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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/gustavo-dudamel\" target=\"_blank\">Gustavo Dudamel\u003c/a> is the artistic director and conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, known for his wild curly hair and his passionate conducting style. We caught up with Dudamel to talk about his youth orchestra's first-ever statewide tour, which runs Oct. 23-30, with stops in Southern California, the Central Valley and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289389916\" 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>\u003cstrong>Welcome to the show, Maestro. Is that what to call you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, but I prefer that you call me Gustavo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You founded the \u003ca href=\"http://www.laphil.com/education/yola\">Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA)\u003c/a>, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It’s a music education program that provides instruments and training for about 800 kids from underserved communities in Los Angeles. Tell me about the kids in YOLA.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s inspired by El Sistema, a program that we have in Venezuela. I’m a result of this beautiful, beautiful musical, artistic social program. For 10 years, [YOLA has] developed many things, especially the personality of these children, their belief in life. This is the beautiful thing that music gives to them. We are very happy we are doing our first tour, after 10 years. It’s a good way to celebrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FveDFyqznG8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You still direct an orchestra in Venezuela, although you’ve shied away from weighing in on the current political crisis there. Until recently when you made some \u003ca href=\"http://files.constantcontact.com/d3003c0e401/82558dde-3e34-497b-adb9-01f7ae362ec8.pdf\">comments\u003c/a> at a White House ceremony. Tell us what you said.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, in times of crisis, the first thing people cut is art, music, cultural things for children. People don’t understand that art is a very important element of human beings. It’s beauty, it’s creativity. Of course, we are living in very difficult times in the world. In my country, it’s a very difficult economic and political time. But we have to keep working, and I think El Sistema is a symbol of this hope of the country. And I’m sure things will get better, but we have to keep playing, in our case, with our instruments, building our country, building a better world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Your comments generated a lot of \u003ca href=\"http://www.camelloparlante.com/2016/09/29/la-dura-respuesta-de-gabriela-montero-al-discurso-de-dudamel/\">criticism\u003c/a> on Twitter and elsewhere from people who thought you were being too insensitive to the fact that many people in Venezuela are having trouble getting food and meeting basic needs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Absolutely. You know, I have family living there. They are suffering the same things. But the thing is, you have to keep working. I’m a person that works. I don’t like to talk. I prefer to work and build things. I’m not a politician, my dear, I’m a musician, I’m an artist. Of course, I’m a citizen. But what I can do is spread the message of music and art as a very important element of humanity. This is the thing that I do. I’m with my country, with all the people that are suffering. But what I can say is that we will get out of this difficult moment. But keep working and keep dreaming, because nobody can kill our dreams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part of your dream here in California is to make classical music more accessible. How do you do that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We are an orchestra that has two great venues, Disney Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. At the Bowl, we can have 18,000 people every night. So it’s beautiful, the amount of people that have access to classical music. Tickets are less expensive, some of them only a dollar. And with all the programs we have here for young people, for children, for new music, I think our doors are really open to new audiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You recently got to conduct part of John Williams' soundtrack for the latest \"Star Wars\" movie, \"The Force Awakens.\" What was that like?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, amazing. Imagine, knowing the film and this music since I was a child. By the way, my son is a big admirer of \"Star Wars,\" so I took him to the session. It was amazing. I’m so thankful and grateful to have John Williams as a friend. When he called me, I was like, ‘Are you sure John, you are not joking?’ He said, ‘No, I would love to give a surprise to the orchestra.' It was a great experience. I’d love to repeat it again someday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You mentioned your 5-year-old son, Martin. You travel around the world, you’ve got this grueling schedule. How do you juggle it all and make time for him?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I open time. I try to be a good father. When I’m here in Los Angeles, I take him every morning to school. He comes on tour with me sometimes. He goes to Venezuela with his mom, with me, we have all the family there. It’s not the amount of time you spend with them. 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As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. He plans to add two more firefighting magnet programs next year. \"My vision for the future is that we develop a feeder pool so that we can set (the students) on the right course for whatever they do life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrazas knows that, in all likelihood, only a small percentage of these students are likely to end up as firefighters or EMTs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I look at the bigger picture,\" the chief adds. \"If we don't hire them as firefighters, we are going to develop better citizens. We are going to help them, hopefully, pursue education. Go to college, the military. Whatever they decide to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's 8:30 a.m. and the sun is already heating up the artificial turf at Banning High School's football field. Some 70 ninth- and 10th-graders line up on their stomachs for pushups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of these kids, the \"pushup ready\" pose looks like a cross between an aborted yoga position and a nap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Come on! Butts down, hips off the ground, shoulders over your hand!\" barks Los Angeles Fire Capt. Eddie Marez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One, sir!\" the sleepy students shout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Didn't say 'up' yet. Start all over!\" Marez yells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students, dressed in blue T-shirts and shorts that say \"LAFD Academy,\" try again in unison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most students don't make it to 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning workout at this school in L.A.'s Wilmington neighborhood is part of two new LAFD magnet school programs. The department hopes to inspire future firefighters or emergency medical technicians — and recruit more women and minorities — in a department that remains nearly 97 percent male and about 50 percent white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, L.A. \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/story/trying-change-fdnys-longstanding-lack-diversity/\">isn't alone\u003c/a>. Nationally, the firefighting ranks are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nfpa.org/news-and-research/fire-statistics-and-reports/fire-statistics/the-fire-service/administration/firefighting-occupations-by-women-and-race\">largely white and overwhelmingly male\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We provide a better level of service to the public when we walk into somebody's home for a medical call, and if they see a female or a Hispanic or an Asian person, they can connect with us better,\" says L.A. Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas. \"It's not only a challenge for the Los Angeles Fire Department, it's a challenge for all fire departments: We are all competing to hire from a very small population of females\" who want to join the profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're trying to excite students about a career in firefighting or emergency response, it doesn't hurt to fire up Engine 38 and simulate battling a fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the parking lot near Banning High's football field, Marez barks: \"Let's go ladies, let's put this fire out!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117233\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-23_slide-7e60b16f0dcfae113b41d53edeee97dc524956ae-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gail Sonoda (R), an instructor and firefighter with the Los Angeles Fire Department, teaches young cadets how to work a hydrant. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Melgoza, 14, and a friend get ready to let rip with a large fire hose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You got about 100 pounds here between the two of you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, God!\" Melgoza says, apprehensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're gonna be just fine,\" the veteran fire captain cautions. \"Open it up nice and slow.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls tighten their grip on the hose. As the water shoots out, they pull the large nozzle back slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It felt awesome! This is something I've wanted to do for a while,\" Melgoza says afterward. \"Pretty heavy. I think it weighs more than me!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melgoza, a freshman, says she's interested in a career as a first responder. Maybe fire, maybe law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask her if she's concerned that it's a male-dominated field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No,\" she says quickly. \"There is a lady trying to become president now. No one thought that could happen. And I think girls have the same opportunity to do anything guys can do. I mean, we have a firefighter right here that's a woman!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about Gail Sonoda, an instructor — and firefighter — here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something like this can be very empowering for young females,\" Sonoda says. It can build a foundation of confidence, she adds, \"that they can do something guys can do, not only firefighting but anything else they set their minds to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Banning High, 21 of the 74 firefighter cadets are female. Across town at Wilson High — the other LAFD magnet program — one-quarter are female.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117236\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/firefighter_class_sel-13_slide-1ec3e0dd9321e7a146fa6d57b095d18974d49eff-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students in the LAFD's new magnet school program race with fire hoses during a morning workout at Banning High. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"OK, who's next?\" Sonoda asks a group of girls huddled around a fire hydrant for a lesson on how to use a hydrant wrench. \"Who's the strongest here?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The instructors offer the sweaty students a tough-love mix of PE teacher and drill sergeant as groups race each other across the field carrying heavy fire hoses: \"Run run run! Good job. Hustle up!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workouts aren't for show. It's a huge part of this program, which includes CPR, first aid, and fire science and technology classes, in addition to the regular high school curriculum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact is, Sonoda says, when adult recruits wash out of the L.A. fire academy -- especially females -- it's usually during the strenuous boot camp, where candidates have to wrestle ladders, tools, equipment and hoses, wearing full work gear during simulated fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hands-on portion, it's a lot of skills involved,\" Sonoda explains. \"And if they are able to be strong physically,\" then learning those skills early is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magnet program, \"encourages me to do better in school, to stay focused,\" says 15-year-old Wendy Gomez. For now, anyway, she's determined to forge a career as a first responder. \"If I become a firefighter I'll be the first one in my family. They're very supportive. [They] tell me, 'Don't give up.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in the program who may end up later trying to get into the department's training academy \"are going to have a huge leg up on other candidates by knowing everything the way L.A. City does what they do,\" Capt. Marez says. \"We're introducing tools and equipment, our department's organizations and our terminology.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11117294\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11117294\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a fire truck.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-1180x1194.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/FireTriptych-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoses piled neatly on a firetruck at Banning High School's firefighting program in Los Angeles; students line up for exercises; helmets stacked on the bumper of a firetruck. \u003ccite>(Roxanne Turpen/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What's not clear is whether the program's academic quality will match the technical and physical sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The preliminary results show that the grades -- across the board -- have increased with these kids,\" says Terrazas, \"because they feel part of a team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The operative word there is preliminary. It's far too soon to tell. The LAFD's two magnet programs have been up and running only since August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under \u003ca href=\"State%20law%20forbids%20governments%20from%20setting%20hiring%20quotas%20for%20women%20and%20minorities,%20and%20city%20officials%20say%20programs%20such%20as%20the%20new%20magnet%20school%20are%20the%20best%20hope%20of%20increasing%20future%20diversity%20by%20enticing%20more%20members%20of%20underrepresented%20groups%20to%20apply.\">California law\u003c/a>, government agencies can't set hiring quotas for women and minorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Terrazas sees these fire magnet programs as key to boosting diversity in the ranks. He plans to add two more firefighting magnet programs next year. \"My vision for the future is that we develop a feeder pool so that we can set (the students) on the right course for whatever they do life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terrazas knows that, in all likelihood, only a small percentage of these students are likely to end up as firefighters or EMTs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I look at the bigger picture,\" the chief adds. \"If we don't hire them as firefighters, we are going to develop better citizens. We are going to help them, hopefully, pursue education. Go to college, the military. Whatever they decide to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Los Angeles County's growing homeless population includes one group that’s not so visible: immigrants who came to the United States to earn a better living but couldn’t, and are ending up without shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On any given day at a Cypress Park Community Job Center, located in the parking lot of a busy Home Depot, some of the day laborers waiting for work don't have a home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of them are staying on the streets,\" said Luis Valentan, who manages the day labor center, which is run by Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California, \u003ca href=\"http://idepsca.org/\">a community nonprofit\u003c/a>. \"We know a couple of workers that sleep in the back of a truck or under a bridge, or in a park,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/284292368\" 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>Among the day laborers is a 51-year-old man who goes by Alonso. He did not want to use his full name because he doesn't have legal status and he does not want this family to know he's homeless. He said he's been that way for about four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"S0uDkOER4VT30ZR60ZpzaYElt0IUuC09\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. He said he tried staying for a time downtown, near Skid Row, where all the services are, but he found that frightening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s lots of drugs, lots of alcoholism, lots of perdition, lots of vandalism,\" said Bejerano, who has worked as a handyman. \"People don’t have any money, so they attack others to get what they want. It’s dangerous living downtown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Cypress Park, Alonso said one reason he camps in the hills is to avoid the dangers of the streets. He said he's been thinking lately about heading back to Mexico after 16 years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he hasn't talked to his parents since he’s been on the street. At first, he told them everything was OK. Then he stopped calling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Instead of making them happy to hear from me, it would make them upset,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's been years now since he had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What really breaks my heart is that I don’t know if my dad is alive, if my mom is alive, if my siblings are OK,\" Alonso said. \"I love them very much ... and I’m afraid they will think that I am ingrate, that I don’t want to help them, that I forgot about them -- and it’s not like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that if things don’t get better within a couple of years, he’ll head home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sleep on the street, not in the open street, but someplace where I have a tent,\" said Alonso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso said he camps high up in Elysian Park, about a 15-minute walk from the Home Depot. He shows up for work looking clean and presentable. He said he tries to use public showers when he can, but other times, washes in the L.A. River or in the nearby Arroyo Seco.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. ... There are no more decent rents.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I bathe when it rains and it is clean,\" he said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alonso has struggled since the recession. Until about four years ago, he was able to rent a room nearby. But the work dried up, and the money wasn't enough. He stopped sending money home to his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who came to the U.S. to find work have found themselves on similar footing, Valentan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's more about survival,\" Valentan said. \"This gentrification that is happening in Los Angeles, it is leaving pretty much everybody without opportunities. Like rents are very expensive now. There is no way for a worker that is not working every day to pay a decent rent. There are no more decent rents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100566\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11100566 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established The Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IntakeCoord-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rigoberto Bejarano (L) talks with intake coordinator Salvador Mendoza at Proyecto Pastoral. The group established the Guadalupe Homeless Project in 1988. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lately, Valentan and the job center staff have referred a growing number of workers to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dolores-mission.org/\">Dolores Mission\u003c/a> in Boyle Heights. The shelter is unique in that it caters to Spanish-speaking immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, we have seen a huge increase in the number of people coming to us, and newly homeless, since 2009,\" said Cynthia Sanchez, director of Proyecto Pastoral, the nonprofit that runs the shelter at Dolores Mission Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church shelter first opened its doors nearly 30 years ago to house refugees fleeing war-torn Central America. Now, it shelters a different crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of them are day laborers. They work in construction or they work in restaurants, they work in landscaping,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep inside the church sanctuary and several others sleep in adjacent buildings. A smaller women's shelter opened a year and a half ago, housing mostly older women who work in domestic jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who wind up on the street are single men, Sanchez said. They are here on their own, without families in the U.S., and often send money back home to relatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Shadow' Population\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others who work with the homeless immigrants see them as a shadow population within Los Angeles' growing homeless ranks. Since last year, the number of homeless in Los Angeles County rose by almost 6 percent over the past year to 46,874 people, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/05/04/60286/la-homelessness-up-6-percent-over-last-year/\">a census of the homeless\u003c/a> released in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The immigrant homeless are part of this population, but there are barriers to assisting them. Many are reluctant to seek services or go to shelters, according to local day labor centers and others who work with them. They said they are afraid of others on the street who are mentally ill or use drugs. Some from foreign countries are fearful of the black homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is also a sense of shame, Sanchez said. Some among the immigrant homeless are reluctant to accept help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, they don’t see themselves as being homeless or as needing shelter, but rather as needing support so they can work,\" Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lack of legal status in the U.S. also makes them reluctant to step forward, whether to report a crime or to enter a shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when they come here to the program, and we start putting their information into the computer, they ask: Where does this information go? Is it going to affect us?\" said Salvador Mendoza, who handles intake at Dolores Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials said those who lack legal status also have other issues accessing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the most part, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for public benefits, that being federal housing subsidies, or CalFresh benefits, formerly known as food stamps,\" said Phil Ansell, director of Los Angeles County's new \u003ca href=\"http://priorities.lacounty.gov/homeless/\">Homeless Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said that's not to say U.S. citizens and legal residents who are homeless have it much easier. He said there isn't enough federal Section 8 housing assistance to go around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overall challenge is that rents are high and that wages are low,\" Ansell said. \"And that is the same challenge that faces most other homeless families and individuals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ansell said he hoped recent minimum wage and anti-wage theft laws might help. Wage theft -- when employers withhold wages or benefits owed to an employee -- is rampant in day labor and other low-wage industries that attract immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez at Dolores Mission said for now, their best solution for moving people into permanent housing is to place them with roommates in private rentals. But rising rents lately have made that difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Getting Off the Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every night at the Dolores Mission, after dinner, the cots go up inside the church, even where the altar stands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gets pushed to the side to allow space for eight cots to go up on the altar,” Sanchez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100573\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/DoloresMission-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolores Mission, where evening meals are served at Proyecto Pastoral. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Twenty-six men sleep in the church. Others sleep in adjacent buildings. Altogether the men's shelter houses 45. There is also a smaller women's shelter that opened a year and a half ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One recent evening, a few of the men gathered around the TV before dinner. Among them was 59-year-old Andres Gonzales Perez, a relatively recent arrival to the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for two months,\" Gonzales said. \"It is the first time I am here at a mission, unfortunately.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales said it's the first time he has been homeless. He used to work as a baker, but became sick with a lung ailment that needed treatment and couldn’t keep working. He tried unsuccessfully staying with his brother. About three months ago, he wound up on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was very cold,\" Gonzales said. \"I got an ugly cough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rigoberto Bejerano has been on the street longer. 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"content": "\u003cp>Heavy scrutiny surrounding officer-involved shootings has some law enforcement leaders rethinking firing at moving cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those agencies is the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which recently changed its policy on the issue. The LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the country, with about 10,000 full-time sworn personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/11/10/455502419/in-los-angeles-piecing-together-the-numbers-on-police-shootings\">KPCC\u003c/a> has been tracking the use of force by sheriff's deputies as part of an ongoing investigative series called \u003ca href=\"http://projects.scpr.org/officer-involved/\" target=\"_blank\">Officer Involved\u003c/a>. It found almost every driver or passenger shot by deputies was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Berry was one of these unarmed drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/480147373/492203180/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last summer, Berry sat in his BMW on his home street in Lakewood — a city south of Los Angeles — as sheriff's patrol cars blocked him from driving away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven deputies swarmed the vehicle, as a neighbor recorded the scene on her smartphone, and people called out to \"Johnny,\" urging him to exit the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John, a 31-year-old restaurant manager, was in the middle of a schizophrenic episode.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His brother, Chris Berry, says John wasn't armed and wasn't dangerous. In fact, Chris had called deputies for help, perhaps in getting his brother to a psychiatric hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Chris was shocked when officers pulled out a baton, then a Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were way too aggressive for someone who doesn't understand what's going on,\" Chris Berry says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suddenly, John's car lurched forward, then back. The deputies declined to comment for this story, but told homicide investigators they were scared they'd be run over. That's why they shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Berry says there was no reason to shoot and kill John. His brother suffered from a severe mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've known my brother long enough he didn't mean to hurt anybody. He was terrified,\" Chris says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shoot Or Get Out Of The Way?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Berry's case raises many issues. 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"content": "\u003cp>As drought-stricken residents of Los Angeles’s hottest neighborhoods replace thirsty lawns with native plants, pavers and bare soil, new research has shown how their local climates could begin tipping back in the direction of their desert-like origins.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Nighttime lows help people recover daily even as heat waves persist.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-heat-wave-temperature-records-los-angeles-20160619-snap-story.html\">region beset this year\u003c/a> by drought and powerful heat waves, the widespread adoption of drought-proof landscaping is expected to bring warmer days — and much cooler nights. Overall, experts say the changes would help to protect residents from heat waves, which are being made worse by global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, naturally prone to drought, is enduring the fifth year of a historically bad one. Droughts are projected to intensify in California as temperatures rise, \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/california-snowpack-returns-fears-future-20166\">reducing mountain snowpacks\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-bully-california-drought-19354\">soil moisture\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/california-drought-heatwave-and-warming-20513\">potentially altering weather patterns\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cut water use, utilities and agencies have been helping Californians swap out their lawns for drought-hardy native landscapes. The L.A. Department of Water and Power says more than 24,000 of its water customers have worked to make the switch since 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can see the beginnings of some real change in landscaping practices,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.environment.ucla.edu/people/alex-hall\">Alex Hall\u003c/a>, a professor at UCLA who studies regional and global climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Done at a large enough scale, University of Southern California research \u003ca href=\"http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL069658/abstract\">published in Geographical Research Letters\u003c/a> this month shows how the landscaping changes could affect the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_959261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/temps.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-959261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/temps.png\" alt=\"Summertime temperatures in Los Angeles since the 1940s.\" width=\"720\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/temps.png 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/08/temps-400x236.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summertime temperatures in Los Angeles since the 1940s. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Worsening heat waves are among the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/extreme-heat-climate-change-19641\">clearest and deadliest effects\u003c/a> of climate change. The research focused on July temperatures, when heat waves in southern California can be oppressive, taking their heaviest tolls on the elderly, the sick and the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were interested in understanding these impacts on a summer month,” said \u003ca href=\"http://cee.usc.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-directory/georgeban-weiss.htm\">George Ban-Weiss\u003c/a>, who researches relationships between local and global climate and who led the new study. “One of our concerns is the health consequences of extreme heat, so we wanted to be sure to study a hot baseline period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hotter Days, But Much Cooler Nights\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using models, Ban-Weiss and a colleague found that replacing lawns and grassy parks with native bushes and other drought-hardy landscapes would increase daytime temperatures throughout the metropolitan area by 1.3°F on average. That’s largely because irrigation water acts like sweat, cooling down landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study helps to inform a ‘what if’ thought experiment, in which a future L.A. morphs back toward its original state, free of irrigation, driven by worsening Western droughts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings may also be relevant to other cities where soils are wettened during summer more by sprinklers and hoses than by rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”pwCrebyEW6F5MuCRM6WDVi6bVHjjmJKt”]In the suburban San Fernando Valley, where temperatures are among the highest, and where the natural environment was described in the 1880s as resembling \u003ca href=\"http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2013/10/myth-of-a-desert-metropolis/\">that of a desert\u003c/a>, daytime temperatures were projected to rise the most — by 3.4°F.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would seem to be bad news. Greenhouse gas pollution has warmed the planet’s surface \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/world-flirts-with-1.5C-threshold-20260\">nearly 2°F\u003c/a> on average, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/west-coast-warming-natural-variability-18067\">natural weather cycles\u003c/a> have caused the West to warm faster than most other places in recent decades. Compounding the problem is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/urban-heat-islands-threaten-us-health-17919\">urban heat island effect\u003c/a>, with concrete causing L.A. and other cities to warm faster than rural regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there was a nocturnal twist to the findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you stop irrigating, you’re making the system go back to the arid system that it really is,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~aswann/Main.html\">Abigail Swann\u003c/a>, a University of Washington ecoclimate researcher. “If you’ve spent any time in arid places, you know that they cool very quickly at night and they also heat very quickly during the day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nighttime Lows Help People Recover\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, the modeling projected a cooling effect from the changing landscapes that would be exceed the daytime warming effect. Across L.A., nighttime lows were projected to fall by an average of nearly 6°F if irrigation suddenly ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a key finding, because nighttime lows help people recover daily even as heat waves persist. From a public health perspective, the findings point to a “net positive,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.mailman.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/plk3\">Patrick Kinney\u003c/a>, a professor who directs Columbia University’s climate and health program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s generally thought that nighttime minimum temperatures are more important for health risks than daytime highs during extreme heat events,” Kinney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the water used in Los Angeles is piped in from other counties and regions, and most of that is used to water lawns and gardens. The new findings show that cutting back on irrigation in the low-rainfall metropolis could do more than just save water and the energy needed to transport it — it could save lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate Central\u003c/a> is an independent organization that researches and reports on climate change.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Inside a sprawling warehouse just outside downtown Los Angeles, a line of seamstresses sew high-end blouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This city is still the garment capital of the U.S., even though it employs a fraction of the workers it once did. Since 1990, the number of U.S. apparel manufacturing jobs has fallen by 80 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The charts and the statistics are really frightening,\" says Ilse Metchek, head of the California Fashion Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek, who has worked in the industry for half a century, says she has seen firsthand the devastating effects free trade agreements have had across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely terrible,\" Metchek says. In the years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, she says, \"we lost 50,000 jobs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ogEEtkzYhViFlujx91cH6ZEMBUHKgqMx\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"u4tdcuO5VFtP3TFxhjneL6FsrGDArVmv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lately all the talk in politics has been about what would happen to the country if America were less engaged with the world — and if cutting off trade could, indeed, bring jobs back. And nowhere in the country have the effects of trade — both positive and negative — been more visible than in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek says trade has been a one-way street for American workers — a flood of cheap imports. And in terms of exports? There are almost none. She couldn't name a single company that makes clothes in L.A. and sends them overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/19/478553872/report-says-trade-deal-would-boost-u-s-economy-but-opponents-say-no\">Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a> would make things even worse because it sets rules for 12 countries, but not China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an open door for China to ship to the United States, duty-free,\" Metchek says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she doesn't like the anti-trade rhetoric that has dominated this campaign from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're going to start making things again. We're going to start up our manufacturing businesses,\" Trump says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinton says, \"I believe we can still make it in America and export from America.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Metchek finds that kind of talk naive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just because you close trade doesn't mean factories are coming back,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The apparel factories that do remain in the U.S. make \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/01/456027751/from-pocket-lining-to-jeans-a-niche-means-survival-in-la-fashion\">high-end fashion\u003c/a> — $300 designer jeans, $160 shirts. But as for the clothes most people wear, Metchek says there is no way you could make them cheaply enough in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the biggest problem is, of course, that we have a concept that if we make it here the world would want it,\" she says. \"The world is not waiting for American product. We're kidding ourselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least in apparel. But in more advanced manufacturing, it's a different story. The world often \u003cem>is \u003c/em>waiting for made-in-USA goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11067464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11067464\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1920x1279.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/nation-engaged-sugarman002_custom-0909546f8143a6fe48896d8392ca33a254c11fc4-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTC Global uses reels of carbon in manufacturing its conductors, which improve efficiency in power lines. The company exports more than 80 percent of its products. \u003ccite>(Maya Sugarman/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In Orange County, a carbon fiber core rolls through a long machine as a worker gives one last quality control check. This is the factory of CTC Global, which makes conductors that improve efficiency in power lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Operating Officer Marv Sepe says more than 80 percent of the company's products are exported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So anything that would hamper our ability to sell into foreign markets would impact us greatly,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CTC Global is typical of the factories that now dominate Southern California. It's not making T-shirts, but rather high-value products that get shipped all over the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's also lean, with just 130 workers. That's why it's cost-effective for the company to still make its conductors in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've done a very good job of automating the process,\" Sepe says. \"We can have a minimal number of people producing the maximum amount of product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's not a popular thing to say, but most economists agree: \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/10/489490830/presidential-campaigns-are-talking-around-the-robot-in-the-room\">It's automation\u003c/a> — not trade — that's to blame for most of the job losses in manufacturing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn't play as well on the campaign trail as what Trump says: \"Other people are taking your jobs and our jobs are disappearing. They're going to other countries.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she's considered less protectionist than Trump, Hillary Clinton came out last year \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/10/07/446672839/clinton-breaks-with-obama-to-oppose-trans-pacific-partnership\">against the Trans-Pacific Partnership\u003c/a>, the largest trade agreement in history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I know about it, as of today I am not in favor of what I have learned about it,\" Clinton has said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sepe is still holding out hope the treaty will be ratified. He says it would help open new markets to sell his conductors, so he is dismayed that both Clinton and Trump oppose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are not selling enough product in the United States and you need to go into foreign markets, why would you cut that off?\" Sepe says. \"Ninety-five percent of the world's consumers are outside the United States. We need to go out and compete worldwide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And competing means California shouldn't close its doors to bringing in goods from other countries, says Kevin Klowden, an economist at the Milken Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Imports are still more important because we are the main gateway for manufactured goods from China into the United States,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When operations at West Coast ports \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/14/386199926/west-coast-port-closures-are-hitting-several-industries-hard\">ground to a halt\u003c/a> last year because of a labor dispute, L.A.'s economy took a big hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klowden says it's proof of how important trade has become, supporting a vast number of workers who transport and process all that stuff we buy from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the slowdown had turned into a full strike, it potentially could have pushed the Los Angeles area into recession,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if the U.S. got into a trade war with China, that's exactly what he worries would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 Southern California Public Radio. 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"title": "He Died at 32, But a Young Artist Lives on in LA's Underground Museum",
"headTitle": "He Died at 32, But a Young Artist Lives on in LA’s Underground Museum | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/491843106/491848126\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a sweltering night in July\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>and Los Angeles’ \u003ca href=\"http://theunderground-museum.org/\">Underground Museum\u003c/a> is packed. “It’s crowded and hot, but it feels really good,” says vistor Jazzi McGilbert. Like much of the crowd, McGilbert is young, creative and African-American. She drove across town to this unassuming, bunkerlike storefront for an event that combines art and activism. The museum is one of her favorite spots in Los Angeles. “I like what it stands for,” McGilbert says. “… And the art is incredible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"David Hammons made his 1993/2016 work In the Hood out of a found sweatshirt and fishing wire.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12001276\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-1920x1441.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2548-1-cf5350d16514566ef23d5aff6d2e509c3f1c6329-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hammons made his 1993/2016 work In the Hood out of a found sweatshirt and fishing wire. \u003ccite>(Photo: The Underground Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Underground Museum aims to promote cutting-edge African-American art, but inclusiveness is also part of its mission. “This is a black space,” a message on the museum door reads, “but all are welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When artist Noah Davis founded the museum, he wanted to do two things: sidestep the existing gallery system, with its rigid hierarchies and gatekeepers, and bring world-class art to a neighborhood he likened to a food desert, meaning no grocery stores \u003cem>or\u003c/em> museums. Davis died a year ago Monday of a rare form of cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A beyond audacious request \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Davis began working on the museum, he was a rising art world star with powerful friends, like Helen Molesworth, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Molesworth remembers when Davis first asked for her help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He wasn’t asking for, you know, someone to help him with the marketing … he was asking us for the art,” she says. In other words, he was asking the museum to lend him whatever he wanted from its valuable collection — a beyond audacious request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one had ever asked like that before,” Molesworth says. She was intrigued by the idea that an institution like hers could help bring art to people who might not otherwise see it. But she didn’t just hand over MOCA’s art — first she helped Davis upgrade the Underground Museum’s security and HVAC system to protect the art. Then she left it alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know how to make a museum,” Molesworth says. “I don’t know how to make an underground museum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noah Davis did. When he died from cancer, he was only 32 years old. He left instructions for the next 18 shows, but they’re mostly just concepts, titles and lists of the works he wanted to display. In the wake of his death, Megan Steinman joined as the museum’s director. She understood their goal of challenging what museums can be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001281\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Young-artist-piece-800x313.jpg\" alt=\"The three faces that appear in Kerry James Marshall's 2002 Heirlooms and Accessories are taken from a 1930 photograph of a double lynching in Marion, Ind. You can hear Marshall talk about this work here.\" width=\"800\" height=\"313\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12001281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Young-artist-piece.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Young-artist-piece-400x157.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/Young-artist-piece-768x300.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three faces that appear in Kerry James Marshall’s 2002 Heirlooms and Accessories are taken from a 1930 photograph of a double lynching in Marion, Ind. You can hear Marshall talk about this work \u003ch href=\"https://vimeo.com/45605233\" target>here. \u003ccite>(Photo: The Underground Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/h>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Museums are gorgeous,” Steinman says, “but they also come with this idea of how you’re supposed to be and how you’re supposed to stand and how loud you’re supposed to be and if you can talk or not.” Also: whether you can afford the entrance fee and how hard it is to get there. “And then you get there and it’s like massive walls and these cavernous spaces,” she says, “and it’s like all these things that are telling your mind how to think before you even get to the artwork itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artwork at the Underground Museum is cutting-edge and often conceptual. One work features wallpaper that shows a lynching. Noah Davis hung a photograph on top of it — a haunting, real-life portrait of a lynching victim’s wife in the American South from 1949.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The look in her eyes — that grief, that pain — you can just feel her heart and her soul in this photograph,” says Karon Davis, Noah Davis’ widow and the museum’s co-founder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12001278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Noah Davis hung a 1949 portrait of the wife of a lynching victim on top of Robert Grober's 1989 <em>Hanging Man/Sleeping Man</em> screen-printed wallpaper.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12001278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/20160331-_dsc2486_wide-b8cc163831f379481ad127380434697d26d2f4cd-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Noah Davis hung a 1949 portrait of the wife of a lynching victim on top of Robert Grober’s 1989 \u003cem>Hanging Man/Sleeping Man\u003c/em> screen-printed wallpaper. \u003ccite>(Photo: The Underground Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Noah’s magnum opus’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karon Davis is also Los Angeles royalty: She’s the daughter of actor Ben Vereen and part of an electric circle of black artists and intellectuals. (That circle includes her late husband’s brother, Kahlil Joseph, who co-directed Beyoncé’s visual album \u003cem>Lemonade\u003c/em>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Underground Museum is resolutely down to earth — like a community center that just happens to show art by giant stars, like Kerry James Marshall. (Marshall is about to have a major retrospective at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, but he lent some personal work to the Underground Museum show.) There are yoga classes and a spacious outside garden where people in the neighborhood are encouraged to hang out and read. It’s called the Purple Garden because, Karon Davis explains, her late husband thought everyone should be treated like royalty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinman says Noah Davis’ legacy is what’s keeping the Underground Museum alive. “This space is Noah’s magnum opus. It is his biggest installation work; it’s his gift. 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(We're not using last names to protect the identities of the minors).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It actually distracts your mind from being where we actually are for a couple of hours,\" she said. \"So that's why I like coming here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/276811087\" 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>This building used to be a very undesirable destination. Just around the corner from the mural is a long hallway with 12 cells, each about the size of a parking spot, with just a bed and a small window. In the past, girls could be sent out of the dorms and into isolation, for a few hours or up to 30 days -- only rarely allowed out into this common area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Los Angeles County, home to the nation's largest juvenile justice system, is phasing out the use of that kind of solitary confinement for minors. And so the probation department has been tasked with reimagining the special housing units, or SHUs, that were used to keep young offenders in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural project at Camp Scott is one of several arts projects that have been enlisted to help enact that transformation. The change is part of an effort across the county to make juvenile detention centers less punitive and more therapeutic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our question was to like, let’s reimagine something that’s more positive for what they see in here,\" said Joe Galarza, an artist with the Armory Center for the Arts, who worked with the girls on the mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"All 25 women at Camp Scott were required to participate in the mural project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young inmate at Camp Scott works on the mural project. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the girls at Camp Scott, about 25, are required to participate in this mural project. In recent months, staff at the facility painted the gray cinderblock walls pink and blue and added pink chairs and a television. This spring the mural project got underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists taught the girls drawing and painting basics and worked with them to plan the design of the mural. It has a road and a tree with round blossoms that will carry the words \"hope\" and \"perseverance.\" On one branch, a bird is perched, ready to take flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reimagining the SHU\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted in May to effectively end the practice of placing incarcerated youth in solitary confinement, citing the many studies about the psychological and physical damage of isolation. Under the new guidelines, isolation is to be used only in extreme cases and kids should be monitored and have access to a mental health worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hope is it’s a learning experience, as opposed to just strictly resolving the issue by locking the kid up behind a locked door and not having to deal with them,\" said interim probation chief Cal Remington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Around the corner from the mural is a row of 12 solitary confinement cells like this one.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Around the corner from the mural is a row of 12 solitary confinement cells like this one. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new rules took effect at Camp Scott and two other facilities on May 30, and will go into effect at the rest of the facilities by the end of September. The current SHUs are to be converted into \"cooling down\" areas. Probation is actually hoping to rebrand them as “hope centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as this shift was getting underway, a cooperative of arts organizations was launching an initiative to provide programming to juvenile offenders year-round. And now, the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network is working with probation and the young offenders to reimagine the SHU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I appreciate the arts community and what they’ve done,\" Remington said. \"And the timing was good in relation to coming up with these cool down areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Under the new guidelines, isolation is to be used only in extreme cases, and kids should have access to a mental health worker.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Murals are going up in the four facilities with SHUs. At one site, artists are planning to coat the walls with chalkboard paint so kids can draw, write and reflect there. In another facility, kids are reflecting on the experience of solitary in creative writing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation staff are undergoing training in how to diffuse situations and to be sensitive to the trauma kids in the system have faced. As solitary confinement is phased out, some officers worry about safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course I think it’s a good idea to change the rules around it, but I don’t think they should eliminate it,\" said Natonya Cantlope, who works at Camp Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she worries about the elimination of a SHU because there are times when inmates get violent and need to be separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not normal, but it goes down,\" said Cantlope. \"Them taking [solitary confinement] away from us completely? No, because it’s a lot of people that could get hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"As L.A. County moves away from solitary confinement, probation officer Natonya Cantlope worries about safety when violence breaks out.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As L.A. County moves away from solitary confinement, probation officer Natonya Cantlope worries about safety when violence breaks out. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Feierman, associate director of the Juvenile Law Center, said concerns like this are a normal part of the change process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We operate in the universe of what we know, so when you haven’t seen a facility working effectively without solitary confinement, it becomes really hard to imagine it,\" said Feierman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have ended solitary confinement for minors in recent years. Feierman says that positive intervention techniques are key to ensuring that the transition away from the practice goes smoothly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So [that means] good programming, thoughtful responses when youth are having trouble, full schedules with things that young people want to do,\" Feierman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Than Murals\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere are three juvenile halls, where young offenders are held before sentencing, and 12 camps currently open in L.A. County. Artists with the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network are working in 10 of those sites -- aiming to keep schedules full by providing visual art, drumming, theater, poetry, creative writing classes and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network is made up of the Armory Center for the Arts, Actors' Gang, Coalition for Engaged Education, InsideOut Writers, Rhythm Arts Alliance, Street Poets Inc., Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, WriteGirl/Bold Ink Writers and Jail Guitar Doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re so eager to integrate arts both as a diversion and also as part of a successful re-entry strategy for the kids coming out,\" said Kaile Shilling, executive director of the network. \"Putting arts front and center, before, during and after helps.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040638\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040638\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting-800x529.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Galarza, a teaching artist with the Armory Center for the Arts, worked with the girls at Camp Scott juvenile detention center for 12 weeks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting-800x529.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting-1180x780.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/JoePainting-960x635.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Galarza, a teaching artist with the Armory Center for the Arts, worked with the girls at Camp Scott juvenile detention center for 12 weeks. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The programming is taking place in the afternoon or evening hours in 11-week cycles over the coming year. The county is field testing the programs at these sites, with an eye toward a new juvenile facility that will open in the spring. Campus Kilpatrick will have a \"trauma-informed\" approach, focusing less on discipline and more on rehabilitation. It will not have a SHU at all. And the L.A. County Arts Commission is working with probation to embed arts at the core of the curriculum as part of the rehabilitation process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve seen over the years the ebb and flow of different theories of how to handle kids who are detained,\" said Sherry Gold, justice deputy for Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who co-authored \u003ca href=\"http://supervisorkuehl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/5.3.16-Solitary-Confinement-Motion-REVISED.pdf\">the motion restricting the use of solitary\u003c/a>. \"It’s my opinion that it’s about time that we’re recognizing that arts are a very important part of a program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Camp Scott, the mural project is starting to change the atmosphere on the campus. One girl said that the painting is relaxing and helps her blow off steam. Another said that having the mural in the SHU makes the space feel more peaceful and less like a prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since participation was required at the facility, artists Galarza and Nery Gabriel Lemus said that not all of the girls were thrilled to be there. Some started to look forward to it over time, and picked up skills to improve their painting and drawing technique. But even for those who never got into it, there were valuable lessons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything is interconnected,\" said Lemus. \"Sometimes it’s not just about art per se. Sometimes it’s just about being able to focus on something and get your mind off of the negativity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anaceli is set to go home in June and she says while she’s painting, she dreams of turning her life around once she’s out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Engaging yourself in it makes you think a lot of positive things like, do I want to continue my life like the way I was living? Or do I want to become clean and live my life like a normal person?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The girls completed the mural in early June and theater workshops are set to start there later this summer.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Los Angeles County, home to the nation's largest juvenile justice system, is phasing out the use of that kind of solitary confinement for minors. And so the probation department has been tasked with reimagining the special housing units, or SHUs, that were used to keep young offenders in isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mural project at Camp Scott is one of several arts projects that have been enlisted to help enact that transformation. The change is part of an effort across the county to make juvenile detention centers less punitive and more therapeutic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our question was to like, let’s reimagine something that’s more positive for what they see in here,\" said Joe Galarza, an artist with the Armory Center for the Arts, who worked with the girls on the mural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040631\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040631\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"All 25 women at Camp Scott were required to participate in the mural project.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/MuralWork1-1-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young inmate at Camp Scott works on the mural project. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of the girls at Camp Scott, about 25, are required to participate in this mural project. In recent months, staff at the facility painted the gray cinderblock walls pink and blue and added pink chairs and a television. This spring the mural project got underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The artists taught the girls drawing and painting basics and worked with them to plan the design of the mural. It has a road and a tree with round blossoms that will carry the words \"hope\" and \"perseverance.\" On one branch, a bird is perched, ready to take flight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reimagining the SHU\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThe L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted in May to effectively end the practice of placing incarcerated youth in solitary confinement, citing the many studies about the psychological and physical damage of isolation. Under the new guidelines, isolation is to be used only in extreme cases and kids should be monitored and have access to a mental health worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hope is it’s a learning experience, as opposed to just strictly resolving the issue by locking the kid up behind a locked door and not having to deal with them,\" said interim probation chief Cal Remington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040633\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Around the corner from the mural is a row of 12 solitary confinement cells like this one.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/SolitaryCell-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Around the corner from the mural is a row of 12 solitary confinement cells like this one. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The new rules took effect at Camp Scott and two other facilities on May 30, and will go into effect at the rest of the facilities by the end of September. The current SHUs are to be converted into \"cooling down\" areas. Probation is actually hoping to rebrand them as “hope centers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as this shift was getting underway, a cooperative of arts organizations was launching an initiative to provide programming to juvenile offenders year-round. And now, the Arts for Incarcerated Youth Network is working with probation and the young offenders to reimagine the SHU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I appreciate the arts community and what they’ve done,\" Remington said. \"And the timing was good in relation to coming up with these cool down areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Under the new guidelines, isolation is to be used only in extreme cases, and kids should have access to a mental health worker.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Murals are going up in the four facilities with SHUs. At one site, artists are planning to coat the walls with chalkboard paint so kids can draw, write and reflect there. In another facility, kids are reflecting on the experience of solitary in creative writing classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Probation staff are undergoing training in how to diffuse situations and to be sensitive to the trauma kids in the system have faced. As solitary confinement is phased out, some officers worry about safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Of course I think it’s a good idea to change the rules around it, but I don’t think they should eliminate it,\" said Natonya Cantlope, who works at Camp Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she worries about the elimination of a SHU because there are times when inmates get violent and need to be separated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s not normal, but it goes down,\" said Cantlope. \"Them taking [solitary confinement] away from us completely? No, because it’s a lot of people that could get hurt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11040636\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11040636\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"As L.A. County moves away from solitary confinement, probation officer Natonya Cantlope worries about safety when violence breaks out.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/ProbationOfficer-960x641.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">As L.A. County moves away from solitary confinement, probation officer Natonya Cantlope worries about safety when violence breaks out. \u003ccite>(Dan Tuffs/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jessica Feierman, associate director of the Juvenile Law Center, said concerns like this are a normal part of the change process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We operate in the universe of what we know, so when you haven’t seen a facility working effectively without solitary confinement, it becomes really hard to imagine it,\" said Feierman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have ended solitary confinement for minors in recent years. 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