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They want dispatchers sending police before shots are fired. The police, many insisted, don’t know the area, the crime, the drug trade and the criminals like they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m beyond frustrated… It’s the same thing over and over,” Doug Taylor said, while another, Sennix Sams, shouted virtually identical words addressing Oakland police officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Same thing. Same people. Same corner,” Sams shouted, despite appeals to keep civil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Applause broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just dumb luck my neighbors haven’t been killed like [Chyemil Pierce] was,” Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whent said the department would work to ensure the institutional knowledge would be better passed from those working the beat to new officers being assigned. 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"content": "\u003cp>An FBI and Santa Clara County Violent Gang Task Force investigation has resulted in the indictment of 24 alleged Nuestra Familia gang members and associates in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were indicted on 34 counts, ranging from attempted murder to conspiracy to smuggle drugs and contraband into prisons and jails,\" said Marisa McKeown, Santa Clara County deputy district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The gang had set up a street regiment in San Jose that conducted shootings, stabbings, witness intimidation and robbery. And, of course. it was fueled by the widespread trade of methamphetamine and drugs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation revealed that Nuestra Familia members in prison were smuggling out messages in body cavities, directing street gang members to murder, commit robberies and sell drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office said that six of the 24 indicted remain on the loose. The defense attorney representing some of the Nuestra Familia defendants has not returned our phone call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKeown said the latest street regiment being charged came to San Jose to fill a void after the Santa Clara County grand jury indicted 48 Nuestra Familia members and associates in June 2013. Those members faced charges of attempted murder, murder and orchestrating a series of bank robberies in San Jose using guns and fake explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10461398\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10461398\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Marisa McKeown says more minors are being recruited by Nuestra Familia in San Jose.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14551_photo-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Marisa McKeown says more minors are being recruited by Nuestra Familia in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>McKeown said what is changing is that an increasing number of juveniles are being recruited in San Jose by Nuestra Familia to carry out murders, shootings and stabbings\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Minors 14, 15, 16 years old, using them to conduct violent assaults to prove themselves,\" said McKeown. \"It's escalated to the point where the majority of our seriously violent crimes that are associated with these gangs are being committed by minors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no juveniles included in the latest indictment targeting the Nuestra Familia leadership. Recent homicides -- including one allegedly committed by a juvenile -- will be handled separately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuestra Familia, which means \"our family,\" began in San Quentin and Folsom prisons in the 1960s, before expanding into Soledad and Pelican Bay state prisons. The extremely violent and sophisticated organization eventually spread to the streets of Santa Clara County,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKeown said Nuestra Familia members became major drug traffickers, running extortion rings. In prison, Nuestra leaders ordered hits on the outside and controlled intraprison drug and sex trade, she said. The latest investigation has also revealed changes within the street operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are also seeing the resurgence of PCP, which we haven't seen in a very long time. Another thing we've seen is human trafficking. We see the gang is profiting from prostitution,\" said McKeown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The digital world is also entering the Nuestra Familia organization, said McKeown. Identity theft operations, she said, have become more sophisticated with stolen and digitally skimmed credit cards and counterfeit money.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Military-grade equipment usually comes to local police from two main sources — \u003ca href=\"http://www.dispositionservices.dla.mil/leso/Pages/1033ProgramFAQs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for free from the Pentagon\u003c/a>, after being used in Iraq or Afghanistan — or purchased with assistance from Homeland Security grants. The trend began during the 1990s and escalated after 9/11. But today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/DC-Decoder/2014/0816/Ferguson-How-Pentagon-s-1033-program-helped-militarize-small-town-police-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially after the events in Ferguson, Missouri\u003c/a>, more questions are being asked about whether this is the right direction for a local police department to follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197292494″ 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>San Leandro is a city that has taken one approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early January, in the parking lot of a senior center in San Leandro, a black armored vehicle was surrounded by TV cameras and curious locals. The doors were flung wide open, and Sgt. Nick Corti was eagerly showing onlookers around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty much an ambulance with a hard shell on the outside,” Corti explained, pointing out the ambulance bay, two gurneys, medical equipment and oxygen tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corti said it’s officially called a BearCat MedEvac, but several dozen protesters were chanting “Send the tank back” and holding signs that said: “San Leandro is Ferguson” and “No military police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460367\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460367 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"RS14533_students chanting bearcat-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters outside San Leandro’s senior center decry acquisition of a BearCat MedeVac armored vehicle. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The crowd soon moved inside for a special City Council meeting about whether to spend $200,000 to acquire the vehicle. Kimberly Peterson, of the nearby Fremont Police Department, said the BearCat could be used throughout the East Bay in emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want the ability to get people in there safely, meaning your first responders, whether it’s police, fire, EMS or all three at once, then you need something like this,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need access to it right now, you need access to it immediately. You can’t just stand there and let people bleed to death,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is no ambulance. This is an armored vehicle. Why are there gun ports?” asked Richard Brennan, one of dozens of citizens who took to the mic to oppose the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing that vehicle outside, it didn’t make me feel safe,” San Leandro high school student Coco Jones told the San Leandro police and City Council. “It made me feel like, ‘Why do I feel like I’m being put in a war zone?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro police Lt. Randy Brandt said the department was “very concerned about the militarization and all the comments that have come up … last thing we want to do is draw a divide between us and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460368 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"RS14531_Brandt explains bearcat-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro Lt. Randy Brandt tells the public why the department wants to purchase a BearCat MedeVac armored vehicle. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the end, San Leandro decided to use a Homeland Security grant and make the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California law enforcement agencies, however, resolved to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District’s police \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-schools-weapons-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned three grenade launchers\u003c/a> to the Department of Defense. The cities of San Jose and Davis each returned a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, known as an MRAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this really what it takes to create a secure community?” asked Davis City Councilman Robb Davis, who voted to return the MRAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you bring that symbol into a small town, into a community, and just say it has no other symbolic value, it’s just a tool? … I think there are things that are available to us for creating security that are available, but it’s not wise to use them,” Davis added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in L.A., Davis and San Jose are part of the backlash to what’s being called the “militarization” of local police. It’s seen by some as the opposite of community policing — they say it distances local police from the citizens they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU found that most SWAT team raids across the country are related to drug\u003c/a>s — not active shooters, hostages or barricades — and that the heavily armed operations also disproportionately affect low-income people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ferguson has really sort of taken the wool over all of our eyes and really opened our eyes to just how widespread this phenomenon was,” said Will Matthews with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU of Northern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because a lot of the funding for this stuff is coming from the federal government, direct from federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security and other places,” Matthews added. “It’s allowing local law enforcement to sort of circumvent typical oversight mechanisms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A push to reform the Pentagon’s free weapons program is stalled in Washington. But in the California Assembly, Nora Campos (D-San Jose) \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_36_bill_20141201_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is pushing legislation\u003c/a> that would force local governing agencies to follow a public process when they decide to acquire surplus military equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that live in that community have the right to know what you are bringing into their neighborhoods and what it’s going to look like,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But transparency is only part of the issue. Even if individual towns decide to buck the trend, it won’t be easy to change law enforcement as a whole. When the Davis police decided to get rid of their armored vehicle, the feds quickly found another taker — \u003ca href=\"http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/davis-mrap-didnt-go-far-woodland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the town of Woodland\u003c/a>, only 10 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Military-grade equipment usually comes to local police from two main sources — \u003ca href=\"http://www.dispositionservices.dla.mil/leso/Pages/1033ProgramFAQs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for free from the Pentagon\u003c/a>, after being used in Iraq or Afghanistan — or purchased with assistance from Homeland Security grants. The trend began during the 1990s and escalated after 9/11. But today, \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/DC-Decoder/2014/0816/Ferguson-How-Pentagon-s-1033-program-helped-militarize-small-town-police-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially after the events in Ferguson, Missouri\u003c/a>, more questions are being asked about whether this is the right direction for a local police department to follow.\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/197292494″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197292494″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro is a city that has taken one approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early January, in the parking lot of a senior center in San Leandro, a black armored vehicle was surrounded by TV cameras and curious locals. The doors were flung wide open, and Sgt. Nick Corti was eagerly showing onlookers around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty much an ambulance with a hard shell on the outside,” Corti explained, pointing out the ambulance bay, two gurneys, medical equipment and oxygen tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corti said it’s officially called a BearCat MedEvac, but several dozen protesters were chanting “Send the tank back” and holding signs that said: “San Leandro is Ferguson” and “No military police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460367\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460367 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"RS14533_students chanting bearcat-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14533_students-chanting-bearcat-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters outside San Leandro’s senior center decry acquisition of a BearCat MedeVac armored vehicle. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The crowd soon moved inside for a special City Council meeting about whether to spend $200,000 to acquire the vehicle. Kimberly Peterson, of the nearby Fremont Police Department, said the BearCat could be used throughout the East Bay in emergency situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you want the ability to get people in there safely, meaning your first responders, whether it’s police, fire, EMS or all three at once, then you need something like this,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need access to it right now, you need access to it immediately. You can’t just stand there and let people bleed to death,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is no ambulance. This is an armored vehicle. Why are there gun ports?” asked Richard Brennan, one of dozens of citizens who took to the mic to oppose the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Seeing that vehicle outside, it didn’t make me feel safe,” San Leandro high school student Coco Jones told the San Leandro police and City Council. “It made me feel like, ‘Why do I feel like I’m being put in a war zone?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro police Lt. Randy Brandt said the department was “very concerned about the militarization and all the comments that have come up … last thing we want to do is draw a divide between us and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10460368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10460368 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"RS14531_Brandt explains bearcat-qut\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut-320x180.jpg 320w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/RS14531_Brandt-explains-bearcat-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro Lt. Randy Brandt tells the public why the department wants to purchase a BearCat MedeVac armored vehicle. \u003ccite>(Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in the end, San Leandro decided to use a Homeland Security grant and make the purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other California law enforcement agencies, however, resolved to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Unified School District’s police \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-schools-weapons-20140917-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">returned three grenade launchers\u003c/a> to the Department of Defense. The cities of San Jose and Davis each returned a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle, known as an MRAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this really what it takes to create a secure community?” asked Davis City Councilman Robb Davis, who voted to return the MRAP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you bring that symbol into a small town, into a community, and just say it has no other symbolic value, it’s just a tool? … I think there are things that are available to us for creating security that are available, but it’s not wise to use them,” Davis added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actions taken in L.A., Davis and San Jose are part of the backlash to what’s being called the “militarization” of local police. It’s seen by some as the opposite of community policing — they say it distances local police from the citizens they serve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU found that most SWAT team raids across the country are related to drug\u003c/a>s — not active shooters, hostages or barricades — and that the heavily armed operations also disproportionately affect low-income people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ferguson has really sort of taken the wool over all of our eyes and really opened our eyes to just how widespread this phenomenon was,” said Will Matthews with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACLU of Northern California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because a lot of the funding for this stuff is coming from the federal government, direct from federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security and other places,” Matthews added. “It’s allowing local law enforcement to sort of circumvent typical oversight mechanisms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A push to reform the Pentagon’s free weapons program is stalled in Washington. But in the California Assembly, Nora Campos (D-San Jose) \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/ab_36_bill_20141201_introduced.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is pushing legislation\u003c/a> that would force local governing agencies to follow a public process when they decide to acquire surplus military equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that live in that community have the right to know what you are bringing into their neighborhoods and what it’s going to look like,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But transparency is only part of the issue. Even if individual towns decide to buck the trend, it won’t be easy to change law enforcement as a whole. When the Davis police decided to get rid of their armored vehicle, the feds quickly found another taker — \u003ca href=\"http://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/davis-mrap-didnt-go-far-woodland/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the town of Woodland\u003c/a>, only 10 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four San Francisco police officers, who was reassigned while the department's internal affairs division investigates their involvement in racist and homophobic text messages, has resigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Robison, who served as an SFPD officer for 23 years, resigned Wednesday, his attorney Anthony Brass confirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He resigned in order to spare himself the stress of living knowing that he was going to be terminated,\" Brass said. \"The chief's comments that the four officers would be terminated following the investigation let him know what the outcome of this would be, really no matter what.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr had said he would seek to terminate any officers found by the investigation to be biased. Suhr did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5iuKqQs1UnaiTmEai2zXQTkoAoMAAsUr\"]\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>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196239694\" params=\"color=0066cc&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 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>[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. 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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. 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The court ruled then that, a certificate of naturalization from New York notwithstanding, Chang was not a U.S. citizen, was barred from becoming one, and thus was ineligible to practice law here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today the court said, “Understanding the significance of our two-page [1890] decision denying Chang admission to the bar requires a candid reckoning with a sordid chapter of our state and national history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reciting California’s long history of virulent anti-Chinese discrimination, the court concluded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… It is past time to acknowledge that the discriminatory exclusion of Chang from the State Bar of California was a grievous wrong. It denied Chang equal protection of the laws; apart from his citizenship, he was by all accounts qualified for admission to the bar. It was also a blow to countless others who, like Chang, aspired to become a lawyer only to have their dream deferred on account of their race, alienage, or nationality. And it was a loss to our communities and to society as a whole, which denied itself the full talents of its people and the important benefits of a diverse legal profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a century later, Chang’s descendants and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association at the University of California, Davis School of Law have sought to right this wrong. Even if we cannot undo history, we can acknowledge it and, in so doing, accord a full measure of recognition to Chang’s pathbreaking efforts to become the first lawyer of Chinese descent in the United States. The people and the courts of California were denied Chang’s services as a lawyer. But we need not be denied his example as a pioneer for a more inclusive legal profession. In granting Hong Yen Chang posthumous admission to the California Bar, we affirm his rightful place among the ranks of persons deemed qualified to serve as an attorney and counselor at law in the courts of California.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article2598096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Sacramento Bee noted \u003c/a>in a story on Chang last May, he went on to a long, prosperous career despite having been sidelined as an attorney in California. He was:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>… a law professor in China, a banker in San Francisco and a diplomat for the Chinese government in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Washington, D.C., where he attended a wedding at the White House. 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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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But the rejections kept piling up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So me and another lifer, we just went in, we was honest with the guy,\" Monger said. \"We said we recently got out of prison. I was in 27, he was in 25, and we want a job. We'll be here on time, we'll work hard for ya. We don't steal from ya. We don't do drugs. You ain't gotta worry about us. You call us, we'll be here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taco Bell hired them both. They've been working there five months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now let's be clear here -- there are plenty of inmates serving life sentences with the possibility of parole who will never, or \u003cem>should\u003c/em> never, get out. It's just too risky. They're sociopaths, or they don't show any remorse for what they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But over the past few years I've interviewed quite a few lifers -- in and outside prison. 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