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She said the officers she slept with knew she was involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, salacious and damning details continued to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next chapter in the case opened last Friday, as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police Officer\u003c/a> Brian Bunton was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to obstruct justice and engaging in an act of prostitution. On that same day, the\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\"> Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> moved to discipline nine of its officers for their involvement with the scandal. The disciplines ranged from one termination to letters of reprimand for five officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many, the scandal isn’t just about the one woman, now known by her real name, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106716 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Abuslin's attorney Pamela Price is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abuslin’s lawyer, Pamela Price, told reporters at a press conference two weeks ago that she had heard from other potential victims via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you step back from it, how is it possible that this many officers could be engaged in this kind of activity over this period of time and she be the only one?” Price told KQED in an earlier interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, despite the resignations and reprimands and coming prosecutions, none of the agencies involved have said publicly whether other victims have surfaced during their internal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Perpetrators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former victims say this type of police sexual misconduct is not a one-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola Brantley, co-founder and former executive director of MISSSEY, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking, says sexual misconduct between police and people involved in the sex industry happens quite often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re talking about a highly vulnerable population of individuals. It’s very, very common,” Brantley said. “Part of the abuse is the abuse that you receive at the hands of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley said she herself was abused by a San Francisco police officer when she was 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Brantley wrote, “[the officer] was assigned to my high school and part of a program I was also a part of called Youth Court. It began with him targeting me, getting my telephone number off the program list and building trust with me over hours and hours on the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley wrote that the officer was later terminated from SFPD, accepted a plea deal and did no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her email, she wrote that the experience impacted her ability to feel safe and reduced her confidence in people with power and authority. Today Brantley helps others through training and consulting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was at MISSSEY, Brantley says, “We’d have girls that would come in all the time and talk about being raped by police officers” or talk about how “police would not put pressure on their traffickers as long as they were allowed to have sexual contact with the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenges of Documenting Abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Special Agent Marty Parker works extensively with local law enforcement agencies around the Bay Area to combat human trafficking. She cautioned against taking all reports of police sexual misconduct at face value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she couldn’t comment specifically on the Bay Area scandal, Parker said, “...one thing that a lot of the agencies investigate pretty regularly are people out there who present to these girls as law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"IggFgitgB5iUVxy2DO1TF8ansQOXJPYr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get that a lot. There’s always open cases at Oakland PD and other departments as well, where they’re picking up these girls and then demanding sex and stating that they’re law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a lot of the victims don’t even realize when they’re assaulted by someone who isn’t a real officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Lutnick, a senior research scientist with nonprofit RTI International, has been doing research on the sex industry for over 20 years. Some of her most recent work has been focused on the experiences of young people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said her findings are similar to what other researchers have found. “Young people are reporting that they’re experiencing violence more often from law enforcement officials than from any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That violence can be physical. It can be sexual ... it’s common for police officers to sexually assault them in exchange for not being arrested,” Lutnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the abuse happens during the context of an undercover operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social worker Lutnick spoke with during the course of her research told her about how a police officer in Southern California sexually abused her underage client during an undercover prostitution operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said the youth reported to the caseworker that she got into a man’s car and fondled him while they drove to a gas station and ATM to take out money. The youth said she fondled him for at least five minutes before the man identified himself as law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward the youth told the caseworker, “I don’t understand. If he’s an undercover cop and I’m a minor, isn’t he not supposed to, you know, let me do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Undercover Operations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it doesn’t appear that any of the police sexual misconduct involving Jasmine Abuslin happened during undercover operations, her story has highlighted the importance of training and policies when it comes to how police deal with people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, each police department determines its own policies and procedures. In an effort to better understand how and when police sexual misconduct occurs, KQED requested the policies and procedures for undercover operations from the San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department did not respond in time for publication and the Richmond Police Department issued no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has put its \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak058215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">policies and procedures online\u003c/a>. That policy was updated on Feb. 28, 2014, to include language under the section entitled “Safety Briefing”. The language in H-J outlines the physical contact officers are not allowed to have with subjects of vice/undercover human trafficking investigations, but it also outlines what is allowed, including “unprompted touching”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>H. Undercover officers \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">shall not initiate\u003c/span> the touching of a subject or officer's\u003cbr>\ngenitals (e.g. testicles, penis, labia, clitoris, and vagina) or intimate parts\u003cbr>\n(e.g. breast or buttocks). An unprompted touch of an officer by a subject\u003cbr>\ndoes not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. The touching of a subject or officer's clothed or covered genitals or intimate\u003cbr>\nbody parts (aka \"cop check\"), not initiated by the officer, to further a police\u003cbr>\nobjective is allowed unless the subject is a known juvenile or the officer\u003cbr>\nreasonably believes the subject is a juvenile;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Skin to skin touching of a subject or officer's genitals (e.g. testicles, penis,\u003cbr>\nlabia, clitoris, vagina) is strictly prohibited. An unprompted touch of an\u003cbr>\nofficer by a subject does not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the Oakland Police Department several times by phone and email to discuss its policies and procedures for undercover operations. The department did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Marsh is a human trafficking expert who has trained police across California on best practices. He worked for the Westminster Police Department in Southern California for over 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh explained that the language in H-J in Oakland’s policies is there to keep officers safe and to make sure they're not held accountable in situations that are beyond their control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the person being prostituted will try to prove you’re not a cop and so they’ll reach over and try to grab your genital area or grab your hand and put it on their breast or their crotch area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said \"cop checks\" are one of several reasons his department didn’t do street stings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microphones and pinhole cameras can be used to help keep officers accountable during undercover operations, but the ideal situation is one where there is no disrobing or touching involved, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk well enough and you understand how to interact with people ... and ask the right questions, you never have to take your clothes off at all,” Marsh said. “Long before that part comes up, you’ve gotten your solicitation and you’re out the door and no one’s the wiser for you being an officer and that person is not victimized other than having to go through the solicitation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said this approach leads to “a lot less finger-pointing, a lot less potential for traumatizing anyone or getting a complaint for inappropriate conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether undercover officers need to have direct physical contact is dependent on the sophistication of the vice unit and what they have experience doing, as well as what the district attorney of that jurisdiction will accept as far as the terms of a solicitation, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving Forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing the agencies involved in the scandal need to do to rebuild public trust is to conduct ethics training for their entire departments, according to John Vanek, a consultant and retired lieutenant from the San Jose Police Department, who managed the department’s Human Trafficking Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what he’s read about the scandal, Vanek said, “It appears that people in supervisory and or management positions may have failed in their responsibility to respond when they suspected that something wrong was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> has said that lieutenants and sergeants are among those facing discipline in that department. It is unclear whether any of the Oakland officers facing discipline are managers or supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106801 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1-960x639.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21247_libby-schaaf-qut-1.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf being interviewed on KQED Newsroom about police sexual misconduct. \u003ccite>(KQED Newsroom)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Sept. 7 press conference where Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced discipline against 12 \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police officers\u003c/a>, Schaaf said, “We will be changing several of our policies and training requirements to increase officer awareness and ability to recognize the signs of sexual abuse and exploitation and better help victims to escape such abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the mayor’s office, to get more details on the training and policy changes and to see if the changes will be departmentwide, but received no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek said what’s happened in the Bay Area is a failure in leadership. He said while no one can control every member of an agency, “it is the leader’s responsibility to instill ethical and professional behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek referred to Abuslin’s situation as being “exceptionally sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears she was victimized by many people and ultimately she was victimized by and taken advantage of by police officers,” Vanek said. “And it is police officers that need to be the most trustworthy people in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Oakland Police Department's policies and procedures for undercover operations below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=325661373 key=key-crTLLP80azlY0YMWXQ1H mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It all started in late spring, when a now 19-year-old woman, known then by her pseudonym, Celeste Guap, told several news outlets she’d had sex with dozens of police officers from seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies, some when she was underage. She said the officers she slept with knew she was involved in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, salacious and damning details continued to emerge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://soundcloud.com/kqed/bay-area-police-sexual-misconduct-scandal-may-be-more-extensive'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next chapter in the case opened last Friday, as \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland police Officer\u003c/a> Brian Bunton was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to obstruct justice and engaging in an act of prostitution. On that same day, the\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\"> Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> moved to discipline nine of its officers for their involvement with the scandal. The disciplines ranged from one termination to letters of reprimand for five officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to many, the scandal isn’t just about the one woman, now known by her real name, Jasmine Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11106716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11106716 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jasmine Abuslin's attorney Pamela Price is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-1180x786.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21245_price-walking-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jasmine Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, is flanked by reporters as she leaves an Oakland press conference on Sept. 15, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicole Reinert/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abuslin’s lawyer, Pamela Price, told reporters at a press conference two weeks ago that she had heard from other potential victims via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you step back from it, how is it possible that this many officers could be engaged in this kind of activity over this period of time and she be the only one?” Price told KQED in an earlier interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, despite the resignations and reprimands and coming prosecutions, none of the agencies involved have said publicly whether other victims have surfaced during their internal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Police Perpetrators\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former victims say this type of police sexual misconduct is not a one-off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nola Brantley, co-founder and former executive director of MISSSEY, an organization that helps victims of sex trafficking, says sexual misconduct between police and people involved in the sex industry happens quite often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re talking about a highly vulnerable population of individuals. It’s very, very common,” Brantley said. “Part of the abuse is the abuse that you receive at the hands of law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley said she herself was abused by a San Francisco police officer when she was 14 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email, Brantley wrote, “[the officer] was assigned to my high school and part of a program I was also a part of called Youth Court. It began with him targeting me, getting my telephone number off the program list and building trust with me over hours and hours on the phone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brantley wrote that the officer was later terminated from SFPD, accepted a plea deal and did no jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her email, she wrote that the experience impacted her ability to feel safe and reduced her confidence in people with power and authority. Today Brantley helps others through training and consulting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she was at MISSSEY, Brantley says, “We’d have girls that would come in all the time and talk about being raped by police officers” or talk about how “police would not put pressure on their traffickers as long as they were allowed to have sexual contact with the girls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Challenges of Documenting Abuse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FBI Special Agent Marty Parker works extensively with local law enforcement agencies around the Bay Area to combat human trafficking. She cautioned against taking all reports of police sexual misconduct at face value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she couldn’t comment specifically on the Bay Area scandal, Parker said, “...one thing that a lot of the agencies investigate pretty regularly are people out there who present to these girls as law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We get that a lot. There’s always open cases at Oakland PD and other departments as well, where they’re picking up these girls and then demanding sex and stating that they’re law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a lot of the victims don’t even realize when they’re assaulted by someone who isn’t a real officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alexandra Lutnick, a senior research scientist with nonprofit RTI International, has been doing research on the sex industry for over 20 years. Some of her most recent work has been focused on the experiences of young people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said her findings are similar to what other researchers have found. “Young people are reporting that they’re experiencing violence more often from law enforcement officials than from any other group.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That violence can be physical. It can be sexual ... it’s common for police officers to sexually assault them in exchange for not being arrested,” Lutnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the abuse happens during the context of an undercover operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One social worker Lutnick spoke with during the course of her research told her about how a police officer in Southern California sexually abused her underage client during an undercover prostitution operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lutnick said the youth reported to the caseworker that she got into a man’s car and fondled him while they drove to a gas station and ATM to take out money. The youth said she fondled him for at least five minutes before the man identified himself as law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afterward the youth told the caseworker, “I don’t understand. If he’s an undercover cop and I’m a minor, isn’t he not supposed to, you know, let me do that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Undercover Operations\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it doesn’t appear that any of the police sexual misconduct involving Jasmine Abuslin happened during undercover operations, her story has highlighted the importance of training and policies when it comes to how police deal with people involved in the sex industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, each police department determines its own policies and procedures. In an effort to better understand how and when police sexual misconduct occurs, KQED requested the policies and procedures for undercover operations from the San Francisco, Richmond and Oakland police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department did not respond in time for publication and the Richmond Police Department issued no response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland Police Department has put its \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak058215.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">policies and procedures online\u003c/a>. That policy was updated on Feb. 28, 2014, to include language under the section entitled “Safety Briefing”. The language in H-J outlines the physical contact officers are not allowed to have with subjects of vice/undercover human trafficking investigations, but it also outlines what is allowed, including “unprompted touching”:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>H. Undercover officers \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline\">shall not initiate\u003c/span> the touching of a subject or officer's\u003cbr>\ngenitals (e.g. testicles, penis, labia, clitoris, and vagina) or intimate parts\u003cbr>\n(e.g. breast or buttocks). An unprompted touch of an officer by a subject\u003cbr>\ndoes not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. The touching of a subject or officer's clothed or covered genitals or intimate\u003cbr>\nbody parts (aka \"cop check\"), not initiated by the officer, to further a police\u003cbr>\nobjective is allowed unless the subject is a known juvenile or the officer\u003cbr>\nreasonably believes the subject is a juvenile;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J. Skin to skin touching of a subject or officer's genitals (e.g. testicles, penis,\u003cbr>\nlabia, clitoris, vagina) is strictly prohibited. An unprompted touch of an\u003cbr>\nofficer by a subject does not constitute a violation of Policy;\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to the Oakland Police Department several times by phone and email to discuss its policies and procedures for undercover operations. The department did not respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Marsh is a human trafficking expert who has trained police across California on best practices. He worked for the Westminster Police Department in Southern California for over 26 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh explained that the language in H-J in Oakland’s policies is there to keep officers safe and to make sure they're not held accountable in situations that are beyond their control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the person being prostituted will try to prove you’re not a cop and so they’ll reach over and try to grab your genital area or grab your hand and put it on their breast or their crotch area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said \"cop checks\" are one of several reasons his department didn’t do street stings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Microphones and pinhole cameras can be used to help keep officers accountable during undercover operations, but the ideal situation is one where there is no disrobing or touching involved, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk well enough and you understand how to interact with people ... and ask the right questions, you never have to take your clothes off at all,” Marsh said. “Long before that part comes up, you’ve gotten your solicitation and you’re out the door and no one’s the wiser for you being an officer and that person is not victimized other than having to go through the solicitation process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marsh said this approach leads to “a lot less finger-pointing, a lot less potential for traumatizing anyone or getting a complaint for inappropriate conduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether undercover officers need to have direct physical contact is dependent on the sophistication of the vice unit and what they have experience doing, as well as what the district attorney of that jurisdiction will accept as far as the terms of a solicitation, Marsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Moving Forward\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing the agencies involved in the scandal need to do to rebuild public trust is to conduct ethics training for their entire departments, according to John Vanek, a consultant and retired lieutenant from the San Jose Police Department, who managed the department’s Human Trafficking Task Force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what he’s read about the scandal, Vanek said, “It appears that people in supervisory and or management positions may have failed in their responsibility to respond when they suspected that something wrong was going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Police Department\u003c/a> has said that lieutenants and sergeants are among those facing discipline in that department. 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He said while no one can control every member of an agency, “it is the leader’s responsibility to instill ethical and professional behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanek referred to Abuslin’s situation as being “exceptionally sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears she was victimized by many people and ultimately she was victimized by and taken advantage of by police officers,” Vanek said. “And it is police officers that need to be the most trustworthy people in our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Oakland Police Department's policies and procedures for undercover operations below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton pleaded not guilty Friday to felony and misdemeanor charges related to a wide-ranging sexual exploitation case involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton listened without emotion to the charges against him inside a packed courtroom in the Hayward Hall of Justice, including felony conspiracy to obstruct justice for allegedly alerting a Richmond teen working in the sex trade to an undercover prostitution sting.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond Cops Facing Discipline in Sex Exploitation Case Include Sergeants, Lieutenants\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"RS21202_alt_502\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11100909\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-400x253.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-1180x745.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21202_alt_502-1-960x606.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One officer faces firing, one faces demotion, two could be suspended and five may get letters of reprimand.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">seven officers\u003c/a> to be arraigned in Alameda County following an investigation of statements by now 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, who was also known by the alias \"\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">Celeste Guap\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His prosecution for the felony charge appears largely based on text messages with Abuslin, who nicknamed the officer \"Superman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Want some advice?\" the officer allegedly wrote to the then 18-year-old in March, according to screenshots of a text message exchange \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">published by the East Bay Express\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42 tonight,\" the texts say, describing an area known for prostitution in East Oakland. \"There's a UC [undercover] operation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley is also prosecuting Bunton for engaging in an act of prostitution, a misdemeanor. He allegedly received sex in exchange for the information he provided, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111093-Brian-Bunton-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charging documents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Defense attorney Dirk Manoukian entered not guilty pleas on Bunton's behalf, denying each allegation and the \"overt acts\" prosecutors laid out to substantiate a conspiracy charge. Bunton said very little at the hearing, answering simply that he understood the charges against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda Superior Court Judge Armando Cuellar set Bunton's bail at $12,500. Manoukian said his client expects to post bail by Monday, before he is required to turn himself in to Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100816\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100816\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At this point he’s the type of person that is remorseful for some of the decisions that he made,\" Manoukian told reporters after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Bunton has a wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That obviously makes the situation all the more difficult,\" Manoukian said. \"Absolutely he understands there’ll be consequences and those are going on right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoukian said Bunton had changed careers to law enforcement less than two years ago. He declined to specify what Bunton did before joining the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has said she had sex with 30 officers, some when she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price filed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> on Abuslin's behalf against the city of Oakland last week, and says she plans to take similar steps toward lawsuits in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BI2An7rfcm69WxRZ7ic32iIXsESurHBz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He obviously knows who else was involved in this sex trafficking of minors and we hope that he will find a way to tell that story,” Price said outside the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first law enforcement officer to be arraigned on charges stemming from the sexual exploitation scandal involving at least seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers involved in the sex scandal are scheduled to be arraigned in the Hayward Courthouse on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Perez, a former Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy faces one felony charge for oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor charges for engaging in a lewd act in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Oakland Police Officer Leroy Johnson faces a misdemeanor charge for failing to report child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley's office has yet to formally file misdemeanor charges against Oakland Police Officer Warit Utappa and former Officer Tyrell Smith, who resigned in May. She outlined charges she plans to file against those and other officers at a Sept. 9 press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both officers allegedly searched criminal justice databases for Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said her office's investigation uncovered potential crimes in at least three neighboring counties -- San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond -- in Contra Costa County -- \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">moved to fire\u003c/a> one officer and discipline eight others Friday. 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Manoukian said his client expects to post bail by Monday, before he is required to turn himself in to Santa Rita Jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11100816\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11100816\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-800x540.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-400x270.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-1180x796.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS21205_alt_504-960x648.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Police Officer Brian Bunton walks away from reporters outside his Sept. 23 arraignment hearing. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"At this point he’s the type of person that is remorseful for some of the decisions that he made,\" Manoukian told reporters after the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Bunton has a wife and children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That obviously makes the situation all the more difficult,\" Manoukian said. \"Absolutely he understands there’ll be consequences and those are going on right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manoukian said Bunton had changed careers to law enforcement less than two years ago. He declined to specify what Bunton did before joining the Oakland Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has said she had sex with 30 officers, some when she was under 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price filed a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> on Abuslin's behalf against the city of Oakland last week, and says she plans to take similar steps toward lawsuits in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He obviously knows who else was involved in this sex trafficking of minors and we hope that he will find a way to tell that story,” Price said outside the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bunton is the first law enforcement officer to be arraigned on charges stemming from the sexual exploitation scandal involving at least seven Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two more officers involved in the sex scandal are scheduled to be arraigned in the Hayward Courthouse on Sept. 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ricardo Perez, a former Contra Costa County Sheriff's deputy faces one felony charge for oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor charges for engaging in a lewd act in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired Oakland Police Officer Leroy Johnson faces a misdemeanor charge for failing to report child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley's office has yet to formally file misdemeanor charges against Oakland Police Officer Warit Utappa and former Officer Tyrell Smith, who resigned in May. She outlined charges she plans to file against those and other officers at a Sept. 9 press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both officers allegedly searched criminal justice databases for Abuslin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O'Malley said her office's investigation uncovered potential crimes in at least three neighboring counties -- San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond -- in Contra Costa County -- \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/richmond-cops-facing-discipline-in-sex-exploitation-case-include-sergeants-lieutenants/\" target=\"_blank\">moved to fire\u003c/a> one officer and discipline eight others Friday. That city's police chief, Allwyn Brown, reported \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">last week\u003c/a> that an internal investigation found no criminal wrongdoing by Richmond officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Richmond is moving to fire one officer and impose varying degrees of discipline against eight others in its response to a sweeping sexual exploitation scandal involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scandal centers around 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, a Richmond resident who appears to have been the victim of child sexual exploitation. Formerly known as \"Celeste Guap,\" she has told various media outlets that she began working in the sex trade at age 12, and had sexual relationships with as many as 30 Bay Area law enforcement officers, starting when she was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\" target=\"_blank\">First Officer Arraigned in Police Sex Exploitation Case Pleads Not Guilty\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/23/first-officer-arraigned-in-police-sex-exploitation-case-pleads-not-guilty/\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1-800x555.jpg\" alt=\"RS13713_alt_503\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11100929\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1-1180x819.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/RS13713_alt_503-1-960x667.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First of seven officers to face criminal charges in Alameda County arraigned Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I am both disappointed and outraged that the individual behavior of some Richmond police officers has brought discredit to the department and serves to undermine community trust,\" Richmond Mayor Tom Butt said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay released information Friday about the city's move to discipline nine officers. One faces termination, one could be demoted, two face suspensions and five others could get letters of reprimand in their personnel files.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the pool of those facing discipline includes multiple lieutenants, sergeants and officers. He said he couldn't elaborate further, citing strict privacy protections in state law for peace officer discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Believe me, I'd like to tell you more,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed discipline is neither final nor immediate. Each officer has 10 days to request a private hearing, according to the city's press release. After that, the city's police chief will recommend upholding the discipline recommended or reducing it -- possibly to nothing. City Manager Lindsay makes the near-final determination, but officers have 14 days to again dispute the discipline, and could request binding arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Mayor's Office did not immediately respond to questions as to whether the laws cited in the city's press release, which keep peace officer disciplinary information secret, should be changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department and Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office were involved in securing state victim funds to facilitate drug-addiction treatment for the teenager in Florida last month, a move criticized by advocates and the Alameda County district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Richmond Police Department has been purposeful in trying to protect the human dignity of the teenage witness since the investigation was opened,\" the city's statement released Friday says. \"The Department will not comment on matters that are covered by privacy protections guaranteed by law, and specific privacy protections that cover victims of crimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin was promptly arrested under suspicion of battery in Florida for biting a security guard at a treatment facility there, and she spent over two weeks in a jail before accepting a plea deal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">returning to the Bay Area\u003c/a> in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's civil rights attorneys have since filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/324269040/J-A-vs-City-of-Oakland-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> against the city of Oakland and have said they plan to initiate similar lawsuits in at least five other jurisdictions: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco, Livermore and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven current and former law enforcement officers face \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">criminal charges in Alameda County\u003c/a> related to their relationships with the teen. Those \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/19/2-more-opd-officers-contra-costa-deputy-charged-in-sex-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">charges range\u003c/a> from felonies like conspiracy to obstruct justice and oral copulation with a minor to misdemeanor prostitution and lewd conduct charges. Officers are also charged with illegally accessing law enforcement information and failing to report a victim of child abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Police Chief Allwyn Brown \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/12/police-chief-no-crimes-by-richmond-officers-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">reported last week\u003c/a> that an internal investigation found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in a pool of 11 Richmond officers under suspicion. His memo to city leadership said some of the officers would face discipline for violating department policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am sorry that the misconduct of these individuals has brought embarrassment to the City of Richmond and the Richmond Police Department,\" Brown said in a written statement. He did not immediately respond to follow-up inquires Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager at the center of the scandal \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/06/30/opd-sex-scandal-sheriffs-deputy-resigns-richmond-officers-named/\" target=\"_blank\">told the East Bay Times\u003c/a> in July that she had sexual contact with at least five Richmond officers, including Richmond police spokesman Lt. Andre Hill, Sgts. 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City Manager Lindsay makes the near-final determination, but officers have 14 days to again dispute the discipline, and could request binding arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Mayor's Office did not immediately respond to questions as to whether the laws cited in the city's press release, which keep peace officer disciplinary information secret, should be changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department and Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office were involved in securing state victim funds to facilitate drug-addiction treatment for the teenager in Florida last month, a move criticized by advocates and the Alameda County district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Richmond Police Department has been purposeful in trying to protect the human dignity of the teenage witness since the investigation was opened,\" the city's statement released Friday says. \"The Department will not comment on matters that are covered by privacy protections guaranteed by law, and specific privacy protections that cover victims of crimes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin was promptly arrested under suspicion of battery in Florida for biting a security guard at a treatment facility there, and she spent over two weeks in a jail before accepting a plea deal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">returning to the Bay Area\u003c/a> in mid-September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's civil rights attorneys have since filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/324269040/J-A-vs-City-of-Oakland-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">legal claim\u003c/a> against the city of Oakland and have said they plan to initiate similar lawsuits in at least five other jurisdictions: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco, Livermore and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven current and former law enforcement officers face \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">criminal charges in Alameda County\u003c/a> related to their relationships with the teen. 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"content": "\u003cp>Three more peace officers were formally charged Monday in a case involving allegations of wide-ranging sexual exploitation at the hands of Bay Area law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All three face felony charges and are accused of engaging in sexual acts with the teenager at the center of the scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland's hushed investigation into sexual exploitation and misconduct reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\" target=\"_blank\">exposed by an officer's suicide\u003c/a> note led to increased \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/15/federal-monitor-police-crisis-could-be-most-trying-time-in-opds-history/\" target=\"_blank\">federal scrutiny\u003c/a> and appears to have instigated former Police Chief \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Whent's resignation\u003c/a> in June. As the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">department's crisis expanded\u003c/a>, so did allegations of officer misconduct and criminal sexual exploitation in other jurisdictions. They all centered around the teenage daughter of an OPD dispatcher who appears to have been the victim of child sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Officer Brian Bunton faces a felony conspiracy to obstruct justice charge for allegedly tipping off the woman -- who called herself \"Celeste Guap\" -- to undercover prostitution stings. She worked in the sex trade at the time, and appears to have been a sexually exploited minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman shared an exchange with \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">East Bay Express\u003c/a> reporters, in which the officer she nicknamed \"Superman\" on her cellphone asked if she \"wants some advice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Stay off E14 from Fruitvale to 42 tonight,\" the officer allegedly wrote. \"There's a UC [undercover] operation. ... Just giving you a heads up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111093-Brian-Bunton-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charges\u003c/a> filed Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In the exchange, Bunton, who was identified by the screen name \"Superman\" told her to stay away from International on a particular night because [there] was a UC operation going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subject, per reporting party, received sex in exchange for the information.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bunton is also charged with one misdemeanor -- engaging in prostitution.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"vMuXg0bSM8Hb3l7zn2o5dG0KbLvmNWU7\"]\u003cbr>\nNo current or former officers charged or likely to be charged in Alameda County will face statutory rape allegations, District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy O'Malley said\u003c/a> in early September, but some are being charged with oral copulation with a minor, a felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the only \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111094-Giovani-LoVerde-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charge\u003c/a> filed against Oakland Officer Giovanni LoVerde Monday. He allegedly started talking with the woman online and told prosecutors he never met her in person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors allege that sometime in July 2015, when the woman was 17 years old, LoVerde met her near Oakland's Lake Merritt and engaged in a sex act with her in the entryway of a apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Contra Costa Sheriff's Deputy Ricardo Perez \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/30/contra-costa-deputy-resigns-amid-growing-sexual-misconduct-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned in late June\u003c/a> amid the growing scandal. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111090-Ricardo-Perez-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">charged\u003c/a> Monday with felony oral copulation with a minor and two misdemeanor counts of engaging in lewd conduct in a public place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez could have faced many more criminal counts, according to the woman's allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subject per victim had sexual intercourse with her about 10 times in an unknown location near Fish Ranch Road in the Oakland Hills when she was 17 years old,\" according to the declaration of probable cause attached to charges against Perez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Perez said that \"his first sexual contact with the victim was between 5 to 7 days after 18, August 2015,\" according to the charging documents -- a range of dates that includes the woman's 18th birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It appears that the subject engaged in at least one sex act, oral copulation, with the subject when she was 17 years old in a public place,\" the declaration says, adding that additional sex acts also occurred in a public place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/16/criminal-charges-legal-claim-filed-in-cop-sexual-exploitation-case/\" target=\"_blank\">prosecutors charged\u003c/a> former Livermore Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111091-Daniel-Black-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Black\u003c/a> and former Oakland Officer \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3111092-Leroy-Johnson-Complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leroy Johnson\u003c/a> last week. OPD Officer Warit Utappa and former OPD Officer Tyrell Smith are expected to be formally charged in coming days, bringing the total number of current and former officers charged in Alameda County to seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional charges could come in neighboring counties, according to O'Malley's comments earlier this month. Investigations remain open in Contra Costa and San Francisco counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the woman at the center of the scandal recently \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">returned to the Bay Area\u003c/a> and is represented by civil rights attorneys who have said she plans to fully cooperate with criminal prosecutions. 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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly a year after a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/%3Fp%3D11031041\">suicide\u003c/a> note by an Oakland Police Department officer set off an investigation of sexual misconduct involving an East Bay teenager, Alameda County’s district attorney has filed the first criminal \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/324269610/Criminal-Charges-Against-2-Former-Officers-in-Sexual-Exploitation-Case\">charges\u003c/a> against two officers in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents received Friday by the Alameda County Superior Court accuse former Livermore Police Officer Dan Black of five misdemeanor counts for engaging in prostitution, lewd conduct in a public place and providing alcohol to a minor on two occasions in April this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leroy Johnson, a retired OPD sergeant faces a single misdemeanor count of failure to report child abuse. Court papers recount the witness claimed she told Johnson through a Facebook communication that she had sex with other members of the OPD, some before her 18th birthday. Johnson allegedly told her that he would not report it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges arise out of allegations from 19-year-old Jasmine Abuslin, also known as Celeste Guap, a former sex worker who may have been the victim of child sex trafficking. Abuslin told police investigators she had sexual encounters with 30 law enforcement officers in the Bay Area and that at least four of those interactions occurred when she was still a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the teenager also filed a claim Friday against Oakland for $66 million in economic damages and additional undisclosed amounts. 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These are the officers who were engaging in sex trafficking and I was part of the same group that Jasmine was part of.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price criticized Contra Costa County’s district attorney for not acting sooner to investigate allegations of criminal police conduct there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only the Alameda County district attorney has opened a criminal investigation of police officers implicated in the scandal. At a press conference last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">D.A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers planned to file similar claims next week against other jurisdictions who employed officers accused of sexually exploiting Abuslin, including the cities of Livermore, Richmond, San Francisco and Alameda, Contra Costa and San Joaquin counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a press conference Thursday, attorney Pamela Price said additional victims have contacted her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jasmine was not the only one.” Price said. \"I have received emails from other young women that said, ‘Yes, I live in Richmond. This happened to me. These are the officers who were engaging in sex trafficking and I was part of the same group that Jasmine was part of.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price criticized Contra Costa County’s district attorney for not acting sooner to investigate allegations of criminal police conduct there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only the Alameda County district attorney has opened a criminal investigation of police officers implicated in the scandal. At a press conference last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">D.A. Nancy O’Malley announced plans to charge seven East Bay law enforcement officers\u003c/a>, but said she found evidence of criminal conduct in other counties that she could not prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said that clearly shows \"there is a failure in communication and coordination among law enforcement agencies, where you can have one district attorney who says, 'I have evidence of wrongdoing by an officer of the law, but I can’t prosecute him because he’s not in my jurisdiction.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said a representative from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office called her for the first time this week since the scandal broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are interested now in doing some type of investigation.” Price said. “They want to talk to Jasmine about what perhaps she knows about what’s been happening in their jurisdiction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement Thursday, Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson acknowledged they are taking another look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recently, we’ve been made aware of additional allegations of possible criminal conduct here in Contra Costa County,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peterson said his department was reviewing that evidence and allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes without saying that our office will always investigate any alleged sexual assault or human trafficking crimes that occur within our county, and we’re committed to holding anyone who committed such crimes in Contra Costa County accountable for their actions,” Peterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb tweeted Friday that Contra Costa’s district attorney should also investigate Richmond Police officers who sent Abuslin to Florida for rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teenager's attorneys claim Richmond Police coerced her to fly 3,000 miles away for addiction treatment at the Treasure Coast Recovery Center where she was held against her will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond officials have said that the teenager went into treatment voluntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to attorney Charles Bonner, when his client tried to leave the center, “10 people surrounded her -- big men and women. And then one had a big needle -- and she said, ‘What are you going to do with this needle?’ And they said, ‘We can do this.’ And then they grabbed her, and some big guy grabbed her in a bear hug from behind, and she bit him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin was jailed for assault for 17 days until her attorneys got the charges lessened and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/14/teen-victim-in-cop-sex-case-freed-from-florida-jail-returning-to-bay-area/\" target=\"_blank\">secured her release on Wednesday\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven Richmond Police officers were investigated for inappropriate contact with the teenager. Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown says allegations his department sent the teen witness away “distort reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/324269040/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-HeJTNdOGsjAPbCuferbk\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/324269040\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_324269040\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/324269040\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The East Bay teenager at the center of a police sexual misconduct case was released from a Florida jail on Wednesday -- free to testify against police officers \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\">charged last week\u003c/a> with exploiting her when she was a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Abuslin -- previously known publicly as Celeste Guap -- appeared in a Martin County, Florida, court to plead no contest to a misdemeanor count of battery. The charge grew out of an altercation at a drug treatment facility to which she'd been sent by law enforcement officials in Richmond, a move that itself is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/09/08/richmond-police-launched-effort-to-send-celeste-guap-to-florida/\" target=\"_blank\">subject of controversy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin has reportedly told investigators that while working in the East Bay sex trade, she had sexual contact with as many as 30 law enforcement officers. Those officers were members of seven different agencies, apparently including the police departments in Oakland, Richmond, Livermore and San Francisco and the sheriff's offices in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley announced her office was bringing charges against seven men, including five Oakland police officers, one from Livermore and a sheriff's deputy from Contra Costa County. The charges include oral copulation with a minor, engaging in an act of prostitution, obstruction of justice and unauthorized access to law enforcement computer systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin's attorney, Pamela Price, said that in addition to helping her client through criminal proceedings against the accused police officers, she and fellow lawyer Charles Bonner plan to sue the seven jurisdictions believed to be involved in the case. She said she also hopes that state and federal agencies will take over the investigation into sex trafficking involving police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin \"is not the only one\" who has been victimized, Price said. She alleged a \"network of police officers\" is involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You cannot have this many officers engaged in this conduct across jurisdictional lines without an internal network and communication amongst all of them,\" Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked repeatedly whether officers had paid Abuslin in exchange for sex, Price said, \"This child has been kidnapped, she has been placed in fear of her life, she has been held against her will in multiple locations in the Bay Area. So whether or not someone gave her a dollar or a dime is irrelevant.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said Abuslin had been trafficked since the age of 12 and decided to drop her pseudonym as part of moving on with her life after the exploitation case made her the center of often hostile attention on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Celeste Guap is dead,\" Price said during a press conference in Stuart, Florida.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guap, Price said, was \"blasted all over the news with Kardashian-like celebrity status (and) was a victim of child sex trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abuslin, on the other hand, \"is a young woman who is going to find herself, who wants to become a veterinarian. She's going to go back to school, she's going to create a life that every young woman should have,\" Price said. \"Jasmine is going to have a second chance\" at life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonner told reporters that the legal team has arranged for Abuslin to receive medical and psychiatric treatment by specialists at Stanford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her charging announcement Friday, Alameda County DA O'Malley criticized Richmond authorities for sending the key witness in a sensitive case to Florida -- ostensibly for drug treatment that the prosecutor said was readily available in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price expanded upon that criticism Wednesday, saying that while she didn't know Richmond officials' motives, Abuslin is not drug-addicted and sending her out of state bore the appearance of witness tampering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She is a witness to criminal activity, a criminal conspiracy in the Bay Area,\" Price said. \"There is no reason or rhyme to why she is here in Stuart, Florida. And the fact that she was arrested in a matter of days, charged and jailed for 17 days on a felony charge is just mind-boggling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a report released earlier this week on his department's handling of the case, Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown rejected suggestions of a conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Representations that we 'sent' this teenage witness away or had her 'removed' to Florida distort reality,\" Brown wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the chief added that several officers in the department could be subject to discipline because of \"individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple department policies and the professional code of ethics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond City Manager Bill Lindsay told KQED's Julie Small on Wednesday that specific disciplinary recommendations will be announced \"within days.\" Because of state laws protecting police privacy, individual officers will not be named.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/07/oakland-seeks-to-fire-4-police-officers-discipline-7-in-sexual-exploitation-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Libby Schaaf announced\u003c/a> the city is moving to fire four officers and place seven others on leave in the sexual exploitation scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Julie Small contributed to this post. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department’s investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against 11 current and former officers found no criminal wrongdoing, according to a report provided by the city mayor’s office Monday night. The probe, however, did find multiple violations of department policy that could lead to firings and other discipline for an unspecified number of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond teen at the center of the broad scandal has said she had sexual contact with officers from several Bay Area law enforcement agencies. The now 19-year-old woman, who goes by the name Celeste Guap, had worked in the sex trade and appears to have been sexually exploited as a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the sexual contact with police officers occurred when she was underage, according to text messages and statements she shared with various Bay Area news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">report\u003c/a>, signed by Richmond Police Chief Allwyn Brown, also addresses the Police Department and city’s role in facilitating Guap’s transfer to an addiction treatment facility in Florida, which has fueled speculation of a cover-up and stalled a neighboring county’s \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/09/alameda-county-da-charges-7-cops-with-sexually-exploiting-teenager/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criminal prosecution of seven\u003c/a> current and former law enforcement officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley announced that she intends to charge seven current and former police officers for their conduct related to Guap. Those pending charges include felony oral copulation with a minor against an Oakland police officer and a former Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Malley said Friday that her office’s investigation had turned up potential crimes in San Francisco, San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties, but she has no authority to prosecute outside her own jurisdiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department’s investigation focused only on Richmond officers and employees, and it uncovered no criminal wrongdoing, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each case is unique. We found no conspiracies,” Police Chief Brown wrote. “The facts show individual, unconnected, non-criminal engagements and other activities that violate multiple Department policies and the professional Code of Ethics on the part of several RPD officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Police Department’s findings will make up recommendations for discipline, according to the mayor’s office, which will also include input from the city’s Department of Human Resources. 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