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She walked away from national settlement talks between the Obama administration and several big banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, she announced a separate deal, which she called \"the California commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The deal that is specific to California includes $12 billion of principal reductions and short-sale relief for California homeowners,\" Harris said at a press conference covered by national media outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was hailed as a huge win for California -- and it earned Harris a splashy profile in the New York Times. 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Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Criminal Justice Center at Stanford, notes that for better or worse, Harris is defined by the style and panache she brings to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's so good at it there will be those who say, 'Oh my God, she's just so charismatic, I'm overwhelmed, I'm dazzled,'\" Weisberg jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are those who say, 'Ah, it's all just style, it's not substance.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris dismisses comments like that, or President Obama's observation that she is \"by far the best-looking attorney general\" in the country, as \"distractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg notes that despite perceptions of the A.G. as the state's top law enforcement official, California limits the powers of the attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he adds that Harris' use of the office to promote issues like rehabilitation over incarceration comes as external forces, like the federal court order to reduce the state's prison population, were upending all the normal assumptions about criminal justice in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things are changing because of all kinds of forces,\" Weisberg said, \"and she is, shall we say, participating in the change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris \u003cem>did\u003c/em> lead the charge on\u003cem> another \u003c/em>change. After two gay couples sued to overturn Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, the attorney general (like her predecessor Jerry Brown) refused to defend it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, along with Harris's argument that Prop. 8's proponents didn't have legal standing to defend it either, infuriated conservative groups, including the Pacific Legal Foundation and its attorney, Harold Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more than troubling,\" Johnson says. \"It's actually shocking. The attorney general is the people's attorney and has a constitutional obligation to defend the laws enacted by the people and the constitutional framework.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights says Harris' decision not to defend Prop. 8 as a brand-new attorney general came with some political risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She demonstrated the courage of doing the right thing for all the right reasons, even though there were certainly some who were whispering to her that it wasn't politically expedient,\" Kendell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of Harris say she's been too \u003cem>timid\u003c/em> when aggressive action was called for. After a PG&E pipeline exploded in 2010, killing eight people in San Bruno, the city's Mayor Jim Ruane was disappointed that Harris seemed indifferent to launching an independent investigation of the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>She's the top cop in the state of California and we believe it should have been her initiative. She should have taken the initiative in the very beginning to pursue what we deemed were wrongdoings,\" Ruane says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others, like state Sen. Jerry Hill, wanted Harris to do her own independent investigation of PG&E. Harris' office counters that the attorney general \u003cem>did\u003c/em> work closely with the U.S. attorney and local officials in San Mateo County -- a collaboration that resulted in a federal grand jury indictment of PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And according to a recent Sacramento Bee article, Harris opened up a separate investigation into the gas line explosion and the California Public Utility Commission and its allegedly cozy relationship with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics, like Harris' Republican opponent Ron Gold, say the attorney general is turning a blind eye to political corruption. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California's attorney general is often known as the state's \"top cop.\" And to be sure, Kamala Harris has done her share of \"law and order\" press conferences announcing drug busts and gang takedowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, as she heads into Tuesday's election, Harris has clearly emphasized different priorities than her predecessors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Harris' \u003ca href=\"http://kamalaharris.org/frontpage-article/truancyspots/\" target=\"_blank\">new TV ads\u003c/a> makes clear \u003cem>how\u003c/em> different she is from previous attorneys general. The ad features a smiling Harris sitting around a classroom table with young schoolkids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're chronically truant from elementary school, you are four times more likely to drop out and become a perpetrator or a victim of crime,\" Harris says in the commercial. \"That's why we're taking on the truancy crisis in the California Department of Justice.\"\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/174746535&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/174746535'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad ends with a smiling Harris high-fiving all the children. It is, Harris acknowledges, a distinctly different emphasis from the typical \"lock 'em up and throw away the key\" approach to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think we have accepted a false choice, which suggests that one can either be soft on crime or tough on crime, instead of asking, 'Are we smart on crime?'\" Harris said this week. She compares law enforcement with public health -- favoring prevention over treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the sniffles (come) on, then it's early intervention,\" she says. \"But if we're dealing with it in the emergency room or the prison system, it's much too late and it's far too expensive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris has made reducing truancy a cornerstone of her job. Yet an A.G. has little direct impact over that. And Gov. Jerry Brown recently vetoed two anti-truancy bills she was pushing.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"I think we have accepted a false choice, which suggests that one can either be soft on crime or tough on crime, instead of asking, 'Are we smart on crime?'\"\u003ccite>Kamala Harris, California attorney general\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But Imperial County District Attorney Gilbert Otero, who heads the state association of DA's, appreciates Harris using the bully pulpit on issues like truancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Truancy \u003cem>is\u003c/em> a big issue\" Otero said. \"If the attorney general comes down and starts talking about something like that, then you know I'm all for it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, as California was drowning in home foreclosures, Harris took a big gamble. She walked away from national settlement talks between the Obama administration and several big banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months later, she announced a separate deal, which she called \"the California commitment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The deal that is specific to California includes $12 billion of principal reductions and short-sale relief for California homeowners,\" Harris said at a press conference covered by national media outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement was hailed as a huge win for California -- and it earned Harris a splashy profile in the New York Times. But two years later, how much benefit have homeowners actually seen from that $12 billion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Bruce Marks, director of the nonprofit Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, the headlines didn't match the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know she did stand up, she did take on the banks,\" Marks said. \"But you know we haven't seen the significant impact for California homeowners like we would have expected to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marks, who brags he \"terrorizes\" bankers, has helped win mortgage relief for thousands of homeowners across the nation. While Harris acknowledges some glitches in how the agreement was implemented, her office points to a report from the state monitor overseeing the deal, which said that big banks actually \u003cem>exceeded\u003c/em> the relief Harris negotiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how effective has Kamala Harris been? Robert Weisberg, co-director of the Criminal Justice Center at Stanford, notes that for better or worse, Harris is defined by the style and panache she brings to the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's so good at it there will be those who say, 'Oh my God, she's just so charismatic, I'm overwhelmed, I'm dazzled,'\" Weisberg jokes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are those who say, 'Ah, it's all just style, it's not substance.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris dismisses comments like that, or President Obama's observation that she is \"by far the best-looking attorney general\" in the country, as \"distractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg notes that despite perceptions of the A.G. as the state's top law enforcement official, California limits the powers of the attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he adds that Harris' use of the office to promote issues like rehabilitation over incarceration comes as external forces, like the federal court order to reduce the state's prison population, were upending all the normal assumptions about criminal justice in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things are changing because of all kinds of forces,\" Weisberg said, \"and she is, shall we say, participating in the change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris \u003cem>did\u003c/em> lead the charge on\u003cem> another \u003c/em>change. After two gay couples sued to overturn Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, the attorney general (like her predecessor Jerry Brown) refused to defend it in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That, along with Harris's argument that Prop. 8's proponents didn't have legal standing to defend it either, infuriated conservative groups, including the Pacific Legal Foundation and its attorney, Harold Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more than troubling,\" Johnson says. \"It's actually shocking. The attorney general is the people's attorney and has a constitutional obligation to defend the laws enacted by the people and the constitutional framework.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Kate Kendell of the National Center for Lesbian Rights says Harris' decision not to defend Prop. 8 as a brand-new attorney general came with some political risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She demonstrated the courage of doing the right thing for all the right reasons, even though there were certainly some who were whispering to her that it wasn't politically expedient,\" Kendell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some critics of Harris say she's been too \u003cem>timid\u003c/em> when aggressive action was called for. After a PG&E pipeline exploded in 2010, killing eight people in San Bruno, the city's Mayor Jim Ruane was disappointed that Harris seemed indifferent to launching an independent investigation of the utility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\"\u003c/em>She's the top cop in the state of California and we believe it should have been her initiative. She should have taken the initiative in the very beginning to pursue what we deemed were wrongdoings,\" Ruane says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others, like state Sen. Jerry Hill, wanted Harris to do her own independent investigation of PG&E. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some legal cases do more than raise eyebrows — they push the legal envelope to change the law. Such is a federal case in Las Vegas now working its way through the courts. The question is whether federal agents can disrupt service to a house and then, masquerading as helpful technicians, gain entry to covertly search the premises in hopes of finding evidence that might later justify a search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants in \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/lasvegas/press-releases/2014/eight-persons-charged-in-las-vegas-with-running-illegal-gambling-operation-from-local-casino\" target=\"_blank\">this case\u003c/a> are not your everyday Americans. They are, in fact, Chinese gamblers who were staying in Las Vegas at Caesar's Palace earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caesar's, and other gambling casinos, thrive on these high rollers and provide them with free villas, butlers and other services. But in this case, at least one of the high rollers had been tossed out of Macau for running an illegal sports-booking operation. That fact made the Nevada Gaming Commission and the FBI suspicious that the high rollers were doing the same thing here.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The theory behind this search is scary. It means the government can cut off your service, intentionally, and then pretend to be a repair person, and then while they’re there, they spend extra time searching your house. It is scary beyond belief.'\u003ccite>Stephen Saltzburg,\u003cbr>\nGeorge Washington University law professor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Suspicions, however, aren't enough for a search warrant. So, \u003ca href=\"http://bigstory.ap.org/article/eaa89994bcea415d87d6733f5dd21fc6/court-filing-fbi-impersonated-geek-squad-ruse\" target=\"_blank\">according to court papers\u003c/a> filed by defense lawyers late Tuesday, the FBI came up with a plan: Working with a computer contractor for Caesar's Palace, the agents first tried to get into the villas by delivering laptops and asking to come in to make sure the connections worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The butler, however, wouldn't let them in. Tape from the secret cameras worn by the agents clearly shows the butler blocking their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to make sure they can connect before I leave. Can we just make sure they can connect, OK?\" the agent asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The thing is, you can't go in there right now,\" replies the butler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When that ploy failed, the agents came up with \"another trick,\" according to defense lawyer Tom Goldstein: \"We'll dress up as technicians, we'll come inside, we'll claim to be fixing the Internet connection — even though we can't, 'cause we broke it from outside — and then we'll just look around and see what we see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once inside, the agents wandered around the premises as they covertly photographed the rooms, entering the previously off-limits media room. Inside, they saw a group of men watching the World Cup soccer game and looking at betting odds on their laptops — perfectly legal in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What else the agents saw is not entirely clear at this point, but when they left, they seemed satisfied they had enough to get a search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, we saw what we needed to see,\" an agent is heard on the tapes saying. His partner responds, \"Very cool.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense lawyer Goldstein contends that not only was the search illegal, but the government knew it was and tried to cover it up. He contends that the materials submitted to a federal magistrate judge in seeking a warrant later carefully eliminated all indications that the federal agents had themselves cut the Internet line so that the villa occupants would ask for repairmen to come to the villa to fix the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They just managed not to tell the magistrate what it is they had actually done,\" says Goldstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, Goldstein notes that he and his clients never would have known that it was the FBI agents who cut the line were it not for one slip of the tongue that the agents made — recorded on tape — when talking among themselves. He adds that when the defense asked for further recordings, the FBI provided two blank CDs, claiming the recording devices malfunctioned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no real way of looking at this other than to say that it is a cover-up,\" contends Goldstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cover-up or not, the legal theory used here by the Justice Department and the FBI would change the legal rules of the road dramatically if adopted by the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The theory behind this search is scary,\" says George Washington University law professor Stephen Saltzburg, author of a leading criminal law text. \"It means the government can cut off your service, intentionally, and then pretend to be a repair person, and then while they're there, they spend extra time searching your house. It is scary beyond belief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it's not just Internet service that could be cut off. 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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/173720596\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's not the focus of this year's campaign for governor, but under Jerry Brown the state’s approach to criminal justice has gone in a dramatically new direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underlying it all: too many inmates and too few cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned the state Legislature that the prisons were powder kegs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our prisons are in crisis,\" the governor said. \"We have inherited a problem that has been put off year after year after year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwarzenegger \u003cem>did\u003c/em> take steps to reduce the inmate population, but not nearly enough to satisfy the federal courts. 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It just \u003cem>happened\u003c/em>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after Brown signed AB109 (and a companion bill, AB117), realignment took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That process -- or lack thereof -- rankles critics of realignment, including Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 425-page bill, it never saw a committee hearing, it was never brought to the floor, it passed both houses and went to the governor's desk without debate, kinda in the backroom somewhere,\" complains Rushford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/09/29/realignment-is-here-counties-to-receive-non-violent-criminals-from-state\" target=\"_blank\">relatively quick implementation of realignment\u003c/a> left local law enforcement officials scrambling. The biggest immediate impact was felt in county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Prison Break: California Rethinks Criminal Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa1iXtDbo64&w=640&h=385]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Michael Montgomery visited Fresno in the summer of 2012 for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/prisons/\" target=\"_blank\">television story\u003c/a> produced for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Montgomery met inmates in the county jail who had earlier served time in state prisons. They said conditions in the county jail were far worse than state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no programs here,\" one inmate shouted from his cell. \"There's no schools, there's no education. There's no jobs. I mean, this yard is once a week. Every Monday for an hour. That's it. No sunlight, no fresh air.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several said they'd rather go back to state prison than stay in the jail. Conditions were that bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno has one of the oldest county jails in California. Like state prisons, it was packed with inmates when realignment took effect in October 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Sheriff Margaret Mims called realignment a triple whammy. \"We were hit so hard, so fast, with many more inmates,\" Mims said. \"We were all scrambling to figure out how we’re going to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A $2 Billion Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first two years of realignment, the state sent $2 billion to counties. Each could use the money from the new policy however it saw fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More conservative counties hired more probation officers and sheriff's deputies. Counties like San Francisco and Alameda put their emphasis on rehabilitation programs and reducing incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overarching goal of realignment was to reduce the churn of parole violators in and out of state prisons, and to let counties manage low-level offenders rather than sending them to state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Brown's perspective, realignment was a huge success. And he said so early last year. \"There’s no question that there were big problems in California prisons: overcrowding, health care, lack of mental health care,\" he told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\"County jails are designed to hold people for a year, not five years.\"\u003ccite>U.C. Berkeley criminologist Barry Krisberg\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After decades of work, the job was now complete. 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Shortly after realignment began, one offender in Los Angeles was sentenced to nearly 50 years in the county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley's Krisberg acknowledges that's one of the problems the state is going to have to tackle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So suddenly you had people getting very long sentences under existing sentencing laws, but now to county jails,\" Krisberg notes. \"And county jails are designed to hold people for a year, not five years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let alone 18 or 48. With these longer sentences come higher health care costs for inmates -- a burden shifted from the state to local government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberal counties like San Francisco quickly embraced realignment. Resistance was strongest inland, in places like Kings County, where Sheriff Dave Robinson was an outspoken critic. 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The biggest immediate impact was felt in county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch3>Prison Break: California Rethinks Criminal Justice\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Sa1iXtDbo64'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Sa1iXtDbo64'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>KQED reporter Michael Montgomery visited Fresno in the summer of 2012 for a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/prisons/\" target=\"_blank\">television story\u003c/a> produced for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Montgomery met inmates in the county jail who had earlier served time in state prisons. They said conditions in the county jail were far worse than state prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no programs here,\" one inmate shouted from his cell. \"There's no schools, there's no education. There's no jobs. I mean, this yard is once a week. Every Monday for an hour. That's it. No sunlight, no fresh air.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several said they'd rather go back to state prison than stay in the jail. Conditions were that bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno has one of the oldest county jails in California. Like state prisons, it was packed with inmates when realignment took effect in October 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Sheriff Margaret Mims called realignment a triple whammy. \"We were hit so hard, so fast, with many more inmates,\" Mims said. \"We were all scrambling to figure out how we’re going to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A $2 Billion Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first two years of realignment, the state sent $2 billion to counties. Each could use the money from the new policy however it saw fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More conservative counties hired more probation officers and sheriff's deputies. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is asking for a federal investigation into allegations that the head of the city's police union is encouraging cadets at the academy to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, former San Jose police cadet Elyse Rivas wrote in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_26747497/san-jose-police-recruit-union-told-class-quit\" target=\"_blank\">opinion piece\u003c/a> in the San Jose Mercury News that Jim Unland, president of the city's police union, implied that her class should quit. She said he wanted to prove that Measure B -- the city's controversial pension reform measure, championed by Reed -- is causing major problems for the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed said he had been hearing complaints for some time, but the op-ed article prompted the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it is systematically trying to destroy the ability of the department to hire people and retain them, that would certainly be a pretty serious serious matter, and that's why I think the U.S. attorney should look into it,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Weisburg, a criminal law professor at Stanford, said he's never personally seen a case where the allegation is active discouragement of people joining the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The best I can guess is that he has an idea that federal prosecuters might consider federal criminal charges against leaders of the police union,\" he said. \"And that's an interesting theory, but boy it's really, it's really out there in the chances that it could work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weisberg also said it's possible Reed believes just the threat of an investigation would be enough to have the unions back off their opposition to Measure B, which was approved by voters in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed is also asking the City Council to appoint an independent investigator to look into the same allegations. He is supporting Councilman Sam Liccardo -- who also supports pension reform -- in the San Jose mayoral race. But Reed said the investigation is not politically motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It happens to be Oct. 19 is the date this item was in the newspaper. I'm responding to that bit of information,\" he said. \"We finally have a person who's willing to stand up in public and say what's been going on, and that has prompted this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Officers' Association President Jim Unland said he never told anyone to quit. He just told them the details of Measure B, which includes higher pension payments and puts limits on disability retirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To say that somehow my speech to them educating them about their benefits is affecting recruitment is absurd,\" he said. \"This isn't given at recruitment stations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unland did call Measure B a \"terrible, terrible idea\" and blamed it for the destruction at the San Jose Police Department, which has seen officers leaving for other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unland is now calling for another investigation into whether city officials encouraged Rivas to write the op-ed piece. He noted that Rivas \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26765842/San-Jose-police-union-head-denies-he-urged-recruits-to-quit\" target=\"_blank\">backed off her original statement\u003c/a> that Unland told the cadet class \"it would be better for the department and for us if we would just quit, right then and there,\" telling a Mercury reporter on Monday she could not say if Unland has used the word \"quit\" but insisted that was what he meant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It stinks of a politcal trick,\" Unland said, referring to Reed. \"With less than two weeks before an election, the polls are out. Everyone sees that his guy is losing and I think they're getting desperate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed denies that he or his staff had any contact with Rivas.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172648563\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making license plates is the stereotypical job for a prisoner, but in the Central Valley there's a group of inmates doing very different work -- supplying milk to almost all the prisons in the state system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low wages for the work may be shocking to people on the outside, but inmates say the job gives them something else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dairy on Prison Grounds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Franco and some colleagues move 20 cows into a milking building. Wearing a prison jumpsuit, Franco stands in a kind of trough below two rows of cows, their udders easily within reach. He dips each teat in iodine and wipes it off to make sure it's clean before he attaches a pump to each udder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We milk close to 300 cows a day,\" he says. \"I like it -- milking them, going out to get them, bringing them in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco’s is serving a sentence for vehicle theft. He never had a job around animals or agriculture before, but for the past four months, he’s worked here, from 4 a.m. until noon. He earns 65 cents an hour, and that wage is much better than most jobs in prison. Even though he’s only assigned to work five days a week, Franco says he’s here every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like coming out here to be away from the people in there, in the yard,” Franco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There's been a dairy on this land since the 1950s, decades before the prison was built. It sits on 30 acres, on prison grounds but outside what's called the \"secure perimeter.\" Ten guys work a shift out of about 30 assigned to the dairy. Corcoran is a high-security prison, with Level 1 to Level 4 inmates and two Security Housing Units (solitary confinement). Only inmates with the lowest security risk, Level 1, can work at the dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the milking building, inmate Tony Sao maneuvers a loader to scoop precise amounts of oats and hay that are mixed in a feeder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From there I take the feeder and dump the food to where the cows are at so they can eat\" and stay healthy, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao is serving a sentence for grand theft, and he's been at this job for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's good,\" he says. \"The days go by as long as I'm keeping busy and doing a productive program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao has also never worked in agriculture before. That's typical, says Rob Roehlk, who oversees the dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran and some prison industry programs at other Central Valley facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Job Skills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roehlk is an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority, part of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says most inmates are from urban areas. Both Franco and Sao are from L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually don't get workers out here that have any work skills,\" Roehlk says, but he adds that some come with construction experience, like Jose Franco, and some with experience operating heavy equipment, like Tony Sao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just build on it,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\"\u003ccite>Rob Roehlk, Prison Industry Authority Administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Prison Industry Authority runs like a business, selling products like the milk produced at Corcoran to other state agencies. Inmates hold lots of different jobs, but Prison Industries employees are a select group. Of California's 116,000 inmates, just under 7,000 have Prison Industry jobs. More than 10 percent of those are food-related, from coffee roasting to food packaging to almond farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Roehlk, whose family has been in the dairy business for generations, running a dairy in a prison is a little different than the private sector. He says he's only rarely had to deal with violence, but he has had to deal with whole-prison lock-downs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cows don't wait if you don't have workers,\" he says. \"They don't wait to be milked or fed.\" Non-inmate staff step in to take up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other issues: keeping a lookout for smuggled items like cell phones, and doing hourly inmate head-counts. The selection process is strict, but a number of inmates have escaped from the dairy, though they were all caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343550\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at work. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at work. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, Prison Industries doesn't collect employment data on former inmates, so it's hard to tell how many get jobs when they're released, or how many are employed in field they worked in while incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency reports that their former employees return to prison about 30 percent less frequently than the general prison population, though it's a little hard to compare those groups since Prison Industries workers are carefully selected in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Milk Processing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have to pass through the prison's secure perimeter to get to the milk processing facility, where huge tankers deliver milk from the dairy. That's where I meet Edward Wilson and Ryan Mons who are hand-picked out of a crew of seventeen men to give me a tour of the recently-updated processor, which mirrors bigger commercial facilities. They don't talk about recidivism rates and employment data. They're confident their experience here will get them jobs on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson earned a number of licenses in prison to do this job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm the laboratory guy,\" he says. \"I test all the milk for bacteria and enzymes and things of that nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson is from the Riverside County town of Hemet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a lot of dairies down there,\" he says, and he'd like to look for similar work when he gets released in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a half-dozen supervisors, guards and public information officers surrounding us, Wilson says with a laugh, \"Hopefully I'll get a good recommendation,\" and then he turns more serious. \"I really enjoy what I do. I consume the milk, and I wouldn't want to send out milk that's not good for consumption. I take pride in what I do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Roehlk oversees dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran State Prison. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/Roehlk.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Roehlk oversees dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran State Prison. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That's kind of new for Wilson, who is serving a sentence for second-degree attempted murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've never been involved in things like this, but I would like to pursue it back into society,\" he says. \"Not just for this job, but it shows what you're capable of for any kind of job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague Ryan Mons holds a pasteurizing license, and he takes up the tour from here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This guy makes sure it's good,\" Mons says. \"If he gives me the okay, I pasteurize the milk, cook it, make sure the temperature is good, make sure we can run it through our tanks and we can pack it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The milk produced at this and one other prison is sold to state institutions like veterans homes and state hospitals, according to Prison Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The division also provides a carton of milk a day to almost every inmate in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Show Them I Can Do It'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what are meals in the prison like, aside from the milk? I ask Mons. In a word, he says, small.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't starve,\" Mons says. \"There's a store and you can go to the store and buy food. Plus if you work back here, you get to drink milk all day, chocolate milk, whole milk, non-fat milk, 1 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from staying off the yard, Mons says working here helps him pay restitution and save a little money for when he's released this December after serving a sentence for grand theft. He hopes to get a job like this after leaving prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got to go down there and apply, let them know how I work, and apply my effort,\" he says. \"Show them. Show them I can do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's hoping an employer will give him a chance, based on his two years of experience at this milk processing plant.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Even though he’s only assigned to work five days a week, Franco says he’s here every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like coming out here to be away from the people in there, in the yard,” Franco says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343542\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343542\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/franco1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jose Franco and his colleagues milk about 300 cows a day. 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Only inmates with the lowest security risk, Level 1, can work at the dairy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just outside the milking building, inmate Tony Sao maneuvers a loader to scoop precise amounts of oats and hay that are mixed in a feeder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From there I take the feeder and dump the food to where the cows are at so they can eat\" and stay healthy, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao is serving a sentence for grand theft, and he's been at this job for a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's good,\" he says. \"The days go by as long as I'm keeping busy and doing a productive program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sao has also never worked in agriculture before. That's typical, says Rob Roehlk, who oversees the dairy and milk processing programs at Corcoran and some prison industry programs at other Central Valley facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They come in and they haven't really seen a cow before, haven't milked a cow before,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Job Skills\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roehlk is an administrator with the California Prison Industry Authority, part of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says most inmates are from urban areas. Both Franco and Sao are from L.A. County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually don't get workers out here that have any work skills,\" Roehlk says, but he adds that some come with construction experience, like Jose Franco, and some with experience operating heavy equipment, like Tony Sao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just build on it,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\"\u003ccite>Rob Roehlk, Prison Industry Authority Administrator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Prison Industry Authority runs like a business, selling products like the milk produced at Corcoran to other state agencies. Inmates hold lots of different jobs, but Prison Industries employees are a select group. Of California's 116,000 inmates, just under 7,000 have Prison Industry jobs. More than 10 percent of those are food-related, from coffee roasting to food packaging to almond farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rob Roehlk, whose family has been in the dairy business for generations, running a dairy in a prison is a little different than the private sector. He says he's only rarely had to deal with violence, but he has had to deal with whole-prison lock-downs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The cows don't wait if you don't have workers,\" he says. \"They don't wait to be milked or fed.\" Non-inmate staff step in to take up the slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other issues: keeping a lookout for smuggled items like cell phones, and doing hourly inmate head-counts. The selection process is strict, but a number of inmates have escaped from the dairy, though they were all caught.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our payoff as an organization is to employ inmates and teach them a job skill so that when they are released they can get out there and sustain a living,\" Roehlk says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10343550\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10343550\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/inmates1440-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at work. 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