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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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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>California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday received an extension of next week's deadline to process a proposed ballot initiative that advocates killing anyone who engages in gay sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris asked a state court in late March for permission to reject \u003ca href=\"http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/15-0008%20%28Sodomy%29_0.pdf?\" target=\"_blank\">the measure\u003c/a>, calling it obviously unconstitutional and \"utterly reprehensible.\" But since a judge has not yet acted on the unusual request, she said in legal papers filed Wednesday that she would be legally bound to clear the initiative's author on Monday to start pursuing the 366,000 signatures needed to put the law before voters in November 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Steven Rodda agreed on Thursday to give the attorney general until June 25 to prepare an official title and ballot summary for the initiative, which would amend the California Penal Code to make sex with a person of the same gender an offense punishable by \"bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general plans to move to have her original request to quash the measure granted by default. Her office said in its appeal for more time that the Orange County lawyer who paid $200 to submit the initiative, Matthew McLaughlin, has not attempted to defend his so-called Sodomite Suppression Act in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing included a copy of a letter, signed by a Matt McLaughlin and mailed from the same Huntington Beach address used for the initiative, saying that McLaughlin did not intend to respond to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Costly litigation is not something that you may require me to incur prior to exercising my rights under both the California Constitution and the initiative statute,\" said the letter dated April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLaughlin did not respond to a telephone call Thursday seeking to verify he was the letter's author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gathering the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to qualify an initiative in California is expensive and time-consuming. Of the dozens submitted to the attorney general each year, few make it on the ballot. But McLaughlin's proposal, which even die-hard conservative groups in California have repudiated, has renewed calls for reforming how easy it is for residents with an ax to grind to gain clearance to circulate their proposals at shopping centers and in other public places while seeking signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Shoot-the-gays-author-won-t-fight-effort-to-6249904.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle quotes\u003c/a> McLaughlin's April 2 letter as threatening legal action to get his initiative on the ballot if state officials try to block it: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Take notice that if your office and the California secretary of state refuse to clear the Sodomite Suppression Act for signature circulation, I may demand as remedy that it be placed on the election ballot directly.\" Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s office said it was unaware of any mechanism to place a measure on the ballot other than the standard procedures of gathering at least 365,000 signatures of registered voters or, for certain types of laws, winning legislative approval. The only other route would be a lawsuit.]\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The agitation aroused by McLaughlin's initiative has reached as far as his law school alma mater, Virginia's George Mason University School of Law. After being inundated with calls and emails demanding that the school renounce both the measure and its 1998 graduate, Dean Daniel Polsby wrote a letter to the campus community saying it was neither the school's place nor inclination to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. McLaughlin's filing suggests views that undeniably are out of keeping with the normal civilities of life. But so far as appears, they are also lawful and constitutionally protected expressions,\" Polsby said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.’\u003ccite>Dickran Tevrizian\u003cbr>\nRetired U.S. District Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If just one individual was wrongly imprisoned, that’s one too many,” Gascón said Thursday. “On the other end, if we have someone that actually committed a crime, but that prosecution is compromised because of the credibility of this individual, we have a guilty person that may be released and continue to present a danger to all of us. The impacts both on liberty and victims are similarly unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said the number of arrests and prosecutions affected is preliminary. He said judges and other members of a task force he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a month ago\u003c/a> will prioritize the 70 or so cases involving people currently in custody. The judges are working autonomously on cases affected by the texting scandal and culture of the police department, Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His task force is also investigating the SFPD’s DNA crime lab and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations\u003c/a> that sheriff’s deputies forced inmates to fight in one of the city’s jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney said prosecutors have so far dismissed eight pending cases involving officers implicated in the text messaging scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel of retired judges consists of Cruz Reynoso, LaDoris Cordell and Dickran Tevrizian. Reynoso is a former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cordell was a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge for 19 years and is currently the independent auditor for the San Jose Police Department. Tevrizian was a federal judge in California’s Central District for more than 20 years, retiring in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police officers have to abide by the constitutional protections that are guaranteed to each and every one of us as citizens or residents of this country,” he said. “I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oLQT5degXnAtqYdXS9DwbnCQNfZ1aXs4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firing seven officers\u003c/a> who exchanged texts with former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy to violate civil rights charges in December. 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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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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of KQED's ongoing health series \u003ca title=\"Vital Signs\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/series/vital-signs/\" target=\"_blank\">Vital Signs\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sia Kailahi is a tough-looking amateur boxer with dark eyeliner and tattoo-covered arms, but today her boxing gloves are off. She tosses up a volleyball and smacks a serve over a net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A dozen people, laughing, keep the ball airborne at Bell Street Park in East Palo Alto. The park sits right next to a freeway exit in a city that remains an important \u003ca title=\"http://archive.peninsulapress.com/2014/06/11/east-palo-alto-gang-crime/\" href=\"http://archive.peninsulapress.com/2014/06/11/east-palo-alto-gang-crime/\" target=\"_blank\">hub of gang activity\u003c/a>, partly because it's an easy stop-off point for buying and selling drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the park’s visibility may also be a reason why these volleyball games have helped reduce shootings in the area, according \u003ca title=\"https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research/featured/assessing-an-innovative-policing-program\" href=\"https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research/featured/assessing-an-innovative-policing-program\" target=\"_blank\">to a new report\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley’s Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy. These are not just pickup games, but part of East Palo Alto’s \"FIT Zones.\" The acronym is short for \"Fitness Improvement Training,\" but the program is equal parts community building and public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">“I think people in the community can really appreciate us being out here making our city look like a livable place,” said Kailahi, on the sidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202799389\" 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 style=\"text-align: left\">In 2012, the police department started FIT Zones in the places with the highest concentration of gunshots. Researchers had used data from ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, to select the sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overall idea,” said Melvin Gaines, who works for the City of East Palo Alto and has been with the project since it started, is for “residents to overwhelm the negative activities with positive things, so bad guys don’t feel comfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With police officers providing security, community members began riding bikes, playing soccer and volleyball, and taking free nutrition classes from the staff of a nearby health clinic. Participation grew over time, and today dozens of people show up three times a week at different East Palo Alto parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Where Shootings Are Down\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found that there was a statistically significant decline in shootings after the introduction of FIT Zones,” said report co-author Sarah Lawrence, with the UC Berkeley Law School's Warren Institute. “There is a huge potential for this type of initiative.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Lawrence and her colleagues compared FIT zone sites to neighborhoods with similar demographics over 17 months, they found that shootings were at least 27 percent lower in the FIT zones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the shooting reduction was not uniform at the two sites. Shootings decreased significantly around one site -- Jack Farrell Park -- but there was not a significant reduction around the other site, Martin Luther King, Jr. Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25295\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-25295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-800x612.jpg\" alt=\"A violence reduction intervention that was successful elsewhere in East Palo Alto did not seem to work at MLK Park. The park's lack of visibility may be one reason why: a half-dozen of these signs lead visitors through the neighborhood to arrive at the park (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"800\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-800x612.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-400x306.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-1440x1102.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-1180x903.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/05/EPA-MLK-Park-960x734.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FIT Zones did not reduce shootings around MLK Park. The park's lack of visibility may be one reason why: a half-dozen of these signs lead visitors through the neighborhood to arrive at the park. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The study does not explain why FIT Zones worked only in one place, but Lawrence said the parks’ locations within their respective neighborhoods may have made a difference. Jack Farrell is central and visible, so anyone walking by could see cops and kids playing together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MLK Park, by contrast, is so hidden that the city has put up a half-dozen signs with arrows leading visitors through the neighborhood to the park. The entrance is at the end of a cul-de-sac, and most of the park faces the San Francisco Bay. That makes it harder for residents to notice that more people, and police, are using the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Public Health Approach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fit Zones are about reducing shootings, but also about improving health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that communities like East Palo Alto suffer from high chronic disease rates as well as high crime,” said Gaines. “Assuming people are less active in East Palo Alto out of fear, we asked, 'Can we do something that addresses both?' And the answer was Fit Zones.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence credits the city's police chief at the time, Ron Davis, for implementing the program. Davis thought \"the police department had a role to play in the health of residents,” said Lawrence. “He is a visionary guy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In East Palo Alto, shootings are down, and people at Bell Street Park said that a safe place to play has helped them improve their own health. A 14-year-old girl named Paluteia was playing volleyball after rock-band practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of my family is overweight,” she said, but “seeing other people work out, it's motivating. I can do more, and there are other people who will do it with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I started, I was 397 pounds,” said Smokey, another regular. “I weighed myself last Saturday, and I was 332 pounds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, health indicators are much worse in East Palo Alto than in the surrounding affluent cities. Life expectancy is 62 years -- \u003ca title=\"https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6tn8tBvwD1sC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=Demographic+Changes,+a+View+from+California:+Implications+for+Framing+Health+Disparities:+Workshop+Summary.+National+Academies+Press,+p.+35‐6%3B+Babey+et+al.+(2011).&ots=8vihjh43lz&sig=KqLLCPxmyrcwlJtXSA0oUIvWAaE#v=onepage&q&f=false\" href=\"https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=6tn8tBvwD1sC&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=Demographic+Changes,+a+View+from+California:+Implications+for+Framing+Health+Disparities:+Workshop+Summary.+National+Academies+Press,+p.+35%E2%80%906%3B+Babey+et+al.+(2011).&ots=8vihjh43lz&sig=KqLLCPxmyrcwlJtXSA0oUIvWAaE#v=onepage&q&f=false\" target=\"_blank\">13 years less\u003c/a> than the San Mateo County average. Half of all kids in East Palo Alto are overweight or obese, \u003ca title=\"http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/research/patchworkdocs/OFT%20brief_final.pdf\" href=\"http://www.publichealthadvocacy.org/research/patchworkdocs/OFT%20brief_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">compared with 34 percent\u003c/a> in the rest of the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Changing Relationship Between Cops and Community\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, FIT Zones are an opportunity to interact differently with police in a community where mistrust is common.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a dark place,” said Kailahi, “I could be scared of them, and they could be scared of me -- we don't know each other. But we’re in the light, we’re saying hello.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just like regular people. 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He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. 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That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k2bfGY98IQGO7ilwnvV0SL1Yy11hYxr6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi also addressed a recent inmate escape, saying he'd seek to fire a deputy who appeared not to follow protocol. The sheriff is facing a re-election challenge from former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicky Hennessy, who was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deputies-endorse-Hennessy-over-Mirkarimi-in-6181889.php\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed\u003c/a> by the deputies' union on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing them back no longer requires us to keep them on paid time off,\" he said. \"That's why we're bringing them back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation continues, led by San Francisco's district attorney with assistance from the FBI, and none of the four deputies have been exonerated, Mirkarimi said. He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. Their names are Scott Neu, Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely. The law firm representing the deputies did not return a call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal inquiry officially started April 3. Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said the FBI investigation is at a very early stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Civil rights allegations are definitely huge for the bureau,\" Wuthrich said. \"These kind of things, we take very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is wading into a crowded group of agencies probing the sheriff's department. That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "S.F. Mayor and Police Announce New Body Camera Initiative",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A day after San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón called for all San Francisco police officers to wear body cameras by early next year, Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr announced an initiative that does exactly that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón sent a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/263594953/Letter-S-F-District-Attorney-to-Mayor-Board-and-Police-Chief-Calling-for-Body-Cams\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> to Lee, Suhr and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Wednesday calling for all officers to be issued body-worn video cameras by the start of 2016, with footage from every arrest to be included with police reports, starting six months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hoping that the mayor and the board will take this to heart, and that we stop playing games,\" Gascón said Wednesday at a meeting of city criminal justice officials to discuss racial disparities in law enforcement. \"We have now been talking about cameras for the San Francisco Police Department for over a year, and yet we still don't have them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203362671\" 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>Lee announced that he'll propose $6.6 million in his budget to purchase 1,600 to 1,800 body-worn cameras over the next two years. He says that funding should cover software, data storage and additional staffing to maintain the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a role for technology to be playing in allowing us to build more public trust and also transparency and accountability with our residents,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several supervisors joined Lee at his announcement, including board President London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said city leaders have an opportunity to dedicate funding \"necessary to repair some of the damage that has been done with the public trust. I think we will be a better city as a result of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr, who for months has expressed concern about the cost of storing terrabytes of video data and responding to public records requests for footage, said he'd like to finalize policy governing the cameras \"as soon as we can so that we get the cameras on the officers, to work on the trust that's been damaged over the recent months in certain communities here in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10508463\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 431px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10508463\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-800x691.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced a proposal to purchase 1,600 to 1,800 police body cameras over the next two years.\" width=\"431\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-800x691.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-400x345.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-1440x1244.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-1180x1019.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-960x829.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced a proposal to purchase 1,600 to 1,800 police body cameras over the next two years. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a win-win situation that protects good people from both sides of the lens,\" Suhr said. \"The officers know they're wearing them, so their behavior is going to be better. And by telling the citizens that they're going to be on camera, then the citizen's going to behave better, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Suhr are aiming to deploy cameras on every patrol officer by early 2016. Suhr said the process should definitely be completed within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> a $250,000 federal grant and camera pilot program in January 2014, but the pilot never launched. The department first accepted and then declined KQED's request for an interview on the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point our department still has not finalized any policy, still looking at best practices and developing protocol,\" Officer Albie Esparza, department spokesman, wrote in an email last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department refused to provide documents related to the bidding process or federal grant.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a role for technology to be playing in allowing us to build more public trust and also transparency and accountability with our residents,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several supervisors joined Lee at his announcement, including board President London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said city leaders have an opportunity to dedicate funding \"necessary to repair some of the damage that has been done with the public trust. I think we will be a better city as a result of this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr, who for months has expressed concern about the cost of storing terrabytes of video data and responding to public records requests for footage, said he'd like to finalize policy governing the cameras \"as soon as we can so that we get the cameras on the officers, to work on the trust that's been damaged over the recent months in certain communities here in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10508463\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 431px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10508463\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-800x691.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced a proposal to purchase 1,600 to 1,800 police body cameras over the next two years.\" width=\"431\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-800x691.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-400x345.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-1440x1244.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-1180x1019.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee-960x829.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/EdLee.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced a proposal to purchase 1,600 to 1,800 police body cameras over the next two years. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's a win-win situation that protects good people from both sides of the lens,\" Suhr said. \"The officers know they're wearing them, so their behavior is going to be better. And by telling the citizens that they're going to be on camera, then the citizen's going to behave better, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee and Suhr are aiming to deploy cameras on every patrol officer by early 2016. Suhr said the process should definitely be completed within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> a $250,000 federal grant and camera pilot program in January 2014, but the pilot never launched. The department first accepted and then declined KQED's request for an interview on the pilot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point our department still has not finalized any policy, still looking at best practices and developing protocol,\" Officer Albie Esparza, department spokesman, wrote in an email last Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department refused to provide documents related to the bidding process or federal grant.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The city’s arrest rate of African-American women is about four times the state average, according to the report (\u003ca href=\"#CJCJ\">read below\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10507456\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10507456 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-800x433.jpg\" alt=\"A graph showing the multiples of likelihood that a black woman would be arrested in San Francisco, compared with women of other races, from 1980 to 2013.\" width=\"800\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-800x433.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-400x217.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2-960x520.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/CJCJ-fig.2.jpg 971w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A graph showing the multiples of likelihood that a black woman would be arrested in San Francisco, compared with women of other races, from 1980 to 2013. \u003ccite>(Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really haven’t heard any explanation for why the city is so out of line for the rest of the state, and as far as we can tell, the rest of the country in terms of its disproportionate African-American arrest rates,” CJCJ senior researcher Mike Males told KQED in an interview. “And another thing is they’ve gotten worse over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparity in San Francisco’s arrest rate for black women has more than tripled since 1980, according to the statistics compiled by the center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the data that describe San Francisco as an outlier in arrests of black people, talk of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racist and homophobic text messages\u003c/a> traded by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a group of current and former SFPD officers\u003c/a> hung over the conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Because I’m black, I can never be blue enough for you? Shame on you. Shame on all of you.’\u003ccite>SFPD Sgt. Yulanda Williams,\u003cbr>\nOfficers for Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, was one of at least two black officers mentioned in text messages recovered from former Sgt. Ian Furminger’s cellphone. The texts were released after he was sentenced for federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I joined what I thought was San Francisco’s finest,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like that today. It doesn’t feel like that to many of the minority officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to an execrpt of Williams’ comments below. At one point she says the content of the text that mentioned her by name, which used graphic and offensive language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203232933&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>Williams said she viewed it as a betrayal that Police Chief Greg Suhr never addressed the scandal with rank-and-file officers, and Mayor Ed Lee never responded to her requests to meet. She said she’d heard rumors that the text messages were going to come out and called Suhr the day before they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was assured that my members had nothing to worry about and that I had nothing to worry about,” she said. “You don’t do that to your family. You don’t do that to people you love. Because I’m black, I can never be blue enough for you? Shame on you. Shame on all of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr didn’t attend the conference, but sent newly promoted Cmdr. 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This is a cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference also heard from Galia Phillips, the assistant federal public defender in San Francisco, who said her office is challenging arrests in joint \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Court-filing-alleges-racial-bias-in-Tenderloin-6174013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narcotics sweeps\u003c/a> of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood conducted by San Francisco police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents in 2013 and 2014. “Operation Safe Schools” resulted in 37 arrests in San Francisco for drug sales within 1,000 feet of a school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every one of the 37 people that were charged were black,” Galia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said previously that racial bias didn’t factor into those arrests, and that all the defendants were selling drugs near schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Galia’s challenge to the case cites police surveillance video in which an officer disparagingly refers to black males before being reminded by his partner that the camera is rolling, and another instance in which a confidential informant passes up an offer from an Asian dealer to wait for an African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our challenge is not focused on whether or not any particular defendant was innocent or guilty,” Galia said. “Our challenge is focused on whether or not the operation is fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"CJCJ\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice report below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=263591967 key=key-b6oYWQgHwwC7dO8DW6lP mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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