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(Robyn Beck/AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amid the horrific accounts of the Isla Vista mass murders and the ugly misogynistic resentments expressed by alleged killer Elliot Rodger, one of the startling facts to emerge in the incident is that Santa Barbara sheriff’s deputies met with Rodger on April 30 to determine if he posed a threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers checked on Rodger at his apartment “at the request of state mental health officials, acting on an expression of concern by his mother,” says the New York Times. “They left after a calm and polite Mr. Rodger assured them that there was nothing to worry about. The officers reported that Mr. Rodger was shy and had told them that he was having difficulties in his social life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The encounter with the deputies is described by Rodger in the 134-page autobiographical \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/05/25/us/shooting-document.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manifesto\u003c/a> he sent out shortly before the attack. The document, which lays out the plans for a killing spree, is a bitter recounting of his life and the deep resentments he had built up, especially toward the women who continuously rejected him, he said. Here’s an excerpt about the meeting with the deputies, which occurred after he had posted disturbingly bitter \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgsBey7KX53-0qm-FSGTOyQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videos\u003c/a> online:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After only a week passed since I uploaded those videos on YouTube, I heard a knock on my apartment door. I opened it to see about seven police officers asking for me. As soon as I saw those cops, the biggest fear I had ever felt in my life overcame me. I had the striking and devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what [I] was planning to do, and reported me for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that was the case, the police would have searched my room, found all of my guns and weapons, along with my writings about what I plan to do with them. I would have been thrown in jail, denied of the chance to exact revenge on my enemies. I can’t imagine a hell darker than that. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case, but it was so close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, someone saw my videos and became instantly suspicious of me. They called some sort of health agency, who called the police to check up on me. The police told me it was my mother who called them, but my mother told me it was the health agency. My mother had watched the videos and was very disturbed by them. I don’t suppose I’ll ever know the full truth of who called the police on me. The police interrogated me outside for a few minutes, asking me if I had suicidal thoughts. I tactfully told them that it was all a misunderstanding, and they finally left. If they had demanded to search my room … That would have ended everything. For a few horrible seconds I thought it was all over. When they left, the biggest wave of relief swept over me. It was so scary.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong style=\"color: #2b2b2b;font-size: 16px\">Rodger Visited by Sheriff’s Deputies in April\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown discussed the visit by his deputies on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were asked by the mental health department to conduct a welfare check with Elliot Rodger to determine if he was a danger to himself or anyone else. This was prompted by a call by a third party; the mental health department contacted one of his relatives who had expressed some concern about his well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our deputies went to check on (him) and contacted him outside his residence. They found him to be rather quiet, timid. He was polite and courteous. He was able to convince the deputies that this was all a misunderstanding. That although he was having some social problems, he was probably not going to be staying in school and returning home. He was able to make a very convincing story that there was no problem, that he wasn’t going to hurt himself or anyone else. And that he just didn’t meet the criteria for any further intervention at that point. Obviously looking back on this, it’s a very tragic situation, and we certainly wish we could turn the clock back and change some things….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that after reading Rodger’s manifesto, he believed the youth was able to “fly under the radar” in terms of his “likelihood of propensity to hurt anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you read his autobiography and manifesto that he wrote,” Brown said, “it’s very apparent that he was able to convince many people for many years that he didn’t have this deep underlying obvious mental illness that manifested itself in this terrible tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Rodger had purchased three handguns in the year before the incident, and because he had never been “institutionalized or committed for an involuntary hold,” the weapon sales were not flagged. When asked if anything in the visit should have prompted a check of Rodger’s weapons purchases, Brown said, “I think they actually, probably spoke to him about weapons, but I’m not sure a weapons check was conducted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Public Radio KPCC \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/05/26/44370/isla-vista-massacre-did-sheriffs-deputies-miss-opp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to a pair of mental health experts\u003c/a> about \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=wic&group=05001-06000&file=5150-5155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 5150\u003c/a> of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code, which potentially could have allowed for authorities to detain Rodger involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking for body language, they’re looking for how you look at the officer,” said CarolAnn Peterson, who teaches at the USC School of Social Work. “[Taking note] if I’m kinda looking down or I’m looking at other directions. But if I’m looking directly at you — I’m answering the questions, I seem very calm, nothing seems out of the ordinary — law enforcement may not think that there’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla Jacobs, board member at the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, told KPCC that “waiting for danger means the danger can lead to horrendous tragedy as we have seen over and over again.” Doris Fuller, executive director of the center, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elliot-rodgers-family-was-en-route-to-intervene-at-time-of-rampage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News\u003c/a>: “Once again, we are grieving over deaths and devastation caused by a young man who was sending up red flags for danger that failed to produce intervention in time to avert tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC said the sheriff’s office did not respond to a request to discuss any training on mental health issues the department receives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rodger’s Mental State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Peter Rodger, Elliot’s father, told news organizations that the younger Elliot was highly functioning but had been diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/asperger/detail_asperger.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asperger’s syndrome\u003c/a>, an autism spectrum disorder. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/parents-nightmare-failed-race-to-stop-killings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-isla-vista-main-20140526-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> spoke to neighbors and friends of Rodger’s and his family, most of whom described a sense of isolation and depression in Elliot. Both papers describe an incident at a party last summer resulting in one of the three contacts Rodger had with police. Rodger “tried to shove women off a ledge where they had been sitting,” according to the L.A. paper. “Several men intervened and pushed him off the ledge instead, and he injured his ankle.” Police interviewed him afterward, but no action was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper sums up any warning signs of potential violence in Rodgers this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It’s tempting, now that the finale has been written, to think that someone could have stepped in before Rodger killed six people and wounded 13 Friday before apparently killing himself, that the law could have been crafted to raise a red flag, to compel someone to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to interviews with Rodger’s acquaintances, law enforcement officials and mental health professionals, all that was known about the 22-year-old college student was that he was terribly sad. And being sad is not a crime, nor the sort of mental state that would, alone, cross a legal threshold requiring official response.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>George Woods, a San Francisco psychiatrist, told the paper that Rodger was in an early stage of pre-psychosis, in which the patient can commonly mask symptoms. “They aren’t telling people their business,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 134-page screed, Rodger mentioned he had been under the care of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&ei=B5aDU4DUDrGziAKvr4AY&ved=0CBcQ1S4#q=dr.+charles+sophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Charles Sophy \u003c/a>of Beverly Hills. Sophy had prescribed Risperidone, Rodger wrote, an anti-psychotic drug that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a694015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institutes of Health \u003c/a>describes as treating “mania (frenzied, abnormally excited or irritated mood) or mixed episodes (symptoms of mania and depression that happen together).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodger wrote that he would not take the drug and that he never saw Sophy again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, \u003ca href=\"http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/24/shooting-suspect-elliot-rodgers-misogynistic-posts-point-to-motive/\">writes\u003c/a> that an online trail of Rodger’s posts on the Internet “suggests an ideology behind his lust for revenge.” The center \u003ca href=\"http://splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-isla-vista-shooting-suspect-posted-racist-messages-on-misogynistic-website/\">details\u003c/a> racist comments Rodger made on PuaHate.com, which the SPLC describes as “an online forum known for its misogyny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A friend of Rodger’s mother told the\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/parents-nightmare-failed-race-to-stop-killings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> New York Times\u003c/a> that Rodger’s mother read the manifesto detailing his murderous plans just 10 minutes before it began. She called her ex-husband, Rodger’s father, and then 911. Both parents raced separately to Isla Vista, but when they arrived it was too late.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Obviously looking back on this, it’s a very tragic situation, and we certainly wish we could turn the clock back and change some things….\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that after reading Rodger’s manifesto, he believed the youth was able to “fly under the radar” in terms of his “likelihood of propensity to hurt anyone else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you read his autobiography and manifesto that he wrote,” Brown said, “it’s very apparent that he was able to convince many people for many years that he didn’t have this deep underlying obvious mental illness that manifested itself in this terrible tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said Rodger had purchased three handguns in the year before the incident, and because he had never been “institutionalized or committed for an involuntary hold,” the weapon sales were not flagged. When asked if anything in the visit should have prompted a check of Rodger’s weapons purchases, Brown said, “I think they actually, probably spoke to him about weapons, but I’m not sure a weapons check was conducted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Southern California Public Radio KPCC \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/05/26/44370/isla-vista-massacre-did-sheriffs-deputies-miss-opp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke to a pair of mental health experts\u003c/a> about \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=wic&group=05001-06000&file=5150-5155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Section 5150\u003c/a> of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code, which potentially could have allowed for authorities to detain Rodger involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re looking for body language, they’re looking for how you look at the officer,” said CarolAnn Peterson, who teaches at the USC School of Social Work. “[Taking note] if I’m kinda looking down or I’m looking at other directions. But if I’m looking directly at you — I’m answering the questions, I seem very calm, nothing seems out of the ordinary — law enforcement may not think that there’s a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carla Jacobs, board member at the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, told KPCC that “waiting for danger means the danger can lead to horrendous tragedy as we have seen over and over again.” Doris Fuller, executive director of the center, told \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elliot-rodgers-family-was-en-route-to-intervene-at-time-of-rampage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News\u003c/a>: “Once again, we are grieving over deaths and devastation caused by a young man who was sending up red flags for danger that failed to produce intervention in time to avert tragedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC said the sheriff’s office did not respond to a request to discuss any training on mental health issues the department receives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rodger’s Mental State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Peter Rodger, Elliot’s father, told news organizations that the younger Elliot was highly functioning but had been diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/asperger/detail_asperger.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asperger’s syndrome\u003c/a>, an autism spectrum disorder. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/26/us/parents-nightmare-failed-race-to-stop-killings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-isla-vista-main-20140526-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">L.A. Times\u003c/a> spoke to neighbors and friends of Rodger’s and his family, most of whom described a sense of isolation and depression in Elliot. Both papers describe an incident at a party last summer resulting in one of the three contacts Rodger had with police. Rodger “tried to shove women off a ledge where they had been sitting,” according to the L.A. paper. “Several men intervened and pushed him off the ledge instead, and he injured his ankle.” Police interviewed him afterward, but no action was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper sums up any warning signs of potential violence in Rodgers this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It’s tempting, now that the finale has been written, to think that someone could have stepped in before Rodger killed six people and wounded 13 Friday before apparently killing himself, that the law could have been crafted to raise a red flag, to compel someone to act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to interviews with Rodger’s acquaintances, law enforcement officials and mental health professionals, all that was known about the 22-year-old college student was that he was terribly sad. And being sad is not a crime, nor the sort of mental state that would, alone, cross a legal threshold requiring official response.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>George Woods, a San Francisco psychiatrist, told the paper that Rodger was in an early stage of pre-psychosis, in which the patient can commonly mask symptoms. “They aren’t telling people their business,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 134-page screed, Rodger mentioned he had been under the care of \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/webhp?tab=ww&ei=B5aDU4DUDrGziAKvr4AY&ved=0CBcQ1S4#q=dr.+charles+sophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Charles Sophy \u003c/a>of Beverly Hills. Sophy had prescribed Risperidone, Rodger wrote, an anti-psychotic drug that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a694015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Institutes of Health \u003c/a>describes as treating “mania (frenzied, abnormally excited or irritated mood) or mixed episodes (symptoms of mania and depression that happen together).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodger wrote that he would not take the drug and that he never saw Sophy again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, \u003ca href=\"http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/24/shooting-suspect-elliot-rodgers-misogynistic-posts-point-to-motive/\">writes\u003c/a> that an online trail of Rodger’s posts on the Internet “suggests an ideology behind his lust for revenge.” The center \u003ca href=\"http://splcenter.org/blog/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-isla-vista-shooting-suspect-posted-racist-messages-on-misogynistic-website/\">details\u003c/a> racist comments Rodger made on PuaHate.com, which the SPLC describes as “an online forum known for its misogyny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143784928\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132025\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/jeremiah.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-132025\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/jeremiah.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy of Lisa Moore, his mother)\" width=\"270\" height=\"509\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore. (Courtesy of Lisa Moore, his mother)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> year and a half after a Vallejo police officer shot and killed 29-year-old Jeremiah Moore, the dead man's parents are struggling to understand how and why it happened. Police say Moore was shot after he threatened officers with a rifle — an account contradicted by a witness whom investigators have yet to interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department and Solano County District Attorney's office still haven't disclosed basic details of their investigation, including Moore's autopsy and results of a toxicology report that could show whether he had drugs in his system when police shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore say, most of all, they want to understand why police found it necessary to shoot someone they say was kind, curious and trying to overcome the social isolation that went along with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They owe us the truth. They really do,\" Lisa Moore says. \"I want to know the truth. Why did you shoot my son? Be honest with us. Tell us what happened. Because I don't buy the story that he put a gun on you. I do not buy it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"d4cf6531df2c11f7c3ead511a0a31b3c\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The events that led to Moore's killing began unfolding about 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, when people on a quiet Vallejo street were awakened by loud banging and shouts. The noise was coming from 2504 Alameda Drive, the house next door to the home of Marvin Clouse. He grabbed a video camera and went outside to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says he saw his neighbors, Jason Jessie and Jeremiah Moore, smashing the windows of their own cars, parked in front of their house. The men were naked, and Jessie was calling out commands to Moore. Lisa Moore says her son's disorder gave him a tendency to follow commands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope this is right, I’m destroying everything. Destroy it, Jeremiah. I want you to destroy it,\" Jessie can be heard saying on Clouse's video. \"Windshields are the soul. Windshield is god, break it. Break through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clouse's video is too dark to see more than occasional flashes of light. In the audio, however, you can hear Jason Jessie giving orders to Jeremiah Moore, and Moore responding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143584765\" 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>The disturbance continued well after midnight, and Clouse eventually taped Moore telling Jessie, “You start the fire.” At this point, Clouse says, he ran inside to call the Fire Department. Police officers, responding to multiple calls from the public, arrived as smoke began pouring from the upstairs bedroom window of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">A Vallejo Police Department press release\u003c/a> said officers arrived at the scene at 1:33 a.m. and confronted a naked man, who turned out to be Jason Jessie, inside the residence. Then, the release said, a second naked man — Moore — \"appeared from the back of the interior of the house with a rifle. The man with the rifle placed the barrel of the rifle directly against an officer’s stomach. Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle. The man with the rifle fell to the floor and was taken into custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse by this time was back outside with his camera rolling. His recording captured the sound of gunshots, a 10-second pause, then an officer repeatedly ordering someone to \"show me your hands.\" Then two more shots ring out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The content of this audio is graphic. These events happened at some point later than the first audio excerpt, after Clouse turned off the video camera and then turned it back on. We have made no internal edits in this excerpt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887\" 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>Moore was pronounced dead at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, just blocks from his home, at 2:04 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie was arrested, and charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. Those charges were later dropped. No arson charges were filed, despite fire investigators' conclusion that the blaze was intentionally set with gasoline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse wasn't the only neighbor watching the scene at 2504 Alameda Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Alvarado lived across the street and says he was playing a computer game when he heard the commotion coming from the Moore-Jessie residence. Alvarado says he went to an upstairs window, where he had a clear view of Moore's and Jessie’s front yard and porch, and he saw police arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado describes seeing a naked man standing in the doorway across the street when the man was shot by police positioned at the bottom of the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jaime Alvarado, neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He says the man was waving his arms strangely — a flailing that he couldn't seem to stop. He says he could clearly see the man's hands, and there was nothing in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard was the officers told him to stop moving, and he can’t stop moving,” Alvarado says. “He starts shaking. That’s when the officer gets, like, scared. He got the gun and shoots him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands,” Alvarado says. “The officer who was firing the shots, he was before the stairs, and the man who got shot, he was on top of the steps.” He estimated the officer was 8 to 10 feet away from the man he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says police then dragged Moore away from the house, “like a piece of garbage. They don’t even check if he was alive or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the next morning he tried to tell an officer what he had seen, but was told to go back inside his house. Since then, he has repeated his account to three separate private investigators working for Moore’s family, but says he has not been interviewed by district attorney's investigators or police detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5ac40e12cf857685f25285a8c42b025d\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Vallejo Police Department and the Solano County District Attorney's office say it's a matter of policy to canvass a neighborhood for witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said late last month he’d be happy to take Alvarado's statement. The DA's office confirmed to KQED that while Alvarado and one of the DA's investigators have since spoken on the phone, no statement had been taken as of Tuesday afternoon, April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Jessie moved to Arizona in December 2012. He says now he doesn’t remember Moore having a gun when he was shot, but he doesn’t remember much about the shooting. He says his mind has “shut out” the traumatic incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to watch it,” he says. “I was covered in blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says he doesn’t remember and can’t explain the men's behavior leading up to the shooting, but he insists he and Moore used only marijuana, and he thinks Moore’s toxicology report will prove that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Moore’s face contorts with grief when she hears Alvarado’s description of her son’s waving hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was Jeremiah, when he was nervous,” says Moore, who lives in Santa Rosa with her husband. She thinks her son’s autism spectrum disorder played a direct role in the shooting. His family always knew Moore to strictly follow rules and orders, like those given by Jessie and also by police. She says his nervous twitching or flailing could easily have been mistaken for a quick hand movement just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Jeremiah Moore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family photos show a young man with short hair and an easy, almost goofy smile. Lisa Moore says as an infant, her son was a wonderfully well-behaved baby who would sit quietly in a playpen for hours. It was years before the parents realized their first child was a little \u003cem>too\u003c/em> calm, and Lisa Moore says he was eventually diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jeremiah Moore grew, his different way of seeing the world isolated him from his peers. Lisa Moore said he began speaking late, and his difficulty communicating would frustrate him, but he was never violent. She choked up remembering a time her son asked her why he never got invited to parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore started attending community college, “all of a sudden he just blossomed,” says his father, Eugene Moore. He pursued his interest in working with his hands and was well on his way to becoming a journeyman plumber when he was shot. (His union made him a journeyman posthumously.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-131847 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041-640x409.jpg\" alt='Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor Jeremiah Moore was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" ' width=\"368\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor, Jeremiah Moore, was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People who knew Jeremiah Moore remember his fascination with electronics and antique light bulbs. He made friends with people with similar interests in an online lighting community, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse remembers Moore’s eyes sparkling when he saw an old fluorescent light bulb in his neighbor’s shed. “He said, ‘Ooooh, can I have that?’” Clouse says. He says Moore was always kind and had been helping him work on his truck in the days before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jeremiah was a good worker,\" Clouse says. \"He’d get up at 2 in the morning to drive down to San Jose and work as a plumber, and he was always fixing his cars and they were fixing computers. I could come over with any questions, and he was a really kind, caring person. And I really miss him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore met Jason Jessie online and moved into Jessie's rented house on Alameda Drive less than a year before the shooting. His parents say it was Moore's first serious romantic relationship, and he kept it fairly private. Sometimes the couple would fight, and Moore would call his mother to talk it out, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says the only gun in their house was an antique .22-caliber rifle from the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says the police could have helped Moore. \"My feeling about the police is that I believe they murdered my neighbor Jeremiah,\" Clouse says, \"and they came in like a SWAT team attacking someone who was not a threat, someone who actually needed to be helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All police departments in Solano County have signed on to the district attorney’s “Officer Involved Fatal Incident Protocol,” which dictates a joint investigation by local police detectives and DA investigators. Of the 21 completed investigations since 2008, most were finished within a year. Only two have taken longer than Moore’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of those shootings were by Vallejo police, and six occurred in 2012, a year after the city emerged from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303221630/b\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> following the recession. Perhaps the most \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/21/pressure-mounting-in-vallejo-police-fatal-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">notorious\u003c/a> incident occurred seven weeks before Moore's shooting. Witnesses say a police officer got up on the hood of a car and fired at Mario Romero and another man sitting inside the car, but the police and the DA investigation concluded the officer did not fire from the hood of the car. Romero died, and the DA and U.S. Attorney's office cleared the officer of any wrongdoing in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo criminal defense attorney Dan Russo is familiar with the Moore shooting, and he says he has serious doubts about the police department’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if this shooting was a legitimate use of deadly force, that’s something that should have been figured out a year ago,” he says. “This is why people distrust public agencies, and more important than that, Vallejo is in a really stressful situation. The last thing you want to do is lose community support, and when an investigation into a shooting takes a year and a half, without any kind of pronouncement, without any kind of information to the parties, it’s corrupting to everything. It creates a bad environment in the city. It makes the cops’ job harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says he’s used to homicide cases that are filed within days of an incident, and that much of the information Moore’s parents are still seeking in order to understand what happened that night is normally made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo also says he doesn’t see the Moore shooting as an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&q=select+col4%2C+count()+from+1qVUrvNfuc5-Mcg2FrED6ejTFYbMXPi5hUTL-hv60+group+by+col4+order+by+col4+asc+limit+10&viz=GVIZ&t=COLUMN&uiversion=2&gco_forceIFrame=true&gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3Anull%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%5D&gco_useFirstColumnAsDomain=true&gco_isStacked=false&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%2C+%22textStyle%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23222%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%229%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D%2C+%22slantedTextAngle%22%3A30%2C+%22slantedText%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_legend=none&gco_title=Investigations+of+Officer-Involved+Shootings+Completed+by+the+Solano+County+DA+since+2008&gco_series=%7B%220%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%230000ff%22%7D%7D&gco_titleTextStyle=%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23000%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%2216%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_fontName=Arial&width=640&height=300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody is going to have to take responsibility for the fact that because of cutbacks to the police department, police are less supported,” he says. That means there are fewer officers to cover each other, he says, and creates a situation where there's little accountability when it comes to shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of all adds up to an environment where you’re not telling anybody what’s happening, and you have what I consider in my experience of being in this town for 37 years, a really unusual environment where you have a large number of police shootings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus says there are a lot of theories about the increase in officer-involved shootings in 2012. He says violent crime was up substantially, and the department was down to 84 sworn officers from 158 when the recession began in 2008. That puts Vallejo’s officer-to-population ratio at about half the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a huge safety concern for officers,” he says. “But more importantly, it (the low police presence) creates a huge safety concern for citizens of this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus says quality of life in Vallejo has suffered, and officers who elected to stay with the struggling department in the struggling city are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano District Attorney du Bain says his office’s review of the Moore shooting is close to completion. He says that sometimes the long investigations could strain public trust, but that the cases are taken very seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve insisted these reviews be conducted by a chief deputy district attorney, not a line attorney, and that they be approved by me,” he says. “Our reviews are thorough, and I’ve tried to ensure that we handle these cases very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus adds, \"I can certainly tell you that I would assume that all of the DA’s findings have all been completed, and now they’re just in the stage of putting their case together, along with ours, and ensuring that every aspect of the incident has been addressed. It’s not uncommon for cases such as this, especially a case such as this that is completely complex. A lot of people may say, 'What makes it so complex?' There’s a lot of moving parts to it. There’s a lot of extenuating issues that were involved in this. And for those that were involved with the case and read what was publicized in the paper. So it’s not uncommon for these cases to take a little bit longer to come to a conclusion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Civil Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore say they haven’t been able to find an attorney to take their case, so they’re representing themselves in a wrongful death lawsuit against Vallejo and its police department. They both think the strange circumstances leading up to the shooting are scaring attorneys from taking the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning as we’re going, and it’s going to be frustrating because what if we screw up and I can’t do anything about my son’s death?” Eugene Moore says. “That’s my biggest fear. If they’re in the wrong and I screw up, I can’t do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo city attorney recently filed a motion to dismiss the family’s claim on the grounds that their complaint is devoid of underlying facts about the shooting. The motion could be heard in early May.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Break through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clouse's video is too dark to see more than occasional flashes of light. In the audio, however, you can hear Jason Jessie giving orders to Jeremiah Moore, and Moore responding.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143584765&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143584765'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disturbance continued well after midnight, and Clouse eventually taped Moore telling Jessie, “You start the fire.” At this point, Clouse says, he ran inside to call the Fire Department. Police officers, responding to multiple calls from the public, arrived as smoke began pouring from the upstairs bedroom window of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.vallejo.ca.us/common/pages/DisplayFile.aspx?itemId=31056\" target=\"_blank\">A Vallejo Police Department press release\u003c/a> said officers arrived at the scene at 1:33 a.m. and confronted a naked man, who turned out to be Jason Jessie, inside the residence. Then, the release said, a second naked man — Moore — \"appeared from the back of the interior of the house with a rifle. The man with the rifle placed the barrel of the rifle directly against an officer’s stomach. Another officer saw this and fearing for his life and the life of his fellow officer, immediately discharged his firearm at the man with the rifle. The man with the rifle fell to the floor and was taken into custody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse by this time was back outside with his camera rolling. His recording captured the sound of gunshots, a 10-second pause, then an officer repeatedly ordering someone to \"show me your hands.\" Then two more shots ring out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The content of this audio is graphic. These events happened at some point later than the first audio excerpt, after Clouse turned off the video camera and then turned it back on. We have made no internal edits in this excerpt.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143585887'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore was pronounced dead at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, just blocks from his home, at 2:04 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie was arrested, and charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest and battery on a peace officer. Those charges were later dropped. No arson charges were filed, despite fire investigators' conclusion that the blaze was intentionally set with gasoline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Another Witness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse wasn't the only neighbor watching the scene at 2504 Alameda Drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Alvarado lived across the street and says he was playing a computer game when he heard the commotion coming from the Moore-Jessie residence. Alvarado says he went to an upstairs window, where he had a clear view of Moore's and Jessie’s front yard and porch, and he saw police arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado describes seeing a naked man standing in the doorway across the street when the man was shot by police positioned at the bottom of the porch.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>—Jaime Alvarado, neighbor\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He says the man was waving his arms strangely — a flailing that he couldn't seem to stop. He says he could clearly see the man's hands, and there was nothing in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I heard was the officers told him to stop moving, and he can’t stop moving,” Alvarado says. “He starts shaking. That’s when the officer gets, like, scared. He got the gun and shoots him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know, this guy who got shot, he doesn’t have a rifle in his hands,” Alvarado says. “The officer who was firing the shots, he was before the stairs, and the man who got shot, he was on top of the steps.” He estimated the officer was 8 to 10 feet away from the man he shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says police then dragged Moore away from the house, “like a piece of garbage. They don’t even check if he was alive or anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says the next morning he tried to tell an officer what he had seen, but was told to go back inside his house. Since then, he has repeated his account to three separate private investigators working for Moore’s family, but says he has not been interviewed by district attorney's investigators or police detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Vallejo Police Department and the Solano County District Attorney's office say it's a matter of policy to canvass a neighborhood for witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County District Attorney Donald du Bain said late last month he’d be happy to take Alvarado's statement. The DA's office confirmed to KQED that while Alvarado and one of the DA's investigators have since spoken on the phone, no statement had been taken as of Tuesday afternoon, April 9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Jessie moved to Arizona in December 2012. He says now he doesn’t remember Moore having a gun when he was shot, but he doesn’t remember much about the shooting. He says his mind has “shut out” the traumatic incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to watch it,” he says. “I was covered in blood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says he doesn’t remember and can’t explain the men's behavior leading up to the shooting, but he insists he and Moore used only marijuana, and he thinks Moore’s toxicology report will prove that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Moore’s face contorts with grief when she hears Alvarado’s description of her son’s waving hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was Jeremiah, when he was nervous,” says Moore, who lives in Santa Rosa with her husband. She thinks her son’s autism spectrum disorder played a direct role in the shooting. His family always knew Moore to strictly follow rules and orders, like those given by Jessie and also by police. She says his nervous twitching or flailing could easily have been mistaken for a quick hand movement just before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who Was Jeremiah Moore?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family photos show a young man with short hair and an easy, almost goofy smile. Lisa Moore says as an infant, her son was a wonderfully well-behaved baby who would sit quietly in a playpen for hours. It was years before the parents realized their first child was a little \u003cem>too\u003c/em> calm, and Lisa Moore says he was eventually diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Jeremiah Moore grew, his different way of seeing the world isolated him from his peers. Lisa Moore said he began speaking late, and his difficulty communicating would frustrate him, but he was never violent. She choked up remembering a time her son asked her why he never got invited to parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Moore started attending community college, “all of a sudden he just blossomed,” says his father, Eugene Moore. He pursued his interest in working with his hands and was well on his way to becoming a journeyman plumber when he was shot. (His union made him a journeyman posthumously.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131847\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 368px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-131847 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/IMG_9041-640x409.jpg\" alt='Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor Jeremiah Moore was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" ' width=\"368\" height=\"235\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marvin Clouse shows the video he shot the night of Oct. 20, 2012, when his neighbor, Jeremiah Moore, was shot and killed by Vallejo police. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People who knew Jeremiah Moore remember his fascination with electronics and antique light bulbs. He made friends with people with similar interests in an online lighting community, his father says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse remembers Moore’s eyes sparkling when he saw an old fluorescent light bulb in his neighbor’s shed. “He said, ‘Ooooh, can I have that?’” Clouse says. He says Moore was always kind and had been helping him work on his truck in the days before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jeremiah was a good worker,\" Clouse says. \"He’d get up at 2 in the morning to drive down to San Jose and work as a plumber, and he was always fixing his cars and they were fixing computers. I could come over with any questions, and he was a really kind, caring person. And I really miss him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore met Jason Jessie online and moved into Jessie's rented house on Alameda Drive less than a year before the shooting. His parents say it was Moore's first serious romantic relationship, and he kept it fairly private. Sometimes the couple would fight, and Moore would call his mother to talk it out, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessie says the only gun in their house was an antique .22-caliber rifle from the 1920s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clouse says the police could have helped Moore. \"My feeling about the police is that I believe they murdered my neighbor Jeremiah,\" Clouse says, \"and they came in like a SWAT team attacking someone who was not a threat, someone who actually needed to be helped.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All police departments in Solano County have signed on to the district attorney’s “Officer Involved Fatal Incident Protocol,” which dictates a joint investigation by local police detectives and DA investigators. Of the 21 completed investigations since 2008, most were finished within a year. Only two have taken longer than Moore’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half of those shootings were by Vallejo police, and six occurred in 2012, a year after the city emerged from \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201303221630/b\" target=\"_blank\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> following the recession. Perhaps the most \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/09/21/pressure-mounting-in-vallejo-police-fatal-shooting/\" target=\"_blank\">notorious\u003c/a> incident occurred seven weeks before Moore's shooting. Witnesses say a police officer got up on the hood of a car and fired at Mario Romero and another man sitting inside the car, but the police and the DA investigation concluded the officer did not fire from the hood of the car. Romero died, and the DA and U.S. Attorney's office cleared the officer of any wrongdoing in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo criminal defense attorney Dan Russo is familiar with the Moore shooting, and he says he has serious doubts about the police department’s story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if this shooting was a legitimate use of deadly force, that’s something that should have been figured out a year ago,” he says. “This is why people distrust public agencies, and more important than that, Vallejo is in a really stressful situation. The last thing you want to do is lose community support, and when an investigation into a shooting takes a year and a half, without any kind of pronouncement, without any kind of information to the parties, it’s corrupting to everything. It creates a bad environment in the city. It makes the cops’ job harder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo says he’s used to homicide cases that are filed within days of an incident, and that much of the information Moore’s parents are still seeking in order to understand what happened that night is normally made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo also says he doesn’t see the Moore shooting as an isolated incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?containerId=googft-gviz-canvas&q=select+col4%2C+count()+from+1qVUrvNfuc5-Mcg2FrED6ejTFYbMXPi5hUTL-hv60+group+by+col4+order+by+col4+asc+limit+10&viz=GVIZ&t=COLUMN&uiversion=2&gco_forceIFrame=true&gco_hasLabelsColumn=true&gco_vAxes=%5B%7B%22title%22%3Anull%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3A%7B%22max%22%3Anull%2C+%22min%22%3Anull%7D%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22logScale%22%3Afalse%7D%5D&gco_useFirstColumnAsDomain=true&gco_isStacked=false&gco_booleanRole=certainty&gco_hAxis=%7B%22useFormatFromData%22%3Atrue%2C+%22minValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22maxValue%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindow%22%3Anull%2C+%22viewWindowMode%22%3Anull%2C+%22textStyle%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23222%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%229%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D%2C+%22slantedTextAngle%22%3A30%2C+%22slantedText%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_legend=none&gco_title=Investigations+of+Officer-Involved+Shootings+Completed+by+the+Solano+County+DA+since+2008&gco_series=%7B%220%22%3A%7B%22color%22%3A%22%230000ff%22%7D%7D&gco_titleTextStyle=%7B%22color%22%3A%22%23000%22%2C+%22fontSize%22%3A%2216%22%2C+%22bold%22%3Atrue%7D&gco_fontName=Arial&width=640&height=300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Somebody is going to have to take responsibility for the fact that because of cutbacks to the police department, police are less supported,” he says. That means there are fewer officers to cover each other, he says, and creates a situation where there's little accountability when it comes to shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of all adds up to an environment where you’re not telling anybody what’s happening, and you have what I consider in my experience of being in this town for 37 years, a really unusual environment where you have a large number of police shootings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Lt. Sid De Jesus says there are a lot of theories about the increase in officer-involved shootings in 2012. He says violent crime was up substantially, and the department was down to 84 sworn officers from 158 when the recession began in 2008. That puts Vallejo’s officer-to-population ratio at about half the national average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It creates a huge safety concern for officers,” he says. “But more importantly, it (the low police presence) creates a huge safety concern for citizens of this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus says quality of life in Vallejo has suffered, and officers who elected to stay with the struggling department in the struggling city are concerned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano District Attorney du Bain says his office’s review of the Moore shooting is close to completion. He says that sometimes the long investigations could strain public trust, but that the cases are taken very seriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve insisted these reviews be conducted by a chief deputy district attorney, not a line attorney, and that they be approved by me,” he says. “Our reviews are thorough, and I’ve tried to ensure that we handle these cases very carefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De Jesus adds, \"I can certainly tell you that I would assume that all of the DA’s findings have all been completed, and now they’re just in the stage of putting their case together, along with ours, and ensuring that every aspect of the incident has been addressed. It’s not uncommon for cases such as this, especially a case such as this that is completely complex. A lot of people may say, 'What makes it so complex?' There’s a lot of moving parts to it. There’s a lot of extenuating issues that were involved in this. And for those that were involved with the case and read what was publicized in the paper. So it’s not uncommon for these cases to take a little bit longer to come to a conclusion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Civil Lawsuit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore say they haven’t been able to find an attorney to take their case, so they’re representing themselves in a wrongful death lawsuit against Vallejo and its police department. They both think the strange circumstances leading up to the shooting are scaring attorneys from taking the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re learning as we’re going, and it’s going to be frustrating because what if we screw up and I can’t do anything about my son’s death?” Eugene Moore says. “That’s my biggest fear. If they’re in the wrong and I screw up, I can’t do anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/NE6PpolDjvQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Spencer Michels\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco’s seamy underbelly, the Tenderloin, sits in the heart of the city, flanked by glitzy Union Square hotels and the gleaming, gold-ornamented dome of City Hall. Though just steps away from Twitter’s new headquarters on Market Street, its dirty, crime-ridden 40 square blocks can feel like a world away from affluent San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 28,000 people call the Tenderloin home. Many are homeless, and dealing with mental illness or drug addiction. Some have criminal records or work in prostitution. Others are new immigrants, working to find their place in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To outsiders, it’s long been curious why such prime real estate is largely left alone in a city facing a massive housing shortage. Gary Kamiya, author of “Cool Gray City of Love,” has\u003cstrong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/arise-tenderloin\">written extensively\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> about why he believes the city and the nonprofits that serve the Tenderloin are not improving the neighborhood’s blighted state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123694\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/15/123502/san-francisco-tenderloin-resists-change/rs549_104161743-scr-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123694\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-123694 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2078/01/RS549_104161743-scr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers prepare meals at St. Anthony's dining hall in the Tenderloin. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers prepare about 2,500 meals a day at St. Anthony’s Dining Room in the Tenderloin. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What the nonprofits want to do is maintain their stake here,” Kamiya told me during a “KQED Newsroom” interview. “This is where they have their structures. They’re being part of the solution, but ironically they are also part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Housing advocates argue that conditions are gradually improving in the Tenderloin, but that the neighborhood should continue to serve low-income residents. Redeveloping it would leave thousands of low-income families unable to afford to live in San Francisco, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Buildings are in better condition than ever before,” says Randy Shaw, director of the \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thclinic.org/\">Tenderloin Housing Clinic\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>, a nonprofit that operates housing in the neighborhood. “It’s become San Francisco’s last working-class neighborhood, and the last it will ever have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The City’s Role\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And why don’t lawmakers step in to clean up the place? This could be one reason:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1940s, the city decided to redevelop another “troubled” section of town – \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Fillmore\u003c/a>. Thousands of businesses were forced to close as the city pushed through urban development plans. More than 800 Victorian homes were demolished to make way for new housing and retail – built quickly and cheaply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to goods, services or jobs, many African American families left the neighborhood, and never returned. It is an urban redevelopment horror story that still haunts the city’s psyche, leaving lawmakers reluctant to stir the pot in the Tenderloin. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Housing advocates say redeveloping it would leave thousands of low-income families unable to afford to live in the city. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“The city is very loath to step in and say, ‘Let’s sweep all this away. Let’s move it somewhere else,’” says Kamiya. “To simply take an undesirable population and go warehouse them someplace, it’s extremely problematic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cstrong>Is Change Inevitable?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cities like London, New York and San Diego have been quick to redevelop similar neighborhoods, the Tenderloin has so far resisted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land-use protections, rent controls, zoning protections and a unique housing stock that has no single-family homes make it almost impossible to redevelop, says Shaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood has about 100 single-room-cccupancy hotels – known as SROs – that house many of the city’s poor and disabled residents. These units in particular are shielded from being replaced with upscale apartments, as has happened in other neighborhoods like the Mission District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the legal protections, longtime resident Judy Young eyes the new high-tech neighbors with suspicion. She wonders if a day might come when the Tenderloin becomes out of reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families do live here because it is one of the most affordable places in the city,” she says. “If you can find a studio or one bedroom here for $1,200, that’s pretty affordable compared to other places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is an understatement, as a recent city\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/12/03/247531636/as-rent-soars-longtime-san-francisco-tenants-fight-to-stay\"> report\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> found that the median rent in San Francisco has reached $3,400 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Spencer Michels reported on this story for “KQED Newsroom,” which is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Olivia Hubert-Allen contributed to this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s too soon to say whether the story of James Flavy Coy Brown is an anomaly, as Nevada regulators claim, or if budget-stressed mental health service professionals are “dumping” disoriented, mentally ill people on the rest of the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If one thing is certain, it’s that a lot of people are now actively engaged in answering that question. Among them: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas/\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>, city attorney’s offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/hospitals.aspx\">commission\u003c/a> that certifies hospitals in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s return to the beginning, to the story of a man who showed up at a Greyhound bus station in Sacramento on \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/07/5322199/cast-out-by-nevada-he-finds-kindness.html\">Feb. 12\u003c/a>. Brown suffers from \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=schizophrenia+definition&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a\">schizophrenia\u003c/a>, which among other things makes it difficult for a person to think clearly. Fortunately for him, Brown was thinking clearly enough that morning to head toward a local police station and ask for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story made it to the Sacramento Bee through \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacloaves.org/\">Loaves & Fishes\u003c/a>, a local provider of services to the homeless. The compelling nature of Brown’s adventure raised questions that went well beyond how one man got put on a bus to a city where he’d never been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had no friends or family there. He had only a few days’ worth of medication and a few bottles of Ensure. He had no plan for continuing medical treatment. It looked a lot like Las Vegas’ Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital was trying to get rid of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee’s Phillip Reese sat down with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304240850/b\">California Report\u003c/a> and explained where things went from there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up,” Reese said.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“He did not know anyone here. He did not have any plan for medical care set up.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Brown eventually found a new home in North Carolina with his daughter, but in the meantime the Nevada legislature became interested in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In those hearings, they mentioned that they had sent around 100 people to California, just in the last seven or eight months,” Reese said. “And potentially many more to other states. 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The reporters put together an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">map\u003c/a> showing where patients ended up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Visit the Sacramento Bee for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">interactive version\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/24/the-hunt-is-on-for-1500-psychiatric-patients-a-nev/patientbusingmap-sacbee/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95201\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-95201\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PatientBusingMap-SacBee-1024x785.png\" alt=\"PatientBusingMap-SacBee\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/04/12/5338196/interactive-map-where-las-vegas.html\">Via the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>. Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. Most were completely surprised at Nevada officials’ assertions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco told us that they’ve had at least two patients in the last year alone come from this particular facility, Rawson-Neal, without a plan or family members,” Reese said. “[They] just showed up, in the way that Mr. Brown did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Bee’s review of bus records, 36 patients took buses to San Francisco. Without talking to those people, it’s hard to know what happened once they got to the city. They might have sought help. They might not have. They might be in San Francisco now. They might be elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese said he and his colleagues are trying to track down patients, as well as Rawson-Neal employees and former employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hampered a bit, and rightfully so, by patient privacy laws,” Reese said. “The Greyhound bus receipts had the names blacked out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevada regulators told the Bee they reviewed protocols and instituted new rules that include requiring high-level approval of a Greyhound trip and a clear plan in place at the other end of the line for the patient. They also said they have taken disciplinary action related to Brown’s case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cross-state busing of patients might not be considered a best practice in mental health care, but is it illegal? Reese said California’s Justice Department isn’t sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, though, has laws on the books explicitly prohibiting patient “dumping” of any kind, because it’s something its own local hospitals did in the past. The San Francisco city attorney’s office is checking local codes that might provide grounds for a civil action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of patients bused out of Nevada were shipped to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reese points to “severe” budget cuts in Nevada. The bus trips began to spike in 2009, around the same time a recent round of budget cuts took place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, he said, “They never had an elaborate safety net for mentally ill patients to begin with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UPDATE [4/26/13]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARSON CITY, Nev. 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Source: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services; data for-mid 2008 to early 2013; Analysis by Phillip Reese. Interactive by Nathaniel Levine.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Officials at the main hospital in question, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital, said a lot of people come to Nevada from somewhere else. They said the Brown case was an anomaly and that in all other cases there was a close family member or friend waiting at the destination to receive the patient who gets put on a bus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To confirm that assertion, the Bee called at least 10 mental health agencies in counties all over California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Governor Jerry Brown continues to \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201304120850/a\">travel through China\u003c/a>, taking a bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai, inking trade deals and setting a brisk pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the governor gets home next week from his largely successful trade and business trip, he faces another federal court ruling rejecting his bid to end judicial oversight of California's prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_94046\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/chinoprison.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-94046\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/chinoprison-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"An inmate at Chino State Prison sleeps on his bunk bed in a gymnasium that was modified to house prisoners on December 10, 2010 in Chino, California. 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He's invested a lot of time and energy trying to convince the courts that essentially California’s prison crisis is over and that inmates are getting adequate mental health and medical care,” Montgomery said. “And federal judges have just not bought the governor's arguments. Now the state has to come up with a plan to further reduce the inmate population.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a plan the judges want to see in three weeks. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation issued a statement saying, \"California has invested more than a billion dollars to transform its prison health care system into one of the best in the country. Our prisons now provide timely and effective health care to inmates that far exceeds what the Constitution requires.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't the only recent setback for Brown on prisons. A federal judge on April 5 \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/judge-rules-against-calif-control-of-prison-mental-health-programs/\">rejected Brown's bid\u003c/a> to regain state control of inmates' mental health care, citing systematic failures to reduce prison suicides, provide timely care and hire enough staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Associated Press report by Tom Verdin below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court-ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling by the three-judge panel singled out the Democratic governor for ignoring its earlier orders to reduce the state's inmate population to the level ordered by the federal courts. Judges have said that capping the population is the most important step the state can take to improve inmate medical and mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the governor sought to end the long-running court oversight of California's prison system and promised to take his fight again to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. At the time, he decried the billions of dollars California is spending to improve inmate medical and mental health care, saying the court had ordered the state to create \"gold plate\" prisons that were siphoning money from public schools, colleges, social services and other programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial panel was unmoved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naming Brown, it said state officials must take whatever steps are necessary to comply with the court's inmate-reduction order by the end of this year or face the consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otherwise, \"they will without further delay be subject to findings of contempt, individually and collectively. We make this observation reluctantly, but with determination that defendants will not be allowed to continue to violate the requirements of the Constitution of the United States.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but corrections department spokeswoman Deborah Hoffman said the administration will appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, Hoffman said the quality of medical care delivered to California's prison inmates \"far exceeds\" the requirements of the Constitution. Any further steps to reduce the inmate population would jeopardize public safety, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday's ruling in favor of the inmates' attorneys was expected and is the latest development in two partially consolidated legal cases that date back several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One case, filed in 1990, concerns the treatment of mentally inmates. The other, filed in 2001, concerns substandard medical care. In both cases, the federal courts have ruled that the care provided by California's prison system was so poor it violated inmates' constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just last week, one of the judges on the panel rejected Brown's attempt to end the lawsuit over mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both cases, the courts have appointed federal overseers to run those aspects of the prison system. The state has responded by building new medical and mental health facilities and hiring hundreds of new employees, many at salaries that exceed $200,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's boldest response has been his so-called prison realignment plan, which took effect in October 2011 and is sending thousands of lower-level offenders to county jails instead of state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That law alone has reduced the prison population by nearly 25,000 inmates, but it is still not enough to comply with the court order. The state still needs to reduce its inmate population by roughly 9,000 more inmates in its 33 adult prisons by the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the state said it had done enough, and Brown said the only way it could meet the court's population cap was to release dangerous felons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judicial panel acknowledged that Brown's realignment law had made headway, but also said the state had taken no further actions to comply with the court's directive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It called the state's long-range prison blueprint \"a plan for noncompliance\" by allowing the state to house 9,000 more inmates than the court order allows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What further steps they will take in order to comply is equally clear: None,\" the judges wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While their decision against the state was widely anticipated, the judges' ruling was somewhat remarkable in its singling out of the governor. It noted the U.S. Supreme Court's 2011 ruling that upheld the court-ordered population cap and emphasized that Brown has a duty to make any changes necessary and to do so promptly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Specifically, the rule is applicable to Governor Brown, as well as the lowliest citizen,\" the judges said. \"That Governor Brown may believe, contrary to the evidence before this Court, that 'prison crowding (is) no longer . . . inhibit(ing) the delivery of timely and effective health services to inmates,' will not constitute an excuse for his failure to comply with the orders of this Court.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ernest Galvan, a San Francisco-based attorney representing inmates, called on the state to halt the years of litigation and reduce the prison population to the court-ordered level.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jerry Brown’s bid to regain state control of inmates’ mental health care, citing systematic failures to reduce prison suicides, provide timely care and hire enough staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93554\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/05/judge-rules-against-calif-control-of-prison-mental-health-programs/supreme-court-to-rule-on-californias-overcrowded-prisons-4/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93554\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS50_ChinoStatePrisonInmates20130108-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Inmates at Chino State Prison. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-93554\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inmates at Chino State Prison. 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It’s time for this costly and intrusive lawsuit — now in its 23rd year — to come to an end.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nThe ruling also undermines Brown’s efforts to lift a separate court order that otherwise will force the state to reduce its prison population by nearly 10,000 by year’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge and attorneys for both sides acknowledged that the state has made significant improvements in its treatment of mentally ill inmates since the lawsuit was filed in 1991. That suit claimed care at the time was so poor it violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, prompting federal supervision to be imposed four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has spent more than $1 billion on new facilities and devotes $400 million a year to caring for the mentally ill, who account for about one in every four inmates in the state’s 33 adult prisons. 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