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(Alan Tobey/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84590\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Frank and Leticia Romo's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/in-sergio-romos-small-hometown-no-1-crop-is-pro-baseball-players/\">shrine to their son Sergio's baseball career\u003c/a> in his childhood bedroom in Brawley, California. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. There's no big college, no stadium, but the town has sent a bumper crop of 21 players to the major and minor leagues. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84592\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104vetday\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Six-year-old Aubrey Bown places a red carnation to honor her uncle, James Suh, a U.S. Navy SEAL who was shot down in Korangal Valley, Afghanistan. \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2012/11/12/silicon-valley-honors-veterans-photos/\">Cupertino hosted the annual Veterans Day ceremony\u003c/a> at Memorial Park. (Anna Li/\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84595\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Jeff Tedford, head coach of the Cal Golden Bears football team since 2002, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/20/cal-football-coach-jeff-tedford-sacked-after-3-9-season/\">fired on Nov. 20 after a 3-9 season\u003c/a> and a combined 15-22 record over the last three years. Tedford's total pay in 2011 was almost $2.9 million. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84589\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026homelessness\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>A homeless man amid his belongings in the alleyway where he lives in Berkeley. (Anna Vignet /\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo is part of a photo essay on homelessness entitled \"Architecture of Homelessness.\" The photographer's statement on the project is included below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives to help San Francisco’s homeless find shelter, jobs or medical treatment remain controversial. One recent law, the “sit-lie” ordinance, made it illegal to sit or lie down on city sidewalks. Some homeless people say this law takes away their right to dwell freely — essentially the right to be alive. How does one build a place of one’s own in a city where other opportunities are not available? We all have the need to create a sense of home, even in extreme circumstances. In these photos, the lines between public and private, urban and domestic, blur. They reveal the architecture of homelessness, and contribute to the understanding of a displaced people who make their own spaces.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been an eventful year in the Bay Area. There were big protests, incredible views, intriguing wildlife, a World Series title, environmental disasters and many touching moments in the diverse communities that call this place home. Here are some of our favorite images from 2012...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84573\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MarchStorms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>March saw a fair amount of rain. Berkeley’s creeks ran high and the early spring skyscapes were often beautiful to behold. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84574\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Prop8\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Prop8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Feb. 7 upheld Judge Vaughn Walker's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/07/prop-8-appeals-court-decision/\">ruling that invalidated Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California's same-sex marriage ban. The federal appeals court declared the ban to be unconstitutional, paving the way for a U.S. Supreme Court showdown on the voter-approved law. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84578\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OwlChick\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OwlChick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>In April, a Great Horned Owl \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/04/26/berkeley-owl-chick-will-soon-branch-out-says-expert/\">made its nest in the crotch of a Eucalyptus tree\u003c/a> on Berkeley’s Claremont Canyon fire trail. The arrival of a chick was a source of fascination for many bird-loving hikers and photographers. (Lee Aurich/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84582\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104MayDay\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104MayDay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/05/01/bay-area-may-day-protests/\">Protesters turned out in force on May Day in the Bay Area\u003c/a>. The day began with protests at ferry terminals throughout the Bay as part of a labor action by workers in a dispute over health care. A planned protest aimed at shutting down the Golden Gate Bridge was called off. In Oakland, 3-5,000 protesters skirmished with police, who used tear gas. In San Francisco, protesters marched and took over a building at 888 Turk. (Don Clyde/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84583\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104OccupyArt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presented \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=101468\">Occupy Bay Area, an exhibition of \"visual culture\" from Occupy encampments\u003c/a> around the Bay Area. Though the show made perfect sense to artists and other cultural producers, it was considered a bold move to some who questioned whether the exhibition created a kind of \"instant history.\" (Artwork by Eric Drooker; courtesy of the artist and YBCA)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84594\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EclipseGlass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Watching the \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/05/21/berkeleyans-come-out-in-force-to-view-eclipse-of-the-sun/\">partial eclipse of the sun\u003c/a> on the afternoon of Sunday, May 20 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. (Elazar Sontag/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84584\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104Pika\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104Pika.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The American pika is a squeaky little animal that lives at high elevations in mountains in the West. It could one day have a huge \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/climatewatch/tag/pika/\" target=\"_blank\">influence on the battle over climate change\u003c/a>. And a \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/counting-climate-challenged-pikas/\">new program is enlisting students to help scientists\u003c/a> learn more about the critters. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84588\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104quarry\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104quarry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/05/how-silicon-valley-wants-to-pay-for-flood-protection/\">Sea level rise could one day inundate\u003c/a> industrial, commercial and residential areas all along the Bay, from this rock quarry in the North Bay to companies in Silicon Valley and neighborhoods in San Jose. (Molly Samuel/KQED/aerial support from LightHawk)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84591\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104redwoods\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104redwoods.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>The State Parks Department threatened to close 70 parks following budget cuts. Anderson Valley residents said Hendy Woods is an important part of their economy and gathered at \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201203060850/b\">Occupy Hendy Woods\u003c/a>\" to discuss how to keep the park open. In July, it was revealed that the department was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/20/state-parks-chief-resigns-agency-found-sitting-on-54-million/\" target=\"_blank\">sitting on a $54 million surplus\u003c/a>. In the end, no parks were closed in 2012. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84593\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104ChevronFire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Berkeleyans had front row seats to a\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/08/06/chevron-officials-want-east-bay-residents-including-berkeleyans-to-stay-indoors/\"> fire that erupted at the Chevron refinery in Richmond\u003c/a> on Aug. 6. More than 80 firefighters spent five hours battling the blaze, which prompted shelter-in-place orders for an estimated 160,000 local residents. (Jef Poskanzer/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84596\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104EndeavorSkyl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>On Sept. 21 Berkeleyans in the thousands turned out to see the space shuttle Endeavour, carried on a specially adapted NASA 747, fly just over the city’s rooftops and the Bay. Many gathered at vista points in the hills, including Grizzly Peak Drive, Inspiration Point, and the Lawrence Hall of Science, while others looked open-mouthed from sidewalks, school playgrounds and the bleachers at Berkeley High. (Alan Tobey/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84590\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026RomoShrine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Frank and Leticia Romo's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/24/in-sergio-romos-small-hometown-no-1-crop-is-pro-baseball-players/\">shrine to their son Sergio's baseball career\u003c/a> in his childhood bedroom in Brawley, California. About 25,000 people live in this farm town, out in the desert scrubland. There's no big college, no stadium, but the town has sent a bumper crop of 21 players to the major and minor leagues. (Marcus Teply/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84592\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104vetday\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104vetday.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Six-year-old Aubrey Bown places a red carnation to honor her uncle, James Suh, a U.S. Navy SEAL who was shot down in Korangal Valley, Afghanistan. \u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/2012/11/12/silicon-valley-honors-veterans-photos/\">Cupertino hosted the annual Veterans Day ceremony\u003c/a> at Memorial Park. (Anna Li/\u003ca href=\"http://peninsulapress.com/\">Peninsula Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84595\" title=\"PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek130104JeffTedford.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Jeff Tedford, head coach of the Cal Golden Bears football team since 2002, was \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2012/11/20/cal-football-coach-jeff-tedford-sacked-after-3-9-season/\">fired on Nov. 20 after a 3-9 season\u003c/a> and a combined 15-22 record over the last three years. Tedford's total pay in 2011 was almost $2.9 million. (Joe Parks/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84589\" title=\"PhotoWeek121026homelessness\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/PhotoWeek121026homelessness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>A homeless man amid his belongings in the alleyway where he lives in Berkeley. (Anna Vignet /\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/\">San Francisco Public Press\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This photo is part of a photo essay on homelessness entitled \"Architecture of Homelessness.\" The photographer's statement on the project is included below.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initiatives to help San Francisco’s homeless find shelter, jobs or medical treatment remain controversial. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/oaklandpolice.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-63215\" title=\"oaklandpolice\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/oaklandpolice.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"139\">\u003c/a>Oakland has hired policing superstar William Bratton as a consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland city officials have hired former New York City police commissioner and Los Angeles police chief Bill Bratton as a consultant. City Council President Larry Reid confirmed Bratton's hiring to The Associated Press on Thursday. A formal announcement was expected at a 3 p.m. news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton was New York's police commissioner from 1994 to 1996 and police chief in Los Angeles from 2002 to 2009 and is widely credited with significantly reducing crime in both cities. In Los Angeles, he focused on community policing and worked to resolve tensions between officers and minority communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton is currently a senior advisor of Kroll, an international consulting company.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22268901/oakland-brings-william-j-bratton-help-fight-crime\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>During his seven years in Los Angeles, Bratton oversaw a 45 percent drop in major crimes and a 41 percent drop in homicides. Crime in that city continued to drop after his departure in 2009. His tenure in New York City from 1994-96 also coincided with double-digit crime drops...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Bratton] is teaming up with police consultant Robert Wasserman, who already had a $100,000 contract to access the department and review violence and crime prevention strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Mayor Jean] Quan will be asking the City Council next month to approve an additional $250,000 to Wasserman's firm, Strategic Policy Partnership, LLC, for both short-term and long-term crime reduction studies undertaken by Bratton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funds would not come out of the police department budget, and the contract would not have a specific end date, officials said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Andrew Stelzer, our reporter at the OPD press conference on Thursday, said that Chief Howard Jordan maintained there will be little interaction between Bratton and the new court-approved overseer, who has yet to be hired. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/06/oaklands-agreement-on-police-dept-receivership-by-any-other-name/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland agreed to make that hire earlier this month as part of a deal to avoid federal receivership\u003c/a>. The overseer will answer to U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson and will have the power to fire the police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year go, Bratton commented to the \u003ca href=\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203430404577094572259248412.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal\u003c/a> about the recent struggles of the OPD, which has undergone a substantial reduction in officers in recent years and has been engaged in an ongoing battle with Judge Henderson over the city's failure to complete reforms mandated by a 10-year-old consent decree. There have also been 130 homicides in the city this year, the most since 2006. From the Journal article:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I don't see anything positive at all happening in Oakland,\" says William Bratton, former police chief of New York City and Los Angeles and now chairman of Kroll Inc, a global risk assessment firm. He isn't advising either the police union or the city of Oakland. \"It's a perfect storm of bad: too much oversight, not enough support from city leaders, too few officers,\" Mr. Bratton says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Stelzer reports that Chief Jordan said yesterday the department will return to neighborhood policing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said the effort is a response to community feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re upset and disappointed in the crime that's taking place in Oakland,\" Jordan said. \"And we have a responsibility to respond to that and in doing so, looking at some of the best practices that are out there; calling on the experts in the country. To find a way to help us reduce violent crime in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan also said the department will return to a neighborhood policing model. Jordan acknowledged that neighborhood policing has been tried before in Oakland and failed, but he said that was due to a lack of resources. This time, five police districts will be created, starting with two in East Oakland, and each will have a captain in charge of that area. Implementation will begin sometime in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By returning to neighborhood policing,\" Jordan said, \"we strengthen our relations with the community, we build trust, and we hold the captains and his command officers responsible for knowing about crime, addressing crime and dealing with them in a very, very timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan said there will be more changes announced next week.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Bratton is a high-profile proponent of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=broken+windows+theor\" target=\"_blank\">broken windows\u003c/a>\" theory of crime fighting, first proposed by two academics in \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/#\" target=\"_blank\">this 1982 Atlantic Monthly article\u003c/a>. The basis of that theory, which Bratton applied in New York City and Los Angeles, is that relatively small violations like vandalism can lead to more serious crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that article:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We suggest that \"untended\" behavior also leads to the breakdown of community controls. A stable neighborhood of families who care for their homes, mind each other's children, and confidently frown on unwanted intruders can change, in a few years or even a few months, to an inhospitable and frightening jungle. A piece of property is abandoned, weeds grow up, a window is smashed. Adults stop scolding rowdy children; the children, emboldened, become more rowdy. Families move out, unattached adults move in. Teenagers gather in front of the corner store. The merchant asks them to move; they refuse. Fights occur. Litter accumulates. People start drinking in front of the grocery; in time, an inebriate slumps to the sidewalk and is allowed to sleep it off. Pedestrians are approached by panhandlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point it is not inevitable that serious crime will flourish or violent attacks on strangers will occur. But many residents will think that crime, especially violent crime, is on the rise, and they will modify their behavior accordingly. They will use the streets less often, and when on the streets will stay apart from their fellows, moving with averted eyes, silent lips, and hurried steps. \"Don't get involved.\" For some residents, this growing atomization will matter little, because the neighborhood is not their \"home\" but \"the place where they live.\" Their interests are elsewhere; they are cosmopolitans. But it will matter greatly to other people, whose lives derive meaning and satisfaction from local attachments rather than worldly involvement; for them, the neighborhood will cease to exist except for a few reliable friends whom they arrange to meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such an area is vulnerable to criminal invasion. Though it is not inevitable, it is more likely that here, rather than in places where people are confident they can regulate public behavior by informal controls, drugs will change hands, prostitutes will solicit, and cars will be stripped. That the drunks will be robbed by boys who do it as a lark, and the prostitutes' customers will be robbed by men who do it purposefully and perhaps violently. That muggings will occur. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/#\">Full article here\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, appropriately enough, the Tribune \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22264259/block-businesses-struck-by-vandals-east-oakland\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> that vandals had broken the windows of an entire block of businesses in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Friday\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/William-Bratton-Has-No-Fantasies-About-Oakland-185092781.html\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area spoke to Bratton by phone\u003c/a>. From that interview:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Bratton did tell NBC Bay Area that Compstat - a crime tracking system he helped pioneer - is an integral key to success. Compstat stands for Computer Statistics, or Comparative Statistics, and is a management philosophy and tool for police departments, which includes crime reduction, quality of life improvement and resource management. It also helps map crime and identify problems in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being able to know where and when a crime has been committed\" gives police \"predictive\" powers in being able to tell where a future crime may occur, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bratton also wasn't shy about saying that Oakland needs more police officers on the street. \"The biggest challenge is the number of officers,\" Bratton said. \"When you add them and use them appropriately, you get results.\"\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story goes onto cite Oakland civil rights attorney James B. Chanin as saying he is skeptical of Bratton's support for \"stop and frisk,\" in which police officers are empowered to detain individuals they deem suspicious. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/stop-and-frisk-san-francisco_n_1751676.html\" target=\"_blank\">abandoned consideration of a stop and frisk program for San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Stelzer reports that Chief Jordan said yesterday the department will return to neighborhood policing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan said the effort is a response to community feedback.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re upset and disappointed in the crime that's taking place in Oakland,\" Jordan said. \"And we have a responsibility to respond to that and in doing so, looking at some of the best practices that are out there; calling on the experts in the country. To find a way to help us reduce violent crime in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan also said the department will return to a neighborhood policing model. Jordan acknowledged that neighborhood policing has been tried before in Oakland and failed, but he said that was due to a lack of resources. This time, five police districts will be created, starting with two in East Oakland, and each will have a captain in charge of that area. Implementation will begin sometime in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By returning to neighborhood policing,\" Jordan said, \"we strengthen our relations with the community, we build trust, and we hold the captains and his command officers responsible for knowing about crime, addressing crime and dealing with them in a very, very timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jordan said there will be more changes announced next week.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Bratton is a high-profile proponent of the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=broken+windows+theor\" target=\"_blank\">broken windows\u003c/a>\" theory of crime fighting, first proposed by two academics in \u003ca href=\"http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/#\" target=\"_blank\">this 1982 Atlantic Monthly article\u003c/a>. The basis of that theory, which Bratton applied in New York City and Los Angeles, is that relatively small violations like vandalism can lead to more serious crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From that article:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We suggest that \"untended\" behavior also leads to the breakdown of community controls. A stable neighborhood of families who care for their homes, mind each other's children, and confidently frown on unwanted intruders can change, in a few years or even a few months, to an inhospitable and frightening jungle. A piece of property is abandoned, weeds grow up, a window is smashed. Adults stop scolding rowdy children; the children, emboldened, become more rowdy. Families move out, unattached adults move in. Teenagers gather in front of the corner store. The merchant asks them to move; they refuse. Fights occur. Litter accumulates. People start drinking in front of the grocery; in time, an inebriate slumps to the sidewalk and is allowed to sleep it off. Pedestrians are approached by panhandlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point it is not inevitable that serious crime will flourish or violent attacks on strangers will occur. But many residents will think that crime, especially violent crime, is on the rise, and they will modify their behavior accordingly. They will use the streets less often, and when on the streets will stay apart from their fellows, moving with averted eyes, silent lips, and hurried steps. \"Don't get involved.\" For some residents, this growing atomization will matter little, because the neighborhood is not their \"home\" but \"the place where they live.\" Their interests are elsewhere; they are cosmopolitans. 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"content": "\u003cp>We've been here before. After Patrick Purdy sprayed a Stockton elementary school with a semi-automatic rifle in 1989, California legislators passed a law banning assault weapons. A few years -- and massacres -- later, in 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law a 10-year nationwide ban sponsored by Calif. Sen. Diane Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83520\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/gun-for-sale1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-83520\" title=\"U.S. Gun Sales Reach Record Levels In 2012\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/gun-for-sale1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A California ban on assault weapons continues, but a federal ban has expired. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now assault weapons have exploded back onto the national agenda. Feinstein has been trying to renew the law since it expired in 2004, and last week’s mass murder in Newtown, Conn., prompted President Barack Obama to \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/18/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-obama-idUSBRE8BH10W20121218\">endorse that effort\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, California Treasurer, Bill Lockyer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2012/12/18/5060956/state-treasurer-lockyer-wants.html\">has proposed\u003c/a> that some state pension plans should divest from companies making guns banned by California. And an inquiry from a California state teachers fund led a private equity firm to put the company that made the gun used in the Connecticut killings up for sale. \u003c!--more-->Other proposals are surfacing as well. State Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles) has proposed requiring permits for the purchase of ammunition. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday called for a ban on hollow-point bullets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with any discussion on gun policy, passions run high -- and so does confusion. Here are some of the more common misconceptions about assault weapons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1) \u003cstrong>Assault weapons are more powerful than any hunting weapon.\u003c/strong> Before 1989, the term \"assault weapon\" had virtually no meaning. Although the term \"assault rifle\" was sometimes used to refer to a type of light semiautomatic military rifle beginning in World War II, it did not have a precise definition. Both Patrick Purdy and the Newtown, Conn. shooter, Adam Lanza, reportedly used copies of rifles designed for military use -- in Purdy's case a Norinco Type 56 Assault Rife (a Chinese copy of the Russian AK-47), and in Lanza's case a Bushmaster AR15 (the civilian version of the U.S. military's M-16).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these guns are no more powerful than many semiautomatic rifles legally used for hunting in California and throughout the United States. They don't shoot farther, faster or with more power. In order to create an \"assault weapon\" ban, legislators had to list specific models of guns or characteristics such as pistol grips on rifles, flash hiders, folding rifle stocks and threaded barrels for attaching silencers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2) \u003cstrong>Assault weapons kill more people than other guns.\u003c/strong> Assault weapons as defined by either the California or U.S. legislation are not used in most murders. A University of Pennsylvania \u003ca href=\"http://www.sas.upenn.edu/jerrylee/research/aw_final2004.pdf\">2004 study\u003c/a> found that guns covered by the U.S. ban made up less than 8 percent of the guns used in crimes before the law passed. Even when you narrow the type of crime down to mass murders or police killings, assault weapons were implicated in less than 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what category of guns are implicated in the most deaths? \"Handguns are used in three-fourths of American fatal shootings,\" says Franklin Zimring, a University of California law professor. And they make up much less than three-quarters of the guns in the hands of U.S. civilians, so they are disproportionately dangerous, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Pennsylvania study found that assault-weapon use declined in the four cities it examined, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Louisville, and Anchorage, by about 17 percent during the period the law was in place. But it concluded that other guns that could be loaded with large magazines took the place of the banned weapons. (Magazines for semiautomatic guns, also known as clips, are typically detachable, so the same gun could hold a large magazine or a small one.) While the federal law banned magazines with a capacity of more than 10 bullets, it did nothing to remove the 25 large magazines already on the market -- about one in five civilian U.S. guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3) \u003cstrong>Studies show that assault weapons bans do/don't work.\u003c/strong> The University of Pennsylvania study concluded in 2004 that it was \"premature\" to reach conclusions about whether the assault weapons ban had worked. Volokh, who thinks gun control can't work, and Zimring, who thinks it can, agree on one thing: the research so far hasn't settled the question. Reports by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nap.edu/\">National Academies of Science\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.thecommunityguide.org/violence/viol-AJPM-evrev-firearms-law.pdf\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u003c/a> reached the same conclusions: not enough data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>4) \u003cstrong>Assault weapons are machine guns. \u003c/strong>Machine guns are already illegal for civilian use in the United States. \"This is not about machine guns,\" says University of California, Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh. \"It's about semiautomatic guns that are not materially different from other kinds of semiautomatic weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1934 law required special permits for machine guns, and a 1986 law further restricted them. The term semiautomatic means that the gun automatically puts a new bullet in its chamber each time the trigger is pulled, until the magazine that holds its ammunition is empty. But to fire another bullet, the shooter has to release the trigger, then squeeze it again. By contrast, a fully automatic gun keeps firing as long as the trigger is held down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That leaves policy makers to rely on their common sense -- or prejudices -- in drawing up new laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more about assault weapons, read the Washington Post's blog post, \u003ca href=\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/17/everything-you-need-to-know-about-banning-assault-weapons-in-one-post/\">\"Everything You Need to Know about Banning Assault Weapons in One Post.\"\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Last week on ABC News' 20/20, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-marijuana-users-high-priority-drug-war/story?id=17946783#.UM-PcKz4KSp\">Barbara Walters asked President Obama if he thought marijuana should be legalized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40563\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 222px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40563\" title=\"medicalmarijuanaSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana plant buds at a dispensary. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't go that far,\" Obama said. \"But what I think is that at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1202/From-no-to-yes-how-Colorado-and-Washington-legalized-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">voters speak on this issue\u003c/a>. And as it is, the federal goverment has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions. It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said under state law that's legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments, however, may come as a surprise to those who follow the medical marijuana issue in California. In October 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\"> four U.S. attorneys for the state announced\u003c/a> it was going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to federal enforcement of the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. In that press conference, Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, provided a number of reasons for cracking down on medical marijuana, including environmental harm by growers and the proliferation of retail stores \"motivated not by compassion but by money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money,\" Haag said. \"In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to taking action against purveyors of pot in the state, the U.S. attorneys were true to their word. In Northern California alone dozens of dispensaries have been shut down, including some high-profile businesses that not only enjoyed solid reputations as responsible industry players, but which were operating with the express approval of local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't mattered. While passage of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> in 1996 legalized medical marijuana in the state, its sale is still a felony under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Comes to Defense of Harborside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One successful strategy in shuttering marijuana retail operations has been to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten landlords of dispensaries with forfeiture of their property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\n\u003cp>-- U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is the tack U.S. Attorney Haag took in taking on Oakland's Harborside, which operates under a city permit. To some, the action against Harborside represents an expansion of the federal crackdown, which had previously used proximity to schools as its main criteria for targeting. But in threatening action against Harborside's landlord, the U.S. Attorney's office cited the size of the business, which may be the biggest in the world with over 100,000 patients served. Steve DeAngelo, Harborside's cofounder and executive director, told \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/10/15/oakland-sues-u-s-government-to-stop-harborside-medical-marijuana-seizures/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland North\u003c/a> in October that Harborside earned $22 million in sales in 2011, paying the city $1.2 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Justice Department issued a statement that said we'd been targeted because of an abstract principle that larger dispensaries tend to result in more people inappropriately receiving cannabis,\" \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/harborsides-steve-deangelo-on-medical-marijuana-crackdown-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/#interview\">Harborside owner Steve DeAngelo told us\u003c/a> in July. \"I don't think that's a valid principle, but even if it were, to target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Dept has grievously overreached; I think the amount of support both from public and elected officials demonstrates that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, the city of Oakland has stepped up to support Harborside, becoming the first city to file suit against the federal government in relation to the targeting of marijuana facilities. Oakland says the federal government can’t seize the property that Harborside leases because the federal statue of limitations has run out. The city also claims the federal government misled it into thinking it could license dispensaries without legal consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re concerned that the government, through its action and inaction, caused the city to rely on the fact that we could proceed to dedicate the resources that we did to set up this dispensary system,\" Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told KQED in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\n\u003cp>--Harborside cofounder Steve DeAngelo\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Harborside has refused to shut down. “We are open and we have no intention of closing our doors voluntarily,” DeAngelo said. “We made a commitment to our patients six years ago to provide them with a safe place to get cannabis medicines and we're going to do that unless it becomes impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside's landlords in both Oakland and San Jose, where it also runs a dispensary subject to forfeiture proceedings, have gone to court attempting to force an eviction. But an Alameda County judge said on Nov. 30 that state courts did not have the power to enforce federal law. As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22116405\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune reported\u003c/a>, the ruling held that \"under state law, Harborside was running a legal business and had not violated its lease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is scheduled to be heard in federal district court by \u003ca href=\"//www.cand.uscourts.gov/mej\">Chief Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James\u003c/a> on Thursday. On the table are motions by Harborside’s landlords asking the court to enjoin the dispensary from selling medical marijuana while the issue of the forfeiture is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has filed a \u003ca href=\"//www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/17/oakrepstay.pdf\">motion\u003c/a> to stay the landlords’ requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mendocino County: 'Model' Program Now Ended, Still Under Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the point of view of medical pot advocates, Mendocino County, a longtime hub of illegal marijuana distribution, has been one of the most forward-looking local governments in terms of bringing order to the vague legalization mandate of Prop 215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s 9.31 ordinance set up a unique first-in-the-nation permitting program under which marijuana growers were allowed to cultivate up to 99 plants, provided they complied with regulations like restrictions on the locations in which they operated. The program also brought much-needed revenue to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County officials like Sheriff Tom Allman and Supervisor John McCowen argued that the program encouraged illegal actors in the marijuana trade to go legit, reducing crime and the need for law enforcement resources to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\" target=\"_blank\">DEA raided Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, owned and operated by Matt Cohen, a vocal proponent of legitimizing the medical marijuana trade through regulation. Cohen has been described by Michael Montgomery, who covers drug issues for KQED, as the “poster child” for compliance with Mendocino County’s regulatory regime. He has also been an advocate for using the Mendocino model as the way forward for expanded legalization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They better take payments, because we're broke.\n\u003cp>--Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman on possiblity that feds are going after pot program's assets\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the DEA's action was just the beginning. Earlier this year, Melinda Haag's office told the county it had to end the program or face possible litigation. After some debate, supervisors decided to “effectively gut the program,” says Michael Montgomery. \"After that, most people in Mendocino thought the matter was over, that they had complied with the federal government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in early December news emerged that a grand jury had been convened, and had issued \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22123471/breaking-news-text-subpoena-mendocino-county-medical-marijuana\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Sheriff Allman, his captain who oversaw the permitting program, the financial manager for the sheriff's office, and the county Auditor-Controller. Montgomery says Mendocino officials have reacted with \"shock and anger and concern” to the order, which calls for the officials to hand over all records related to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an extension, the county now has until Jan 8 to comply, and its hired a San Francisco attorney to help represent it. Some involved in the Mendocino marijuana industry have pleaded with the county not to cooperate with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't give this information to the federal government because patients' information and entire coops' information is accessible,\" said Matt Cohen at a recent supervisors' meeting. \"This would not be the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one really knows what the feds are after -- whether it's criminal prosecutions or something else. But Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg, a former Democratic congressman, said he thinks the money that the county made from the program is a likely target. The Ukiah Daily Journal recently \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22173338\">reported\u003c/a> that \"proceeds from the popular permitting program ... had mounted to more than $1 million by January of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've probably heard the term smash and grab, when the DEA comes into a dispensary and takes their money, takes their marijuana out the door and that’s the end of that,\" Hamburg told Michael Montgomery recently. \"I sort of see this as a form of that. They weren't satisfied with us shutting down the objectionable part of the program. And now they want to come back for the money that came into the program ... It seems that's the information they want and the only thing I can draw from that is it's some kind of a forfeiture proceeding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, Sheriff Tom Allman told Montgomery, \"We're not going to be able to write them a check, I'll tell you that. They better take payments, because we're broke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamburg, who expressed reservations about the program when it was operational, doesn't want to see the federal government go after county assets. He says, \"I just don't see the good sense of Mendocino County having to forfeit money from a program done in good faith and done with really trying to get a hand on regulating this practice in Mendocino County, which by the way has been going on for four decades. So if Melinda Haag and the federal government think 'oh we're going to put marijuana out of business in Mendocino County'...that's just not going to happen. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado and Washington, the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana, are now deciding how to build regulatory systems for growers and distributors, says Michael Montgomery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big question is what are the feds going to do in these states. What they've done in places like Mendocino that have tried to regulate could be a clue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Montgomery says, Colorado set up a fairly elaborate system to govern medical marijuana from the start, drawing little interference from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So is the message that if you set up tight regulatory system you're going to be okay? I don’t know,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California and other states that have legalized medical marijuana is that some Californians have flaunted their federally illegal activities in a very public way. Mendocino County's Matt Cohen, for example, appeared in documentaries about the state's marijuana business on both \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/republicofcannabis/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED TV\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS program Frontline\u003c/a>. And Harborside's Steve DeAngelo was the subject of his own reality TV series on The Discovery Channel -- \"\u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Weed Wars\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Michael Montgomery\u003c/a> about the reasons for what some at the time considered to be a rather sudden focus federal focus on marijuana, Melinda Haag said, \"Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they're full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have websites, and everybody knows where they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, for his part, told us he doesn't regret doing the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely not. After it aired we had a flood of senior citizens coming in, veterans, people from states where they don’t have access to medical cannabis. We had dozens and dozens of parents of gravely ill children coming to us because of what they saw...and we were able to provide a positive example of cannabis distribution for the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say, however, that I think there's a connection between my outspoken views and Harborside being targeted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Montgomery said it's important to pay close attention to President Obama's choice of words when it comes to speculating on how the federal government might handle the new world of marijuana legalization in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The president said it didn't make sense for the federal government to use its resources targeting recreational users in states that have legalized pot. But that's really embracing the status quo. The real question, which the president didn't address, is how the feds will handle the emergence of major cultivation and distribution networks for a drug that is still classified under federal law as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Do the clues for future federal action lie in Colorado or in California?\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Last week on ABC News' 20/20, \u003ca href=\"http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-marijuana-users-high-priority-drug-war/story?id=17946783#.UM-PcKz4KSp\">Barbara Walters asked President Obama if he thought marijuana should be legalized\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40563\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 222px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40563\" title=\"medicalmarijuanaSM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marijuana plant buds at a dispensary. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't go that far,\" Obama said. \"But what I think is that at this point, Washington and Colorado, you've seen the \u003ca href=\"http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1202/From-no-to-yes-how-Colorado-and-Washington-legalized-marijuana\" target=\"_blank\">voters speak on this issue\u003c/a>. And as it is, the federal goverment has a lot to do when it comes to criminal prosecutions. It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said under state law that's legal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments, however, may come as a surprise to those who follow the medical marijuana issue in California. In October 2011, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\"> four U.S. attorneys for the state announced\u003c/a> it was going to be no more Mr. Nice Guy when it comes to federal enforcement of the burgeoning medical marijuana industry. In that press conference, Melinda Haag, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, provided a number of reasons for cracking down on medical marijuana, including environmental harm by growers and the proliferation of retail stores \"motivated not by compassion but by money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money,\" Haag said. \"In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\" \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to taking action against purveyors of pot in the state, the U.S. attorneys were true to their word. In Northern California alone dozens of dispensaries have been shut down, including some high-profile businesses that not only enjoyed solid reputations as responsible industry players, but which were operating with the express approval of local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn't mattered. While passage of \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_215,_the_Medical_Marijuana_Initiative_%281996%29\">Proposition 215\u003c/a> in 1996 legalized medical marijuana in the state, its sale is still a felony under federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Comes to Defense of Harborside\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One successful strategy in shuttering marijuana retail operations has been to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/07/california-u-s-attorneys-issue-statement-on-targeting-marijuana-industry/\" target=\"_blank\">threaten landlords of dispensaries with forfeiture of their property\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What we are finding is that people are using the cover of medical marijuana to make extraordinary amounts of money. In short, to engage in drug trafficking.\n\u003cp>-- U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This is the tack U.S. Attorney Haag took in taking on Oakland's Harborside, which operates under a city permit. To some, the action against Harborside represents an expansion of the federal crackdown, which had previously used proximity to schools as its main criteria for targeting. But in threatening action against Harborside's landlord, the U.S. Attorney's office cited the size of the business, which may be the biggest in the world with over 100,000 patients served. Steve DeAngelo, Harborside's cofounder and executive director, told \u003ca href=\"http://oaklandnorth.net/2012/10/15/oakland-sues-u-s-government-to-stop-harborside-medical-marijuana-seizures/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland North\u003c/a> in October that Harborside earned $22 million in sales in 2011, paying the city $1.2 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Justice Department issued a statement that said we'd been targeted because of an abstract principle that larger dispensaries tend to result in more people inappropriately receiving cannabis,\" \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/07/13/harborsides-steve-deangelo-on-medical-marijuana-crackdown-death-by-a-thousand-cuts/#interview\">Harborside owner Steve DeAngelo told us\u003c/a> in July. \"I don't think that's a valid principle, but even if it were, to target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the Justice Dept has grievously overreached; I think the amount of support both from public and elected officials demonstrates that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And indeed, the city of Oakland has stepped up to support Harborside, becoming the first city to file suit against the federal government in relation to the targeting of marijuana facilities. Oakland says the federal government can’t seize the property that Harborside leases because the federal statue of limitations has run out. The city also claims the federal government misled it into thinking it could license dispensaries without legal consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re concerned that the government, through its action and inaction, caused the city to rely on the fact that we could proceed to dedicate the resources that we did to set up this dispensary system,\" Oakland City Attorney Barbara Parker told KQED in October.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">To target an organization like Harborside that has an exemplary record of legal compliance simply because of a general principle that may or not apply to other people in the industry is really an egregious abuse of prosecutorial discretion.\n\u003cp>--Harborside cofounder Steve DeAngelo\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Harborside has refused to shut down. “We are open and we have no intention of closing our doors voluntarily,” DeAngelo said. “We made a commitment to our patients six years ago to provide them with a safe place to get cannabis medicines and we're going to do that unless it becomes impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harborside's landlords in both Oakland and San Jose, where it also runs a dispensary subject to forfeiture proceedings, have gone to court attempting to force an eviction. But an Alameda County judge said on Nov. 30 that state courts did not have the power to enforce federal law. As the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22116405\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Tribune reported\u003c/a>, the ruling held that \"under state law, Harborside was running a legal business and had not violated its lease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case is scheduled to be heard in federal district court by \u003ca href=\"//www.cand.uscourts.gov/mej\">Chief Magistrate Judge Maria-Elena James\u003c/a> on Thursday. On the table are motions by Harborside’s landlords asking the court to enjoin the dispensary from selling medical marijuana while the issue of the forfeiture is adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has filed a \u003ca href=\"//www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/17/oakrepstay.pdf\">motion\u003c/a> to stay the landlords’ requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mendocino County: 'Model' Program Now Ended, Still Under Attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the point of view of medical pot advocates, Mendocino County, a longtime hub of illegal marijuana distribution, has been one of the most forward-looking local governments in terms of bringing order to the vague legalization mandate of Prop 215.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s 9.31 ordinance set up a unique first-in-the-nation permitting program under which marijuana growers were allowed to cultivate up to 99 plants, provided they complied with regulations like restrictions on the locations in which they operated. The program also brought much-needed revenue to the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendocino County officials like Sheriff Tom Allman and Supervisor John McCowen argued that the program encouraged illegal actors in the marijuana trade to go legit, reducing crime and the need for law enforcement resources to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/10/13/mendocino-county-raid-has-marijuana-advocates-riled/\" target=\"_blank\">DEA raided Northstone Organics\u003c/a>, owned and operated by Matt Cohen, a vocal proponent of legitimizing the medical marijuana trade through regulation. Cohen has been described by Michael Montgomery, who covers drug issues for KQED, as the “poster child” for compliance with Mendocino County’s regulatory regime. He has also been an advocate for using the Mendocino model as the way forward for expanded legalization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">They better take payments, because we're broke.\n\u003cp>--Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman on possiblity that feds are going after pot program's assets\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the DEA's action was just the beginning. Earlier this year, Melinda Haag's office told the county it had to end the program or face possible litigation. After some debate, supervisors decided to “effectively gut the program,” says Michael Montgomery. \"After that, most people in Mendocino thought the matter was over, that they had complied with the federal government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in early December news emerged that a grand jury had been convened, and had issued \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22123471/breaking-news-text-subpoena-mendocino-county-medical-marijuana\">subpoenas\u003c/a> to Sheriff Allman, his captain who oversaw the permitting program, the financial manager for the sheriff's office, and the county Auditor-Controller. Montgomery says Mendocino officials have reacted with \"shock and anger and concern” to the order, which calls for the officials to hand over all records related to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After an extension, the county now has until Jan 8 to comply, and its hired a San Francisco attorney to help represent it. Some involved in the Mendocino marijuana industry have pleaded with the county not to cooperate with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Please don't give this information to the federal government because patients' information and entire coops' information is accessible,\" said Matt Cohen at a recent supervisors' meeting. \"This would not be the right thing to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one really knows what the feds are after -- whether it's criminal prosecutions or something else. But Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg, a former Democratic congressman, said he thinks the money that the county made from the program is a likely target. The Ukiah Daily Journal recently \u003ca href=\"//www.ukiahdailyjournal.com/ci_22173338\">reported\u003c/a> that \"proceeds from the popular permitting program ... had mounted to more than $1 million by January of this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've probably heard the term smash and grab, when the DEA comes into a dispensary and takes their money, takes their marijuana out the door and that’s the end of that,\" Hamburg told Michael Montgomery recently. \"I sort of see this as a form of that. They weren't satisfied with us shutting down the objectionable part of the program. And now they want to come back for the money that came into the program ... It seems that's the information they want and the only thing I can draw from that is it's some kind of a forfeiture proceeding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that’s the case, Sheriff Tom Allman told Montgomery, \"We're not going to be able to write them a check, I'll tell you that. They better take payments, because we're broke.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hamburg, who expressed reservations about the program when it was operational, doesn't want to see the federal government go after county assets. He says, \"I just don't see the good sense of Mendocino County having to forfeit money from a program done in good faith and done with really trying to get a hand on regulating this practice in Mendocino County, which by the way has been going on for four decades. So if Melinda Haag and the federal government think 'oh we're going to put marijuana out of business in Mendocino County'...that's just not going to happen. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado and Washington, the two states that have legalized recreational marijuana, are now deciding how to build regulatory systems for growers and distributors, says Michael Montgomery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big question is what are the feds going to do in these states. What they've done in places like Mendocino that have tried to regulate could be a clue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Montgomery says, Colorado set up a fairly elaborate system to govern medical marijuana from the start, drawing little interference from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So is the message that if you set up tight regulatory system you're going to be okay? I don’t know,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another difference between California and other states that have legalized medical marijuana is that some Californians have flaunted their federally illegal activities in a very public way. Mendocino County's Matt Cohen, for example, appeared in documentaries about the state's marijuana business on both \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/bayarea/republicofcannabis/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED TV\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS program Frontline\u003c/a>. And Harborside's Steve DeAngelo was the subject of his own reality TV series on The Discovery Channel -- \"\u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-wars\" target=\"_blank\">Weed Wars\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/15/interview-w-us-attorney-haag-on-pot-operations-if-its-close-to-children-thats-a-line-were-going-to-draw/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Michael Montgomery\u003c/a> about the reasons for what some at the time considered to be a rather sudden focus federal focus on marijuana, Melinda Haag said, \"Marijuana dispensaries are full of cash and they're full of marijuana and everybody knows that. And many of them are very public about their operations. Some of them go on television, most of them have websites, and everybody knows where they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeAngelo, for his part, told us he doesn't regret doing the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely not. After it aired we had a flood of senior citizens coming in, veterans, people from states where they don’t have access to medical cannabis. We had dozens and dozens of parents of gravely ill children coming to us because of what they saw...and we were able to provide a positive example of cannabis distribution for the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say, however, that I think there's a connection between my outspoken views and Harborside being targeted.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Montgomery said it's important to pay close attention to President Obama's choice of words when it comes to speculating on how the federal government might handle the new world of marijuana legalization in the states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Of those offenders, nearly 70 percent originally were sentenced in five counties: Los Angeles, Kern, San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resentencing is not automatic. The measure gives judges discretion to consider a host of factors to determine whether an offender poses an “unreasonable risk” to public safety and should remain in prison. Those factors include the types of previous crimes, injuries to victims, lengths of prior prison terms, disciplinary and rehabilitation records in prison, and any other evidence the court deems relevant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of Prop. 36 have argued that the measure was unnecessary because judges already have discretion to impose lighter sentences. They also criticized the initiative for allowing inmates who committed violent crimes prior to their final strike to qualify for possible release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thorpe said the measure is putting a heavy burden on prosecutors to pull together all the pertinent records to determine the level of risk an offender poses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorneys have that responsibility for saying, ‘Hey, this guy is or is not a danger to public safety,' ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public defenders' offices around the state also are bracing for a heavy workload, especially if a large number of petitions are challenged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The costs could grow significantly,\" said Laura Hoffman, chief deputy public defender for San Bernardino County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 36 provides little guidance on how the petition process should be conducted, though it specifies that inmates must file their petitions by November 2015. In recent weeks, prosecutors and defense attorneys around the state have been working with corrections officials to create a system to locate, copy and transfer inmates' prison records to local courts assigned to evaluate the petitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, the records go back decades and are kept only on paper. In San Bernardino County, prosecutors have filed subpoenas seeking records on 16 inmates, according to corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, who publicly supported Prop. 36, said his office also is requesting prison records for all third-strike inmates seeking new sentences. 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