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It also asks the court to force Mosser to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The harassment outlined in the suit includes entering apartments to unnecessarily check for pests once a week, throwing away a mobility scooter belonging to a tenant with multiple sclerosis and billing tenants improperly for utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, some tenants say Mosser has neglected their buildings by failing to get rid of mold and cockroaches, and failing to repair elevators, doors and locks. 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Landlords are also not allowed to change the terms of the tenancy, a key provision of the suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb, who authored the original ordinance and its update last year, said years of litigation revealed it needed to be strengthened to better protect tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized that there were more than just 15 or 16 harassing types of behaviors that could be engaged in by landlords,” he said, “so we added some and clarified how enforcement works. We wanted to make sure it was as strong as legally possible to make sure people aren’t pushed out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harassment is a common tactic deployed by landlords in the Bay Area, advocates say, where real estate makes for big money. 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One had worked for the transit authority since 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VTA/status/1397970095649878022?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilmember Raul Peralez said Michael Rudometkin, one of the victims, was a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no words to describe the heartache we are feeling right now, especially for his family,\" Peralez wrote on Facebook. \"Eight families are feeling this same sense of loss tonight and our entire community is mourning as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gunman appeared to target some of the victims, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said on Thursday. She said he reportedly told at least one person: \"I’m not going to shoot you,\" before opening fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I imagine there was some kind of thought on who he wanted to shoot,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of a union representing VTA workers were meeting when the shooting began, officials said, but it’s unclear if the meeting was related to the attack. More than 100 people were reportedly in the facility at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When transit authority mechanic Rochelle Hawkins heard shots, she said she dropped her phone and ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was running so fast, I just ran for my life,” she said. “I would hope everyone would just pray for the VTA family. Just pray for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency responders gather at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose on May 26, 2021, where an early morning mass shooting left at least nine people dead, including the suspect. \u003ccite>(Amy Osborne/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are no cameras inside the rail yard's two buildings, Smith said footage captured the gunman moving from one location to the next, with victims found in both buildings. It took deputies six minutes from the first 911 calls to find the body of the gunman on the third floor of one of the buildings, who she said had killed himself as deputies closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When our deputies went through the door, initially [the shooter] was still firing rounds,\" Smith told reporters, noting that there was no exchange of gunfire with law enforcement. \"I know for sure that when the suspect knew that law enforcement was there, he took his own life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities do not yet know whether the gunman had worked regularly with any of the victims. Investigators were serving search warrants for his home and cellphone, seeking to determine what prompted the bloodshed, the sheriff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11875490 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/GettyImages-1233126939-1020x680.jpg']The attacker used three handguns — all of which were legally registered to him — and likely fired dozens of rounds during the rampage, according to Craig D. Fair, an FBI agent based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair told KQED Thursday that officers recovered 11 fully loaded magazines on the gunman's belt, and noted that multiple expended 15-round magazines were also found at the scene, which are illegal for civilian use in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators, he said, are now examining five different areas within the facility that the gunman appears to have gone through during the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s two primary buildings involved,\" Fair said. \"Victims were found in both of those buildings. Some of those rooms were very small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we do not know what the motive is. We do not know conclusively what drove him to this act,” Fair said. “I think it’s important to note that in an active shooter scenario, very rarely does somebody just snap. There is a reasonably lengthy ramp-up period of mobilization, a period of planning, a period where they obtain weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And during that process, long before the attack happens, Fair said, they are often showing “pre-attack indicators that are overt and they’re observable to the public, to the community, to law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after receiving the first 911 calls, multiple local agencies initiated a rescue task force as part of the county's active shooting protocol to assist victims and provide medical aid, said Deputy Russell Davis, a sheriff's spokesperson, on Wednesday. Federal agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also investigating the incident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recognizing the enormity of the tragedy, Davis said many lives were saved due to the preparedness of local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll tell you this, with the training that we've been doing with our active shooter protocol, this could have been a lot worse of a situation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1492px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1492\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1492px) 100vw, 1492px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Russell Davis (center), a Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, prepares to speak during a press briefing on a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a bomb squad had also been called in to search the entire rail complex after finding evidence of possible explosive devices, Davis added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nearly the same time the first 911 calls came in from the rail yard, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SJFD/status/1397555853360713731\">San Jose firefighters rushed\u003c/a> to a two-alarm fire at the gunman's home about 9 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the gunman also appeared to have set a timer or slow-burn device to set his home on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not sure we’ll ever actually find the real motive, but we’ll piece it together as much as we can from witnesses,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage from a neighbor's security camera captured the gunman at 5:40 a.m. on Wednesday leaving his home and loading a large black duffel bag into his white pickup truck. He was wearing a uniform with reflective stripes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Cecilia Nelms, said he had a bad temper and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work, \"but I never believed him, and it never happened. Until now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelms, teary-eyed and shaken by the news, said her ex-husband would come home wound up and angry about things that happened at work. As he talked about it, \"he would get more mad,\" she said. \"He could dwell on things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI and ATF agents on Wednesday said they expanded the safety perimeter around the gunman's home on the 1100 block of Angmar Court after finding ammunition inside, and were using robots to search for explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency responders and the San Jose Bomb Squad deploy a robot to search for explosives at a home on the 1100 block of Angmar Court after finding ammunition inside following a two-alarm fire. \u003ccite>(AMY OSBORNE/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The transit agency is arranging for grief counselors to assist employees and their families, said Glenn Hendricks, chair of the VTA board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two funds have also been set up to assist victims’ families, including one hosted by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://act.wpusa.org/vta_victims_support_fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://act.wpusa.org/vta_victims_support_fund\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a> and another organized by the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-atu-disaster-relief-fund-4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-atu-disaster-relief-fund-4/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Amalgamated Transit Union\u003c/a>, which represents many workers at the site, including a number of the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A horrible tragedy has happened today,\" Hendricks said on Wednesday, fighting back tears. \"VTA is a family. People in the organization know everyone. We will do everything that we can to help people get through this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1138px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1138w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA board of directors Chair Glenn Hendricks speaks during a press conference across from the First Street VTA service yard where a mass shooting took place in San Jose on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Victims, family members and witnesses can access free mental health and grief counseling, among other services, at the Red Cross building at 2731 North First St. in San Jose, with more information available at 408-209-8356.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendricks also said a hotline had been set up exclusively for VTA employees and family members, who can call 408-321-7550 for additional assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA light rail service, he added, would be suspended starting at noon Wednesday for the foreseeable future, with bus bridges put in place to provide limited service. AC Transit and SamTrans have both provided bus operators to enable additional service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/VTA/status/1397595826864590853\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very dark day for our city and for our community, but we've already seen how people are pulling together in this very, very tough time,\" said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who serves on the VTA board, at a press briefing on Wednesday. \"These are and were essential workers. These VTA employees helped us get through this horrific pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said this is the time \"to understand what happened, to mourn and to help those who have suffered to heal.\" But he added he would soon turn his attention to \"ensuring we do everything possible to ensure this never happens again in our city,\" and said he plans to elaborate on those plans within the next 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo speaks at a press conference following Wednesday's mass shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These folks were heroes during COVID-19. The buses never stopped running, VTA didn’t stop running,\" said Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez. \"They just kept at work, and now we’re really calling on them to be heroes a second time to survive such a terrible, terrible tragedy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined local officials at a press briefing in front of a Santa Clara County office building, where flags flew at half-staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibly emotional, he said victims' relatives were \"waiting to hear from the coroner, waiting to hear from any of us, just desperate to find out if their brother, their son, their dad, their mom is still alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a numbness I imagine some of us are feeling about this, because there's a sameness to this,\" Newsom said. \"You know, anywhere USA. It just feels like this happens over and over and over again, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This marks the county’s second major mass shooting in less than two years, he said, referencing an attack in which a gunman killed three people before killing himself at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1321px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1321w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press briefing following Wednesday's mass shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bloodshed comes amid a recent rise in mass killings after the pandemic closed many public places and kept people confined to their homes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's attack is the 15th mass shooting so far in 2021, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're experiencing something [that] just is not experienced anywhere else in the world,\" Newsom said, calling it an epidemic. \"It begs the damn question, what the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us? And when are we going to come to grips with this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the White House, President Biden ordered flags to be flown at half-staff and urged Congress to act on legislation to curb gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every life that is taken by a bullet pierces the soul of our nation,\" Biden said in a statement. \"We can, and we must, do more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vigil for the victims of the attack will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall Plaza in San Jose. Caltrain will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/about/MediaRelations/news/Caltrain_to_Provide_Free_Rides_to_San_Jose_Vigil_Tonight.html\">providing free rides\u003c/a> to and from the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sliccardo/status/1397989666217873408?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post includes reporting from KQED's Julie Chang and The Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilmember Raul Peralez said Michael Rudometkin, one of the victims, was a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are no words to describe the heartache we are feeling right now, especially for his family,\" Peralez wrote on Facebook. \"Eight families are feeling this same sense of loss tonight and our entire community is mourning as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gunman appeared to target some of the victims, Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith said on Thursday. She said he reportedly told at least one person: \"I’m not going to shoot you,\" before opening fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So I imagine there was some kind of thought on who he wanted to shoot,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of a union representing VTA workers were meeting when the shooting began, officials said, but it’s unclear if the meeting was related to the attack. More than 100 people were reportedly in the facility at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When transit authority mechanic Rochelle Hawkins heard shots, she said she dropped her phone and ran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was running so fast, I just ran for my life,” she said. “I would hope everyone would just pray for the VTA family. Just pray for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875449\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875449\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49526_GettyImages-1233119987-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency responders gather at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority rail yard in San Jose on May 26, 2021, where an early morning mass shooting left at least nine people dead, including the suspect. \u003ccite>(Amy Osborne/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are no cameras inside the rail yard's two buildings, Smith said footage captured the gunman moving from one location to the next, with victims found in both buildings. It took deputies six minutes from the first 911 calls to find the body of the gunman on the third floor of one of the buildings, who she said had killed himself as deputies closed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When our deputies went through the door, initially [the shooter] was still firing rounds,\" Smith told reporters, noting that there was no exchange of gunfire with law enforcement. \"I know for sure that when the suspect knew that law enforcement was there, he took his own life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities do not yet know whether the gunman had worked regularly with any of the victims. Investigators were serving search warrants for his home and cellphone, seeking to determine what prompted the bloodshed, the sheriff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The attacker used three handguns — all of which were legally registered to him — and likely fired dozens of rounds during the rampage, according to Craig D. Fair, an FBI agent based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fair told KQED Thursday that officers recovered 11 fully loaded magazines on the gunman's belt, and noted that multiple expended 15-round magazines were also found at the scene, which are illegal for civilian use in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators, he said, are now examining five different areas within the facility that the gunman appears to have gone through during the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s two primary buildings involved,\" Fair said. \"Victims were found in both of those buildings. Some of those rooms were very small.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At this point, we do not know what the motive is. We do not know conclusively what drove him to this act,” Fair said. “I think it’s important to note that in an active shooter scenario, very rarely does somebody just snap. There is a reasonably lengthy ramp-up period of mobilization, a period of planning, a period where they obtain weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And during that process, long before the attack happens, Fair said, they are often showing “pre-attack indicators that are overt and they’re observable to the public, to the community, to law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after receiving the first 911 calls, multiple local agencies initiated a rescue task force as part of the county's active shooting protocol to assist victims and provide medical aid, said Deputy Russell Davis, a sheriff's spokesperson, on Wednesday. Federal agents from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also investigating the incident, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While recognizing the enormity of the tragedy, Davis said many lives were saved due to the preparedness of local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'll tell you this, with the training that we've been doing with our active shooter protocol, this could have been a lot worse of a situation,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1492px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1492\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1492w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1492px) 100vw, 1492px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Russell Davis (center), a Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office spokesperson, prepares to speak during a press briefing on a shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a bomb squad had also been called in to search the entire rail complex after finding evidence of possible explosive devices, Davis added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At nearly the same time the first 911 calls came in from the rail yard, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SJFD/status/1397555853360713731\">San Jose firefighters rushed\u003c/a> to a two-alarm fire at the gunman's home about 9 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said the gunman also appeared to have set a timer or slow-burn device to set his home on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m not sure we’ll ever actually find the real motive, but we’ll piece it together as much as we can from witnesses,\" Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Footage from a neighbor's security camera captured the gunman at 5:40 a.m. on Wednesday leaving his home and loading a large black duffel bag into his white pickup truck. He was wearing a uniform with reflective stripes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His ex-wife, Cecilia Nelms, said he had a bad temper and would tell her that he wanted to kill people at work, \"but I never believed him, and it never happened. Until now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nelms, teary-eyed and shaken by the news, said her ex-husband would come home wound up and angry about things that happened at work. As he talked about it, \"he would get more mad,\" she said. \"He could dwell on things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI and ATF agents on Wednesday said they expanded the safety perimeter around the gunman's home on the 1100 block of Angmar Court after finding ammunition inside, and were using robots to search for explosives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875545\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49528_GettyImages-1233121455-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emergency responders and the San Jose Bomb Squad deploy a robot to search for explosives at a home on the 1100 block of Angmar Court after finding ammunition inside following a two-alarm fire. \u003ccite>(AMY OSBORNE/AFP via Getty Images))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The transit agency is arranging for grief counselors to assist employees and their families, said Glenn Hendricks, chair of the VTA board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two funds have also been set up to assist victims’ families, including one hosted by \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://act.wpusa.org/vta_victims_support_fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://act.wpusa.org/vta_victims_support_fund\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Working Partnerships USA\u003c/a> and another organized by the \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-atu-disaster-relief-fund-4/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-atu-disaster-relief-fund-4/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Amalgamated Transit Union\u003c/a>, which represents many workers at the site, including a number of the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A horrible tragedy has happened today,\" Hendricks said on Wednesday, fighting back tears. \"VTA is a family. People in the organization know everyone. We will do everything that we can to help people get through this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875550\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1138px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875550\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1138\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1138w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Hendricks-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">VTA board of directors Chair Glenn Hendricks speaks during a press conference across from the First Street VTA service yard where a mass shooting took place in San Jose on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Victims, family members and witnesses can access free mental health and grief counseling, among other services, at the Red Cross building at 2731 North First St. in San Jose, with more information available at 408-209-8356.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendricks also said a hotline had been set up exclusively for VTA employees and family members, who can call 408-321-7550 for additional assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VTA light rail service, he added, would be suspended starting at noon Wednesday for the foreseeable future, with bus bridges put in place to provide limited service. AC Transit and SamTrans have both provided bus operators to enable additional service.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very dark day for our city and for our community, but we've already seen how people are pulling together in this very, very tough time,\" said San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo, who serves on the VTA board, at a press briefing on Wednesday. \"These are and were essential workers. These VTA employees helped us get through this horrific pandemic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo said this is the time \"to understand what happened, to mourn and to help those who have suffered to heal.\" But he added he would soon turn his attention to \"ensuring we do everything possible to ensure this never happens again in our city,\" and said he plans to elaborate on those plans within the next 48 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875551\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875551\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Liccardo-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo speaks at a press conference following Wednesday's mass shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"These folks were heroes during COVID-19. The buses never stopped running, VTA didn’t stop running,\" said Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez. \"They just kept at work, and now we’re really calling on them to be heroes a second time to survive such a terrible, terrible tragedy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday afternoon, Gov. Gavin Newsom joined local officials at a press briefing in front of a Santa Clara County office building, where flags flew at half-staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visibly emotional, he said victims' relatives were \"waiting to hear from the coroner, waiting to hear from any of us, just desperate to find out if their brother, their son, their dad, their mom is still alive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's a numbness I imagine some of us are feeling about this, because there's a sameness to this,\" Newsom said. \"You know, anywhere USA. It just feels like this happens over and over and over again, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This marks the county’s second major mass shooting in less than two years, he said, referencing an attack in which a gunman killed three people before killing himself at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in July 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1321px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11875553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"881\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser.jpg 1321w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Newsom-VTA-Shooting-Presser-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a press briefing following Wednesday's mass shooting at a VTA rail yard in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The bloodshed comes amid a recent rise in mass killings after the pandemic closed many public places and kept people confined to their homes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's attack is the 15th mass shooting so far in 2021, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're experiencing something [that] just is not experienced anywhere else in the world,\" Newsom said, calling it an epidemic. \"It begs the damn question, what the hell is going on in the United States of America? What the hell is wrong with us? And when are we going to come to grips with this?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the White House, President Biden ordered flags to be flown at half-staff and urged Congress to act on legislation to curb gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every life that is taken by a bullet pierces the soul of our nation,\" Biden said in a statement. \"We can, and we must, do more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vigil for the victims of the attack will be held on Thursday at 6 p.m. at City Hall Plaza in San Jose. Caltrain will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.caltrain.com/about/MediaRelations/news/Caltrain_to_Provide_Free_Rides_to_San_Jose_Vigil_Tonight.html\">providing free rides\u003c/a> to and from the event.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>George Floyd’s presence can still be felt in downtown Oakland, where murals bearing his likeness remain, along with numerous signs saying his name in large yellow letters, covering some business windows along Broadway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly one year ago, Floyd went out to buy cigarettes at a grocery store in Minneapolis. A store employee called the police, thinking Floyd had used counterfeit currency. The officers confronted Floyd and one of them, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes even as the 46-year-old Black man pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Floyd’s murder, for which Chauvin was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870396/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial\">convicted\u003c/a> in April, sparked hundreds of protests across the country led by organizers who demanded accountability for Floyd’s death, an end to police brutality and major structural reform in the nation’s policing systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1505px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"James Burch from Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP) speaks to a crowd in Oakland on May 25, 2021.\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut.jpg 1505w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49502_024_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1505px) 100vw, 1505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not too far from Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland – the site of dozens of such demonstrations – organizers from the Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) and the Defund Police Coalition on Tuesday held a press conference to honor George Floyd on the anniversary of his murder. Despite pressure put on city officials and a promise to reinvest dollars spent on policing into communities, advocates said change still hasn’t come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the height of the George Floyd uprising, there was an intense political pressure put on the City Council and the mayor,” said James Burch, APTP policy director. “They committed to a pathway to reimagine public safety, and [to] reinvest 50% of the dollars spent on policing … That’s where we were last summer. And between then and now, some members of city government have retreated and retrenched themselves into the status quo.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Barbara Doss, mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2018\"]‘There is no justice … If I do get justice, what is the justice?.’[/pullquote]Among those attending the event was Barbara Doss, the mother of Dujuan Armstrong, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/19/us-police-shootings-george-floyd-press-releases-reports\">lost his life in Santa Rita Jail\u003c/a> in Dublin on June 23, 2018. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6396888-Dujuan-Armstrong2018-02007.html\">coroner’s report\u003c/a>, officers in the jail immobilized Armstrong using a full-body restraining device called a WRAP and covered his head with a hood, making it extremely difficult for him to breathe and resulting in his death by asphyxiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doss still bears the pain of the death of both her son, and of Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m here to demand justice for my son … and not just for Dejuan but we got more people out here that no one even hears about,” she said. “I’m not going to let it lie down. I’m not letting it die down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, Armstrong’s family \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/12/04/family-of-inmate-who-died-in-death-trap-device-sues-for-wrongful-death/\">sued Alameda County\u003c/a>. And while Doss continues to demand accountability from the county, she questions what more this will give her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no justice,” she said. “If I do get justice, what is the justice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, whose grandson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Steven-Taylor-s-grandmother-I-m-hurt-but-15542028.php\">Steven Taylor\u003c/a> was shot and killed by a police officer in a San Leandro Walmart last year while experiencing a mental health crisis, also indicated the magnitude of change that’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks to a crowd in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, the grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during an event organized by the Anti Police-Terror Project and the Defund Police Coalition on May 25, 2021 to honor George Floyd one year after his murder. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People have asked me how I feel about the conviction of Chauvin for Floyd’s murder,” Kitchen said at the press conference. “And I keep telling them it’s a pebble in the ocean. It doesn’t even make a ripple. There is so much more that needs to be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870691/we-need-justice-mourners-demand-alameda-police-provide-answers-in-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">Mario Gonzalez\u003c/a> died in the hands of the Alameda city police on April 19, 2021, one year and one day after her grandson’s death. That incident \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871887/alameda-leaders-weigh-police-reforms-after-death-of-mario-gonzalez\">spurred police reform proposals\u003c/a> such as requiring a non-police response to certain types of 911 calls, including those related to potential mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are still the same. We need changes. We need the politicians and leaders to do their job. We’re asking for protection from law enforcement,” Kitchen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']APTP and its coalition members have been critical of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873608/dozens-of-oakland-police-officers-collect-6-figure-overtime-payments-straining-citys-budget\">proposed budget\u003c/a> for the 2021-2023 budget cycle, which would increase total police spending from about $317 million to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some organizers, that move felt like a contradiction of what Schaaf had promised last year: to invest more in community-driven public safety mechanisms like mental health and gender-based violence services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Libby Schaaf continues to fund more police,” said Marlene Sanchez of the Ella Baker Center, a civil rights and organizing group. “If you’re going to talk the talk, then walk the walk. We want to see a budget that really reflects our values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier on Tuesday, the Oakland NAACP and other groups hosted a separate George Floyd remembrance event in East Oakland, where speakers included Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, and newly minted California Attorney General Rob Bonta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875367\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A person dances wearing a facemask.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49437_003_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">High school senior Zoei Brown dances during a community remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021to pay tribute to George Floyd. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The doors to accountability, well they’ve been cracked open,” Lee said. “But until we realize a world in which Mr. Floyd and so many others were never ever killed in the first place, our fight must continue … We’re here to do just that today, once again to demand justice, to demand respect and to demand Black lives matter in these United States of America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong, also one of the speakers, said law enforcement reform is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,” Armstrong said. “It has to be centered around getting rid of those that should no longer wear badges. So holding people accountable is critical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11875368\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11875368\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event to pay tribute to George Floyd.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49479_045_Oakland_NAACPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong speaks during a remembrance event held by the Oakland NAACP at Youth UpRising in Oakland on May 25, 2021 to pay tribute to George Floyd. ‘When I took on this job, I promised that we would reform this department,’ Armstrong said. He became chief on February 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For 29-year-old Leo Mercer, an Oakland-based activist who attended the East Oakland remembrance event, what the past year has taught him is how important care – for others and for himself – is for organizing work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have to move with a little more strategy … to think about my own public safety,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He grew up in Oakland but now lives in Hayward because of how high his rent became. But Oakland is still his home and his hope is that anyone, regardless of their color, can live in the city without having to fear for their lives. He also wants to remind people that Black people are not the enemy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I could say anything to the community it would be, ‘look up,” he said. “I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to be hurt. 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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in San Francisco, Michelle Monterrosa remembers attending protests against police brutality with her brother, Sean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The names of people like Oscar Grant, Mario Woods and Alex Nieto — all young men of color killed by Bay Area police officers — were burned into her memory.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Monterrosa, sister of Sean Monterrosa\"]'We need to build a pathway where we can remove dangerous police officers from our communities.'[/pullquote]But years later, she said, “This fight became personal when our brother was murdered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 2, 2020, just days after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Sean Monterrosa was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826613/vallejo-police-release-video-of-deadly-shooting-of-sean-monterrosa\">fatally shot \u003c/a>by Vallejo Police Officer Jarrett Tonn, who fired at the kneeling 22-year-old through the windshield of an unmarked police pickup truck in a Walgreens parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterrosa's family later found out that Tonn had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832113/sean-monterrosas-family-sues-trigger-happy-officer-city-of-vallejo-over-police-killing\">been involved in three other shooting incidents since 2015\u003c/a>. The Solano County District Attorney's Office declined to bring charges against the officer. Recently, however, newly appointed California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state’s Department of Justice would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874174/why-californias-attorney-generals-investigation-into-police-killing-of-sean-monterrosa-in-vallejo-is-a-big-deal\">conduct its own investigation\u003c/a> into the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most criminal investigations move at a snail’s pace, and so families of people who have been killed by police are now pursuing another path toward justice. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB2\">Senate Bill 2, introduced late last year,\u003c/a> would bar police officers convicted of serious misconduct from being rehired by other departments or agencies — essentially stripping badges from bad officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue the bill's premise is hardly outlandish: In California, doctors, lawyers and even barbers can lose their professional licenses for certain major violations. But there’s currently no equivalent recourse for police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to build a pathway where we can remove dangerous police officers from our communities,” said Michelle Monterrosa. “Because at the end of the day, our loved ones are unfortunately just counting down the days until they become the next hashtag. So this bill is long overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, who introduced SB 2, wrote a similar bill last year that\u003ca href=\"https://sd35.senate.ca.gov/news/2020-09-03-bradford-bill-police-decertification-dies-assembly-floor\"> didn’t make it out of the state Assembly\u003c/a>; it was one of several state police reform bills that died over the summer, even as the nation was rocked by racial justice protests sparked by Floyd's murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is one of just four states that does not have any process to decertify police officers, allowing some officers convicted of serious misconduct to leave their departments and be rehired at other law enforcement agencies. Sometimes officers simply resign in the middle of their internal investigations, then apply for another job in a different jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police unions and other law enforcement groups say they support the concept of a decertifying process but strongly object to several details in SB 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One area in the bill they’ve zeroed in on is the proposed advisory board, which would consist of nine members: seven civilians and two law enforcement representatives. The board would review investigations and make recommendations to a state-run governing body — the existing Commission on Peace Officer Standards Training (POST) — on whether to decertify a police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the seven civilians on the proposed board, two would be people who have either experienced police misconduct or have family members that have been killed by police, and the other five would come from organizations that deal with police misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Marvel, president of the Peace Officers Research Association of California (PORAC), which represents more than 77,000 law enforcement professionals in the state, said a board with that makeup will not be fair or equitable and cannot offer real due process to the officers under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can guarantee you that there's probably no license or program in the entire United States where two-thirds of the people that sit on that panel are predisposed to be against the person coming before them,” Marvel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters of the legislation note that the advisory board would be just one step in a multilayer process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately POST would define what actions constitute serious misconduct and have the final say on officer decertification. Officers would also have an opportunity to appeal any decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizzie Buchen, a lobbyist advocating for SB 2 on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, said civilian oversight is necessary because the public has lost faith in law enforcement's ability to fully police themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think that with law enforcement really dominating this whole process, it's really important that we have that one layer that is mostly civilians,’’ Buchen said. “To ensure that they have an opportunity to have a say in the process as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement groups successfully removed another provision of the bill they objected to, which would have made it easier for the public to sue police officers who commit misconduct while on duty. 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"content": "\u003cp>Forget about new protections for California kids cruising the internet. There will be no new requirements for crime labs to process old rape kits, or for background checks to explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with hate groups. And some households behind on their water bills won’t get more time to pay them back before their pipes get shut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were some of the more than 200 bills California lawmakers killed Thursday in the rapid-fire and often \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\">mysterious procedure known as the suspense file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#culling\">Skip to: details on the key proposals lawmakers killed this week\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the procedure promotes fiscal responsibility, allowing lawmakers to consider costly bills together and weigh their priorities. But it’s well known at the state Capitol that the suspense file is also a political tool that allows the most powerful legislators to keep controversial bills from reaching the Assembly or Senate floor — typically with no explanation, and sometimes without a public vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s driven by a hundred different factors, some of which we can never explain and maybe the transparency is weak on,” said Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the appropriations committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ve never once had the speaker come to me and say, ‘This isn’t politically feasible,’ ” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 350 bills on the Senate’s suspense file and more than 500 on the Assembly’s, the lobbying leading up to Thursday was intense: “Everybody but God himself has contacted me on a bill,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she downplayed the role of politics, one of her predecessors said the job is like being the “speaker’s henchman.” They can use the suspense file to prevent an idea they don’t like from becoming law, exact revenge on a fellow lawmaker or shield their colleagues from having to take a position on a controversial proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to be prepared to take really tough decisions for the caucus,” former Assemblymember Mike Gatto said on a \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-former-assemblyman-mike-gatto/id1282148486?i=1000520630981\">recent podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Politics' tag='politics']Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislators-killing-bills-committee-democrats/\">silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/alex-lee-progressive-california/\">most progressive bills introduced this year\u003c/a>, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/California-soda-tax-bill-dies-in-another-win-for-16113143.php\">repeal a ban on local soda taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">presented his updated budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file Thursday — a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Key Proposals That Stalled This Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators stop at a police barricade outside of the Oakland Police Department on Broadway in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB655\">hate groups in the past\u003c/a> stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB594\">investigate police shootings of armed people\u003c/a> is on hold until next year\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Julie Cart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11796288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB288\">Legislation aimed at preventing\u003c/a> universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB940\">would have dedicated $20 million\u003c/a> to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB566\">Legislation\u003c/a> to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure that stalled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB379\">would have barred\u003c/a> the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also \u003ca href=\"https://thealliance.net/sites/default/files/sb_379_oppose_senhealth_041421.pdf\">opposed\u003c/a> by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/04/cal-grant-expansion-older-students/\">a massive expansion of state financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS11152_131990247-e1477087351446.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic lawmakers in California are moving to stop a private equity firm from buying the internet registry for .org domain names, which are commonly used by non-profits and advocacy groups.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Broadband Access and Internet Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-digital-divide-broadband/\">slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide\u003c/a>. Two of them died Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1176\">a statewide broadband subsidy\u003c/a> for low-income people. While it aimed to improve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-broadband-student-access/\">broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic\u003c/a> — anti-poverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit\">$50 per month pandemic broadband benefit\u003c/a> for low-income consumers, though it’s temporary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB34\">bill\u003c/a> to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector-run broadband network was scrapped after the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-broadband-expansion/\">earmarked $7 billion\u003c/a> for internet deployment in his budget proposal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1545\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that bills to increase transparency and accountability on nursing home ownership and to shorten the waiting period for end-of-life decisions had been killed. Also, the story has been changed to say that a bill to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has been delayed a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-bills-legislators-kill/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network/2021/05/20/suspense-file-day-which-controversial-bills-did-california-legislators-kill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> first appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters Network\u003c/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-cropped-calmatters-favicon-32x32-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=64435&ga=UA-59722930-8\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Forget about new protections for California kids cruising the internet. There will be no new requirements for crime labs to process old rape kits, or for background checks to explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with hate groups. And some households behind on their water bills won’t get more time to pay them back before their pipes get shut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were some of the more than 200 bills California lawmakers killed Thursday in the rapid-fire and often \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\">mysterious procedure known as the suspense file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#culling\">Skip to: details on the key proposals lawmakers killed this week\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the procedure promotes fiscal responsibility, allowing lawmakers to consider costly bills together and weigh their priorities. But it’s well known at the state Capitol that the suspense file is also a political tool that allows the most powerful legislators to keep controversial bills from reaching the Assembly or Senate floor — typically with no explanation, and sometimes without a public vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s driven by a hundred different factors, some of which we can never explain and maybe the transparency is weak on,” said Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the appropriations committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ve never once had the speaker come to me and say, ‘This isn’t politically feasible,’ ” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 350 bills on the Senate’s suspense file and more than 500 on the Assembly’s, the lobbying leading up to Thursday was intense: “Everybody but God himself has contacted me on a bill,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislators-killing-bills-committee-democrats/\">silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/alex-lee-progressive-california/\">most progressive bills introduced this year\u003c/a>, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/California-soda-tax-bill-dies-in-another-win-for-16113143.php\">repeal a ban on local soda taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">presented his updated budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file Thursday — a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Key Proposals That Stalled This Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators stop at a police barricade outside of the Oakland Police Department on Broadway in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB655\">hate groups in the past\u003c/a> stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB594\">investigate police shootings of armed people\u003c/a> is on hold until next year\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. 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Democrats have pointed to former President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/22/881810671/white-house-defends-trumps-use-of-racist-term-to-describe-coronavirus\">frequent use of racist phrases\u003c/a> such as “kung flu” to describe the coronavirus as a link to the increase in anti-Asian sentiment in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=20784480-bills-117s9\">The legislation\u003c/a>, introduced by Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York, and Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Some of the boldest reform experiments underway in the wake of the national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/\">George Floyd’s murder\u003c/a> are pilot projects \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">in Denver, San Francisco\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-street-response-team-mental-health-crises/283-ed2211d0-e73c-4d6b-82ec-91e94ad8c8ea\">Portland, Oregon\u003c/a>, and elsewhere. They’re confronting hard questions about what role, if any, police should play in responding to calls for persons in nonviolent mental health, drug, alcohol or homeless crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland Vice Mayor and Councilmember\"]‘Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response.’[/pullquote]This fall, Oakland aims to join those cities when it launches a pilot project to funnel some nonviolent, noncriminal calls to new, mobile teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response,” says Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s vice mayor who has championed the nascent program called Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they are not trained to handle is a grave mistake cities keep repeating. “Those cases often go very badly and sometimes horrifically,” she says. “We have seen horrific deaths, killings by police throughout the nation when they’ve been called for matters that deal with mental health or homelessness or public intoxication — or any of these matters that are not a violent crime — and should be better handled by a non-police response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf\">One study estimates\u003c/a> people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with police than other civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACRO is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">a wider effort by the Oakland City Council and Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a> to rethink how law enforcement operates in a city where the police department has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren’t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Oakland’s Unique Strategy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will operate under the fire department, but the teams will be made up of civilians, not sworn firefighters. And in hiring, the program will place a greater emphasis on lived experience over formal education. It’s a unique Oakland take among urban police reform efforts underway. Most cities’ pilot street teams are sending out a trained and licensed clinical social worker or psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community was crystal clear and has continued to be crystal clear that they do not want a licensed social worker as part of the street team,” says Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Melinda Drayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Drayton, who’s spearheading the department’s efforts on MACRO, says the fire department aims to deliver what the community wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civilian teams will deescalate problems, check vitals and potentially get a person in crisis off the streets, she says, by connecting him or her to services anywhere in the city \u003cem>except\u003c/em> a jail, a psychiatric ward or a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to take them to city, private nonprofit community-based services, health care clinics. Maybe to their dad’s house,” Drayton says. “As simple as that. ‘Where are you going to feel safe for the night?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is for a civilian emergency medical technician to be paired with someone, for example, with first-hand knowledge of the mental health, criminal justice, homeless or drug treatment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people just need to be heard. Sometimes people just need a warm blanket. Sometimes people just need to sober up, you know?,” says Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, who has worked on this issue for years. “I mean, sometimes, [people] need to be able to scream. Like, why is that such a big deal? Why does that scare us so much? Look at the world that we live in. I want to scream all the damn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Police Terror Project Co-founder, Cat Brooks, speaks during a news conference outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a key advocate for MACRO, believes the best people to help are those with street knowledge of the systems that have failed them, what she calls “the medical-industrial complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that complex — doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers — stereotypes Black, brown and indigenous bodies. Criminalizes Black, brown and indigenous bodies just as much as law enforcement,” she says. “And so these models have to be more about the ideology and practice with which we respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Concerns About the Pilot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, some worry emphasizing ideology over formal training goes against the science and art of mental health care and could undermine the program’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers have a lot to offer as we re-imagine public safety, policing and seek to strengthen our crisis response capacity,” says Sarah Butts, director of public policy for the National Association of Social Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the group fully supports communities creating whatever model works best for them. And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. But it wants to scale up the program this summer when San Francisco Mayor London Breed hopes to add a companion program of unarmed “wellness” teams to work with the street teams to handle even lower-level calls. It’s part of the mayor’s wider \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-roadmap-new-police-reforms\">pledge to change policing\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Flashpoints with Police \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With startling repetition non-criminal crisis calls to police — often by a friend or loved one — continue to be flashpoints for violence and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11870691 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48713_026_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Examples include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931643057/philadelphia-officials-promise-changes-after-walter-wallace-jr-shooting\">Walter Wallace in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, Daniel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086022/daniel-prudes-death-ruled-a-homicide-he-was-restrained-by-police\">Prude in Rochester\u003c/a> and in late April, Oakland resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/991844355/lawyer-says-police-didnt-need-to-arrest-man-who-died-after-being-pinned-to-groun\">Mario Gonzalez, who died in Alameda Police custody\u003c/a>. The 26-year-old was in a small park in Alameda when 911 callers expressed concerned Gonzalez was mumbling to himself and maybe high or drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking to himself and what else was he doing?” the 911 dispatcher asks one caller in tapes released by Alameda police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just hanging out,” the caller says, “I mean, he seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two 911 calls make clear there’s no violence, imminent threat or any discernible criminal activity, save a couple bottles of booze with the security tags still attached, indicating they were probably stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda police soon arrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> shows officers question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11871345 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48857_044_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg']Without telling him he is under arrest, each officer grabs one of Gonzalez’s arms and proceeds to try to put his hands behind his back. When he bends over and resists being handcuffed, one officer says, “Please stop resisting us, OK? Don’t fight us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez continues to resist, and the two officers take him to the wood chip-covered ground, pinning him on his stomach, with at least one officer pressing an elbow and knee into his back and shoulder. They eventually handcuff him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two officers continue pinning Gonzalez to the ground for a total of roughly five minutes, with at least one of them pressing his elbow and knee into his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Gonzalez becomes motionless, the officers shout his first name, check for a pulse, roll him fully over, and begin administering CPR, with Gonzalez’s hands still restrained behind his back. About a minute later, they remove his handcuffs and continue performing CPR, repeatedly shouting for him to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"mario-gonzalez\"]Gonzalez leaves behind a grieving family including a 4-year-old son. He was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department officers involved are on paid leave while multiple agencies investigate. An autopsy is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert, says police need clearer guidelines around “positional asphyxia” — or detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect “shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams says that guideline isn’t specific or directed enough. “Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side, and, if possible, sat up.” Otherwise, he says, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason whatsoever to go hands-on with Mario,” says civil rights lawyer Julia Sherwin, who represents his family. She has formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Alameda Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwin says Gonzalez was unarmed, holding only a comb. “He’s been combing his hair and he’s been loitering there for half an hour. Why this required a law enforcement response is beyond me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s instances like this that have led Oakland to its experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much Work Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf originally pushed to put MACRO under an area nonprofit. The city council rejected that idea. Despite ongoing political tussles with the council, Schaaf “wholeheartedly supports this and it is part of her budget proposal,” says her communications director Justin Berton. “We hope it will be up and running as soon as humanly possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big details in implementing the plan remain. The fire agency, already stretched thin, now has to hire, train and equip new teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, for their part, are largely staying quiet on the program for now and letting city hall, the Oakland City Council and fire department work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And police will still, at first, handle all 5150 calls — that’s the code that allows police to involuntarily confine someone exhibiting behavior that’s “the result of a mental disorder,” and who appears to be endangering him or herself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big unanswered question is what percentage of the nearly quarter-million annual 911 police calls in Oakland will eventually be transferred to the new unarmed, police-free teams. One city councilwoman says the goal is 20% of nonviolent 911 calls within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Fire Chief Drayton says, at first, the percentage will be far smaller. The aim is to grow over time but start small: one team working a swing shift five days a week going after the relatively low-hanging fruit of noise disturbances, welfare checks, loitering and such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s 911 dispatchers will very likely need additional training. The program will put enormous pressure on those dispatchers who will, at first anyway, have to decide which calls to funnel to MACRO or to police for a more traditional response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cat Brooks, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project\"]‘Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason…Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up.’[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nBut activist Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project says using the traditional 911 system at all for these new teams is a big mistake. She has helped set up a separate non-police, non-city run mental health response program that operates on weekend nights \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">called MH First Oakland\u003c/a> that uses a separate phone number, not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason. Someone could be being shot in broad daylight in front of their house, and they are not dialing 911. Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up,” says Brooks. “Things almost always are worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those big concerns, Brooks remains cautiously hopeful the new effort will mean real change for a city and police department that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can just get out of the Oakland bureaucracy, red tape, ego and drama,” Brooks says with a smile, “I think there’s an opportunity for us to build something really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This fall, Oakland aims to join those cities when it launches a pilot project to funnel some nonviolent, noncriminal calls to new, mobile teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only mental health, but the whole range of lower-level issues that shouldn’t require a gun to be part of the response,” says Rebecca Kaplan, the city’s vice mayor who has championed the nascent program called Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland, or MACRO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they are not trained to handle is a grave mistake cities keep repeating. “Those cases often go very badly and sometimes horrifically,” she says. “We have seen horrific deaths, killings by police throughout the nation when they’ve been called for matters that deal with mental health or homelessness or public intoxication — or any of these matters that are not a violent crime — and should be better handled by a non-police response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf\">One study estimates\u003c/a> people with an untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during an encounter with police than other civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MACRO is part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">a wider effort by the Oakland City Council and Mayor Libby Schaaf\u003c/a> to rethink how law enforcement operates in a city where the police department has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874273\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874273\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/rebecca-kaplan_slide-4afb02f36a43086cf9e5cf02d59a3bf756ee15d8.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Vice Mayor and Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan says sending police to mental health and behavioral calls they aren’t trained for is a mistake cities keep repeating. \u003ccite>(Philip Pacheco/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Oakland’s Unique Strategy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The pilot program will operate under the fire department, but the teams will be made up of civilians, not sworn firefighters. And in hiring, the program will place a greater emphasis on lived experience over formal education. It’s a unique Oakland take among urban police reform efforts underway. Most cities’ pilot street teams are sending out a trained and licensed clinical social worker or psychologist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the community was crystal clear and has continued to be crystal clear that they do not want a licensed social worker as part of the street team,” says Oakland Deputy Fire Chief Melinda Drayton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so Drayton, who’s spearheading the department’s efforts on MACRO, says the fire department aims to deliver what the community wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The civilian teams will deescalate problems, check vitals and potentially get a person in crisis off the streets, she says, by connecting him or her to services anywhere in the city \u003cem>except\u003c/em> a jail, a psychiatric ward or a hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to take them to city, private nonprofit community-based services, health care clinics. Maybe to their dad’s house,” Drayton says. “As simple as that. ‘Where are you going to feel safe for the night?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan is for a civilian emergency medical technician to be paired with someone, for example, with first-hand knowledge of the mental health, criminal justice, homeless or drug treatment systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes people just need to be heard. Sometimes people just need a warm blanket. Sometimes people just need to sober up, you know?,” says Cat Brooks, co-founder of Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\">Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a>, who has worked on this issue for years. “I mean, sometimes, [people] need to be able to scream. Like, why is that such a big deal? Why does that scare us so much? Look at the world that we live in. I want to scream all the damn time!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48840_024_Alameda_MarioGonzalezPressConf_04272021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Police Terror Project Co-founder, Cat Brooks, speaks during a news conference outside of the Alameda Police Department on April 27, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brooks, a key advocate for MACRO, believes the best people to help are those with street knowledge of the systems that have failed them, what she calls “the medical-industrial complex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And that complex — doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers — stereotypes Black, brown and indigenous bodies. Criminalizes Black, brown and indigenous bodies just as much as law enforcement,” she says. “And so these models have to be more about the ideology and practice with which we respond.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Concerns About the Pilot\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, some worry emphasizing ideology over formal training goes against the science and art of mental health care and could undermine the program’s effectiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers have a lot to offer as we re-imagine public safety, policing and seek to strengthen our crisis response capacity,” says Sarah Butts, director of public policy for the National Association of Social Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the group fully supports communities creating whatever model works best for them. And Butts agrees that peer counselors with life experience in these systems can and are often an important part of any front-line response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says extensive education and training do matter when addressing the often complex mix facing someone in a mental health or substance use crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social workers will have a skill set — problem-solving, relationship building, de-escalation — that really lends itself to this to this type of community problem solving,” Butts says. She notes nonpolice responders must accurately assess the situation quickly under often stressful conditions. “And then decide what is the most effective response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever model cities use, it’s important they collect and share data on what’s working and what’s not “so that we can learn from our experience and improve these systems,” Butts says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/924146486/removing-cops-from-behavioral-crisis-calls-we-need-to-change-the-model\">As NPR has reported\u003c/a>, across the bay in San Francisco, the city’s new police-free Street Crisis Response Teams put a fire department paramedic with a trained clinical social worker and a peer counselor to help respond to some crisis calls for people who are homeless, intoxicated, having a mental health challenge, or all of the above.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four teams now deployed in San Francisco’s pilot project are, so far, able to respond to only a small number of the overall behavioral crisis calls in that city. But it wants to scale up the program this summer when San Francisco Mayor London Breed hopes to add a companion program of unarmed “wellness” teams to work with the street teams to handle even lower-level calls. It’s part of the mayor’s wider \u003ca href=\"https://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-london-breed-announces-roadmap-new-police-reforms\">pledge to change policing\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Flashpoints with Police \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>With startling repetition non-criminal crisis calls to police — often by a friend or loved one — continue to be flashpoints for violence and death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Examples include \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/05/931643057/philadelphia-officials-promise-changes-after-walter-wallace-jr-shooting\">Walter Wallace in Philadelphia\u003c/a>, Daniel \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086022/daniel-prudes-death-ruled-a-homicide-he-was-restrained-by-police\">Prude in Rochester\u003c/a> and in late April, Oakland resident \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/991844355/lawyer-says-police-didnt-need-to-arrest-man-who-died-after-being-pinned-to-groun\">Mario Gonzalez, who died in Alameda Police custody\u003c/a>. The 26-year-old was in a small park in Alameda when 911 callers expressed concerned Gonzalez was mumbling to himself and maybe high or drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was talking to himself and what else was he doing?” the 911 dispatcher asks one caller in tapes released by Alameda police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s just hanging out,” the caller says, “I mean, he seems like he’s tweaking. But he’s not doing anything wrong. He’s just scaring my wife.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two 911 calls make clear there’s no violence, imminent threat or any discernible criminal activity, save a couple bottles of booze with the security tags still attached, indicating they were probably stolen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda police soon arrive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11871345/city-of-alameda-releases-police-body-cam-footage-of-mario-gonzalez-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Body cam footage\u003c/a> shows officers question Gonzalez about what he’s doing in the park, and ask for his ID. Gonzalez, who is calm but fidgety, mumbles several largely incoherent responses and does not appear to be fully lucid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gonzalez leaves behind a grieving family including a 4-year-old son. He was also the main caretaker of his 22-year-old autistic brother, his family has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department officers involved are on paid leave while multiple agencies investigate. An autopsy is pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timothy T. Williams Jr., a police tactics expert, says police need clearer guidelines around “positional asphyxia” — or detaining someone in a way that compresses their airways and reduces the ability to breathe normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Alameda Police Department’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/departments/alameda/police/alameda-police-department-policy-manual-11022020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">policy manual\u003c/a> states that a suspect “shall not be placed on his/her stomach for an extended period, as this could reduce the person’s ability to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Williams says that guideline isn’t specific or directed enough. “Once he or she is handcuffed, they are to be immediately removed from the prone position, put on their side, and, if possible, sat up.” Otherwise, he says, “You leave everything to subjective interpretation: What may be short to you may be long to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was no reason whatsoever to go hands-on with Mario,” says civil rights lawyer Julia Sherwin, who represents his family. She has formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Alameda Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwin says Gonzalez was unarmed, holding only a comb. “He’s been combing his hair and he’s been loitering there for half an hour. Why this required a law enforcement response is beyond me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s instances like this that have led Oakland to its experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Much Work Remains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Libby Schaaf originally pushed to put MACRO under an area nonprofit. The city council rejected that idea. Despite ongoing political tussles with the council, Schaaf “wholeheartedly supports this and it is part of her budget proposal,” says her communications director Justin Berton. “We hope it will be up and running as soon as humanly possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big details in implementing the plan remain. The fire agency, already stretched thin, now has to hire, train and equip new teams of civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department, for their part, are largely staying quiet on the program for now and letting city hall, the Oakland City Council and fire department work it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And police will still, at first, handle all 5150 calls — that’s the code that allows police to involuntarily confine someone exhibiting behavior that’s “the result of a mental disorder,” and who appears to be endangering him or herself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A big unanswered question is what percentage of the nearly quarter-million annual 911 police calls in Oakland will eventually be transferred to the new unarmed, police-free teams. One city councilwoman says the goal is 20% of nonviolent 911 calls within three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Fire Chief Drayton says, at first, the percentage will be far smaller. The aim is to grow over time but start small: one team working a swing shift five days a week going after the relatively low-hanging fruit of noise disturbances, welfare checks, loitering and such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the city’s 911 dispatchers will very likely need additional training. The program will put enormous pressure on those dispatchers who will, at first anyway, have to decide which calls to funnel to MACRO or to police for a more traditional response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nBut activist Cat Brooks of the Anti Police-Terror Project says using the traditional 911 system at all for these new teams is a big mistake. She has helped set up a separate non-police, non-city run mental health response program that operates on weekend nights \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\">called MH First Oakland\u003c/a> that uses a separate phone number, not 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Broad swaths of Black and brown people will not call the police ever for any reason. Someone could be being shot in broad daylight in front of their house, and they are not dialing 911. Why? Because our lived experience is police do not make it better when they show up,” says Brooks. “Things almost always are worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite those big concerns, Brooks remains cautiously hopeful the new effort will mean real change for a city and police department that have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636319870/in-oakland-more-data-hasnt-meant-less-racial-disparity-during-police-stops\">under federal oversight now\u003c/a> for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we can just get out of the Oakland bureaucracy, red tape, ego and drama,” Brooks says with a smile, “I think there’s an opportunity for us to build something really powerful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes additional reporting from KQED’s Matthew Green.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Oakland+Becomes+Latest+City+Looking+To+Take+Police+Out+Of+Some+Nonviolent+911+Calls&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s\u003ca href=\"https://stories.opengov.com/oaklandca/published/lTrMIWK3R\"> proposed budget\u003c/a> for the coming fiscal year would nearly double the amount of money for police overtime, increasing the city’s law enforcement spending by almost 8% — even as city leaders last summer pledged to slash the department’s budget amid widespread racial justice protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposed budget for the 2021-23 budget cycle, which\u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/05/11/oakland-mayors-proposed-budget-increases-police-spending/\"> she presented last Monday\u003c/a> to the Oakland City Council, includes about $61 million over the next two years for police overtime — up from roughly $32 million in the last two-year budget cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ed Reiskin, Oakland city administrator\"]'If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.'[/pullquote]That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"opd\"]“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]In a March memo to the Oakland City Council, Armstrong wrote that as the department struggles to maintain its minimum patrol staff at 35 officers per shift, there is little capacity to assign officers to special assignments on their regular shift time. For that reason, he said, the department has “become almost entirely reliant on overtime” to address many specialized police details. That includes response teams focused on sideshows, areas with high levels of violent crime, homicide operations, Lake Merritt patrols, and traffic investigations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many overtime assignments come from superiors as orders, Donelan, the union president, said. “The gripe I get more than anything is the guy who \u003cem>doesn’t \u003c/em>want to work overtime,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan explained that overtime orders can come in different forms. A watch commander might hold an officer on the clock after realizing that not enough officers are coming in for the next shift. Or the chief might order a “one call” phone notification, in which an officer is reached at home and ordered to report to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Comp Time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The 2019 city audit identified another big reason for OPD's glut in overtime: Officers can choose to receive compensatory time off (comp time) instead of money as reimbursement for working overtime. Since overtime work is compensated at time and a half, an officer working 10 hours of overtime can elect to receive 15 hours of comp time. When an officer takes that paid time off, another officer has to fill in, most likely using more overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1007px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11873804\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1007\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_.png 1007w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-800x354.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/comp.time_-160x71.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1007px) 100vw, 1007px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This figure, published in a 2019 report by the Oakland city auditor, shows how reimbursing overtime work with comp time can make overtime hours, and costs, soar. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland City Auditor)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 2019 audit reported that OPD officers are capped at 300 hours of comp time, the highest limit of any major city in California. Despite previous warnings from the city auditor about the comp time issue, the city did not address OPD’s high comp time accrual limit during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/documents/union-contracts\">most recent negotiation\u003c/a> with the police officers union, which went into effect in December 2018. Since comp time accrual is part of the city’s agreement with the union, this system is set in stone until the next contract negotiation in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audit noted that one specific officer was mostly responsible for determining the number of officers needed to staff events. It didn’t name the officer, but said he regularly assigned himself to work special events, and that he was the department’s second-highest overtime earner for five years in a row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, the Schaaf administration implemented service cuts across departments to get a handle on the city’s overspending. Many of those cuts were to OPD overtime work, including sideshow enforcement, as well as some homicide and ceasefire operations, with personnel re-assigned to supplement understaffed patrol squads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts also included a reduction of police patrols in Oakland's Chinatown shortly before a streak of attacks against the Asian community in Oakland and other cities across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association\"]'The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority. Our service load is continuing to rise.'[/pullquote]On April 12, the City Council passed a resolution to use federal relief funding to reverse some of the service cuts. After a four-month hiatus, the city said it would restore funding for OPD community safety ambassadors in Chinatown and other neighborhoods, foot-patrol officers and ceasefire operations. This came amid a wave of violence that hit the city in the first quarter of 2021, resulting in 34 homicides, triple the number recorded in the first quarter of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The challenge within the police department is that everything every day is the highest community priority,” Donelan said. “Our service load is continuing to rise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could change if the Oakland City Council adopts the recommendations of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/reimagining-public-safety\">Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce\u003c/a> that it created after last summer's protests. Among the task force’s proposals are shifting staffing from police to civilian workers for a range of services, including responses to mental health calls and internal affairs investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Uncertain Future\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Schaaf’s proposed $341 million police budget for next year is a far cry from the Oakland City Council’s pledge last summer to cut OPD funding in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed budget would fund six police recruiting academies in the next two years, bringing additional officers onto the force — a move Chief Armstrong argues will reduce overtime expenses by increasing the department’s capacity to cover assignments on regularly assigned time. It would also transfer OPD’s vehicle enforcement unit to the city’s transportation department, as recommended by the task force, and add $2.6 million in funding over two years to launch a program to dispatch community responders, instead of police, to non-violent emergency calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the proposed budget does not incorporate other key recommendations of the task force, including staffing the 911 call center with employees from other departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next six weeks, the Oakland City Council will decide what changes to make to Schaaf’s proposal before adopting the final two-year city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I fully agree with the Reimagining Public Safety Taskforce recommendation that we need to cap OPD overtime,” said Councilmember Loren Taylor, who co-chairs the task force, at the May 10 council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to do is roll up sleeves and figure out what is a realistic overtime to hold ourselves to,” Taylor added. “That's something we have never been able to do because we have never been honest about what past overtime expenditures were and therefore, we were setting ourselves up for failure the entire time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story comes to KQED through a partnership with the\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://journalism.berkeley.edu/programs/mj/investigative-reporting/\"> \u003cem>Investigative Reporting Program\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. A version of the story first appeared in the publication\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/28/oakland-police-overtime-payments/\"> \u003cem>Oakland North\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> on April 28, 2021.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That would increase total police spending from about $317 million this fiscal year to $341 million starting in July — or roughly 41% of the city's general fund — and then up to nearly $352 million the year after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf's proposal, which she says “aligns with historical spending,” comes after a year of already hefty police overtime expenditures. In the 2020 calendar year, the city spent more than $35 million on police overtime, enabling more than 100 officers to more than double their base salaries, which raised total police personnel costs well above $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Overtime Windfall\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>That year, 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Schaaf herself, whose own compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140, according to city salary data obtained through a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Topping that list was Officer Timothy S. Dolan, who was the highest compensated employee in the department and the second-highest in all of city government. On top of his reported 2020 base salary of $134,080, Dolan earned more than $301,000 in overtime pay. That put his total compensation package, including health care and payments the city made into his pension fund, at $589,809.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has investigated the possibility that some of the highest-earning Oakland Police Department employees were taking advantage of the overtime system, said Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin. But he said no abuse has been found, as far as he is aware. Rather, he pointed to short staffing as the primary driver of overtime spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My concern isn’t one officer making a lot of money. That’s not inherently problematic,” Reiskin said. “If people are working so much that they can’t be effective and work safely, that’s my concern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 64 OPD employees made over $100,000 in overtime alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that many OPD employees brought in significant portions of their income through overtime work, in addition to lump-sum payments and other types of compensation. The data show that 107 OPD employees were paid more than double their base salary in 2020, including 17 who were paid more than triple, and five who were paid about quadruple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Officer Malcolm E. Miller, who brought home $362,000 last year (not including benefits), though his base salary was only $82,925.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller, Dolan and all other police personnel named in this story did not respond to emails requesting comment. OPD also would not comment and declined our requests to interview the officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘You’re Making a Choice’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Barry Donelan, president of the Oakland Police Officers' Association, said logging this many overtime hours suggests that these top earners volunteered for many additional assignments. The department regularly sends out emails to staff looking for officers willing to work overtime on special details or at public events, like Oakland A’s games, he noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you get to those kinds of numbers, you’re making a choice,” Donelan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has policies intended to prevent officers from working too often. For example, OPD’s overtime policy states that department members who are ordered to work beyond their regular shifts are entitled to eight hours of rest before their next assignment begins. Members who work voluntary overtime are also supposed to have at least eight hours of rest between work periods, unless otherwise authorized by a commander. They are also supposed to take one day off each week, but a commander can override that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime policy places the burden of tracking rest periods on the officers, who are supposed to notify their managers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donelan said that OPD management waives overtime restrictions to meet demands for services, especially during periods of frequent mass demonstrations, like the Black Lives Matter protests last summer after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those same protests led to mounting pressure to scale back police funding. In response, city leaders formed a task force to rethink the department's operations and make recommendations for cutting its annual budget by $150 million — or roughly half.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>History of Spending Over Budget\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A 2019 city auditor’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190610_Performance-Audit_OPD-Overtime_Report.pdf\"> investigation\u003c/a> into OPD’s overtime use found that many officers worked a staggering number of off-duty hours. The report noted that police officers in San Francisco were not allowed to work more than 520 overtime hours each year. But in Oakland, 30% of officers exceeded that limit in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, when 24 sworn officers worked more than 1,249 overtime hours, and one member logged at least 2,600 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor recommended OPD establish an annual limit on how many overtime hours employees can work in one year. But the Schaaf administration disagreed, and when OPD implemented its new overtime policy in December, it did not include an annual limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For over a decade, OPD has consistently spent millions more than the amount allotted by the city, mostly driven by overtime hours and other personnel spending. For example, in the 2019-2020 fiscal year, OPD spent a total of nearly $338 million, according to the city’s comprehensive annual financial \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/CAFR-2020.pdf\">analysis\u003c/a>. And in a report to the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2019-20-Q4-Rev-Exp-Agenda-Report-FINAL120720-002.pdf\">last October, \u003c/a>Oakland Director of Finance Margaret O’Brien wrote that OPD exceeded its general-purpose fund budget by more than $32 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in recent years, the department has regularly paid out more than twice as much for overtime as the council has budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11874450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-800x426.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1020x543.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-160x85.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/opd2-1536x818.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Data from a March 2021 memo sent by Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong showing the difference between how much overtime the Oakland City Council approved in its budget versus how much OPD actually spent on overtime pay. The FY 2020-21 actual amount is a projection because the fiscal year has not ended. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As OPD continued to exceed its overtime budget in 2020, the city’s revenue plummeted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting O’Brien to write \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FY-2020-21-Q2-RE-Report.pdf\">in a February memo\u003c/a> that the city was “experiencing a financial crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the city continued to spend at the rate it did in 2020, she cautioned, it would drain its emergency reserves. “This situation puts the City in jeopardy of being unable to pay for its daily operations,” O’Brien wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that “personnel costs in the Police Department (OPD) is the primary area of overspending in the City’s budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, the city spent over $257 million on police department employee compensation, including base salaries, overtime, benefits, and other pay. That made up over 35% of citywide personnel spending that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Councilmember At Large Rebecca Kaplan said that last year’s OPD spending is the latest example of how Schaaf and Reiskin disregard spending restrictions laid out in the city’s budget and adopted by the council. They have given some city departments more than they were budgeted, and others less than they were budgeted, skirting the public budget process, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only are they spending money that wasn’t authorized, and not only is this a violation of democracy, but the extra things that the administrator has been giving [OPD] without council approval are largely things that have nothing to do with public safety,” Kaplan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pointed out that OPD’s overtime spending was particularly egregious in 2020, blaming the department's heavy-handed response to Black Lives Matter protests in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December 2020 memo, then-interim Police Chief Susan Manheimer, who has since been replaced by LeRonne Armstrong, wrote that the department spent nearly $2.5 million on protest activity “associated with Minneapolis Solidarity” by the end of June, and another $1.28 million on protest activity throughout the rest of the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The Steep Costs of Backfilling \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Demonstrations, however, weren’t the biggest reason for overtime spending last year. Manheimer’s December memo shows that backfill and shift extensions, which are largely used to maintain minimum patrol staffing of 35 officers per shift, had a much larger price tag. Those two categories cost the city $12.8 million in fiscal year 2019-20 and another $9.8 million so far in 2020-21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin, the city administrator, said that OPD’s reliance on overtime to maintain minimum staffing levels speaks to a core problem: The department is too understaffed to fulfill all the services the city is demanding of its police. The city is budgeted to have 786 sworn police personnel, which he noted is significantly lower than in other cities of comparable population and level of violent crime. And that, he said, forces OPD to fill in the gaps by assigning overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further compounding the problem, the department last year had 47 sworn vacancies and 62 professional staff vacancies, Manheimer wrote in her memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, an uptick in homicides this year prompted Armstrong, the police chief, to recently create a\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandnorth.net/2021/04/05/oakland-police-create-new-division-to-address-murder-spike/\"> special division on violent crime\u003c/a>, which he filled by reassigning 60 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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