departments already collect many of the statistics called for in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the additional information required will take much more of the officer’s time and result in less service to the public,” the association’s opposition statement says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo said the bill requires law enforcement officers to essentially guess the demographic information. The language of the bill prohibits officers from asking suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how that works,” he said. “In an attempt to stop racial profiling, it requires officers to pay a lot more attention to race. It’s counterintuitive in that regard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five similar attempts at mandating racial stop data precede AB953, going back to 1999 when then-Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have required statewide collection of traffic stop data. But Davis required the California Highway Patrol to start noting the race of the people its officers pulled over, and many local law enforcement agencies began doing so \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-rarely-analyze-share-racial-data-on-stops-5697028.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voluntarily — with mixed results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s AB619 calls for better bookkeeping on law enforcement use of force and would apply the standards of in-custody deaths to all fatal encounters with police. Current law requires that law enforcement or corrections agencies report details of in-custody deaths to the state attorney general within 10 days of an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also calls for detailed use-of-force reporting to the attorney general by 2018. Those reports would include characteristics like race, age and gender of officers and subjects in use-of-force cases. The legislation would require open reporting on everything from hand-to-hand physical strikes to gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data collection is the key to transparency and accountability,” the ACLU’s Minsker says. “If we think racial profiling is important, if we think police killing people is important, we need to collect data and then have conversations about how to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB619 has no formal opposition listed. The ACLU of California is co-sponsoring both of Weber’s bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s aren’t the only bills seeking to expand public safety data collection. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB601&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB601\u003c/a> by Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to produce a “data dashboard,” publicly available on CDCR’s website. The web portal would include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Information on CDCR staffing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inmate enrollment in rehabilitation programs — with diploma and GED completion rates\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of deaths, specifying homicides, suicides, unexpected deaths and expected deaths\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of use-of-force incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of inmate appeals and their status\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of inmates in administrative segregation — or solitary confinement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contraband seized, quantifying cellphones and drugs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of days in lockdown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Budget information\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Hancock’s bill would also require a report to the governor and Legislature on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=03001-04000&file=3016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDCR’s pilot case management re-entry program\u003c/a> by July 31, 2017. Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_601_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vetoed\u003c/a> a similar bill in 2011, noting that the CDCR already posts much of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/COMPSTAT/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Training\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">29\u003c/a> by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) would require the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.post.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training\u003c/a> to implement advanced training on mental health issues for California law enforcement officers. From the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://tacreports.org/storage/documents/2013-justifiable-homicides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide\u003c/a>, it’s estimated that about half of people killed by police are in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”skkL4liZxSqO1gzWqn7QrbRJso14PRgR”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB11 requires 20 hours of behavioral health training at the police academies to be part of the basic requirements to become a peace officer in California. SB29 requires a 40-hour course for field training officers, who mentor recent academy graduates when they first hit the streets. The bills indicate a move toward a state mandate for specialized Crisis Intervention Training, a program some departments have already voluntarily implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state law enforcement associations join disability rights advocacy groups in support of SB11. Fewer groups support SB29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing recognition among law enforcement nationwide of the need for more behavioral health training for officers,” the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California wrote in support of SB11. “The existing California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) curriculum includes only 6 hours of mental health training out of a total of 664 hours of mandated training for peace officers, which is clearly not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association opposes both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More training for the sake of more training may not be beneficial and may come at the expense of other, more necessary training,” the association wrote in opposition. “Although we appreciate the desire to improve interactions between law enforcement and persons with mental health issues, [both bills represent] a premature, unfunded mandate that offers no guarantee of providing the appropriate training to the right officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB227 and AB 86 are seeking, in different ways, to establish more independence in the investigations of officer-involved fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB227\u003c/a> by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) would not allow grand juries to inquire into cases of potential police misconduct that resulted in the death of a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of the criminal grand jury process, and the refusal to indict as occurred in Ferguson and other communities of color, has fostered an atmosphere of suspicion that threatens to compromise our justice system,” Mitchell wrote in an op-ed published in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20150507/why-grand-juries-are-wrong-for-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Daily News\u003c/a>. Her bill would require police use-of-force cases to be charged through a preliminary examination, in open court, rather than behind the closed doors of the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California District Attorneys Association opposes the bill, writing that California’s grand jury system is “decidedly different and amazingly fairer” than the system in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”eAOzptDt4C8SI5dRdhjhkunRlLBYKGrZ”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there may be fundamental deficiencies in the grand jury systems of other states, we do not believe that those deficiencies exist in California to justify the outright prohibition of criminal grand juries in fatal officer-involved shootings,” the association wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB86&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB86\u003c/a> would require the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to independently investigate killings by on-duty law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s supporters and opposition reveal a stark divide. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police brutality has had a long history in California,” the NAACP wrote. “Following the high-profiled deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, civil rights advocates have campaigned for greater oversight of the investigation process following deaths involving law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most statewide law enforcement agencies oppose the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“District Attorneys have made decisions for years, and have overseen difficult cases that have been scrutinized heavily by the media and public,” the Peace Officers Research Association of California wrote. “The concern that there would be a conflict of interest between a District Attorney and officers they may work with is unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo said the bill implied that peace officers who use deadly force are presumed guilty of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reject that,” he said. “In so many of these cases, the officer’s been shot at, the officer’s been threatened with a weapon. The officer is a victim in many ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s ACLU also supports McCarty’s bill, but California ACLU director Minsker says she still wouldn’t expect many police officers to face criminal charges following fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really encouraging folks to focus not just on prosecutions,” Minsker says, “but investigating fatal incidents where police have used force to ask, ‘What went wrong? How could we have prevented this?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And Many More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the many other law enforcement bills meandering their way through the Legislature, one would clarify California law regarding \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographing and recording\u003c/a> police on duty. Still \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB629&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another\u003c/a> would scrub the term “lynching” from the state’s penal code, and several bills are vying to establish statewide rules for police body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, the Legislature doesn’t have the final word on these proposals. Bills that make it through both houses must still win Gov. Brown’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had initial meetings with the governor’s staff to educate them about the bills,” Minsker says, adding that it’s difficult to predict where Brown will land on any of these issues. “At this point no red flags have been raised on these bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post was updated May 22 to add a link to existing CDCR COMPSTAT reports.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the eight bills the ACLU is highlighting have been placed on either the Senate or Assembly appropriations “suspense file,” meaning the appropriations committees of either house won’t hear the bills until after the state budget is finalized. The hold is meant for high-cost legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the reason the bills carry big price tags, Minsker says, is that several of them are seeking better data collection — and the agencies that would be providing that data are also the ones providing the cost estimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people we’re trying to get information about, those are the people who provide the estimate of the cost,” Minsker says. “And the cost is coming back shockingly high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Data Collection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">953\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">619\u003c/a> by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) would greatly expand the data that state and local law enforcement agencies are required to report to the California attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB953 updates the definition of profiling to include gender identity and would require all local law enforcement agencies to deliver quarterly reports to the attorney general on all traffic, public transportation and pedestrian stops by July 2017. Most police departments in the state collect only traffic stop data with a few identifying characteristics of the subject, such as race.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10533302\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"RS6677_115011610-sfi\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS6677_115011610-sfi-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB11&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB11\u003c/a> Peace Officer Training: Mental Health\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB29\u003c/a> Peace Officer Training: Mental Health\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB227\u003c/a> Grand Jury Investigations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB411\u003c/a> Photographing/Recording Police\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB601&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB601\u003c/a> CDCR Data Dashboard\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB629&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB629\u003c/a> “Lynching”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB86&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB86\u003c/a> Special Prosecutor Investigations\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB619&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB619\u003c/a> Use of Force Data Collection\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB953&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB953\u003c/a> Racial Stop Data Collection\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1118&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB1118\u003c/a> Procedural Justice Training\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bill would require a slew of data for every stop, including an officer’s perception of the subject’s race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, English proficiency and physical or mental disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Peace Officers Research Association of California opposes AB953, arguing that officers already receive rigorous training on combating racial profiling and that police departments already collect many of the statistics called for in the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe the additional information required will take much more of the officer’s time and result in less service to the public,” the association’s opposition statement says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo said the bill requires law enforcement officers to essentially guess the demographic information. The language of the bill prohibits officers from asking suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know how that works,” he said. “In an attempt to stop racial profiling, it requires officers to pay a lot more attention to race. It’s counterintuitive in that regard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five similar attempts at mandating racial stop data precede AB953, going back to 1999 when then-Gov. Gray Davis vetoed a bill that would have required statewide collection of traffic stop data. But Davis required the California Highway Patrol to start noting the race of the people its officers pulled over, and many local law enforcement agencies began doing so \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-rarely-analyze-share-racial-data-on-stops-5697028.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voluntarily — with mixed results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s AB619 calls for better bookkeeping on law enforcement use of force and would apply the standards of in-custody deaths to all fatal encounters with police. Current law requires that law enforcement or corrections agencies report details of in-custody deaths to the state attorney general within 10 days of an incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill also calls for detailed use-of-force reporting to the attorney general by 2018. Those reports would include characteristics like race, age and gender of officers and subjects in use-of-force cases. The legislation would require open reporting on everything from hand-to-hand physical strikes to gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Data collection is the key to transparency and accountability,” the ACLU’s Minsker says. “If we think racial profiling is important, if we think police killing people is important, we need to collect data and then have conversations about how to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB619 has no formal opposition listed. The ACLU of California is co-sponsoring both of Weber’s bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weber’s aren’t the only bills seeking to expand public safety data collection. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB601&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB601\u003c/a> by Sen. Loni Hancock (D-Berkeley) would require the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to produce a “data dashboard,” publicly available on CDCR’s website. The web portal would include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Information on CDCR staffing\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Inmate enrollment in rehabilitation programs — with diploma and GED completion rates\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of deaths, specifying homicides, suicides, unexpected deaths and expected deaths\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of use-of-force incidents\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of inmate appeals and their status\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of inmates in administrative segregation — or solitary confinement\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Contraband seized, quantifying cellphones and drugs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Number of days in lockdown\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Budget information\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Hancock’s bill would also require a report to the governor and Legislature on \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=03001-04000&file=3016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDCR’s pilot case management re-entry program\u003c/a> by July 31, 2017. Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/SB_601_Veto_Message.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vetoed\u003c/a> a similar bill in 2011, noting that the CDCR already posts much of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/COMPSTAT/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Training\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate bills \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">11\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB29&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">29\u003c/a> by Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) would require the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.post.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training\u003c/a> to implement advanced training on mental health issues for California law enforcement officers. From the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Bay Area\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://tacreports.org/storage/documents/2013-justifiable-homicides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide\u003c/a>, it’s estimated that about half of people killed by police are in psychiatric crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB11 requires 20 hours of behavioral health training at the police academies to be part of the basic requirements to become a peace officer in California. SB29 requires a 40-hour course for field training officers, who mentor recent academy graduates when they first hit the streets. The bills indicate a move toward a state mandate for specialized Crisis Intervention Training, a program some departments have already voluntarily implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several state law enforcement associations join disability rights advocacy groups in support of SB11. Fewer groups support SB29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a growing recognition among law enforcement nationwide of the need for more behavioral health training for officers,” the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California wrote in support of SB11. “The existing California Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) curriculum includes only 6 hours of mental health training out of a total of 664 hours of mandated training for peace officers, which is clearly not sufficient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State Sheriffs’ Association opposes both bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More training for the sake of more training may not be beneficial and may come at the expense of other, more necessary training,” the association wrote in opposition. “Although we appreciate the desire to improve interactions between law enforcement and persons with mental health issues, [both bills represent] a premature, unfunded mandate that offers no guarantee of providing the appropriate training to the right officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB227 and AB 86 are seeking, in different ways, to establish more independence in the investigations of officer-involved fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB227&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB227\u003c/a> by Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) would not allow grand juries to inquire into cases of potential police misconduct that resulted in the death of a suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The use of the criminal grand jury process, and the refusal to indict as occurred in Ferguson and other communities of color, has fostered an atmosphere of suspicion that threatens to compromise our justice system,” Mitchell wrote in an op-ed published in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20150507/why-grand-juries-are-wrong-for-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Daily News\u003c/a>. Her bill would require police use-of-force cases to be charged through a preliminary examination, in open court, rather than behind the closed doors of the grand jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California District Attorneys Association opposes the bill, writing that California’s grand jury system is “decidedly different and amazingly fairer” than the system in other states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there may be fundamental deficiencies in the grand jury systems of other states, we do not believe that those deficiencies exist in California to justify the outright prohibition of criminal grand juries in fatal officer-involved shootings,” the association wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB86&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AB86\u003c/a> would require the state attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor to independently investigate killings by on-duty law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s supporters and opposition reveal a stark divide. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People supports the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police brutality has had a long history in California,” the NAACP wrote. “Following the high-profiled deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, civil rights advocates have campaigned for greater oversight of the investigation process following deaths involving law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most statewide law enforcement agencies oppose the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“District Attorneys have made decisions for years, and have overseen difficult cases that have been scrutinized heavily by the media and public,” the Peace Officers Research Association of California wrote. “The concern that there would be a conflict of interest between a District Attorney and officers they may work with is unfounded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salzillo said the bill implied that peace officers who use deadly force are presumed guilty of a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reject that,” he said. “In so many of these cases, the officer’s been shot at, the officer’s been threatened with a weapon. The officer is a victim in many ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s ACLU also supports McCarty’s bill, but California ACLU director Minsker says she still wouldn’t expect many police officers to face criminal charges following fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are really encouraging folks to focus not just on prosecutions,” Minsker says, “but investigating fatal incidents where police have used force to ask, ‘What went wrong? How could we have prevented this?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And Many More\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the many other law enforcement bills meandering their way through the Legislature, one would clarify California law regarding \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB411&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographing and recording\u003c/a> police on duty. Still \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB629&search_keywords=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another\u003c/a> would scrub the term “lynching” from the state’s penal code, and several bills are vying to establish statewide rules for police body-worn cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And of course, the Legislature doesn’t have the final word on these proposals. Bills that make it through both houses must still win Gov. Brown’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had initial meetings with the governor’s staff to educate them about the bills,” Minsker says, adding that it’s difficult to predict where Brown will land on any of these issues. “At this point no red flags have been raised on these bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206463348\" 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>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday evening, as part of the annual Ride of Silence to honor bicyclists who have been killed on San Francisco streets, he plans to visit the intersection for the first time since Vinson's death.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\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/206463348&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/206463348'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The work of the Office of Legislative Counsel is the ultimate seal of approval in Sacramento, an indispensable step for any proposal that becomes law in California — and perhaps why lobbyists and interest groups often privately ask legislators to have the taxpayer-funded lawyers draft bills for them, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those requests are known as “unbacked bills,” a term that broadly refers to draft laws with no guarantee of being introduced in either house of the Legislature. While some of these bills quickly find their way into the legislative bloodstream, others linger behind the scenes for weeks or months as part of the state Capitol’s opaque political currency, instantly ready for a public vote on any given day if the opportunity should arise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one denies the existence of these bills, but few will discuss either their content or their frequency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206376828″ 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>“Unbacked bills are, in some ways, ghost bills that can come to life at any time in the process,” said Shaudi Falamaki Fulp, a former lobbyist who now works as a political and public affairs strategist. “The proposal will actually be drafted in legislative form, but it won’t be introduced with an author or a bill number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviews with a number of Capitol insiders, none of whom would speak on the record, portray the unbacked bills system as one with very few limits and in which legislative staffers sometimes submit proposals for vetting that their elected bosses would never publicly endorse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, it’s also a system that neither the Legislature’s lawyers nor its two leaders will discuss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Limits On Unbacked Bills Submitted For Drafting?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Assembly and Senate are limited to 40 introduced bills in any two-year session, but there are no limits on how many bills can be submitted for drafting to the Legislative Counsel’s attorneys. The system allows legislators flexibility, say some staffers, in order to better craft smart policies\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the process is also accessed by lobbyists, via legislative officials, who seek the help of the government’s bill-writing experts. Legislative staffers and lobbyists, who spoke with KQED News on the condition that they not be identified, say an unbacked bill that comes back from Legislative Counsel may be “shopped” around in search of a different Assembly member or senator who’s willing to introduce it. Or, say insiders, these unpublicized bills are held onto for any possible opening a lobbyist or interest group might see — including 11th-hour maneuvers before the Legislature adjourns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of transparency poses problems, say some observers, for understanding where laws are coming from and who they benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Legislators are outsourcing their jobs to people in the shadows that we don’t know,” said Jessica Levinson, a professor of governance and ethics at the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “I think the least they can do is give the public some information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Requests For Information Denied\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To better understand the process, KQED News asked legislative leaders and the \u003ca href=\"http://legislativecounsel.ca.gov/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of the Legislative Counsel\u003c/a> for aggregate data on how many unbacked bills were drafted in the 2013-14 session in Sacramento, as well as how many unbacked bills had been requested by each member of the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The requests were turned down. Legislative lawyers responded by saying any such information is exempt from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=09001-10000&file=9070-9080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Legislative Open Records Act\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefirstamendment.org/publicrecordsact.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Records Act\u003c/a>, laws that were ostensibly designed to ensure government records be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re afraid of establishing some kind of precedent,” said Peter Scheer, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"http://firstamendmentcoalition.org/about/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nonprofit First Amendment Coalition, based in San Rafael\u003c/a>, about the refusal to release information on unbacked bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re afraid that if they allow that information to come out, God knows, they might have to be more forthcoming about how they spend their time and the people’s money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requests were also made of both Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) and Senate President pro Tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) to either provide information or to weigh in on whether the records about unbacked bills should be released. Neither legislative leader responded to that request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anecdotes offered in numerous background conversations with legislative staffers suggest that while some offices ask attorneys to craft very few unbacked bills, others make requests by the dozens. And in some cases, say both staffers and lobbyists, an elected official may have little or no role in a staffer accepting a lobbyist’s request to have the proposed law vetted by taxpayer attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s general agreement that unbacked bills can serve a valuable service for less influential groups that don’t have the legal expertise to draft a bill. But it seems clear that powerful interest groups also ask for unbacked bills, and sometimes even multiple versions on the same topic, as a way of hedging their bets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those well-prepared lobbyists who have a Plan B and C will draft numerous versions and submit it through a legislative office,” said Falamaki Fulp, “to make sure that they’re ready when the opportunity presents itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly how much work these unbacked bills requires of the Legislative Counsel is unclear. Overall, the office — which not only drafts legislation but also offers more general legal advice — has seen its annual operating budget rise steadily. In the fiscal year that ends on June 30, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2014-15/Enacted/StateAgencyBudgets/0010/0160/department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislative Counsel is expected to spend $92.7 million\u003c/a> to provide legal services for lawmakers; that’s up from \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2009-10-EN/Enacted/StateAgencyBudgets/0010/0160/department.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$81 million just five years ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggregate data that was requested — that is, total numbers of bills drafted over a two-year legislative session — might have offered some way to compare the total output from the Legislature’s lawyers with the number of bills introduced (4,800 in the 2013-14 session).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their April 27 rejection of KQED News’ records request, Legislative Counsel Diane Boyer-Vine and Chief Deputy Aaron Silva wouldn’t say whether any records existed — simply that any records that were germane “will not be produced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See below for the KQED News correspondence with the Office of Legislative Counsel regarding information on unbacked bills drafted in the 2013-14 legislative session.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=265935849 key=key-pTA3MXe9M3gSauMKo61N mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that two San Francisco police officers who entered a mentally ill woman's room, then shot her when she tried to attack them with a knife, are entitled to immunity from a lawsuit alleging they violated the woman's constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ruling settles part of the case arising from \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">a 2008 incident\u003c/a> in which San Francisco police Sgt. 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(Charles Breyer's involvement led Associate Justice Stephen Breyer to recuse himself from the Supreme Court's consideration of the case.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high court found that the police officers acted within the law and were entitled to \"qualified immunity\" from legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Van Aken, the deputy city attorney \u003ca href=\"http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/03/argument-analysis-can-a-really-rough-start-be-overcome/\" target=\"_blank\">who argued the case\u003c/a> before the high court in March, said Monday she was pleased with the outcome for Holder and Reynolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court's ruling makes it clear that the officers acted reasonably in doing their best to deal with a situation where they saw a lot of risk factors and did their best to resolve the situation right away,\" Van Aken told KQED's Peter Jon Shuler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the court declined to rule on the much broader issue that San Francisco had originally brought to the court: Whether the ADA's requirement for reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities applies to police officers facing violent situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, both the majority opinion written by Associate Justice Samuel Alito and the dissent by Associate Justice Antonin Scalia criticized the city for failing to follow up that main argument -- \"the only question for [the Supreme Court] to resolve is whether any accommodation of an armed and violent individual is reasonable or required\" under the ADA -- after the high tribunal accepted the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the city argued in its briefs and at oral argument that the ADA's accommodation requirements didn't apply in Sheehan's case because her violent behavior disqualified her for such treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the city didn't contest the ADA case on the grounds it had cited on appeal, the court majority dismissed that part of the city's case as \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.swlaw.com/assets/pdf/news/2013/01/31/AndAfterAllThatWorkTheDreadedUSSupremeCourtDIG_Sungaila.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">improvidently granted\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scalia, joined in his minority opinion by Associate Justice Elena Kagan, was more blunt. He accused city attorneys of a \"bait and switch\" in its legal strategy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Petitioners [San Francisco] faulted the Ninth Circuit for “holding that the ADA’s reasonable accommodation requirement applies to officers facing violent circumstances,” a conclusion that was “in direct conflict with the categorical prohibition on such claims adopted by the Fifth and Sixth Circuits.” Petitioners had expressly advocated for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits’ position in the Court of Appeals. ... “[T]he ADA does not apply to police officers’ responses to violent individuals who happen to be mentally ill, where officers have not yet brought the violent situation under control”). Imagine our surprise, then, when the petitioners’ principal brief, reply brief, and oral argument had nary a word to say about that subject.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scalia, in fact, wrote that he wanted the court to dismiss San Francisco's entire appeal, because allowing even the portion concerning the individual police officers to stand amounted to rewarding the city for \"snookering\" the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court's ruling effectively reinstates the 9th Circuit's order for a trial on Sheehan's ADA claim against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan attorney Ben Nisenbaum said he was pleased with the court's ruling because \"it allows our client to have her day in court\" and recover damages. 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Imagine our surprise, then, when the petitioners’ principal brief, reply brief, and oral argument had nary a word to say about that subject.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Scalia, in fact, wrote that he wanted the court to dismiss San Francisco's entire appeal, because allowing even the portion concerning the individual police officers to stand amounted to rewarding the city for \"snookering\" the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court's ruling effectively reinstates the 9th Circuit's order for a trial on Sheehan's ADA claim against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan attorney Ben Nisenbaum said he was pleased with the court's ruling because \"it allows our client to have her day in court\" and recover damages. 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"content": "\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Parole/Sex_Offender_Facts/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation \u003c/a>(CDCR), there are about 6,000 sex offenders on parole in California. When it comes to public image, you’d have to place them near the very bottom of the totem pole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their crimes range from rape to indecent exposure. And when they’re paroled to San Francisco, it falls to Fernando Mata to keep track of them and make sure they’re not a threat to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my job, I have to treat everybody the same,” says Mata. “It doesn't matter if you're indecent exposure or child molest. You're still a person and you're still here to get the services that you need. I have a job to do, and that's all I can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205684392\" 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>Mata has worked with the CDCR for eight years, the last 5½ with the parole divison. Of his sex offender \"clients,” he says you can’t really judge from appearances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People like to think of sex offenders -- a child molester looks like this and a rapist looks like this,” he notes. “Not all people that look like monsters are monsters. And not all people that \u003cem>are\u003c/em> monsters look like they are. It goes both ways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At age 32, Mata is Hollywood-handsome, with a trim beard and a very low-key manner. He's dressed casually in jeans and a bulky black hoodie that hides his badge, tactical vest and the .40-caliber Smith & Wesson gun attached to his waist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, I rode with him in a state-issued Ford Fusion as we headed off for a few unannounced visits to sex offenders on parole. I ask what a typical day is like. Mata says he's always in an investigative mode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”As soon as I open my computer, I’m looking to see who’s in a low battery,” he says, referring to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/parole/sex_offender_facts/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">GPS devices \u003c/a>that sex offenders have to wear while they’re on parole. “Whose charging history looks different than it does yesterday? You know, and if so, why? What’s happening?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata says each agent he supervises in San Francisco keeps tabs on about 30-35 sex offenders. The agents look for changes in daily tracking patterns -- hints that could point to things like drug use or staying out all night, potential signs of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10524799\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10524799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Fernando Mata starts his day as a supervisor for parole agents who track registered sex offenders in San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/mata-for-blog.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Mata starts his day as a supervisor for parole agents who track registered sex offenders in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Scott Shafer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our first stop is an apartment building in an up-and-coming industrial neighborhood near the edge of San Francisco Bay. We’re greeted by a friendly if slightly nervous-seeming man named Dan (the state asked us to use just first names with the sex offenders we met).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, there he is,” Mata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, what’s going on?” Dan responds. “I was going to send you an email today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agent Mata ask how things are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fantastic,\" Dan says. \"Well, sort of. Come on in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Mata walks around, opening drawers, poking around for things that might raise a flag. Then he asks Dan to lift his pant leg so he can see the GPS bracelet on his ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How's the device working?” Mata asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh fine,” Dan replies. “I got a new charger. You know, the cord thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata asks how many charges he has, and Dan tells him just one. Sex offender parolees have to keep these tracking devices on at all times, batteries charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata introduces me, and I ask Dan what he did to get him in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I umm, inappropriately touched my daughter,” he says. “She was under 14. I don't know how much detail you want me to go into, um, but she was under 14, she was young. She was too young. And it was stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how he feels after more than two years on parole, still having to wear the bracelet until his parole is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm used to it after all this time.” Dan says. “But it is an annoyance. So it's OK, I wish it was smaller. I can never wear shorts if I don't want it to be exposed, because that puts me at risk out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At risk because child molesters can easily become targets themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan is a professional photographer -- and his apartment is pretty \u003cem>nice\u003c/em> -- \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the kind of \"living on the edge\" I imagined for a sex offender. He lives with a girlfriend. His parole conditions require telling her about his past and place limitations on what he can do -- and who he can see. No contact with anyone under the age of 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/205685206\" 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 difficulty there is I do have a granddaughter who’s 5 or 6 who lives down in San Luis Obispo with my youngest son, and I've never met her,” Dan says. “She was born when I was in custody, and I can't wait until I'm able to meet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That'll be the first thing that I do is go let her meet grandpa, you know?” he says, laughing in a way that makes me uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan spent more than four years in prison for molesting his wife's daughter. Under California law, his name and address are listed on a state website. I ask him if he wonders whether any of the neighbors in his building know about his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them, he didn't know, but I told them 'cause I do walk their dog. So I told them the whole story and they were fine with it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask what he means by “fine with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That means, they're OK,” he adds. “They know me as a person. They know that I'm not an extreme pedophile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m struck by how “normal” Dan seems. It’s almost unsettling. Back in the car, I ask Mata about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do come in all shapes and sizes,” Mata acknowledges. “This particular individual looks like your next-door neighbor. Somebody you would never expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our next parolee -- Diarras -- lives with his grandfather in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. His crime: Exposing himself to women five times over the course of seven years in parks and libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My offenses weren't towards any kids or anything like that,” Diarras says. “I just flashed my penis in front of women. You know, I don't mind talking about it because I knew who I was. I knew what kind of person I was before all this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Darrias is quick to talk about what happened when he was 4 years old -- something his aunt did to him that he says contributed to his criminal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember she used to take showers and have me take showers and have me lay on top of her,” he remembers. “But being 4 years old, I don't think nothing wrong with that. But I didn't have any outlets. People to talk to. I didn't have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he’s part of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharperfuture.com/SexOffender.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sharper Future\u003c/a>,” a structured treatment program for sex offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diarras went through a tough period after his conviction, spiraling down into depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Went to jail, like I said. I never understood the importance of staying out of trouble, so I had some violations, went back a few times. And my last time, after I got out, my Agent Mata got me a job at this hotel, and I've been on the straight and narrow ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the thing about parole agents. They almost seem like social workers who really want to see their clients go clean and stay out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrias seems resigned to being a registered sex offender -- for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>I don't care about what society thinks, as long as I know what my family thinks. They love me and I know who I am, I'm fine with it,” he says. “I wish it didn't happen, don't get me wrong, but this is the card I'm dealt with. So it is what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sex offenders as a group don't generate much sympathy, and it's easy to understand why. Under Jessica’s Law, passed by voters in 1986, all sex offenders were forbidden to live within a half-mile of parks or schools, regardless of their offense. But the California Supreme Court recently struck down that blanket limitation, saying it could be applied only on a case-by-case basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means more sex offenders will be living in neighborhoods that were off-limits to them until recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them, 'Take advantage of all these services we offer you while you’re on parole,' ” Mata says. “Once we’re gone, they’re on their own.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We’re greeted by a friendly if slightly nervous-seeming man named Dan (the state asked us to use just first names with the sex offenders we met).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, there he is,” Mata says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey, what’s going on?” Dan responds. “I was going to send you an email today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agent Mata ask how things are going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fantastic,\" Dan says. \"Well, sort of. Come on in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside, Mata walks around, opening drawers, poking around for things that might raise a flag. Then he asks Dan to lift his pant leg so he can see the GPS bracelet on his ankle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How's the device working?” Mata asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh fine,” Dan replies. “I got a new charger. You know, the cord thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata asks how many charges he has, and Dan tells him just one. Sex offender parolees have to keep these tracking devices on at all times, batteries charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata introduces me, and I ask Dan what he did to get him in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I umm, inappropriately touched my daughter,” he says. “She was under 14. I don't know how much detail you want me to go into, um, but she was under 14, she was young. She was too young. And it was stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask him how he feels after more than two years on parole, still having to wear the bracelet until his parole is up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm used to it after all this time.” Dan says. “But it is an annoyance. So it's OK, I wish it was smaller. I can never wear shorts if I don't want it to be exposed, because that puts me at risk out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At risk because child molesters can easily become targets themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan is a professional photographer -- and his apartment is pretty \u003cem>nice\u003c/em> -- \u003cem>not\u003c/em> the kind of \"living on the edge\" I imagined for a sex offender. He lives with a girlfriend. His parole conditions require telling her about his past and place limitations on what he can do -- and who he can see. No contact with anyone under the age of 18.\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/205685206&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/205685206'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difficulty there is I do have a granddaughter who’s 5 or 6 who lives down in San Luis Obispo with my youngest son, and I've never met her,” Dan says. “She was born when I was in custody, and I can't wait until I'm able to meet her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That'll be the first thing that I do is go let her meet grandpa, you know?” he says, laughing in a way that makes me uncomfortable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan spent more than four years in prison for molesting his wife's daughter. Under California law, his name and address are listed on a state website. I ask him if he wonders whether any of the neighbors in his building know about his record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told them, he didn't know, but I told them 'cause I do walk their dog. So I told them the whole story and they were fine with it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask what he means by “fine with it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That means, they're OK,” he adds. “They know me as a person. They know that I'm not an extreme pedophile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m struck by how “normal” Dan seems. It’s almost unsettling. Back in the car, I ask Mata about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They do come in all shapes and sizes,” Mata acknowledges. “This particular individual looks like your next-door neighbor. Somebody you would never expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our next parolee -- Diarras -- lives with his grandfather in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. His crime: Exposing himself to women five times over the course of seven years in parks and libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My offenses weren't towards any kids or anything like that,” Diarras says. “I just flashed my penis in front of women. You know, I don't mind talking about it because I knew who I was. I knew what kind of person I was before all this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Darrias is quick to talk about what happened when he was 4 years old -- something his aunt did to him that he says contributed to his criminal behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember she used to take showers and have me take showers and have me lay on top of her,” he remembers. “But being 4 years old, I don't think nothing wrong with that. But I didn't have any outlets. People to talk to. I didn't have that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now he’s part of “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sharperfuture.com/SexOffender.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sharper Future\u003c/a>,” a structured treatment program for sex offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diarras went through a tough period after his conviction, spiraling down into depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Went to jail, like I said. I never understood the importance of staying out of trouble, so I had some violations, went back a few times. And my last time, after I got out, my Agent Mata got me a job at this hotel, and I've been on the straight and narrow ever since.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the thing about parole agents. They almost seem like social workers who really want to see their clients go clean and stay out of trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darrias seems resigned to being a registered sex offender -- for the rest of his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>“\u003c/em>I don't care about what society thinks, as long as I know what my family thinks. 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"content": "\u003cp>One of the officers facing termination for sending some of the racist, anti-gay and sexist text messages that have mired the San Francisco Police Department in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">scandal since mid-March\u003c/a> is leading a legal charge to keep his job and those of nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain Daugherty filed a petition and complaint (\u003ca href=\"#petition\">see below\u003c/a>) in San Francisco Superior Court late Monday asking a judge to halt disciplinary proceedings pending before the city's Police Commission. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended that Daugherty and seven other officers be fired, and he recommended that two additional officers face discipline up to and including termination, at the discretion of the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge doesn't dispute that officers sent inappropriate or offensive text messages, but simply that the department waited too long to investigate them and initiate discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are accused of conduct unbecoming an officer, according to the filing. Daugherty was placed on \"indefinite, unpaid\" suspension on May 4 while the city's Police Commission adjudicates his case. The department did not immediately respond to inquiries into whether the other nine officers were also suspended that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr said in early April\u003c/a> that he would discipline four additional officers implicated by text messages that were \"inappropriate,\" but \"not determined to be racist or homophobic\" at the chief's level, which includes punishment up to a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition challenges the city's attempt to discipline all 14 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages, which were made public in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing March 13\u003c/a>, were all recovered from the cellphone of former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> in February to three years and five months in prison.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q8FGbGEEAU8b5p6MITVy04l9TWGUhP2f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents investigating Furminger and other SFPD plainclothes officers for corruption and illegal searches delivered evidence to SFPD's Internal Affairs Division in December 2012, the petition asserts, and yet the department did not begin a disciplinary investigation until January of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a statute [the\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\"> California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a>] that required the department to initiate and complete its investigation into these text messages within one year of their discovery,\" said Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. \"It did not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the nine other officers are represented by attorneys from at least five other firms, and all the officers and their attorneys are coordinating their claims into yesterday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Essentially, we consolidated it for the sake of judicial economy and efficiency,\" she said. \"Everybody has a very high stake in the outcome. Each of their clients are significantly impacted by this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing is both a petition and a lawsuit, Wilkinson said, asking a judge to halt the city's disciplinary proceedings, force the removal of any findings related to the texts from the officers' personnel files and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 for each officer -- plus attorneys' fees and other possible damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of the thousands of text messages obtained from Furminger's cell phone, only a limited, number of sporadic but grossly inappropriate texts were exchanged with DAUGHERTY over a period often-months. DAUGHERTY is deeply ashamed by what he wrote, such texts being unreflective of his strong commitment to exemplary community policing of all San Francisco's diverse citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city attorney's office said the city is aware of the filing but has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-limit issue has been looming for some time. When Suhr addressed pending Police Commission disciplinary hearings at an \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">April 3 \u003c/span>\u003c/span>press conference, he elaborated on when the clock pauses, or “tolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those administrative matters toll, and attorneys usually know that, when there’s a criminal case pending,\" Suhr said. \"As soon as we became aware of this, we took action. And I’m confident, when we go to the commission, that our argument that anything that was involved in this was tolling until after the criminal case was over with. I myself had no knowledge of this, as I was walled off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The section at issue is California Government Code Section 3304(d)(2), part of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct is also the subject of a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution, the time during which the criminal investigation or criminal prosecution is pending shall toll the one-year time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wilkinson said the offensive text messages were not the subject of the criminal investigation against Furminger and five other former SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three arrests that Daugherty participated in have been affected, as the San Francisco's District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">reviews some 3,000 cases\u003c/a> involving all 14 officers over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamara Aparton, spokeswoman for the city's public defender, said Tuesday that two pending prosecutions involving Daugherty and clients represented by deputy public defenders were dismissed in April. Prosecutors dropped one charge involving Daugherty in another, multiple-count case that is otherwise proceeding.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"petition\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAll three cases involve marijuana sale and possession charges, Aparton said, and all the defendants are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has a credibility issue,\" Aparton said of Daugherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the filing below:\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=265126082 key=key-JXun6waDik0KTsEdx4qC mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Goldberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> in February to three years and five months in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents investigating Furminger and other SFPD plainclothes officers for corruption and illegal searches delivered evidence to SFPD's Internal Affairs Division in December 2012, the petition asserts, and yet the department did not begin a disciplinary investigation until January of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a statute [the\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\"> California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a>] that required the department to initiate and complete its investigation into these text messages within one year of their discovery,\" said Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. \"It did not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the nine other officers are represented by attorneys from at least five other firms, and all the officers and their attorneys are coordinating their claims into yesterday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Essentially, we consolidated it for the sake of judicial economy and efficiency,\" she said. \"Everybody has a very high stake in the outcome. Each of their clients are significantly impacted by this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing is both a petition and a lawsuit, Wilkinson said, asking a judge to halt the city's disciplinary proceedings, force the removal of any findings related to the texts from the officers' personnel files and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 for each officer -- plus attorneys' fees and other possible damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of the thousands of text messages obtained from Furminger's cell phone, only a limited, number of sporadic but grossly inappropriate texts were exchanged with DAUGHERTY over a period often-months. DAUGHERTY is deeply ashamed by what he wrote, such texts being unreflective of his strong commitment to exemplary community policing of all San Francisco's diverse citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city attorney's office said the city is aware of the filing but has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-limit issue has been looming for some time. When Suhr addressed pending Police Commission disciplinary hearings at an \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">April 3 \u003c/span>\u003c/span>press conference, he elaborated on when the clock pauses, or “tolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those administrative matters toll, and attorneys usually know that, when there’s a criminal case pending,\" Suhr said. \"As soon as we became aware of this, we took action. And I’m confident, when we go to the commission, that our argument that anything that was involved in this was tolling until after the criminal case was over with. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:15 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — A man imprisoned for the near-fatal beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium will serve three additional years under terms of his sentence on federal weapons charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie Sanchez was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison for possessing weapons as a felon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Fernando Olguin ordered the sentence to take effect immediately, so he’ll serve half of the federal sentence while finishing his eight-year state term for the attack on Stow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police investigating the beating of Stow found semi-automatic rifles, other weapons and ammunition belonging to Sanchez. He was barred from possessing guns because of past felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — A man who smirked as he was sentenced in the savage beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium wants a federal judge to spare him from another lengthy prison sentence for an unrelated gun crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louie Sanchez’s handwritten letter prays for mercy in the crime discovered as police investigated the 2011 attack on baseball’s opening day that left Stow with permanent brain damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The outcome of the situation I don’t wish upon nobody,” Sanchez wrote in his letter to Judge Fernando Olguin. “Unfortunately, Mr. Stow got hurt and I send my deepest sympathy to Mr. Stow & his family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, 32, faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced Thursday afternoon for being a felon in possession of firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘The outcome of the situation I don’t wish upon nobody. Unfortunately, Mr. Stow got hurt and I send my deepest sympathy to Mr. Stow & his family.’\u003ccite>Louie Sanchez\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Max Shiner wants Sanchez to serve nearly eight years in federal prison after he wraps up an eight-year state prison sentence for mayhem in the beating of Stow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a lengthy criminal record that includes spousal abuse, firearms offenses and drunken driving, Shiner cited the Stow case for its “depravity and brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congress’s intent in keeping firearms out of the hands of someone whose conduct ‘threatens community peace’ could hardly be better exemplified than by an individual who would punch a man from behind, knocking him to the ground, and then repeatedly kick the man while he appeared to be unconscious,” Shiner wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stow beating focused attention on security at the Los Angeles stadium and led to a $14 million jury verdict against the Dodgers for the former Santa Cruz paramedic and his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stow is not directly connected to the federal case and wasn’t expected in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police investigating the beating found a semi-automatic rifle, other weapons and ammunition belonging to Sanchez at the Rialto home of his friend and co-defendant, Marvin Norwood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a jail recording, Norwood told Sanchez: “They got the guns. There ain’t no getting around that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez replied: “You sure they got the heats? … I’m just gonna tell them they’re mine. … I’m sorry, man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norwood, 34, was transferred to federal custody after serving four years in prison for Stow’s beating. Prosecutors are seeking a 4½-year term when he’s sentenced on an identical charge in two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said in his letter that he thinks he’s not a bad man but has made bad choices that have cost him precious time with his teenage son. He said he was raised well and has no one to blame but himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His tone of contrition is in contrast to his countenance at sentencing last year when he smirked as a judge rebuked both men. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George Lomeli called him a coward and admonished him for showing no remorse.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Criminal justice reforms in California are always controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it wasn’t a big surprise when many law enforcement groups opposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/47/arguments-rebuttals.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, a November 2014 ballot measure that reduced many lower-level crimes in California, like drug possession, from a felony to a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also wasn’t surprising that after the measure passed, those same critics went to the Legislature to ask for what they described as “fixes.” In all, nine bills related to Prop. 47 were introduced this year, seven of them direct attempts to change what opponents saw as problems with the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after initial negotiations in Sacramento, most of those bills have been modified to the point that they don’t actually change the law passed by voters. To do that would require another vote by the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only two remain strong enough in their current form to require voter approval in 2016 if they are passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_150_bill_20150318_amended_asm_v97.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\">AB150\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_452_bill_20150225_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB452\u003c/a> would both make stealing a gun a felony in all cases\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, Prop. 47’s backers aren’t fighting the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the legislative discussions occurring around Proposition 47 have the potential to undermine the initiative,” said Lenore Anderson, who co-authored the measure, chaired the ballot campaign and directs Californians for Safety and Justice, a progressive policy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204195829&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said supporters aren’t surprised the Legislature is looking at these issues, and that most of the bills aren’t going to substantively change what Prop. 47 is aiming to achieve: a criminal justice system that focuses on locking up only serious offenders, like those convicted of violent crimes, and not people addicted to drugs who commit petty crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was retroactive, allowing people in prisons or jails to ask for reduced sentences as well as people with past convictions who are no longer incarcerated. So far, more than 115,000 people have filed petitions asking courts to reduce their sentences from felonies to misdemeanors, according to the Judicial Council of California. And more than 3,200 have been released from state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zahner, CEO of the California District Attorneys Association, denied that his group's support for the changes in Prop. 47 amounts to an attempt to undo the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these were attempts to undermine Proposition 47, they were ill-conceived and weak attempts,” he said. “What we are talking about are little nuanced corrections that change very little about Prop. 47 at the end of the day. It’s not an attempt to undermine, but enhance the measure and work within the purviews of 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_46_bill_20150423_amended_asm_v95.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 46\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_333_bill_20150420_amended_sen_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 333\u003c/a> both initially aimed to make possession of so-called date-rape drugs, such as GHB and ketamine, a felony. But critics pointed out that some people use those drugs recreationally, so the measures were both changed to make clear they apply only to someone who has the intent to commit a sexual assault. Since Prop. 47 always excluded anything beyond simple drug possession, the bills no longer apply to the ballot measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_390_bill_20150406_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB390\u003c/a> is the bill Prop. 47 supporters have the most concern about. It would change the state’s DNA collection policy so that anyone convicted of any of the crimes reduced from felonies to misdemeanors by Prop. 47 would still have to submit their DNA to the state database. Anderson, of Californians for Safety and Justice, said her group opposes the bill because it looks only at misdemeanors covered by Prop. 47, like petty theft, while ignoring far more troubling convictions for misdemeanors such as battery or domestic violence. She wrote in a recent letter to the bill’s author that AB390’s “sole focus on the six crimes in Proposition 47 implies that it is not motivated by thoughtful policy analysis.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1401-1450/ab_1415_bill_20150429_amended_asm_v97.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB1415\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_347_bill_20150421_amended_sen_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB347\u003c/a> would make it a felony for someone convicted of the newly classified misdemeanors to have a gun. Backers of the bills say that while Prop. 47 already stated this, it didn’t change the state code.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Anderson and other supporters aren’t opposing AB1415 and SB347. But they argue the measures, as well as the two pieces of legislation dealing with stealing a firearm, are simply unnecessary -- because California already has so many laws on the books dealing with guns that a prosecutor will almost certainly always be able to charge someone with a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the issues were discussed “at length during the campaign,” and that there’s “no question that any gun-related activity can and should be pursued as a felony.” She said opponents are simply interpreting the law differently than proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, one of the initiative’s backers, was more blunt. He said you have a “better chance of finding flying unicorns than you do of finding a situation” where someone stole a gun and could be charged only with a misdemeanor. He called any arguments to the contrary “disingenuous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zahner, of the district attorneys group, said that if everyone agrees that stealing a gun should be a felony, the law should explicitly say so. He also said that prosecutors agree with Anderson, that more misdemeanors should be subject to DNA collection laws, but that it’s better to add some now than none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahner noted that Prop. 47 isn’t the only recent drastic change to California’s criminal justice system. In 2011, the state’s realignment law shifted responsibility for many lower-level felons from state prison and parole to county jails and probation. And in 2012, voters approved Proposition 36, which revised California’s tough “three strikes” law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said after decades of voters pushing for tougher criminal justice laws, the pendulum has now swung wildly in the other direction, a change to which it’s difficult for many in law enforcement to adjust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Unfortunately, people look at criminal justice as a cause, when really it's a reaction to everything else that’s messed up in society,” he said. “Prosecutors are frustrated, they are trying do the right thing, and elected district attorneys are frustrated. They are elected to keep people safe and they feel this is an erosion of the law that takes away their discretion. Their ability to approach how particular communities want things handled is being taken away, and it is frustrating for them, and it is a sea change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, who worked as policy director for Kamala Harris when Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney, said supporters of Prop. 47 want the same things as law enforcement: safe communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California overrelied on its prison-first approach -- it built 22 prisons over a 25-year period, and increased prison spending by 1,500 percent … a skyrocketing amount of money and energy went into prison expansion, and you have to ask what we got. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Criminal justice reforms in California are always controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it wasn’t a big surprise when many law enforcement groups opposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/47/arguments-rebuttals.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, a November 2014 ballot measure that reduced many lower-level crimes in California, like drug possession, from a felony to a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also wasn’t surprising that after the measure passed, those same critics went to the Legislature to ask for what they described as “fixes.” In all, nine bills related to Prop. 47 were introduced this year, seven of them direct attempts to change what opponents saw as problems with the ballot measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after initial negotiations in Sacramento, most of those bills have been modified to the point that they don’t actually change the law passed by voters. To do that would require another vote by the electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only two remain strong enough in their current form to require voter approval in 2016 if they are passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_150_bill_20150318_amended_asm_v97.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\">AB150\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_452_bill_20150225_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB452\u003c/a> would both make stealing a gun a felony in all cases\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As such, Prop. 47’s backers aren’t fighting the changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of the legislative discussions occurring around Proposition 47 have the potential to undermine the initiative,” said Lenore Anderson, who co-authored the measure, chaired the ballot campaign and directs Californians for Safety and Justice, a progressive policy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/204195829&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said supporters aren’t surprised the Legislature is looking at these issues, and that most of the bills aren’t going to substantively change what Prop. 47 is aiming to achieve: a criminal justice system that focuses on locking up only serious offenders, like those convicted of violent crimes, and not people addicted to drugs who commit petty crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was retroactive, allowing people in prisons or jails to ask for reduced sentences as well as people with past convictions who are no longer incarcerated. So far, more than 115,000 people have filed petitions asking courts to reduce their sentences from felonies to misdemeanors, according to the Judicial Council of California. And more than 3,200 have been released from state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Zahner, CEO of the California District Attorneys Association, denied that his group's support for the changes in Prop. 47 amounts to an attempt to undo the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these were attempts to undermine Proposition 47, they were ill-conceived and weak attempts,” he said. “What we are talking about are little nuanced corrections that change very little about Prop. 47 at the end of the day. It’s not an attempt to undermine, but enhance the measure and work within the purviews of 47.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the bills:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_46_bill_20150423_amended_asm_v95.pdf%20\" target=\"_blank\">Assembly Bill 46\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_333_bill_20150420_amended_sen_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 333\u003c/a> both initially aimed to make possession of so-called date-rape drugs, such as GHB and ketamine, a felony. But critics pointed out that some people use those drugs recreationally, so the measures were both changed to make clear they apply only to someone who has the intent to commit a sexual assault. Since Prop. 47 always excluded anything beyond simple drug possession, the bills no longer apply to the ballot measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_390_bill_20150406_amended_asm_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB390\u003c/a> is the bill Prop. 47 supporters have the most concern about. It would change the state’s DNA collection policy so that anyone convicted of any of the crimes reduced from felonies to misdemeanors by Prop. 47 would still have to submit their DNA to the state database. Anderson, of Californians for Safety and Justice, said her group opposes the bill because it looks only at misdemeanors covered by Prop. 47, like petty theft, while ignoring far more troubling convictions for misdemeanors such as battery or domestic violence. She wrote in a recent letter to the bill’s author that AB390’s “sole focus on the six crimes in Proposition 47 implies that it is not motivated by thoughtful policy analysis.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_1401-1450/ab_1415_bill_20150429_amended_asm_v97.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AB1415\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0301-0350/sb_347_bill_20150421_amended_sen_v98.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SB347\u003c/a> would make it a felony for someone convicted of the newly classified misdemeanors to have a gun. Backers of the bills say that while Prop. 47 already stated this, it didn’t change the state code.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Anderson and other supporters aren’t opposing AB1415 and SB347. But they argue the measures, as well as the two pieces of legislation dealing with stealing a firearm, are simply unnecessary -- because California already has so many laws on the books dealing with guns that a prosecutor will almost certainly always be able to charge someone with a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said the issues were discussed “at length during the campaign,” and that there’s “no question that any gun-related activity can and should be pursued as a felony.” She said opponents are simply interpreting the law differently than proponents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, one of the initiative’s backers, was more blunt. He said you have a “better chance of finding flying unicorns than you do of finding a situation” where someone stole a gun and could be charged only with a misdemeanor. He called any arguments to the contrary “disingenuous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Zahner, of the district attorneys group, said that if everyone agrees that stealing a gun should be a felony, the law should explicitly say so. He also said that prosecutors agree with Anderson, that more misdemeanors should be subject to DNA collection laws, but that it’s better to add some now than none at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zahner noted that Prop. 47 isn’t the only recent drastic change to California’s criminal justice system. In 2011, the state’s realignment law shifted responsibility for many lower-level felons from state prison and parole to county jails and probation. 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Their ability to approach how particular communities want things handled is being taken away, and it is frustrating for them, and it is a sea change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson, who worked as policy director for Kamala Harris when Harris was San Francisco’s district attorney, said supporters of Prop. 47 want the same things as law enforcement: safe communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California overrelied on its prison-first approach -- it built 22 prisons over a 25-year period, and increased prison spending by 1,500 percent … a skyrocketing amount of money and energy went into prison expansion, and you have to ask what we got. We got a high recidivism rate, and a depletion of resources for the prevention of crime at the local level,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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