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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029072 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg']Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.[aside postID=news_12018543 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg']Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,500 bus drivers, train operators and maintenance workers in the South Bay could go on strike over wage negotiations, though how soon is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After six months of contract talks between the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-valley-transportation-authority\">Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority\u003c/a> and workers represented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, a new contract is still not signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, the two sides have just not been able to agree,” Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, said Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers last month authorized a strike if necessary, and with the previous contract expired as of Monday night, the strike threat is looming over the ongoing discussions. Workers represented by ATU make up nearly 70% of the agency’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday afternoon, VTA officials issued a warning to transit riders that they may need to make alternative transportation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus drives on Meridian Avenue in San José on June 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re concerned about at this point, now that the union has taken a strike vote, is that 100,000 customers a day have a way to get to work and school and wherever they need to go,” Hendler Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s our responsibility that if we are not able to provide service, we need to give them adequate time to prepare,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Singh, the union president, said there is no date picked for a strike, and it’s unlikely workers would strike in the next few days. The union’s members will meet on Friday to discuss the negotiations and the potential for a strike, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the talks, at no point in time has the union ever said, ‘Hey, come March 4, we’re walking out.’ And even to this very moment, we don’t have a hard set date on when there might be a possible strike,” Singh said. “We’re hoping that they reach out, and maybe we can go back to the table and try to see if something can be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1150473913-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest offer from VTA to the union is a 9% raise spread over three years, with 4% offered in the first year, then 3% and 2%, respectively, in the latter years. The union’s most recent ask is for an 18% raise over the same time period, with 6% raises each year, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the negotiations are not just about the numbers but about fairness. For most of the talks, the agency offered union workers a total 3% raise, with 1% given each year, claiming it couldn’t afford more, Singh said. However, workers were angered to then see General Manager Carolyn Gonot given a 4% raise at a January board meeting, increasing her base compensation to $386,900 annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a February board meeting where hundreds of ATU workers spoke out demanding a better contract, the transit agency upped its offer to the current one, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Negotiations have not been in good faith. The communication was very poor,” Singh said. “The beginning is usually just a waste of time, and that’s what they essentially did for five months when they were off-putting that 1% on the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Hendler Ross rebuffed that assertion, saying the agency is negotiating in good faith. VTA’s frontline workers are the second-highest paid transit workers in the region, she said, and the agency’s current offer would maintain that status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“VTA is trying to balance two very important interests here. On one hand, for our employees, we want to be as supportive and fair as possible. On the other hand, for our customers, we want to make sure that we can provide the service that they depend on,” Hendler Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh also said the agency, in recent years, has been avoiding arbitration to settle some disputes or grievances with workers, going against decades of established practice. Putting clearer rules on paper about when arbitration could be used is one of the sticking points in the talks, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hendler Ross declined to comment in detail about the arbitration issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I can tell you is that VTA is negotiating in good faith and that we have put across a very competitive and strong and supportive offer for our employees,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight mass drug arrest\u003c/a>, one San Francisco supervisor is demanding a hearing to reassess the city’s approach to tackling outdoor drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to announce the hearing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting, urging the city to consider a successful strategy in Zurich’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">Four Pillars Strategy\u003c/a>” that combines drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement. Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029248 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-019-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. If we don’t, we will continue to see displacement to all parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other neighborhoods have seen increased drug activity, Jefferson Square Park has remained relatively calm in the aftermath of last week’s police raid, according to nearby residents like Sebastian Luke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk around every day. The park has been quiet and clean; it’s been calm since the raid,” said Luke, who witnessed and documented the mass arrest operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans deserve safe neighborhoods, not open-air drug markets. We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight mass drug arrest\u003c/a>, one San Francisco supervisor is demanding a hearing to reassess the city’s approach to tackling outdoor drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to announce the hearing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting, urging the city to consider a successful strategy in Zurich’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">Four Pillars Strategy\u003c/a>” that combines drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement. Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. While the area has seen improved street cleanliness and more arrests, Modi noted in a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kunalmodi/status/1895977354079715715\">post on social media platform X\u003c/a> that the city’s limited shelter and treatment bed capacity has stunted efforts to connect people with housing or medical services. He also admitted that the increased enforcement has displaced challenges to other parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following Wednesday night’s raid at Jefferson Square Park, more than 50 people were quickly released. Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. If we don’t, we will continue to see displacement to all parts of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other neighborhoods have seen increased drug activity, Jefferson Square Park has remained relatively calm in the aftermath of last week’s police raid, according to nearby residents like Sebastian Luke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I walk around every day. The park has been quiet and clean; it’s been calm since the raid,” said Luke, who witnessed and documented the mass arrest operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Franciscans deserve safe neighborhoods, not open-air drug markets. We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It also received a nearly $2.6 million subsidy payment from the Coliseum that wasn’t previously budgeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12021175\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12021175 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00056_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station No. 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, located on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills. It was one of two stations that were scheduled to close until June. In 2023, Fire Station 25 responded to 834 calls. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City Administrator Jestin Johnson said the number of parking tickets given out had risen by about 20% in recent months compared to the same time last year, and annual revenue from the citations is expected to exceed earlier projections by $3.39 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional money from parking enforcement and Coliseum funding was included in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026938/oakland-leaders-propose-plan-reopen-fire-stations-budget-crisis-threatens-more-closures\">$8.75 million proposal\u003c/a> to ward off the firehouse closures by Councilmembers Janani Ramachandran, Zac Unger and Rebecca Kaplan last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their resolution goes before the council on Tuesday. Despite the city’s announcement that it would not close the stations last week, Ramachandran said she still believes it is an important vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because this [announcement from the city] came as a surprise, I am looking for clarity tomorrow and a strong statement that makes clear that they’re keeping these stations open,” she told KQED. “Administrative actions can be rescinded at any time and don’t have to go through the public process in a vote the way that council budget actions do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022659 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Gg4EOtTaMAA2rIR.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also uses money from the city’s self-liability and transportation funds to keep the stations from closing — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">reopen two that were browned out\u003c/a> in the first phase of budget cuts in January before the end of the fiscal year. It’s unclear if that funding could be used to reopen the shuttered stations more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said that during the meeting, the council members plan to amend the resolution to add reopening the city’s third shuttered station — Station 10 — which was closed in 2022 for construction and has remained that way since repairs were finished because of funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping to vote on $2 million to open these fire stations before the end of the fiscal year,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution doesn’t put a timeline on the reopenings, which Ramachandran said gives Fire Chief Damon Covington more flexibility to open them when it makes the most sense for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is eyeing May as the ideal time when all services could be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever it takes to get to the ultimate goal of keeping every Oakland fire station open, I’m ready to pursue,” Ramachandran told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city isn’t out of the woods completely. The report also showed that Oakland is still facing a $140 million ongoing structural deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to run an operating deficit forever,” Bradley Johnson said. “Our city’s structural budget issues will continue to carry forward into future years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution also uses money from the city’s self-liability and transportation funds to keep the stations from closing — and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">reopen two that were browned out\u003c/a> in the first phase of budget cuts in January before the end of the fiscal year. It’s unclear if that funding could be used to reopen the shuttered stations more quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said that during the meeting, the council members plan to amend the resolution to add reopening the city’s third shuttered station — Station 10 — which was closed in 2022 for construction and has remained that way since repairs were finished because of funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping to vote on $2 million to open these fire stations before the end of the fiscal year,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resolution doesn’t put a timeline on the reopenings, which Ramachandran said gives Fire Chief Damon Covington more flexibility to open them when it makes the most sense for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is eyeing May as the ideal time when all services could be restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever it takes to get to the ultimate goal of keeping every Oakland fire station open, I’m ready to pursue,” Ramachandran told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city isn’t out of the woods completely. The report also showed that Oakland is still facing a $140 million ongoing structural deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot continue to run an operating deficit forever,” Bradley Johnson said. “Our city’s structural budget issues will continue to carry forward into future years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area’s sunny spring weather last week seems to have been a tease, with rain dotting the current forecast while meteorologists warn that the first half of the month at least looks dreary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looks like we’re gonna be cold and wet,” said Dylan Flynn, a meteorologist at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/national-weather-service\">National Weather Service\u003c/a>’s Bay Area office. “Colder than average and wetter than average, at least through the middle of the month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After some early morning rain on Monday, the rest of the day should be pretty dry across the Bay Area, with only slight chances of spotty showers in Monterey County. When the rain returns later in the week, it will be unusually focused on Southern California, dropping just about an inch across Northern California counties that bore the brunt of February’s winter weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said there’s about a 50% chance the Bay Area will get light rain on Tuesday before the odds increase throughout Wednesday and into Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the rainfall will occur south of San José, and the Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey’s Santa Lucia Mountains could get about an inch of rainfall. 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It is one of 160 radars across the state that help meteorologists track rainfall by examining particles in raindrops and snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of our components wore out, and we needed to order replacements, so as soon as the replacements come in, we’re sending our technicians up to get it repaired,” Flynn said. He said it’s not uncommon for the radars to need maintenance, especially since they are often on mountaintops and spin constantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate when we don’t have a replacement part on hand, and there’s rain also coming because that’s where we really rely on the radar to see through the clouds and what’s happening in the rain,” Flynn told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/NOAAGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the replacement part is expected to arrive in the next day or so and that NWS is working to have the radar repaired before the next round of rain begins Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn called the series of showers “beneficial rains” that won’t mirror \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026874/bay-area-heavy-rain-flooding-landslides-thousands-without-power\">February’s deluges\u003c/a> — less than half an inch of rainfall is predicted throughout most of the Bay Area, and the San Mateo and Santa Clara coasts are expected to top out at about one inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are “amounts that are noticeable, measurable, might not be the most comfortable thing to go and walk your dog in, but it’s not a big flooding concern,” Flynn said. “It more helps fill up the reservoirs, it’s good as we get to the drier months ahead for the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the atmospheric river-fueled storms that have dominated the Bay Area’s winter weather so far, this series will bring more evenly distributed rain throughout the state, with the low-pressure systems hanging in the Central Valley and reaching Southern California. The storms will also be considerably colder since there’s less moisture gathering in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the Sierra Nevada can expect significant snowfall throughout the week after getting 6 to 12 inches around the mountains this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would assume it’ll [be] pretty much on par with what we got over the weekend for each of these [systems],” Flynn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday and Saturday should be dry — though cold and windy — before rain returns Sunday, dropping up to an inch of rain across the Bay Area. Flynn said the National Weather Service is starting to see hints that a larger storm system could be gearing up to hit the region in the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enjoy the short periods of dry weather,” the NWS’s forecast discussion said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Rombough recently pleaded guilty, and he may become a crucial witness for the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/robert-weisberg/\">Robert Weisberg\u003c/a>, a professor of criminal law at Stanford University, said it is “very unusual” for police to be prosecuted in something other than a single incident that resulted in someone’s death. When presented to jurors — who are often sympathetic to police — those cases are often framed in life-or-death, self-defense scenarios, he said. 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They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. Amiri sent several officers a bloodied photo of the person on a gurney in an ambulance, and Rombough replied, “yeah buddy good boy purcy” and “fuck that turd,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When one officer asked what cut the dog’s face, Amiri allegedly replied, “that’s a piece of the suspect’s flesh lol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes several instances where Wenger and Rombough thanked Amiri for “biting” a suspect, including instances where they sought out interactions with citizens so the dog could bite them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“imagine fat ass purcy on your fucking throat [smiling crying emoji]” Amiri texted Rombough on Nov. 26, 2021, after sharing a bloody picture from his body camera of a woman Purcy bit, according to the indictment.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11985781,news_11986351,news_11974853\"]“That’s perfect I love it,” Rombough allegedly responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“i shit myself when i saw that,” Amiri allegedly replied. “i thought he was gonna kill her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough’s reply included a racial epithet remarking on the woman being Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough was on APD’s SWAT team, gang unit and now-disbanded Problem-Oriented Policing, or POP, team and was charged with using a 40mm less-lethal launcher to shoot at least 11 people in a span of nine months ending in August 2021. Rombough allegedly collected the spent rounds and displayed them on the mantle of his home to create the stars and stripes of the American flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have to find a way to finish your flag!!!” an unnamed officer texted Rombough in March 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know challenge accepted,” Rombough allegedly replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Amiri, Wenger and Rombough didn’t report or attempted to cover up their unjustified uses of violence. Text messages suggest the three said in their reports that the suspects were resisting to justify their uses of violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Antioch officer, Timothy Allen Manly Williams, was indicted on three charges in separate federal prosecution developed from the same broad investigation. The first two charges stem from allegedly calling the target of a wiretap investigation he was monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The third charge stems from May 6, 2021, when Manly witnessed a bystander record an unnamed K9 officer biting a suspect under arrest. Manly “seized the witness’s telephone and destroyed it,” prosecutors say. Manly’s case is ongoing, and prosecutors listed him as a witness they expect to call against Amiri and Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri has already been convicted of a crime in relation to what federal investigators learned after seizing phones from Antioch and Pittsburg officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“can i hire you [ ] to do my … classes? ill pay you per class,” federal prosecutors alleged that Amiri texted another person. “don’t tell a soul about me hiring you for this. we can’t afford it getting leaked and me losing my job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">last of six officers\u003c/a> to be found guilty of paying someone else to complete an online degree in his name so he could receive a pay raise. Samantha Peterson of the Antioch Police Department was also found guilty, as well as Patrick Berhan, Amanda Theodosy, Ernesto Mejia-Orozco, and Brauli Rodriguez Jalapa of the Pittsburg Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenger was also one of \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-and-pittsburg-police-officers-and-employee-charged-various-crimes-ranging\">two Antioch officers\u003c/a> charged with illegally distributing anabolic steroids, as well as trying to delete evidence from his phone before handing it over to investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His co-defendant, Daniel Harris, pleaded guilty to possession and conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids as part of a plea agreement in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury trial on those charges is set for April 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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They are very much embedded in American history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/10/exclusive-fbi-criminal-investigation-of-antioch-pittsburg-cops-grows-grand-jury-convening/\">FBI was investigating\u003c/a> alleged criminal activity by Antioch police, they uncovered a trove of \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/15/im-already-good-at-racial-profiling-new-batch-of-antioch-cops-texts-show-how-much-racism-and-policing-intertwined/\">racist and misogynistic text messages\u003c/a> shared among officers in the department and some in Pittsburg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 14 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23778279/disclosure-report-court-redactions-final.pdf\">Antioch officers\u003c/a> — sergeants, detectives and supervisors, including Wenger, Amiri and Rombough — who sent those racist memes and texts directed at Black and Latino Antioch residents, including then-Police Chief Steven Ford and former Mayor Lamar Thorpe. About half of the department’s officers received the messages, yet none reported it to superiors or outside authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the indictment was unsealed, about 20% of all Antioch officers were put on administrative leave. The scandal \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946551/antiochs-racist-police-text-message-scandal-could-mean-dropped-charges-in-other-cases\">upended criminal cases\u003c/a>, resulted in several protests, and provided evidence for what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947876/antioch-police-racist-texting-scandal-confirms-what-many-black-and-brown-residents-have-decried-for-years\">many residents had alleged for years\u003c/a>: A culture that tolerated excessive force and racism was spread throughout the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/authorities-charge-10-current-and-former-california-police-officers-in-corruption-case\">10 officers would face charges of corruption\u003c/a>, ranging from faking college degrees to distributing steroids, in addition to the alleged civil rights violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lls.edu/faculty/facultylistl-r/lauriellevenson/\">Laurie Levenson\u003c/a>, a law professor at Loyola Law School, said “a major police corruption case” like this one is “relatively rare and they’re not easy to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In this particular case, what might be the greatest help to the prosecutors are other officers who have pled guilty and agreed to cooperate,” Levenson said, “because in order to win these cases, you often need an insider who explains what kind of misconduct was going on with the police and that they were acting intentionally. That’s the type of evidence that jurors will pay attention to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Rombough \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/01/14/ex-antioch-officer-admits-conspiring-to-injure-oppress-threaten-and-intimidate-the-people-of-antioch/\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to one count of conspiracy and two counts of deprivation of rights under the color of the law, admitting that he and other Antioch officers used premeditated violence, failed to report uses of force and then falsified police reports. Rombough’s plea deal includes a provision that he could receive leniency for cooperating with prosecutors, and a status conference in his case is scheduled for April 22, after Amiri and Wenger’s trial could be concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and Wenger are charged with one count of conspiracy “to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate residents of Antioch, California.” Wenger faces one count of deprivation of rights under the color of law for a specific incident, while Amiri faces four such counts, along with a single count of destructing, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the trial are the text messages between Amiri, Wenger, Rombough and several unnamed officers that suggest they celebrated using violence on the people of Antioch with racist language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not long after he was hired by Antioch police in 2017, Amiri was partnered with a K9 service dog named Purcy, who prosecutors allege he commanded to bite at least 28 people in Antioch, sharing graphic photos of the injuries the dog inflicted with other officers and keeping an ongoing tally of them as they occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ill bite em,” Amiri texted Wenger and Rombough on April 21, 2019, after a suspect fled, according to the indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July 2019, while his roommate — an officer at another department — was with him for a ride-along, Amiri set Purcy on a person for not having a light on their bike at night. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on Friday that he has appointed anti-violence activist Mattie Scott to fill the Police Commission seat left vacant by his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">controversial removal\u003c/a> of another commissioner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott has worked in anti-gun violence advocacy since her son George C. Scott, 24, was shot and killed at a party in San Francisco in 1996. Lurie confirmed her selection at a swearing-in ceremony for another newly appointed police commissioner, Wilson Leung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Together, we can stop the killing and start the healing,” Scott said at Friday morning’s press conference. “We can stop the killing from fentanyl, stop the killing of the homeless, stop the killing of not getting our kids educated in schools. We can stop the killing across the board against the LBGT community. We can stop the killing and start the healing in every aspect to represent the beautiful city of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott’s nomination, which must be confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, comes days after the board approved Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028306/sf-activists-rally-against-luries-push-remove-outspoken-police-commissioner\">remove progressive attorney Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a> from the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Mayor London Breed initially appointed Carter-Oberstone, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025784/lurie-aims-oust-sf-police-commissioner-pushed-reforms-clashed-breed\">their collegiality fizzled\u003c/a> after the commissioner revealed Breed’s practice of asking commissioners to sign undated resignation letters in order to take the job. Lurie said his decision to remove Carter-Oberstone was an effort to fill the seat with someone who “will collaborate and communicate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028391\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028391\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-16-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD Police Commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone listens to speakers at a rally protesting Mayor Daniel Lurie’s attempt to remove Carter-Oberstone from the Police Commission on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The board voted 9–2 to remove Carter-Oberstone, with Supervisors Myrna Melgar and Jackie Fielder opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter-Oberstone “has shown tremendous courage in his service on the SF Police Commission,” Fielder, who represents the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/JackieFielder_/status/1894581432724722020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1894581432724722020%7Ctwgr%5Efc18a3fa297c266941a74b1a8919652963880fae%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvu.com%2Fnews%2Fsan-francisco-board-supervisors-vote-remove-police-commissioner-from-his-post\">posted on social media platform X\u003c/a>. “He is a whistleblower who revealed unethical practices of the last administration, earning him a national award.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His likely replacement, Scott, is a well-known resident of the Fillmore, where, in addition to anti-gun violence work, she has also stepped into the fight for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-SFDowntown-16-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961026/thousands-sf-homes-destroyed-decades-ago-rebuilt-under-new-bill\">teamed up with Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/a> on state legislation aimed at remedying social and economic harms during urban renewal projects in the 1960s and 1970s that bulldozed thousands of homes primarily owned by Black, Japanese and Filipino residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott founded and leads Healing 4 Our Families & Our Nation, which supports victims of violence, and is the president of the San Francisco chapter of Mothers In Charge, another violence prevention organization. She has served on multiple city boards, including the Chief of Police African American Police Advisory Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But unlike Carter-Oberstone, who studied police reform, Scott’s background lacks as much direct experience working on government and police issues beyond the scope of gun control. Police commissioners have a range of police oversight duties, including reviewing contracts, disciplinary actions and monitoring data gathered from SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mattie will bring invaluable experience, deep compassion and a commitment to our communities. Her voice on the Police Commission will help us strengthen public safety and build trust across our city,” Lurie said on Friday. “I’m optimistic that Mattie will receive the same overwhelming support that Wilson [Leung] did as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A new analysis of San Francisco’s Slow Streets shows the program meant to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813410/car-free-slow-streets-coming-to-san-francisco-this-week\">reduce and slow down vehicle traffic\u003c/a> on certain residential roadways continues to deliver on one of its major promises — making streets safer for all users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://transpomaps.org/projects/san-francisco/slow-streets\">a study\u003c/a> relying on data from the city’s Department of Public Health, traffic safety advocate and data analyst Stephen Braitsch found that injury collisions on the network’s 32 miles of roadway have fallen 61% since it was made permanent in December 2022 compared to the previous 26 months. Citywide, the number of injury crashes rose 6% during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis suggests that Slow Streets could represent what advocates say should be a key tool for the city as it \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020559/can-san-francisco-stop-traffic-violence-so-far-efforts-failing\">struggles to make progress on its Vision Zero goal\u003c/a> to reduce deaths and injuries in traffic collisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch said the numbers show the program, which uses a modest and relatively inexpensive set of interventions such as signs, roadway paint and plastic “soft-hit” posts on 18 different streets, “has been wildly successful at reducing vehicle crashes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch’s study on the site \u003ca href=\"https://transpomaps.org/\">Transpo Maps\u003c/a>, which builds on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Data-shows-traffic-crashes-have-dropped-on-most-17635433.php\">a 2022 analysis \u003c/a>he undertook just before the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make Slow Streets permanent, also looks into how reduced access to the network’s roadways has affected the Fire Department’s emergency response times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The verdict: The overall average response time for the Slow Streets network increased by 28 seconds — from 3 minutes, 46 seconds to 4 minutes, 16 seconds — since December 2022. That’s a 12% increase compared to a 5% rise in average response time citywide in the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at emergency response times, it’s also really important to consider the fact that the Fire Department responding station can be up to half a mile or three-quarters of a mile away from an emergency scene on a slow street,” Braitsch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s many, many, many other streets that the Fire Department has to navigate before it actually gets to the actual slow street,” he said. “Nonetheless, we wanted to put that data out there so at least there’s a foundation from which a conversation can happen around this information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department did not respond immediately to a request for comment on the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027759 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241217-DaylightingLaws-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco started its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program\">Slow Streets experiment\u003c/a> five years ago as a way of creating easily accessible outdoor recreation opportunities after stay-at-home orders were imposed at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program started with 14 streets in the spring of 2020. The SFMTA expanded it to the current footprint of 18 streets and made the program permanent at the end of 2022. The agency aims to limit traffic to 1,000 vehicles a day or fewer and reduce speeds to 15 mph or lower on each street in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch said the Slow Streets program stands out as an example of what the city can accomplish as it considers how to move ahead with its Vision Zero safety program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco adopted Vision Zero in 2014 with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities within a decade. While deaths declined at first, they have surged again in recent years. Forty-two people were killed in collisions last year, the highest total in nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The success of Slow Streets is like a mini-Vision Zero achievement because it really checks so many of the boxes that Vision Zero as a concept is trying to achieve,” Braitsch said. “The more we can expand the program throughout the city, the sooner we’re going to get closer to achieving our Vision Zero goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclists of all ages ride through San Francisco with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Jan. 1, 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also points to Slow Streets as a cost-effective safety solution that the city has shown it can deliver quickly and efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current SFMTA capital projects budget — funding dedicated to everything from updating Muni’s fleet to upgrading traffic signals to street safety projects — includes about $8 million for Slow Streets investments through 2029. That’s about one-third of 1% of the total $2.5 billion capital budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think really comes across is that the program has been extraordinarily successful at an extremely small investment, the cost of the materials and the time to implement them,” Braitsch said. “It’s such an insignificant cost in terms of materials and labor, but yet it has had such a significant impact on public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028135 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/2024_01-Fresno-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other street safety advocates agree that the SFMTA should prioritize expanding Slow Streets and investing in other “traffic-calming” projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robin Pam, a cofounder of Kid Safe SF, said, “What all of this data shows is that when we decide a street should be safer and intervene to do that, it works. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch said the numbers show the program, which uses a modest and relatively inexpensive set of interventions such as signs, roadway paint and plastic “soft-hit” posts on 18 different streets, “has been wildly successful at reducing vehicle crashes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch’s study on the site \u003ca href=\"https://transpomaps.org/\">Transpo Maps\u003c/a>, which builds on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Data-shows-traffic-crashes-have-dropped-on-most-17635433.php\">a 2022 analysis \u003c/a>he undertook just before the city’s Municipal Transportation Agency voted to make Slow Streets permanent, also looks into how reduced access to the network’s roadways has affected the Fire Department’s emergency response times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022926\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-PedestrianDeathStepback-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial sign hangs at the site of San Francisco’s first pedestrian fatality of 2025 at the intersection of Colby Street and Silver Avenue in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco on Jan. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The verdict: The overall average response time for the Slow Streets network increased by 28 seconds — from 3 minutes, 46 seconds to 4 minutes, 16 seconds — since December 2022. That’s a 12% increase compared to a 5% rise in average response time citywide in the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at emergency response times, it’s also really important to consider the fact that the Fire Department responding station can be up to half a mile or three-quarters of a mile away from an emergency scene on a slow street,” Braitsch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So there’s many, many, many other streets that the Fire Department has to navigate before it actually gets to the actual slow street,” he said. “Nonetheless, we wanted to put that data out there so at least there’s a foundation from which a conversation can happen around this information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department did not respond immediately to a request for comment on the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco started its \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/slow-streets-program\">Slow Streets experiment\u003c/a> five years ago as a way of creating easily accessible outdoor recreation opportunities after stay-at-home orders were imposed at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program started with 14 streets in the spring of 2020. The SFMTA expanded it to the current footprint of 18 streets and made the program permanent at the end of 2022. The agency aims to limit traffic to 1,000 vehicles a day or fewer and reduce speeds to 15 mph or lower on each street in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braitsch said the Slow Streets program stands out as an example of what the city can accomplish as it considers how to move ahead with its Vision Zero safety program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco adopted Vision Zero in 2014 with the goal of eliminating traffic fatalities within a decade. While deaths declined at first, they have surged again in recent years. Forty-two people were killed in collisions last year, the highest total in nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The success of Slow Streets is like a mini-Vision Zero achievement because it really checks so many of the boxes that Vision Zero as a concept is trying to achieve,” Braitsch said. “The more we can expand the program throughout the city, the sooner we’re going to get closer to achieving our Vision Zero goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/41586088481_efaa2a3126_o_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyclists of all ages ride through San Francisco with the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on Jan. 1, 2014. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Bicycle Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also points to Slow Streets as a cost-effective safety solution that the city has shown it can deliver quickly and efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current SFMTA capital projects budget — funding dedicated to everything from updating Muni’s fleet to upgrading traffic signals to street safety projects — includes about $8 million for Slow Streets investments through 2029. That’s about one-third of 1% of the total $2.5 billion capital budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I think really comes across is that the program has been extraordinarily successful at an extremely small investment, the cost of the materials and the time to implement them,” Braitsch said. “It’s such an insignificant cost in terms of materials and labor, but yet it has had such a significant impact on public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>This column was reported for Political Breakdown, a bi-monthly newsletter offering analysis and context on Bay Area and California political news. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/political-breakdown\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Daniel Lurie pledged on the campaign trail that, as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019956/how-daniel-lurie-will-balance-the-need-for-insider-knowledge-with-outsider-perspective-2\">outsider with no government experience\u003c/a>, he could help San Francisco finally break free from the city’s notorious political infighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fewer than two months in office, supervisors from different sides of the political spectrum say Lurie has so far shown good faith in working across ideological lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has included passing his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025495/luries-fentanyl-response-clears-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors\">first major piece of legislation\u003c/a>, a law giving Lurie expanded authority to cut through red tape on programs and services related to the city’s drug and homelessness challenges. Supervisor Connie Chan expressed hesitation about the extended powers and requested amendments, after which the ordinance passed easily. However, the ordinance lacks specific plans for how Lurie will leverage it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also taken the form of smaller gestures, like stopping by supervisors’ offices regularly to check in and discuss policy. That’s a shift from Lurie’s predecessor, former Mayor London Breed, current and former supervisors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Breed made the decision that it was in her political interest to disagree and fight with the board, while Lurie wants to produce and solve problems with the city and sees it in his interest to work together and find areas where they can compromise and solve problems,” political consultant Jim Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, a Democratic socialist who oversees the Mission District, said she and Lurie, a moderate Democrat, have gone on several walks together since they both started their positions in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a pretty good relationship with the mayor and his office. They’re very responsive to my calls,” Fielder said. “I would say we’re off to a good start, and that’s the kind of cooperation I think San Francisco’s have been wanting and certainly what they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors said they’ve noticed a shift in alignment on public safety issues. But Breed and the board did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992130/sf-political-rivals-breed-and-peskin-unite-behind-major-infrastructure-bond\">come to agreement\u003c/a> on a number of issues, such as on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976959/proposition-a-why-sf-is-asking-voters-for-a-300-million-affordable-housing-bond\">affordable housing bond\u003c/a> and other business and tax legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good for people to remember that politics is cyclical, and the tables can turn pretty quickly. I’ve seen that happen in the time that I’ve been on the board,” Board President Rafael Mandelman said. “And I do think that the external threat from the Trump administration is also a factor that keeps people trying to work together internally as effectively as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another notable difference, former Supervisor Aaron Peskin said, is Lurie’s distance from the billionaire-backed political organizing groups that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017551/is-san-francisco-a-bellwether-for-cryptocurrency-influence-on-local-elections\">flooded the city’s election cycle in 2024\u003c/a>, such as GrowSF, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and TogetherSF. The last of those groups shut down after its preferred candidates and measures were defeated in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that really poisoned politics at City Hall was the very aggressive, toxic behavior of some of these tech oligarch groups and some of the billionaires like Gary Tan, who were making really horrible, violent comments,” Peskin said. “They have receded under Lurie, I think in part because Mr. Lurie has really put out a tone that is not tolerant or embracing of this behavior that they exhibited for the last four years that London Breed embraced with open arms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is listening closely to some of the city’s tech and business elite. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u003c/a>, who donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, was on Lurie’s transition team. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">Lurie has been quiet on Trump\u003c/a>, raising questions from residents and supervisors concerned about the executive orders targeting immigration crackdowns, transgender identity and public funding.[aside postID=news_12028726 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250224-SFPD-POLICE-COMMISSIONER-PROTEST-MD-13.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, supervisors agreed to pass Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">remove police commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a>, a police reform advocate appointed by Breed. The vote passed 9–2, with Supervisors Fielder and Myrna Melgar in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a steadfast advocate for reforms and oversight. His leadership has been smart, principled and moral,” Fielder told KQED. “He represents the kind of principled, uncorrupt, independent governance San Franciscans want, and he should be rewarded for his service, not punished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she and Lurie will be in opposition on more issues, such as how to fund housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor knows I’m going to be on this side, and he’s going to be over there on a lot of the important issues,” Fielder said. “But we’re very honest about that, and it just makes everything easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many difficult decisions around the city’s now nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$900 million budget shortfall\u003c/a> lie ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a honeymoon, so it likely won’t go on like this forever,” Mandelman said. “But the mayor and his team are trying to keep it going as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also taken the form of smaller gestures, like stopping by supervisors’ offices regularly to check in and discuss policy. That’s a shift from Lurie’s predecessor, former Mayor London Breed, current and former supervisors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Breed made the decision that it was in her political interest to disagree and fight with the board, while Lurie wants to produce and solve problems with the city and sees it in his interest to work together and find areas where they can compromise and solve problems,” political consultant Jim Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, a Democratic socialist who oversees the Mission District, said she and Lurie, a moderate Democrat, have gone on several walks together since they both started their positions in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a pretty good relationship with the mayor and his office. They’re very responsive to my calls,” Fielder said. “I would say we’re off to a good start, and that’s the kind of cooperation I think San Francisco’s have been wanting and certainly what they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-30-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors said they’ve noticed a shift in alignment on public safety issues. But Breed and the board did \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992130/sf-political-rivals-breed-and-peskin-unite-behind-major-infrastructure-bond\">come to agreement\u003c/a> on a number of issues, such as on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976959/proposition-a-why-sf-is-asking-voters-for-a-300-million-affordable-housing-bond\">affordable housing bond\u003c/a> and other business and tax legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good for people to remember that politics is cyclical, and the tables can turn pretty quickly. I’ve seen that happen in the time that I’ve been on the board,” Board President Rafael Mandelman said. “And I do think that the external threat from the Trump administration is also a factor that keeps people trying to work together internally as effectively as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another notable difference, former Supervisor Aaron Peskin said, is Lurie’s distance from the billionaire-backed political organizing groups that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017551/is-san-francisco-a-bellwether-for-cryptocurrency-influence-on-local-elections\">flooded the city’s election cycle in 2024\u003c/a>, such as GrowSF, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco and TogetherSF. The last of those groups shut down after its preferred candidates and measures were defeated in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that really poisoned politics at City Hall was the very aggressive, toxic behavior of some of these tech oligarch groups and some of the billionaires like Gary Tan, who were making really horrible, violent comments,” Peskin said. “They have receded under Lurie, I think in part because Mr. Lurie has really put out a tone that is not tolerant or embracing of this behavior that they exhibited for the last four years that London Breed embraced with open arms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie is listening closely to some of the city’s tech and business elite. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u003c/a>, who donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, was on Lurie’s transition team. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023569/lurie-tiptoes-around-trump-as-sf-leaders-challenge-executive-orders\">Lurie has been quiet on Trump\u003c/a>, raising questions from residents and supervisors concerned about the executive orders targeting immigration crackdowns, transgender identity and public funding.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, supervisors agreed to pass Lurie’s motion to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028726/reformist-sf-police-commissioner-is-ousted-giving-lurie-greater-control-of-oversight\">remove police commissioner Max Carter-Oberstone\u003c/a>, a police reform advocate appointed by Breed. The vote passed 9–2, with Supervisors Fielder and Myrna Melgar in opposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Commissioner Carter-Oberstone has been a steadfast advocate for reforms and oversight. His leadership has been smart, principled and moral,” Fielder told KQED. “He represents the kind of principled, uncorrupt, independent governance San Franciscans want, and he should be rewarded for his service, not punished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she and Lurie will be in opposition on more issues, such as how to fund housing initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The mayor knows I’m going to be on this side, and he’s going to be over there on a lot of the important issues,” Fielder said. “But we’re very honest about that, and it just makes everything easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many difficult decisions around the city’s now nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021378/sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-freezes-most-city-hiring-on-day-1-in-office\">$900 million budget shortfall\u003c/a> lie ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a honeymoon, so it likely won’t go on like this forever,” Mandelman said. “But the mayor and his team are trying to keep it going as long as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Merritt is a history buff. He doesn’t just watch YouTube videos about World War II, he reads the comments. This time around, he was watching a video about the evacuation of Dunkirk when he came across a fascinating character: Charles Lightoller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]Lightoller was a retired Royal Navy Commander who rescued troops from the beaches of Dunkirk on his private yacht. And, Merritt discovered, he was also the most senior officer to survive the sinking of the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merritt was intrigued, so he went out and found Lightoller’s autobiography, \u003cem>Titanic and Other Ships\u003c/em>. In it, Merritt learned that Lightoller had visited San Francisco in the 1880s when he was a teenager. That experience left a lasting impression:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What a strange mixture we found in that city of mushroom growth. Beautiful broad streets and magnificent buildings, but almost entirely without law or order, – unless you could pay for it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s port at the time was a chaotic, dangerous place. And in his autobiography, Lightoller doesn’t skimp on the details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘Frisco at this time, had the honour of bearing the worst reputation of any sea port in the world for lawlessness, not excepting New York. It was bad enough for the landsman to be on the streets at night, if it was even suspected that he was carrying more than a very few dollars. Even in broad daylight it was no uncommon thing for a man to be sandbagged and robbed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1519px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1519\" height=\"2064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052.jpg 1519w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1507x2048.jpg 1507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1519px) 100vw, 1519px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, right, and his son Lieutenant F. R. Lightoller, who both helped in the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940. \u003ccite>(Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Maritime Research Center at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park houses a vast collection documenting the port’s tumultuous history. Reference librarian Gina Bardi knows this time period well. According to Bardi, there are “lots of stories of people… walking down the street and somebody offering them a drink or conking them on the crown.” Next thing they know, Gina said, “They wake up, and they’re on a ship halfway out to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This practice, known as shanghaiing, was common at San Francisco’s port. Crimping — aka kidnapping sailors, forcing them onto ships, and stealing their wages — was also widespread. Lightoller describes it all firsthand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The water front of ‘Frisco was held and run by a lot of soulless crimps. These human vultures didn’t wait for a man to get as far as the Shipping Office; in fact they were indifferent as to whether a man was even paying off or not. All they wanted was his body, and they would fight amongst themselves for possession.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“There’s even stories of people supplying dead sailors,” Bardi said, “and just saying he’s drunk, but he was actually dead and getting the money for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2246px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2246\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo.jpg 2246w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-800x292.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1020x372.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1536x561.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-2048x748.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1920x701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2246px) 100vw, 2246px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(left) A photograph of Green Street Wharf in San Francisco, Calif., circa 1894. (right) The docks of San Francisco’s port circa 1885. \u003ccite>(U.S. National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lightoller, the best part of San Francisco was leaving it. The only other notable positive? The “‘Frisco biscuits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The only good thing about ‘Frisco as far as I, a first voyager with an eternal hunger, could see, was the biscuits. ‘”‘Frisco biscuits’” are known the world over. Big, crisp and eatable. A good six inches across, and even the ship’s margarine could not altogether spoil their flavour… In fact, the outstanding feature of my first voyage seems to have been the state of semi-starvation we boys lived in, until we got the ‘Frisco biscuits.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For something “known the world over,” tracking down a definition proved surprisingly difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through all my maritime dictionaries,” Bardi said. “I went through a bunch of cookbooks that we have… and I have just not come across it anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Hijar (left), park historian, and Gina Bardi, reference librarian, pose for a portrait on the Balclutha at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park on Feb. 26, 2025. The Balclutha is a historic three-masted, steel-hulled sailing ship built in 1886, now preserved as a museum at the park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Bardi did have a few educated guesses. Theory number one: maybe the biscuits had something to do with sourdough? Theory number two: maybe, in Lightoller’s British English, he was actually referring to a cookie? Theory number three: ‘Frisco biscuits were a form of hardtack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since sourdough wouldn’t have been a good long-term provision and there was no evidence for the cookie theory, hardtack seemed like the most likely answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is hardtack?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Also known as ship’s biscuits, hardtack was a staple in a sailor’s diet. It is essentially a flour and water cracker baked to a crisp. When ships were provisioned in port, this nonperishable staple was an essential item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flavor of hardtack is somewhere in between sand and cardboard. You can’t even bite it with your front teeth; you have to gnaw. The biscuits were so durable in fact, that sailors sometimes wrote messages on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1211\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-800x757.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-1020x965.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-160x151.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ship’s biscuit with message: “Betsy Dunnet, given to her by her true love, Thomas Hart, January 4th, in the year of 1842.” \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The London-based National Maritime Museum has a handful of biscuits dating back as far as the 1700s. In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/buy-an-old-biscuit\">a 212-year old British biscuit — still uncracked — went on auction for $3,580\u003c/a>. While not exactly appetizing, a starving sailor might beg to differ. And a few actually did.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evidence for the hardtack theory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To check Bardi’s hardtack theory, I headed over to the San Francisco Maritime Museum, right on the water at Aquatic Park. It looks like a cruise ship that ran aground, threw in the towel, and decided it’d be easier to call itself a building. Katherine Hijar, the resident historian, found two additional references to the biscuits in the biographies of British sailors. Lightoller finally had company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Knocking Around\u003c/em>, by Frank H. Shaw, he recalls “nibbling rare, palatable ‘Frisco biscuits lavishly smeared with real salt butter out of \u003cem>bona fide\u003c/em> tins.” His boat was anchored off the coast of Chile at the time. For something provisioned in California to stay edible all the way to Chile, it has to be nonperishable. For Hijar, that was a point for the hardtack theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028780\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Hijar (left) and Gina Bardi sample a plate of ‘Frisco Biscuits on the Balclutha in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Round The Horn and Before The Mast\u003c/em>, Hijar found yet another biscuit reference. The author, A. Basil Lubbock, begins by describing running out of “Kobe biscuits, which are nearly all rice.” He then remembers how relieved he was to receive “splendid American hardtack… I don’t think I have ever eaten better biscuit than this Frisco bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the evidence mounting, Hijar offered her final conclusion: \u003cem>A ‘Frisco biscuit was hardtack provisioned at San Francisco’s port\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Known the world over?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For something “known the world over,” ‘Frisco biscuits proved fairly elusive. Several maritime historians had never heard of a ‘Frisco biscuit, and Hijar had to really dig to find a few sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most likely explanation for the biscuit’s obscurity? Sailor slang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Sailors] had their own language… words that you and I would never understand because they were particular to this world of sailors at sea,” Hijar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like so many forgotten pieces of history, it comes down to who gets to tell the story. Most sailors in the 1880s didn’t have typewriters or book deals. Their version of events was rarely recorded, and for those of us who love some good slang, that’s a big loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lightoller’s biography is full of sailor lingo. Reading it taught our question asker, Carl Merritt, some new vocabulary — like crocodile pearls. (It’s a much more exciting way to say… avocados.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Merritt’s question has got you hankering to try some hardtack, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/how-make-ships-biscuit\">here’s a recipe so you can whip up your very own batch of ‘Frisco biscuits\u003c/a>. Or, you could imagine yourself a sailor at sea on ship’s rations, indulging in biscuit-based delicacies like “Dandy Funk” and “Cracker Hash.” You’re welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Hey everyone, Olivia Allen-Price here, and you’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a thing about me: I love a good biscuit. I grew up in North Carolina, where biscuits are a point of pride. It seems like everyone has a grandma who makes a good one, but don’t bother asking for the recipe because there isn’t one. It’s all done by feel — eyeballing the flour in the bowl, the texture of the dough between your fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when a biscuit question arrived in our Bay Curious mailbox, it grabbed my attention right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Frisco biscuits? I need your help on that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: This is Carl Merritt — our question-asker this week. A while back, he was reading the biography of a storied sailor when he came across the term Frisco Biscuit. It left him feeling stumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: He describes it as crispy and six inches in diameter. He says it’s known the world over. So, so I was hoping maybe you can find something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: But for something known the world over, a quick internet search didn’t turn much up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Well, I’m glad I threw you a curveball. That’s great news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: When I passed off the question to one of our Bay Curious reporters, I was secretly hoping they’d crack the code quickly, get some local chefs to give the recipe a whirl — And give me a taste test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But turns out my dream of a flaky, buttery, crispy San Francisco-made biscuit was destined to remain a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week — a culinary, history, maritime mystery. What is a Frisco Biscuit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s all coming up! Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme music ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: To help us answer Carl’s question — what is a Frisco Biscuit? — we’ve put Bay Curious reporter Gabriela Glueck on the job. Her first step? Find the source in question — the book where ‘Frisco Biscuit’ makes its appearance — and get to know a bit more about the guy who wrote it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man by the name of Charles Lightoller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Charles Lightoller was a sailor, as true a seaman at heart as it is possible to be. And in his biography, he tells his story of life on the water. Born in England in the late 1800s and effectively orphaned at age 13, ships were all he’d really ever know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you might not recognize his name, you’re probably more familiar with him than you think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charles Lightoller\u003c/strong>: Several of us scrambled up onto the slippery bottom of the raft. And it was from there I saw the Titanic sink. It was from there I saw the Titanic sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: That’s Lightoller, recounting the sinking of the Titanic in a BBC radio interview following the disaster. He was the most senior officer to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charles Lightoller\u003c/strong>: As she vanished, everyone around me on the upturned boat, as though they could hardly believe it, just said, she’s gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Lightoller waited on the Titanic until it was nearly under, shepherding others onto the remaining lifeboats before he himself took a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a shipwreck — perhaps the world’s most infamous one — couldn’t keep him away from the sea for too long. He tells all this in his life story, his book, “Titanic and Other Ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a seaman like that mentions a “Frisco Biscuit” and calls it, quote, “known the world over,” you kinda take his word for it. But tracking down the term was actually a bit of a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will get to the biscuit, I promise, but first, just a little more context. We know the man we’re working with. Step two is understanding the place he’s talking about: The port of San Francisco in the 1880s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, Lightoller sets the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over for Lightoller\u003c/strong>: What a strange mixture we found in that city of mushroom growth. Beautiful broad streets and magnificent buildings, but almost entirely without law or order, unless you could pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds of waves, seagulls, shipbuilding sounds, wind\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: Here are some men just hanging out on the wharf. You would have seen a lot of people hanging out on the wharf looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: That’s Gina Bardi. She’s a reference librarian at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center. I met up with her to get a better sense of what the port was like back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: You would have seen a lot of smoke… It was very dirty and dusty. You would have seen insurance agents, merchants, everybody buying and selling wares, so it would have been really vibrant, loud… there was um, ships being built, ships being torn apart, so all, all sounds and noises associated with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Glueck\u003c/strong>: Lightoller was just a teenager when he arrived in the city, but San Francisco made a lasting impression on him. Safe to say, not a very positive one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over for Lightoller\u003c/strong>: ‘Frisco, at this time, had the honor of bearing the worst reputation of any seaport in the world for lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Gina told me that a sailor coming into port around that time was likely to have a tough go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: People being kidnapped is absolutely true. There’s news reports of it. We have lots of stories of people being, you know, walking down the street and somebody offering them a drink or conking them on the crown, and the next thing they know, they wake up, and they’re on a ship halfway up to sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: It was a place that Lightoller was, quite frankly, delighted to leave when the time came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over for Lightoller\u003c/strong>: Hard, bitter hard, though ship life often was, yet we were glad to see the Golden Gates, with all they stood for, fading away and finally disappearing below the horizon. At least the sea was clean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Harsh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over for Lightoller\u003c/strong>: The only good thing about ‘Frisco, as far as I, a first voyager with an eternal hunger, could see, was the biscuits. “‘Frisco biscuits” are known the world over. Big, crisp and eatable. A good six inches across, and even the ship’s margarine could not altogether spoil their flavor… In fact, the outstanding feature of my first voyage seems to have been the state of semi-starvation we boys lived in, until we got the ‘Frisco biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: So, what is a Frisco biscuit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: I have no idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: That’s reference librarian Gina Bardi again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: I went through all my maritime dictionaries that I have. I went through a bunch of cookbooks that we have, food ways studies that we have, and I have just not come across it anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Gina and I were stumped. Searching for Frisco Biscuits wasn’t getting us anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, ship’s biscuits, also known as hardtack, were one of the main staples of a sailor’s diet. It’s basically a flour and water cracker, dried out in the oven for so long that it’s nonperishable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With this clue in mind, we started tossing around theories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first hypothesis: Frisco Biscuits were hardtack provisioned at San Francisco’s port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theory number two: these biscuits had something to do with sourdough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theory number three: Maybe, in Lightoller’s British English, he was actually referring to a cookie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thing is, sourdough wouldn’t have made a good long-term provision. And there just wasn’t any evidence for the cookie angle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hardtack hypothesis seemed like our best bet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, we went down the rabbit hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help us test our theory — to see if hardtack could be considered big, crisp, and eatable — Gina pulled out an archival recipe and whipped up a batch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: You have to have upper arm strength. My poor rolling pin, I was like standing on my tiptoes. I was like mushing with all my strength, trying to get it down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Then, she invited all her colleagues to join us for a taste test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: This is the fruits of my labor. Then the recipe also said I should encase it in a wooden cask. But I had no wooden casks at home, so I just put it in a zip lock and bought it here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sounds of people eating something very crunchy\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: Don’t bite in with your front teeth because I don’t think that’ll work. Maybe gnaw on the side a little bit and then dip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taste tester #1\u003c/strong>: Oh, my God, I think I just lost a tooth. (sounds of chewing)\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Test tester #2\u003c/strong>: Cardboard, a little taste, a little hint of cardboard. It just tastes like flour. It tastes like dry. That’s what it tastes like, like a mouthful of sand.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Taste tester #3\u003c/strong>: I’m not gonna lie, I would eat this. It does not have much of a flavor, but I kind of just like gnawing on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Fair enough. Maybe San Francisco was such a miserable time that something so bad ended up being the best part. Or maybe to a starving sailor, Frisco biscuits were just a little bit tastier than average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those seemed like solid guesses, but still just guesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gina and I felt like we needed to do a bit more digging. Her suggestion? Turn it over to the big guns. AKA, the center’s maritime historian, Katherine Hijar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck in tape\u003c/strong>: First thing I want to ask you is, did you figure it out?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: I think I did. Yes, I think I did. As you probably know already, sea biscuits, ships biscuits, Frisco biscuits, hardtack those are all the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: After scouring the archives, Katherine told me she’d finally found something. Two additional references to Frisco biscuits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, in the biographies and diaries of British sailors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: Describing a journey from San Francisco to Europe, it was before the Panama Canal, so that it was around Cape Horn off the coast of Chile, uh, they spent some time on a ship called the Star of Italy. On that ship, Frank Shaw and some of his fellow sailors ate, quote, rare palatable Frisco biscuits lavishly smeared with real salt butter out of bona fide tins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: For something provisioned in California to stay edible all the way to Chile, it’s gotta be nonperishable. That’s a point for the hardtack theory. Plus, hardtack was very often stored away in tins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next clue came from another sailor’s diary dated September 1899.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: He wrote, today, we came to an end of the Kobe biscuits, which are nearly all rice. So, Kobe biscuits, one thing we get from that right away, is that they have provisioned in Japan, possibly the biscuits came from Kobe. They’ve probably loaded in boxes and boxes of these. And these rice flour-based biscuits are now done. And he’s not a fan. He says, At last, we have got the splendid American hardtack served out to us. I don’t think I have ever eaten better biscuit than this Frisco bread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Sailors often referred to hardtack as their daily bread, so don’t let that throw you off. This clue is pivotal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It puts it all in simple terms, when ships provision at ports, they buy the local version of hardtack. Kobe biscuits from Kobe, Frisco biscuits from Frisco. A 1 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American hardtack, Frisco bread. Another 1 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of that, Katherine had convinced me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why does Lightoller claim that Frisco biscuits are, quote, “known the world over?” From what I can tell, they’re hardly known at all. Several maritime experts I spoke with hadn’t heard of them. And Katherine had to do some serious digging to find even a few mentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: Definitely slang, absolutely yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Katherine’s best guess — “Frisco biscuit” is sailor speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: They had their own language, different words that you and I, even if we could get in a time machine, and go back to the 19th-century words that you and I would never understand because they were particular to this world of sailors at sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: And within the sailor community, Frisco Biscuits might have been known the world over. But sailors at sea in the 1800s weren’t the ones with typewriters and publishing deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: So many of the absences and the silences in history have to do with who had the ability to actually leave a permanent record. So when we’re talking about life at sea and the life of sailors, we’re talking about a population that is mostly very poor at best, their working class, and those are just not the people who whose experiences were considered important at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Reporter Gabriela Glueck, thanks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Thank you. It was quite a fun mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Big thanks to our question-asker, Carl Merritt, for sending us on this winding adventure. His question was chosen by listeners in a public voting round at BayCurious.org. There’s a new one up now, so head on over and cast your vote for what you’d like us to cover next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Did you know: KQED relies on your financial support to keep shows like Bay Curious going? More than half of KQED’s budget comes from donations from our audience. It is truly journalism made for the public, powered by the public, which is just the way we like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re in a position to give, please visit \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>. There are options for one-time gifts, or you can level up and become a sustaining member by giving each month. Your support keeps local news in the Bay Area alive at a time when it is under threat. Again, head to \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a> to give. And from all us at Bay Curious, a deep, heartfelt thank you.\u003cbr>\nOur show is produced by…\u003cbr>\nKatrina Schwartz\u003cbr>\nChristopher Beale\u003cbr>\nAnd me, Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional Support From:\u003cbr>\nMaha Sanad\u003cbr>\nKatie Springer\u003cbr>\nJen Chien\u003cbr>\nAlana Walker\u003cbr>\nHolly Kernan\u003cbr>\nAnd everyone on Team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week. And if you try making a Frisco biscuit of your own, don’t break a tooth!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carl Merritt is a history buff. He doesn’t just watch YouTube videos about World War II, he reads the comments. This time around, he was watching a video about the evacuation of Dunkirk when he came across a fascinating character: Charles Lightoller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>Lightoller was a retired Royal Navy Commander who rescued troops from the beaches of Dunkirk on his private yacht. And, Merritt discovered, he was also the most senior officer to survive the sinking of the Titanic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Merritt was intrigued, so he went out and found Lightoller’s autobiography, \u003cem>Titanic and Other Ships\u003c/em>. In it, Merritt learned that Lightoller had visited San Francisco in the 1880s when he was a teenager. That experience left a lasting impression:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What a strange mixture we found in that city of mushroom growth. Beautiful broad streets and magnificent buildings, but almost entirely without law or order, – unless you could pay for it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s port at the time was a chaotic, dangerous place. And in his autobiography, Lightoller doesn’t skimp on the details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘Frisco at this time, had the honour of bearing the worst reputation of any sea port in the world for lawlessness, not excepting New York. It was bad enough for the landsman to be on the streets at night, if it was even suspected that he was carrying more than a very few dollars. Even in broad daylight it was no uncommon thing for a man to be sandbagged and robbed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1519px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1519\" height=\"2064\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052.jpg 1519w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-800x1087.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1020x1386.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-160x217.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1130x1536.jpg 1130w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1450430052-1507x2048.jpg 1507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1519px) 100vw, 1519px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commander Charles Herbert Lightoller, right, and his son Lieutenant F. R. Lightoller, who both helped in the evacuation from Dunkirk in 1940. \u003ccite>(Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Maritime Research Center at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park houses a vast collection documenting the port’s tumultuous history. Reference librarian Gina Bardi knows this time period well. According to Bardi, there are “lots of stories of people… walking down the street and somebody offering them a drink or conking them on the crown.” Next thing they know, Gina said, “They wake up, and they’re on a ship halfway out to sea.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This practice, known as shanghaiing, was common at San Francisco’s port. Crimping — aka kidnapping sailors, forcing them onto ships, and stealing their wages — was also widespread. Lightoller describes it all firsthand:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The water front of ‘Frisco was held and run by a lot of soulless crimps. These human vultures didn’t wait for a man to get as far as the Shipping Office; in fact they were indifferent as to whether a man was even paying off or not. All they wanted was his body, and they would fight amongst themselves for possession.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>“There’s even stories of people supplying dead sailors,” Bardi said, “and just saying he’s drunk, but he was actually dead and getting the money for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2246px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2246\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo.jpg 2246w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-800x292.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1020x372.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-160x58.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1536x561.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-2048x748.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/San-Francisco-docks_duo-1920x701.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2246px) 100vw, 2246px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(left) A photograph of Green Street Wharf in San Francisco, Calif., circa 1894. (right) The docks of San Francisco’s port circa 1885. \u003ccite>(U.S. National Park Service)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Lightoller, the best part of San Francisco was leaving it. The only other notable positive? The “‘Frisco biscuits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The only good thing about ‘Frisco as far as I, a first voyager with an eternal hunger, could see, was the biscuits. ‘”‘Frisco biscuits’” are known the world over. Big, crisp and eatable. A good six inches across, and even the ship’s margarine could not altogether spoil their flavour… In fact, the outstanding feature of my first voyage seems to have been the state of semi-starvation we boys lived in, until we got the ‘Frisco biscuits.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>For something “known the world over,” tracking down a definition proved surprisingly difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went through all my maritime dictionaries,” Bardi said. “I went through a bunch of cookbooks that we have… and I have just not come across it anywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028778\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028778\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Hijar (left), park historian, and Gina Bardi, reference librarian, pose for a portrait on the Balclutha at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park on Feb. 26, 2025. The Balclutha is a historic three-masted, steel-hulled sailing ship built in 1886, now preserved as a museum at the park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Bardi did have a few educated guesses. Theory number one: maybe the biscuits had something to do with sourdough? Theory number two: maybe, in Lightoller’s British English, he was actually referring to a cookie? Theory number three: ‘Frisco biscuits were a form of hardtack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since sourdough wouldn’t have been a good long-term provision and there was no evidence for the cookie theory, hardtack seemed like the most likely answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is hardtack?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Also known as ship’s biscuits, hardtack was a staple in a sailor’s diet. It is essentially a flour and water cracker baked to a crisp. When ships were provisioned in port, this nonperishable staple was an essential item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flavor of hardtack is somewhere in between sand and cardboard. You can’t even bite it with your front teeth; you have to gnaw. The biscuits were so durable in fact, that sailors sometimes wrote messages on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028771\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1280px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028771\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1211\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-800x757.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-1020x965.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Hardtack-MaritimeMuseum-160x151.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ship’s biscuit with message: “Betsy Dunnet, given to her by her true love, Thomas Hart, January 4th, in the year of 1842.” \u003ccite>(National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The London-based National Maritime Museum has a handful of biscuits dating back as far as the 1700s. In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/buy-an-old-biscuit\">a 212-year old British biscuit — still uncracked — went on auction for $3,580\u003c/a>. While not exactly appetizing, a starving sailor might beg to differ. And a few actually did.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Evidence for the hardtack theory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To check Bardi’s hardtack theory, I headed over to the San Francisco Maritime Museum, right on the water at Aquatic Park. It looks like a cruise ship that ran aground, threw in the towel, and decided it’d be easier to call itself a building. Katherine Hijar, the resident historian, found two additional references to the biscuits in the biographies of British sailors. Lightoller finally had company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Knocking Around\u003c/em>, by Frank H. Shaw, he recalls “nibbling rare, palatable ‘Frisco biscuits lavishly smeared with real salt butter out of \u003cem>bona fide\u003c/em> tins.” His boat was anchored off the coast of Chile at the time. For something provisioned in California to stay edible all the way to Chile, it has to be nonperishable. For Hijar, that was a point for the hardtack theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028780\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028780\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-FriscoBiscuits-22-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katherine Hijar (left) and Gina Bardi sample a plate of ‘Frisco Biscuits on the Balclutha in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Round The Horn and Before The Mast\u003c/em>, Hijar found yet another biscuit reference. The author, A. Basil Lubbock, begins by describing running out of “Kobe biscuits, which are nearly all rice.” He then remembers how relieved he was to receive “splendid American hardtack… I don’t think I have ever eaten better biscuit than this Frisco bread.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the evidence mounting, Hijar offered her final conclusion: \u003cem>A ‘Frisco biscuit was hardtack provisioned at San Francisco’s port\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Known the world over?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For something “known the world over,” ‘Frisco biscuits proved fairly elusive. Several maritime historians had never heard of a ‘Frisco biscuit, and Hijar had to really dig to find a few sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most likely explanation for the biscuit’s obscurity? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Hey everyone, Olivia Allen-Price here, and you’re listening to Bay Curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a thing about me: I love a good biscuit. I grew up in North Carolina, where biscuits are a point of pride. It seems like everyone has a grandma who makes a good one, but don’t bother asking for the recipe because there isn’t one. It’s all done by feel — eyeballing the flour in the bowl, the texture of the dough between your fingers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when a biscuit question arrived in our Bay Curious mailbox, it grabbed my attention right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Frisco biscuits? I need your help on that one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: This is Carl Merritt — our question-asker this week. A while back, he was reading the biography of a storied sailor when he came across the term Frisco Biscuit. It left him feeling stumped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: He describes it as crispy and six inches in diameter. He says it’s known the world over. So, so I was hoping maybe you can find something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: But for something known the world over, a quick internet search didn’t turn much up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Well, I’m glad I threw you a curveball. That’s great news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: When I passed off the question to one of our Bay Curious reporters, I was secretly hoping they’d crack the code quickly, get some local chefs to give the recipe a whirl — And give me a taste test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But turns out my dream of a flaky, buttery, crispy San Francisco-made biscuit was destined to remain a dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay Curious theme music starts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week — a culinary, history, maritime mystery. What is a Frisco Biscuit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s all coming up! Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theme music ends\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: To help us answer Carl’s question — what is a Frisco Biscuit? — we’ve put Bay Curious reporter Gabriela Glueck on the job. Her first step? Find the source in question — the book where ‘Frisco Biscuit’ makes its appearance — and get to know a bit more about the guy who wrote it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man by the name of Charles Lightoller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Charles Lightoller was a sailor, as true a seaman at heart as it is possible to be. And in his biography, he tells his story of life on the water. Born in England in the late 1800s and effectively orphaned at age 13, ships were all he’d really ever know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While you might not recognize his name, you’re probably more familiar with him than you think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charles Lightoller\u003c/strong>: Several of us scrambled up onto the slippery bottom of the raft. And it was from there I saw the Titanic sink. It was from there I saw the Titanic sink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: That’s Lightoller, recounting the sinking of the Titanic in a BBC radio interview following the disaster. He was the most senior officer to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Charles Lightoller\u003c/strong>: As she vanished, everyone around me on the upturned boat, as though they could hardly believe it, just said, she’s gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Lightoller waited on the Titanic until it was nearly under, shepherding others onto the remaining lifeboats before he himself took a seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even a shipwreck — perhaps the world’s most infamous one — couldn’t keep him away from the sea for too long. He tells all this in his life story, his book, “Titanic and Other Ships.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a seaman like that mentions a “Frisco Biscuit” and calls it, quote, “known the world over,” you kinda take his word for it. But tracking down the term was actually a bit of a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will get to the biscuit, I promise, but first, just a little more context. We know the man we’re working with. Step two is understanding the place he’s talking about: The port of San Francisco in the 1880s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his book, Lightoller sets the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Voice Over for Lightoller\u003c/strong>: What a strange mixture we found in that city of mushroom growth. Beautiful broad streets and magnificent buildings, but almost entirely without law or order, unless you could pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds of waves, seagulls, shipbuilding sounds, wind\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: Here are some men just hanging out on the wharf. You would have seen a lot of people hanging out on the wharf looking for work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: That’s Gina Bardi. She’s a reference librarian at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Research Center. I met up with her to get a better sense of what the port was like back in the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gina Bardi\u003c/strong>: You would have seen a lot of smoke… It was very dirty and dusty. You would have seen insurance agents, merchants, everybody buying and selling wares, so it would have been really vibrant, loud… there was um, ships being built, ships being torn apart, so all, all sounds and noises associated with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>Glueck\u003c/strong>: Lightoller was just a teenager when he arrived in the city, but San Francisco made a lasting impression on him. 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Kobe biscuits from Kobe, Frisco biscuits from Frisco. A 1 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>American hardtack, Frisco bread. Another 1 to 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of that, Katherine had convinced me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why does Lightoller claim that Frisco biscuits are, quote, “known the world over?” From what I can tell, they’re hardly known at all. Several maritime experts I spoke with hadn’t heard of them. And Katherine had to do some serious digging to find even a few mentions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: Definitely slang, absolutely yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Katherine’s best guess — “Frisco biscuit” is sailor speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: They had their own language, different words that you and I, even if we could get in a time machine, and go back to the 19th-century words that you and I would never understand because they were particular to this world of sailors at sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: And within the sailor community, Frisco Biscuits might have been known the world over. But sailors at sea in the 1800s weren’t the ones with typewriters and publishing deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katherine Hijar\u003c/strong>: So many of the absences and the silences in history have to do with who had the ability to actually leave a permanent record. So when we’re talking about life at sea and the life of sailors, we’re talking about a population that is mostly very poor at best, their working class, and those are just not the people who whose experiences were considered important at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Reporter Gabriela Glueck, thanks!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabriela Glueck\u003c/strong>: Thank you. It was quite a fun mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Big thanks to our question-asker, Carl Merritt, for sending us on this winding adventure. His question was chosen by listeners in a public voting round at BayCurious.org. There’s a new one up now, so head on over and cast your vote for what you’d like us to cover next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Carl Merritt\u003c/strong>: Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Did you know: KQED relies on your financial support to keep shows like Bay Curious going? More than half of KQED’s budget comes from donations from our audience. It is truly journalism made for the public, powered by the public, which is just the way we like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re in a position to give, please visit \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a>. There are options for one-time gifts, or you can level up and become a sustaining member by giving each month. Your support keeps local news in the Bay Area alive at a time when it is under threat. Again, head to \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/donate\">KQED.org/donate\u003c/a> to give. And from all us at Bay Curious, a deep, heartfelt thank you.\u003cbr>\nOur show is produced by…\u003cbr>\nKatrina Schwartz\u003cbr>\nChristopher Beale\u003cbr>\nAnd me, Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional Support From:\u003cbr>\nMaha Sanad\u003cbr>\nKatie Springer\u003cbr>\nJen Chien\u003cbr>\nAlana Walker\u003cbr>\nHolly Kernan\u003cbr>\nAnd everyone on Team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week. And if you try making a Frisco biscuit of your own, don’t break a tooth!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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