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"content": "\u003cp>South Bay state Senate candidates Dave Cortese and Ann Ravel aired their differences on COVID-19 response, housing, property taxes, criminal justice reform and more in a Monday debate on KQED Forum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Democrats also litigated campaign attacks that have flared in one of the most \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11803534/high-profile-candidates-compete-in-heated-costly-south-bay-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">closely watched legislative races in the state\u003c/a>, in a district which covers most of San Jose along with Cupertino, Saratoga, Campbell and Los Gatos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, a Santa Clara County supervisor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804022/surprise-results-and-millions-spent-in-state-legislative-primaries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finished first in the March primary\u003c/a>. He has been a constant presence in South Bay politics for more than two decades: He ran for mayor of San Jose in 2014 and served on the City Council for eight years before his election to the Board of Supervisors in 2008. His father Dominic also served in the state Assembly from 1980 to 1996, helping to make Cortese a familiar name to voters here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel is making her first run for office \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11670597/former-fec-commissioner-ann-ravel-talks-money-in-politics-russian-election-meddling-and-stormy-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after a distinguished career\u003c/a> as a political watchdog. She led California’s Fair Political Practices Commission under Gov. Jerry Brown before being appointed to the Federal Election Commission in 2013 by President Barack Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in the 15th District have been inundated with ads and mailers from political interest groups. Spending from independent expenditure groups (known as Super PACs) during the general election has surpassed $4.5 million, the most of any legislative race in California, according to the California Target Book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support has broken along lines familiar to recent intraparty general elections: The California Chamber of Commerce, representing business, has spent heavily in support of Ravel, while organized labor, including the United Food and Commercial Workers and the California Federation of Teachers, have been active in support of Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the two candidates debated for an hour in a conversation moderated by KQED Forum host Michael Krasny. Here are some key areas of disagreement that emerged between Cortese and Ravel during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>COVID-19 Response\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County has been among the most cautious in the state in allowing businesses to reopen following the regional stay-at-home order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel agreed that the risk of spreading the coronavirus warranted a cautious approach, but raised issue with the way the county chose to draw lines on certain business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The health aspects of the policies have been good, the political aspects have not,\" said Ravel. \"We know that throughout the state there have been differences in what people can do and can’t do and the same was true in Santa Clara County, where the first orders said you could engage in construction of affordable housing but not of market rate housing or any other kind of housing, which is not a health concern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese defended his work on the Board of Supervisors in prioritizing virus mitigation. Santa Clara County was home to the first known death from the coronavirus, and Cortese said he has worked as a liaison between business groups and county health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the county has done a good job,\" he added. \"I think we’re generally recognized throughout the country as having done a good job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11842909 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann Ravel speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cortese reiterated his support for statewide reforms to residential zoning. In the primary, he was the only candidate to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 50\u003c/a>, the controversial legislation that would have legalized more dense housing across the state, particularly around transit hubs and job centers. The bill was defeated in the Legislature in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do things like that to expedite housing, make sure it goes in the right places, make sure it's along transit corridors,\" said Cortese, who is endorsed by the pro-housing group California YIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel said her focus in the Legislature would be on affordable housing, which she said \"has not been prioritized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She proposed the state hand over excess land for housing development, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investing in cheaper, factory-built housing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state should be investing in modular housing and other mechanisms that we'll be able to build more quickly and less expensively, rather than doing what has been done in the past, which is just help compensate big developers,\" Ravel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ravel and Cortese expressed support for new taxes to fund housing construction — with Ravel suggesting a head tax on employers and Cortese proposing a surcharge on companies whose employees are forced to make long commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842908\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Proposition 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The two Democrats are split on one of the most controversial measures on the November ballot: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-15-business-property-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 15, which would tax commercial properties at their market rate\u003c/a>, while exempting owners who have fewer than $3 million in property. The divide over the \"split-roll\" tax is the clearest example of how Cortese and Ravel occupy the labor and business-friendly wings of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese describes the measure as a lifeline for education, as the increase in commercial property taxes could raise billions for K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are we going to get the money to educate our kids?\" Cortese asked. \"Especially in a period of time when we're talking about having to possibly teacher-up even more because we have to keep kids in smaller cohorts as long as we don't have a vaccine. I don't think we can wait anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel opposed the commercial property tax hike even before the pandemic, but argued the current recession is an especially bad time to raise taxes on businesses, who might pass along the costs to tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Timing is so important in this case because those people can't afford it now, they're closing now and people are dependent on those jobs,\" Ravel said. \"And so this is not going to be helpful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice and Policing Reform\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ravel slammed Cortese's record on policing and jail reforms — questioning the supervisor's independence from law enforcement groups. She said Cortese has been too quick to sign off on a variety of items on the law enforcement wish list and was too allied with Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 murder of inmate Michael Tyree\u003c/a> in the county jail.\u003cbr>\n[aside tag=\"politics\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's astounding if you actually look at not only the amount of money he's received from the police unions over his career, but also the actual actions that he's taken and the actual votes that he's taken,\" Ravel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese said that unlike Ravel, he has a record of legislative victories on the issue of criminal justice reform — including recent cuts to the sheriff and corrections budget, and a decade-long effort to reduce the population of the Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had almost 400 kids in juvenile hall, disproportionately represented kids of color,\" he said. \"I just looked at the census report a couple days ago. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The support has broken along lines familiar to recent intraparty general elections: The California Chamber of Commerce, representing business, has spent heavily in support of Ravel, while organized labor, including the United Food and Commercial Workers and the California Federation of Teachers, have been active in support of Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the two candidates debated for an hour in a conversation moderated by KQED Forum host Michael Krasny. Here are some key areas of disagreement that emerged between Cortese and Ravel during the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>COVID-19 Response\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County has been among the most cautious in the state in allowing businesses to reopen following the regional stay-at-home order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel agreed that the risk of spreading the coronavirus warranted a cautious approach, but raised issue with the way the county chose to draw lines on certain business activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The health aspects of the policies have been good, the political aspects have not,\" said Ravel. \"We know that throughout the state there have been differences in what people can do and can’t do and the same was true in Santa Clara County, where the first orders said you could engage in construction of affordable housing but not of market rate housing or any other kind of housing, which is not a health concern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese defended his work on the Board of Supervisors in prioritizing virus mitigation. Santa Clara County was home to the first known death from the coronavirus, and Cortese said he has worked as a liaison between business groups and county health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the county has done a good job,\" he added. \"I think we’re generally recognized throughout the country as having done a good job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842909\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11842909 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41438_009_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3390-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ann Ravel speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Cortese reiterated his support for statewide reforms to residential zoning. In the primary, he was the only candidate to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 50\u003c/a>, the controversial legislation that would have legalized more dense housing across the state, particularly around transit hubs and job centers. The bill was defeated in the Legislature in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to do things like that to expedite housing, make sure it goes in the right places, make sure it's along transit corridors,\" said Cortese, who is endorsed by the pro-housing group California YIMBY.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel said her focus in the Legislature would be on affordable housing, which she said \"has not been prioritized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She proposed the state hand over excess land for housing development, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839409/5-reasons-its-so-expensive-to-build-housing-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investing in cheaper, factory-built housing.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state should be investing in modular housing and other mechanisms that we'll be able to build more quickly and less expensively, rather than doing what has been done in the past, which is just help compensate big developers,\" Ravel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Ravel and Cortese expressed support for new taxes to fund housing construction — with Ravel suggesting a head tax on employers and Cortese proposing a surcharge on companies whose employees are forced to make long commutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11842908\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11842908\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS41440_011_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3397-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese speaks during a forum at the Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Proposition 15 \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The two Democrats are split on one of the most controversial measures on the November ballot: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/proposition-15-business-property-taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 15, which would tax commercial properties at their market rate\u003c/a>, while exempting owners who have fewer than $3 million in property. The divide over the \"split-roll\" tax is the clearest example of how Cortese and Ravel occupy the labor and business-friendly wings of the party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese describes the measure as a lifeline for education, as the increase in commercial property taxes could raise billions for K-12 schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where are we going to get the money to educate our kids?\" Cortese asked. \"Especially in a period of time when we're talking about having to possibly teacher-up even more because we have to keep kids in smaller cohorts as long as we don't have a vaccine. I don't think we can wait anymore.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel opposed the commercial property tax hike even before the pandemic, but argued the current recession is an especially bad time to raise taxes on businesses, who might pass along the costs to tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Timing is so important in this case because those people can't afford it now, they're closing now and people are dependent on those jobs,\" Ravel said. \"And so this is not going to be helpful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice and Policing Reform\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ravel slammed Cortese's record on policing and jail reforms — questioning the supervisor's independence from law enforcement groups. She said Cortese has been too quick to sign off on a variety of items on the law enforcement wish list and was too allied with Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11640126/jail-deputies-face-15-years-to-life-for-fatal-beating-of-mentally-ill-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 murder of inmate Michael Tyree\u003c/a> in the county jail.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The top two finishers in a trio of competitive Bay Area state Senate races may not be known for days, as a handful of candidates remain tightly bunched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incumbent Senator Steve Glazer (D-Orinda) will advance to the general election in the 7th district, while Santa Clara supervisor Dave Cortese has opened up a wide lead in the open 15th district in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harder to decipher is who Glazer and Cortese will face in the general election — and who will go toe-to-toe come November in the 13th district, covering the peninsula from Brisbane to Sunnyvale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that district and the adjacent 15th, the Bay Area's two open state Senate seats resulted in two of the most expensive legislative campaigns in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if there's anything that can be gleaned from Wednesday morning's returns, it's that primaries packed with Democratic candidates can make it easier for less-heralded Republicans to advance to the general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Surprise on the Peninsula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Wednesday morning returns in the 13th district show Republican Alexander Glew, a Los Altos engineer, leading the field by a slim margin of less than 1%. Glew spent just over $1,000 on his campaign in the last filing period, according to pre-primary filings made with the Secretary of State in mid-February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's compared to the more than $5 million spent by the leading Democrats and a handful of independent expenditure committees, making the race the most expensive legislative contest in California.[aside tag=\"election2020\" label=\"Election 2020\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glew is currently trailed by entrepreneur Josh Becker, former state Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, Redwood City Vice Mayor Shelly Masur, Millbrae Councilwoman Annie Oliva, and Burlingame Councilman Mike Brownrigg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a race with a number of current and former elected officials, it was Becker who came out on top with the most impressive slate of endorsements, notching support from Hill, Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing emerged as a leading issue in the crowded primary. Masur voiced the most support of any candidate for Senate Bill 50, the controversial (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated\u003c/a>) state bill to reform local zoning laws by requiring more dense construction near transit and job hubs. Oliva put the issue of homelessness front and center in her candidacy, motivated by the fact that her son was previously homeless. Brownrigg, a former U.S. diplomat, touted his record of bringing housing to underused parcels in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>South Bay Millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Further south, state Senate District 15 voters in San Jose, Campbell and Cupertino were also confronted with a crowded field of candidates who spent more than $2 million ahead of the primary, and benefited from more than $2.2 million in super PAC spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Cortese, former Federal Elections Commissions chair Ann Ravel held a slight lead Wednesday over former state Assemblywoman Nora Campos, a fellow Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese and Campos split support along familiar lines in recent legislative primaries, with Cortese garnering support from organized labor and Campos receiving outside super PAC help from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel bemoaned the influence of outside spending in the race. Her strategy centered on driving turnout in the western side of the district — home to more suburban, affluent communities like San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood and towns including Campbell and Los Gatos. In early returns, she showed that it paid off, winning or finishing second to Cortese in nearly all of the district's western precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of the Bay Area's state senators and assemblymembers are Democrats. On paper, San Jose city councilman Johnny Khamis' campaign represented the best chance to break that stronghold in 2020. He ran as an independent candidate after breaking from the Republican party in 2018 over the GOP's rightward tilt on immigration nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his strategy of appealing directly to independent voters (in a Senate district with the second-highest percentage of independents in the state) seems to have fallen flat. Khamis currently sits in fifth, behind unfunded Republican Robert P. Howell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10542570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10542570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-400x283.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-1180x835.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-960x680.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513.jpeg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glew is currently trailed by entrepreneur Josh Becker, former state Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, Redwood City Vice Mayor Shelly Masur, Millbrae Councilwoman Annie Oliva, and Burlingame Councilman Mike Brownrigg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a race with a number of current and former elected officials, it was Becker who came out on top with the most impressive slate of endorsements, notching support from Hill, Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing emerged as a leading issue in the crowded primary. Masur voiced the most support of any candidate for Senate Bill 50, the controversial (and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11798945/__trashed-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated\u003c/a>) state bill to reform local zoning laws by requiring more dense construction near transit and job hubs. Oliva put the issue of homelessness front and center in her candidacy, motivated by the fact that her son was previously homeless. Brownrigg, a former U.S. diplomat, touted his record of bringing housing to underused parcels in Burlingame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11803747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11803747\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/RS41434_005_KQED_District15Candidates_02192020_3381-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Khamis speaks during a 15th District State Senate forum at Campbell City Hall on Feb. 19, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>South Bay Millions\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Further south, state Senate District 15 voters in San Jose, Campbell and Cupertino were also confronted with a crowded field of candidates who spent more than $2 million ahead of the primary, and benefited from more than $2.2 million in super PAC spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Cortese, former Federal Elections Commissions chair Ann Ravel held a slight lead Wednesday over former state Assemblywoman Nora Campos, a fellow Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese and Campos split support along familiar lines in recent legislative primaries, with Cortese garnering support from organized labor and Campos receiving outside super PAC help from oil and gas companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ravel bemoaned the influence of outside spending in the race. Her strategy centered on driving turnout in the western side of the district — home to more suburban, affluent communities like San Jose's Willow Glen neighborhood and towns including Campbell and Los Gatos. In early returns, she showed that it paid off, winning or finishing second to Cortese in nearly all of the district's western precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all of the Bay Area's state senators and assemblymembers are Democrats. On paper, San Jose city councilman Johnny Khamis' campaign represented the best chance to break that stronghold in 2020. He ran as an independent candidate after breaking from the Republican party in 2018 over the GOP's rightward tilt on immigration nationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his strategy of appealing directly to independent voters (in a Senate district with the second-highest percentage of independents in the state) seems to have fallen flat. Khamis currently sits in fifth, behind unfunded Republican Robert P. Howell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10542570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10542570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Glazer, D-Orinda, takes the oath of office from Gov. Jerry Brown on May 28, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-800x566.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-400x283.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-1180x835.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513-960x680.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/GLAZER_9705-e1432846042513.jpeg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Nearly one week after voters went to the polls Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese late this afternoon conceded the San Jose mayoral race to Councilman Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 8:23 a.m.:\u003c/strong> All of the vote-by-mail ballot counting was completed by 8 p.m. Sunday night. Still uncounted: 14,000 provisional ballots. The tally now stands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Liccardo: 87,950 51.06 %\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cortese: 84,282 48.94 %\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Liccardo has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_26886684/san-jose-mayor-liccardos-lead-grows-thursday-cortese\" target=\"_blank\">widened his lead over Cortese\u003c/a> after the release of the latest vote totals. But at a press conference Thursday afternoon, Cortese said that he wanted to wait for all the votes to be counted before conceding the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose mayor's race is still not decided this morning. It's too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, City Councilman Sam Liccardo held a consistent 2-point lead over county Supervisor Dave Cortese. Liccardo declared victory this morning at a press conference. However, Cortese has not conceded the race yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese does not expect a winner to be declared for at least a week. He believes a handful of voters will decide who is San Jose’s next mayor. He’s calling this race \"San Jose’s Florida without the hanging chads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this morning, Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said ballots from all of San Jose's 495 polling precincts had been counted. But there are still tens of thousands of outstanding provisional and vote-by-mail ballots to tally. KQED expects an updated count on the South Bay's remaining ballots around the close of business Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/147908/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County election results trickled in\u003c/a> all night because of website and computer problems at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office. The glitches seemed to suck the air out of the election parties for both candidates, with many supporters leaving before midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo dominated the vote in West San Jose and Cortese got the majority of votes on the East Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Liccardo leading the race for mayor says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Liccardo, leading the race for mayor, says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State) \u003ccite>(Nicholas Ibarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We knew it would be a tough battle and here we are at the finish line. I think we're at the end of the tunnel,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose councilman, who has a reservoir of support from former San Jose mayors and city leaders, said the unions ran a bruising, expensive campaign against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we were taking on the machine, and right now the machine is shivering in its boots,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, who is backed by the unions and police, said it's possible the race will be decided by just a handful of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a very competitive race and it's a very diverse city. This is what happens when you get a blend of votes on different issues from around the city,\" said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two men who want to be the next mayor of the largest city in Northern California have been sparring for months in an exhausting flurry of town hall meetings, debates and forums in every San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The side that mobilizes voters the best wins the mayoral election because, in a low voter turnout year, it won't take that many votes to do it,\" said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overriding issues of the campaign were residential crime, putting more police on the streets and pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city once called \"America's safest big city,\" many residents say they've lost their peace of mind. They are demanding that the city's next mayor have solutions to reduce the residential crime plaguing neighborhoods from Willow Glen to East San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official San Jose Police Department statistics show the number of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose resident has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. Auto theft is up 51 percent. The loss of about 380 San Jose police officers in the last five years is part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a contest between two men who are viewed very differently by voters,\" said Gerston. \"Cortese is viewed more as the common man and Liccardo is viewed more as the consummate professional. Each has their reservoirs of support. Cortese has the support of many former San Jose police chiefs, and Liccardo has the support of former San Jose mayors.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, City Councilman Sam Liccardo held a consistent 2-point lead over county Supervisor Dave Cortese. Liccardo declared victory this morning at a press conference. However, Cortese has not conceded the race yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese does not expect a winner to be declared for at least a week. He believes a handful of voters will decide who is San Jose’s next mayor. He’s calling this race \"San Jose’s Florida without the hanging chads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this morning, Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said ballots from all of San Jose's 495 polling precincts had been counted. But there are still tens of thousands of outstanding provisional and vote-by-mail ballots to tally. KQED expects an updated count on the South Bay's remaining ballots around the close of business Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/147908/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County election results trickled in\u003c/a> all night because of website and computer problems at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office. The glitches seemed to suck the air out of the election parties for both candidates, with many supporters leaving before midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo dominated the vote in West San Jose and Cortese got the majority of votes on the East Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Liccardo leading the race for mayor says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Liccardo, leading the race for mayor, says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State) \u003ccite>(Nicholas Ibarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We knew it would be a tough battle and here we are at the finish line. I think we're at the end of the tunnel,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose councilman, who has a reservoir of support from former San Jose mayors and city leaders, said the unions ran a bruising, expensive campaign against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we were taking on the machine, and right now the machine is shivering in its boots,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, who is backed by the unions and police, said it's possible the race will be decided by just a handful of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a very competitive race and it's a very diverse city. This is what happens when you get a blend of votes on different issues from around the city,\" said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two men who want to be the next mayor of the largest city in Northern California have been sparring for months in an exhausting flurry of town hall meetings, debates and forums in every San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The side that mobilizes voters the best wins the mayoral election because, in a low voter turnout year, it won't take that many votes to do it,\" said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overriding issues of the campaign were residential crime, putting more police on the streets and pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city once called \"America's safest big city,\" many residents say they've lost their peace of mind. 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"content": "\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/WillonSJCrime.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tough to unite neighborhoods in a city as sprawling, diverse and economically divided as San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of residential crime appears to be doing just that this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose residents are demanding that mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese answer one big question: How do they plan to reduce a relatively high rate of home burglaries and car thefts in the city? And voters are raising it at nearly every neighborhood meeting, debate and town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Residential crime is the issue right below the surface that could be the tipping point in the San Jose mayoral election,” said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University. “Residents have a real sense of insecurity because these crimes are happening in wealthy and poor areas. When crime isn’t insulated, you sometimes see a revolt by voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What’s being done to the people in Evergreen, being done to San Jose, is not fair.'\u003ccite>Brian Tran, Evergreen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once called “America’s safest big city,” San Jose is struggling with crime in neighborhoods that once had a strong police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of emotional threat experienced is a function of the number of burglaries,” said Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and crime expert. “But also the amount of concern about burglary can feed off itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown resident Helen Chapman says she can explain why people are on edge about crime, if you walk around the neighborhood with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron behind there had his car broken into,” she said, gesturing behind her. “Peter next door on that side had his car broken into. I know there have been robberies on the other side [one street over].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta Hanchett Park is an upscale neighborhood filled with a lot of languages, young families and professionals. Chapman, who heads up the neighborhood association, points out that many of the homes are now equipped with security cameras on the outside to record burglaries and car thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see the police presence that we used to see,” she said. “You would be standing out here and you would see a patrol car going around the neighborhood. And now people have just gotten to the point of: Nothing is going to be done about it -- I have to take matters into my own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman herself bought a security camera and now has a pit bull. She says all the crime has put a cloud over the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a car that doesn’t belong in the neighborhood,” she said, “and they’re taking pictures and it might be perfectly OK for that car to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 535px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\" alt=\"(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\" width=\"535\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart-400x281.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rate per 100,000 people. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This didn’t just start. It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. George Beattie, who once headed the Police Officers Association in San Jose, said in Hayward he gets better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every officer, including those who came before and after me, says they came for the same reason -- financial security,” said Beattie, now Hayward PD’s personnel and training administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, the city lost a small number of officers after pension reform compared with what happened after the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s really going to change the area if it becomes unsafe. People are not going to want to live here anymore, which is terrible, because it is a wonderful neighborhood.'\u003ccite>Lissa Minkin, Willow Glen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese agree that San Jose needs more police officers. And each is trying to convince voters he’s the one who can make the city safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violent crime was higher when I came into office in 2007 -- and Dave Cortese was vice mayor -- than it was last year,” Liccardo said at the Santa Clara County Bench/Bar debate last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese shot back: “I think it lacks credibility to say people feel safe in their neighborhood, that we are safer than we were six, seven or eight years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters like Brian Tran just want officers to show up when they have a problem. And that’s why he was outside the San Jose City Council chambers last week with roughly 100 homeowners from the city’s Evergreen neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran asked how many people had been crime victims, and several dozen raised their hands. Last month, there were 95 reported burglaries in Evergreen. Tran’s house was ransacked in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve lived in the United States for 35 years -- first time I’m speaking out,\" Tran said. “What’s being done to the people in Evergreen, being done to San Jose, is not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran and other residents want more than rhetoric from the next mayor. They want neighborhood command centers, more police and more patrols -- whether it’s in middle-class Evergreen or affluent Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lissa Minkin of Willow Glen says the quality of life in her neighborhood is deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we know there are issues with San Jose as a whole in terms of not having enough police coverage,” Minkin said. “So I really want to see that change. Because it’s really going to change the area if it becomes unsafe. 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Chapman, who heads up the neighborhood association, points out that many of the homes are now equipped with security cameras on the outside to record burglaries and car thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see the police presence that we used to see,” she said. “You would be standing out here and you would see a patrol car going around the neighborhood. And now people have just gotten to the point of: Nothing is going to be done about it -- I have to take matters into my own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman herself bought a security camera and now has a pit bull. She says all the crime has put a cloud over the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a car that doesn’t belong in the neighborhood,” she said, “and they’re taking pictures and it might be perfectly OK for that car to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 535px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\" alt=\"(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\" width=\"535\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart-400x281.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rate per 100,000 people. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This didn’t just start. It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. George Beattie, who once headed the Police Officers Association in San Jose, said in Hayward he gets better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every officer, including those who came before and after me, says they came for the same reason -- financial security,” said Beattie, now Hayward PD’s personnel and training administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, the city lost a small number of officers after pension reform compared with what happened after the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s really going to change the area if it becomes unsafe. People are not going to want to live here anymore, which is terrible, because it is a wonderful neighborhood.'\u003ccite>Lissa Minkin, Willow Glen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese agree that San Jose needs more police officers. And each is trying to convince voters he’s the one who can make the city safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violent crime was higher when I came into office in 2007 -- and Dave Cortese was vice mayor -- than it was last year,” Liccardo said at the Santa Clara County Bench/Bar debate last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese shot back: “I think it lacks credibility to say people feel safe in their neighborhood, that we are safer than we were six, seven or eight years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters like Brian Tran just want officers to show up when they have a problem. And that’s why he was outside the San Jose City Council chambers last week with roughly 100 homeowners from the city’s Evergreen neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran asked how many people had been crime victims, and several dozen raised their hands. Last month, there were 95 reported burglaries in Evergreen. 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