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In response to \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\" target=\"_blank\">reporting by California Watch\u003c/a>, state lawmakers this month ordered the California State Auditor to \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-inquiry-sought-taser-abuse-against-disabled-patients-17418\" target=\"_blank\">examine the force’s handling\u003c/a> of criminal investigations and overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police at the centers failed to conduct \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/sloppy-investigations-leave-abuse-disabled-unsolved-14971\" target=\"_blank\">basic police work\u003c/a> even \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/basic-police-work-ignored-autistic-patient-s-suspicious-death-14972\" target=\"_blank\">when patients died\u003c/a> under mysterious circumstances over the past decade. State officials have documented hundreds of cases at the facilities of abuse and unexplained injuries, almost none of which have led to arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the force is among the most proficient in the state \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/overtime-pay-soars-state-run-police-force-16067\" target=\"_blank\">at accumulating overtime\u003c/a>, California Watch found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two officers, roughly a fourth of the force, collected enough overtime to double their salaries at least once during the past four years, state pay data shows. The Office of Protective Services paid officers overtime to patrol the Agnews Developmental Center in San Jose for two years after the facility closed in March 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One patrol officer at the Porterville center, Thomas Lopez, has routinely doubled and even tripled his base pay with overtime hours. In 2008, Lopez received $146,000 in extra pay. To achieve that income level, he would have had to work 107 hours each week for the entire year, without any vacation or leave time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with California Watch earlier this year, Lopez acknowledged he has slept during overtime shifts. He did not respond to a phone call seeking comment yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the state Department of Developmental Services opened \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/developmental-center-police-investigating-officer-s-overtime-16592\" target=\"_blank\">an internal investigation\u003c/a> of Lopez’s overtime hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office took over the investigation into Bradley and Gardner last year at the request of the Tulare County district attorney. State prosecutors are not investigating other overtime spending at the Office of Protective Services, said Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for the attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley and Gardner are charged with embezzlement of public funds, grand theft and making fraudulent claims, court records show. Bradley faces three additional counts for “public officer” crimes related to his alleged failure to protect public money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gledhill said the court issued arrest warrants for the former police officers. The Porterville Police Department took Bradley into custody Wednesday night but had not yet located Gardner as of yesterday afternoon. Bradley posted bond and was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley started at the Office of Protective Services as a security guard in 1998. He moved up the ranks at the Lanterman and Porterville centers until the department named him chief of the force in 2008. The Department of Developmental Services fired Bradley in July 2010, about five months after the grand jury indicted him and Gardner. He is appealing his termination with the State Personnel Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner joined with the developmental center force as a patrol officer in 1998 and received a promotion to detective in 2007, personnel records show. Gardner resigned his post a few days before the department fired Bradley.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Ryan Gabrielson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/attorney-general-files-charges-police-overtime-case-17827\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California attorney general’s office filed criminal charges this week against two former officials at the state developmental centers’ in-house police force for allegedly embezzling more than $100,000 in overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_74906\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/developmental-center.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-74906 \" title=\"developmental center\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/developmental-center-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Ingraham protests the death of his brother at a state developmental center. (Michael Montgomery/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges stem from more than 2,500 overtime hours that Scott Gardner, a former investigator at the Porterville Developmental Center, claimed to have worked in 2008, according to court records and state pay data. The extra hours netted Gardner $121,000 in \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/data/developmental-center-police-officers-and-their-pay\" target=\"_blank\">overtime pay\u003c/a>that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the city police department in Porterville found evidence that Gardner received extra pay for days spent in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Jeffrey Bradley, the former police chief, allegedly participated in the fraud “by \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/414728-complaint-pdcovertime-ag.html\" target=\"_blank\">directing and authorizing\u003c/a> false entries on overtime slips submitted by Scott Gardner with respect to the number of hours worked and the reasons the hours were worked,” the criminal complaint said.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Tulare County grand jury indicted the pair on embezzlement charges in 2010. But the judge threw out the case last year, ruling the developmental center’s internal probe violated\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the officers' rights under the California Peace Officers’ Bill of Rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police force, called the Office of Protective Services, patrols and investigates criminal activity at five board-and-care institutions that house about 1,800 patients with cerebral palsy and profound intellectual disabilities in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, Tulare and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, Bradley said he was not ready to discuss the charges. Gardner did not return phone calls seeking comment. They pleaded not guilty in the previous case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>W. Scott Quinlan, Bradley’s attorney in the earlier criminal case, said Bradley did not knowingly approve fraudulent overtime hours. Developmental center officers routinely claimed thousands of extra work hours a year, Quinlan said, giving Bradley no cause to question Gardner’s timesheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the time, it didn’t ring a bell with him,” Quinlan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the state Department of Developmental Services, which operates the centers and police force, worked with state prosecutors to build the criminal case against Bradley and Gardner, Terri Delgadillo, the agency’s director, said in a written statement. The department is “pleased that charges have been filed,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department will continue to conduct administrative and criminal investigations as warranted and take aggressive disciplinary action against employees found to have abused overtime, including dismissal,” Delgadillo’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State prosecutors are reopening the criminal case against Gardner and Bradley as scrutiny of the Office of Protective Services has intensified. In response to \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\" target=\"_blank\">reporting by California Watch\u003c/a>, state lawmakers this month ordered the California State Auditor to \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/state-inquiry-sought-taser-abuse-against-disabled-patients-17418\" target=\"_blank\">examine the force’s handling\u003c/a> of criminal investigations and overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police at the centers failed to conduct \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/sloppy-investigations-leave-abuse-disabled-unsolved-14971\" target=\"_blank\">basic police work\u003c/a> even \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/basic-police-work-ignored-autistic-patient-s-suspicious-death-14972\" target=\"_blank\">when patients died\u003c/a> under mysterious circumstances over the past decade. State officials have documented hundreds of cases at the facilities of abuse and unexplained injuries, almost none of which have led to arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the force is among the most proficient in the state \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/public-safety/overtime-pay-soars-state-run-police-force-16067\" target=\"_blank\">at accumulating overtime\u003c/a>, California Watch found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two officers, roughly a fourth of the force, collected enough overtime to double their salaries at least once during the past four years, state pay data shows. The Office of Protective Services paid officers overtime to patrol the Agnews Developmental Center in San Jose for two years after the facility closed in March 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One patrol officer at the Porterville center, Thomas Lopez, has routinely doubled and even tripled his base pay with overtime hours. In 2008, Lopez received $146,000 in extra pay. To achieve that income level, he would have had to work 107 hours each week for the entire year, without any vacation or leave time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with California Watch earlier this year, Lopez acknowledged he has slept during overtime shifts. He did not respond to a phone call seeking comment yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, the state Department of Developmental Services opened \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/developmental-center-police-investigating-officer-s-overtime-16592\" target=\"_blank\">an internal investigation\u003c/a> of Lopez’s overtime hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general’s office took over the investigation into Bradley and Gardner last year at the request of the Tulare County district attorney. State prosecutors are not investigating other overtime spending at the Office of Protective Services, said Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for the attorney general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley and Gardner are charged with embezzlement of public funds, grand theft and making fraudulent claims, court records show. Bradley faces three additional counts for “public officer” crimes related to his alleged failure to protect public money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gledhill said the court issued arrest warrants for the former police officers. The Porterville Police Department took Bradley into custody Wednesday night but had not yet located Gardner as of yesterday afternoon. Bradley posted bond and was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bradley started at the Office of Protective Services as a security guard in 1998. He moved up the ranks at the Lanterman and Porterville centers until the department named him chief of the force in 2008. The Department of Developmental Services fired Bradley in July 2010, about five months after the grand jury indicted him and Gardner. He is appealing his termination with the State Personnel Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner joined with the developmental center force as a patrol officer in 1998 and received a promotion to detective in 2007, personnel records show. Gardner resigned his post a few days before the department fired Bradley.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki went on to work for 25 years as a teacher, counselor and administrator at the Peralta Community College District, and after his suicide in 2009, he was revered as a fearless radical.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. 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He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. He advocated violent tactics, according to interviews with him and Manuel Delgado, another strike leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of students and police were injured during the three-month confrontation, which became the campus’s most violent strike to date. Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent the National Guard to quell the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a memorial service for Aoki at Wheeler Hall in May 2009, Seale, of the Black Panthers, and other activists hailed Aoki as a “fearless leader and servant of the people.” In a phone conversation last week, Seale expressed surprise at hearing that Aoki was an informant and declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seth Rosenfeld was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle and has won the George Polk Award and other journalism honors. He can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:seth@sethrosenfeld.com\">seth@sethrosenfeld.com\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That agent, Burney Threadgill Jr., recalled that he approached Aoki in the late 1950s, about the time Aoki was graduating from Berkeley High School. He asked Aoki if he would join left-wing groups and report to the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my informant. I developed him,” Threadgill said in an interview. “He was one of the best sources we had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former agent said he asked Aoki how he felt about the Soviet Union, and the young man replied that he had no interest in communism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said, ‘Well, why don’t you just go to some of the meetings and tell me who’s there and what they talked about?’ Very pleasant little guy. He always wore dark glasses,” Threadgill recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. Aoki’s first response was a long silence. He then replied, “ ‘Oh,’ is all I can say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later during the same interview, Aoki contended the information wasn’t true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if this reporter was mistaken that Aoki had been an informant, Aoki said, “I think you are,” but added: “People change. It is complex. Layer upon layer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the FBI later released records about Aoki in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. A Nov. 16, 1967, intelligence report on the Black Panthers lists Aoki as an “informant” with the code number “T-2.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI spokesman declined to comment on Aoki, citing litigation seeking additional records about him under the Freedom of Information Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his death – Aoki shot himself at his Berkeley home after a long illness – his legend has grown. In a 2009 feature-length documentary film, “Aoki,” and a 2012 biography, “Samurai Among Panthers,” he is portrayed as a militant radical leader. Neither mentions that he had worked with the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Dong, who was a fellow activist and close friend, said last week that he had never heard that Aoki was an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s definitely something that is shocking to hear,” said Dong, who was the executor of Aoki’s estate. “I mean, that’s a big surprise to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dong recalled that Aoki tended to “compartmentalize” the different parts of his life. Before he shot himself, Dong said, Aoki had laid out in his apartment two neatly pressed uniforms: One was the black leather jacket, beret and dark trousers of the Black Panthers. The other was his U.S. Army regimental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley in the late 1960s, Aoki wore slicked-back hair, sported sunglasses even at night and spoke with a ghetto patois. His fierce demeanor intimidated even his fellow radicals, several of them have said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had swagger up to the moon,” former Berkeley activist Victoria Wong recalled at his memorial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>From gangs to the military\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki was born in San Leandro in 1938, the first of two sons. He was 4 when his family was interned at Topaz, Utah, with thousands of other Japanese Americans during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the war, Aoki grew up in West Oakland, in an area that had been known as Little Yokohama before becoming a low-income black community. He joined a gang and became a tough street fighter who as an adult would boast, “I was the baddest Oriental come out of West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shoplifted, burgled homes and stole car parts for “the midnight auto supply business,” he told Berkeley’s KPFA radio in a 2006 interview. Oakland police repeatedly arrested him for “mostly petty-type stuff,” he said in the 2007 interview. Still, he graduated from Herbert Hoover Junior High School as co-valedictorian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the internment during World War II had shattered his family, Aoki had said. His father became a gangster and abandoned his family, and his mother won custody of her sons and moved them to Berkeley. Aoki did well academically at Berkeley High School and became president of the Stamp and Coin Club. However, he assaulted another student in the hallway and, as he recalled, “beat him half to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days after graduating from high school in January 1957, Aoki reported for duty at Fort Ord, near Monterey. He had enlisted in the U.S. Army the prior year, at age 17. He acknowledged in the 2007 interview that he had “cut a deal” in which military authorities arranged for his criminal record to be sealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki said he had hoped to become the army’s first Asian American general, but he served only about a year on active duty and seven more in the reserves before being honorably discharged as a sergeant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although he saw no combat, he became a firearms expert. “I got to play with all the toys I wanted to play with when I was growing up,” he told KPFA. “Pistols, rifles, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being in the reserves left Aoki a lot of free time, and he became deeply involved in left-wing political organizations at the behest of the FBI, retired FBI agent Threadgill said during a series of interviews before his death in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The activities that he got involved in was because of us using him as an informant,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill recalled that he first approached Aoki after a bureau wiretap on the home phone of Saul and Billie Wachter, local members of the Communist Party, picked up Aoki talking to fellow Berkeley High classmate Doug Wachter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Aoki gathered information about the Communist Party, Threadgill said. But Aoki soon focused on the Socialist Workers Party and its youth affiliate, the Young Socialist Alliance, also targets of an intensive FBI domestic security investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring 1962, Aoki had been elected to the Berkeley Young Socialist Alliance’s executive council, FBI records show. That December, he became a member of the Oakland-Berkeley branch of the Socialist Workers Party, where he served as the representative to Bay Area civil rights groups. He also was on the steering committee of the Committee to Uphold the Right to Travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Aoki joined the Vietnam Day Committee, an influential anti-war group based in Berkeley, and worked on its international committee as liaison to foreign anti-war activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All along, Aoki met regularly with his FBI handler. Aoki also filed reports by phone, Threadgill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d call him and say, ‘When do you want to get together?’ ” Threadgill recalled. “I’d say, ‘I’ll meet you on the street corner at so-and-so and so on.’ I would park a couple of blocks away and get out and go and sit down and talk to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arming the Black Panthers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Threadgill worked with Aoki through mid-1965, when he moved to another FBI office and turned Aoki over to a fellow agent. Aoki was well positioned to inform on a wide range of political activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aoki attended Merritt College in Oakland, where he met Huey Newton, a pre-law student, and Bobby Seale, an engineering student, who were in a political group called the Soul Students Advisory Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fall 1966, Aoki transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior in sociology. That October, Seale and Newton took a draft of their 10-point program for what would become the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense to Aoki’s Berkeley apartment and discussed it over drinks. The platform called for improved housing, education, full employment, the release of incarcerated black men, a halt to “the robbery by the capitalists of our black community” and an “immediate end to police brutality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, Aoki gave the Panthers some of their first guns. As Seale recalled in his memoir, “Seize the Time:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Late in November 1966, we went to a Third World brother we knew, a Japanese radical cat. He had guns … .357 Magnums, 22’s, 9mm’s, what have you. … We told him that if he was a real revolutionary he better go on and give them up to us because we needed them now to begin educating the people to wage a revolutionary struggle. So he gave us an M-1 and a 9mm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, Aoki joined the Black Panther Party and gave them more guns, Seale wrote. Aoki also gave Panther recruits weapons training, he said in the 2007 interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a little collection, and Bobby and Huey knew about it, and so when the party was formed, I decided to turn it over to the group,” Aoki said in the interview. “And so when you see the guys out there marching and everything, I’m somewhat responsible for the military slant to the organization’s public image.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1967, the Panthers displayed guns during their “community patrols” of Oakland police and also that May 2, when they visited the state Legislature to protest a bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although carrying weapons was legal at the time, there is little doubt their presence contributed to fatal confrontations between the Panthers and the police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 28, 1967, Newton was in a shootout that wounded Oakland Officer Herbert Heanes and killed Officer John Frey. On April 6, 1968, Eldridge Cleaver and five other Panthers were involved in a firefight with Oakland police. Cleaver and two officers were wounded, and Panther Bobby Hutton was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the period Aoki was arming the Panthers, he also was informing for the FBI. The FBI report that lists him as informant T-2 says that in May 1967, he reported on the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the released FBI reports mention that Aoki gave guns to the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>FBI’s reliance on informants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>M. Wesley Swearingen, a retired FBI agent who has criticized unlawful bureau surveillance activities under the late Director J. Edgar Hoover, reviewed some of those records. He concluded in a sworn declaration – filed in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records on Aoki – that Aoki had been an informant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen served in the FBI from 1951 to 1977, and worked on a squad that investigated the Panthers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone like Aoki is perfect to be in a Black Panther Party, because I understand he is Japanese,” he said. “Hey, nobody is going to guess – he’s in the Black Panther Party; nobody is going to guess that he might be an informant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swearingen also said the FBI certainly must have additional records concerning Aoki, including special informant files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aoki wouldn't even have to be a member of the party. If he just knew Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, if he went out to lunch with them every day, they would have a main file,” he said. “But to say they don’t have a main file is ludicrous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, testimony from Swearingen helped to vacate the murder conviction of Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, a Black Panther leader in Los Angeles. Evidence showed that the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department had failed to disclose that a key witness against Pratt was a longtime FBI informant named Julius C. Butler. Pratt later won a civil suit for wrongful imprisonment, with the City of Los Angles paying Pratt $2.75 million and the FBI paying him $1.75 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the late ’60s and early ’70s, the FBI sought to disrupt and “neutralize” the Black Panthers under COINTELPRO, the bureau’s secret counterintelligence program to stifle dissent, according to reports by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of COINTELPRO, the committee found, the FBI used informants to gather intelligence leading to the weapons arrests of Panthers in Chicago, Detroit, San Diego and Washington. By the end of 1969, at least 28 Panthers had been killed in gunfights with police and many more arrested on weapons charges, according to news accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoover declared in late 1968 that the Panthers, who by now had chapters across the nation, posed “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” He cited their radical philosophy and armed confrontations with police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Aoki later would boast of his role with the Panthers, he was secretive about his relations with them at the time, explaining in the 2007 interview that he feared being expelled from UC Berkeley if his activities were known.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 1969, Aoki emerged as a leader of the Third World Liberation Front strike at UC Berkeley, which demanded more ethnic studies courses. He advocated violent tactics, according to interviews with him and Manuel Delgado, another strike leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scores of students and police were injured during the three-month confrontation, which became the campus’s most violent strike to date. Gov. Ronald Reagan declared a state of emergency and sent the National Guard to quell the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a memorial service for Aoki at Wheeler Hall in May 2009, Seale, of the Black Panthers, and other activists hailed Aoki as a “fearless leader and servant of the people.” In a phone conversation last week, Seale expressed surprise at hearing that Aoki was an informant and declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Seth Rosenfeld was an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle and has won the George Polk Award and other journalism honors. He can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:seth@sethrosenfeld.com\">seth@sethrosenfeld.com\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63152\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar191.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-63152\" title=\"mirkarimi2postsentencemar19\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/04/mirkarimi2postsentencemar191-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirkarimi after his sentencing for False Imprisonment (Mina Kim/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Will they or won't they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's Ethics Commission has found that Ross Mirkarimi committed official misconduct when he bruised his wife's arm during a heated argument seven-and-a-half months ago. That incident resulted in the San Francisco sheriff pleading guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment, which in turn led to his suspension by Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor wants Mirkarimi permanently removed from his job, which he was elected to just last November. But only a vote of nine of the 11 members of the Board of Supervisors -- some of whom are Mirkarimi's former colleagues and political allies -- will make that a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So...does Mirkarimi have the three votes necessary to keep him on the government payroll?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he might,\" says political analyst and University of San Francisco political science professor Corey Cook. \"There are those progressives on the board who don’t want to give up the one progressive elected citywide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like who?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're vote counting, you start with David Campos and John Avalos. Neither is facing a tough re-election, and both were strong supporters of Sheriff Mirkarimi as he was running for office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Latterman, Cook's fellow political analyst at USF, agrees that if Mirkarimi has any votes, they'll come from those two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conventional wisdom is that Campos and Avalos are going to get a lot of pressure to support Mirkarimi,\" Latterman says. \"They're the two most left-wing supervisors, they're still fully part of the progressive movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay that's two. Maybe. But he needs three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then you're talking about the swing vote being Christine Olague or potentially Eric Mar, who is the other strong progressive on the board but who is facing a difficult re-election challenge in District 1,\" says Corey Cook. \"If you have a third vote, it would probably be cast by one of the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olague, on the surface, would seem to be between the craggiest rock and the hardest place on this. She was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/09/reports-lee-to-appoint-planning-commission-president-christina-olague-as-mirkarimi-replacent-for-supervisor/\">appointed by the mayor to fill Mirkarimi's District 5\u003c/a> seat after he was elected sheriff, in what some analysts hailed as a politically shrewd move. Even though she supported Lee against progressive standard bearer John Avalos in the mayoral election, she has strong credentials in the community. But now she's up for election, being \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candidates-for-District-5-supe-debate-3781594.php\">challenged from the left\u003c/a> in probably the city's most left-leaning district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the community who didn't know [Olague] before she was appointed is actually among Mirkarimi's core group of supporters,\" says Corey Cook. \"If she votes to remove him from office, she would really be hurting herself politically. If she votes not to she would be hurting herself politically too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How so?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're voting not to remove, you're taking a position opposite the domestic violence coalition, and I don’t know folks in San Francisco who want to be in opposition to them. On the other hand, a lot of people are standing behind the sheriff, who've said this is a politically motivated effort to remove him from office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Latterman, Cook's fellow political analyst at the University of San Francisco, doesn't think Olague is likely to buck Ed Lee on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People talk about Christina Olague, but I think that's unlikely,\" Latterman says. \"While on most things she disagrees with the mayor, I think this is one thing when she would not want to go against the mayor who appointed her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if the progressive votes she needs in her district isn't a complicating factor...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is, but does the left really want to stake a wedge issue on domestic violence? Remember, while the polling among progressives isn't going to be 70-30 or 80-20 in support of the mayor on this, it's not 50-50 either,\" Latterman says, referring to a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/cbs-5-poll-sf-wants-mirkarimi-out-as-sheriff/\">March poll\u003c/a> that found 72 percent saying Mirkarimi should resign. \"So I suspect that a lot of progressives understand this is not a good thing and aren't really going to hold it against Olague.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And again, for her to buck the mayor on this, frankly, for Ed Lee to lose this to the board, would be a real embarrassment for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then if not Olague, does Mirkarimi have a third vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jane Kim is a dark horse,\" says Latterman. \"She really goes out of her way to show street cred to the left. Ever since her Twitter vote, she gets a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/04/05/jane-kims-credibility-problem\">criticism from the left\u003c/a>. And she goes out of her way to try to throw them bones. She calls herself a strong progressive. So I think if there's a third it could be her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corey Cook thinks Kim supporting Mirkarimi is a definite maybe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think she's proven herself to be a very pragmatic progressive voice on the board, so it wouldn't surprise me if she was the third vote. On the other hand it wouldn’t surprise me at all if she sided with the other voting bloc. She strikes me as very independent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both analysts note this is not a vote the supervisors, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/03/22/analysis-pressure-on-progressive-supes-in-mirkarimi-removal-process/\">especially the progressives\u003c/a>, will relish by any means. Latterman thinks many will be eagerly awaiting any new polling that's done, and that individual decisions may be made depending on how Mirkarimi will react to the ethics panel's decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Ethics Commission found that Mirkarimi had yet to show any real contrition,\" he says. \"So that's an issue -- does Ross do a serious apology? Secondly, does he make this still about a conspiracy theory? An anti-Ed Lee polemic? So I think who is affectable on the board sort of depends on what happens over the next few weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, nobody on the Board of Supervisors has tipped their hand. Beverly Upton, Executive Director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium, which has called for Mirkarimi's removal, told me individual supervisors have been directed by the city attorney's office to not speak about the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Says Latterman: \"Nobody is happy about this, and nobody is talking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supes are not likely to vote until after Labor Day.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like who?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're vote counting, you start with David Campos and John Avalos. Neither is facing a tough re-election, and both were strong supporters of Sheriff Mirkarimi as he was running for office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Latterman, Cook's fellow political analyst at USF, agrees that if Mirkarimi has any votes, they'll come from those two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The conventional wisdom is that Campos and Avalos are going to get a lot of pressure to support Mirkarimi,\" Latterman says. \"They're the two most left-wing supervisors, they're still fully part of the progressive movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okay that's two. Maybe. But he needs three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then you're talking about the swing vote being Christine Olague or potentially Eric Mar, who is the other strong progressive on the board but who is facing a difficult re-election challenge in District 1,\" says Corey Cook. \"If you have a third vote, it would probably be cast by one of the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olague, on the surface, would seem to be between the craggiest rock and the hardest place on this. She was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/01/09/reports-lee-to-appoint-planning-commission-president-christina-olague-as-mirkarimi-replacent-for-supervisor/\">appointed by the mayor to fill Mirkarimi's District 5\u003c/a> seat after he was elected sheriff, in what some analysts hailed as a politically shrewd move. Even though she supported Lee against progressive standard bearer John Avalos in the mayoral election, she has strong credentials in the community. But now she's up for election, being \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Candidates-for-District-5-supe-debate-3781594.php\">challenged from the left\u003c/a> in probably the city's most left-leaning district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A lot of the community who didn't know [Olague] before she was appointed is actually among Mirkarimi's core group of supporters,\" says Corey Cook. \"If she votes to remove him from office, she would really be hurting herself politically. If she votes not to she would be hurting herself politically too.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How so?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're voting not to remove, you're taking a position opposite the domestic violence coalition, and I don’t know folks in San Francisco who want to be in opposition to them. On the other hand, a lot of people are standing behind the sheriff, who've said this is a politically motivated effort to remove him from office.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Latterman, Cook's fellow political analyst at the University of San Francisco, doesn't think Olague is likely to buck Ed Lee on this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People talk about Christina Olague, but I think that's unlikely,\" Latterman says. \"While on most things she disagrees with the mayor, I think this is one thing when she would not want to go against the mayor who appointed her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked him if the progressive votes she needs in her district isn't a complicating factor...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is, but does the left really want to stake a wedge issue on domestic violence? Remember, while the polling among progressives isn't going to be 70-30 or 80-20 in support of the mayor on this, it's not 50-50 either,\" Latterman says, referring to a \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/21/cbs-5-poll-sf-wants-mirkarimi-out-as-sheriff/\">March poll\u003c/a> that found 72 percent saying Mirkarimi should resign. \"So I suspect that a lot of progressives understand this is not a good thing and aren't really going to hold it against Olague.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And again, for her to buck the mayor on this, frankly, for Ed Lee to lose this to the board, would be a real embarrassment for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then if not Olague, does Mirkarimi have a third vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jane Kim is a dark horse,\" says Latterman. \"She really goes out of her way to show street cred to the left. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Ethics Commission voted 4-1 to sustain findings of official misconduct, with Commissioner Ben Hur dissenting. They will create a summary document of their hearing at a later date for the Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors now has 30 days to act, although it is unclear whether that clock begins Thursday night after the vote, or after the commission files their paperwork. Nine of 11 supervisors must vote to remove Mirkarimi for the suspended sheriff to lose his job permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KCBS' Doug Sovern was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SovernNation\">tweeting\u003c/a> live from the hearing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/236260389573251072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/236280361754193923\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/236280645507235840\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/236287924952498176\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SovernNation/status/236288408048259072\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight-month story of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's struggle with charges of domestic violence will take a new twist today with the city's Ethics Commission scheduled to recommend on whether he should stay in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">Watch Ethics Commission hearing live\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The recommendation will go to the Board of Supervisors which makes the final decision on whether to dismiss Mirkarimi. Nine out of 11 supervisors must vote in favor in order for Mirkarimi to lose his job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission will hear closing arguments from both sides this morning, and issue a ruling after lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?publish_id=6\">\u003cstrong>watch the hearing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> live on the San Francisco Government television channel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you can follow live blogging on Twitter:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 1px solid #000\" src=\"http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=55699&ThemeId=6104\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is some background on the case from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The five-member panel has heard weeks of testimony and evidence during a trial-like proceeding to determine Mirkarimi's fitness for office. Mayor Ed Lee is seeking to remove Mirkarimi from office after the sheriff pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee suspended him without pay in March. The conviction stems from a New Year's Eve fight Mirkarimi had with his wife, the Venezuelan TV actress Eliana Lopez, that left her with a bruised bicep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission is scheduled to make its recommendation after hearing closing arguments from the sheriff's lawyer and from the city attorney's office, which is representing the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel will also question the lawyers about the case after the arguments and then deliberate for several hours. Its recommendation will be sent to the Board of Supervisors, where it will take the votes of nine out of 11 members to remove Mirkarimi from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final day of the hearing prompted competing noontime rallies Thursday outside City Hall, where the commission is conducting its hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi supporters sent an email for their rally, calling on sheriff proponents to \"let the Ethics Commission know exactly how you feel about the mayor's unprecedented attempt to usurp the will of the people in order to consolidate his power.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time and place, supporters of domestic violence victims planned their own rally to urge commissioners to recommend removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three organizations, La Casa de las Madres, Domestic Violence Consortium and Futures Without Violence, urged commissioners in a statement Wednesday \"to stay focused on the fact that Mirkarimi pled guilty to abusing his wife and as a result is not fit to serve as Sheriff.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Trey Bundy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/boys-ejection-sf-school-illustrates/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>11-year-old boy in San Francisco made headlines early last year when a shooting near his Western Addition home left a random bullet lodged permanently in his abdomen. Nerve damage, a ruptured bladder and chronic pain kept him out of school for more than four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a brief moment after the shooting, the boy, who was 9 at the time, became the city’s latest example of how violence touches vulnerable young people. The fifth-grader spoke out against gun violence on local television and the steps of City Hall. He returned to Bessie Carmichael Elementary School last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73379\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Tori-youth-violence-bullet.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-73379\" title=\"Tori youth violence bullet\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/Tori-youth-violence-bullet-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When Tori was 9, a shooting near his Western Addition home left a random bullet lodged permanently in his abdomen. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then in February, the boy\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>turned from the victim to the accused.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School administrators kicked him out of Bessie Carmichael for allegedly shooting another student in the face with a BB gun. He denied having a BB gun and shooting his classmate but admitted to carrying a plastic pellet gun in his backpack. 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Even so, Shawn Richard, founder and executive director of Brothers Against Guns, said there are not enough resources to reach all of the kids who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The school district needs to partner up with organizations that deal with these issues in the communities instead of kicking a kid out of school with no counseling or services,” said Richard, whose group has a limited arrangement to work with students in the district. “But right now, we’re not at enough schools where we can do intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district employs roughly 60 social workers and therapists to work in the city’s roughly 120 elementary and middle schools, but Andi Hilinski, who oversees the team, says that’s not enough to address the emotional needs of all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department stance is that every school should have a full-time social worker and full-time nurse,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite limited resources, anti-violence experts say, schools remain the best places to help students from broken homes and violent neighborhoods get support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study titled “Mitigating the Effects of Gun Violence on Children and Youth,” researchers at Cornell University said schools were “the most promising avenue for successful identification of and therapeutic intervention for exposed and victimized youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s policy on weapons and “dangerous objects” in schools is strict – one strike and the student is referred for expulsion, unless the principal deems the action inappropriate. The state also allows districts to expel students for threatening to injure others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cornell researchers noted that banning students who make threats “may actually exacerbate the danger by inflaming students who are already at risk for violent activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said they were aware of 30 incidents this past school year in K-12 grades involving some type of gun – toys, BB guns, replicas or actual firearms – up from 22 the year before. The district would not say how many of those students were referred for expulsion, but the state Department of Education said four students in San Francisco were expelled for violations involving firearms during the 2010-11 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-reporting by students indicates that they’re bringing more weapons to school than administrators would otherwise know. In a 2011 district survey of more than 2,200 high school students, 5.8 percent reported carrying a weapon on school property. More than 7\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>percent said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon in the past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police Officer Lois Perillo, a liaison to public schools, said reported gun incidents on campuses were rare, but districts nationwide have been under pressure since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that tragedy happened, many jurisdictions around the country made revisions to the education code,” she said, “and that’s when zero tolerance for weapons came to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not a clear-cut case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, the 11-year-old boy, Tori, has experienced significant trauma in his life. Between being shot and being suspended, he has missed more than seven months of classes since January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he sat home last semester, his mother, Sabrina Carter, worried that he could wind up in the “school-to-prison pipeline” through which she has seen so many other boys in the neighborhood pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they feel like the school is turning on them, that’s when they end up hanging around on the streets doing things they have no business doing,” Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials declined to discuss Tori’s case, citing confidentiality. The Bay Citizen chose not to use Tori’s full name because of his age and to protect his privacy. He and his mother have different last names. The family of the victim declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a district investigation failed to prove Tori shot his classmate, an expulsion panel decided not to remove him from the district. But administrators at Bessie Carmichael refused to allow him back, contending that Tori had threatened his classmates, who were then scared to tell the truth about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of guilt or innocence in such cases, said Aliya Sheriff, a psychologist at the 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street Youth Center and Clinic in the Bayview district, teachers and school administrators should be better trained to address not just student behavior, but also the underlying causes of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our schools are not trained to respond to trauma,” said Sheriff, who is not involved with Tori’s case. “Kids often act out what they’re going through in play, and teachers need to learn how to break it down. To me, it looks like a real cry for help, and I’ve seen that a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the evidence in Tori’s case comes from the recollection of elementary school students, and the facts are murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report written for the district by Alicia Gonzalez, assistant principal of Bessie Carmichael, one of Tori’s classmates was shot with a BB gun inside their classroom Feb. 29. Initially, students reported that plastic pellets had been thrown at the victim, but they were unclear whether Tori or another student was responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori’s teacher, Elvira Ebalo, was in the classroom but did not witness the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, when students were questioned individually, their stories changed, Gonzalez wrote. All of the students in class, except Tori, were asked to write statements, most of which contained varying accounts of Tori brandishing, and in some cases shooting, a BB gun or a toy gun in the weeks leading up to the incident. The students noted in their statements reviewed by The Bay Citizen that Tori was seen with the gun in the classroom, school library or a nearby park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori told school officials that it was not a BB gun, but a toy gun that shot plastic pellets, which he got from a group of third-grade students at school. He admitted to carrying the gun in his backpack – which itself could violate state policy against possessing a dangerous object at school – but said another student took it out and shot his classmate while the teacher’s back was turned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori said he eventually broke the gun and threw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No support services received\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez – who declined requests for an interview – placed Tori on a five-day suspension after the incident, according to district documents provided by Carter, Tori’s mother. Within a week, Carter met with school administrators and a social worker to determine whether the boy needed support services. Notes from the meeting reviewed by The Bay Citizen show the group agreed that Tori was a role model at school and had strong peer relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they planned in writing to arrange therapy for Tori, Carter said he has not received a mental health assessment or counseling. She also said that since that meeting, she has not heard from the district about services for her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school was supposed to provide weekly homework packets for Tori while he was suspended, Carter said, but provided only one, which he finished in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 9, after Carter rejected the district’s offer to transfer Tori to another school, Gonzalez referred the case for expulsion, according to the assistant principal’s report. Some of the grounds for expulsion were unclear; documents show that allegations included possession of a firearm, possession of an imitation firearm and possession of an explosive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori was present at the expulsion hearing when Gonzalez told the panel that his classmates were afraid of him. He denied allegations by Gonzalez that he had threatened to shoot students with a “real gun” if they told on him for shooting his classmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would I threaten to shoot somebody with a gun when I got shot with a gun and it hurt?” Tori said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori said he does not understand why people would be afraid of him. In April, during a brief visit to Bessie Carmichael to meet some friends after school, he saw his class coming out of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were excited to see me, and they were asking me when I was coming back to school,” he said. “They weren’t even scared at all. Nobody. 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Tori had attended Rosa Parks three years earlier, but Carter said she removed him because he had altercations with children from other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they say he’s a threat,” she added, “why do they want to put him in another school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said home-based schooling, another district suggestion, was “not an acceptable option” either because her son needed to socialize and engage with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Tori stayed home with his mother for the rest of the semester, he continued attending a nonprofit after-school program, United Playaz. That group’s director of programs, Misha Olivas whose three children have attended Bessie Carmichael, criticized the school for refusing to take Tori back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already given up on him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivas said that after Tori was shot in 2011, the school’s principal, Jeffrey Burgos, chose not to discuss the shooting with Tori’s classmates because he was afraid the students would glorify the incident. Burgos did not return calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the end of the school year drew near, Olivas and Carter asked administrators if Tori could attend the school’s fifth-grade graduation ceremony and walk across the stage with his friends. The school denied the request, Carter said, until the day before the ceremony. But Burgos cautioned Carter that Tori might not be “welcomed back with open arms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carter and Tori arrived for graduation, several uniformed police officers were present. 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Even so, Shawn Richard, founder and executive director of Brothers Against Guns, said there are not enough resources to reach all of the kids who need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The school district needs to partner up with organizations that deal with these issues in the communities instead of kicking a kid out of school with no counseling or services,” said Richard, whose group has a limited arrangement to work with students in the district. “But right now, we’re not at enough schools where we can do intervention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district employs roughly 60 social workers and therapists to work in the city’s roughly 120 elementary and middle schools, but Andi Hilinski, who oversees the team, says that’s not enough to address the emotional needs of all students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our department stance is that every school should have a full-time social worker and full-time nurse,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite limited resources, anti-violence experts say, schools remain the best places to help students from broken homes and violent neighborhoods get support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study titled “Mitigating the Effects of Gun Violence on Children and Youth,” researchers at Cornell University said schools were “the most promising avenue for successful identification of and therapeutic intervention for exposed and victimized youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s policy on weapons and “dangerous objects” in schools is strict – one strike and the student is referred for expulsion, unless the principal deems the action inappropriate. The state also allows districts to expel students for threatening to injure others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cornell researchers noted that banning students who make threats “may actually exacerbate the danger by inflaming students who are already at risk for violent activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials said they were aware of 30 incidents this past school year in K-12 grades involving some type of gun – toys, BB guns, replicas or actual firearms – up from 22 the year before. The district would not say how many of those students were referred for expulsion, but the state Department of Education said four students in San Francisco were expelled for violations involving firearms during the 2010-11 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Self-reporting by students indicates that they’re bringing more weapons to school than administrators would otherwise know. In a 2011 district survey of more than 2,200 high school students, 5.8 percent reported carrying a weapon on school property. More than 7\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>percent said they had been threatened or injured with a weapon in the past school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police Officer Lois Perillo, a liaison to public schools, said reported gun incidents on campuses were rare, but districts nationwide have been under pressure since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that tragedy happened, many jurisdictions around the country made revisions to the education code,” she said, “and that’s when zero tolerance for weapons came to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not a clear-cut case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, the 11-year-old boy, Tori, has experienced significant trauma in his life. Between being shot and being suspended, he has missed more than seven months of classes since January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he sat home last semester, his mother, Sabrina Carter, worried that he could wind up in the “school-to-prison pipeline” through which she has seen so many other boys in the neighborhood pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they feel like the school is turning on them, that’s when they end up hanging around on the streets doing things they have no business doing,” Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials declined to discuss Tori’s case, citing confidentiality. The Bay Citizen chose not to use Tori’s full name because of his age and to protect his privacy. He and his mother have different last names. The family of the victim declined to be interviewed for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a district investigation failed to prove Tori shot his classmate, an expulsion panel decided not to remove him from the district. But administrators at Bessie Carmichael refused to allow him back, contending that Tori had threatened his classmates, who were then scared to tell the truth about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of guilt or innocence in such cases, said Aliya Sheriff, a psychologist at the 3\u003csup>rd\u003c/sup> Street Youth Center and Clinic in the Bayview district, teachers and school administrators should be better trained to address not just student behavior, but also the underlying causes of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our schools are not trained to respond to trauma,” said Sheriff, who is not involved with Tori’s case. “Kids often act out what they’re going through in play, and teachers need to learn how to break it down. To me, it looks like a real cry for help, and I’ve seen that a lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the evidence in Tori’s case comes from the recollection of elementary school students, and the facts are murky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report written for the district by Alicia Gonzalez, assistant principal of Bessie Carmichael, one of Tori’s classmates was shot with a BB gun inside their classroom Feb. 29. Initially, students reported that plastic pellets had been thrown at the victim, but they were unclear whether Tori or another student was responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori’s teacher, Elvira Ebalo, was in the classroom but did not witness the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, when students were questioned individually, their stories changed, Gonzalez wrote. All of the students in class, except Tori, were asked to write statements, most of which contained varying accounts of Tori brandishing, and in some cases shooting, a BB gun or a toy gun in the weeks leading up to the incident. The students noted in their statements reviewed by The Bay Citizen that Tori was seen with the gun in the classroom, school library or a nearby park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori told school officials that it was not a BB gun, but a toy gun that shot plastic pellets, which he got from a group of third-grade students at school. He admitted to carrying the gun in his backpack – which itself could violate state policy against possessing a dangerous object at school – but said another student took it out and shot his classmate while the teacher’s back was turned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori said he eventually broke the gun and threw it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No support services received\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez – who declined requests for an interview – placed Tori on a five-day suspension after the incident, according to district documents provided by Carter, Tori’s mother. Within a week, Carter met with school administrators and a social worker to determine whether the boy needed support services. Notes from the meeting reviewed by The Bay Citizen show the group agreed that Tori was a role model at school and had strong peer relationships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they planned in writing to arrange therapy for Tori, Carter said he has not received a mental health assessment or counseling. She also said that since that meeting, she has not heard from the district about services for her son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school was supposed to provide weekly homework packets for Tori while he was suspended, Carter said, but provided only one, which he finished in two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 9, after Carter rejected the district’s offer to transfer Tori to another school, Gonzalez referred the case for expulsion, according to the assistant principal’s report. Some of the grounds for expulsion were unclear; documents show that allegations included possession of a firearm, possession of an imitation firearm and possession of an explosive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori was present at the expulsion hearing when Gonzalez told the panel that his classmates were afraid of him. He denied allegations by Gonzalez that he had threatened to shoot students with a “real gun” if they told on him for shooting his classmate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would I threaten to shoot somebody with a gun when I got shot with a gun and it hurt?” Tori said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tori said he does not understand why people would be afraid of him. In April, during a brief visit to Bessie Carmichael to meet some friends after school, he saw his class coming out of the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were excited to see me, and they were asking me when I was coming back to school,” he said. “They weren’t even scared at all. Nobody. They were all like, ‘What’s up, Tori?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Options for schooling\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expulsion panel eventually dismissed the case, citing lack of evidence. According to Carter, the district said gave her three choices: Tori could return to Bessie Carmichael, transfer to another school or begin homeschooling. But when Tori arrived at Bessie Carmichael, Gonzalez refused to let him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District officials then told Carter that Tori could transfer to another elementary school, Rosa Parks, but she declined, arguing that it was unfair to move Tori away from his friends. Tori had attended Rosa Parks three years earlier, but Carter said she removed him because he had altercations with children from other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if they say he’s a threat,” she added, “why do they want to put him in another school?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said home-based schooling, another district suggestion, was “not an acceptable option” either because her son needed to socialize and engage with teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Tori stayed home with his mother for the rest of the semester, he continued attending a nonprofit after-school program, United Playaz. That group’s director of programs, Misha Olivas whose three children have attended Bessie Carmichael, criticized the school for refusing to take Tori back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already given up on him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivas said that after Tori was shot in 2011, the school’s principal, Jeffrey Burgos, chose not to discuss the shooting with Tori’s classmates because he was afraid the students would glorify the incident. Burgos did not return calls seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the end of the school year drew near, Olivas and Carter asked administrators if Tori could attend the school’s fifth-grade graduation ceremony and walk across the stage with his friends. The school denied the request, Carter said, until the day before the ceremony. But Burgos cautioned Carter that Tori might not be “welcomed back with open arms,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Carter and Tori arrived for graduation, several uniformed police officers were present. 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"content": "\u003cp>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73133\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>The San Francisco Police Department has underreported the arrest rates of the city's two largest minority groups for years, misclassifying Latino arrestees as \"white\" and Asian arrestees as “other,\" The Bay Citizen has learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has been publishing the erroneous statistics in a report called \"Crime in California\" since at least 1999, when the state Department of Justice first began posting the data online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73134\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/police-SFPD-Squad-car.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-73134\" title=\"police SFPD Squad car\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/police-SFPD-Squad-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An SFPD squad car. Photo: Todd Lappin/Flickr \u003ccite>(Todd Lappin/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because of the misclassifications, the department and federal and state officials have no accurate record of how often minorities are arrested in the city, creating skewed statistics and leading to widespread concern among local civil rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the reported data, African Americans are arrested at a much higher rate than whites. But by misclassifying Latinos, the department has inflated the number of whites arrested, indicating that the gap between the arrest rates for whites and blacks is even wider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the years, concerns about racial profiling in the city’s African American and Latino communities have sparked city hearings and policy changes. Accurate, credible crime statistics were supposed to be a way to hold the department accountable. In 1999, the Police Commission ordered the police department to begin tracking racial data from all traffic stops. But disciplinary records show many officers still fail to fill out such tracking forms. And the misclassifications of Latino and Asian arrestees suggest other problems persist.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just extremely troubling,” said Francisco Ugarte, senior immigration attorney at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network. “If San Francisco is effectively unable to categorize those in the city being arrested, that would undermine our ability to monitor police practices – particularly in San Francisco, with such a huge Latino population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen discovered the discrepancies after the California Department of Justice released the crime statistics for the year 2010 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that report, 8,198 African Americans and 9,151 whites were arrested in San Francisco in 2010, along with 316 Hispanic adults and nine Hispanic juveniles. About 2,800 arrests are listed under “other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hispanic arrest figures included in the report come from other agencies in San Francisco, such as the California Highway Patrol, that have the authority to make arrests in the city but don't share the police department's antiquated computer system. Those numbers have fluctuated over the years, from a high of 705 Hispanic arrests in 2000 to a low of 283 Hispanic arrests in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police commanders acknowledge that some of those statistics are incorrect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have certainly made more than 300 arrests in the Hispanic community,” said Deputy Chief Lyn Tomioka. “I look at that number as a police officer and I can tell that it is inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers mark whether an individual is Latino or Asian on arrest reports, but Tomioka and other department officials blamed an outdated computer system for the inaccuracies. Installed in 1972, the system lists three categories for identifying arrestees by race: blacks, whites and other. Although the department could calculate the numbers manually, officers have been identifying Latinos as “white” and Asians as “other” in the computer system for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're making it sound like officers choose to do this. It's what the system has available to the officers to put in,” Tomioka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she did not know when the department began misclassifying arrestees but said it does not plan on “looking back at those statistics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department has no idea if any of the statistics it reports to the state are accurate, according to Susan Giffin, its chief technology officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only can we not tell you if the numbers are right, we really can’t articulate what the problems are, or if there are problems,” Giffin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, the police department is required to report crime and arrest statistics to the California Department of Justice each month. The state attorney general's office and the FBI publish the data in their annual crime reports. The statistics also have been used in countless studies on racial disparities and trends in arrest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the Department of Justice expects law enforcement agencies to report accurate information to the state attorney general’s office, spokesman Nicholas Pacilio said the office had no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California law states that the attorney general’s office is required to “periodically review” the numbers and “make recommendations for changes” on data collection techniques, the department could not provide the last date of its review by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco civil rights advocates said they were stunned to hear that the police department was misclassifying Latino and Asian arrestees as \"white\" and \"other.\" African Americans make up 6 percent of the population but account for 40 percent of all arrests. According to the misclassified statistics, Latinos, who constitute 15 percent of the city’s population, account for 1.5 percent of all arrests. At nearly 36 percent, Asians have become the second-largest demographic group in San Francisco, behind whites. But the statistics reported under “other” provide no indication of how often Asians are arrested in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, my goodness; I had no idea,” Lorena Melgarejo, director of community organizing at the Central American Resource Center, said of the police department’s misclassified arrests. “The police department says the community’s trust is very important to them. If they are underreporting numbers, they are basically making it impossible for us to understand what is really happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angela Chan, a member of the San Francisco Police Commission and an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, said: “This data should and must be accurate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that our technology is outdated is the reason for a lot of things,” she said. “If there’s an issue, it needs to be solved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is just one of many related to the department's outdated technology. The San Francisco controller's office concluded in January that the police department’s public and internal crime reports frequently conflict with the reports the department sends to the FBI, not because of “underlying crime trends,” but because of “disparate data sources.\" Prior to 2010, when it hired Giffin as chief technology officer, the police department had spent close to $20 million on failed attempts to bring its technology up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller's office is reviewing the department's technology issues at the request of Police Chief Greg Suhr. But its new crime data warehouse will do nothing to correct the arrest report errors, according to Giffin. The system is currently designed to house incident and crime reports, not arrest data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Queens College sociology professor Harry Levine co-wrote a widely distributed study about discrepancies in marijuana arrests in California. He and other researchers found that Latinos were twice as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession as whites. But he did not include San Francisco in the analysis, he said, because the arrest rate for Latinos looked “a little screwy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accurate data provides \"a way of seeing who it is that is being systematically given preference or systematically excluded,\" Levine said. \"In terms of making a fairer, more just, more equal world, it is good to know what powerful institutions are doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And the misclassifications of Latino and Asian arrestees suggest other problems persist.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just extremely troubling,” said Francisco Ugarte, senior immigration attorney at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network. “If San Francisco is effectively unable to categorize those in the city being arrested, that would undermine our ability to monitor police practices – particularly in San Francisco, with such a huge Latino population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Citizen discovered the discrepancies after the California Department of Justice released the crime statistics for the year 2010 in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to that report, 8,198 African Americans and 9,151 whites were arrested in San Francisco in 2010, along with 316 Hispanic adults and nine Hispanic juveniles. 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Installed in 1972, the system lists three categories for identifying arrestees by race: blacks, whites and other. Although the department could calculate the numbers manually, officers have been identifying Latinos as “white” and Asians as “other” in the computer system for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You're making it sound like officers choose to do this. It's what the system has available to the officers to put in,” Tomioka said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she did not know when the department began misclassifying arrestees but said it does not plan on “looking back at those statistics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department has no idea if any of the statistics it reports to the state are accurate, according to Susan Giffin, its chief technology officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only can we not tell you if the numbers are right, we really can’t articulate what the problems are, or if there are problems,” Giffin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By law, the police department is required to report crime and arrest statistics to the California Department of Justice each month. The state attorney general's office and the FBI publish the data in their annual crime reports. The statistics also have been used in countless studies on racial disparities and trends in arrest rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the Department of Justice expects law enforcement agencies to report accurate information to the state attorney general’s office, spokesman Nicholas Pacilio said the office had no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although California law states that the attorney general’s office is required to “periodically review” the numbers and “make recommendations for changes” on data collection techniques, the department could not provide the last date of its review by publication time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco civil rights advocates said they were stunned to hear that the police department was misclassifying Latino and Asian arrestees as \"white\" and \"other.\" African Americans make up 6 percent of the population but account for 40 percent of all arrests. According to the misclassified statistics, Latinos, who constitute 15 percent of the city’s population, account for 1.5 percent of all arrests. At nearly 36 percent, Asians have become the second-largest demographic group in San Francisco, behind whites. But the statistics reported under “other” provide no indication of how often Asians are arrested in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, my goodness; I had no idea,” Lorena Melgarejo, director of community organizing at the Central American Resource Center, said of the police department’s misclassified arrests. “The police department says the community’s trust is very important to them. 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The San Francisco controller's office concluded in January that the police department’s public and internal crime reports frequently conflict with the reports the department sends to the FBI, not because of “underlying crime trends,” but because of “disparate data sources.\" Prior to 2010, when it hired Giffin as chief technology officer, the police department had spent close to $20 million on failed attempts to bring its technology up to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller's office is reviewing the department's technology issues at the request of Police Chief Greg Suhr. But its new crime data warehouse will do nothing to correct the arrest report errors, according to Giffin. The system is currently designed to house incident and crime reports, not arrest data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Queens College sociology professor Harry Levine co-wrote a widely distributed study about discrepancies in marijuana arrests in California. 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