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(The recall is set for June.) In another public blow, his office recently lost a case against San Francisco Police Department officer Terrance Stangel, in what may be the city’s first trial against an officer for excessive force allegations in the line of duty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907396/san-francisco-officer-not-guilty-of-using-excessive-force\">KQED previously reported\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Monday’s debate, two prosecuting attorneys formerly with Boudin’s office, Brooke Jenkins and Don du Bain, argued Boudin needed to be recalled in light of the fear of crime pervading San Francisco. Jenkins was assigned to the homicide unit in the DA’s office and has been a sex crimes prosecutor. Du Bain is a 30-year prosecutor and also has served as Solano County district attorney.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brooke Jenkins, attorney\"]‘The issue for us is Chesa creates the landscape where criminals think this is OK behavior.’[/pullquote]Those arguing against the recall characterized crime statistics used against Boudin as cherry-picked, with fear-mongering used to drive a wedge between Boudin and the public. The debaters against the recall included Tinisch Hollins, who is a crime survivor and also executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://safeandjust.org/staff/tinisch-hollins/\">Californians for Safety and Justice\u003c/a>, and Richard Corriea, a retired San Francisco police commander who is now the director of the International Institute of Criminal Justice Leadership at the University of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The role of people who prosecute was not viewed as something people who look like me do,” said Jenkins, the former prosecutor for Boudin, speaking of people of color. She joined the San Francisco District Attorney’s office specifically to serve former DA George Gascón, whom she described as “leading the way” on alternative forms of incarceration.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was able to help us balance reform with making sure we kept the community safe,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boudin, she said, is “failing to keep San Franciscans safe.”[aside label=\"Boudin comes to KQED on May 3\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/event/1814,San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin with Political Breakdown\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking against the recall, Richard Corriea said his family has been in the San Francisco Police Department since the 1906 earthquake. He’s a fourth-generation San Franciscan who attended George Washington High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not support Chesa Boudin in his race for district attorney,” Corriea said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what is he doing opposing the Boudin recall? Corriea said he’s seen half-truths and “lies” take hold of crime statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been disturbing, and seems bent on fomenting fear,” he said. “I object to the recall because the promoters said San Francisco would be safer if we’d just dump the district attorney, which is absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, the criminal justice experts tackled homicide rates, shoplifters, and the records of previous district attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the first question, Jenkins suggested that diversion, a procedure by which defendants avoid criminal conviction if they agree to rehabilitation and a period of probation, is overused by DA Boudin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MEGAN CASSIDY: Why is it we should blame the DA for increases in property crimes, but not credit his policies, let’s say, for the relatively low murder rate? If the murder rate goes up somewhat here, but is consistent with the rest of the country, why should we blame the DA’s office for this?\u003c/strong>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richard Correia, retired San Francisco police commander\"]‘The idea that a DA is going to change property crime in the city? I just don’t see it.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>JENKINS\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the most part I think everyone agrees, even in the street, murder is wrong and it won’t go unpunished, but when the DA creates an environment where property crime, where assault, where burglary is acceptable, where there is no consequence, where even if you are arrested, you are released within hours, at most a day or two, and you’re back out into the street, it doesn’t matter if you commit five more burglaries, you’re going to be released each time and at most get probation. At best you get diversion regardless of how many offenses you pick up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He’s creating a landscape where criminal offenders desire to come here and commit crimes. They know that there’s no penalty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CORRIEA\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I’d just like to say, after 35 years of police work, I don’t believe criminals in their calculation are thinking about what Chesa Boudin is going to do or not do to them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What they think about is, “What are the chances of getting maybe a tourist car with valuable items in it? What are their chances of getting caught?” Those factors weigh in. What are their chances of blending into the surroundings? How many ways can they escape? But honestly, they’re not sitting there going, “Well, in the marketplace of the Hall of Justice, how will I do?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908889\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908889\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1.jpg\" alt=\"A zoom call with nine windows featuring various experts on criminal justice, two journalists, and community members. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1081\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screenshot-2022-03-21-192521-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Criminal justice experts gathered Monday night for a debate on San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin’s recall. Top row, left to right: Megan Cassidy (San Francisco Chronicle), Marisa Lagos (KQED), Richard Corriea (retired San Francisco police commander). Middle row, left to right: Don du Bain (attorney), Brooke Jenkins (attorney), Tinisch Hollins (Californians for Safety and Justice). Bottom row, left to right: Kristen Webb (United Democratic Club); Bruce Agid (Eastern Neighborhoods Democratic Club). \u003ccite>(Courtesy United Democratic Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>MARISA LAGOS: Even if you support this district attorney, there’s no question that people feel unsafe. \u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>So why shouldn’t the DA be held accountable for some of the really horrific or just upsetting things we’ve seen, particularly around property crimes?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CORRIEA\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Property crimes are changing because of the pandemic. The issue of poverty, drug addiction, mental illness, failed public policy, mass incarceration, discrimination, all those factors come into play.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So to say, hmm, someone is here shoplifting, it’s the DA’s fault … What about retailers that have gone from stopping people and holding them and arresting them, to not using security and passing on the cost to the consumer?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can tell you that I never made a shoplifting arrest, ever, because they were done by private security in the stores who would call the police and sign a citizen’s arrest card, and we would take them down and book them.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea that a DA is going to change property crime in the city? I just don’t see it.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOLLINS\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It’s also important to mention that property crime closure rates have been sadly low in San Francisco for a very long time. That did not just start. That’s not really related to who the DA is.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASSIDY: The DA’s office is just one arm of the criminal justice system. We’ve seen police clearance rates, particularly with property crimes, drop significantly. A lot of these crimes are not getting arrested in the first place. Do the police also share the blame for crime rates? Particularly with property crimes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>JENKINS\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The issue for us is Chesa creates the landscape where criminals think this is OK behavior.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can talk about examples where we’ve heard from the police that they will make an arrest and somebody will tell them, “That’s fine because I’ll be out in a few hours. The DA’s office isn’t going to do anything about it.” Or jail calls where they’re saying, you know what, pretty much theft is legal in San Francisco. These are the stories that we are hearing. It doesn’t take the responsibility off of the police to make arrests, of course.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think we have to understand we are in a universe now where morale is low, I think in law enforcement, period. We keep hearing, “The DA’s office isn’t going to do anything about it, so why should I risk my safety to make an arrest?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CORRIEA\u003c/strong>: \u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Point of fact, Chesa has reached out to the unions and department, over and over again. What people don’t know about city government is, it’s a large blame game, and now Chesa is being blamed.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>LAGOS: What is criminal justice reform, if not what Chesa is doing? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>DU BAIN\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Mr. Corriea, I’ve been in law enforcement myself for 30 years as a prosecutor, in various counties in California. I recognize the complexity of what we do in criminal justice. I’ve known plenty of progressive district attorneys in my time, [such as] Nancy O’Malley in Alameda County. Here in San Francisco, we had both Kamala Harris and George Gascón, who were very progressive district attorneys.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Brooke Jenkins, attorney\"]‘Boudin is failing to keep San Francisco safe.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were progressive because they created new, innovative programs to try to keep our young people out of the criminal justice system in the first place and to rehabilitate those criminal offenders who ended up in the system.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamala Harris created Back on Track, which was a successful program to keep kids out of the criminal justice system, employed and in a productive lifestyle. George Gascón expanded that program into young adult court. He also created a mental health court called Behavioral Health Court … and Intensive Supervision Court for adult offenders who are recidivists.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Those are true progressive prosecutors. Chesa hasn’t developed a single rehabilitative program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CORRIEA\u003c/strong>: \u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Well, I’m looking at five pages of accomplishments that would hurt your eyes to look at. My brother was murdered in 1988 and my worst memories are dealing with the criminal justice system. The rest of it has faded for me, over time.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASSIDY: Including crime, one of the things polls show people are worried about [is] drug overdoses, open-air drug use on the streets, particularly in the Tenderloin. What role should the DA’s office be playing to stem this tide?\u003c/strong>[aside postID=news_11907396 label='Related Coverage']\u003cstrong>JENKINS\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DA’s office plays a huge role in that. We make the decisions on what to do with drug-dealing offenses. We have the ability to use the consequence for that … to incentivize them to engage in drug treatment, or go to drug court where they can engage in substance abuse counseling or treatment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So it’s imperative the chief law enforcement officer, the district attorney, use that office to compel people who need treatment into treatment, and to hold drug dealers accountable for taking advantage of this vulnerable population.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That, again, does not necessarily mean sending people to prison. It means you have to use the consequence as an incentive. It could be an incentive for vocational training.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HOLLINS\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’re having a conversation about a public health issue with a criminal justice lens. We know we don’t have enough treatment beds. I had a brother who struggled with addiction and later lost his life. Both of my brothers were on probation when they passed away. That’s a sad failure of the systems.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The DA should focus on crime, I agree. But the drug crisis is much bigger than the DA’s office.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Richard Correia, retired San Francisco police commander\"]‘We’ve seen in these high-charging, hard-on-crime jurisdictions increases in crime when some folks would suggest it should be the opposite.’[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t think it’s been any better under any of the previous DAs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just to reference the programs that had been implemented under District Attorney Harris and Gascón, I worked very closely with people who implemented those programs. Again it is a national crisis, not one that’s just focused here in San Francisco. It’s a public health issue that needs to be dealt with with a public health lens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CASSIDY: Diversion rates are up, conviction rates are down. What should voters take away from that?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CORRIEA\u003c/strong>: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I think that the statistics, if you read them, are really mind-numbing, you know? How many cases came in the door and where they went, and which had action and which didn’t.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What equates to safety?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We’ve seen in these high-charging, hard-on-crime jurisdictions increases in crime when some folks would suggest it should be the opposite.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What I want to say about statistics, this is the most telling: The burglary rates in some neighborhoods in San Francisco grew during the pandemic as crime patterns changed. I noticed that they were up in the Richmond and people were very upset about that, and I noticed they were down in other parts of town.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Folks tore into that the day after: “Look at burglaries out of control.” I always wondered, “Well, what about where it’s dropped?” Shouldn’t you get an offsetting penalty there? I think statistics are not ultimately very helpful.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you look at the chat [of viewer comments in the Zoom debate], it’s almost scary how worried people are and the level of hostility. I would love to see more conversations like this.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>President Joe Biden on Wednesday remembered the victims of shootings at three massage businesses in Georgia a year earlier and decried racism, misogyny and gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six women of Asian descent were among the eight people killed on March 16, 2021. The killings contributed to fear and anger among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders already experiencing a rise in hostility and motivated many people to join the fight against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian American organizations in cities across the country planned rallies Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the shootings and to promote awareness about ongoing violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Aaron Long, then 21, shot and killed four people — Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Yaun, 33; and Paul Michels, 54 — and seriously injured a fifth person at Youngs Asian Massage in Cherokee County. Authorities say he then drove about 30 miles south to Atlanta, where he killed three women — Suncha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; and Hyun Jung Grant, 51 — at Gold Spa, crossed the street and killed Yong Ae Yue, 63, at Aromatherapy Spa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11907902,news_11876972,news_11874508\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“These horrific murders shook communities across America and underscored how far we have to go in this country to fight racism, misogyny, and all forms of hate — and the epidemic of gun violence that enables these extremists,” Biden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president recalled a meeting he and Vice President Kamala Harris had with Asian American community leaders during a visit to Atlanta shortly after the shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard about the terror and anguish that too many Asian Americans have felt since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when anti-Asian xenophobia, harassment, and violence skyrocketed to alarming levels,” Biden said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Congress gathered on the steps of the Capitol Wednesday for a press event organized by the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of [the spa shootings], America was finally shocked awake to the reality of anti-Asian hate,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FfVnxunhK0\">said Democratic Southern California Rep. Judy Chu, the caucus chair, at the news event\u003c/a>. “But in reality, for over a year, xenophobic slurs like ‘China virus’ and ‘kung flu’ have been terrorizing Asian American communities across the country with thousands of anti-Asian hate crimes and incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prejudice and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. are not new, but racist verbal and physical attacks increased sharply after the coronavirus first appeared in China just over two years ago. Many believe that former President Donald Trump’s use of racist terms to talk about the virus contributed to the trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908428\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11908428\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman speaking at podium with 'stop asian hate' written on it as rows of faces of members of congress stand behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54463_GettyImages-1385744683-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) speaks during commemorations to mark the one-year anniversary of a series of deadly shootings at Atlanta-area spas on the steps of the U.S Capitol on March 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876972/inside-the-california-organization-tracking-anti-asian-hate-incidents\">Stop AAPI Hate has been tracking incidents nationwide\u003c/a> based on victims self-reporting. From March 19, 2020, through the end of last year, the organization recorded a total of 10,905, with 4,632 occurring in 2020 and 6,273 in 2021. Incidents reported by women made up 61.8% of the total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the Georgia shootings, police said Long blamed his actions on a “sex addiction,” which isn’t recognized as an official disorder, and targeted the spas as a source of temptation. That explanation rankled many Asian Americans and their allies, who saw the killings as hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he pleaded guilty in July to murder and other charges in the Cherokee County shootings, the district attorney there said investigators did not find evidence that Long was motivated by racial bias. Among other things, the prosecutor noted the diversity of the people shot there — in addition to two women of Asian descent, two victims were white and one Hispanic. But in Atlanta, where all four victims were women of Asian descent, the Fulton County district attorney is pursuing a sentencing enhancement under the state hate crimes law, saying she believes race and gender played a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks and months following the shootings, rallies were held to protest violence against people of Asian descent. Prominent figures, including lawmakers and former federal prosecutors, spoke out against the violence and called for solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial figures from individual police agencies indicate anti-Asian hate crime overall in the U.S. increased 339% in 2021, compared with a 124% rise in 2020, according to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. 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The initial count shows 60 victims in 2021, up from nine in 2020. Half of last year’s victims were allegedly targeted by one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In New York City, the number of alleged hate crimes against Asians logged by police climbed from 28 in 2020 to 131 last year. 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"content": "\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I support the idea of requiring every county to do something,\" Campos said in an interview. \"I think that there are some instances where people may not be able to decide for themselves if something is appropriate for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some civil liberties advocates have \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/health/civil-rights-advocates-worry-newsoms-care-court-is-too-coercive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bristled at the idea of compelling treatment\u003c/a>, and are urging that the government's focus and resources instead be directed toward voluntary treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in justifying his support for the bill, Haney told KQED, \"[T]he current system is failing, it's not getting those people into care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Housing\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Housing was a major flashpoint in the primary election, when Haney finished just 726 votes ahead of Campos, a margin thin enough to trigger the runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two sparred over a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Why-did-S-F-supervisors-vote-against-a-project-16569809.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed development in San Francisco\u003c/a>, which Haney supported, but ultimately was voted down by the Board of Supervisors. Meanwhile, endorsements from housing groups have split along familiar lines, with Haney gaining the backing of homebuilders and \"yes in my backyard\" (YIMBY) groups, while Campos is supported by the city's tenants union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"matt-haney\"]But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. Haney said he will be introducing a resolution at a future Board of Supervisors meeting in support of the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that we have to build a lot more housing at all [income] levels of all types,\" Haney said. \"That means both market-rate housing and also a lot more housing that is subsidized, that is built by the government, that is built by nonprofits and that ensures a true affordability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos also both back \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2469\u003c/a>, which would create a state registry of information about rental properties, owners and tenants. Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No one wants to give a green light to retail theft, no one wants to let people do whatever they want without consequences,\" Campos said. \"But I don't think that this is the way to deal with it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The runoff campaign for a state Assembly seat representing the east side of San Francisco has become a fractious affair typical of politics in this city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the month since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904968/close-call-sf-assembly-race-likely-heading-to-a-run-off-election-between-haney-campos\">the primary election\u003c/a>, Democrats Matt Haney, currently a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, and David Campos, a former supervisor, have assailed each other's records and credentials. Campos has blamed Haney for not adequately addressing rampant \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Two-liberal-San-Francisco-politicians-are-locked-16931313.php\">public health and homelessness issues\u003c/a> in the Tenderloin neighborhood he represents. Haney, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/elections/assembly-race-heats-up-as-haney-accuses-campos-of-misleading-voters-with-civil-rights-attorney-designation/\">successfully sued Campos\u003c/a> over his ballot designation, calling it misleading. A judge agreed, forcing Campos to change his title from \"civil rights attorney\" to \"criminal justice administrator.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both Assembly District 17 candidates, running to fill out the remainder of former Assemblymember David Chiu's term, are likely to bring a similar perspective on key issues currently before the Legislature. And the winner of the April 19 runoff will take office in time to cast crucial votes on high-profile bills, some of which have divided members of the Democratic caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are some of the issues Campos and Haney see eye-to-eye on, according to their responses to a questionnaire from KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CARE courts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Both Campos and Haney say they support Gov. Gavin Newsom's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907115/newsom-proposes-offering-more-treatment-services-for-unhoused-people-and-forcing-some-to-participate\">recently announced plan\u003c/a>, called CARE court, to assist Californians suffering from severe mental health issues or substance use disorders. The proposal would require each county in the state to create a mental health branch of civil court with the authority to order outpatient care, that, if rejected, could lead to more restrictive forced hospitalizations or conservatorships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Campos agrees with Haney on two bills championed by YIMBYs: one to ban parking requirements for new developments near transit (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2097\u003c/a>) and another (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 886\u003c/a>) to exempt student housing and faculty housing from environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that if there are things that we can do to help ease the way in which housing is approved and created, I'm all for that,\" Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two candidates also both support an ambitious plan to give the state a greater role in actually developing housing. The \"social housing\" policy in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 2053\u003c/a> would set up a state agency to build and acquire government housing for different income levels. 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Versions of the proposal have been defeated in three consecutive years, after facing opposition from landlord groups that have raised concerns over privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the policy harmony between the two extends to their support of a proposal that critics contend will stifle housing development: \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1001\u003c/a>, a bill that expands the scope of the California Environmental Quality Act to consider environmental justice concerns and ensure that mitigation of a polluting project happens in the community where the project is located, not elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>COVID-19 response\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Past attempts to tighten vaccine requirements have been met with \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article256750522.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protests at the Capitol and attempts to intimidate lawmakers\u003c/a>. But both Haney and Campos said they would join Democrats in the Legislature to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations in the workplace (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1993\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1993\u003c/a>) while also eliminating the ability of K-12 public school students to use personal belief exemptions to avoid vaccinations (\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB871\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 871\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it absolutely would make sense to have a vaccination requirement and to not allow for the personal belief exemption, which I think is so often misused,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has the right to their opinion, but that right ends when their actions infringe upon the rights of other people,\" he said. \"And in this particular case, someone not getting the vaccine is something that could hurt other people, their fellow Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Education\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest change in education policy introduced in the Legislature this year is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB830\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Senate Bill 830\u003c/a>, legislation to revamp how the state funds the thousands of K-12 schools in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney and Campos said it's time for the state to move away from the current model of calculating funding based on average daily attendance, and instead start giving schools money based on their total enrollment. While truancy is a top concern about any system that isn't built on attendance, the candidates say the switch will add more predictability and resources for school districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The level of uncertainty that the current funding structure creates, I think, is a reason why we should go to a different model that has more stability, that allows districts to plan, that doesn't really have a sort of a strange fluctuation,\" Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Theft and shoplifting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906253/violent-crime-soared-during-the-pandemic-but-does-the-political-debate-reflect-the-data\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voters' concerns about crime on the rise\u003c/a>, some Democrats in the Legislature have signaled they are open to tweaking \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)\">Proposition 47\u003c/a>, the state's landmark criminal justice reform law that voters widely approved in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed wholesale reversal\u003c/a> of the law was quickly voted down last week, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 1603\u003c/a> (written by Bakersfield Democrat Rudy Salas) seeks to lower the dollar threshold at which larceny would switch from being a misdemeanor to a possible felony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Assembly candidates, however, oppose bringing such a change back to the voters, who would need to approve it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The governor highlighted those wins, noting the state’s impressive GDP growth and strong job growth over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report from the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office released last month projected that the state will rake in at least $6 billion more than anticipated in Newsom’s January budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A healthy budget windfall will allow Newsom and legislative Democrats to pursue record investments, like the $1.5 billion the governor wants to spent on electric vehicle charging stations, rebates for purchasing electric cars and local green initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California’s leadership in clean technology … is not just a national security and an environmental justice imperative. Clean energy is this generation's greatest economic opportunity,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom offered no details on how the tax refund would be calculated. The state's gas tax, \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Transportation/FAQs\">which is $0.51 per gallon of gasoline this fiscal year\u003c/a>, is charged to suppliers, not directly to consumers at the pump. 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"content": "\u003cp>California’s move to reduce the number of in-person voting locations in the 2020 election had an outsize impact on Black and Latino voter turnout, according to a pair of reports released this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analyses come as more counties are moving away from traditional assigned polling places and instead opening fewer, larger vote centers, while also sending every voter a ballot in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/equity-in-voter-turnout-after-pandemic-election-policy-changes/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study from the Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a> found that while the state’s universal vote-by-mail law actually decreased the turnout gap between racial and ethnic groups, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11837095/how-covid-19-warped-californias-election-process\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the simultaneous consolidation of voting locations\u003c/a> diminished those gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Overall, California actually saw a more representative electorate in 2020 than in 2016,” said PPIC Senior Fellow Eric McGhee, one of the report’s authors, noting the impact of the mail-ballot law. “But it wasn’t as good in the counties that did the [voting site] consolidations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b8c7ce15d5dbf599fb46ab/t/621fae5d9e646142640e7a4a/1646243427169/USC+CID+Black+Voting+Experience+in+California+Report+FINAL.pdf\">A separate report\u003c/a> from the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy found that Black voters in Black-majority census tracts were more likely than the general electorate to vote in person. And Black voters surveyed were most likely not to know about the myriad changes made to the state’s voting process during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the findings show that the outreach, that the quality of the outreach, how extensive the outreach is done in counties across the state is absolutely, enormously important, and we know that outreach efforts are chronically underfunded,” said Mindy Romero, director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy, who co-authored both studies. “Voters don’t know about all the changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s universal vote-by-mail law, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825137/state-legislature-approves-bill-to-mail-all-california-voters-a-ballot\">implemented in 2020 \u003c/a>amid COVID-19 concerns, and subsequently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11890023/california-adopts-vote-by-mail-system-for-all-future-elections\">made permanent\u003c/a>, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11869522/touting-voter-turnout-vote-by-mail-advocates-seek-permanent-change-to-california-elections\">the biggest impact\u003c/a> on boosting statewide voter turnout — resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11847064/inside-californias-pandemic-election-how-covid-19-changes-could-shape-the-future-of-voting\">historically high participation\u003c/a> in the November 2020 election — an earlier PPIC study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as county officials \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11833846/bay-areas-faithful-election-poll-workers-sidelined-by-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struggled to recruit poll workers\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11831335/all-hands-on-deck-as-california-election-officials-struggle-to-find-pandemic-safe-polling-places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">find voting locations\u003c/a> that could accommodate social distancing, state lawmakers allowed them to open fewer sites if they agreed to offer extended early voting hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"voter-turnout\"]Only 16 counties stuck with the traditional model of assigning each voter a polling place without consolidating precincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The PPIC study found that the precinct consolidation expanded the turnout gap for Latino and Black voters, especially for Black voters who were not previously registered to vote-by-mail and were therefore not used to having a ballot arrive in their mailbox.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The in-person places were so varied across the state that people had to get used to that difference,” said Astrid Ochoa, a public affairs consultant who advises the Secretary of State’s office on changes to election administration. “Just because you’re sending every voter a ballot, there still needs to be a strong emphasis on voter education and outreach for that practice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both studies grappled with the difficulty of identifying voters of different racial or ethnic groups, as most voters don’t provide that information. Researchers instead analyzed registrant surnames, census block demographics and survey data to determine voter demographics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More changes to California’s voting practices are on the horizon this year, when at least 11 additional counties — including Alameda, Marin and Sonoma — will opt in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voters-choice-act\">California’s Voter’s Choice Act\u003c/a>, which allows for the permanent consolidation of polling places into vote centers, where any voter in the county can cast a ballot and receive voting or language assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC report also looked at longer-term trends in voting equity, namely that the turnout gap between Black and white voters in California has grown in recent years, even as the gap between whites and other ethnic groups has shrunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Woodson, executive director of the California Black Power Network, pointed to the long-term effects of gentrification and displacement in disrupting civic participation among Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black residents are being pushed out of traditionally urban hubs into new emerging communities that don’t necessarily have established organizing infrastructure, don’t have groups that are reaching out to engage them around elections,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The USC survey found Black California voters were twice as likely to take public transportation to the polls in 2020, as compared to voters of other racial or ethnic groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers say voting disparities could be further exacerbated as more Black voters move to suburban and exurban communities with fewer public transportation options and greater distances between voting locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not in an urban center, a lot of our places are still rural,” said Minister Quan Williams, an organizer for the Inland Empire-based Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement, or COPE. “Even catching public transportation to a polling place might be challenging, you might have to walk in the street to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For local election officials, consolidating voting locations helps offset the cost of mailing every voter a ballot. Funding for elections was plentiful in 2020, but there’s no guarantee that largess will continue in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But McGhee, from PPIC, said state lawmakers should take the findings as caution that “we need to possibly rethink some of this in-person consolidation, or at least how we do it and maybe how much we do it because of the impacts on equity.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Not impossible, but just more difficult,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the next few weeks the design will be finalized and an order will be placed for mass production of the new trash cans in China. By the end of 2026, about 3,000 are expected to be on San Francisco streets, replacing approximately 2,500 of the older trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s trash cans have problems. From debris littering the streets around them, to the — more often than not — broken recycling compartments, these green garbage receptacles are past their intended life span. San Francisco is nearing the end of a years-long replacement process designed (in part) to clean up San Francisco’s streets, and years of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dirty backstory behind the ubiquitous green cans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since first appearing on San Francisco streets in 1993, the current cans — called “renaissance cans” by city officials — have been a sore spot for neighborhood groups and officials like District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, who says, “Sometimes [the trash cans are] part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walk through any of San Francisco’s dense neighborhoods reveals a slew of issues surrounding trash. Rachel Gordon, spokesperson for the Department of Public Works, says that her department picks up “about 90,000 pounds of litter and debris a week” from the streets of San Francisco and knows that the old cans just aren’t up to the job anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘renaissance’ trash can surrounded by garbage in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Christopher J. Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue with these cans has to do with the maintenance of them, which the city contracts out to a third party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contract for these [renaissance] trash cans came about in a way that very possibly could have been corrupt,” said Supervisor Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Wong was a permit expediter in San Francisco who pleaded guilty in 2020 to charges of conspiracy. He — and then-director of the Department of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru — worked together to trade city contracts for gifts. The contract to maintain San Francisco’s trash cans went to a company called Alternate Choice LLC — owned by a family member of Wong — in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘big belly’ trash can in District 6. \u003ccite>(Christopher J. Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City supervisors like Haney tried for years to get the trash cans in their districts replaced with newer, more effective models but say it was Nuru who stood in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was adamant in his protection of these broken trash cans. And I think it was pretty clear that he was protecting his buddies who were giving us really crappy cans,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong is now participating with federal investigators in the corruption probe against Nuru, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges earlier this year after being arrested and indicted in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The road to the perfect can\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nuru did eventually set into motion a process to replace San Francisco’s green renaissance cans with some new ones. But, off-the-rack cans — the kind you might find in another American city — weren’t considered suitable for the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Works want something tamper-proof, with wheels on the inner can so workers won’t get hurt emptying them, and a sensor that can tell when they’re full. Oh, and they have to be attractive. The department commissioned a custom-designed can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prototypes will cost an estimated $12,000 each and will be fabricated locally and tested alongside some off-the-rack designs. Gordon says the prototypes do cost a lot of money. “I don’t think anyone can say otherwise. But will it be money well spent? We hope so,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After prototyping, the selected can’s manufacturing is expected to cost less than half of the prototype, which is comparable to the price paid in other U.S. cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-800x402.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-800x402.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1020x512.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-160x80.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1536x771.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-2048x1028.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1920x964.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three trash can prototypes that will be created and tested in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Institute for Creative Integration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This new-can-selection process has its critics. Supervisor Haney said, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Ultimately, San Francisco shouldn’t be in the trash can making business. The conditions that we face on our streets are not fundamentally different than an LA and New York, or Chicago, D.C., Oakland, and there is plenty of data that we can look at in terms of prototypes, but here we are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The new cans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three new trash can prototypes are being considered, with hopes they can solve many of the problems presented by the current cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Salt & Pepper has a durable frame with minimal surface area for graffiti, the Slim Silhouette features a slim profile for less of a sidewalk footprint, and the Soft Square adds a foot pedal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work of making the new trash cans was just handed off from industrial designers to the team at APROE (Advanced Prototype Engineering), a shop founded by San Francisco native Mose O’Griffin. “I went to Galileo High School. I founded this shop in 2006 and it’s been a long, slow crawl to get here. So I’m really proud of what it’s become,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Griffin and his team will take the designs made by the industrial designers and turn them into engineering drawings, the kind that can be used to create actual objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Griffin says every step in the process for creating a unique, one-of-a-kind trash can is being priced out, but “we’re going to try as hard as we can to, to stay within the bounds of those shapes and materials [outlined by the industrial designers], selections, and all those things, and try to figure out how to get them manufactured for the prices that they’ve set out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new cans will be out on the street testing in different neighborhoods as soon as they are done, but there’s no official word on exactly when that will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades of dysfunction, corruption and politics, the end may be in sight for those unsightly green renaissance trash cans. Will the next generation of cans clean up San Francisco’s streets? Well, not unless our behavior as citizens changes, says Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So let’s set public expectations. Garbage cans, new or old, are not going to clean up the streets of San Francisco, but it’s a tool to help us keep the city clean,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest is up to us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price (on a SF street): Just walk around any neighborhood in San Francisco, like the Mission where I am right now and you’ll see them. 4 feet tall, green, made of metal. They are (drumroll) … San Francisco’s trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my experience, you can never seem to find one when you are looking for it, and when you do find one…it will often be surrounded by trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re usually broken in some way, which seems like quite a feat – like how do you even break a trash can? But there’s this recycling container at the top that gets busted, and then anything you try to recycle falls into the trash can below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trash cans got our question asker Matt Leonard wondering …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: What’s the deal with San Francisco’s trash cans? Why are they so unwieldy and why does it seem like it’s so hard to get them replaced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: I have some good news for Matt. San Francisco is in the process of replacing about 2,500 of these old city trash cans with a sleek new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s been a long road, littered with obstacles to get here as we found out in 2022 when Bay Curious first reported on the cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In honor of the new models hitting the streets in a neighborhood near you, we’re going to reair a refreshed version of that episode – and share some updates at the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Reporter Christopher Beale got the down and dirty on San Francisco’s trash cans for our question asker Matt…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Matt, this story is crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Oh gosh, let me just break down what I found out so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, these big green trash cans we have now have been in place since 1993. San Francisco officials call them Renaissance Cans, and in the almost 30 years since their installation they have certainly had their detractors, like Matt Haney. I caught up with him in the Tenderloin back in 2022 when he was the District 6 supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: You know, we’re a city that unfortunately has become known around the country and around the world for, dirty streets and sidewalks. And, there’s pretty much nothing more basic than a trash can. One of the frustrating things that I have experienced with our trash cans that we’ve had are that sometimes they’re part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The story of San Francisco’s trash cans started to go a little sideways in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale (on phone): I don’t know if you’ve heard the name Walter Wong. If that name rings a bell?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Recently indicted or something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale (on phone) Ding, ding, ding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Yeah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsclip 1 – “Tonight, a strange twist in the San Francisco corruption probe. Our investigative unit has learned the city bought $5 million worth of public garbage cans from a vendor with ties to ousted public works director Mohammed Nuru.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsclip 2 – Cans that one supervisor say make the city’s litter problem, worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Walter Wong was a permit expediter in San Francisco who pleaded guilty in 2020 to charges of conspiracy. He—and then Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru—worked together to trade City contracts for gifts…it’s messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway… so Wong has a family member who owned a company called Alternate Choice LLC who made and maintained…you guessed it…Trash Cans! See where I’m going here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: This is what I was wondering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Oh yes, the story of San Francisco’s dysfunctional trash cans, past, present, and even future are tied directly to Walter Wong, and Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: This is like The Sopranos mafia. You know, they control the trash that’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Permit expediter Wong cooperated with federal officials in the corruption case against Nuru. Wong and his companies ultimately paid about one and a half million dollars to the city because they violated ethics laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: The contract for these trash cans came about in a way that, very possibly could have been corrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: After their installation, city supervisors complained about the poorly maintained trash cans but Nuru defended them, refusing to buy alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: He was adamant in his protection of these broken trash cans. And I think it was pretty clear that he was protecting his buddies who were giving us really crappy cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Ultimately, Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for honest services wire fraud – which is legal speak for taking bribes or offering kickbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Department of Public Works, under new leadership, ventured forward trying to fix the trash can situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to bring in Rachel Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: Spokesperson for San Francisco Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: She shares Supervisor Haney’s frustration with the condition of San Francisco’s messy streets but says it’s vandals who are to blame for the used and abused trash cans…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: Folks like to do things like take the doors off, break the locks, ravage through them, scavenging looking for cans and bottles. Graffiti of them, knock them over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Rachel says the department of public works has been working for years to try and find solutions to the trash can problems in the City. Things like removing trash cans in certain areas, putting more trash cans in others and even installing sensors to tell DPW when a can is full. And that data that will ultimately be used to pick where to put the next generation of trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: The bigger issue is how do we change behavior of people not trashing San Francisco in the first place? Like that’s a big challenge. I don’t have the magic wand for that. How do you get it in someone’s head that it’s not okay to litter. We got into a mindset with some people and certainly not all in San Francisco where they think you put it on the sidewalk and then we’ll get picked up. In San Francisco, public works picks up about 90,000 pounds of litter and debris a week from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: That’s from the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: It’s from the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Goodness, that is a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: We have been looking at other cans and we have been trying other cans in the city. Uh, we haven’t found one that’s going to be the perfect can yet for San Francisco. Are we going to get to the perfect can? We don’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The perfect can is the goal. And whether it’s possible or not, the Department of Public Works is trying to get there. No off-the-shelf cans – like what you might see in any other American city – were deemed suitable. So the department commissioned a custom designed can with some really specific ideas about what it should do and look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wanted something tamper proof. With wheels on the inner can can so workers don’t get hurt emptying them. A sensor that can tell when they’re full. Oh, and they have to be gorgeous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blog post for this episode of Bay Curious there are some photos of the new trash can prototypes. One is called a soft square and has a little foot pedal on it. There is the elegant—for a trash can—Slim Silhouette and the Salt & Pepper that looks like a giant salt shaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cans are sleek, they are modern, and they are designed to solve a lot of the problems we have with the current renaissance cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: When we return, we take a trip to where the prototype trash cans were being made and learn which one is being rolled out on city streets today. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor Messages\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: San Francisco Public Works was considering three trash cans designs, the Soft Square, the Slim Silhouette and the Salt & Pepper. Christopher Beale takes us behind the scenes as they make a prototype.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The prototype cans are actually being made right here in San Francisco. The work is being done by this engineering Firm called A-P-R-O-E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: Advanced Prototype Engineering, but we say aye-pro-ee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: That’s Mose O’Griffin, he is the founder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: I went to Galileo high school here in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: He opened this shop in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: It’s been a long, slow crawl to get here. So I’m really proud of what it’s become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Mose gave me a little tour of his design shop where some really specific parts—like some that may eventually be created for the new trash cans–were being created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: This is a CNC milling machine. So it’s a computer controlled cutting machine. This is a milling machine. Over on the side, here was a lathe.These are kind of the workhorse machine tools. If you find a machine shop there’s mostly mills and lades, there are a lot of other really specific machines, but these are the more generic ones that can make lots and lots of different shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Mose and his crew will be working to create real trash cans from those prototype drawings…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: Those are from an industrial design firm. And industrial designers, their specialty is how do humans interact with shapes and how, you know, what are the right kinds of materials? They certainly do some level of, of engineering design, but, uh, we’re going to be doing the in-depth mechanical design. So the, what you said is correct where we’re taking those designs that we have been given, and we’re going to try as hard as we can to, to stay within the bounds of those shapes and material selections, and all those things, and try to figure out how to get them manufactured for, for the prices that they’ve they’ve outlined for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: They’ll get that info figured out, and then the real work of making San Francisco’s new trash cans begins. And it’s worth noting that all of the work outside this shop is also being done by local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: The local piece is huge. In terms of the ability of the residents of SF to come up with a really cool trashcan that you won’t see in any other city, that’s pretty cool, I think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Since this story aired, those prototypes made by APROE spent some time on city streets and ultimately a best can was chosen…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon with the big reveal…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: We selected the slim silhouette…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: It’s tall and wide, but, as the name says, slim – so it doesn’t take up too much walking space on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: … the people who serviced the cans liked it best. We saw that it was easier to maintain, that means to be able to clean off graffiti as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: There are currently 18 of these slim silhouette trash cans peppered all around the city as part of a pilot program. The city wants to see how they perform, and make any final adjustments to the design before placing a big order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: So we’re liking what we’re seeing. We have made some tweaks to the locking mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Next step, the city will start getting the trash cans mass produced in China, and ultimately you’ll find about 3,000 of them around town. The price per can, by the way, came out to about $1,400 – very comparable to the price of off-the-shelf cans, Rachel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a saga, but looks like we are close to putting a lid on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s story was reported by Christopher Beale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our listener Matt for asking this week’s question, and thanks also to the many members of KQED who listen to the podcast. Your support means everything. If you’re not a member yet, consider becoming one. All it takes is a donation. Whatever is comfortable for your budget. You can get started at donate.kqed.org/podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, and everyone on Team KQED. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the next few weeks the design will be finalized and an order will be placed for mass production of the new trash cans in China. By the end of 2026, about 3,000 are expected to be on San Francisco streets, replacing approximately 2,500 of the older trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s trash cans have problems. From debris littering the streets around them, to the — more often than not — broken recycling compartments, these green garbage receptacles are past their intended life span. San Francisco is nearing the end of a years-long replacement process designed (in part) to clean up San Francisco’s streets, and years of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The dirty backstory behind the ubiquitous green cans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since first appearing on San Francisco streets in 1993, the current cans — called “renaissance cans” by city officials — have been a sore spot for neighborhood groups and officials like District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, who says, “Sometimes [the trash cans are] part of the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A walk through any of San Francisco’s dense neighborhoods reveals a slew of issues surrounding trash. Rachel Gordon, spokesperson for the Department of Public Works, says that her department picks up “about 90,000 pounds of litter and debris a week” from the streets of San Francisco and knows that the old cans just aren’t up to the job anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907001\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907001\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220207_174614.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘renaissance’ trash can surrounded by garbage in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Christopher J. Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Part of the issue with these cans has to do with the maintenance of them, which the city contracts out to a third party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The contract for these [renaissance] trash cans came about in a way that very possibly could have been corrupt,” said Supervisor Haney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Wong was a permit expediter in San Francisco who pleaded guilty in 2020 to charges of conspiracy. He — and then-director of the Department of Public Works, Mohammed Nuru — worked together to trade city contracts for gifts. The contract to maintain San Francisco’s trash cans went to a company called Alternate Choice LLC — owned by a family member of Wong — in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907005\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/20220205_105605-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘big belly’ trash can in District 6. \u003ccite>(Christopher J. Beale/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City supervisors like Haney tried for years to get the trash cans in their districts replaced with newer, more effective models but say it was Nuru who stood in the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was adamant in his protection of these broken trash cans. And I think it was pretty clear that he was protecting his buddies who were giving us really crappy cans,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong is now participating with federal investigators in the corruption probe against Nuru, who pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges earlier this year after being arrested and indicted in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The road to the perfect can\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nuru did eventually set into motion a process to replace San Francisco’s green renaissance cans with some new ones. But, off-the-rack cans — the kind you might find in another American city — weren’t considered suitable for the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Public Works want something tamper-proof, with wheels on the inner can so workers won’t get hurt emptying them, and a sensor that can tell when they’re full. Oh, and they have to be attractive. The department commissioned a custom-designed can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prototypes will cost an estimated $12,000 each and will be fabricated locally and tested alongside some off-the-rack designs. Gordon says the prototypes do cost a lot of money. “I don’t think anyone can say otherwise. But will it be money well spent? We hope so,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After prototyping, the selected can’s manufacturing is expected to cost less than half of the prototype, which is comparable to the price paid in other U.S. cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907012\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11907012\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-800x402.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-800x402.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1020x512.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-160x80.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1536x771.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-2048x1028.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/SFTrashPrototypes-1920x964.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three trash can prototypes that will be created and tested in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Institute for Creative Integration)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This new-can-selection process has its critics. Supervisor Haney said, \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Ultimately, San Francisco shouldn’t be in the trash can making business. The conditions that we face on our streets are not fundamentally different than an LA and New York, or Chicago, D.C., Oakland, and there is plenty of data that we can look at in terms of prototypes, but here we are.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The new cans\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Three new trash can prototypes are being considered, with hopes they can solve many of the problems presented by the current cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Salt & Pepper has a durable frame with minimal surface area for graffiti, the Slim Silhouette features a slim profile for less of a sidewalk footprint, and the Soft Square adds a foot pedal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work of making the new trash cans was just handed off from industrial designers to the team at APROE (Advanced Prototype Engineering), a shop founded by San Francisco native Mose O’Griffin. “I went to Galileo High School. I founded this shop in 2006 and it’s been a long, slow crawl to get here. So I’m really proud of what it’s become,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Griffin and his team will take the designs made by the industrial designers and turn them into engineering drawings, the kind that can be used to create actual objects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>O’Griffin says every step in the process for creating a unique, one-of-a-kind trash can is being priced out, but “we’re going to try as hard as we can to, to stay within the bounds of those shapes and materials [outlined by the industrial designers], selections, and all those things, and try to figure out how to get them manufactured for the prices that they’ve set out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new cans will be out on the street testing in different neighborhoods as soon as they are done, but there’s no official word on exactly when that will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After decades of dysfunction, corruption and politics, the end may be in sight for those unsightly green renaissance trash cans. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price (on a SF street): Just walk around any neighborhood in San Francisco, like the Mission where I am right now and you’ll see them. 4 feet tall, green, made of metal. They are (drumroll) … San Francisco’s trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my experience, you can never seem to find one when you are looking for it, and when you do find one…it will often be surrounded by trash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re usually broken in some way, which seems like quite a feat – like how do you even break a trash can? But there’s this recycling container at the top that gets busted, and then anything you try to recycle falls into the trash can below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These trash cans got our question asker Matt Leonard wondering …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: What’s the deal with San Francisco’s trash cans? Why are they so unwieldy and why does it seem like it’s so hard to get them replaced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: I have some good news for Matt. San Francisco is in the process of replacing about 2,500 of these old city trash cans with a sleek new design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s been a long road, littered with obstacles to get here as we found out in 2022 when Bay Curious first reported on the cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In honor of the new models hitting the streets in a neighborhood near you, we’re going to reair a refreshed version of that episode – and share some updates at the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Reporter Christopher Beale got the down and dirty on San Francisco’s trash cans for our question asker Matt…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Matt, this story is crazy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Oh gosh, let me just break down what I found out so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, these big green trash cans we have now have been in place since 1993. San Francisco officials call them Renaissance Cans, and in the almost 30 years since their installation they have certainly had their detractors, like Matt Haney. I caught up with him in the Tenderloin back in 2022 when he was the District 6 supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: You know, we’re a city that unfortunately has become known around the country and around the world for, dirty streets and sidewalks. And, there’s pretty much nothing more basic than a trash can. One of the frustrating things that I have experienced with our trash cans that we’ve had are that sometimes they’re part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The story of San Francisco’s trash cans started to go a little sideways in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale (on phone): I don’t know if you’ve heard the name Walter Wong. If that name rings a bell?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Recently indicted or something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale (on phone) Ding, ding, ding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: Yeah\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsclip 1 – “Tonight, a strange twist in the San Francisco corruption probe. Our investigative unit has learned the city bought $5 million worth of public garbage cans from a vendor with ties to ousted public works director Mohammed Nuru.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsclip 2 – Cans that one supervisor say make the city’s litter problem, worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Walter Wong was a permit expediter in San Francisco who pleaded guilty in 2020 to charges of conspiracy. He—and then Department of Public Works director Mohammed Nuru—worked together to trade City contracts for gifts…it’s messy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyway… so Wong has a family member who owned a company called Alternate Choice LLC who made and maintained…you guessed it…Trash Cans! See where I’m going here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: This is what I was wondering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Oh yes, the story of San Francisco’s dysfunctional trash cans, past, present, and even future are tied directly to Walter Wong, and Mohammed Nuru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Leonard: This is like The Sopranos mafia. You know, they control the trash that’s insane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Permit expediter Wong cooperated with federal officials in the corruption case against Nuru. Wong and his companies ultimately paid about one and a half million dollars to the city because they violated ethics laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: The contract for these trash cans came about in a way that, very possibly could have been corrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: After their installation, city supervisors complained about the poorly maintained trash cans but Nuru defended them, refusing to buy alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Haney: He was adamant in his protection of these broken trash cans. And I think it was pretty clear that he was protecting his buddies who were giving us really crappy cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Ultimately, Mohammed Nuru was sentenced to 7 years in federal prison for honest services wire fraud – which is legal speak for taking bribes or offering kickbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so the Department of Public Works, under new leadership, ventured forward trying to fix the trash can situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I want to bring in Rachel Gordon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: Spokesperson for San Francisco Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: She shares Supervisor Haney’s frustration with the condition of San Francisco’s messy streets but says it’s vandals who are to blame for the used and abused trash cans…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: Folks like to do things like take the doors off, break the locks, ravage through them, scavenging looking for cans and bottles. Graffiti of them, knock them over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Rachel says the department of public works has been working for years to try and find solutions to the trash can problems in the City. Things like removing trash cans in certain areas, putting more trash cans in others and even installing sensors to tell DPW when a can is full. And that data that will ultimately be used to pick where to put the next generation of trash cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: The bigger issue is how do we change behavior of people not trashing San Francisco in the first place? Like that’s a big challenge. I don’t have the magic wand for that. How do you get it in someone’s head that it’s not okay to litter. We got into a mindset with some people and certainly not all in San Francisco where they think you put it on the sidewalk and then we’ll get picked up. In San Francisco, public works picks up about 90,000 pounds of litter and debris a week from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: That’s from the streets?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: It’s from the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Goodness, that is a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: We have been looking at other cans and we have been trying other cans in the city. Uh, we haven’t found one that’s going to be the perfect can yet for San Francisco. Are we going to get to the perfect can? We don’t know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The perfect can is the goal. And whether it’s possible or not, the Department of Public Works is trying to get there. No off-the-shelf cans – like what you might see in any other American city – were deemed suitable. So the department commissioned a custom designed can with some really specific ideas about what it should do and look like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wanted something tamper proof. With wheels on the inner can can so workers don’t get hurt emptying them. A sensor that can tell when they’re full. Oh, and they have to be gorgeous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the blog post for this episode of Bay Curious there are some photos of the new trash can prototypes. One is called a soft square and has a little foot pedal on it. There is the elegant—for a trash can—Slim Silhouette and the Salt & Pepper that looks like a giant salt shaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These cans are sleek, they are modern, and they are designed to solve a lot of the problems we have with the current renaissance cans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But will it work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: When we return, we take a trip to where the prototype trash cans were being made and learn which one is being rolled out on city streets today. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsor Messages\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: San Francisco Public Works was considering three trash cans designs, the Soft Square, the Slim Silhouette and the Salt & Pepper. Christopher Beale takes us behind the scenes as they make a prototype.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: The prototype cans are actually being made right here in San Francisco. The work is being done by this engineering Firm called A-P-R-O-E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: Advanced Prototype Engineering, but we say aye-pro-ee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: That’s Mose O’Griffin, he is the founder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: I went to Galileo high school here in San Francisco\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: He opened this shop in 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: It’s been a long, slow crawl to get here. So I’m really proud of what it’s become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Mose gave me a little tour of his design shop where some really specific parts—like some that may eventually be created for the new trash cans–were being created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: This is a CNC milling machine. So it’s a computer controlled cutting machine. This is a milling machine. Over on the side, here was a lathe.These are kind of the workhorse machine tools. If you find a machine shop there’s mostly mills and lades, there are a lot of other really specific machines, but these are the more generic ones that can make lots and lots of different shapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: Mose and his crew will be working to create real trash cans from those prototype drawings…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: Those are from an industrial design firm. And industrial designers, their specialty is how do humans interact with shapes and how, you know, what are the right kinds of materials? They certainly do some level of, of engineering design, but, uh, we’re going to be doing the in-depth mechanical design. So the, what you said is correct where we’re taking those designs that we have been given, and we’re going to try as hard as we can to, to stay within the bounds of those shapes and material selections, and all those things, and try to figure out how to get them manufactured for, for the prices that they’ve they’ve outlined for us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Beale: They’ll get that info figured out, and then the real work of making San Francisco’s new trash cans begins. And it’s worth noting that all of the work outside this shop is also being done by local businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mose O’Griffin: The local piece is huge. In terms of the ability of the residents of SF to come up with a really cool trashcan that you won’t see in any other city, that’s pretty cool, I think.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Since this story aired, those prototypes made by APROE spent some time on city streets and ultimately a best can was chosen…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon with the big reveal…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: We selected the slim silhouette…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: It’s tall and wide, but, as the name says, slim – so it doesn’t take up too much walking space on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: … the people who serviced the cans liked it best. We saw that it was easier to maintain, that means to be able to clean off graffiti as an example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: There are currently 18 of these slim silhouette trash cans peppered all around the city as part of a pilot program. The city wants to see how they perform, and make any final adjustments to the design before placing a big order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Gordon: So we’re liking what we’re seeing. We have made some tweaks to the locking mechanism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olivia Allen-Price: Next step, the city will start getting the trash cans mass produced in China, and ultimately you’ll find about 3,000 of them around town. The price per can, by the way, came out to about $1,400 – very comparable to the price of off-the-shelf cans, Rachel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been a saga, but looks like we are close to putting a lid on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s story was reported by Christopher Beale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our listener Matt for asking this week’s question, and thanks also to the many members of KQED who listen to the podcast. Your support means everything. If you’re not a member yet, consider becoming one. All it takes is a donation. Whatever is comfortable for your budget. You can get started at donate.kqed.org/podcasts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is made in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, and me, Olivia Allen-Price. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Sprenger, Jen Chien, Ethan Toven-Lindsey, and everyone on Team KQED. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>President Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/KBJ/\">has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson\u003c/a> as his Supreme Court nominee to fill the seat left \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/1076091746/supreme-court-justice-breyer-retire-announce-biden-white-house\">when Judge Stephen Breyer retires\u003c/a> this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a White House event Friday introducing Jackson, Biden described her as a consensus-builder with a “pragmatic understanding that the law much work for the American people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson, 51, has led a professional and personal life at once classic and unpredictable. Unlike most judges, her background is not as a prosecutor or major corporate lawyer, and her personal life also defies stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professionally, she is an experienced judge. For eight years, she served as a federal trial court judge and last June was confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her becoming a judge, her legal experience was extensive and varied. While four members of the current court were at one time prosecutors, Jackson, if nominated, would be the first Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall to have represented indigent criminal defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the White House event, Jackson opened her remarks by saying she was humbled by the nomination, noting that it came at a time when there was a lot going on in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I must begin these very brief remarks by thanking God for delivering me to this point in my professional journey,” she said. “My life has been blessed beyond measure and I do know that one can only come this far by faith.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, she noted she shares a birthday with Constance Baker Motley, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2022/02/03/248994291/the-life-of-a-civil-rights-queen\">the first Black woman ever to be appointed as a federal judge\u003c/a>. Jackson said she stands on her shoulders and shares her commitment to equal justice under the law. “I can only hope that my life and career, my love of this country and the Constitution … will inspire future generations of Americans,” Jackson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News of Jackson’s nomination was cheered by California senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“President Biden has made an exceptional choice with his historic nomination,” Padilla said in a statement. “Throughout her career as a public defender, a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and a federal judge, Judge Jackson has consistently demonstrated a commitment to equal justice under law, respect for the Constitution, and a clear understanding of the impact that the law can have on ordinary Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Judge Jackson is an experienced jurist and an outstanding nominee,” said Feinstein in a statement. “She embodies President Biden’s commitment to ensuring that the federal judiciary is representative of America as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Work as a public defender\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to her work as a public defender, Jackson practiced at law firms large and small and served as vice chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission at a time when it sought to reduce the draconian penalties for crack cocaine, penalties that were 100 times more severe than for powder cocaine. At the Sentencing Commission, she earned a reputation for building consensus, and most of the panel’s decisions were unanimous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Jackson, sentencing was not an abstract matter. One uncle is a former Miami police chief; another was a sex crimes detective; and her younger brother was a Baltimore police undercover agent. But her family also has had experience with the scourge of drugs. Her father’s older brother was sentenced to life in prison under a federal three-strikes law aimed at repeat drug offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 15 years behind bars, he contacted Jackson, by then a public defender, seeking help. According to The Washington Post, Jackson felt sympathy for her uncle, but saw no legal options for him at the time. Later, though, after learning that the law firm of Wilmer Hale was handling clemency cases free of charge, she referred her uncle to the firm. The Post quoted Wilmer Hale as saying that the case was referred “years before Judge Jackson became a federal judge” and that “she had no further involvement in the matter.” Eventually, the uncle would be one of 1,700 people whose sentences for nonviolent drug crimes were commuted by President Barack Obama, more than the past 12 presidents combined. By the time of the uncle’s release, he was 78 and in poor health. He died four months later, according to the Post.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump-era record\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2012, Jackson was nominated for a seat on the federal trial court. Her confirmation went smoothly, with numerous lawyers on the right, as well as the left, supporting the nomination. She was confirmed for the trial court by a voice vote in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a trial judge, Jackson earned a reputation for hard work, a raucous laugh and more than 500 opinions, some of them noteworthy not just for the outcome but their length.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most prominent was an opinion ordering President Trump’s former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify in its investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. In it, she wrote, “Presidents are not kings. This means that they do not have subjects bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control.” But the opinion, which numbered some 119 pages, took four months to write, allowing Trump to essentially run out the clock as president. Ultimately, McGahn did testify before the committee in 2021 after the Justice Department, by then under control of the Biden administration, and the committee reached an agreement on the terms of his testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='u-s-supreme-court']In 2018 Jackson, in another decision against Trump, ruled in favor of federal employee unions that were contesting several executive orders limiting the collective bargaining rights of federal workers. A federal appeals court panel reversed her decision on grounds that the unions had to pursue their claims first through an agency administrative process, and only after that, the appeals court said, could the unions go to federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another Trump-era case, Jackson sided with the administration, concluding that the Department of Homeland Security could waive more than two dozen environmental laws in order to construct a segment of the wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grilled by Senate Republicans on race\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit also went relatively smoothly after she was nominated by President Biden last year. Still, she got quite a grilling from some conservative senators on the Judiciary Committee. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., for instance, asked her this question: “Do you think that the U.S. criminal justice system is systemically racist or is infected with systematic racism and bias?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are not terms that I use in the law when we look at issues of race,” she replied, adding that in examining whether there has been race discrimination, courts “will generally look for attorneys to prove up discriminatory intent, discriminatory impact, in some cases, retaliation. There is no Supreme Court doctrine that speaks to systemic racism,” and those “aren’t words that I’ve ever used in a court of law to make claims based under the constitution or the applicable statutes. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked her about her representation of clients in a case involving prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Jackson said she filed a friend-of-the-court brief, representing 20 former federal judges who wanted to make the point that evidence obtained by torture would not have been accepted by the English courts in the system of common law that is the basis for ours. Cruz pressed further, asking her what led her to take on the case. She replied that she worked in a big firm and was assigned to represent the firm’s clients, who, in this case, were a group of judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., similarly challenged her about the case, she noted that at the time she was assigned to work on it, her brother was deployed to Iraq with the military. And in a follow-up written answer, she said that she was “keenly aware” of the threat posed by the 9/11 attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, she was confirmed by a vote of 53-44, with three Republican senators supporting her — Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and the Judiciary Committee ranking Republican, Lindsey Graham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the appeals court, she most recently was part of a unanimous panel that upheld a congressional subpoena for White House records related to the Jan. 6 riots. When Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, the justices left the lower court ruling intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From Miami to Harvard\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., where her parents were schoolteachers. They soon moved to Miami, where her father went to law school and rose to become the school board’s top lawyer, while her mother became a school principal. One of her earliest memories of the law, she has said, was sitting next to her father in the evening while he studied law books and she worked on her coloring books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In high school, Jackson was a national oratory champion, then graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the law review. She clerked for three federal judges, including Justice Breyer, the man she would replace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson met her husband, Patrick Jackson, when the two were at Harvard College. He was, she says, her first “serious boyfriend” and has remained that ever since. They have two daughters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first blush, they look like an improbable couple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she put it in a charming — and candid — speech at the University of Georgia law school \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/41/\">in March 2017\u003c/a>, “Patrick is a quintessential ‘Boston Brahmin’ — his family can be traced back to England before the Mayflower. … He and his twin brother are, in fact, the sixth generation in their family to graduate from Harvard College. By contrast, I am only the second generation in my family to go to \u003cem>any\u003c/em> college, and I am fairly certain that if you traced my family lineage back past my grandparents — who were raised in Georgia, by the way — you would find that my ancestors were slaves on both sides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal Judge Patti Saris, who hired Jackson as a law clerk straight out of law school, recalls her husband, who now looks full-on prep, as less so back then. At the time, he was a surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, but he was so fascinated by his wife’s work he would often go to the courtroom after a long night on call to watch what was going on. As Saris remembers, the young doctor had often been up for 24-plus hours and looked incredibly scruffy, sitting in the back of the courtroom. 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Jackson said she filed a friend-of-the-court brief, representing 20 former federal judges who wanted to make the point that evidence obtained by torture would not have been accepted by the English courts in the system of common law that is the basis for ours. Cruz pressed further, asking her what led her to take on the case. She replied that she worked in a big firm and was assigned to represent the firm’s clients, who, in this case, were a group of judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., similarly challenged her about the case, she noted that at the time she was assigned to work on it, her brother was deployed to Iraq with the military. 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