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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With 28 days until the Nov. 8 election, Berkeley mayoral candidate and City Councilman Laurie Capitelli has more than twice the amount of cash to spend on the race than his fellow candidate, City Councilman Jesse Arreguín. And he has 15 times as much to spend as City Councilman Kriss Worthington, who is also running to replace outgoing Mayor Tom Bates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From July 1 to Sept. 24, the reporting period of the most recent campaign finance filings, Capitelli reported that he raised $31,288, bringing the total amount he has raised since 2015 to around $104,000. He still has $76,700 on hand for the rest of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arreguín raised $19,461 in that same period, for a total raised of about $69,000. Arreguín has $30,375 on hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worthington has raised $5,804 in that period and has spent $810, leaving him with $4,994.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Gould, a graduate student running for mayor, raised $2,585 from July 1 to Sept. 24, bringing his total to $8,885.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naomi D. Pete reported she had raised $85, but she did not write down who gave the donation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guy “Mike” Lee, Bernt Wahl and Zachary RunningWolf did not file any campaign finance statements, indicating they had not raised any funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the donors who contributed $250 to Capitelli include Lakshmireddy Lakireddy, the owner of Everest Properties; Susie Medak, executive director of Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Steven Goldin, CEO of Swerve, a furniture company; Elizabeth Echols, a former Assembly candidate; Glen, Diane and Kari Yasuda, the family who owns Berkeley Bowl; Mike Alvarez-Cohen, the director of UC Berkeley’s Innovation and Commercialization department; Peter and Steven Read, whose family owns Grocery Outlet and who are building an apartment complex on the site of the former grocery store; and the PACs of the International Brotherhood of Local Workers Local 595 and the Sheet Metal Workers Local 104. Other donors include Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos website; David Teece, chairman of the Berkeley Research Group; and Matthew Taecker, an urban planner who helped get the new hotel at Shattuck and Center approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Arreguín’s donors include former Mayor Shirley Dean, who gave $250; Alejandro Soto-Vigil, a Rent Board member and aide to Worthington, who donated $250; Lisa Bullwinkel, who produces many events around Berkeley, gave $200. San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos donated $50. Paul Hogarth, a campaign manager for Daily Kos, gave $100. Ellen Hahn, the mother of District Five candidate Sophie Hahn, gave $100, and Sophie’s sister gave $250. Cathy Campbell, a BUSD teacher and the head of the teachers union, donated $100. Ann Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace, donated $50, according to campaign filings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the people who donated $250 to Worthington include Becky and Michael O’Malley, the founders of the Berkeley Daily Planet; Boona Cheema, the former director of BOSS; and Patricia Wall, the executive director of the Homeless Action Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Gould’s donors include City Councilwoman Lori Droste, who donated $250, and City Councilwoman Susan Wengraf, who donated $100. (\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/08/04/and-the-mayors-race-is-off-details-in-campaign-filings/\" target=\"_blank\">They had previously donated to Capitelli\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Follow Berkeleyside on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/berkeleyside\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u003c/a>, where we often break news. Email us at tips@berkeleyside.com. Would you like the latest Berkeley news sent to your email inbox once a day? \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/e-news-signup/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to subscribe\u003c/a> to Berkeleyside’s free Daily Briefing.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Bruce Wicinas’ daughter was about to enter kindergarten, he went to visit his neighborhood elementary school in Berkeley. “It was culture shock,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was Berkeley in 1990, decades after the city had first integrated its schools in 1968. Many white parents had left for private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had attended all-white suburban schools near Pittsburgh where kids were pretty submissive,” said Wicinas. He worried about whether to send his daughter: “Our oldest daughter seemed to us fragile. We worried how she would fare in an environment containing lots of kids who had already seen a rough side of life. And I said to my wife, ‘I think we should send her to private school.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his wife was a foreign national who had grown up in schools all over the world. She told him, no way. So Wicinas decided to start participating at the school, LeConte Elementary, to learn more about what was going on and to meet other parents. It was a pivotal moment. The Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 had propelled Berkeley into raising more money to shore up schools, and there were calls to rethink how schools were integrated. By 1992, parents and the district were deep into an attempt to make schools more equitable across the district. But the process quickly became a personal and political nightmare, Wicinas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/280944900″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By the beginning of 1993, Berkeley was completely balkanized. There was almost a local war,” he said. “The district tried to handle this themselves, but it was beyond them. The whole city became so divisive. The hills and the north had one idea of what was going to happen and the south, the flatlands, where I live, had another idea. Basically, a number of our schools were naturally integrated so we couldn’t even understand why the district wanted to explode the whole thing in order to improve integration. And we liked our schools the way they were. So it was on the verge of civil war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas started attending meetings, and he could see the district needed help. The district administrator found out he had computer skills and drafted him to write computer code for the district’s archaic software. But he says it took outside facilitators and years of dogged meetings between delegates from each of the district’s elementary schools to hash out how the new enrollment system would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their first attempt, which took three years to agree upon, was to control for three racial populations: white, black and “other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">The initial results were startling.\u003c/a> “When we first ran the program in 1995, an astonishingly large number of people got their first choices. But that outcome was the result of a lot of back work,” Wicinas said. “Because if everyone chooses the same school as their first choice, it’s not going to happen. You have to make sure as many schools as possible are magnetic and have something to offer, so parents will make different choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”c7zTVooQQAPgt3WyQhBYBBXmLagsvscS”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas said district enrollment went up, defying expectations. Families who had left the district for private schools seemed to be returning. But in 1996, \u003ca href=\"http://acri.org/proposition-209-language/\">California passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, and the Berkeley district began to worry it would be sued for using race as a criterion for enrollment assignments. The superintendent asked residents to return in 1999 and retool the system to rely mostly on income and education levels. Wicinas was part of that effort, too, which was completed in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/information-on-berkeley-unifieds-student-assignment-plan/\">That plan\u003c/a>, still in effect today, took the step of dividing the district into three socioeconomic levels. The team carved up the city into 445 little chunks and assigned each location a rating based on census information about parents’ income level, education level and “percent nonwhite,” the latter being weighted less in the formula. Parents were given three choices for schools and the assignment process was managed centrally, using the software. No one could drop into the central office and lobby to have their child placed in their favorite school, Wicinas said. Gaming the system was something that had often happened in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s new integration plans survived several lawsuits over the years. It was sued over its initial plan after Proposition 209 passed, and then the revised plan also overcame lawsuits in 2007 and 2009. The courts eventually allowed the retooled assignment formula to stand. Though race was a component, the courts decided the district was not looking at individual student’s racial identity, but rather the racial makeup of the district’s small geographical areas. Berkeley’s integration plan is now seen as a \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">national model\u003c/a> for districts that want to attempt socioeconomic integration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Oakland and Other Districts Do the Same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas believes it would be harder to involve a larger citizenry in this kind of process. But not impossible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To do integration in the community you need people’s buy-in because if they don’t buy in, they will exit. Those who can will,” he said. “Then you have schools with much more of the population’s proportion of poor and nonwhite people. The people have to have lots of authorship and ownership of the process. It can’t be imposed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a tough process, but Wicinas says choosing to integrate the way Berkeley did is a question that comes down to your basic personal values and what you think is important in life. There is evidence that there are long-term\u003ca href=\"http://www.nber.org/papers/w16664\"> positive impacts\u003c/a> for African-American kids in desegregated schools, and benefits for \u003ca href=\"http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pgurin/benefits.html\">white kids\u003c/a>. Some researchers say it’s \u003ca href=\"http://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/racial-integration-necessary-narrowing-academic-achievement-gap-re-learning-forgotten-history-state\">necessary to close\u003c/a> the achievement gap. There is \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/berkeley-high-students-get-real-about-race-on-campus/\">still an achievement gap\u003c/a> in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas isn’t convinced desegregating schools by race and class alone closes \u003ca href=\"https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp16-10-v201604.pdf\">the achievement gap\u003c/a>. And the district itself acknowledged the ongoing issue with its \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/uploadedFiles/Clerk/Level_3_-_City_Council/2008/06Jun/2008-06-24_Item_24_2020_Vision_for_BerkeleyZs_Children_and_Youth.pdf\">2020Vision\u003c/a> plan. 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But that outcome was the result of a lot of back work,” Wicinas said. “Because if everyone chooses the same school as their first choice, it’s not going to happen. You have to make sure as many schools as possible are magnetic and have something to offer, so parents will make different choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas said district enrollment went up, defying expectations. Families who had left the district for private schools seemed to be returning. But in 1996, \u003ca href=\"http://acri.org/proposition-209-language/\">California passed Proposition 209\u003c/a>, and the Berkeley district began to worry it would be sued for using race as a criterion for enrollment assignments. The superintendent asked residents to return in 1999 and retool the system to rely mostly on income and education levels. Wicinas was part of that effort, too, which was completed in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/information-on-berkeley-unifieds-student-assignment-plan/\">That plan\u003c/a>, still in effect today, took the step of dividing the district into three socioeconomic levels. The team carved up the city into 445 little chunks and assigned each location a rating based on census information about parents’ income level, education level and “percent nonwhite,” the latter being weighted less in the formula. Parents were given three choices for schools and the assignment process was managed centrally, using the software. No one could drop into the central office and lobby to have their child placed in their favorite school, Wicinas said. Gaming the system was something that had often happened in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s new integration plans survived several lawsuits over the years. It was sued over its initial plan after Proposition 209 passed, and then the revised plan also overcame lawsuits in 2007 and 2009. The courts eventually allowed the retooled assignment formula to stand. Though race was a component, the courts decided the district was not looking at individual student’s racial identity, but rather the racial makeup of the district’s small geographical areas. Berkeley’s integration plan is now seen as a \u003ca href=\"https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/integration-defended-berkeley-unified2019s-strategy-to-maintain-school-diversity\">national model\u003c/a> for districts that want to attempt socioeconomic integration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can Oakland and Other Districts Do the Same?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicinas believes it would be harder to involve a larger citizenry in this kind of process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:45 p.m. Wednesday May 11: \u003c/strong> The Berkeley City Council approved the fourth permit for \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a> and are requesting the city manager amend municipal code to allow two additional medical cannabis dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time I met Ridgeway Smith was at a \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4152&isSection=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeley Medical Cannabis Commission\u003c/a> meeting on Feb. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bidding process to run Berkeley’s fourth\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2016/02/05/berkeley-commission-shortlists-3-for-cannabis-dispensary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> medical marijuana dispensary\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was well on its way. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The commission was meeting to make its final recommendation about \u003cem>who\u003c/em> should get the license, and most members agreed: Even more than four were needed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Berkeley City Council prepares to vote \u003ca href=\"http://records.cityofberkeley.info/Agenda/Documents/ViewDocument/5_10_2016%3B%20CLK%20-%20Agenda%20Item%20Attachment%20(Public)%3B%20PLANNING%20AND%20DEVELOPMENT%3B.pdf?meetingId=183&documentType=Agenda&itemId=2115&publishId=4156&isSection=false\">Tuesday night\u003c/a> on which of six applicants will get the license — or to postpone the vote in favor of approving an additional two licenses if an alternative proposal is adopted — Smith remains one of the few voices I’ve heard in opposition to a new medical cannabis dispensary in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263443659″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Specifically, he doesn’t want it in his neighborhood, where he has lived for almost 29 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives on Harmon Street, about a block away from Alcatraz and Sacramento streets, where the top contender for the dispensary license, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/icann-health-center/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iCANN Health Center\u003c/a>, would set up shop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950700 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where the 4th medical marijuana dispensary may be located in Smith's neighborhood.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMG_1756-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the abandoned Yemeni American Grocers Association, where a medical marijuana dispensary may locate. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The applicant was a big hit at the meeting, gaining the highest recommendation of the commission by promising ownership by one of Berkeley’s very own and with a focus on senior patients. The commission selected three of the six finalists — down from an original 12 — for the City Council’s consideration. The council, though, can pick any of the six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, however, is no fan of iCann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the commission meeting, Smith said his neighborhood has had a long history with drugs and violence. He’s concerned a dispensary would bring that back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One dispensary on the corner, as opposed to people selling it up and down the street, won’t make a difference,” says Smith. “Because it will still draw the same kinds of people that came around that robbed the drug dealers then, and all the people who were buying it would still constitute all those people that would fall prey to crime in the area as a result of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith walks me through how his neighborhood used to be throughout the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture of repeated shootings, fistfights, and car chases. He even tells me about a time when someone threw a revolver over his head as he squatted down painting in his backyard one day. The events ranged from being a danger to being a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come, park their cars up and down the street, and their friends would walk over and they would sit around and smoke marijuana all up and down the street here, and they would have all their little food and stuff and they would — after they eat — they would throw their trash out on the street,” he says. “Every day we would have to go out two to three times a day and clean the trash up off the street.” Smith says this took place on his and neighboring blocks in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950707 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fences and "No Trespassing" signs appear throughout Smith's street today. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and ‘No Trespassing’ signs can be found on Ridgeway Smith’s street today. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says this was the scene he encountered each morning after working the graveyard shift at Oakland’s Main Post Office on Seventh Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I came home and saw people sitting out there, all up and down the street, I said, ‘What in the world is these people doing?’ ” Smith recalls. “First I thought maybe there was a food program or something going on in there, and they were waiting for somebody to come out and hand out food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says despite the violence, he and wife didn’t consider moving with their two sons until their home was broken into years ago. They shopped around for a while, but eventually decided against the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, much of the crime had fizzled out. He attributes that in part to property owners doing a better job of screening tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a walk along the block today, it looks and sounds quiet, with overgrown front yards and many student renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950704 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A roundabout at the end of Smith's Street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming off of Alcatraz back when car chases through the neighborhood were more common. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roundabout at the end of Ridgeway Smith’s street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming from Alcatraz when car chases through the neighborhood were more common.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine a regulated dispensary bringing back the kind of violent crime that street drugs brought. And Martin O’Brien, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleypatientscare.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient’s Care Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, says the two don’t necessarily correlate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentions a few studies, including a \u003ca href=\"http://american-safe-access.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/dispensary_report_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeaccessnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Safe Access\u003c/a>, suggesting that when dispensaries use measures like security guards and cameras, they actually act as crime deterrents for the area. O’Brien says this has been the case at the dispensary’s current location, on Telegraph Avenue near Parker Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests the real culprit is the continued stigmatization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though medical marijuana is legal, people are very nervous about it,” he says. “If [one of our partners] posts something about his dogs running around, he’ll get 90 hits, or something about his cute son, he’ll get 80 hits. But if he shares a post that we put on Facebook about Oakland extracts or about anything at all that we have on our shelf, hardly any of his friends will tap on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridget Freisthler, a social welfare professor at UCLA and the principal investigator on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.uclamedicalmarijuanaresearch.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">medical marijuana research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team, says it’s more than just stigma.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the team’s recent studies, conducted in Long Beach and Sacramento, showed a correlation between dispensaries and both property crime and violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re finding is that medical marijuana dispensaries are related to crime in adjacent areas,” says Freisthler, “So it almost has sort of a doughnut shape, with the hole in the middle being where the dispensaries are located, and sort of around it is where you see higher levels of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doughnut is an approximately 200-foot parameter around dispensaries, with adjacent areas defined as those within half a mile outside that parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Freisthler_CrimeDispensaries_Longbeach.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Beach study\u003c/a>, Freisthler’s team measured a roughly 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and less than a 2 percent decline in property crime with the closure of 32 dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says that’s a higher percentage of association with crime than shown by a similar decrease in alcohol outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team isn’t sure why dispensaries are associated with these two types of crime, but they think crimes of convenience may have something to do with it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freisthler says three conditions are necessary for a crime to occur: a likely offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“D\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ispensaries are usually suitable targets because they have generally a lot of cash on hand since they’re shut out of the banking industry, and they also have a lot of product that’s attractive on the street market: marijuana,” says Freisthler. She believes dispensaries’ guards and cameras act as the “capable guardian,” explaining the absence of crime directly around them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain rising crime in adjacent areas, she adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m someone who normally doesn’t go through a particular neighborhood, but all of a sudden a dispensary opens up and I know I use the dispensary and I start going through this neighborhood, I’ll be more familiar with the neighborhood — when people are around, when they’re not. And if there’s an opportunity where it looks like nobody’s around and, oh look, I can steal this bike … maybe I’ll steal that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says there’s still much to learn when it comes to dispensaries and crime, like who are the perpetrators and who are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But speaking to Smith’s neighbors, I found mixed sentiments about a new dispensary there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors expressed concern, especially with a transitional home for foster youth across the street from the dispensary’s proposed location. Others — medical marijuana users themselves or relatives of users — say they look forward to easier access to medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And medicine was the word Sue Taylor, the applicant behind iCann, emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, a former Catholic school principal who is on the board of the Alameda County Advisory Commission on Aging, spoke to the stigma she held before learning more about marijuana’s medicinal purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just see it as drugs, and drugs coming into their community,” says Taylor, “So it’s our job to let them see and let them know who we are and what we’re bringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith doesn’t buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicinal or not, Smith says he’s watched families in his community gradually “spiral out of control” because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that I know who use marijuana as a supposed medication ran into the same problem that people who take opioids as a medication,” says Smith.”Their family members get involved in it, not to help with it but use it. Ultimately the youngsters in the family get addicted to the same thing. And eventually, marijuana will lead to opioids, will lead to harder stuff out on the street. I have watched them spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that these events necessarily follow medicinal marijuana use. But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/23/like-alcohol-heavy-pot-use-linked-to-economic-social-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international study conducted by UC Davis\u003c/a> suggests regular marijuana use may be associated with social and economic setbacks for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the science, one thing that remains firm is Smith’s opinion: He doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m no saint,” laughs Smith, “When I was in the military, I tried it. I thought it was something stupid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Smith what he’d do if the dispensary does end up in his neighborhood, especially in light of the transitional home across the street, the area’s violent history and the fact that many of the neighborhood residents are renters today – according to Smith – with presumably less investment in cleaning it up if past issues return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he’ll just keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The commission selected three of the six finalists — down from an original 12 — for the City Council’s consideration. The council, though, can pick any of the six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith, however, is no fan of iCann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking at the commission meeting, Smith said his neighborhood has had a long history with drugs and violence. He’s concerned a dispensary would bring that back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One dispensary on the corner, as opposed to people selling it up and down the street, won’t make a difference,” says Smith. “Because it will still draw the same kinds of people that came around that robbed the drug dealers then, and all the people who were buying it would still constitute all those people that would fall prey to crime in the area as a result of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith walks me through how his neighborhood used to be throughout the 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He paints a picture of repeated shootings, fistfights, and car chases. He even tells me about a time when someone threw a revolver over his head as he squatted down painting in his backyard one day. The events ranged from being a danger to being a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People would come, park their cars up and down the street, and their friends would walk over and they would sit around and smoke marijuana all up and down the street here, and they would have all their little food and stuff and they would — after they eat — they would throw their trash out on the street,” he says. “Every day we would have to go out two to three times a day and clean the trash up off the street.” Smith says this took place on his and neighboring blocks in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950707\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950707 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Fences and "No Trespassing" signs appear throughout Smith's street today. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2857-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fences and ‘No Trespassing’ signs can be found on Ridgeway Smith’s street today. \u003ccite>(Amy Mostafa/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says this was the scene he encountered each morning after working the graveyard shift at Oakland’s Main Post Office on Seventh Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I came home and saw people sitting out there, all up and down the street, I said, ‘What in the world is these people doing?’ ” Smith recalls. “First I thought maybe there was a food program or something going on in there, and they were waiting for somebody to come out and hand out food.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith says despite the violence, he and wife didn’t consider moving with their two sons until their home was broken into years ago. They shopped around for a while, but eventually decided against the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2014, much of the crime had fizzled out. He attributes that in part to property owners doing a better job of screening tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a walk along the block today, it looks and sounds quiet, with overgrown front yards and many student renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10950704\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10950704 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"A roundabout at the end of Smith's Street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming off of Alcatraz back when car chases through the neighborhood were more common. \" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/IMAG2856-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A roundabout at the end of Ridgeway Smith’s street. He says it was placed there to block traffic coming from Alcatraz when car chases through the neighborhood were more common.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to imagine a regulated dispensary bringing back the kind of violent crime that street drugs brought. And Martin O’Brien, owner of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleypatientscare.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patient’s Care Collective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, says the two don’t necessarily correlate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He mentions a few studies, including a \u003ca href=\"http://american-safe-access.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/dispensary_report_2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 report\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"http://www.safeaccessnow.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Americans for Safe Access\u003c/a>, suggesting that when dispensaries use measures like security guards and cameras, they actually act as crime deterrents for the area. O’Brien says this has been the case at the dispensary’s current location, on Telegraph Avenue near Parker Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He suggests the real culprit is the continued stigmatization of medical marijuana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though medical marijuana is legal, people are very nervous about it,” he says. “If [one of our partners] posts something about his dogs running around, he’ll get 90 hits, or something about his cute son, he’ll get 80 hits. But if he shares a post that we put on Facebook about Oakland extracts or about anything at all that we have on our shelf, hardly any of his friends will tap on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bridget Freisthler, a social welfare professor at UCLA and the principal investigator on its \u003ca href=\"http://www.uclamedicalmarijuanaresearch.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">medical marijuana research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team, says it’s more than just stigma.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the team’s recent studies, conducted in Long Beach and Sacramento, showed a correlation between dispensaries and both property crime and violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re finding is that medical marijuana dispensaries are related to crime in adjacent areas,” says Freisthler, “So it almost has sort of a doughnut shape, with the hole in the middle being where the dispensaries are located, and sort of around it is where you see higher levels of crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doughnut is an approximately 200-foot parameter around dispensaries, with adjacent areas defined as those within half a mile outside that parameter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Freisthler_CrimeDispensaries_Longbeach.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Long Beach study\u003c/a>, Freisthler’s team measured a roughly 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and less than a 2 percent decline in property crime with the closure of 32 dispensaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says that’s a higher percentage of association with crime than shown by a similar decrease in alcohol outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her team isn’t sure why dispensaries are associated with these two types of crime, but they think crimes of convenience may have something to do with it\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freisthler says three conditions are necessary for a crime to occur: a likely offender, a suitable target and the absence of a capable guardian. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“D\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ispensaries are usually suitable targets because they have generally a lot of cash on hand since they’re shut out of the banking industry, and they also have a lot of product that’s attractive on the street market: marijuana,” says Freisthler. She believes dispensaries’ guards and cameras act as the “capable guardian,” explaining the absence of crime directly around them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To explain rising crime in adjacent areas, she adds:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I’m someone who normally doesn’t go through a particular neighborhood, but all of a sudden a dispensary opens up and I know I use the dispensary and I start going through this neighborhood, I’ll be more familiar with the neighborhood — when people are around, when they’re not. And if there’s an opportunity where it looks like nobody’s around and, oh look, I can steal this bike … maybe I’ll steal that opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freisthler says there’s still much to learn when it comes to dispensaries and crime, like who are the perpetrators and who are the victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But speaking to Smith’s neighbors, I found mixed sentiments about a new dispensary there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few neighbors expressed concern, especially with a transitional home for foster youth across the street from the dispensary’s proposed location. Others — medical marijuana users themselves or relatives of users — say they look forward to easier access to medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And medicine was the word Sue Taylor, the applicant behind iCann, emphasized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor, a former Catholic school principal who is on the board of the Alameda County Advisory Commission on Aging, spoke to the stigma she held before learning more about marijuana’s medicinal purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just see it as drugs, and drugs coming into their community,” says Taylor, “So it’s our job to let them see and let them know who we are and what we’re bringing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Smith doesn’t buy it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicinal or not, Smith says he’s watched families in his community gradually “spiral out of control” because of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that I know who use marijuana as a supposed medication ran into the same problem that people who take opioids as a medication,” says Smith.”Their family members get involved in it, not to help with it but use it. Ultimately the youngsters in the family get addicted to the same thing. And eventually, marijuana will lead to opioids, will lead to harder stuff out on the street. I have watched them spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no evidence that these events necessarily follow medicinal marijuana use. But a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2016/03/23/like-alcohol-heavy-pot-use-linked-to-economic-social-problems/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">international study conducted by UC Davis\u003c/a> suggests regular marijuana use may be associated with social and economic setbacks for adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless of the science, one thing that remains firm is Smith’s opinion: He doesn’t like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m no saint,” laughs Smith, “When I was in the military, I tried it. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington reports he's holding off on his suggestion to send an official letter to Southwest Airlines protesting its treatment of an Arabic-speaking UC Berkeley student and asking the company to implement new anti-bias training. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED, Worthington said: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I held the item over for two weeks as a courtesy because Southwestern has communicated with us that they are actively considering multiple effective ways to respond to the situation. They appear to be looking at what to say to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi and what training adjustments would be appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If they refuse to apologize or do not change trainings, we will send a letter to complain. If they take reasonable steps forward we would turn our letter into a thank you.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post Tuesday, May 10: \u003c/strong>Berkeley City Councilman Kriss Worthington says that what happened to Khairuldeen Makhzoomi on a Southwest Airlines jet last month shouldn't happen again to anyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi is the\u003ca href=\"http://www.dailycal.org/2016/04/14/uc-berkeley-student-questioned-refused-service-speaking-arabic-flight/\" target=\"_blank\"> UC Berkeley student\u003c/a> who was removed from a Southwest flight from Los Angeles to Oakland -- and then subjected to a search and interrogation by the FBI -- after a fellow passenger overheard him speaking Arabic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/00117b5b.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you hear about instances like that, you need to try to change your policies to try to prevent it as much as possible,” says Worthington. “We’re trying to do that within our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/01/activists-say-berkeley-police-data-points-to-racial-profiling\" target=\"_blank\">city policies\u003c/a>, and we think it’s very important that Southwest Airlines do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xu9asFNbaOvbOSbAh5CDrlVYH24EWsPt\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday night on whether to send the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The airline said in \u003ca href=\"http://swamedia.com/releases/statement-regarding-customer-situation-on-flight-4620?l=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> after the April 6 incident became public that an Arabic-speaking passenger reported \"what were perceived to be threatening comments\" to the plane's crew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement added that Southwest \"responded by following protocol, as required by federal law, to investigate and report to law enforcement agencies any potential threat to civil aviation,\" and that the airline \"would not remove a passenger from a flight without a collaborative decision rooted in established procedures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southwest didn't respond to requests to elaborate on those procedures. Marketplace's \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/18/world/removed-flight\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Wagner\u003c/a> reached a similar dead-end with Southwest and five other major airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he believes his use of a simple Arabic phrase -- \"Inshallah\" -- got him kicked off his flight. It means \"if God wills\" and serves a function roughly equivalent to \"knock on wood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you've grown up in an Arabic-speaking, predominantly Muslim country, as Makhzoomi did -- he's an Iraqi refugee -- chances are the phrase is tossed around your home quite frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps if Makhzoomi had said “knock on wood,” he would have flown out of Los Angeles without incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, in an Arabic phone conversation with his uncle before his plane took off, Makhzoomi told him “inshallah,\" he would call him as soon as he landed safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'They didn’t treat me as a human being.'\u003ccite>UC Berkeley student Khairuldeen Makhzoomi\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The fellow passenger overheard, and soon, Makhzoomi was sitting in a room being interrogated by the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At some point they thought I'm a terrorist,\" says Makhzoomi. \"When they asked me about my bag, when they searched me. They treated me as a terrorist, honestly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was searched, patted down and sniffed by security dogs. He was repeatedly asked if he had additional luggage, if he carried a knife, and if he could share \"everything he knew about martyrdom.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says he was upset by the distrust and disrespect he experienced right from the get-go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you took me out, and you spoke with me in a very nice tone, in a very respectful tone, asking me about myself, just saying, 'This is just a security procedure. ... Would you like to tell me about yourself, and what's your name, and what you do, and what you study?' I would show him my ID and all of that, and they would know that that person is wrong,” says Makhzoomi. \"They didn't treat me as a human being.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi mentions his encounter with the Southwest employee who escorted him off the plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee -- whom the airline's statement described as an \"Arabic-speaking Southwest manager\" -- attempted to speak to Makhzoomi in Arabic. But Makhzoomi says the employee’s Arabic was so terrible he couldn’t understand it and had to ask to be addressed in English instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Switching to English, the employee asked Makhzoomi about his phone conversation. Makhzoomi explained he'd been talking to his uncle in Baghdad, telling him about a dinner event he'd attended at the World Affairs Council that featured \u003ca href=\"http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/event/11846\" target=\"_blank\">Ban Ki-moon\u003c/a>, secretary-general of the United Nations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He showed the employee video footage of the dinner that he'd recorded on his phone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMt4gzsBrA&feature=youtu.be&t=45m\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi says what happened next shocked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The employee began yelling at him, he says, asking, “Why would you speak in that language? Don't you know that [Arabic] is dangerous to speak in the airports, and what's happening in the airports around the world?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Makhzoomi initially apologized, but when the manager began blaming him for the delay, he says he'd had enough. He replied that \u003cem>he\u003c/em> wasn't the cause for the delay, but that it was Islamophobia at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that point, things got worse for Makhzoomi. He was told he would not be flown through Southwest Airlines that day. An officer called the FBI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It left me nothing but to shed some tears because I cannot do anything,\" says Makhzoomi, \"When you feel that you are so oppressed that any move you will do, it will end up with you either shot or end up in jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Released, Makhzoomi flew back home on a different airline. When he got to Berkeley, he says, he spent the first few days in bed, wondering what he must have done wrong to have been treated the way Southwest treated him.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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