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He decided that clusters of high-powered surveillance cameras attached to the belly of small civilian aircraft could be a game-changer in U.S. law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole system costs less than the price of a single police helicopter and costs less for an hour to operate than a police helicopter,” McNutt said. “But at the same time, it watches 10,000 times the area that a police helicopter could watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt’s airborne cameras are just one part of a new digital movement in law enforcement. The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. 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The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. These machines are the heart of the FBI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi\">Next Generation Identification\u003c/a> program, which seeks to make it easier for police officers and investigators around the nation to distinguish one human being from another based on biological traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially means is that we’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have so they don’t commit another crime,” said Jeremy Wiltz, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such technology, he said, also could exonerate innocent people and keep them from being held in a jail cell for days or longer. Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. County sheriff’s Sgt. Doug Iketani, who supervised the project. He added that McNutt’s system can’t provide the kind of detailed, close-up images that would survive in court. But Iketani said the technology did give police useful leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why have the people of Compton heard little about this experiment until now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system was kind of kept confidential from everybody in the public,” Iketani said. “A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Los Angeles area, police are facing similar challenges at a command center near downtown where law enforcement analysts observe a video surveillance feed aimed at the iconic Hollywood sign, which police say is sometimes targeted by vandals and is vulnerable to fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing the Hollywood sign is one of many tasks of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Police Department’s Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a> – looking not unlike other high-tech law enforcement centers that have sprung up around the country as part of a post-9/11 trend known as predictive or intelligence-led policing. The goal: speed up reaction times or, better yet, intercede before new crimes, including potential precursors to terrorism, occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has access to 1,000 surveillance cameras spread across the city. Also available, through a feed to the center, are social media sites, news broadcasts and data captured by license-plate recognition devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a wall-mounted digital map of real-time reported crimes around Los Angeles that could provide analysts with valuable insight into when and where crimes are most likely to occur, where trends are emerging and where officers should be patrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many cities around the country, Los Angeles is grappling with unease from residents over thousands of networked cameras that can peer into many corners of our lives, often without us being fully aware of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s commanding officer, Capt. John Romero, recognizes the concerns but equates them with public resistance to street lights in America’s earliest days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People thought that this is the government trying to see what we’re doing at night, to spy on us,” Romero said. “And so over time, things shifted, and now if you try to take down street lights in Los Angeles or Boston or anywhere else, people will say no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkKeM-OK6g]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132136 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/cirlogo-640x267.jpg\" alt=\"cirlogo\" width=\"221\" height=\"92\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a co-production by the independent, nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, the country’s largest investigative reporting team, and KQED. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By G.W. Schulz and Amanda Pike, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen sheriff’s deputies in Compton noticed an increase in necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt and his Ohio-based company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.persistentsurveillance.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Persistent Surveillance Systems\u003c/a>, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton’s streets from the air and track suspects from the moment the snatching occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine – the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally watched all of Compton during the time that we were flying, so we could zoom in anywhere within the city of Compton and follow cars and see people,” McNutt said. “Our goal was to basically jump to where reported crimes occurred and see what information we could generate that would help investigators solve the crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. The technology is forcing the public and law enforcement to answer a central question: When have police crossed the line from safer streets to expansive surveillance that threatens to undermine the nation’s constitutional values?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In one city, law enforcement officials don’t need to see your identification: They just need your face. Police officers in Chula Vista, near San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-lands-san-diego-county-5502\">already have used mobile facial recognition technology\u003c/a> to confirm the identities of people they suspect of crimes. After using a tablet to capture the person’s image, an answer is delivered in eight seconds. (About 1 percent of the time, the system retrieves the wrong name, according to the manufacturer, FaceFirst.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chula Vista is now part of a larger trend in law enforcement to use unique biological markers like faces, palm prints, skin abnormalities and the iris of eyes to identify people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth, you can lie about your address,” said Officer Rob Halverson. “But tattoos, birthmarks, scars don’t lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, meanwhile, is finalizing plans this year to make 130 million fingerprints digital and searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fingerprints belong to people who have not been not arrested but simply submitted their prints for background checks while seeking jobs. Civil libertarians worry that facial images for these individuals could be next. The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. These machines are the heart of the FBI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi\">Next Generation Identification\u003c/a> program, which seeks to make it easier for police officers and investigators around the nation to distinguish one human being from another based on biological traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially means is that we’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have so they don’t commit another crime,” said Jeremy Wiltz, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such technology, he said, also could exonerate innocent people and keep them from being held in a jail cell for days or longer. Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. 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But Iketani said the technology did give police useful leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why have the people of Compton heard little about this experiment until now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system was kind of kept confidential from everybody in the public,” Iketani said. “A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Los Angeles area, police are facing similar challenges at a command center near downtown where law enforcement analysts observe a video surveillance feed aimed at the iconic Hollywood sign, which police say is sometimes targeted by vandals and is vulnerable to fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing the Hollywood sign is one of many tasks of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Police Department’s Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a> – looking not unlike other high-tech law enforcement centers that have sprung up around the country as part of a post-9/11 trend known as predictive or intelligence-led policing. The goal: speed up reaction times or, better yet, intercede before new crimes, including potential precursors to terrorism, occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has access to 1,000 surveillance cameras spread across the city. Also available, through a feed to the center, are social media sites, news broadcasts and data captured by license-plate recognition devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a wall-mounted digital map of real-time reported crimes around Los Angeles that could provide analysts with valuable insight into when and where crimes are most likely to occur, where trends are emerging and where officers should be patrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many cities around the country, Los Angeles is grappling with unease from residents over thousands of networked cameras that can peer into many corners of our lives, often without us being fully aware of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s commanding officer, Capt. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_85592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/kaep20130114.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-85592\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/kaep20130114.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick celebrates a touchdown run. (Harry How/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick celebrates a touchdown run. 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The journalistic response is to describe those holes and ask the police how they’re filling them.'\u003ccite>— Kelly McBride,\u003cbr>\nPoynter Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In that context, it's worth taking a look at \u003ca href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/217505156/Miami-Police-Report-Suspicious-Incident-involving-San-Francisco-49ers-quarterback-Colin-Kaepernick\" target=\"_blank\">the Miami police \"information report\"\u003c/a> (embedded below) that's the basis of all the stories about Kaepernick, the other players (49ers receiver Quinton Patton and Seattle Seahawks receiver Ricardo Lockette) and the unidentified woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does the document, based on an April 3 police interview with the woman, actually say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It cites Kaepernick, Patton and Lockette as suspects in an incident that unfolded the evening of April 1 and early April 2, in a luxury residential hotel on Miami's Brickell Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unnamed woman, who says she has had a previous sexual relationship with Kaepernick, said she went to visit Lockette in his apartment. Patton and Kaepernick were already there when she arrived. The report continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They talked for a while and she mixed some drinks for all of them and gave them shots. advised [sic] that they told her that in order to drink the shots she had to 'hit' the bong which contained marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They sat down, talked, and watched the basketball game. She started to feel light headed and went to a bedroom to lie down. [Redacted] took off her jacket and jewelry. Mr. Kaepernick came behind her into the bedroom and started kissing her. She advised they were kissing (mouth) and Mr. Kaepernick started to undressed her [sic]. She got completely naked. Mr. Kaepernick told her that he was going to be right back and left the bedroom. They did not have sex. [Redacted] advised that she was in bed naked and Mr. Patton and Mr. Lockette opened the door and “peeked” inside. She told them 'what are you doing? Where is Colin?;' 'get out!'. They closed the dooer and left. She cannot remember anything after that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[Redacted] woke up in a hospital and doesn’t remember how she got there or who transported her to the hospital.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So, to be clear, nothing there reflects glowingly on Kaepernick or the other players. The disturbing suggestion that's raised, and that media outlets have been quick to seize on, is that the woman was drugged, assaulted and then dumped at a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that's a suggestion that comes from filling in the blanks: \"If A and B happened, then C must have happened, too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it's important to note that a presumption of innocence is afforded even to pro football players who may comport themselves in a questionable manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the document we're looking at today is what the police are careful to describe as an \"information report.\" It \u003cem>does\u003c/em> describe the woman as a \"victim\" and the players as \"suspects.\" But as \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/our-people/kelly-mcbride\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly McBride\u003c/a>, a media ethics specialist at Florida's \u003ca href=\"http://about.poynter.org/about-us/mission-history\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter Institute\u003c/a>, notes: “There are gaping holes in the police report. The journalistic response is to describe those holes and ask the police how they’re filling them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the obvious questions the police document raises, McBride points out, is what the hospital says about the woman's state and condition. How did the woman get to the facility? If she was incapacitated somehow, was a drug test performed? Was a sexual assault suspected?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride said that with so many unanswered questions, it's \"absolutely disingenuous\" for media outlets to characterize the police inquiry as a sexual-assault investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Samuel, an Atlanta attorney who has had a hand in defending high-profile sports figures who faced criminal allegations, says, \"I'm not sure how anyone could even bring a charge,\" based on the information the alleged victim supplied police, \"because we don't know what happened to her. Did she have a bad reaction to the marijuana? Did she fall down the stairs at her home? Did she have an epileptic seizure? ... What is the crime here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the police document doesn't refer to any charges at all and concludes, \"The investigation continues ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it does, maybe those blanks we've been so quick to fill in will be replaced by facts. And then perhaps we'll know what Colin Kaepernick and his buddies were up to that night in Miami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe id=\"doc_51794\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/217505156/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Ali Winston, \u003cstrong> The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132115\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132115 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/WomanArrest-640x358.jpg\" alt=\"Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrest for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Rob Halverson of the Chula Vista police verifies the identity of a woman just arrested for possession of narcotics with facial recognition software. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>olice Officer Rob Halverson responds to a call for help with a parole check. When he arrives, he finds officers leading a young woman out of a house in handcuffs. Police say they have found narcotics in the house, a violation of her parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halverson pulls out a Samsung tablet and asks the woman to face him. He takes her picture. In the past, to verify her identity, Halverson would have had to drive her to the police station, take her picture, and run it through a San Diego County database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, the facial recognition software on Halverson’s tablet allows him to verify the woman’s identity as he stands on her front lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So I look at her booking photos, and that's her,” said Halverson, pointing at the tablet. “So I’m able to verify that she’s the right person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"91eed1a1b9b0c9f24048ef99f1464aa9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The software on Halverson’s tablet is made by \u003ca href=\"http://www.facefirst.com/\" target=\"_blank\">FaceFirst\u003c/a>, a Camarillo-based company. In an interview, CEO Joe Rosenkrantz said his firm uses an algorithm to analyze facial images by comparing the distance between key points on a person’s face, like from chin to ear or between the eyes. He said the error rate is minimal – he claims it’s less than 1 percent of images scanned – and law-abiding people shouldn't feel threatened by the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not in a database or somebody who's legitimately being sought out, whether it's a criminal database or some type of watch list, you really have nothing to worry about,” Rosenkrantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition is only part of a wider technological shift in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies around the state are creating databases of information gathered from license-plate readers, which are mounted on police cars or fixed objects and use high-resolution cameras to take pictures of vehicles. Police say license-plate databases help them track criminals and identify stolen cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law Enforcement Data Collection Leads to Privacy Concerns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor many, the rapid changes in law enforcement technology – and the huge amount of data now collected and stored by local police, private companies and governments – raise troubling questions. Peter Biebring, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclusocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California, said the devices let police gather data about the personal lives of law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just obviously where they live and work, but if they go to a psychiatrist, if they go to AA meetings, if they go to political meetings – potentially, if they have a mistress or any manner of details about their personal life,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California law has no strict limits for how long police can keep such data. There also are few regulations governing the use of so-called stingray devices, which mimic cellphone towers and allow police to gather information from all wireless devices in the area. Police in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles have purchased such equipment, documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say they are concerned not just about individual rights, but also about what happens when police are able to mine data from all these technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern that technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause and is reason to scrutinize these technologies closely and ask if the technologies are really compatible with the kind of society we want to live in,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Convergence of Surveillance Technologies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest trend in policing is to merge all of these technologies into one location where police can monitor and analyze the data using sophisticated software. Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center was scaled back in March after sustained protests. The Los Angeles Police Department has been running a similar center since 2009 called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the facility, police watch data from camera feeds, license-plate readers, crime reports and GPS ankle monitors worn by paroled sex offenders and gang members. The center also has access to the regional license-plate database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly trying to keep a pulse on the city,” said Capt. John Romero, who runs the division. He describes it as a digital command post that enhances the department's “ready war-making capability” – or how they deploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Muniz, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Justice Coalition\u003c/a> in Inglewood, said the use of technology and tactics once reserved for the military has migrated from gang policing to entire police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132142 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"322\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who haven't normally been targeted for surveillance are now starting to experience some portion of what poor communities of color have been experiencing their whole lives,” Muniz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that in a technology-centric world, they need to collect and monitor far more information than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sena, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center\u003c/a>, said such technologies need strict guidelines – and the public’s trust. Sena’s operation is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/what-fusion-center-2951\" target=\"_blank\">78 fusion centers\u003c/a> that were set up around the country after 9/11. While the center doesn't monitor cameras, it maintains a database of license-plate reader information and coordinates the use of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/129328/\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays\u003c/a> by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the trust of the public in what we do – information-sharing and intelligence – then we can't do information-sharing and intelligence,” Sena said. “The Constitution is in place for a reason, and the Bill of Rights is in place for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sena has his own concerns with the privacy challenges brought about by technological advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants an Orwellian society where people are under constant surveillance,” he said. “I still have issues with – and many people do – with the fact that privacy has kind of been redefined in the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-132136\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/cirlogo-640x267.jpg\" alt=\"cirlogo\" width=\"230\" height=\"96\">\u003c/a>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, the country’s largest investigative reporting team, in collaboration with KQED. For more, visit\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\"> cironline.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He said the error rate is minimal – he claims it’s less than 1 percent of images scanned – and law-abiding people shouldn't feel threatened by the technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are not in a database or somebody who's legitimately being sought out, whether it's a criminal database or some type of watch list, you really have nothing to worry about,” Rosenkrantz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facial recognition is only part of a wider technological shift in policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement agencies around the state are creating databases of information gathered from license-plate readers, which are mounted on police cars or fixed objects and use high-resolution cameras to take pictures of vehicles. Police say license-plate databases help them track criminals and identify stolen cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Law Enforcement Data Collection Leads to Privacy Concerns\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFor many, the rapid changes in law enforcement technology – and the huge amount of data now collected and stored by local police, private companies and governments – raise troubling questions. Peter Biebring, senior staff attorney for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aclusocal.org/\" target=\"_blank\">American Civil Liberties Union\u003c/a> of Southern California, said the devices let police gather data about the personal lives of law-abiding citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not just obviously where they live and work, but if they go to a psychiatrist, if they go to AA meetings, if they go to political meetings – potentially, if they have a mistress or any manner of details about their personal life,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California law has no strict limits for how long police can keep such data. There also are few regulations governing the use of so-called stingray devices, which mimic cellphone towers and allow police to gather information from all wireless devices in the area. Police in San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego and Los Angeles have purchased such equipment, documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say they are concerned not just about individual rights, but also about what happens when police are able to mine data from all these technologies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern that technology developed for war and for foreign intelligence is being deployed in local communities – I think that's something that should give us pause and is reason to scrutinize these technologies closely and ask if the technologies are really compatible with the kind of society we want to live in,” Bibring said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Convergence of Surveillance Technologies\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest trend in policing is to merge all of these technologies into one location where police can monitor and analyze the data using sophisticated software. Oakland's proposed Domain Awareness Center was scaled back in March after sustained protests. The Los Angeles Police Department has been running a similar center since 2009 called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the facility, police watch data from camera feeds, license-plate readers, crime reports and GPS ankle monitors worn by paroled sex offenders and gang members. The center also has access to the regional license-plate database.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re constantly trying to keep a pulse on the city,” said Capt. John Romero, who runs the division. He describes it as a digital command post that enhances the department's “ready war-making capability” – or how they deploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ana Muniz, a researcher with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.youth4justice.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Youth Justice Coalition\u003c/a> in Inglewood, said the use of technology and tactics once reserved for the military has migrated from gang policing to entire police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132142\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 322px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132142 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/networksurveillance-640x357.jpg\" alt=\"In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"322\" height=\"180\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Los Angeles, police monitor about 1,000 cameras in the city. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People who haven't normally been targeted for surveillance are now starting to experience some portion of what poor communities of color have been experiencing their whole lives,” Muniz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement officials say that in a technology-centric world, they need to collect and monitor far more information than before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Sena, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://ncric.org/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Northern California Regional Intelligence Center\u003c/a>, said such technologies need strict guidelines – and the public’s trust. Sena’s operation is one of the \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/what-fusion-center-2951\" target=\"_blank\">78 fusion centers\u003c/a> that were set up around the country after 9/11. While the center doesn't monitor cameras, it maintains a database of license-plate reader information and coordinates the use of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/13/129328/\" target=\"_blank\">stingrays\u003c/a> by local police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don't have the trust of the public in what we do – information-sharing and intelligence – then we can't do information-sharing and intelligence,” Sena said. “The Constitution is in place for a reason, and the Bill of Rights is in place for a reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sena has his own concerns with the privacy challenges brought about by technological advances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants an Orwellian society where people are under constant surveillance,” he said. “I still have issues with – and many people do – with the fact that privacy has kind of been redefined in the last decade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143784928\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132025\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/jeremiah.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-132025\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/jeremiah.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy of Lisa Moore, his mother)\" width=\"270\" height=\"509\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy of Lisa Moore, his mother)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> year and a half after a Vallejo police officer shot and killed 29-year-old Jeremiah Moore, the dead man's parents are struggling to understand how and why it happened. Police say Moore was shot after he threatened officers with a rifle — an account contradicted by a witness whom investigators have yet to interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department and Solano County District Attorney's office still haven't disclosed basic details of their investigation, including Moore's autopsy and results of a toxicology report that could show whether he had drugs in his system when police shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore say, most of all, they want to understand why police found it necessary to shoot someone they say was kind, curious and trying to overcome the social isolation that went along with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They owe us the truth. They really do,\" Lisa Moore says. \"I want to know the truth. Why did you shoot my son? Be honest with us. Tell us what happened. Because I don't buy the story that he put a gun on you. I do not buy it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d4cf6531df2c11f7c3ead511a0a31b3c\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to Moore's killing began unfolding about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, when people on a quiet Vallejo street were awakened by loud banging and shouts. The noise was coming from 2504 Alameda Drive, the house next door to the home of Marvin Clouse. He grabbed a video camera and went outside to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says he saw his neighbors, Jason Jessie and Jeremiah Moore, smashing the windows of their own cars, parked in front of their house. The men were naked, and Jessie was calling out commands to Moore. Lisa Moore says her son's disorder gave him a tendency to follow commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this is right, I’m destroying everything. Destroy it, Jeremiah. I want you to destroy it,\" Jessie can be heard saying on Clouse's video. \"Windshields are the soul. Windshield is god, break it. Break through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clouse's video is too dark to see more than occasional flashes of light. In the audio, however, you can hear Jason Jessie giving orders to Jeremiah Moore, and Moore responding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143584765\" 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>The disturbance continued well after midnight, and Clouse eventually taped Moore telling Jessie, “You start the fire.” At this point, Clouse says, he ran inside to call the Fire Department. Police officers, responding to multiple calls from the public, arrived as smoke began pouring from the upstairs bedroom window of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">A Vallejo Police Department press release\u003c/a> said officers arrived at the scene at 1:33 a.m. and confronted a naked man, who turned out to be Jason Jessie, inside the residence. Then, the release said, a second naked man — Moore — \"appeared from the back of the interior of the house with a rifle. The man with the rifle placed the barrel of the rifle directly against an officer’s stomach. Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle. The man with the rifle fell to the floor and was taken into custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse by this time was back outside with his camera rolling. His recording captured the sound of gunshots, a 10-second pause, then an officer repeatedly ordering someone to \"show me your hands.\" Then two more shots ring out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The content of this audio is graphic. These events happened at some point later than the first audio excerpt, after Clouse turned off the video camera and then turned it back on. We have made no internal edits in this excerpt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887\" 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>Moore was pronounced dead at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, just blocks from his home, at 2:04 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie was arrested, and charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. Those charges were later dropped. No arson charges were filed, despite fire investigators' conclusion that the blaze was intentionally set with gasoline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse wasn't the only neighbor watching the scene at 2504 Alameda Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Alvarado lived across the street and says he was playing a computer game when he heard the commotion coming from the Moore-Jessie residence. Alvarado says he went to an upstairs window, where he had a clear view of Moore's and Jessie’s front yard and porch, and he saw police arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado describes seeing a naked man standing in the doorway across the street when the man was shot by police positioned at the bottom of the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jaime Alvarado, neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He says the man was waving his arms strangely — a flailing that he couldn't seem to stop. He says he could clearly see the man's hands, and there was nothing in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard was the officers told him to stop moving, and he can’t stop moving,” Alvarado says. “He starts shaking. That’s when the officer gets, like, scared. He got the gun and shoots him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands,” Alvarado says. “The officer who was firing the shots, he was before the stairs, and the man who got shot, he was on top of the steps.” He estimated the officer was 8 to 10 feet away from the man he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says police then dragged Moore away from the house, “like a piece of garbage. They don’t even check if he was alive or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the next morning he tried to tell an officer what he had seen, but was told to go back inside his house. Since then, he has repeated his account to three separate private investigators working for Moore’s family, but says he has not been interviewed by district attorney's investigators or police detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5ac40e12cf857685f25285a8c42b025d\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Vallejo Police Department and the Solano County District Attorney's office say it's a matter of policy to canvass a neighborhood for witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said late last month he’d be happy to take Alvarado's statement. The DA's office confirmed to KQED that while Alvarado and one of the DA's investigators have since spoken on the phone, no statement had been taken as of Tuesday afternoon, April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Jessie moved to Arizona in December 2012. He says now he doesn’t remember Moore having a gun when he was shot, but he doesn’t remember much about the shooting. He says his mind has “shut out” the traumatic incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to watch it,” he says. “I was covered in blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says he doesn’t remember and can’t explain the men's behavior leading up to the shooting, but he insists he and Moore used only marijuana, and he thinks Moore’s toxicology report will prove that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Moore’s face contorts with grief when she hears Alvarado’s description of her son’s waving hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was Jeremiah, when he was nervous,” says Moore, who lives in Santa Rosa with her husband. She thinks her son’s autism spectrum disorder played a direct role in the shooting. His family always knew Moore to strictly follow rules and orders, like those given by Jessie and also by police. She says his nervous twitching or flailing could easily have been mistaken for a quick hand movement just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Jeremiah Moore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family photos show a young man with short hair and an easy, almost goofy smile. Lisa Moore says as an infant, her son was a wonderfully well-behaved baby who would sit quietly in a playpen for hours. It was years before the parents realized their first child was a little \u003cem>too\u003c/em> calm, and Lisa Moore says he was eventually diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jeremiah Moore grew, his different way of seeing the world isolated him from his peers. Lisa Moore said he began speaking late, and his difficulty communicating would frustrate him, but he was never violent. She choked up remembering a time her son asked her why he never got invited to parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore started attending community college, “all of a sudden he just blossomed,” says his father, Eugene Moore. He pursued his interest in working with his hands and was well on his way to becoming a journeyman plumber when he was shot. (His union made him a journeyman posthumously.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-131847 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041-640x409.jpg\" alt='Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor Jeremiah Moore was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" ' width=\"368\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor, Jeremiah Moore, was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People who knew Jeremiah Moore remember his fascination with electronics and antique light bulbs. He made friends with people with similar interests in an online lighting community, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse remembers Moore’s eyes sparkling when he saw an old fluorescent light bulb in his neighbor’s shed. “He said, ‘Ooooh, can I have that?’” Clouse says. He says Moore was always kind and had been helping him work on his truck in the days before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jeremiah was a good worker,\" Clouse says. \"He’d get up at 2 in the morning to drive down to San Jose and work as a plumber, and he was always fixing his cars and they were fixing computers. I could come over with any questions, and he was a really kind, caring person. And I really miss him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore met Jason Jessie online and moved into Jessie's rented house on Alameda Drive less than a year before the shooting. His parents say it was Moore's first serious romantic relationship, and he kept it fairly private. Sometimes the couple would fight, and Moore would call his mother to talk it out, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says the only gun in their house was an antique .22-caliber rifle from the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says the police could have helped Moore. \"My feeling about the police is that I believe they murdered my neighbor Jeremiah,\" Clouse says, \"and they came in like a SWAT team attacking someone who was not a threat, someone who actually needed to be helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All police departments in Solano County have signed on to the district attorney’s “Officer Involved Fatal Incident Protocol,” which dictates a joint investigation by local police detectives and DA investigators. Of the 21 completed investigations since 2008, most were finished within a year. Only two have taken longer than Moore’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of those shootings were by Vallejo police, and six occurred in 2012, a year after the city emerged from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303221630/b\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> following the recession. Perhaps the most \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/21/pressure-mounting-in-vallejo-police-fatal-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">notorious\u003c/a> incident occurred seven weeks before Moore's shooting. Witnesses say a police officer got up on the hood of a car and fired at Mario Romero and another man sitting inside the car, but the police and the DA investigation concluded the officer did not fire from the hood of the car. Romero died, and the DA and U.S. Attorney's office cleared the officer of any wrongdoing in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo criminal defense attorney Dan Russo is familiar with the Moore shooting, and he says he has serious doubts about the police department’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if this shooting was a legitimate use of deadly force, that’s something that should have been figured out a year ago,” he says. “This is why people distrust public agencies, and more important than that, Vallejo is in a really stressful situation. The last thing you want to do is lose community support, and when an investigation into a shooting takes a year and a half, without any kind of pronouncement, without any kind of information to the parties, it’s corrupting to everything. It creates a bad environment in the city. It makes the cops’ job harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says he’s used to homicide cases that are filed within days of an incident, and that much of the information Moore’s parents are still seeking in order to understand what happened that night is normally made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo also says he doesn’t see the Moore shooting as an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&q=select+col4%2C+count()+from+1qVUrvNfuc5-Mcg2FrED6ejTFYbMXPi5hUTL-hv60+group+by+col4+order+by+col4+asc+limit+10&viz=GVIZ&t=COLUMN&uiversion=2&gco_forceIFrame=true&gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3Anull%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%5D&gco_useFirstColumnAsDomain=true&gco_isStacked=false&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%2C+%22textStyle%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23222%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%229%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D%2C+%22slantedTextAngle%22%3A30%2C+%22slantedText%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_legend=none&gco_title=Investigations+of+Officer-Involved+Shootings+Completed+by+the+Solano+County+DA+since+2008&gco_series=%7B%220%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%230000ff%22%7D%7D&gco_titleTextStyle=%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23000%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%2216%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_fontName=Arial&width=640&height=300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody is going to have to take responsibility for the fact that because of cutbacks to the police department, police are less supported,” he says. That means there are fewer officers to cover each other, he says, and creates a situation where there's little accountability when it comes to shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of all adds up to an environment where you’re not telling anybody what’s happening, and you have what I consider in my experience of being in this town for 37 years, a really unusual environment where you have a large number of police shootings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus says there are a lot of theories about the increase in officer-involved shootings in 2012. He says violent crime was up substantially, and the department was down to 84 sworn officers from 158 when the recession began in 2008. That puts Vallejo’s officer-to-population ratio at about half the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a huge safety concern for officers,” he says. “But more importantly, it (the low police presence) creates a huge safety concern for citizens of this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus says quality of life in Vallejo has suffered, and officers who elected to stay with the struggling department in the struggling city are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano District Attorney du Bain says his office’s review of the Moore shooting is close to completion. He says that sometimes the long investigations could strain public trust, but that the cases are taken very seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve insisted these reviews be conducted by a chief deputy district attorney, not a line attorney, and that they be approved by me,” he says. “Our reviews are thorough, and I’ve tried to ensure that we handle these cases very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus adds, \"I can certainly tell you that I would assume that all of the DA’s findings have all been completed, and now they’re just in the stage of putting their case together, along with ours, and ensuring that every aspect of the incident has been addressed. It’s not uncommon for cases such as this, especially a case such as this that is completely complex. A lot of people may say, 'What makes it so complex?' There’s a lot of moving parts to it. There’s a lot of extenuating issues that were involved in this. And for those that were involved with the case and read what was publicized in the paper. So it’s not uncommon for these cases to take a little bit longer to come to a conclusion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Civil Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore say they haven’t been able to find an attorney to take their case, so they’re representing themselves in a wrongful death lawsuit against Vallejo and its police department. They both think the strange circumstances leading up to the shooting are scaring attorneys from taking the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning as we’re going, and it’s going to be frustrating because what if we screw up and I can’t do anything about my son’s death?” Eugene Moore says. “That’s my biggest fear. If they’re in the wrong and I screw up, I can’t do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo city attorney recently filed a motion to dismiss the family’s claim on the grounds that their complaint is devoid of underlying facts about the shooting. The motion could be heard in early May.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Break through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clouse's video is too dark to see more than occasional flashes of light. In the audio, however, you can hear Jason Jessie giving orders to Jeremiah Moore, and Moore responding.\u003c/em>\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/143584765&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/143584765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disturbance continued well after midnight, and Clouse eventually taped Moore telling Jessie, “You start the fire.” At this point, Clouse says, he ran inside to call the Fire Department. Police officers, responding to multiple calls from the public, arrived as smoke began pouring from the upstairs bedroom window of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">A Vallejo Police Department press release\u003c/a> said officers arrived at the scene at 1:33 a.m. and confronted a naked man, who turned out to be Jason Jessie, inside the residence. Then, the release said, a second naked man — Moore — \"appeared from the back of the interior of the house with a rifle. The man with the rifle placed the barrel of the rifle directly against an officer’s stomach. Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle. The man with the rifle fell to the floor and was taken into custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse by this time was back outside with his camera rolling. His recording captured the sound of gunshots, a 10-second pause, then an officer repeatedly ordering someone to \"show me your hands.\" Then two more shots ring out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The content of this audio is graphic. These events happened at some point later than the first audio excerpt, after Clouse turned off the video camera and then turned it back on. We have made no internal edits in this excerpt.\u003c/em>\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/143585887&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/143585887'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was pronounced dead at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, just blocks from his home, at 2:04 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie was arrested, and charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. Those charges were later dropped. No arson charges were filed, despite fire investigators' conclusion that the blaze was intentionally set with gasoline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse wasn't the only neighbor watching the scene at 2504 Alameda Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Alvarado lived across the street and says he was playing a computer game when he heard the commotion coming from the Moore-Jessie residence. Alvarado says he went to an upstairs window, where he had a clear view of Moore's and Jessie’s front yard and porch, and he saw police arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado describes seeing a naked man standing in the doorway across the street when the man was shot by police positioned at the bottom of the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jaime Alvarado, neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He says the man was waving his arms strangely — a flailing that he couldn't seem to stop. He says he could clearly see the man's hands, and there was nothing in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard was the officers told him to stop moving, and he can’t stop moving,” Alvarado says. “He starts shaking. That’s when the officer gets, like, scared. He got the gun and shoots him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands,” Alvarado says. “The officer who was firing the shots, he was before the stairs, and the man who got shot, he was on top of the steps.” He estimated the officer was 8 to 10 feet away from the man he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says police then dragged Moore away from the house, “like a piece of garbage. They don’t even check if he was alive or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the next morning he tried to tell an officer what he had seen, but was told to go back inside his house. Since then, he has repeated his account to three separate private investigators working for Moore’s family, but says he has not been interviewed by district attorney's investigators or police detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Vallejo Police Department and the Solano County District Attorney's office say it's a matter of policy to canvass a neighborhood for witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said late last month he’d be happy to take Alvarado's statement. The DA's office confirmed to KQED that while Alvarado and one of the DA's investigators have since spoken on the phone, no statement had been taken as of Tuesday afternoon, April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Jessie moved to Arizona in December 2012. He says now he doesn’t remember Moore having a gun when he was shot, but he doesn’t remember much about the shooting. He says his mind has “shut out” the traumatic incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to watch it,” he says. “I was covered in blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says he doesn’t remember and can’t explain the men's behavior leading up to the shooting, but he insists he and Moore used only marijuana, and he thinks Moore’s toxicology report will prove that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Moore’s face contorts with grief when she hears Alvarado’s description of her son’s waving hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was Jeremiah, when he was nervous,” says Moore, who lives in Santa Rosa with her husband. She thinks her son’s autism spectrum disorder played a direct role in the shooting. His family always knew Moore to strictly follow rules and orders, like those given by Jessie and also by police. She says his nervous twitching or flailing could easily have been mistaken for a quick hand movement just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Jeremiah Moore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family photos show a young man with short hair and an easy, almost goofy smile. Lisa Moore says as an infant, her son was a wonderfully well-behaved baby who would sit quietly in a playpen for hours. It was years before the parents realized their first child was a little \u003cem>too\u003c/em> calm, and Lisa Moore says he was eventually diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jeremiah Moore grew, his different way of seeing the world isolated him from his peers. Lisa Moore said he began speaking late, and his difficulty communicating would frustrate him, but he was never violent. She choked up remembering a time her son asked her why he never got invited to parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore started attending community college, “all of a sudden he just blossomed,” says his father, Eugene Moore. He pursued his interest in working with his hands and was well on his way to becoming a journeyman plumber when he was shot. (His union made him a journeyman posthumously.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-131847 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041-640x409.jpg\" alt='Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor Jeremiah Moore was shot and killed by Vallejo police. 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I could come over with any questions, and he was a really kind, caring person. And I really miss him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore met Jason Jessie online and moved into Jessie's rented house on Alameda Drive less than a year before the shooting. His parents say it was Moore's first serious romantic relationship, and he kept it fairly private. Sometimes the couple would fight, and Moore would call his mother to talk it out, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says the only gun in their house was an antique .22-caliber rifle from the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says the police could have helped Moore. \"My feeling about the police is that I believe they murdered my neighbor Jeremiah,\" Clouse says, \"and they came in like a SWAT team attacking someone who was not a threat, someone who actually needed to be helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All police departments in Solano County have signed on to the district attorney’s “Officer Involved Fatal Incident Protocol,” which dictates a joint investigation by local police detectives and DA investigators. Of the 21 completed investigations since 2008, most were finished within a year. Only two have taken longer than Moore’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of those shootings were by Vallejo police, and six occurred in 2012, a year after the city emerged from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303221630/b\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> following the recession. Perhaps the most \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/21/pressure-mounting-in-vallejo-police-fatal-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">notorious\u003c/a> incident occurred seven weeks before Moore's shooting. Witnesses say a police officer got up on the hood of a car and fired at Mario Romero and another man sitting inside the car, but the police and the DA investigation concluded the officer did not fire from the hood of the car. Romero died, and the DA and U.S. Attorney's office cleared the officer of any wrongdoing in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo criminal defense attorney Dan Russo is familiar with the Moore shooting, and he says he has serious doubts about the police department’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if this shooting was a legitimate use of deadly force, that’s something that should have been figured out a year ago,” he says. “This is why people distrust public agencies, and more important than that, Vallejo is in a really stressful situation. The last thing you want to do is lose community support, and when an investigation into a shooting takes a year and a half, without any kind of pronouncement, without any kind of information to the parties, it’s corrupting to everything. It creates a bad environment in the city. 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"content": "\u003cp>More than 100 emergency dispatchers and city workers gathered outside the \u003ca href=\"http://sfdem.org\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Department of Emergency Management\u003c/a> (SFDEM) building at Turk and Laguna streets Wednesday afternoon to protest low staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency dispatchers — city workers who answer 911 calls and route them to the correct public safety agency — took to the street holding picket signs (“911, Do you have an emergency? Please hold!”) and chanting slogans (“What do we want? More dispatchers! When do we want it? 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Hospital staff regularly leave him unattended, and the veteran falls five times over two weeks, injuring his head, finger, ribs and left knee. After each fall, VA doctors prescribe escalating doses of narcotic painkillers until he overdoses and is moved to hospice care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are some of the deaths that resulted in more than $200 million in wrongful death payments by the Department of Veterans Affairs in the decade after 9/11, according to VA data obtained by The Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It wasn't about the money, I just thought somebody should be held accountable.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In that time, CIR found the agency made wrongful death payments to nearly 1,000 grieving families, including 59 in California, ranging from decorated Iraq War veterans who shot or hanged themselves after being turned away from mental health treatment, to Vietnam veterans whose cancerous tumors were identified but allowed to grow, to missed diagnoses, botched surgeries and fatal neglect of elderly veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t about the money. 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He died nine days later at age 84.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had asked them not to leave him alone, and then they left him in the bathroom,” she said. “We all get upset when these things happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written response to questions, agency spokeswoman Victoria Dillon said that while “any adverse incident for a veteran within our care is one too many,” the wrongful deaths identified by CIR represented a small fraction of the more than 6 million veterans who seek care from the agency every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, Dillon said, is “committed to continuous improvement.” When a death occurs, “we conduct a thorough review to understand what happened, prevent similar incidents in the future, and share lessons learned across the system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations come as the department faces intense scrutiny from members of Congress over the number of preventable deaths at VA facilities. 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After receiving the bonus, Moreland retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough for VA to simply compensate the families of those who died,” said Rep. 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He died nine days later at age 84.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had asked them not to leave him alone, and then they left him in the bathroom,” she said. “We all get upset when these things happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written response to questions, agency spokeswoman Victoria Dillon said that while “any adverse incident for a veteran within our care is one too many,” the wrongful deaths identified by CIR represented a small fraction of the more than 6 million veterans who seek care from the agency every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency, Dillon said, is “committed to continuous improvement.” When a death occurs, “we conduct a thorough review to understand what happened, prevent similar incidents in the future, and share lessons learned across the system,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations come as the department faces intense scrutiny from members of Congress over the number of preventable deaths at VA facilities. The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs has scheduled a hearing on preventable deaths for April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://wrongful-deaths.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\" width=\"640\" height=\"550\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, the committee held a hearing to examine patient deaths at VA hospitals in Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Dallas and Jackson, Miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hearing, lawmakers accused the agency of failing to discipline officials responsible for unnecessary deaths, pointing out that it has instead provided performance bonuses to these executives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, after an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at the agency’s hospital in Pittsburgh left six veterans dead and at least 21 ill, the VA regional director, Michael Moreland, received a nearly $63,000 bonus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A five-page performance evaluation, which led to the bonus, made no mention of the outbreak, which began in 2011. After receiving the bonus, Moreland retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not enough for VA to simply compensate the families of those who died,” said Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. “In order to provide real closure for those struck by these heartbreaking preventable deaths, VA needs to hold fully accountable the employees who allowed patients to slip through the cracks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a budget hearing March 13, lawmakers pressed Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to provide examples of agency staff who had been disciplined after medical errors resulted in a veteran’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shinseki responded more generally, saying 6,000 VA employees had been “involuntarily removed” over the past two years, including six senior managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Independent legal analysts say the nearly 1,000 wrongful death payments in the decade after 9/11 represent a small percentage of the veterans who have died because of malpractice by the Department of Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the private sector, where survivors can file cases in state and federal court and often win large punitive damages, families of patients who die under VA care must exhaust a monthslong administrative review process before filing a lawsuit. Even if they succeed, families can win only actual and not punitive damages from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, lawyers are reluctant to take cases, and many families never file – or see a dime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The VA fights every case tooth and nail, and so cases drag on for years,” said Cristobal Bonifaz, a Massachusetts attorney who in 2009 won a $350,000 settlement for the parents of Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lucey. Lucey was 23 when he hanged himself with a garden hose in his parents’ basement after being turned away from psychiatric care at the VA in Northampton, Mass. The payout came five years after his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among Bonifaz’s current clients is Tracy Eiswert, who had moved into her car with her two young children after her husband, 31-year-old Iraq War veteran Scott Eiswert, shot himself in the head in 2008. The Nashville, Tenn., VA had denied his disability claim for post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three months after his death, the VA reversed itself, saying it was “clearly and unmistakably in error” for failing to grant Scott Eiswert’s disability claim, and the agency began sending Tracy Eiswert survivor benefits checks of $1,195 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the reversal, Tracy Eiswert decided to press ahead with a wrongful death lawsuit against the VA, in part because of the toll her husband’s suicide took on their children. “We’re still living with it today,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The VA declined to comment on Scott Eiswert’s death. In court, the VA has defended itself on a legal technicality, arguing that Tennessee law supersedes federal law in the case and that the Eiswert family failed to follow procedures prescribed in the state statute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filed in 2010, the case is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/strong> Attorney Paul DeMeester says he no longer represents suspended state Sen. Leland Yee against federal charges filed in a wide-ranging corruption case that has rocked California's Democratic political establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester says Yee's new attorney is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/attorneys/lassart_james.php\" target=\"_blank\">James Lassart\u003c/a>. He said the change was made by Yee yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester called Yee a \"longtime friend\" and said he would be in \"good hands\" with his new lawyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart's \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/attorneys/lassart_james.php\" target=\"_blank\">web page\u003c/a> at the law firm of Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney says he is a former assistant U.S. attorney and former coordinator of the northwest region of the federal \u003ca href=\"http://www.justice.gov/criminal/taskforces/ocdetf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force\u003c/a>. A 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/news/articles/Lassart%20Driscoll%20Press%20Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">press release\u003c/a> announcing his hiring at Murphy Pearson said his job in the U.S. attorney's office included prosecuting organized crime cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, DeMeester, acting as Yee's attorney, said the Democrat intends to plead not guilty. Yee is expected to face a formal grand jury indictment next week. After a wide-ranging investigation, the FBI claims it has Yee on tape promising to coordinate an arms deal and trade political favors in exchange for cash. 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It was in the mind of an FBI agent -- several of them,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brosnahan, a legendary legal lion, has more than 50 years of criminal and civil experience. As part of the independent prosecutor’s office in the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair\">Iran-Contra case\u003c/a>, he was the lead federal prosecutor of former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. His best-known client was \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh\">John Walker Lindh\u003c/a>, the “American Taliban” from Marin accused of conducting terrorism against the United States when he was captured with the Taliban in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson remains in custody until at least Thursday, when the magistrate will again take up issues surrounding his bail. Brosnahan said he thought Jackson could cobble together $100,000 by using his mother's house in Texas and another relative's house in Tennessee as collateral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is Keith Jackson?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson began his political career at 32, winning election to the San Francisco Board of Education on a platform of \"family values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had not really been involved in the school district at all before his election,\" said Jill Wynns, also elected to the board in 1994. She said Jackson, a political novice, wasn't up to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So when he got elected people were surprised. He came to the board not very well prepared.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Jackson resigned from the board presidency three years later, briefly taking a job with the city's recycling department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He resurfaced in 2008, when developer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Keith-Jackson-emerges-as-major-figure-in-Calif-5368557.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lennar hired him\u003c/a> to champion the Hunters Point shipyard project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Ross, a San Francisco-based consultant, said that Jackson had credibility as an organizer in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of the consultants or the people that you might reach out to and hire, especially in the Western Addition on the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, Keith would be really high on that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross said that in 2010 Jackson abruptly left the political scene. 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It’s just frustrating. It reflects negatively not just on him but the group he represents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another longtime Sunset resident, 21-year-old Matthew Louie, said it’s downright shameful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have Leland Yee represent the Chinese in San Francisco, and have these accusations brought against him of illegal weapons dealing, wire fraud, things of that nature, just looks poorly in front of us, as he represents the Chinese people in Chinatown and in San Francisco,” Louie said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet there are those in the community who are feeling more protective, as if maybe Yee didn’t deserve this fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people may think there’s something behind it, (like) is it a conspiracy,” Chen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The neighborhood is relatively sleepy today, versus a few decades ago when gang activity was a headline staple.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chinatown businessman Peter Kwan is a Yee supporter. He thinks Yee’s downfall was getting mixed up with the likes of Raymond Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regarding this whatever you call it, corruption, whatever, it could be very complicated,” Kwan said. “And I believe in some way, he might have been, I couldn’t say framed, but it’s something like a setup.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some in the community worry that people might start to think that triads, drugs and guns are just part of the fabric of Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking around Chinatown, you don’t get the sense that there’s an underground crime syndicate there. What you get is tourists, dim sum places and tchotchke shops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood is relatively sleepy today, versus a few decades ago when gang activity was a headline staple. This is partly why people were so shocked by Yee’s arrest -- and even Chow’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coverage of their arrests certainly made Chinatown seem to have a sleazy underbelly. 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