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Right now there are more than 100 firms licensed to collect what those Angelenos toss out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my neighborhood you’ll see anywhere from seven to 10 trucks all driving around the neighborhood, different days and different times,” says Jackie Cornejo of West Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cornejo has been pushing for L.A. to reform its trash collection system for years as director of \u003ca href=\"www.dontwastela.com\" target=\"_blank\">Don’t Waste L.A.\u003c/a>, an environmental advocacy group. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You also have varying levels of recycling, and so some buildings will actually be contributing to improving our environment and dependence on landfills and others will not, and this will guarantee that there are standards across the board,” says Cornejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the Zero Waste Plan, L.A. will be carved into 11 \"exclusive franchise\" zones, meaning one hauler will be awarded a city contract through a competitive bidding process to work one zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haulers will also have to abide by strict trash-handling recycling rules. Right now L.A. diverts about 75 percent of its waste from landfills through recycling. That’s actually ahead of most other big cities in California, but it's short of the 90 percent diversion goal L.A. hopes to attain within a decade. And the new policy aims to do more, says L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about protecting our neighborhoods, protecting them from the Wild, Wild West of scores of trucks running down our streets spewing horrible emissions, making untold noise and destroying our streets that we’re working so hard to try and repair someday,” says Bonin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuart Waldman heads the Valley Industry and Commerce Association, an advocacy group that opposes the new rules. He agrees that L.A.’s long-standing trash collection system was a bit messy -- but it was fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happens is a business can go to multiple businesses and let those businesses compete. 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That’s probably a better approach because the lawsuits aren't just from unions. But individuals can sue when you make these changes and you can get caught in the courts for a long time. So, I think it’s really important for leaders to just tell the truth, to be blunt, and to demand that everybody come to the table -- but at the end of the day, do that together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> Speaking of truth, just a few weeks ago the Los Angeles 20/20 Commission released a report called “A Time for Truth.” It was chaired, as you know, by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Mickey Cantor, and it was very pessimistic. It found a city in decline, mired in poverty, failing schools, a long list of problems. What's your reaction to that report and its characterization of Los Angeles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCETTI:\u003c/strong> Well, I appreciate some of the criticisms. They are similar to some of things I've been saying that we need to fix. I respectfully tend to lead with my optimism, rather than my pessimism, and I think the proof is in the numbers. We had more people visit Los Angeles than ever before last year as tourists. We have more people that live here than ever before in our history. We have more students studying here than ever before in three top-25 universities, the only city in the nation to have that. So, when you look at the proof, this is clearly not a city in decline. But we have real problems that we have to face. We have to continue a path of fiscal sustainability with pension reform and, looking at our salaries and benefits, we have to make sure that we bridge the poverty gap that exists in too many neighborhoods, which is a strong priority of mine. I agree with the report about what we have to fix. 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We have more students studying here than ever before in three top-25 universities, the only city in the nation to have that. So, when you look at the proof, this is clearly not a city in decline. But we have real problems that we have to face. We have to continue a path of fiscal sustainability with pension reform and, looking at our salaries and benefits, we have to make sure that we bridge the poverty gap that exists in too many neighborhoods, which is a strong priority of mine. I agree with the report about what we have to fix. I look forward to the second report, which will give us some suggestions more than just the diagnosis. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> I wonder what you make of San Francisco. The two cities have historically had this rivalry, although I think the rivalry kind of goes one direction from north to south in a way, but we've got a situation in San Francisco now where there are protests over all of the influx of high-tech, high-paying jobs, and Google buses taking people to their jobs down in Silicon Valley, and the increase in rents, that people making a lot of money seem to be having that impact on the rental market. What do you make of a city that seems to be up in arms over so many high-paying jobs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCETTI:\u003c/strong> Well, I love San Francisco and the Bay Area has done a great job, not just at the high end, but even at the low end, of having a higher wage in general than down here. But I think it highlights how important as we develop and redevelop, that you have to always balance the good that comes with that forward movement and here in Los Angeles we were just designated by President Obama as one of the first three cities to have a \"promise zone,\" which is really looking at how we layer all of the services from public transportation to education to public safety to health, to really try to break the back of poverty and give young people an opportunity to be the next entrepreneur. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> You live in one of the most diverse cities on the planet -- I think there’s 200 languages spoken in Los Angeles, large numbers of Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Mexicans, Latin Americans, Jews, Iranians, you can go on and on and you yourself are a mixture of more than one group, part Latino, half Jewish. 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And L.A. is probably best poised to win that competitive fight in the future because of who we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> Finally, you are six months into your first term. How will you measure success in 3½ years?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>GARCETTI:\u003c/strong> We are bringing a culture of metrics and measurements to city government unlike any that I’ve ever seen before. We’re going to be very clear, what’s the crime rate, what’s the employment rate, how are we doing with our deficit and our budget, in the City of Los Angeles. But I think in the broadest terms: Have we brought our confidence back in Los Angeles? Are we building a great infrastructure and taking the capital of cars and moving into a great public transit infrastructure? Have we reinvested in our city and we believe in ourselves? 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(Robyn Beck/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Thursday 12:25 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Nearly 2,000 residents were evacuated and two homes burned in a wildfire that started early Thursday near the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora, according to the Associated Press.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three men, all in their 20s, were arrested on charges of recklessly starting the fire when they tossed paper into a campfire during dangerously dry and windy conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The huge smoke plume from a fire has spread across greater Los Angeles and out to sea, but the Federal Aviation Administration says it is not affecting air traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind-driven brush fire on the outskirts of the Los Angeles suburb of Glendora has burned about 1,700 acres and destroyed an undetermined number of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More coverage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>KTLA: \u003ca href=\"http://ktla.com/2014/01/16/firefighters-battling-brushfire-north-of-glendora/#axzz2qaSWZfbc\" target=\"_blank\">Live video\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Times:\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-colby-fire-glendora-wind-20140116,0,5340676.story#axzz2qaTklOJo\" target=\"_blank\"> 3 people in custody as wildfire north of L.A. grows to 1,700 acres\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/colby-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the latest from the Associated Press, which is running a little behind other coverage right now (note lower acreage totals):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Raquel Maria Dillon\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GLENDORA, Los Angeles County — Homes burned in a wildfire threatening neighborhoods in dangerously dry foothills of Southern California's San Gabriel Mountains on Thursday, fanned by gusty Santa Ana winds that spit embers into the city below. Residents who awakened in the predawn darkness to see flames approaching were ordered to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames in a neighborhood abutting Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora. Homes are nestled in canyons and among rugged ridges that made an accurate assessment difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 125 acres of dry brush was charred in the wilderness area about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they questioned three persons of interest detained near Colby Trail, where the fire was believed to have started. Sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Roth stressed that they were not suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notorious \u003ca href=\"http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/santa_ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Anas\u003c/a>, linked to the spread of Southern California's worst wildfires, picked up at daybreak. The extremely dry Santa Anas blow downslope and can push fires out of the mountains and into communities below. The area, which has been historically dry, has been buffeted by the winds which have raised temperatures into the 80s. The Santa Anas typically begin in the fall and last through winter into spring. A wet winter reduces fire risk, but the whole state is experiencing historically dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>TV news helicopters spotted embers igniting palm trees in residential yards as firefighters with hoses beat back flames lapping at the edges of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. Citrus College, located in the heart of Glendora, canceled classes for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several schools were closed. The Glendora Unified School District closed Goddard Middle School, which was being used as a fire department command post. District spokeswoman Michelle Hunter said 900 students attend the school, which is near the fire and within the evacuation area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 firefighters were on the scene. The Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed seven engines and three helicopters to the fire, which was reported around 5:50 a.m. (PST) and was growing rapidly. Officials added to the firefighting aircraft with a water-dropping Super Scooper plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ash rained down on the city, said Jonathan Lambert, 31, general manager of Classic Coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're underneath a giant cloud of smoke,\" he said. \"It's throwing quite the eerie shadow over a lot of Glendora.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Eric Black told KCAL-TV that he is preparing to evacuate, but he's going to try to protect his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're loading up the motorhome right now. If we need to go, we'll go.\" Black told the station. He had been using his garden hose to wet the brush around his house. \"I'm going to stay as long as I can to try to protect.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last catastrophic fire in the San Gabriel Mountains broke out in 2009 and burned for months. The flames blackened 250 square miles, killed two firefighters and destroyed 209 structures, including 89 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is in a historically dry era and winter has brought no relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Red-flag warnings for critical fire weather conditions were posted from Santa Barbara County south through Los Angeles to the U.S.-Mexico border, along the spine of the Sierra Nevada, and in areas east and north of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires that struck windy areas of the state earlier in the week were quickly quashed by large deployments of firefighters, aircraft and other equipment before the flames could be stoked by gusts into major conflagrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Large parts of Southern California below mountain passes, canyons and foothills have been buffeted all week by the region's notorious Santa Ana winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spawned by surface high pressure over the interior of the West, the Santa Anas form as the cold air flows toward Southern California, then speeds up and warms as it descends in a rush toward the coast. 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Residents who awakened in the predawn darkness to see flames approaching were ordered to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Television images showed several structures engulfed in flames in a neighborhood abutting Angeles National Forest, just north of the San Gabriel Valley community of Glendora. Homes are nestled in canyons and among rugged ridges that made an accurate assessment difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 125 acres of dry brush was charred in the wilderness area about 25 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police said they questioned three persons of interest detained near Colby Trail, where the fire was believed to have started. Sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Roth stressed that they were not suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notorious \u003ca href=\"http://meteora.ucsd.edu/cap/santa_ana.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Anas\u003c/a>, linked to the spread of Southern California's worst wildfires, picked up at daybreak. The extremely dry Santa Anas blow downslope and can push fires out of the mountains and into communities below. The area, which has been historically dry, has been buffeted by the winds which have raised temperatures into the 80s. The Santa Anas typically begin in the fall and last through winter into spring. A wet winter reduces fire risk, but the whole state is experiencing historically dry conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>TV news helicopters spotted embers igniting palm trees in residential yards as firefighters with hoses beat back flames lapping at the edges of homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glendora police said officers were going door to door ordering residents of the city of 50,000 to leave. Citrus College, located in the heart of Glendora, canceled classes for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several schools were closed. The Glendora Unified School District closed Goddard Middle School, which was being used as a fire department command post. District spokeswoman Michelle Hunter said 900 students attend the school, which is near the fire and within the evacuation area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 500 firefighters were on the scene. The Los Angeles County Fire Department deployed seven engines and three helicopters to the fire, which was reported around 5:50 a.m. (PST) and was growing rapidly. 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They also say the compounds are shedding chlorine to become less toxic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know it is breaking down, we just don't know the mechanism,\" said Judy Huang, project manager for the Palos Verdes Shelf Superfund site.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>One scientist told the Times that the seafloor is just one indicator of the toxic chemicals' presence in the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The most important information is whether fish are still contaminated,\" said Guang-yu Wang, senior scientist at the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission. \"For now, all the data are showing they are still unsafe to eat.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here's the story from the Associated Press:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LOS ANGELES — The Environmental Protection Agency has suspended planned cleanup efforts at a California site where industrial waste on the ocean floor appears to be declining naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are at a loss to explain the rapid drop of toxic chemical levels across the 17-square-mile site about 200 feet below the ocean surface and two miles off the Los Angeles County coast, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samples taken from sediment suggest more than 100 metric tons of the banned pesticide DDT and industrial compounds known as PCBs have dropped by nearly 90 percent in just five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the discovery, the EPA halted its cleanup plan and ordered a new round of tests to be completed during the next year. Researchers began collecting samples from the seafloor last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The precipitous drop needs to be explained,'' EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld told the newspaper. \"The question we're answering is: Is the DDT still there?''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Millions of pounds of the pesticide were dumped into county sewers from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. Wastewater, also contaminated with PCBs from industrial sites, emptied into the ocean and settled on the ocean floor. The area was declared an EPA Superfund site in 1996.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legal battle over the pollution ended in 2000 with Montrose Chemical Corp, other manufacturers and the county sanitation agency paying $140 million in settlements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have several theories about what's happening to the toxic chemicals.. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=785758-plaintiffs-exhibit-700-4\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-111608 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/kite.jpg\" alt=\"The original note was written on a small scrap of paper known as a kite, smuggled out of the prison and then re-copied in larger print.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003cstrong>A note that was written on a small scrap of paper known as a kite, smuggled out of prison and then recopied in larger print, lays out specific rules for Mexican Mafia members on the street. 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It also demands a firm set of rules and a way to impose them on operatives on the streets, often violent and obstreperous gang members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A secret letter allegedly sent from an inmate at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California to members of Florencia 13, a multi-generational street gang in south Los Angeles, details a covert network that has enriched the state’s most powerful prison gang, the Mexican Mafia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The note was originally written in tiny script on a small scrap of paper known as a “kite,” smuggled out of Pelican Bay, recopied and then distributed to street gang members, according to federal prosecutors who are using it as evidence in a major \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mexican-mafia-drug-cartel-20130806,0,204716.story\">crackdown\u003c/a> in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter outlines rules, or \u003cem>reglas\u003c/em>, drawn up by Mexican Mafia members for associates operating on the streets. They include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>How street gangs and their sub-groups are governed, including the election of a president and vice president by “majority votes.”\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How drug sales, prostitution and other illegal activities are organized and “taxed,” with a percentage going to gang leaders behind bars.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How disputes are settled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How assaults and murders are authorized.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How snitches and sex offenders are rooted out and punished.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_111796\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 197px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-111796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/Castellanos-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Castellanos\" width=\"197\" height=\"263\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arturo Castellanos (Photo: Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are forewarning everyone to cautiously respect these reglas and know there’s no 2\u003csup>nd\u003c/sup> chance,” reads the message, which was allegedly written by Arturo Castellanos, a convicted murderer who has been held in isolation at Pelican Bay since 1990. “We are Emeros (Mexican Mafia members) and we expect that these reglas are followed and respected by all true south-side Florencianos and Florencianas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hunger strike leader\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, Castellanos and three other inmates organized a two-month \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/30/prison-hunger-strikers-getting-by-on-gatorade-vitamins/\">hunger strike \u003c/a>over\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/prison+isolation+video\"> conditions\u003c/a> at Pelican Bay, where they and hundreds of other men have been held in special windowless cells, usually alone, for more than a decade. The action drew international attention and plaudits from a host of civil and human rights groups, including the ACLU and Amnesty International. They say conditions at Pelican Bay are unconstitutional and amount to slow torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To his supporters, Castellanos is a relentless campaigner for prisoner rights who has eschewed a history of violence to help coordinate peaceful protests behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We are Emeros (Mexican Mafia members) and we expect that these reglas are followed and respected by all true south-side Florencianos and Florencianas.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the hunger strike, including Castellanos, only agreed to call off the protest after California lawmakers promised hearings and possible legislation to address complaints about prison gang policy and isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials say conditions in the units are humane and that the severe restrictions are necessary to curtail gang communications. They allege the protest leaders have a hidden agenda — strengthening the hand of criminal groups that control drug and extortion rackets behind bars and on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prosecutors in L.A. charge Castellanos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles named Castellanos in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/797696-mexican-mafia-f13-indictment-2.html\">indictment\u003c/a> alleging a host of narcotics, firearms and fraud offenses, all carried out from his cell at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors alleged Castellanos was a Mexican Mafia member and “undisputed leader” of Florencia 13 and its associated “cliques,” and that he received payments from the gang’s illegal activities into his inmate trust account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment cites as evidence the rules allegedly written by Castellanos from his prison cell that established leadership positions within the F13’s territory in the Florence-Firestone area of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These ‘shot callers’ were then ordered to coordinate the illegal distribution of drugs and other criminal activities, to ensure that extortionate taxes were collected, and otherwise to oversee their respective portions of the gang’s territory, such as by resolving disputes both among F13 gang members and associates and with members of other Los Angeles gangs,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Turf battle with African-American rivals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other edicts allegedly issued by Castellanos guided Florencia 13 into a turf battle against rival gangs. 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More than 20 people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege Castellanos continued to discuss gang business in meetings with visitors at Pelican Bay as recently as 2011 and in the aftermath of an earlier hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate indictment released in August alleges Mexican Mafia members attempted to form an alliance with operatives from a powerful Mexican drug cartel, with approval from leaders at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://sfbayview.com/2013/we-dare-to-stand-united-with-all-racial-groups-to-say-enough-is-enough-while-cdcr-and-fbi-collaborate-to-break-our-hunger-strike/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> released by inmate advocates, Castellanos denounced the federal investigation as a “set-up” and described Florencia 13 as his “old childhood street gang.” He has also questioned why the feds only named him as an unindicted co-conspirator (Castellanos and the secret note were also mentioned in a 2007 indictment against other alleged gang members).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hernandez, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who handled an earlier Mexican Mafia investigation, said the government at that time concluded it was safer to keep Castellanos in isolation and not pull him out of Pelican Bay for court hearings in Los Angeles, which would have been required had he been indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that … Castellanos not be let out, because he holds sway over gang members to do things they would otherwise not want to do,\" Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican Mafia's influence on the streets stems in part from its power inside California jails and prisons. 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They say conditions at Pelican Bay are unconstitutional and amount to slow torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To his supporters, Castellanos is a relentless campaigner for prisoner rights who has eschewed a history of violence to help coordinate peaceful protests behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We are Emeros (Mexican Mafia members) and we expect that these reglas are followed and respected by all true south-side Florencianos and Florencianas.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the hunger strike, including Castellanos, only agreed to call off the protest after California lawmakers promised hearings and possible legislation to address complaints about prison gang policy and isolation units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State corrections officials say conditions in the units are humane and that the severe restrictions are necessary to curtail gang communications. They allege the protest leaders have a hidden agenda — strengthening the hand of criminal groups that control drug and extortion rackets behind bars and on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prosecutors in L.A. charge Castellanos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles named Castellanos in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/797696-mexican-mafia-f13-indictment-2.html\">indictment\u003c/a> alleging a host of narcotics, firearms and fraud offenses, all carried out from his cell at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors alleged Castellanos was a Mexican Mafia member and “undisputed leader” of Florencia 13 and its associated “cliques,” and that he received payments from the gang’s illegal activities into his inmate trust account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment cites as evidence the rules allegedly written by Castellanos from his prison cell that established leadership positions within the F13’s territory in the Florence-Firestone area of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These ‘shot callers’ were then ordered to coordinate the illegal distribution of drugs and other criminal activities, to ensure that extortionate taxes were collected, and otherwise to oversee their respective portions of the gang’s territory, such as by resolving disputes both among F13 gang members and associates and with members of other Los Angeles gangs,” the indictment states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Turf battle with African-American rivals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other edicts allegedly issued by Castellanos guided Florencia 13 into a turf battle against rival gangs. 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More than 20 people were killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege Castellanos continued to discuss gang business in meetings with visitors at Pelican Bay as recently as 2011 and in the aftermath of an earlier hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A separate indictment released in August alleges Mexican Mafia members attempted to form an alliance with operatives from a powerful Mexican drug cartel, with approval from leaders at Pelican Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"http://sfbayview.com/2013/we-dare-to-stand-united-with-all-racial-groups-to-say-enough-is-enough-while-cdcr-and-fbi-collaborate-to-break-our-hunger-strike/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> released by inmate advocates, Castellanos denounced the federal investigation as a “set-up” and described Florencia 13 as his “old childhood street gang.” He has also questioned why the feds only named him as an unindicted co-conspirator (Castellanos and the secret note were also mentioned in a 2007 indictment against other alleged gang members).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Hernandez, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who handled an earlier Mexican Mafia investigation, said the government at that time concluded it was safer to keep Castellanos in isolation and not pull him out of Pelican Bay for court hearings in Los Angeles, which would have been required had he been indicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was important that … Castellanos not be let out, because he holds sway over gang members to do things they would otherwise not want to do,\" Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mexican Mafia's influence on the streets stems in part from its power inside California jails and prisons. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40563\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 178px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/09/medicalmarijuanaSM.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"medicalmarijuanaSM\" width=\"178\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40563\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LOS ANGELES, CA Tim Blakeley, manager of Sunset Junction medical marijuana dispensary, shows marijuana plant buds on May 11, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images) \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Okay, medical marijuana fans, is this the study you’ve been waiting for? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RAND Corporation yesterday released a report called “Regulating Medical Marijuana Dispensaries — An Overview with Preliminary evidence of Their Impact on Crime.” (\u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR987.pdf\">\u003cstrong>Read the study here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (pdf). You can also \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201109211730/a/\">listen to the lead author\u003c/a> speak with KQED reporter Mina Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>RAND’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.rand.org/news/press/2011/09/21.htm\">\u003cstrong>press release\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> is a bit more attention-getting: “Crime Rises When Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Close,” reads the headline. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the release:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>When medical marijuana dispensaries close, crime rises in the surrounding neighborhood when compared to areas where dispensaries are allowed to remain open, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The findings challenge the common wisdom that marijuana dispensaries promote criminal activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studying crime both before and after a large number of dispensaries were shut down in Los Angeles, researchers found that incidents such as break-ins rose in the neighborhoods of closed dispensaries relative to dispensaries allowed to remain open, at least in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blocks with the closed dispensaries, the study observed crime up to 60 percent greater than comparable blocks with open dispensaries, but the effects were not apparent across a wider area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If medical marijuana dispensaries are causing crime, then there should be a drop in crime when they close,” said Mireille Jacobson, the study’s lead author and a senior economist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization. “Individual dispensaries may attract crime or create a neighborhood nuisance, but we found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this disclaimer comes at the very end: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Researchers say their findings should be interpreted cautiously, given that they studied a relatively short period of time and that the margin of error was high. But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. That’s because crime on any given block is actually pretty rare, Jacobson said, so tiny changes like one or two incidents can make the numbers look bigger than they are. “The estimated increase should be interpreted with some caution,” the paper states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, even with that potentially wide variation, the fact that crime was found to increase, not decrease, when dispensaries closed is at odds with the view of medical marijuana opponents like the California Police Chiefs Association. The organization’s Task Force on Marijuana Dispensaries wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiapolicechiefs.org/files/marijuana_files/files/MarijuanaDispensariesWhitePaper_042209.pdf\">2009 white paper\u003c/a> (pdf) that argued the following, in a section called “Ancillary Crimes”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, many violent crimes have been committed that can be traced to the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries. These include armed robberies and murders. For example, as far back as 2002, two home occupants were shot in Willits, California in the course of a home invasion robbery targeting medical marijuana.32 And, a series of four armed robberies of a marijuana dispensary in Santa Barbara, California occurred through August 10, 2006, in which thirty dollars and fifteen baggies filled with marijuana on display were taken by force and removed from the premises in the latest holdup. The owner said he failed to report the first three robberies because “medical marijuana is such a controversial issue.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to describe other violent crimes related to medical marijuana, and discusses a money laundering and organized crime connection to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that evidence is anecdotal. The RAND study’s lead author, Mireille Jacobsen, says, the report is “the first systematic, independent analysis” of the claim that dispensaries actually attract crime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An increase in crime resulting from the sudden \u003cem>lack\u003c/em> of a dispensary does seem counter-intuitive. Why might it occur? From the Times again: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers did not try to draw conclusions on why crime increased, but offered the hypothesis that dispensaries may heighten security in the areas around them because they employ cameras and guards, increase late-night foot traffic, replace illicit street sales and draw heavier police patrols.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>I asked KQED’s Michael Montgomery, who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-pot-republic/\">covered the medical marijuana issue\u003c/a> for a long time, what he thought of the study. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some opponents of the legalization of medical marijuana have argued that outlets like dispensaries that distribute the product become a magnet for crime,” he said. “However, there’s never been a lot of data to back up that assertion. So the significance of the RAND study is that we now have serious data arguing just the opposite, that outlets that legally distribute marijuana have not created an increase in crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montgomery also says the report’s findings corroborate what he’s been told over the years by police officers in San Francisco and Oakland. “They say the establishment of dispensaries has actually led to a decrease in crime. It’s true there have been robberies, killings related to dispensary operators, but if you compare that to crime associated with liquor stores, the argument is, it’s much lower.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Mina Kim asked the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for a response to the RAND study. And surprise: They are not impressed. The email response: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Concerning the City of Los Angeles, the Rand Study is deeply flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Study is the polar opposite of a scientific and measured response to verified data. It relies exclusively upon faulty assumptions, conjecture, irrelevant data, untested measurements, and incomplete results. The conclusions are therefore highly suspect and unreliable. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For confirmation, simply ask the residents in areas where dispensaries were or are located. In the end, random numbers do not tell the story, people do. Specifically, some of the shortcomings in the Study include the following:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. The City Attorney sent a cautionary letter to illegal dispensaries on May 4, 2010. The Study considered 10 days before and after June 7, 2010, which was the effective date of the City’s new ordinance. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. The 10 day time period before and after the June 7, 2010 date assumes without any substantiation that the dispensaries that received the May 4 letter remained open until June 7, closed on that date, and remained closed for 10 days. 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It is not credible to suggest that security guards at illegal dispensaries foster a sense of neighborhood safety, as the common practice of security guards at dispensaries is to remain on the dispensary premises, in contrast to security personnel hired by a community who are deliberately dispersed throughout the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update Wednesday p.m.\u003c/em> Lead author Mireille Jacobsen answers the city attorney’s critique with this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\nWe agree with the City Attorney’s Office’s comments 1-3 about the June 7th date not binding for all dispensaries. In fact we would be surprised if some did not close early and others did not defy the date. The early and late closures should add noise to the analysis and actually downward bias our estimates, i.e. make the increase look too small. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example consider a place that closed early (in May). At that location, nothing happens on June 7th, so under this methodology we would measure the impact of closure as zero. The more “early” or “late” closures there are, the more our estimates are understated. Our assumption is simply that a large share of dispensaries closed on June 7th, and to the extent that they did not, our estimates represent a lower bound on the true effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As some evidence for the noise introduced by the non-binding date, Appendix Table A.4. recodes known defiers (based on LA Times and LA Weekly reports) as open instead of closed. These estimates are slightly more precisely estimated and in some cases larger in magnitude. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Points 3 and 4 seem to suggest low compliance with the closure orders combined with fire sales or other activities in the 10 days after June 7th The combination (low compliance + firesales or in fighting) increased crime. 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But the study may help inform decisions being made by local and state officials about how to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>And from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0928-marijuana-dispensaries-20110921,0,7776989.story\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The researchers acknowledge that the results are subject to a large margin of error, so the increase in crime within less than a third of a mile could range from as low as 5.4% to as high as 114%.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/2011/09/20/rand-study-crime-increases-when-dispensaries-close\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> provides further caution: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\n“The study’s validity is limited by the length of time studied — just 21 days — and the “noise” in the data. That’s because crime on any given block is actually pretty rare, Jacobson said, so tiny changes like one or two incidents can make the numbers look bigger than they are. “The estimated increase should be interpreted with some caution,” the paper states.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Still, even with that potentially wide variation, the fact that crime was found to increase, not decrease, when dispensaries closed is at odds with the view of medical marijuana opponents like the California Police Chiefs Association. The organization’s Task Force on Marijuana Dispensaries wrote a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiapolicechiefs.org/files/marijuana_files/files/MarijuanaDispensariesWhitePaper_042209.pdf\">2009 white paper\u003c/a> (pdf) that argued the following, in a section called “Ancillary Crimes”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Throughout California, many violent crimes have been committed that can be traced to the proliferation of marijuana dispensaries. These include armed robberies and murders. For example, as far back as 2002, two home occupants were shot in Willits, California in the course of a home invasion robbery targeting medical marijuana.32 And, a series of four armed robberies of a marijuana dispensary in Santa Barbara, California occurred through August 10, 2006, in which thirty dollars and fifteen baggies filled with marijuana on display were taken by force and removed from the premises in the latest holdup. The owner said he failed to report the first three robberies because “medical marijuana is such a controversial issue.” \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The report goes on to describe other violent crimes related to medical marijuana, and discusses a money laundering and organized crime connection to boot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that evidence is anecdotal. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_28227\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/114300394.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-28227\" title=\"LAPD Give Update On Giants Fan Beating Investigation\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/114300394-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of 300 billboards showing a 'wanted' poster for two suspects wanted for the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Times \u003ca href=\"http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/05/suspect-dodger-stadium-bryan-stow-beating-new-tattoos.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports \u003c/a>that the L.A. Police Department has identified a man arrested this morning as a suspect in the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow as Giovanni Ramirez, 31. The Times says Ramirez has been booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on $1 million bail. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That disclosure came shortly after L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck repeatedly declined to name the suspect at a press conference at Dodger Stadium—the scene of the March 31 attack that left Stow in a coma. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck told reporters that a tip from a parole agent led to the suspect. The Times expands on that disclosure:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>Things fell into place last week when another parolee was detained as a possible suspect in the beating, according to the source. Detectives determined that that man had not been involved in the attack, but the detention led several parole agents to discuss the case amongst themselves. One of them voiced his suspicion that a different parolee under his supervision might be involved, the source said. It is unclear whether the parole agent had passed on his suspicions to police immediately after he met with the suspect and was simply reiterating them last week or whether he had neglected to say something after the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, the parole agent called the parolee back in for another meeting last week. When he arrived, the agent noticed that the parolee had recently added several tattoos which covered most of his neck, the source said. That led authorities to suspect that the man was trying to cover up an older tattoo on his neck that witnesses had described to police. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, detectives showed photo lineups that included the suspect to three witnesses. All three identified the man as one of the attackers, the source said. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Times also reported that the man in custody had at least three prior convictions dating back to 1998: for attempted robbery, robbery, and firing a weapon in a public place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's audio, in two parts, of the Los Angeles police press conference. Part 1 features Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Chief Beck. Part 2 features L.A. City Councilman Ed Reyes and Beck. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part 1\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/lapd-stow-part1.mp3|titles=Los Angeles Police press conference (part 1): Arrest in Bryan Stow attack]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Part 2\u003c/strong>[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/lapd-stow-part2.mp3|titles=Los Angeles Police press conference (part 2): Arrest in Bryan Stow attack]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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