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Federal prosecutors opposing Furminger's motion to remain free on bail bolstered their argument by including \u003ca href=\"#document\">transcripts of texts\u003c/a> between him and former SFPD colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'It was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology. And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.'\u003ccite>\u003ccite>Yulanda Williams,\u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>Officers for Justice President\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The messages contain various disparaging references to African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and gay people. Some of them were directed at specific officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams is president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, an association of SFPD officers formed in 1968 to advocate for the civil rights of minorities, women and LGBT people. One of the text exchanges that refers to her uses a derogatory phrase offensive to both black people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rather shocking to know that there were people working around me that had this type of ideology,\" Williams said in an interview with KQED's Sara Hossaini. Williams added that she is acquainted with Furminger and one of the officers under investigation, Michael Robison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I read it, it was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology,\" she said. \"And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice released a \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/uploads/3/3/4/0/3340987/text_press_release_1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement today\u003c/a> calling for complete transparency and expressing suspicion that \"Textgate\" goes beyond the four officers who San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed are under investigation for exchanging the messages with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said the department will pursue disciplinary action against the officers and conduct a review of its hiring and training policies in light of the disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is both shocking and disturbing to hear that four San Francisco police officers are under investigation for such heinous and despicable statements,\" Mayor Lee said in a statement Monday. \"The content of these text messages displays a bias that is incompatible with the values of our City and incompatible with the ability to perform sworn duties as a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said that he expected the officers involved to be fired \"if these statements are attributable to any San Francisco police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the problem of racial bias in the SFPD goes beyond the four officers currently under investigation. He's calling for a federal probe much like the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These texts display deep-rooted racism within members of the San Francisco Police Department,\" Adachi said in an interview Monday. \"Some of these texts are even more outrageous and hurtful than some of the emails from the Ferguson Police Department report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi cited a city report from 2013 that found 56 percent of San Francisco's jail inmates are African-American, despite making up just 6 percent of the city's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is the training that officers receive, and why do we have such a disproportionate rate of arresting and jailing African-Americans in San Francisco?\" Adachi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement he is \"deeply disturbed\" by the offensive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no place for bigotry in San Francisco,\" the statement said. \"In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past ten years where these officers were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr says the department will examine hiring and training policies in the wake of the disclosure of racist and homophobic text messages swapped among several police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the hiring/background processes to identify how anyone capable of statements of such extreme bias could be hired as police officers in the first place,\" Suhr wrote in a text reply to questions from KQED. \"We have training scheduled on implicit bias and we will be doing more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing three of four San Francisco officers under investigation for their part in the offensive texts have confirmed their clients' identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mortified to be involved in anything like this,\" said defense attorney Tony Brass, who is representing Officers Michael Robison and Michael Celis. \"They understand that this is going to have dire consequences for them both professionally and in the public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were made public in a court filing Friday by federal prosecutors opposing a bid by former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger to remain free on on bail while he appeals a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. The filing (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>) discloses only some of the text messages collected from Furminger's cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts repeatedly use epithets referring to black people, as well as disparaging references to Mexican and Filipino people. Some texts from Furminger also include slurs about gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said he doesn't yet know which texts were sent or received by which officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's four police officers involved and the one person that is identified as the hub of this is Ian Furminger,\" Brass said. \"But whether Mike Celis or Mike Robison are involved in the ones that are quite shocking, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said his first meeting with Police Department internal affairs investigators is scheduled for March 25, and his clients believe they could be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Wilkinson represents Officer Rain Daugherty. She confirmed via email that her client is under investigation for texts he traded with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Daugherty is appropriately ashamed by his impulsive and insensitive banter,\" Wilkinson wrote, \"and accepts full responsibility for the content of those text messages that he sent, which are by no means a reflection of his true character or his style of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokeswoman said Suhr would recommend all four officers be fired if the investigation proved racial bias. The final decision lies with the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officers-linked-to-racist-texts-were-all-veterans-6134489.php\" target=\"_blank\">identified the fourth officer\u003c/a> under investigation as Noel Schwab. His attorney did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Goldrosen is the latest in a series of attorneys representing Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ian Furminger is not a racist or homophobe,\" Goldrosen wrote in an email. \"His closest friends, both at work and in his social life, include many people of different races and sexual orientations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258927681/Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">motion for bail pending appeal\u003c/a> presents a dedicated, veteran police officer who coaches youth sports and volunteers at school functions, including as a physical education teacher for his children's schools. One of the texts released Friday references Furminger's concern about black children attending his son's school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Furminger actively promotes the fantasy that he is a person of character,\" federal prosecutors wrote in their response to the motion. \"Although these sort of overtly racist views sadly still are expressed in some communities, it is shocking and appalling to find a police officer in San Francisco who would give voice to them. Furminger’s willingness to do so -- which exemplifies his erratic and anti-social behavior -- should be taken into account.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Friday, March 13\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department says it's investigating four current members of the force who reportedly joined in an exchange of racist and homophobic text messages with an SFPD sergeant recently convicted on theft and corruption charges, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>), which were disclosed in a court filing by federal prosecutors on Friday, all involve former Sgt. Ian Furminger, convicted in December for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger is appealing his conviction to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was formerly a supervisor in the Police Department's Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department says the texts, sent between late 2011 and the middle of 2012, implicate four other officers who are now the subjects of a department inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Texts show Furminger and other officers swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It’s an internal affairs investigation looking into officers who have shown extreme bias, which has no place in the San Francisco Police Department,\" Sgt. Monica Macdonald said. \"The officers were reassigned some time ago while the investigation is under way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors included more than two dozen text conversations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a> opposing Furminger's request to remain out on bail while he awaits his appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">He was sentenced\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts show Furminger and other San Francisco police officers repeatedly swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers. In one exchange on Nov. 9, 2011, Furminger writes about his son's school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got two blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response, from an unnamed civilian: \"Do you celebrate qaunza [sic] at your school?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger: \"Yeah we burn the cross on the field! Then celebrate Whitemas ... Its worth every penny to live here [Walnut Creek] away from the savages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed officer texted the phrase \"White power\" to Furminger, who later repeats the phrase in a text to an SFPD officer. He also texted \"White power family\" to a civilian, followed by a redacted reference to his home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anonymous SFPD officer had a suggestion for Furminger after the convicted ex-sergeant texted that a friend of his wife's was visiting with her husband, who is black:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots,\" the response says. \"Its not against the law to put an animal down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger responded: \"Well said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger also repeatedly calls another officer a \"fag,\" and makes racist comments about Mexican and Filipino people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the texts were all recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone, it's not immediately clear whether the officers he was communicating with were using department-issued phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Macdonald said it doesn't necessarily matter, though, as the texts appear to violate SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=25894\" target=\"_blank\">policy prohibiting biased policing\u003c/a> either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone’s biased, whether this occurs on duty or off duty, it’s something we take very seriously,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's attorney did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Federal Judge Charles Breyer is expected to take up Furminger's bail motion next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"document\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the government's filing below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/258662847/content?start_page=10&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-4PrzG9WB90fKrpx5uYTj&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.2941176470588236\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_77667\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg, Dan Brekke and Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Text messages recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone were revealed in a federal court \u003ca href=\"#document\">filing\u003c/a> last week opposing Furminger's request for bail while he appeals his conviction on federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The messages initially implicated officers Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab, in addition to Robison. Furminger's motion was denied, and he's scheduled to surrender in early April for a prison sentence of three years and five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesman said Thursday that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10 additional officers\u003c/a> caught up in the probe are no longer under investigation. They had traded messages with Furminger, but those were \"deemed not inappropriate,\" the spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robison was openly gay and was quoted in \u003ca href=\"http://www.advocate.com/\" target=\"_blank\">The Advocate\u003c/a>, a national gay and lesbian news magazine in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Good+cop+gay+cop%3A+from+the+beat+patrol+to+the+precinct+house,+gay+and...-a020350566\" target=\"_blank\">1998 article\u003c/a> about challenges faced by gay police officers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The `good ol' boys' system is on its way out, and the newer generation that's replaced them sees things from a more open-minded standpoint. We have a common saying among people in the department: `When you're at work you're all wearing blue.' I really hand it to the people who came out back then because they really-paved-the way for us.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"Mike Robison is not a racist,\" Brass said. \"He works with people of varied ethnicity every day. He understands bigotry from the other side because as an openly gay officer, he exposes himself to a great deal of bigotry and well understands the hurt of that, and would never want to impose that on other people. The problem is that there really is no explanation that's going to satisfy his chief, the community or anyone regarding these texts. The texts are just literally -- they speak for themselves -- and there's no changing that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has joined the city's top prosecutor, public defender and police chief in condemning racist and homophobic texts that a court filing shows were exchanged among a group of San Francisco police officers.\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/196239694&visual=true&color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196239694'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were disclosed Friday in a motion involving former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger, who is facing 41 months in prison after being convicted in December on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Federal prosecutors opposing Furminger's motion to remain free on bail bolstered their argument by including \u003ca href=\"#document\">transcripts of texts\u003c/a> between him and former SFPD colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">'It was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology. And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.'\u003ccite>\u003ccite>Yulanda Williams,\u003c/cite>\u003c/cite>Officers for Justice President\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The messages contain various disparaging references to African-Americans, Latinos, Filipinos and gay people. Some of them were directed at specific officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams is president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/about-us.html\" target=\"_blank\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, an association of SFPD officers formed in 1968 to advocate for the civil rights of minorities, women and LGBT people. One of the text exchanges that refers to her uses a derogatory phrase offensive to both black people and women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was rather shocking to know that there were people working around me that had this type of ideology,\" Williams said in an interview with KQED's Sara Hossaini. Williams added that she is acquainted with Furminger and one of the officers under investigation, Michael Robison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I read it, it was very apparent to me that the messages were that of Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy ideology,\" she said. \"And I found them to be despicable, sickening, unacceptable, heart-wrenching conduct by members of a noble profession of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers for Justice released a \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/uploads/3/3/4/0/3340987/text_press_release_1.1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement today\u003c/a> calling for complete transparency and expressing suspicion that \"Textgate\" goes beyond the four officers who San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr confirmed are under investigation for exchanging the messages with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has said the department will pursue disciplinary action against the officers and conduct a review of its hiring and training policies in light of the disclosures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is both shocking and disturbing to hear that four San Francisco police officers are under investigation for such heinous and despicable statements,\" Mayor Lee said in a statement Monday. \"The content of these text messages displays a bias that is incompatible with the values of our City and incompatible with the ability to perform sworn duties as a police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said that he expected the officers involved to be fired \"if these statements are attributable to any San Francisco police officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi said the problem of racial bias in the SFPD goes beyond the four officers currently under investigation. He's calling for a federal probe much like the U.S. Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> of the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department released earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These texts display deep-rooted racism within members of the San Francisco Police Department,\" Adachi said in an interview Monday. \"Some of these texts are even more outrageous and hurtful than some of the emails from the Ferguson Police Department report.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi cited a city report from 2013 that found 56 percent of San Francisco's jail inmates are African-American, despite making up just 6 percent of the city's residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What is the training that officers receive, and why do we have such a disproportionate rate of arresting and jailing African-Americans in San Francisco?\" Adachi asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Attorney George Gascón said in a statement he is \"deeply disturbed\" by the offensive messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no place for bigotry in San Francisco,\" the statement said. \"In order to ensure our criminal justice system is fair and equitable, my office is conducting an immediate assessment of every prosecution within the past ten years where these officers were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Monday\u003c/strong>: San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr says the department will examine hiring and training policies in the wake of the disclosure of racist and homophobic text messages swapped among several police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We will look at the hiring/background processes to identify how anyone capable of statements of such extreme bias could be hired as police officers in the first place,\" Suhr wrote in a text reply to questions from KQED. \"We have training scheduled on implicit bias and we will be doing more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys representing three of four San Francisco officers under investigation for their part in the offensive texts have confirmed their clients' identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're mortified to be involved in anything like this,\" said defense attorney Tony Brass, who is representing Officers Michael Robison and Michael Celis. \"They understand that this is going to have dire consequences for them both professionally and in the public view.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts were made public in a court filing Friday by federal prosecutors opposing a bid by former San Francisco police Sgt. Ian Furminger to remain free on on bail while he appeals a conviction for fraud and conspiracy. The filing (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>) discloses only some of the text messages collected from Furminger's cell phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts repeatedly use epithets referring to black people, as well as disparaging references to Mexican and Filipino people. Some texts from Furminger also include slurs about gay people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said he doesn't yet know which texts were sent or received by which officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's four police officers involved and the one person that is identified as the hub of this is Ian Furminger,\" Brass said. \"But whether Mike Celis or Mike Robison are involved in the ones that are quite shocking, I don't know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brass said his first meeting with Police Department internal affairs investigators is scheduled for March 25, and his clients believe they could be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alison Wilkinson represents Officer Rain Daugherty. She confirmed via email that her client is under investigation for texts he traded with Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer Daugherty is appropriately ashamed by his impulsive and insensitive banter,\" Wilkinson wrote, \"and accepts full responsibility for the content of those text messages that he sent, which are by no means a reflection of his true character or his style of policing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A department spokeswoman said Suhr would recommend all four officers be fired if the investigation proved racial bias. The final decision lies with the city's Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Officers-linked-to-racist-texts-were-all-veterans-6134489.php\" target=\"_blank\">identified the fourth officer\u003c/a> under investigation as Noel Schwab. His attorney did not return calls for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Goldrosen is the latest in a series of attorneys representing Furminger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Ian Furminger is not a racist or homophobe,\" Goldrosen wrote in an email. \"His closest friends, both at work and in his social life, include many people of different races and sexual orientations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258927681/Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">motion for bail pending appeal\u003c/a> presents a dedicated, veteran police officer who coaches youth sports and volunteers at school functions, including as a physical education teacher for his children's schools. One of the texts released Friday references Furminger's concern about black children attending his son's school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Furminger actively promotes the fantasy that he is a person of character,\" federal prosecutors wrote in their response to the motion. \"Although these sort of overtly racist views sadly still are expressed in some communities, it is shocking and appalling to find a police officer in San Francisco who would give voice to them. Furminger’s willingness to do so -- which exemplifies his erratic and anti-social behavior -- should be taken into account.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Friday, March 13\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department says it's investigating four current members of the force who reportedly joined in an exchange of racist and homophobic text messages with an SFPD sergeant recently convicted on theft and corruption charges, KQED has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts (\u003ca href=\"#document\">read below\u003c/a>), which were disclosed in a court filing by federal prosecutors on Friday, all involve former Sgt. Ian Furminger, convicted in December for his role in a series of thefts from drug suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger is appealing his conviction to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He was formerly a supervisor in the Police Department's Mission District plainclothes unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department says the texts, sent between late 2011 and the middle of 2012, implicate four other officers who are now the subjects of a department inquiry.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright pullquote\">Texts show Furminger and other officers swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"It’s an internal affairs investigation looking into officers who have shown extreme bias, which has no place in the San Francisco Police Department,\" Sgt. Monica Macdonald said. \"The officers were reassigned some time ago while the investigation is under way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors included more than two dozen text conversations in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing\u003c/a> opposing Furminger's request to remain out on bail while he awaits his appeal. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">He was sentenced\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The texts show Furminger and other San Francisco police officers repeatedly swapping slurs about black people and gay people, including other police officers. In one exchange on Nov. 9, 2011, Furminger writes about his son's school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We got two blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The response, from an unnamed civilian: \"Do you celebrate qaunza [sic] at your school?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger: \"Yeah we burn the cross on the field! Then celebrate Whitemas ... Its worth every penny to live here [Walnut Creek] away from the savages.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unnamed officer texted the phrase \"White power\" to Furminger, who later repeats the phrase in a text to an SFPD officer. He also texted \"White power family\" to a civilian, followed by a redacted reference to his home address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An anonymous SFPD officer had a suggestion for Furminger after the convicted ex-sergeant texted that a friend of his wife's was visiting with her husband, who is black:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots,\" the response says. \"Its not against the law to put an animal down.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger responded: \"Well said.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger also repeatedly calls another officer a \"fag,\" and makes racist comments about Mexican and Filipino people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the texts were all recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone, it's not immediately clear whether the officers he was communicating with were using department-issued phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Macdonald said it doesn't necessarily matter, though, as the texts appear to violate SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=25894\" target=\"_blank\">policy prohibiting biased policing\u003c/a> either way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone’s biased, whether this occurs on duty or off duty, it’s something we take very seriously,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger's attorney did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Federal Judge Charles Breyer is expected to take up Furminger's bail motion next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"document\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the government's filing below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/258662847/content?start_page=10&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-4PrzG9WB90fKrpx5uYTj&show_recommendations=false\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"1.2941176470588236\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_77667\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Ted Goldberg, Dan Brekke and Sara Hossaini contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The number of criminal convictions and pending cases affected by the growing group of San Francisco police officers involved in a text messaging scandal could increase \"exponentially\" as the credibility of more officers is called into question, a spokeswoman for the city's public defender said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/M-R-SFPD-looking-at-10-more-officers-in-6139314.php\" target=\"_blank\">broke the news\u003c/a> that an additional 10 SFPD officers are the subject of an internal affairs investigation for allegedly exchanging inappropriate texts with former Sgt. Ian Furminger. That's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">in addition to four officers\u003c/a> previously known to be under investigation for trading racist and homophobic messages with Furminger, who was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys confirmed the original four officers under investigation are Michael Robison, Michael Celis, Rain Daugherty and Noel Schwab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've been reassigned to positions that keep them out of public contact, according to the department. That's not the case with the newly discovered group of 10 officers, San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There were 10 officers that came to the POA seeking representation\" about two weeks ago, Halloran said. \"I do not believe that these officers are under investigation at the same scope or the same level as the initial four officers, because these 10 additional officers have not been reassigned.\" He said they're still serving out in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran said he does not know why the new group of officers is under investigation, but a source close to the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed the probe stems from text messages recovered from Furminger's personal cellphone. The source cautioned against \"painting those additional officers with the same brush as the other four,\" adding that messages involving the latest group of officers may have been inappropriate, but not racist or homophobic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr did not respond when asked by KQED to comment on the increasing number of officers under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Jeff Adachi said his office, along with the district attorney, is beginning to review a decade of prosecutions involving the original four officers -- estimated to be about 1,000 cases. He said they are looking at the facts of each individual case for instances when an African-American defendant disputed one of the officers' accounts of a search, investigation or arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officer credibility is key in any case,\" Adachi said. \"Where you have these officers who were principal players in these cases, and they have a record of being involved in this kind of horrible behavior, no prosecutor is going to want to put them on the stand. Those cases are likely going to be dismissed, and that’s what I’d expect from our district attorney.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender's Office spokeswoman Tamara Aparton said that number will likely grow when more comes out about the content of the texts involving the group of 10 officers. She said 792 cases were dismissed after Adachi's office uncovered surveillance video from SRO hotels that appeared to show plainclothes officers conducting illegal searches. The videos led to a federal criminal investigation and the eventual indictment of Furminger and five other SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford law professor Robert Weisberg said defendants seeking to overturn a past conviction typically face a very high legal hurdle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not like the dramatic DNA exoneration evidence that you see in many of the publicized cases,\" Weisberg said. \"The newly discovered evidence is at best, not to minimize it, impeachment of the word of a police officer, where it may or may not have made a material difference in the case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, that doesn't necessarily mean scores of past and pending prosecutions won't be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some cases may get reopened, maybe lots of cases will get reopened,\" Weisberg said, \"not because of formal legal appeals or post-conviction proceedings, but because the police department, District Attorney George Gascón, the city generally just decides, 'We think it’s the right thing to do, and we the officials will go to the court and request a reopening and maybe even a dismissal in some cases.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi is pressing the SFPD for policy changes following the scandal. The Racial Justice Committee of the Public Defender's Office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/03/racial-justice-committee-plan-for-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10-point plan\u003c/a> for police reform Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We welcome the opportunity that this crisis presents,\" committee co-chair Rebecca Young said. \"It becomes a cancer that infects an entire neighborhood, where the people in the community do not like and profoundly mistrust the police, and that creates an officer safety issue as well as a health and safety issue for the people living in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee highlighted three recommendations most directly linked to curbing the kind of racism exhibited in the texts. Young and her colleagues recommend a minimum 24 hours of training on implicit bias and its effects, including perspectives of people of color who have been unlawfully detained. They're pushing for yearly reviews of all field training officers -- experienced officers who train rookies -- with a focus on any history of racial bias, excessive force or illegal search and seizures \"to determine if they are fit to train other officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee is also calling for the department to assign officers to patrol neighborhoods in which they live, and to attract more officers who are people of color to work and live in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the union's part, Halloran said the text messages do not reflect the views of the vast majority of SFPD officers. The POA released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXHHdWcgF6k\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> yesterday extolling San Francisco's diverse police force in response to the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department is one of the most diverse in the United States of America,\" he said. \"The POA is appalled with those messages. I'm shocked and I'm sickened by them. It does not reflect on the hard-working men and women that are out on the streets 24/7 serving our public. This is a very, very small fraction of members that are caught up in this text messaging debacle.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Racial Justice Committee of the Public Defender's Office unveiled a \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2015/03/racial-justice-committee-plan-for-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">10-point plan\u003c/a> for police reform Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We welcome the opportunity that this crisis presents,\" committee co-chair Rebecca Young said. \"It becomes a cancer that infects an entire neighborhood, where the people in the community do not like and profoundly mistrust the police, and that creates an officer safety issue as well as a health and safety issue for the people living in these communities.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee highlighted three recommendations most directly linked to curbing the kind of racism exhibited in the texts. Young and her colleagues recommend a minimum 24 hours of training on implicit bias and its effects, including perspectives of people of color who have been unlawfully detained. 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"content": "\u003cp>Getting a job and finding housing you can afford in a new city is hard enough. Imagine doing that as an ex-felon, someone out on parole after decades in prison. After committing murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout California there are now nearly 2,100 ex-lifers, as they're called when they're out on parole. The good news is that an extremely low percentage of them return to prison for committing a new felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, they face a daunting gauntlet of challenges. Now the state Division of Adult Parole Operations is operating four pilot projects in which ex-lifers are helping each other make a successful transition to the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I attended one of their monthly meetings this week in San Francisco. It was held in a cramped windowless room at the parole office in the city's Mission District. Dozens of ex-lifers were there; the vast majority had committed one or more murders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195757925\" 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>They began with a check-in, going around the room saying their names and how long they've been out of prison. The theme for this day was crime victims and how what these people did affected the lives of so many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most emotional moment involved 62-year-old Linda Candelaria. After 40 years in prison, she expressed her regrets as if her crime had happened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did I do it? Why?\" she shrieked, tears streaming from her eyes. \"You know ’cuz they didn't even know me. And yet I went into their home and killed them. For what?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the start of this meeting, Candelaria was joking with her fellow parolees. But she soon turned deeply serious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My victims had a family and I destroyed their family and I destroyed their lives as well,\" she said. \"You can't make up for that, and I could never make up for what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Candelaria got out on parole three years ago. She \u003cem>still\u003c/em> wonders if she really \u003cem>deserves\u003c/em> to be out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, what do we do to get past that grief?\" she said. \"Not the grief I feel for myself. For them, especially because I took two older people's lives. And for what? For nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This meeting is a support group, an experimental peer mentoring program. 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And I'm always surprised at how thoughtful and reflective they are -- especially given what they did to land them in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Alisha Nolan Taplett. She was living in Sacramento when she got behind the wheel of a car with some friends out to settle a score.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was just looking at myself as the driver in the beginning,\" she admitted. \"Well, I didn't kill anybody. But at the end of the day and every day, I still have to remind myself if it hadn't been for me driving that vehicle, that young woman could still be alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Taplett what she'd say to a young person today who finds himself or herself in a situation where they're being asked to drive a getaway car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If someone asks you to drive a car and you know that a homicide is going to take place, maybe you should pick up the phone and call 911,\" she said without hesitation. \"But that's one of the things that we fail to do in our communities as well, because we don't want to be labeled as that snitch. 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"content": "\u003cp>The case against Melissa Reyes' landlord was open and shut, her attorney promised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, city officials documented the dismal conditions at her family's South San Francisco apartment unit -- a broken heater, leaky faucets, raw sewage pouring into the garage, rotting floors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most upsetting to Reyes: Her 3-year-old son slipped on the wet floor and broke his arm falling down the unit's steep staircase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she and her husband got to court, a judge said he couldn't set a trial date for at least a year. Because of state budget cuts, \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/partners/documents/County_Budget_Snapshot_SanMateo_2014.pdf\">San Mateo County has shuttered four courtrooms\u003c/a> and limited civil trials to one or two per week for the entire county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Reyes family settled the case, for less than they believe they could have received at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/195518588\" 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>Their story is not unusual, say judges and lawyers around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California courts -- like most state-funded programs -- suffered deep budget reductions during the recession and have yet to fully recover. Since 2008, according to the Judicial Council of California, thousands of court staffers have lost jobs while 52 courthouses and more than 200 courtrooms have been shuttered. In some counties, residents must now make a long drive to a different city to simply pay a fine; in all, the council estimates that 2.1 million Californians have lost access to a courtroom in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It felt like we were just second-class citizens -- like it didn't matter ... just settle it for whatever they are giving you.' \u003ccite>Melissa Reyes \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The improving economy is slowly allowing the state to pump more taxpayer dollars back into the trial court system, but court officials and lawyers say the deep cuts can still be felt -- particularly in civil courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also more expensive now to access court services: Fines and fees for court services were temporarily increased in 2012, and Gov. 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The family lost most of its possessions in flooding and left others behind when they were suddenly forced out of the unit; their one car needed repairs; and when they finally found an apartment to move into, the rent was triple what they had been paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes, a See's Candies manager and her husband, Miguel Reyes, a driver for disabled adults, said it was a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The judge was telling us, you know, it could take up to five years, like it could be a year, it could be two years, it could just get extended, extended, extended, there are only so many judges ... and he was trying to convince me to settle,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt\u003ci> \u003c/i>like we were just second-class citizens -- like it didn't matter ... just settle it for whatever they are giving you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Reyes family did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers say these types of situations -- where plaintiffs feel compelled to cut a deal even if they have a strong case -- are playing out all over California. Compounding matters, many court-sponsored mediation services have been cut back, forcing both sides to pay two or three times as much to simply get to a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Civil Court Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays extend to other areas of the law as well. Family court budgets have been slashed, making it difficult for parents to quickly secure child support payment orders or sort out custody issues, said Martin Hoshino, administrative director of the Judicial Council. He said he's also heard stories of restraining orders being delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the most pronounced effects are in the area of family (law) -- if you talk to any of the courts, they will tell you this is a real problem, because some of these are issues of reunification of families, or they are adoptions, or these are decisions that are being delayed that are aimed at helping some of the more vulnerable parts of our populations,\" Hoshino said. \"And that has cause for great concern among a lot of the judicial officials or court administrators that I speak to in terms of what are the real impacts of saying that a courtroom or courthouse is closed and really unavailable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For others, the closures have created physical barriers to access, Hoshino said: There are long lines, shorter hours and longer distances between courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not everybody has the means to take that kind of time off -- they may not even have the transportation means,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the constant pushing back of trial dates makes it difficult for small law firms, said Reyes' lawyer, Joe Tobener.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he will no longer take cases in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For a small firm like ours,\" he said, \"a predictable stream of income is everything -- we can’t hire. And no one is gonna cry for the trial attorneys but, at the same time, we hire a lot of people and we use a lot of resources: Process servers, paralegals, deposition companies. It has a broader economic impact if lawyers aren't able to get access to the courtroom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impacts are even more devastating for clients, Tobener said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It really limits access to justice because plaintiffs need to be able to bring their case to trial -- the trial date is everything,\" he said. \"If a defense attorney can delay and delay and delay, they certainly will. And it will drive up the cost of the litigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Discouraging' Delays\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges are frustrated as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Kuhl, Los Angeles Superior Court's presiding judge, said L.A. made 10 percent across-the-board cuts to court services in 2012, but it wasn't enough. So the next year, they made further cuts. In all, 79 courtrooms were shuttered, limiting where people can contest traffic tickets or adjudicate small claims cases. The court has also cut mediation services and eliminated court reporters in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.' \u003ccite>Judge Carolyn Kuhl \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said L.A. has tried to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable -- children -- by keeping as many resources as possible in family and dependency courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So civil cases are essentially what's left,\" she said. \"There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuhl said the setbacks are especially disheartening because she and others have worked for decades to shorten the amount of time it takes to resolve civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And to see those gains essentially be lost -- as we now have delays such that the number of cases pending over two years has tripled -- is very discouraging,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor proposed adding around $180 million to the courts' budget next fiscal year, an investment that Hoshino said the council is eager to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians shouldn't expect a quick fix after years of cuts, he warned: Fines and fee revenues have decreased in recent years, trial courts will still have smaller budgets than they did before the recession, and a new formula -- aimed at lining up court funding more accurately with the actual services provided by each county -- will mean less money next year for 17 counties, including San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, San Diego and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long term, Hoshino said, \"the net effect will be the improvement of services and the uniformity of services for all Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, \"you will still hear that some courts still have shortened hours, while some are lengthening their hours. 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The family lost most of its possessions in flooding and left others behind when they were suddenly forced out of the unit; their one car needed repairs; and when they finally found an apartment to move into, the rent was triple what they had been paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes, a See's Candies manager and her husband, Miguel Reyes, a driver for disabled adults, said it was a stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The judge was telling us, you know, it could take up to five years, like it could be a year, it could be two years, it could just get extended, extended, extended, there are only so many judges ... and he was trying to convince me to settle,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt\u003ci> \u003c/i>like we were just second-class citizens -- like it didn't matter ... just settle it for whatever they are giving you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Reyes family did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers say these types of situations -- where plaintiffs feel compelled to cut a deal even if they have a strong case -- are playing out all over California. Compounding matters, many court-sponsored mediation services have been cut back, forcing both sides to pay two or three times as much to simply get to a settlement agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Civil Court Ripple Effect\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays extend to other areas of the law as well. Family court budgets have been slashed, making it difficult for parents to quickly secure child support payment orders or sort out custody issues, said Martin Hoshino, administrative director of the Judicial Council. 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In all, 79 courtrooms were shuttered, limiting where people can contest traffic tickets or adjudicate small claims cases. The court has also cut mediation services and eliminated court reporters in civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.' \u003ccite>Judge Carolyn Kuhl \u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She said L.A. has tried to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable -- children -- by keeping as many resources as possible in family and dependency courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So civil cases are essentially what's left,\" she said. \"There has never been this kind of pressure on the courts in my time of practice, which stretches back into the 1970s.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kuhl said the setbacks are especially disheartening because she and others have worked for decades to shorten the amount of time it takes to resolve civil cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And to see those gains essentially be lost -- as we now have delays such that the number of cases pending over two years has tripled -- is very discouraging,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor proposed adding around $180 million to the courts' budget next fiscal year, an investment that Hoshino said the council is eager to see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Californians shouldn't expect a quick fix after years of cuts, he warned: Fines and fee revenues have decreased in recent years, trial courts will still have smaller budgets than they did before the recession, and a new formula -- aimed at lining up court funding more accurately with the actual services provided by each county -- will mean less money next year for 17 counties, including San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo, San Diego and Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long term, Hoshino said, \"the net effect will be the improvement of services and the uniformity of services for all Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for now, \"you will still hear that some courts still have shortened hours, while some are lengthening their hours. 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"content": "\u003cp>Jill, not her real name because she fears retribution, said she rose to the top of her pimp’s list of prostitutes because she was an asset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent morning, the blond 32-year-old with tough blue eyes spoke with a mix of pride and sorrow about turning tricks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the pimps I dealt with made it very clear to everyone that I was the baddest bitch out there,” Jill said. “I knew how to get money. 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But since 2011, law enforcement officials have busted three significant trafficking rings across the county involving gang members pimping out girls as young as 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statistics are also nonexistent on how many bottoms there are in the county. But Barrett said they’re beginning to see more women involved in the logistical end of pimping in larger gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to cut the head off the snake, so we’re seeing it more,” Barrett said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said she became a \"bottom\" in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her pimp preyed on girls who needed money for food, clothes or drugs. She regrets her role in turning the girls into sex trafficking victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It hurt me in a lot of ways because some of these girls were not even old enough to understand what it was to be a prostitute,” she said. “I look back in my mind to when I was 11 or 12 years old and my mom was doing the same thing to me, and I wished that I could turn back the hands of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKYC0PYRSb8&w=640&h=360]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jill said her mother first sexually trafficked her when she was 11, in exchange for drugs. Jill eventually made it to the bottom position after years of working with different pimps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Agent Robert Howe called that track a path of endurance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bottom is typically a young lady who has survived through the victimization of prostitution as a minor for a number of years and graduated into a position of responsibility for a male who is referred to as a pimp but in reality is a violent pedophile,” Howe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pimps use bottoms to insulate themselves from police scrutiny. As a result, Howe said, many of the women take on management of the girls, overseeing financial transactions and recruitment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrett said many bottoms are particularly effective at luring in new girls by befriending them at continuation schools, bus and trolley stops, and shopping malls. They can also be brutal enforcers of pimps’ rules, making it tough for the criminal justice system to dole out punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oftentimes, the female pimps and traffickers were themselves victims,” said Summer Stephan, a San Diego County deputy district attorney. “That’s a factor that makes it very complex, because at one point is the person still a victim or a perpetrator?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10450110\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10450110\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Agent Robert Howe.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe-320x180.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/AgentRobertHowe.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI Agent Robert Howe. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Getting a bottom to turn on her pimp is another challenge prosecutors face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”They’re in a family,” Barrett said. “They have someone who cares for them. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of Mexicans deported from Southern California could be eligible to return under an agreement between federal authorities and the ACLU. The civil rights group in 2013 \u003ca title=\"Lopez-Venegas lawsuit\" href=\"https://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/lopez-venegas-v-johnson-complaint\">sued\u003c/a> the government on behalf of nine plaintiffs who claim U.S. border agents pressured them into signing voluntary departure papers while in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those plaintiffs is Gerardo Hernandez-Contreras. He came to the U.S. illegally about 15 years ago. He settled down in San Diego, found work and eventually married a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But ACLU attorney Gabriela Rivera says Hernandez-Contreras hadn’t yet adjusted his legal status when he got pulled over by police for a traffic violation. When his legal status was exposed, Rivera says he was hustled into a U.S. Border Patrol station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/194398439\" 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>“They presented him with a voluntary return form and told him that he could fix his papers from Mexico,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What authorities didn’t tell Hernandez-Contreras is that by taking a voluntary departure, he would face a 10-year wait to re-enter the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the settlement struck last week, immigration authorities must establish clear guidelines for the processing of potential voluntary return cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, thousands of people who took voluntary departures from Southern California to Mexico within a five-year period ending last August might be able to come back to the U.S. to argue their cases before an immigration judge. But that doesn’t guarantee they can stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We did not win legal status for anyone who was subjected to these voluntary return practices,” says Rivera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re back in the same position that they were in when they should have been given a meaningful opportunity to decide whether to see a judge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify, immigrants must show that they have some kind of legal footing on which to stand. In the case of Hernandez-Contreras, it’s the fact that he was wed to an American citizen at the time of his deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Vaughn says it is possible that some immigrants were misled by border agents. But that doesn’t mean the deportees who agreed to deportation should be allowed to come back, she says. Vaughn is a policy analyst with the \u003ca title=\"CIS House Committe testimony\" href=\"http://cis.org/Testimony/Vaughan-DHS-Immigration-Enforcement-Oversight\">Center for Immigration Studies\u003c/a>, based in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would have been possible to retrain agents and officers or investigate individual cases if it looks like they might have been coerced,” says Vaughn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This so-called cure is going to be more painful for the system than the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vaughn worries that a spike in new cases will further burden already overwhelmed immigration courts in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some 200,000 immigrants accepted voluntary departures between June 2009 and August 2014, the period covered by the lawsuit. It’s unclear how many of those people would qualify to seek redress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ACLU says it’s already fielded dozens of calls from deportees in Mexico and their relatives seeking advice on how to apply for a return to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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