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(Allison Shelley/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Border Patrol spokesman Omar Zamora said Vargas was stopped going through security at the airport in McAllen, only a few miles from the Mexico border. A spokeswoman for Define American, Vargas' advocacy group, confirmed his release Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas had been visiting the border city for several days as part of a vigil to highlight the plight of unaccompanied immigrant children coming into the U.S. illegally who have overwhelmed Border Patrol facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at McAllen/Miller International Airport, Vargas knew he could have problems. Border Patrol agents stand alongside Transportation Security Administration personnel to check documentation -- even for domestic flights and he was carrying only a passport from the Philippines and a palm-size copy of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday morning, Vargas tweeted: \"About to go thru security at McAllen Airport. I don't know what's going to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The security checks at the airport -- and elsewhere in the Rio Grande Valley -- are familiar to people living along the Texas-Mexico border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along highways out of the area, drivers are stopped at Border Patrol checkpoints about an hour's drive north of the border. And it's not uncommon for children who entered the country illegally with their parents to grow up in the Rio Grande Valley to stay home when classmates go on field trips along those roadways to San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, some U.S. citizens who object to being asked about their citizenship at the interior checkpoints have taken to refusing to answer agents' questions or produce identification while recording video that is later uploaded to the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, a native of the Philippines, was unaware he would have to pass through an immigration check prior to arriving in the city, said Ryan Eller, campaign director for Define American, the advocacy group founded by Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had been to border towns before like San Diego and other places, but we didn't recognize until here the situation,\" Eller said while standing across the street from the Border Patrol station where Vargas was being held. \"We tried to prepare for basically every scenario that we could.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas' last tweet Tuesday morning was a photograph of his Philippines passport and a palm-size copy of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eller confirmed that the only identification Vargas carried was that passport. He said Vargas was en route to Los Angeles and that he had consulted with attorneys before going to the airport. Eller said a \"travel partner\" was at the airport with Vargas, but that they were immediately separated in security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas' attorney didn't immediately return messages for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas had flown to McAllen last Thursday to take part in the vigil. In an\u003ca href=\"http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/texas-border-trapped-108826.html\" target=\"_blank\"> essay he wrote for Politico\u003c/a> on Friday, Vargas said he has traveled in the U.S. for years without a problem but didn't realize that immigration checks are done on those driving or flying out of the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. Vargas noted that he doesn't have any government-issued U.S. identification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eller said they were asking President Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to use their authority to immediately release Vargas. White House press secretary Josh Earnest declined to comment Tuesday on Vargas' detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas went public about his immigration status in a 2011 \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">piece for the New York Times Magazine\u003c/a>. He was part of the Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also directed a documentary called \"Documented,\" and founded the activist group \"Define American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas attended school in Mountain View and graduated from San Francisco State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are Vargas' two last Tweets today ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\u003cp>About to go thru security at McAllen Airport. I don’t know what’s going to happen. 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And it's not uncommon for children who entered the country illegally with their parents to grow up in the Rio Grande Valley to stay home when classmates go on field trips along those roadways to San Antonio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, some U.S. citizens who object to being asked about their citizenship at the interior checkpoints have taken to refusing to answer agents' questions or produce identification while recording video that is later uploaded to the Internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas, a native of the Philippines, was unaware he would have to pass through an immigration check prior to arriving in the city, said Ryan Eller, campaign director for Define American, the advocacy group founded by Vargas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had been to border towns before like San Diego and other places, but we didn't recognize until here the situation,\" Eller said while standing across the street from the Border Patrol station where Vargas was being held. \"We tried to prepare for basically every scenario that we could.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas' last tweet Tuesday morning was a photograph of his Philippines passport and a palm-size copy of the U.S. Constitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eller confirmed that the only identification Vargas carried was that passport. 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But undocumented kids face some tough legal obstacles no matter the reasons behind their flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harol Canales, 22, was 15-years-old when he fled Honduras with his best friend about seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only me and him, that’s it,” remembers Canales, speaking via cellphone while on a lunch break at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of the undocumented children now arriving in the U.S. with no parents, no papers and little money, Canales was trying to escape the mounting threat of gang violence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was super bad, very,” Canales says. “I did not want to stay there, something might happen to me so I just decided to just try to get here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harol’s mother had arrived several years earlier and managed to obtain temporary protected status. His plan for getting to his mom was simple: “Keep walking and get to L.A.” He also hopped trains and caught rides. On his way to L.A., Harol was detained by immigration agents at a checkpoint on the Arizona-California border. But because he was still a child, authorities released him to his mother’s custody with a pledge that he appear at a deportation hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He came fearing gang violence and persecution by the gangs in Honduras,” says Harol’s Los Angeles attorney Alma Rosa Nieto. “So of course we presented that evidence in those claims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says Harol’s best option to avoid deportation was to petition for asylum. But the burden of proof is high. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, show us that you would be killed, maimed, kidnapped or disappeared for us to grant you an asylum,” explains Nieto. “And of course very few people can show that high level of evidence when you’re fleeing, and he came as a child.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After losing several appeals, Harol applied for temporary residency under 2012’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. 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Children don’t know the legal process of this foreign nation, they only know that coming to the U.S. means an opportunity to live another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inability to understand their precarious legal situation is precisely why immigration lawyers need to reach them, says Kristen Jackson, a staff attorney with Public Counsel, a nonprofit legal aid group that sued the federal government with other groups last week on behalf of young immigrant detainees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many, many cases the child is there alone, they have no lawyer to advocate for them,\" Jackson says. \"They don’t understand the immigration laws, and so that’s what our lawsuit is about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/158837744&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit aims to get the government to provide undocumented minors a court-appointed attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have not recognized the children’s right to legal representation,” Jackson says. “So you have children appearing in immigration court in front of a judge and a trained attorney for the government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But John Feere says the government providing legal aid to undocumented minors or adults sends the wrong message. 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Norma Torres (D-Pomona) is among a group of officials who visited the base last week. Torres says few, if any of the young detainees, understand the daunting legal challenges they face. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Legal issues are the furthest things from their mind,\" Torres says. \"You know they are very much kids. 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He was added to the registry last year when he was released from prison. In 2009, he was convicted of multiple felony charges, including lewd and lascivious conduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While K claims the touching was consensual, the woman said it wasn’t. In any case, the woman was developmentally disabled and K was her caregiver.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bottom line,\" K told me, \"is I believe in law, and if I made a mistake I’ll pay for it, which I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K spent more than three years in prison. He says he had no prior criminal record, and that the state considers him a very low risk to reoffend. He's not, he says, a hard-core sexual predator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know, not all of us are the same way,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Sex Offender Management Board agrees with that statement. The board wants to prioritize sex offenders on the registry, based on the type of crime committed and their risk of re-offending. Under a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cce.csus.edu/portal/admin/handouts/Tiering%20Background%20Paper%20FINAL%20FINAL%204-2-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">recent proposal\u003c/a>, some would have to register for 10 years, some for 20 and some for life. K, for example, would probably be dropped from the registry after 20 years -- when he would be in his 80s -- if he doesn't reoffend. This \"tiered system\" is already in use by many other states, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvsexoffenders.gov/definitions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157685134&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Tobin is a clinical psychologist who works with sex offenders and is vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board, which oversees the registry. He supports the proposed overhaul, saying that the term \"sex offenders\" suggests that the likelihood of reoffending is always high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While the reality is that, for most of them, the offense happened years ago,\" Tobin says, \"sometimes many years ago, and they have not reoffended. So to call them 'sex offenders' is not a very accurate use of language, and one I think makes us distort reality.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Tobin says, 95 percent of solved sex crimes are not committed by people on the registry, and most sex offenses are perpetrated by someone the victim knows -- not a stranger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even some law enforcement officials are questioning the value of the lifetime registry. Bradley McCartt is a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney with the sex crimes division. He says the current registry isn't helping keep the public safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let’s say you have a kidnapped child,\" McCartt says. \"Going to that registry has all but become meaningless because when people look at it, you basically have 98,000 people to look at, as opposed to better focus on who your suspect might be, to quickly act to try and save that child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCartt says that by creating a tiered registry, more attention and resources could be trained on monitoring high-risk offenders, and a lot less time could be taken up with less risky offenders, including young men who had consensual sex with their minor girlfriends or men who merely urinated in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Gambling with Lives'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marc Klaas argues that the tiered approach is risky. Klaas is the founder of KlaasKids Foundation, named after his daughter, Polly, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1993. He says he'll fight any major changes to the registry. \"This is a small subset that can be dealt with without a sweeping overhaul of the entire system,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klass has a strong ally in Nina Salerno with California Crime Victims United. \"I think a tiered system is gambling with lives,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salerno and Klaas don't trust how the state says it would decide who is likely to reoffend. \"The risk assessment tools deserve a lot of scrutiny themselves,\" Klaas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cites the case of John Gardner, a registered sex offender who, while on parole, was considered a low-to-moderate risk. Then in 2010 he was convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls near San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tom Tobin of the California Sex Offender Management Board defends the state’s risk assessment tool. He says it's similar to that used by the insurance industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are the first to admit,\" Tobin says, \"they cannot predict with perfect accuracy whether or not someone will have a future automobile accident or someone is going to die at a certain age. On the other hand, they can come very, very close.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main assessment tool used by the state spots those likely to reoffend about 75 percent of the time. That number increases when combined with other risk factors. But the margin of error has scared many lawmakers away from backing a bill to change the registry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblymember Tom Ammiano has twice tried and failed to \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB702\" target=\"_blank\">pass legislation\u003c/a> creating a tiered sex offender registry, but he hasn't had a lot of success. \"This isn’t a demographic that people feel warm and fuzzy about,\" he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ammiano is termed out of office this year and says he doesn’t have time to try again to pass the reform. Supporters are hoping another lawmaker will step forward, but it's likely to be tough -- especially in an election year when no one wants to be seen as going easy on sex offenders.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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K, for example, would probably be dropped from the registry after 20 years -- when he would be in his 80s -- if he doesn't reoffend. This \"tiered system\" is already in use by many other states, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvsexoffenders.gov/definitions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Nevada\u003c/a>, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/157685134&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Tobin is a clinical psychologist who works with sex offenders and is vice chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board, which oversees the registry. 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He says he'll fight any major changes to the registry. \"This is a small subset that can be dealt with without a sweeping overhaul of the entire system,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klass has a strong ally in Nina Salerno with California Crime Victims United. \"I think a tiered system is gambling with lives,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salerno and Klaas don't trust how the state says it would decide who is likely to reoffend. \"The risk assessment tools deserve a lot of scrutiny themselves,\" Klaas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cites the case of John Gardner, a registered sex offender who, while on parole, was considered a low-to-moderate risk. Then in 2010 he was convicted of raping and murdering two teenage girls near San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tom Tobin of the California Sex Offender Management Board defends the state’s risk assessment tool. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/07/2014-07-04c-tcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the trendy northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, on one end of York Boulevard you’ll find record stores, cafes and hipster boutiques. On the other end you’ll find the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laphs.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Police Museum\u003c/a>. This collection of all things LAPD lives in the city’s last surviving 1920s station house, and offers a visceral glimpse into the gritty hell and Hollywood noir of the L.A. cop world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if you’ve never been here, there’s still a good chance you’ve seen the place. With its classic Neo-Renaissance, just-the-facts-ma’am, architecture, the structure has been a shooting hot spot for decades, and not just the kind with bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Major motion picture-wise, ‘Gangster Squad,’ it was out last year, filmed here,” says Glynn Martin, the museum’s executive director and former LAPD sergeant. “From television, there’s a new show on called ‘Playing House,’ they were here earlier this year. ‘Justified,’ ‘Parks and Rec’… the original ‘Transformers,’ ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ Clint Eastwood’s ‘Blood Work,’ ‘Dukes of Hazzard 2,’ ‘Stop Loss,’ ‘When a Stranger Calls.’ It’s a long, long list and it’s a very popular filming location.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141288\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 343px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/CalDrake1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/CalDrake1-343x450.jpg\" alt=\"Retired Det. Cal Drake, 84, Medal of Valor recipient and docent at the museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\" width=\"343\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Det. Cal Drake, 84, Medal of Valor recipient and docent at the museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Martin sits in a small conference room, a space not open to visitors. As with so much in the unique world of the police, the mundane mixes with the extraordinary. On a large table sits a pizza box larger than a manhole cover. A cop-size pie, by God. There are two slices left from the original 44. There is also a carton of cookies. There are no doughnuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a nearby table are small envelopes yellowed with age stacked neatly. They’re filled with negatives from crime scenes — murders, robberies, apparent suicides, all taken in the year 1953, all labeled by some forgotten typist. One example: John Doe, homicide, San Fernando Boulevard rail yard. Hold the thin film up to the light, and there is the mystery corpse in the white areas of the negative, sprawled in the contrasting dark of an empty boxcar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police station No. 11 has been home to such items for decades. From 1925 to 1983, the building served as the Northeast Division station. When the cops relocated, it stood vacant, decaying and forgotten. At one point, says Martin, the place was so badly damaged by fire you could stand in the basement and see through to the roof. In 2001, old No. 11 got a major face-lift and a new lease on life when it was resurrected as the museum. It’s now on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raymond Chandler said the history of Los Angeles is the history of its police department,” offers Martin, “and I find an awful lot of truth in that. What I also find is that drives an enduring interest in the LAPD. Really what we’re about are three things: faces, places and cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those cases are some of the most notorious in modern memory, incidents that have inspired the work of many writers, including former cop Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Connelly and James Ellroy, who has participated in museum events for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking Black Dahlia, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Charles Manson case, the Night Stalker, Hillside Strangler, the Onion Field, The North Hollywood shootout, the SLA shootout,” reels off Martin. “These are events of world renown, and I think that is probably the thing that makes this special. Those kinds of things continue to drive interest in what the LAPD is and what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141289\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/StationHouse.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/StationHouse-292x225.jpg\" alt=\"Police station house 11 built in 1925, now home to the Los Angeles Police Museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\" width=\"292\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141289\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police station house 11 built in 1925, now home to the Los Angeles Police Museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The museum displays powerful artifacts from those crimes, alongside Hollywood relics. You can see Patty Hearst’s iconic M1 carbine, and the suit coat worn by Jack Webb in the classic “Dragnet” series. Behind the museum there’s a bullet-ridden squad car from a bank job gone bad next to the bad guys’ even more bullet-riddled Chevy Celebrity. Back inside, the hall holds poster-size blowups of Police Beat magazine, featuring Bob Hope and the stars of the classic LAPD TV series “Adam-12” on the covers. You’ll find an undetonated pipe bomb the size of a dachshund, and decades of well-used billy clubs and handcuffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down a hallway you enter a cement room containing five cells that look like a block of gray cages. Back in the day, Martin says the ceiling bars created a hanging hazard. Nearby is a well-worn metal chair. In front of it, at chin level, there’s a rack of numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you can come here and take your own mug shot in a chair that was sat in by thousands of criminals prior to your arrival,” says Martin, as 4-year-old visitor Zyla Delgado plops down in the chair that has held so many law-breaking behinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Dummy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Dummy-317x450.jpg\" alt=\"A mannequin used in the 1963 Onion Field trial to show where slain Officer Ian Campbell was shot. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141290\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mannequin used in the 1963 Onion Field trial to show where slain Officer Ian Campbell was shot. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big attraction for the youngsters,” Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zyla’s mother, Rose, says it’s the first time at the museum for the family, who lives in nearby Montclair. “I’ve never been here before and I think it’s amazing. I’ve seen this stuff in movies but I’ve never actually seen it.” Neither has Zyla, who rockets herself from the booking chair and races into a grim jail cell that boasts a cot, a toilet and a sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s her favorite thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The jails,” she says. Then she screams with glee and runs to another cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest draw, however, is upstairs. In 1997, two heavily armed men clad in body armor and ski masks tried to rob a Bank of America in North Hollywood. Both were killed in the ensuing firefight. Their outfits and weapons now adorn two mannequins, complete with bullet holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to the formidable mannequins, a monitor plays the raw, riveting footage of the entire shootout. “We always warn the school groups and the kids of the material,” Martin cautions. “It’s not bloody or gruesome, but if a kid knows what they’re looking at, it’s probably not the best things for the youngest of our visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museum docent Cal Drake knows about being on the receiving end of a bullet. The 84-year-old retired detective joined the LAPD in 1952, and received the Medal of Valor after being shot by Black Panthers during a 1969 raid. He grew up near the station house, though he spent little time in the building during his career. Now he’s here once a week, guiding visitors through decades of crime history of which he was a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was raised in this division,” he says. “I went to high school in Eagle Rock across the hill here. I didn’t want to work this station. It was a good place to work, good people to work with. I didn’t want to put my neighbors in jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it seems like reliving some of the highest-impact criminal events of the last century on a weekly basis might be a bit tough on a man, remember that this man was a cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be somewhat emotional,” admits Drake, “but not tremendously. When I’m emotional, you won’t know it. That comes from the business, you know?” Thanks to the Police Museum, it’s a business that he is still not distanced from, retired or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of gets you back into the swing of things,” Drake says. “I didn’t want to get that far away from the department, I enjoyed my time on the police department. It was the best job I’ve ever had.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a nearby table are small envelopes yellowed with age stacked neatly. They’re filled with negatives from crime scenes — murders, robberies, apparent suicides, all taken in the year 1953, all labeled by some forgotten typist. One example: John Doe, homicide, San Fernando Boulevard rail yard. Hold the thin film up to the light, and there is the mystery corpse in the white areas of the negative, sprawled in the contrasting dark of an empty boxcar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police station No. 11 has been home to such items for decades. From 1925 to 1983, the building served as the Northeast Division station. When the cops relocated, it stood vacant, decaying and forgotten. At one point, says Martin, the place was so badly damaged by fire you could stand in the basement and see through to the roof. In 2001, old No. 11 got a major face-lift and a new lease on life when it was resurrected as the museum. It’s now on the National Register of Historic Places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raymond Chandler said the history of Los Angeles is the history of its police department,” offers Martin, “and I find an awful lot of truth in that. What I also find is that drives an enduring interest in the LAPD. Really what we’re about are three things: faces, places and cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those cases are some of the most notorious in modern memory, incidents that have inspired the work of many writers, including former cop Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Connelly and James Ellroy, who has participated in museum events for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re talking Black Dahlia, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Charles Manson case, the Night Stalker, Hillside Strangler, the Onion Field, The North Hollywood shootout, the SLA shootout,” reels off Martin. “These are events of world renown, and I think that is probably the thing that makes this special. Those kinds of things continue to drive interest in what the LAPD is and what they do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141289\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/StationHouse.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/StationHouse-292x225.jpg\" alt=\"Police station house 11 built in 1925, now home to the Los Angeles Police Museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\" width=\"292\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141289\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police station house 11 built in 1925, now home to the Los Angeles Police Museum. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The museum displays powerful artifacts from those crimes, alongside Hollywood relics. You can see Patty Hearst’s iconic M1 carbine, and the suit coat worn by Jack Webb in the classic “Dragnet” series. Behind the museum there’s a bullet-ridden squad car from a bank job gone bad next to the bad guys’ even more bullet-riddled Chevy Celebrity. Back inside, the hall holds poster-size blowups of Police Beat magazine, featuring Bob Hope and the stars of the classic LAPD TV series “Adam-12” on the covers. You’ll find an undetonated pipe bomb the size of a dachshund, and decades of well-used billy clubs and handcuffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down a hallway you enter a cement room containing five cells that look like a block of gray cages. Back in the day, Martin says the ceiling bars created a hanging hazard. Nearby is a well-worn metal chair. In front of it, at chin level, there’s a rack of numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now you can come here and take your own mug shot in a chair that was sat in by thousands of criminals prior to your arrival,” says Martin, as 4-year-old visitor Zyla Delgado plops down in the chair that has held so many law-breaking behinds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141290\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Dummy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Dummy-317x450.jpg\" alt=\"A mannequin used in the 1963 Onion Field trial to show where slain Officer Ian Campbell was shot. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\" width=\"317\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10141290\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mannequin used in the 1963 Onion Field trial to show where slain Officer Ian Campbell was shot. (Peter Gilstrap/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s a big attraction for the youngsters,” Martin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zyla’s mother, Rose, says it’s the first time at the museum for the family, who lives in nearby Montclair. “I’ve never been here before and I think it’s amazing. I’ve seen this stuff in movies but I’ve never actually seen it.” Neither has Zyla, who rockets herself from the booking chair and races into a grim jail cell that boasts a cot, a toilet and a sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s her favorite thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The jails,” she says. Then she screams with glee and runs to another cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest draw, however, is upstairs. In 1997, two heavily armed men clad in body armor and ski masks tried to rob a Bank of America in North Hollywood. Both were killed in the ensuing firefight. Their outfits and weapons now adorn two mannequins, complete with bullet holes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next to the formidable mannequins, a monitor plays the raw, riveting footage of the entire shootout. “We always warn the school groups and the kids of the material,” Martin cautions. “It’s not bloody or gruesome, but if a kid knows what they’re looking at, it’s probably not the best things for the youngest of our visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Museum docent Cal Drake knows about being on the receiving end of a bullet. The 84-year-old retired detective joined the LAPD in 1952, and received the Medal of Valor after being shot by Black Panthers during a 1969 raid. He grew up near the station house, though he spent little time in the building during his career. Now he’s here once a week, guiding visitors through decades of crime history of which he was a part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was raised in this division,” he says. “I went to high school in Eagle Rock across the hill here. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lance Williams\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_140912\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Jo_Hoeper-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-140912\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/07/Jo_Hoeper-1-427x640.jpg\" alt=\"Former San Francisco Chief Trial Deputy Joanne Hoeper (Courtesy of Joanne Hoeper)\" width=\"300\" height=\"449\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Chief Trial Deputy Joanne Hoeper (Courtesy of Joanne Hoeper)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco city officials steered millions in public funds to a handful of plumbing companies for unneeded repairs of private sewer lines, a former top lawyer in the city attorney’s office alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the lawyer began to investigate what she suspected was a long-running illegal payment scheme, she says she was demoted and later fired, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1212098-ccsf-claim-with-received-stamp.html\">wrongful termination claim\u003c/a> filed Tuesday with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the claim, former Chief Trial Deputy Joanne Hoeper contends that City Attorney Dennis Herrera suppressed her probe of a scheme that she estimates cost city taxpayers more than $10 million between 2002 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the claim, the sewer repair payments were approved by two officials in Herrera’s office: Matthew Rothschild, head of the claims bureau and Herrera’s chief political aide, and Michael Haase, Rothschild’s assistant. Thousands of repair bills were paid even though they were meritless and based on “false statements, inflated bills … and other red flags,” Hoeper contends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, while her probe was underway, Hoeper says in her claim that Herrera demoted her and shut down the investigation, and then fired her earlier this year. She contends that her demotion and firing were in retaliation for what she said were her efforts to expose financial improprieties — including her suspicion that someone was receiving kickbacks — in the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera is out of town and unavailable for comment. In an email, his spokesman, Matt Dorsey, said the claim reflected “baseless allegations of wrongdoing from a disgruntled former employee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we generally cannot discuss personnel issues, the circumstances of Ms. Hoeper’s separation were thoroughly reviewed by outside counsel,” he continued, “and we’re confident that the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office will be vindicated when the case is adjudicated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haase declined to comment, and Rothschild didn’t respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tree Roots and Sewer Lines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoeper’s allegations concern several small plumbing companies whose activities have prompted a flurry of homeowners’ complaints to police, city officials and even the FBI, according to documents and interviews. For years, salesmen for the companies went door to door in residential districts, claiming the roots of city street trees were damaging homeowners’ sewer lines and offering to replace them for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get the work done, homeowners were told to file legal claims for as much as $10,000 with the city attorney’s office. After the claims were paid, the homeowners were supposed to pay the money to the plumbing contractors, who replaced the sewer lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some people who encountered the salesmen suspected a scam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Zack and Odilon Vasconcelos, former operators of a hair salon on Guerrero Street, said in interviews that in 2011, a salesman for a plumbing company called Drainbusters Plumbing had obtained their signatures under false pretenses and used them to file a $10,000 claim for a new sewer line for their salon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The claim was “ridiculous,” Zack said, because nothing was wrong with the salon’s plumbing, and the nearest street tree was a sapling so far down the block that its roots couldn’t possibly have extended to the salon. Besides, the men didn’t own the building and thus legally couldn’t file a claim for the repair, he said. Nevertheless, the city attorney’s office approved the claim, court records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suspicious, Zack emailed Mayor Ed Lee and other officials and ultimately called Haase in the city attorney’s claims bureau. Zack said the official told him that the salesman’s conduct was “unethical but not illegal” and told Zack to turn over to the plumbing salesman the $10,000 claim settlement the city had issued to him and Vasconcelos.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> A review of public records shows that from 2009 to 2011, San Francisco paid $8.9 million on about 1,100 claims in these cases. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At first, Zack and Vasconcelos balked, but ultimately they paid the claim money to the plumbing company after being ordered to do so by a judge in small claims court, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, the owner of a Mission District restaurant called police on a Drainbusters salesman in 2012, after he allegedly pried open a sewer cleanout without permission, according to a police report. The salesman apparently was hoping to convince property owners that tree roots were damaging their sewers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riad Khano, owner of Drainbusters, said his company did only necessary, city-authorized sewer line repairs. The city saved significant money by paying private plumbing companies for the work, he claimed, calling Department of Public Works crews notoriously inefficient. The city stopped paying for repairs to private sewer lines because of budget problems, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people had complained about his salesmen, Khano said, but the complaints were unfounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claim That FBI Tipped Her Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her claim, Hoeper says the FBI tipped her to the suspected billing scam in 2011, after agents received a series of complaints from homeowners. Hoeper assigned two investigators to the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concluded that the city had no legal responsibility to pay any of the claims. No city in California routinely pays for tree root damage to private sewer lines, she said in her claim, and for most of its history, San Francisco didn’t either. But starting in 2002, the city attorney’s office began approving those claims, sometimes within days after they were submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She contended that her probe found case after case in which sewer lines were being replaced, even though there was no evidence of damage or bills obviously were padded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, six months after it began, Hoeper said she told Herrera of her investigation. Herrera asked her for a written report, she said. Soon after reviewing it, by her account, he removed her as chief trial deputy and transferred her to the district attorney’s office. She said she was fired last January, on the day Herrera was sworn in for his fourth term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of public records shows that from 2009 to 2011, San Francisco paid $8.9 million on about 1,100 claims for what the city described as sewer property damage or tree maintenance issues, categories that could include root damage to private sewer lines. The average payout was about $8,000. About 140 claims were rejected. In a handful of cases, payments went to plumbing companies. Usually, payment went to property owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public records also show the city stopped paying for private sewer repairs soon after Hoeper says she made her report to Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 20, 2012, city records show that Edward Harrington, then the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, issued a memo saying no claims for “tree root intrusion” should be paid unless he or the city’s public works director personally approved them in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, court records show the city attorney’s office has successfully defended several small claims lawsuits brought by homeowners seeking compensation for tree root damage to their sewer lines. In court, the city’s lawyers contend that the city never has been responsible for paying for such repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera, the city’s top legal officer since 2001, has cultivated an image as a champion of good government and consumer protection. For years, Hoeper was one of Herrera’s closest aides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2003, when a legal newspaper named Hoeper one of the “top 50 women litigators”in California, Herrera issued a news release praising Hoeper for her efforts to stamp out public corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoeper’s claim says Rothschild, the claims bureau chief, was outraged by her investigation of his unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By her account, Rothschild confronted her, angrily declaring, “I will not stand for this.” In another encounter before she was demoted, Hoeper asserted that Rothschild accused her of “picking on” his assistant and threatened a “hunger strike if she persisted with the investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her claim, Hoeper asks to be reinstated and awarded back pay and other damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Christine Lee and Nikki Frick. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This story was produced by The Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit newsroom based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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No city in California routinely pays for tree root damage to private sewer lines, she said in her claim, and for most of its history, San Francisco didn’t either. But starting in 2002, the city attorney’s office began approving those claims, sometimes within days after they were submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She contended that her probe found case after case in which sewer lines were being replaced, even though there was no evidence of damage or bills obviously were padded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, six months after it began, Hoeper said she told Herrera of her investigation. Herrera asked her for a written report, she said. Soon after reviewing it, by her account, he removed her as chief trial deputy and transferred her to the district attorney’s office. 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