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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96595\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/toribio-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Assistant Chief Anthony Toribio (center) is taking command of the police department during a nationwide search. (Francesca Segre/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96595\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assistant Chief Anthony Toribio (center) is taking command of the police department during a nationwide search. (Francesca Segre/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly before a scheduled press conference in which high-profile Oakland policing consultant William Bratton was set to announce a new crime reduction plan, city Police Chief Howard Jordan announced he will retire from the force for medical reasons. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant Police Chief Anthony Toribio will take command of the department during the nationwide search for a new police chief, Mayor Jean Quan announced late Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are very hard jobs,\" Quan said. \"I hope you can hear my true affection for the Chief.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below is Jordan's \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/OPD/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It Has Been a Honor to Serve Oakland\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This morning I advised City Administrator Deanna Santana that, effective immediately, I am on medical leave and taking steps toward medical retirement. This decision has been difficult, but necessary. Through my 24 years of wearing an OPD badge and uniform, I have emulated the Department’s core values: Honesty, Respect, and Integrity – values I observed in the men and women who worked with me and for me. I know that the members and civilian staff of the Department will carry on these values to generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been an honor to serve the City of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard A. Jordan\u003cbr>\nChief of Police\u003cbr>\nOakland Police Department\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bratton's press conference was canceled, by the way.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He must be under a tremendous amount of pressure and a lot of stress because of all the things that are happening,\" said Jordan's friend, Bishop Bob Jackson of the Acts Full Gospel Church of God in Christ. \"And probably more stressful than anything else he probably can't do what he would like do to as a Police Chief because he has so many Chiefs over him. It's just really impossible for him to do the job I believe he was really trying to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96513\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-96513\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/RS3756_jordan-201202011-e1368041475367-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"File photo, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan spoke at a press conference. (Mina Kim/KQED)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan spoke at a press conference. (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jordan, a 24-year veteran of the department, was named \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/17/mayor-new-police-chief-search-for-ways-to-cut-crime-in-oakland/\" target=\"_blank\">interim police chief\u003c/a> in October 2011 after former chief Anthony Batts resigned. In February 2012, Mayor Jean Quan named Jordan as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/01/oakland-names-howard-jordan-as-permanent-police-chief-san-joses-teresa-reed-is-new-fire-chief/\" target=\"_blank\">permanent chief\u003c/a>. His tenure, like that of his predecessor, was marked by attempts to wrestle with a troubled department that was heavily criticized for its use of force during Occupy Oakland protests and also for its failure to come into compliance with all of the reform measures mandated by a negotiated 2003 settlement stemming from the Riders police misconduct case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2012, under pressure from a federal judge who was growing increasingly impatient at the slow pace of compliance and who was threatening to put OPD under an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\">federal receivership\u003c/a>, Oakland agreed to submit the department to the authority of a compliance director. Under that agreement, Oakland pays the director's salary, although he answers directly to Judge Thelton Henderson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the department hired \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/27/ap-oakland-hires-former-nyc-la-police-commissioner-as-consultant/\" target=\"_blank\">William Bratton\u003c/a> as a policing consultant. The former police chief of New York City and Los Angeles has been widely credited with reducing crime in those cities by using a data-driven approach to law enforcement and also by implementing controversial stop-and-frisk programs. Bratton was scheduled to announce a crime reduction plan today when Jordan made his announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just hard for me to imagine the man trying to do a job, that he is hired to do with so many people telling him what he ought to be doing,\" said Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Howard Jordan Timeline\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 8, 2013\u003c/strong> Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan announces he is retiring for medical reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 1, 2013\u003c/strong> An independent monitor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95764/\">says\u003c/a> the Oakland Police Department is making a \"slight improvement\" in meeting reforms that were mandated in the settlement of a police brutality lawsuit a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 5, 2013\u003c/strong> Thomas Frazier, appointed to oversee the Oakland police by a federal judge on Monday, has a reputation as an innovator not afraid to shatter police department traditions. Frazier is taking on a job that previous chiefs could not, or would not, do: bring the department into harmony with diverse, leftist and anti-authoritarian factions in the community. And he must do so at a time of tight budgets and spiraling crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>March 6, 2013\u003c/strong> Bummed out by rising crime, Oakland residents are turning their thumbs down on their city's prospects, according to a new opinion \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/06/residents-more-gloomy-in-oakland-than-san-francisco-san-jose/\">poll\u003c/a>. Sixty-five percent say the town is headed in the wrong direction…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 23, 2013\u003c/strong> Former New York City and Los Angeles police chief \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/23/oakland-city-council-votes-to-hire-william-bratton-as-police-consultant/\">William Bratton\u003c/a> is coming to Oakland as a consultant to the city's struggling police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 16, 2013\u003c/strong> Oakland police retreat from Jordan's statement that almost all violent crime in the city in recent months is linked to a war between two groups that exploded after the killing of a 16-year-old girl last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jan. 15, 2013\u003c/strong> City leaders reject calls to declare a state of emergency over a surge in violent crime they say is being driven by two warring criminal gangs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dec. 6, 2012\u003c/strong> In an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/06/oaklands-agreement-on-police-dept-receivership-by-any-other-name/\">deal\u003c/a>, Oakland agrees to submit the police department to the authority of a new compliance director. While the city will pay the director’s salary, the director will answer to U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson, as the result of an agreement with plaintiffs in a civil rights lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 12, 2012\u003c/strong> Two police officers should be fired and another 42 officers disciplined for misconduct during the Occupy Oakland protests that turned violent late last year and in January, city leaders said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>July 19, 2012\u003c/strong> Crime is falling nationwide, but not so in Oakland. Violent crime in the city is up about 20 percent over last year to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>June 22, 2012\u003c/strong> Oakland officials are acknowledging that Mayor Jean Quan’s \"one-hundred block\" crime-fighting plan miscalculated where most violent crime in the city takes place. Quan has been saying that 90 percent of the crime in Oakland takes place in 100 blocks, and that the city is focusing police and other city services on those blocks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>May 1, 2012\u003c/strong> The Oakland Museum of California posts an online video exhibit on the Occupy movement. \"Portraits from the Occupation\" is a series of 16 interviews with individuals involved with or impacted by Occupy Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feb. 1, 2012\u003c/strong> Oakland city officials name interim police Chief Howard Jordan to head the Oakland Police Department on a permanent basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 28, 2011\u003c/strong> Oakland interim Police Chief Howard Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/28/oakland-interim-chief-howard-jordan-releases-message-to-the-community/\">sa\u003c/a>ys that to his knowledge, no Oakland police officer used rubber bullets, wooden dowels or flash-bang grenades in a violent predawn raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment and during a series of clashes with protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oct. 27, 2011\u003c/strong> Mayor Jean Quan and interim Police Chief Howard Jordan hold a press conference to address the use of force against Occupy Oakland protesters by Oakland police and other agencies. 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His tenure, like that of his predecessor, was marked by attempts to wrestle with a troubled department that was heavily criticized for its use of force during Occupy Oakland protests and also for its failure to come into compliance with all of the reform measures mandated by a negotiated 2003 settlement stemming from the Riders police misconduct case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2012, under pressure from a federal judge who was growing increasingly impatient at the slow pace of compliance and who was threatening to put OPD under an unprecedented \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\">federal receivership\u003c/a>, Oakland agreed to submit the department to the authority of a compliance director. 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The report refers to Moore by her legal first name, Xavier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Controversy escalated in the months since Moore’s death. The Berkeley Police Review Commission \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/28/berkeley-investigators-probe-police-role-in-transgender-womans-death/\">opened an investigation\u003c/a> into the incident, and family members called for information to be released at a Berkeley City Council meeting April 30. \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/05/01/emotional-pleas-prompt-call-for-kayla-moore-report/\">The meeting erupted\u003c/a> into a shouting match between Mayor Tom Bates and protesters, and police removed a Moore family friend from the meeting. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It didn't matter which officers showed up or who showed up,\" Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan said in reference to criticism that mental health personnel or specially trained officers should have responded to a call about someone suffering a mental health crisis. \"The poison is in his system, and there's nothing anybody can do to take it out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda County coroner found that Kayla Moore died with potentially toxic levels of methamphetamine and codeine. Police and the coroner found glass pipes with steel wool commonly associated with meth or crack cocaine smoking. The coroner also listed obesity and an enlarged heart as contributing factors in Moore's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statements from neighbors and other people who knew Moore depict a person who was often kind with a sunny personality. Some neighbors reported that Moore could act strangely, knocking on their doors and asking for cigarettes or talking about drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A psychiatric symptom called anhedonia, which is associated with many illnesses and is basically the inability to experience pleasure, can be at \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089992/\">the root of drug addiction\u003c/a> for people with schizophrenia, said David Fariello, director of UCSF's Division of Community Services and a licensed clinical social worker for 33 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of the things that's typical with schizophrenia is having difficulty engaging socially and feeling connected,\" he said. \"One of the things that crack or amphetamine or uppers do is it immediately gives you this sense of energy and involvement and connection.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that it's a short-term fix, though, and that meth leads to increased paranoia and that prolonged use can intensify hallucinations associated with schizophrenia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three Berkeley police officers initially headed for Moore's apartment downtown in the Gaia Building after Moore's roommate called to report a heated argument, and said Moore might need to \"5150'd,\" or involuntarily confined for a mental health evaluation, according to police reports. Moore's family members have said she has been taken into custody under \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=wic&group=05001-06000&file=5150-5157\">California Welfare and Institutions Code 5150\u003c/a> multiple times in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers first spoke to Moore in the hallway outside her fifth-floor apartment. Police reports by the officers describe Moore as agitated and confused. She said she needed to contact the FBI and that the FBI had been following her, and called officers random names or appeared to be talking to people who were not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fariello said acute mental crises often occur late at night, sometimes after days of trouble sleeping. As a crisis begins, people become unable to mask their symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things could keep growing until voices get really intrusive and become difficult to tolerate, and they might get more and more confused,\" Fariello said. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco is beginning two novel criminal justice programs aimed at steering chronic offenders into different sorts of treatment. Although there is some overlap between the Serial Inebriate Program and the chronic offenders program, the efforts are aimed at different populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serial Inebriate Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Serial Inebriate Program, which strives to break the streets-to-drunk-tank cycle for homeless alcoholics, was slated to start May 1. SIP uses the threat of criminal sanction to coax habitual street drinkers into long-term treatment. San Francisco’s program is modeled on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/sip/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">13-year-old effort in San Diego,\u003c/a> which is being replicated in police departments across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95882\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/26/serial-inebriates-draft/holiday-dui-checkpoints-yield-hundreds-of-arrests-in-northern-california/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95882\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/51895739-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A man is taken away after failing a sobriety test. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95882\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is taken away after failing a sobriety test. 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And when officers didn’t make arrests, it was paramedics who responded, taking severely intoxicated people to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were doing at the time wasn’t working,” Liening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón estimates costs from those kinds of emergency room visits and other services are in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.reportingonhealth.org/resources/lessons/million-dollar-homeless-patient\" target=\"_blank\">millions yearly,\u003c/a> with the cycle often repeating.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBut Liening also knew the police department couldn’t solve the problem on its own. So the department started coordinating with other stakeholders, including the county mental health department, the city’s public defender and prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s plan uses the same model as San Diego’s. Police start tracking how many times they pick someone up for public drunkenness. The sixth offense triggers a misdemeanor charge, and offenders then have a choice between a jail sentence and some form of treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Completion of 180-day treatment has consistently been three times the national average for SIP clients, according to Deni McLagan, program manager of San Diego County's mental health service provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the police department, public defender and district attorney are all on board, along with mental health service providers. But Suhr said any more than 10 SIP candidates could stretch current resources. San Francisco’s population of chronic homeless alcoholics is certainly more than that, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLagan said she hears about similar issues in cities across the country, where she often travels to help start a program. She said chronic homeless alcoholics need to be separated from other addicts who have housing, families and jobs. Otherwise, they end up feeling worse about themselves than when they started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited a survey one mental health department was using that asked \u003ca href=\"http://www.a-1associates.com/aa/20Questions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">questions such as,\u003c/a> “Have you ever had a DUI?” or “How often do you drink before work?\" These questions are not necessarily applicable to a homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to change the questions to things like, ‘If you made $3 panhandling, would you use it to buy food or booze?’ ” she said. “Once we modified care, then we had buy-in from the clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his concern about program capacity, Suhr said the city has some time after May 1 before the first SIP candidates would rack up their sixth contact with police. He added that it’s a program the city desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk Sixth Street myself at least once per week,” Suhr said, “and I have never walked up Sixth street and not come across somebody who would be a candidate for the SIP program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chronic Offenders Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and other San Francisco officials said there’s been some confusion between SIP and a project originated by the district attorney called the chronic offender program, which has had two difficult beginnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, Gascón asked police to find a man who had 22 outstanding citations for what are often referred to as quality-of-life crimes, like sleeping in the park or possessing an open container of alcohol. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco is beginning two novel criminal justice programs aimed at steering chronic offenders into different sorts of treatment. Although there is some overlap between the Serial Inebriate Program and the chronic offenders program, the efforts are aimed at different populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serial Inebriate Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Serial Inebriate Program, which strives to break the streets-to-drunk-tank cycle for homeless alcoholics, was slated to start May 1. SIP uses the threat of criminal sanction to coax habitual street drinkers into long-term treatment. San Francisco’s program is modeled on a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/sip/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">13-year-old effort in San Diego,\u003c/a> which is being replicated in police departments across the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95882\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/26/serial-inebriates-draft/holiday-dui-checkpoints-yield-hundreds-of-arrests-in-northern-california/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95882\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/51895739-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A man is taken away after failing a sobriety test. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95882\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is taken away after failing a sobriety test. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To leave folks unattended in a condition where they’re absolutely unable to care for themselves and they refuse to accept services is akin to a death sentence,” San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said. “We’re trying to get the first olive out of the jar, trying to help those people who are most unable to care for themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego police Officer John Liening, an 18-year veteran, helped create SIP in 2000. He said he and his sergeant were frustrated by putting chronic street alcoholics in jail just so they could be released and continue drinking. And when officers didn’t make arrests, it was paramedics who responded, taking severely intoxicated people to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were doing at the time wasn’t working,” Liening said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón estimates costs from those kinds of emergency room visits and other services are in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.reportingonhealth.org/resources/lessons/million-dollar-homeless-patient\" target=\"_blank\">millions yearly,\u003c/a> with the cycle often repeating.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nBut Liening also knew the police department couldn’t solve the problem on its own. So the department started coordinating with other stakeholders, including the county mental health department, the city’s public defender and prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s plan uses the same model as San Diego’s. Police start tracking how many times they pick someone up for public drunkenness. The sixth offense triggers a misdemeanor charge, and offenders then have a choice between a jail sentence and some form of treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Completion of 180-day treatment has consistently been three times the national average for SIP clients, according to Deni McLagan, program manager of San Diego County's mental health service provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the police department, public defender and district attorney are all on board, along with mental health service providers. But Suhr said any more than 10 SIP candidates could stretch current resources. San Francisco’s population of chronic homeless alcoholics is certainly more than that, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McLagan said she hears about similar issues in cities across the country, where she often travels to help start a program. She said chronic homeless alcoholics need to be separated from other addicts who have housing, families and jobs. Otherwise, they end up feeling worse about themselves than when they started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited a survey one mental health department was using that asked \u003ca href=\"http://www.a-1associates.com/aa/20Questions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">questions such as,\u003c/a> “Have you ever had a DUI?” or “How often do you drink before work?\" These questions are not necessarily applicable to a homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to change the questions to things like, ‘If you made $3 panhandling, would you use it to buy food or booze?’ ” she said. “Once we modified care, then we had buy-in from the clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite his concern about program capacity, Suhr said the city has some time after May 1 before the first SIP candidates would rack up their sixth contact with police. He added that it’s a program the city desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk Sixth Street myself at least once per week,” Suhr said, “and I have never walked up Sixth street and not come across somebody who would be a candidate for the SIP program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chronic Offenders Program\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and other San Francisco officials said there’s been some confusion between SIP and a project originated by the district attorney called the chronic offender program, which has had two difficult beginnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recently, Gascón asked police to find a man who had 22 outstanding citations for what are often referred to as quality-of-life crimes, like sleeping in the park or possessing an open container of alcohol. The man had consistently failed to show up to court and answer for his citations, so Gascón charged him with 22 counts of failure to appear, a misdemeanor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the man was not hard to find, and he stood before the San Francisco Superior Court on April 18. But he \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2013/04/san-francisco-da-still-trying-put-chronic-inebriates-treatment-instead-jail\" target=\"_blank\">was released on his own recognizance\u003c/a> and ordered to reappear on May 22, which frustrated Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can the court do this?” Gascón said. “Obviously they can. The judge in this particular case did so. Is it appropriate? Is it good public policy? I would argue not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liening, the San Diego police officer, said judges always have the discretion to release low-level defendants after arraignment, but most SIP candidates have many previous infractions that makes it unlikely. Both SIP and the chronic offenders program rely on the threat of jail time to coerce people into treatment, but the charges, treatments and targets are different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s two different populations.” Suhr said. “One of these populations is the chronic person who is cited over and over again and is basically a scofflaw. There isn’t a lot of crossover between chronic offenders and serial inebriates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a prosecutor, Gascón doesn’t like people flouting the law, but he also thinks that many candidates for the chronic offenders court could benefit from mental health services or addiction counseling, and they would be diverted away from jail and into those programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco public defender’s office challenged a previous version of the court that relied on the civil charge of contempt to hold chronic offenders. That court was ruled \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/2013/01/04/appeals-court-chronic-inebriate-program-unconstitutional/\" target=\"_blank\">unconstitutional\u003c/a> by California's 1\u003csup>st\u003c/sup> District Court of Appeal in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney in the public defender's office, said he doesn’t think this iteration of Gascón’s court poses the same due process challenges as the last one. But he thinks it’s still a poor use of money that will collapse under its own weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program is not going to survive because of the tremendous amount of public resources that will be expended against people that haven’t committed any kind of serious offense,” Gonzalez said. “When we have law enforcement officials embark on a program to arrest people to see what services they need, I don’t think people are going to stand for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/car-king-street-design-detriment-pedestrians-4441\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Jose Flores Miguel, 65, was killed in 2010 crossing a busy Concord boulevard, city officials took action: They scraped off the crosswalk where he took his last steps and installed a metal gate with a sign warning walkers not to cross there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that didn’t solve the problem. With the next crosswalk 460 feet away, people still cut across the five lanes of Clayton Road at Barbis Way, where Flores is remembered with a wooden cross decorated with rosaries and surrounded by yellow tulips. The draws are a bus stop and shopping center on the north side of the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This Center for Investigative Reporting video examines the prosecution of drivers who kill pedestrians:\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RJMKk6NmHM?rel=0]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores’ daughter, Maria Banjos, said the city should have improved the crosswalk, perhaps with signs or lights, instead of getting rid of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This story was edited by Amy Pyle and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"description": "by Zusha Elinson, Center for Investigative Reporting After Jose Flores Miguel, 65, was killed in 2010 crossing a busy Concord boulevard, city officials took action: They scraped off the crosswalk where he took his last steps and installed a metal gate with a sign warning walkers not to cross there. But that didn’t solve the problem. With the next crosswalk 460 feet away, people still cut across the five lanes of Clayton Road at Barbis Way, where Flores is remembered with a wooden cross decorated with rosaries and surrounded by yellow tulips. The draws are a bus stop and shopping",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I was going to sue the city, it wouldn’t have been for money – it would have been for injustice and so that there wouldn’t be so many accidents like the one with my father,” Banjos said. “We have seen people crossing there so many times since then.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why motorists rarely face prosecution for killing pedestrians\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/map-bay-area-fatal-pedestrian-crossings-4439\">A map of pedestrian deaths in the Bay Area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/how-we-analyzed-pedestrian-fatalities-4421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How the Center for Investigative Reporting analyzed pedestrian deaths\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stretch of Clayton Road embodies many of the ways American street design can be hostile to pedestrians: wide roadways with fast-moving traffic and long stretches between crosswalks at traffic signals. Such thoroughfares are particularly dangerous for the elderly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retirement, Flores, a punctual man, relied on public transit. He would cross the street nearly every day to catch the bus or pick up groceries – as he was doing the evening he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In each of the Bay Area’s five largest counties, the roads with the most pedestrian deaths were multilane thoroughfares where traffic reaches 35 mph or more, according to a Center for Investigative Reporting review of fatalities from 2007 through 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Route 82, the historic El Camino Real that runs from San Jose to San Francisco, was the most deadly in the Bay Area, claiming 18 lives in five years. San Jose’s Capitol Expressway saw six deaths. Five people died on Fremont’s Mowry Avenue, another suburban thoroughfare with long stretches between crosswalks. In San Francisco, Geary Boulevard, 19th Avenue and Mission Street were the most deadly streets. Three pedestrians died on Clayton Road, the most of any street in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95775\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/wooden-cross/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95775\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95775 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/wooden-cross.jpg\" alt=\"A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"219\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wooden cross at the intersection of Clayton Road and Barbis Way in Concord memorializes the death of Jose Flores Miguel. (Adithya Sambamurthy/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area also stands out from the rest of the country in pedestrians being killed in crosswalks. More than a third of the 434 who died during those five years were hit in legal crossing spots, CIR found – about three times the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a third of those deadly crosswalks are marked only with paint on the pavement, lacking any additional warning for drivers, such as a stoplight, stop sign or flashing lights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Streets sometimes favor cars in subtle ways. CIR found that some crosswalk signals where pedestrians were killed were not timed to federal standards – and therefore not giving people enough time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traffic engineering for so many years was just not mindful of pedestrians; for so many years, it was just about moving cars,” said Michelle Ernst, lead author of “Dangerous by Design,” the national pedestrian fatality study by research and advocacy group Transportation for America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To be sure, the urban Bay Area is better designed for walkers than more suburban parts of the country where sidewalks are rare and crosswalks even rarer. But officials are reluctant to make improvements even after fatal crashes, CIR found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After repeated deaths in Atherton, Councilman Bill Widmer implored the California Department of Transportation to add flashing lights at some crosswalks on El Camino Real. He said a state official told him it could happen – in three to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought he was joking,” Widmer said. “There is a mile-and-a-quarter stretch where there are no lights, so the vehicles speed up to make up some time. It’s residential there, so people are trying to get across – it’s a mess that needs to be fixed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans spokesman Robert Haus responded in an email that his agency is working with cities to improve pedestrian safety along El Camino Real: Signs will be installed and white triangles painted on the pavement to warn drivers of upcoming crosswalks. Some crossings also will get pedestrian-activated flashing lights, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to provide the safest facilities and are always looking for ways to improve them,” Haus wrote. “Every life lost is serious to Caltrans whether caused by an impaired, inattentive or inexperienced driver. Every road is only as safe as the drivers who use them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On city streets, local leaders have let crosswalks fade and failed to reset crosswalk signals to the slower federal standards. And by removing the crosswalk in Concord where Jose Flores Miguel died, along with another crosswalk 800 feet away with no traffic signal, the city might have made things worse on Clayton Road, some experts said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city did add a new traffic light down the road at the same time, but the gap between lights is now nearly one-third of a mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too often, the spacing of the walks with better controls are too far apart,” said Michael Moule, a transportation engineer with the San Francisco-based consulting firm Nelson\\Nygaard. “The question should not be to mark or not to mark, but the question should be, ‘How do we best help pedestrians to cross?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95776\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 328px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds/seniors-crossing-the-street/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95776\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/seniors-crossing-the-street.jpg\" alt=\"Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"328\" height=\"209\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors cross Alum Rock Avenue near the Eastside Neighborhood Center in San Jose.(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting) \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ray Kuzbari, Concord’s transportation manager, said the changes made the road safer for walkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s safer to direct pedestrians to cross at the signalized intersections,” Kuzbari said. “There’s many arterials where the distance could be more than half a mile between traffic signals. I think, to the contrary, this is a very walkable distance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six pedestrians were hit along that stretch from 2007 to the day Flores was killed, Feb. 15, 2010. Crash data since then is incomplete, but at least one more pedestrian has been hit there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Risk Rises With Speeds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speed kills. The odds of being killed by a car traveling 40 mph are more than five times greater than by a car going 30 mph, according to a 2010 study by the London Department for Transport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60 percent of pedestrian deaths in the United States between 2000 and 2009 took place on roads with a speed limit of 40 mph or more, according to “Dangerous by Design.” Meanwhile, 1 percent of the deaths in which the speed limit could be determined happened on roads with a 20 mph limit or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Marie Judy Jensen told police she was traveling about 40 mph on Clayton Road as she approached Barbis Way in the lane closest to the center around 6 p.m. The speed limit there is 35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jensen, a retired bus driver, told police she saw a “shadow or blur” of a white jacket – but it was too late. The right side of her 2003 Buick slammed into Flores and sent him about 50 feet into the farthest lane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banjos, Flores’ daughter, ran out of the family’s home a half-block away. She saw traffic stopped and her father on the ground, his shoes and groceries scattered in the street. Banjos rushed to Flores’ side and heard him take a last breath, full of blood, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact fractured Flores’ skull, sternum, ribs and tibia, the coroner found. It caused his brain to hemorrhage. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The cause of death: “blunt force head and chest injury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The speed limit on El Camino Real as it passes through Santa Clara also is 35 mph. Kim Chinh Wilson was in that zone, driving between 27 and 36 mph, when she hit Santosh Racherla, 22, as he crossed the thoroughfare Jan. 16, 2009, police later would conclude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Indian exchange student entered the third lane, witnesses said he “put out his right hand in an attempt to deflect” Wilson’s Chevrolet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Racherla flipped into the air, his head hit the windshield, and he was carried on the hood for 51 feet before the car stopped and he rolled to the ground. Racherla suffered major head trauma and brain swelling. He was pronounced brain dead within an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans should find ways to lower the speed on El Camino Real, said Dan Burden, a former Florida Department of Transportation official who runs the Washington state-based nonprofit Walkable and Livable Communities Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would say that the biggest factor to look at is the dominant speed,” Burden said. “The higher speed, the more likely the fatality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haus, the Caltrans spokesman, said any speed limits under the maximum 65 mph for freeways and 55 mph for conventional highways must be supported with engineering and traffic surveys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Further, the American Automobile Association published a study that says an artificially-low speed limit can actually increase the accident rate,” Haus wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a 2011 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety report on pedestrian fatalities also found that the risk of death increased markedly with speed, rising from 10 percent at 23 mph to 25 percent at 32 mph and up to 90 percent at 58 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Marking Crosswalks\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The erased crosswalk in Concord illustrates the ongoing debate about the safety of crosswalks without traffic lights or signs to stop traffic. Some traffic planners say they pose more of a danger to pedestrians than no crosswalks, giving a false sense of security amid swift-moving traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study on the subject for the Federal Highway Administration found no difference between crash rates at marked and unmarked crosswalks on two-lane roads. But on streets with more than two lanes, the study found that a marked crosswalk “was associated with a higher pedestrian crash rate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The author of the federally funded study, Charles Zegeer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, wrote that simple improvements such as raised medians could “significantly lower pedestrian crash rates on multilane roads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flashing lights on the sides and middle – and embedded in the roadbed – are potential improvements missing from many crosswalks in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lacking those, pedestrians sometimes take matters into their own hands. Millbrae resident Jean Escobar, who was hit in an El Camino Real crosswalk with her 13-year-old son last fall, has taken to carrying glow sticks to alert motorists during the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even at crossings with full traffic lights, pedestrians don’t always have enough time to cross the street. In 2009, the federal standard for crosswalk signals was changed from 4 feet per second to 3.5 feet per second to give people more time to cross. But compliance is uneven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morena Torres, 59, was killed in 2010 while crossing Tasman Drive at Calle Del Sol near a shopping center, a long walk across seven lanes and two light-rail tracks in Santa Clara. CIR found that the length of that crosswalk, 127 feet, would require more than 36 seconds to cross. But on a recent afternoon, the crosswalk signal allowed less than 32 seconds – the out-of-date rate of 4 feet per second.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators concluded that the pedestrian was at fault for walking on a “don’t walk” signal, but it is unclear if the signal changed too quickly that day because authorities don’t make full collision reports available in cases in which no charges are filed or arrests are made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fred Laigo, a Santa Clara traffic operations engineer, acknowledged that the timing there was not set at the new slower standard. He said the city is in the process of updating all its intersections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 500 – or about half – of the city’s intersections have been updated, according to Paul Rose, spokesman for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. In San Jose, public works crews have retimed 600 of the 900, said Lily Lim-Tsao, a program manager for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Inconvenient Bus Stops\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because cars are given priority in street design, bus stops can land in inconvenient locations – far from crosswalks or traffic lights. And, CIR’s analysis shows, transit-dependent senior citizens tend to suffer most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresita Malixi, 68, was on her way to catch a bus in San Jose when she was hit and killed by a Land Rover in 2008. The following year, Thalia Hsiung, 74, was walking to another San Jose bus stop when she was struck and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads in San Jose’s Alum Rock corridor are in poor condition. Many of the seniors who visit the Eastside Neighborhood Center on Alum Rock Avenue for meals and activities are immigrants who come on the bus. For years, the closest bus stop was midblock on the opposite side of the street, across four lanes of traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew what was going to happen,” said Milton Cadena, who runs the center for Catholic Charities. “That’s such a temptation. They just jaywalk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, a senior citizen who had come to the center for a meal was seriously injured while cutting across the street to the bus stop. The seniors protested, and the city moved the bus stop closer to an intersection with a stoplight and slowed the crosswalk signal to allow more time to cross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last May, Trinidad Cruz, 63, was killed nearby, on Jackson Avenue as it approaches Alum Rock Avenue. Cruz’s death reignited the outcry from seniors, who Cadena said now are pushing to lower area speed limits, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say thank you for the change,” Cadena said, “and we say hopefully we will see other changes, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But I think it’s sort of '60s, early '70s vintage and ... most of it was handmade, I think.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That database, called DAMION, does track conviction rates, the metric historically used to evaluate prosecutors. But Gascon also wants to track demographics, crime categories, punishment and reoffense rates -- something to figure out the odds, statistically, of someone reoffending. He hopes to be able to do that with this new tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take someone charged with theft. In terms of both likelihood to reoffend and the most effective type of intervention,\" a first-time offender age 45 is going to be very different from a first-time offender age 16,” Gascon explains. 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The 16-year-old thief who's statistically more likely to reoffend may have been simply reacting to a one-time event, stealing to pay bills after the death of a parent, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fanya Young, a former prosecutor turned defense lawyer, is skeptical of DA Stat. She says that when you turn people into statistics, you risk losing their personal stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not really a connect between statistics and prosecuting or defending a case,” she says. “A case is a case. A person’s individual rights are a person’s individual rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Holding DAs accountable\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another reason prosecutors might resist. 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Practitioners didn’t know if the problem was a glut of cases brought without proper evidence or a lack of resources to pursue strong leads. She helped roll out a database called PROMIS, Prosecutor’s Management Information System. DAs nationwide bought in, but then kept the data to themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petersilia says instead of creating transparency, PROMIS simply became an internal management tool. She's urging Gascon to learn this lesson well. “Sharing that information to the probation department, to the public defender’s office, to community-based organizations, he will actually be evaluating the impact of the criminal justice system in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascon knows DA Stat won’t be easy to implement. He says it’s worth the heavy lift because \"the criminal justice system is a product at the end of the day, just like when you buy cars or you buy a home. 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