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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West says Schaaf's focus on crime sends a clear message that she intends to invest in policing rather than infrastructure and economic development in communities that need it the most. That does little to honor the values of King, protesters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Martin Luther King is a victim of identity theft,\" said West. \"The way that he's portrayed is very much that he's this meek and mild character who just sought justice through peaceful means, which is very true. But he was not meek and mild. He used nonviolent direct action. And so we're here to reclaim that spirit of nonviolent direct action and say, 'Libby, you have no right to hold onto his legacy, you don't do anything to uphold what he stood for … and we're bringing that to her front doorstep.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police were present but did not disperse the crowd. Several neighbors came outside to view the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Protesters-outside-Oakland-mayor-s-house-6024982.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an elderly woman living across the street from Schaaf \"voiced displeasure\" at the protest, after which a demonstrator apologized to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what did Schaaf have to say? From the \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_27348922/oakland-mayor-libby-schaffs-home-scene-protest\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area News Group\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"I'm happy to meet with people about the city's business in City Hall during normal hours,\" Schaaf said after the protest, as she traveled between events commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said her children, ages 7 and 9, slept through much of the protest and that she and her husband tried to make it a teachable moment for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am sorry that it disturbed my neighbors, but I appreciate that we live in a country where people are free to protest and express their passionate politics,\" she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jon Brooks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Bay Area's Top Stories in 2013: Housing's Insane, Techies to Blame -- and Pray for Rain",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GRaGYJkmDy0\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Time’s running out on 2013, and it’s time to paw through (or pore over, if you’re the dignified sort) the posts that have piled up over the past 12 months and name our picks for the most important stories of the year. For extra credit, we’ll try to say why we think the stories are important both now and in the future. And we welcome you to tell us where we’ve gone astray or where we’re short-sighted and ignorant. (And above, the view of the year that’s almost past from our colleagues at “KQED Newsroom.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”6ddfb926ea579e022c87330032e1a10c”]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction Crisis/Housing Affordability: A surging tech sector economy in San Francisco is spurring \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/total-value-san-francisco-metro-housing-stock-jumps-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new spike in home prices and rents in and around the city\u003c/a>. The hot rental market, in turn, has led to\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a surge in evictions\u003c/a>. That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. Read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/on-the-google-bus-looking-out-at-the-protest/google-bus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121543\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Google-Bus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google's Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (@craigsfrost via Twitter).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google’s Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=”c8beeb5d4b7a54b42df6b7509feb5a76″]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. The latest assessment of damage from the fire says \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-damage-study-20131227,0,446155.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total cost could be close to $2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/americas-cup-final-race/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-112866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/cupfinal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America's Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America’s Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America’s Cup\u003c/strong>: We still haven’t decided whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Ellison\u003c/a>, the Oracle software billionaire who captured the America’s Cup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/sports/global/12bertarelli.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some other billionaire\u003c/a> a few years back and then decided to defend it in San Francisco, wears a white hat or a black hat. But villain/hero categorization aside, the 34th America’s Cup sailed on the bay over the summer is an event to be remembered. The regatta was marked by tragedy when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson, part of the Swedish-sponsored Artemis Racing team, was killed\u003c/a> in a May training accident. Simpson’s death prompted\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/23/safety-recommendations-released-for-americas-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new emphasis on safety\u003c/a> for the huge 72-foot catamarans that Ellison and his team had chosen for this year’s competition. The series of races among Artemis and two other challengers for the Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa, were a nonevent, with the Kiwis easily winning the right to face the Oracle team. Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? Taxi Drivers Say Illegal Payments to Dispatchers Are Routine\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122140\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs7674_img_5067-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122140\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122140\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS7674_IMG_5067-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bear tracks on the dry bottom of Shasta Lake in Northern California. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. Other signs we’re very, very dry: The official U.S. Drought Monitor categorizes \u003ca href=\"http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">94 percent of the state as in moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a>, and the California-Nevada River Forecast Center observes that Folsom Lake, the big reservoir just east of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626426660749916&set=a.204261386299781.49442.156316434427610&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen below 200,000 acre feet\u003c/a> of storage for just the seventh time since it was created in the 1950s. Any serious California rain watcher will point out that what really matters for us is our seasonal precipitation — and by convention, our rain year runs from July 1 to June 30 to better reflect how much rain and snow comes our way during each wet season, which usually starts in October and ends by early May. We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/127152132&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/GRaGYJkmDy0\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Time’s running out on 2013, and it’s time to paw through (or pore over, if you’re the dignified sort) the posts that have piled up over the past 12 months and name our picks for the most important stories of the year. For extra credit, we’ll try to say why we think the stories are important both now and in the future. And we welcome you to tell us where we’ve gone astray or where we’re short-sighted and ignorant. (And above, the view of the year that’s almost past from our colleagues at “KQED Newsroom.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here goes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eviction Crisis/Housing Affordability: A surging tech sector economy in San Francisco is spurring \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/18/total-value-san-francisco-metro-housing-stock-jumps-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new spike in home prices and rents in and around the city\u003c/a>. The hot rental market, in turn, has led to\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/117540/Priced-Out-Ellis-Act-San-Francisco-eviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a surge in evictions\u003c/a>. That “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/priced-out/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Priced Out\u003c/a>” phenomenon has gotten to the point where activist groups have organized to demand action from San Francisco officials to stop certain evictions and to speed up action on creating new affordable housing. The soaring rents and increase in evictions have also accentuated a culture clash between longer-term city residents and the growing number of mostly newly arrived young technology workers. Read on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121543\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/on-the-google-bus-looking-out-at-the-protest/google-bus/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121543\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/Google-Bus-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google's Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (@craigsfrost via Twitter).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from a shuttle bus in West Oakland, headed for Google’s Mountain View campus but halted by protesters. (\u003ca href=\"http://t.co/VGCyhBLgyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@craigsfrost via Twitter)\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“San Francisco” vs. “The Techies”\u003c/strong>: The leading symbol of the divide between those who fancy themselves the real residents of San Francisco (meaning: they’ve lived and worked here awhile) and recently arrived technology workers is the Google bus. The buses have appeared in increasing numbers throughout the city and East Bay, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n03/rebecca-solnit/diary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one serious cultural critic says\u003c/a>, “I think of them as the spaceships on which our alien overlords have landed to rule over us.” In addition to carrying people who can and do pay top dollar for housing, thus helping drive up rents, many in the city also complain that the buses are using stops reserved for Muni without paying a dime for the privilege. In the final weeks of 2013, the unease with the technology buses — they carry thousands of people to Google, Apple, Facebook and other tech firms — has gone beyond talk. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/20/eviction-protesters-oakland-san-francisco-target-silicon-valley-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twice in the last few weeks\u003c/a>, anti-eviction protesters in the city have blocked the buses. A similar protest in Oakland resulted in vandalism to one of the Silicon Valley-bound motor coaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The BART Strikes: \u003c/strong>BART’s two biggest unions, SEIU Local 1021 and ATU Local 1555, had given up more than $100 million in concessions in 2009 and went into negotiations this year seeking significant wage increases and trying to hold the line on medical insurance and pension plans. They ran into a hard line from a management that sought to limit labor costs and plow as much money as possible into upgrading the aging BART system. The clash led to two four-day strikes, in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/03/bart-strike-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/18/bart-strike-update-day-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October\u003c/a>, that forced BART’s 200,000 or so weekday riders to find alternative transit and sparked widespread public anger at union workers. Two workers inspecting tracks in Walnut Creek \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/10/20/ntsb-investigating-bart-train-accident-that-killed-two-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died during the October walkout\u003c/a> when they were struck by a train operated by a management trainee. The strike exposed a deep and so far unhealed rift between management and workers and led to calls for a change in state law \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/bart-board-considers-ballot-measure-on-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to ban strikes\u003c/a> by public transit workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police/Oakland Crime: It has not been a good year for crime-weary of Oakland residents and the city’s beleaguered Police Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak044723.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest city statistics\u003c/a> show robberies are up 16 percent over last year. Robberies committed with firearms are up 27 percent. A federal judge overseeing a civil rights settlement with the city and the Police Department installed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/05/judge-appoints-director-to-oversee-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new outside “compliance director”\u003c/a> early this year. Shortly afterward, Police Chief Howard Jordan quit (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/96633/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for medical reasons, he insisted\u003c/a>). Outside consultant William Bratton issued a report finding that the department was poorly organized and ineffective at dealing with some of the most common crimes, with just one part-time investigator assigned to handle a backlog of 10,000 burglary cases. Just as that report came out, Jordan \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/10/96792/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was replaced by not one, but two interim chiefs\u003c/a>. The second of those stand-in leaders, Sean Whent, has overseen the implementation of new programs designed to build bridges to distrustful residents while more efficiently dealing with violent crime. It’s too early to say what the long-term outcome of those changes will be, but here’s something to note: The city suffered through a resurgence of deadly violence in 2012, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/12/oaklands-other-homicide-crisis-unsolved-cases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">131 homicides citywide\u003c/a>. With just a few days to go in 2013, Oakland has recorded 87 homicides for the year. That toll still gives Oakland one of the highest homicide rates in the United States, but it’s a dramatic improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_122144\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/27/kqed-news-fix-top-news-stories-for-2013/rs6229_img_5691-lpr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-122144\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-122144\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS6229_IMG_5691-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Bay Bridge eastern span, left, and the old span, right. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Bridge Completed:\u003c/strong> Caltrans assured us that 2013 would be the year that, 24 years after the Loma Prieta earthquake that demonstrated the eastern span of the Bay Bridge was seismically unfit, we would finally have a new bridge to drive on. The agency delivered on its promise, years later than promised and at a price, $6.4 billion, that was several times the original estimate. However, the completion of the new eastern span, a self-anchored suspension bridge with a gleaming white tower, was not accomplished without some tense moments. When it came time to fasten two massive seismic stabilizers on the suspension span last March, the huge threaded rods that were supposed to hold them in place \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/27/bay-bridge-bolts-snap-repairs-could-cost-up-to-5-million/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">snapped\u003c/a>. That forced engineers to come up with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/07/26/bay-bridge-short-term-fix-a-go-but-no-word-on-open-date/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">workarounds\u003c/a> to hold the stabilizers in place, and at one point bridge authorities scrapped plans for the long-planned Labor Day opening of the new span. But when repair work went better than expected and officials expressed concern about the risks of keeping the old span open, the Labor Day plan was reinstated. The new bridge, complete with traffic shoulders and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-admin/post.php?post=109958&action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a beautiful bike path\u003c/a>, opened late Labor Day evening. But the saga isn’t yet complete: East Bay state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier is leading \u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_24413224/state-sen-mark-desaulnier-launches-legislative-probe-into\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an investigation \u003c/a>into why the bridge took so long and cost so much to complete. And some in the engineering community still express \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/09/more-questions-about-durability-of-steel-parts-on-new-bay-bridge/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerns about the long-term impact\u003c/a> of the project’s\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/20/97597/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> various construction problems\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121326\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/19/news-pix-2013-in-photos/doma-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-121326\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-121326\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/DOMA-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandra Stier, left, and Kris Perry, are married in San Francisco City Hall after June’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Darlene Bouchard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court\u003c/strong>: In June, the Supreme Court issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-144_8ok0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a 5-4 ruling\u003c/a> that had the effect of striking down \u003ca href=\"http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/past/2008/general/title-sum/prop8-title-sum.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition 8\u003c/a>, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. “Had the effect of striking down” because in the end, the high court didn’t address the constitutional issues of equal protection and due process raised in the original suit against the initiative. Instead, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/26/what-the-doma-and-prop-8-rulings-mean-and-what-we-still-need-to-know/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the justices found\u003c/a> that the authors of the 2008 initiative lacked standing to defend the measure in court. The tribunal’s ruling left standing\u003ca href=\"https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/09cv2292/files/09cv2292-ORDER.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the 2010 decision by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker\u003c/a> that struck down Prop. 8 as unconstitutional. The effect was immediate: Same-sex marriages resumed in San Francisco two days after the high court spoke, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freedomtomarry.org/states/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courts and legislatures in several other states\u003c/a>have cleared the way for gay and lesbian weddings since the June Supreme Court ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rim Fire\u003c/strong>: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-biggest wildfire in California history\u003c/a> started in mid-August, reportedly by \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-hunter-20131206,0,4531265.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a hunter who set an illegal campfire\u003c/a> in Stanislaus National Forest, near the northwestern corner of Yosemite National Park. The fire wasn’t fully contained until late October, and by that time it had burned well into Yosemite, threatened the San Francisco-owned Hetch Hetchy reservoir, destroyed power facilities and burned 257,314 acres — 452 square miles. The latest assessment of damage from the fire says \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-rim-fire-damage-study-20131227,0,446155.story#axzz2oj8fhRj5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the total cost could be close to $2 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_112866\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/americas-cup-final-race/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-112866\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-112866\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/09/cupfinal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America's Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oracle Team USA celebrates after completing its successful defense of the America’s Cup up. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America’s Cup\u003c/strong>: We still haven’t decided whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Ellison\u003c/a>, the Oracle software billionaire who captured the America’s Cup from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/sports/global/12bertarelli.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some other billionaire\u003c/a> a few years back and then decided to defend it in San Francisco, wears a white hat or a black hat. But villain/hero categorization aside, the 34th America’s Cup sailed on the bay over the summer is an event to be remembered. The regatta was marked by tragedy when \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/09/death-in-the-americas-cup-drowned-sailors-team-held-capsize-drill-last-fall/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British sailor Andrew “Bart” Simpson, part of the Swedish-sponsored Artemis Racing team, was killed\u003c/a> in a May training accident. Simpson’s death prompted\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/23/safety-recommendations-released-for-americas-cup/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> a new emphasis on safety\u003c/a> for the huge 72-foot catamarans that Ellison and his team had chosen for this year’s competition. The series of races among Artemis and two other challengers for the Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand and Italy’s Luna Rossa, were a nonevent, with the Kiwis easily winning the right to face the Oracle team. Before the finals could start,\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/03/oracle-americas-cup-penalty/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> an international jury imposed severe penalties against Oracle\u003c/a> for cheating in an earlier series of races. In the “first-to-nine-wins” format, New Zealand seemed to have the Cup locked up when it took an 8-1 lead in the series. Then \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/25/americas-cup-live/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this happened\u003c/a>— an incredible string of victories that allowed Ellison’s Oracle team to retain the Cup. We’ll get an idea in 2014 whether Ellison will defend the Cup again in San Francisco or take the event elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mustache Wars\u003c/strong>: Those funny “ride-sharing” companies that seemed like a novelty not so long ago — operations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lyft.me/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lyft\u003c/a>, whose cars carry pink mustaches, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.side.cr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sidecar \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber\u003c/a> — are now entrenched in the local transportation scene. In September, the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/09/19/cpuc-ridesharing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Public Utilities Commission issued regulations\u003c/a> to govern the new companies, which the agency classifies as “transportation network companies,” or TNCs. In San Francisco, the closely regulated taxi industry has long fought attempts to expand the number of cabs on the street even as many would-be customers swear it’s next to impossible to find a cab when you really want one. Now, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the TNCs appear to have made deep inroads\u003c/a> into the traditional taxi companies’ business — cutting into the customer base and attracting drivers from the old-line cab firms. Among the questions facing the TNCs: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/14/who-pays-when-ride-share-driver-crashes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whether drivers and their vehicles have adequate insurance coverage\u003c/a>. And among the questions facing the taxi companies: How will they adapt their operations, including \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the widespread practice of expecting drivers to tip other company employees\u003c/a>, to survive the challenge from the TNCs. Jon Brooks, the former full-time proprietor of News Fix, reported extensively on the story this year and produced three major reports on what’s going on in the industry:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/11/07/taxis-lyft-ride-service-war-on-streets-of-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will ‘Ride Sharing’ Kill San Francisco’s Taxi Industry? \u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/08/how-to-get-a-cab-and-4-other-tips-from-san-francisco-cab-drivers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confusion Over Insurance for ‘Ride-Sharing’ Drivers\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/11/taxi-drivers-and-whos-taking-money-out-of-their-pockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tip or Bribe? 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(Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Weather: 2013, the Driest Year\u003c/strong>: And we’ll leave you with what could be the biggest story of 2014 if we don’t see a change in our winter weather: the Bay Area (and most of the state) is just completing its driest calendar year since the first weather observer set up the first rain gauge here during the Gold Rush. In San Francisco, where records go back to 1850, just 5.59 inches of rain has fallen this year. That compares to the 30-year average recorded between 1980 and 2010 of 23.06 inches and the current calendar-year low-rainfall record of 8.73 inches, set in 1976. Other signs we’re very, very dry: The official U.S. Drought Monitor categorizes \u003ca href=\"http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">94 percent of the state as in moderate to extreme drought\u003c/a>, and the California-Nevada River Forecast Center observes that Folsom Lake, the big reservoir just east of Sacramento, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=626426660749916&set=a.204261386299781.49442.156316434427610&type=1&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has fallen below 200,000 acre feet\u003c/a> of storage for just the seventh time since it was created in the 1950s. Any serious California rain watcher will point out that what really matters for us is our seasonal precipitation — and by convention, our rain year runs from July 1 to June 30 to better reflect how much rain and snow comes our way during each wet season, which usually starts in October and ends by early May. We still have our historically wettest months ahead of us, January and February, so there’s hope we’ll see storms arrive to help replenish reservoirs and bulk up the mountain snowpack. But right now, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/fxus07.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-range outlook for January\u003c/a> calls for below-normal precipitation for California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s \u003cstrong>Stephanie Martin\u003c/strong> spoke with KQED News Fix Editor \u003cstrong>Dan Brekke\u003c/strong> about some of the year’s biggest Bay Area stories. Listen to the conversation below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said they would not be so quick to dismiss the activists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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"description": "by Shoshana Walter, The Bay Citizen After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting. The shooting was justified, according to the evidence collected by Michael Foster",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shoo/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/baycitizenlogo-49/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93946\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-93946\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/BayCitizenLogo.png\" alt=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>After Oakland police Officer Miguel Masso shot and killed 18-year-old Alan Blueford last May, prosecutors quickly released their investigator’s findings about the incident, amid a public outcry and a protest that shut down a City Council meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting was justified, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682616-oakland-police-department-blueford-press-release.html\">according to the evidence\u003c/a> collected by Michael Foster – a former Oakland police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city seething with distrust of law enforcement, legal experts and residents are now questioning District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s wisdom in assigning former Oakland police officers to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93945\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/11/ex-officers-often-investigate-police-involved-shootings/adam-and-jeralynn-blueford/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93945\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93945 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Adam-and-Jeralynn-Blueford-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Adam and Jeralynn Blueford\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam and Jeralynn Blueford’s son Alan, an 18-year-old Hayward resident, was shot to death by an Oakland police officer last May. Noah Berger/The Bay Citizen\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I would hope that they would look for somebody not for one side or the other – some impartial person that’s not the police and not a community activist,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “The prosecutor just kind of rubber stamps what the police said.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s assignment was described as routine. It turns out that the practice of using former police officers to conduct investigations into shootings at their previous departments is widespread, according to a review of police prosecution records by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cironline.org\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, parent organization of The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is all the more important now in Oakland, where the beleaguered police department is under court supervision. Last month, a federal judge appointed former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas Frazier to oversee the completion of an almost decadelong civil rights reform effort.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22998796/oakland-federal-judge-warns-city-hall-stop-standing\">Judge accuses city of impeding Frazier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/find-out-who-investigates-police-involved-shooting/\">Find out who investigates police-involved shootings in your area\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.baycitizen.org/news/policing/where-have-oakland-police-officer-involved-shootin/\">Map: Where have Oakland police officer-involved shootings occurred?\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The city has seen two officer-involved shootings so far this month. After a witness mistakenly identified a 16-year-old boy as a robbery suspect, police said they perceived the boy as a threat and shot him in the jaw. Two days later, Oakland officers shot and wounded a burglary suspect who they said was brandishing a fake gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said they use former police officers for the investigations because they are best suited for the job, coming with years of training and experience. Other prosecutors and investigators said prior police employment wouldn't necessarily bias the investigation or outcome of a case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley, Alameda County’s district attorney, said her office provides a separate but thorough investigation of each fatal officer-involved shooting and dispatches a team that includes an experienced attorney and investigator. The attorney, not the investigator, writes the final report, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the Blueford investigation, O’Malley said her office reviewed all available evidence and statements from more than 40 witnesses and determined that the case “did not exist to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer involved committed a criminal offense.” Foster declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But legal ethicists say the use of former police officers creates an appearance of a conflict of interest that can erode public trust. And those ethicists say many ex-officers still have ties to their former departments, including a sense of allegiance to the “thin blue line” that can influence the subjective process of an investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though he might not want to be a policeman again, he still has an allegiance to the brotherhood,” said Cornell University law professor Charles Wolfram. “If they’re from the same department, that could create obvious problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten district attorney’s offices in California contacted by the Center for Investigative Reporting said they use former officers for their police shooting inquiries. W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive officer of the California District Attorneys Association, called the practice “very common.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some prosecutors, however, keep the identities of the investigators who work on police officer shootings secret – the public may never know about potential conflicts of interest in police shooting investigations, the CIR review found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Oakland residents, prosecutors’ reports are one of the few sources of information about officer-involved shootings. Federal court-appointed monitors, in connection with the civil rights reform, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682615-robert-warshaw-officer-involved-shootings.html\">criticized the department’s own investigations\u003c/a> as biased and unquestioning. The department seldom releases copies of investigations and police reports on officer-involved shootings, even to the families of the individuals killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, some officers have faced more shooting investigations than others. According to police records, in the past 12 years, more than half of the department’s officer-involved shootings involved the same 20 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many cases, the investigations of some of the most shooting-prone officers showed potential conflicts of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Moschetti, a former Oakland police officer for 23 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682621-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-fred.html\">investigated a shooting case\u003c/a> involving William Pappas, a SWAT team member responsible for three shootings, according to police records. In July 2010, he was among a group of officers who fatally shot a man wielding kitchen knives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in 2010, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682622-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-derrick.html\">Moschetti investigated\u003c/a> Officers Omar Daza-Quiroz and Eriberto Perez-Angeles. The two officers, who were involved in the shooting death of a man in 2008, were responsible for the fatal shooting of Derrick Jones, an unarmed domestic violence suspect whose death spurred protests and an FBI investigation. He had led the two officers on a foot chase before ditching a marijuana scale that police mistook for a gun. His case is under review by the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 1, both officers involved in the case were cleared of any wrongdoing in a federal civil trial filed by Jones' widow. The city already had paid a $225,000 settlement in a separate civil suit filed by his parents and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, three officers shot and killed a man wielding a fake firearm. After Foster completed his investigation, prosecutor John Creighton \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/682623-alameda-county-district-attorney-report-matthew.html\">cleared the officers\u003c/a> in Matthew Cicelski’s death. Less than a year earlier, Creighton had \u003ca href=\"http://www.smartvoter.org/2010/06/08/ca/alm/vote/creighton_j/endorse.html\">received an endorsement\u003c/a> from the Oakland Police Officers’ Association during his unsuccessful run for superior court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick called Foster and the other investigators professional and unbiased. If there is bias, Drenick said, the prosecutors who work alongside the investigators would intervene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district attorney is there throughout the entire thing, everything,” Drenick said. “They go as a pair to all of the interviews. And then the ultimate report that is done is written by the deputy district attorney.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster also investigated the shooting deaths of two alleged gang members in May 2011, relying in part on investigative materials collected by the Oakland Police Department. The officers involved were Capt. Ersie Joyner, who has five officer-involved shootings on his record (the most of any member of the department), and Officer Cesar Garcia, who has two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete his investigation, Foster relied on evidence collected by Oakland police Sgt. Jim Rullamas, according to the prosecutor’s report. Not mentioned was the fact that Joyner once oversaw Rullamas as head of the homicide division, praising the detective as hard working, according to one news report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the prosecutor’s office cleared the officers of wrongdoing, some of the cases resulted in hefty civil settlements. Robert Roche, a longtime member of the department’s SWAT team, has been involved in three shootings, including one that resulted in a $500,000 civil suit settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County prosecutors provided the Center for Investigative Reporting with records on Oakland police officer shootings since 2000 that were proved justified and closed. Out of 23 fatal shooting cases, 10 were investigated by former Oakland police officers, the records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's a Specialized Skill'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Alameda County, not every prosecutor’s office in California releases records of shooting investigations involving police officers, which are protected by law from public disclosure. Many prosecutors’ offices declined to provide the names and employment histories of those they assign to investigate the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some prosecutors acknowledged that their investigators are most often retired police officers. District attorneys in San Francisco, Santa Clara, Napa and San Mateo counties all said they employ former police officers and sheriff’s deputies to investigate officer-involved shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s pretty common,” said Glenn McGovern, a senior investigator at the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office who leads the training committee for the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “In Santa Clara, we have a lot of San Jose police. It’s a specialized skill. You have to go through advanced training for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some counties in other states have decided against using ex-officers to investigate their former departments. In Miami-Dade County in Florida, for example, only prosecutors with special training investigate officer-involved shootings. The agency does not use former police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, legal ethicists expressed concern that most prosecutors make no attempt to avoid the controversial assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It undermines the legitimacy of the investigation,” said Stanford Law School professor Deborah Rhode. “At the very least, they should try to find investigators hired by somebody else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most counties in California follow the same procedure. When a police officer shoots and kills someone, the police department conducts two separate investigations. One determines whether the officer violated department policy; the other looks for evidence of criminal conduct. Then the county prosecutor’s office either monitors the department’s criminal investigation or conducts its own and decides whether to file charges. In Alameda County, investigators are assigned to officer-involved shootings on a rotating, on-call basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to 1985, most states legally allowed police officers to use their firearms to arrest anybody suspected of committing a felony, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report on police use of force. Some states even allowed police to shoot a fleeing suspect, including one suspected of a property crime such as forgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that changed the landscape of police shooting investigations: An officer may not use deadly force unless he or she “has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others” – in other words, self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the ruling, it is still extremely rare for a police officer to be charged. While police need only probable cause to make an arrest, prosecutors must prove “beyond a reasonable doubt” that an officer acted criminally. Most fatal officer-involved shootings are deemed justifiable homicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, according to the FBI, law enforcement officers nationwide committed 393 justifiable homicides. A review of news articles about on-duty officer-involved shootings in California shows that since 2005, only three officers have been prosecuted in a fatal or near-fatal shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most prominent was the case of former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle. In 2010, a jury acquitted Mehserle of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter after he was captured on video shooting an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, in the back on a train platform in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009. The jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter, and he was sentenced to two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, a jury swiftly acquitted former San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Ivory Webb of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm. A cellphone video had shown Webb opening fire on Iraq War veteran Elio Carrion, a passenger in a car that had led Webb on a high-speed chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in 2005, a San Jose jury acquitted state Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement agent Mike Walker of voluntary manslaughter charges. He’d shot and killed Rudy Cardenas, a father of five whom he’d mistaken for a wanted parole violator, after Cardenas led him on a car and foot chase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear if former police officers investigated the three cases that led to a prosecution – those records are kept secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Policies Vary Across Counties\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors are not legally required to conduct investigations into police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After budget cuts in 2010, Fresno County District Attorney Elizabeth Egan halted her office’s investigations of officer-involved shootings, a practice that had been in place since 1984. After widespread complaints – including from the Fresno police chief – a Fresno County grand jury recommended Egan reverse her decision. She declined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully made a similar decision in 2011. A slew of shootings has since prompted furor over Scully’s decision, including urgent requests from Sacramento County law enforcement to resume the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to do them, if we were given the resources,” said Assistant District Attorney Albert Locher, who once supervised the unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kern County district attorney’s office investigates shootings at the county’s small police agencies but has never investigated officer-involved shootings at the county’s two largest agencies, the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a high-profile police shooting several years ago, District Attorney Lisa Green said she saw no need to investigate because “the public might view the district attorney’s office as a rubber stamp.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although I would never approach it that way, the community may view it otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in many cities, officials said, the investigations serve as assurance to the public that the death is being treated seriously. Police officials say the investigations can restore confidence in a department. Without them, only the police are left to investigate their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It allows the public to sleep better at night,” said former police officer Mike Donovan, chief investigator at the Napa County district attorney’s office and treasurer of the California District Attorney Investigators’ Association. “Knowing that if there is an officer-involved shooting, there’s some other level than just the agency itself that gets to make the decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, law enforcement agencies and the areas they cover are so large that the 256 former police officers at the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office are unlikely to know anyone they are assigned to investigate, spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some prosecutors have decided to avoid the appearance of a conflict by assigning others to the task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis assigned a single investigator to work on officer-involved shootings. Although a former police officer, the investigator has never worked for a San Diego County law enforcement agency, spokesman Steve Walker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Oakland Shooting Sparks Protest\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, several police shootings have galvanized the community. But instead of instilling confidence in the system, the report from the Alameda County district attorney’s office has provoked suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Officer Miguel Masso fatally shot Alan Blueford in May, activists and residents shut down a City Council meeting in protest, and Blueford’s family filed a civil suit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In District Attorney Nancy O’Malley’s office, several investigators, mainly former law enforcement officers from the Oakland Police Department and a few other county agencies, are assigned to a rotating on-call team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an officer-involved shooting occurs, an on-call inspector and prosecutor report to the scene, sit in on witness and officer interviews, and review evidence collected by each police department and coroner’s office. In Blueford’s case, Foster and Senior District Attorney Ken Mifsud were on call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After O’Malley released a report on Foster’s investigation, Blueford’s supporters released their own, in which they said the prosecutor’s report lacked “professionalism and objectivity, and appears to be directed at swaying public opinion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report writer, Darrell Whitman, a regional investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor, analyzed the heavily redacted police and coroner’s reports released to the public. He said the evidence made it seem more likely that Blueford was unarmed on the ground when Masso shot him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso and his partner had stopped Blueford and two other teens just before midnight on suspicion that they were hiding a gun. Moments later, Blueford broke away. There was a brief foot chase before Masso said Blueford pointed a gun at him, and the officer reacted with gunfire, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Masso said Blueford had shot him. Police later determined that Masso had accidentally shot himself in the foot. The gun Masso said Blueford possessed was found 20 feet from Blueford’s body, and investigators determined it had not been fired. Investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his report, Whitman pointed to discrepancies in the evidence that he said Foster and Mifsud should have examined. Instead, he said, they unquestioningly accepted Masso’s account. Mifsud declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, according to the redacted police reports, of the 16 people who witnessed the shooting, only three said they saw Blueford with a gun. Another witness said he had not seen a gun but had seen Blueford grabbing his waistband. A fifth witness said he had overheard another woman saying Blueford was armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Masso told investigators that his first shot caused Blueford to fall into a gate and onto the ground, but according to the redacted reports, most witnesses said Blueford already was on the ground when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight witnesses said they heard Blueford say, “I didn’t do anything!” right before the gunfire. Mifsud and Foster’s report detailed Masso’s accidental shooting of his own foot but otherwise repeated Masso’s account of the shooting and did not mention Blueford’s alleged statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whitman also said Foster and Mifsud didn’t appear to question some of the police department’s actions. Although investigators found one of Blueford’s fingerprints on the gun, Whitman noted that at least two officers handled the gun before it was secured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it was photographed, the magazine already had been removed, “possibly contaminating DNA and biological evidence,” he wrote. In addition, per department policy, Masso had never turned on his lapel camera. Whitman said the camera footage might have captured the entire incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you have nothing else, you want to fight for your kid,” said Blueford’s father, Adam Blueford. “My son was on the ground screaming, pleading for his life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley declined to comment on the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others said they would not be so quick to dismiss the activists’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From a public point of view, (using former officers) might not be the best course of action,” said Tony Monheim, a retired Miami-Dade police officer who now leads training on officer-involved shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public has its own perception of what is going on,” Monheim said. “Maybe it’s a better thing to try to ease the tension a little bit and not have someone investigate themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Under city law, the board must determine that any large development project appears to pencil out financially before the full planning process can commence.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-council-rejects-tree-appeal-4038468.php\">Oakland council rejects tree appeal\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>After a quarter-century of legal and political battles to clear city and neighbors’ trees, Phyllis Bishop is set to regain the panoramic bay view she once had from her Oakland hills home. 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It's unclear how many workers were underage.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Slain-Libya-ambassador-honored-in-S-F-3954935.php\">Slain Libya ambassador honored in S.F.\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Slain Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, once a mischievous and charming East Bay boy, grew into a respected diplomat who devoted his life to bringing freedom and democracy to the people of Libya. Hundreds of mourners who gathered for a memorial service Tuesday in the San Francisco City Hall rotunda celebrated a man who never lost that youthful knack for charm and persuasion as he served his country and helped Libyans as they overthrew their dictator.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Oakland-port-spending-More-muck-ahead-3954652.php\">Oakland port spending: More muck ahead\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The $4,500 that Oakland port Maritime Director James Kwon allegedly shelled out to entertain shipping executives at a Houston strip club may be only the most embarrassing example of the port's misspent public dollars. According to a well-placed source, port Executive Director Omar Benjamin and the commissioners who oversee the operation were told in closed session that the port is looking at \"hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenditures\" by higher-ups going back several years.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Oakland-pension-board-to-appeal-ruling-3954647.php\">Oakland pension board to appeal ruling\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A board governing an Oakland police officers' pension plan said Tuesday it will appeal part of a judge's order that called for the board to reduce benefits and pay back $11.5 million in benefits that the court deemed were wrongfully paid out. 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