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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Nearly one week after voters went to the polls Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese late this afternoon conceded the San Jose mayoral race to Councilman Sam Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Monday 8:23 a.m.:\u003c/strong> All of the vote-by-mail ballot counting was completed by 8 p.m. Sunday night. Still uncounted: 14,000 provisional ballots. The tally now stands:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Liccardo: 87,950 51.06 %\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Cortese: 84,282 48.94 %\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Thursday 4:15 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Liccardo has \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/elections/ci_26886684/san-jose-mayor-liccardos-lead-grows-thursday-cortese\" target=\"_blank\">widened his lead over Cortese\u003c/a> after the release of the latest vote totals. But at a press conference Thursday afternoon, Cortese said that he wanted to wait for all the votes to be counted before conceding the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose mayor's race is still not decided this morning. It's too close to call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, City Councilman Sam Liccardo held a consistent 2-point lead over county Supervisor Dave Cortese. Liccardo declared victory this morning at a press conference. However, Cortese has not conceded the race yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese does not expect a winner to be declared for at least a week. He believes a handful of voters will decide who is San Jose’s next mayor. He’s calling this race \"San Jose’s Florida without the hanging chads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this morning, Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said ballots from all of San Jose's 495 polling precincts had been counted. But there are still tens of thousands of outstanding provisional and vote-by-mail ballots to tally. KQED expects an updated count on the South Bay's remaining ballots around the close of business Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/147908/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County election results trickled in\u003c/a> all night because of website and computer problems at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office. The glitches seemed to suck the air out of the election parties for both candidates, with many supporters leaving before midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo dominated the vote in West San Jose and Cortese got the majority of votes on the East Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Liccardo leading the race for mayor says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Liccardo, leading the race for mayor, says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State) \u003ccite>(Nicholas Ibarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We knew it would be a tough battle and here we are at the finish line. I think we're at the end of the tunnel,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose councilman, who has a reservoir of support from former San Jose mayors and city leaders, said the unions ran a bruising, expensive campaign against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we were taking on the machine, and right now the machine is shivering in its boots,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, who is backed by the unions and police, said it's possible the race will be decided by just a handful of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a very competitive race and it's a very diverse city. This is what happens when you get a blend of votes on different issues from around the city,\" said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two men who want to be the next mayor of the largest city in Northern California have been sparring for months in an exhausting flurry of town hall meetings, debates and forums in every San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The side that mobilizes voters the best wins the mayoral election because, in a low voter turnout year, it won't take that many votes to do it,\" said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overriding issues of the campaign were residential crime, putting more police on the streets and pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city once called \"America's safest big city,\" many residents say they've lost their peace of mind. They are demanding that the city's next mayor have solutions to reduce the residential crime plaguing neighborhoods from Willow Glen to East San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official San Jose Police Department statistics show the number of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose resident has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. Auto theft is up 51 percent. The loss of about 380 San Jose police officers in the last five years is part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a contest between two men who are viewed very differently by voters,\" said Gerston. \"Cortese is viewed more as the common man and Liccardo is viewed more as the consummate professional. Each has their reservoirs of support. Cortese has the support of many former San Jose police chiefs, and Liccardo has the support of former San Jose mayors.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the night, City Councilman Sam Liccardo held a consistent 2-point lead over county Supervisor Dave Cortese. Liccardo declared victory this morning at a press conference. However, Cortese has not conceded the race yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese does not expect a winner to be declared for at least a week. He believes a handful of voters will decide who is San Jose’s next mayor. He’s calling this race \"San Jose’s Florida without the hanging chads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early this morning, Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters Shannon Bushey said ballots from all of San Jose's 495 polling precincts had been counted. But there are still tens of thousands of outstanding provisional and vote-by-mail ballots to tally. KQED expects an updated count on the South Bay's remaining ballots around the close of business Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/54209/147908/Web01/en/summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clara County election results trickled in\u003c/a> all night because of website and computer problems at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters office. The glitches seemed to suck the air out of the election parties for both candidates, with many supporters leaving before midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo dominated the vote in West San Jose and Cortese got the majority of votes on the East Side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347149\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347149\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Liccardo leading the race for mayor says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4080-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Liccardo, leading the race for mayor, says goodnight to supporters at his Gordon Biersch Brewery election night headquarters. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State) \u003ccite>(Nicholas Ibarra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We knew it would be a tough battle and here we are at the finish line. I think we're at the end of the tunnel,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose councilman, who has a reservoir of support from former San Jose mayors and city leaders, said the unions ran a bruising, expensive campaign against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We knew we were taking on the machine, and right now the machine is shivering in its boots,\" said Liccardo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese, who is backed by the unions and police, said it's possible the race will be decided by just a handful of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's just a very competitive race and it's a very diverse city. This is what happens when you get a blend of votes on different issues from around the city,\" said Cortese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10347150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10347150\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/11/IMG_4101-1440x960.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave Cortese says good night to his supporters at the Marriott in San Jose after a long night of waiting for election results. (Nicholas Ibarra/San Jose State)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The two men who want to be the next mayor of the largest city in Northern California have been sparring for months in an exhausting flurry of town hall meetings, debates and forums in every San Jose neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The side that mobilizes voters the best wins the mayoral election because, in a low voter turnout year, it won't take that many votes to do it,\" said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overriding issues of the campaign were residential crime, putting more police on the streets and pension reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a city once called \"America's safest big city,\" many residents say they've lost their peace of mind. They are demanding that the city's next mayor have solutions to reduce the residential crime plaguing neighborhoods from Willow Glen to East San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Official San Jose Police Department statistics show the number of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose resident has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. Auto theft is up 51 percent. The loss of about 380 San Jose police officers in the last five years is part of the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a contest between two men who are viewed very differently by voters,\" said Gerston. \"Cortese is viewed more as the common man and Liccardo is viewed more as the consummate professional. Each has their reservoirs of support. Cortese has the support of many former San Jose police chiefs, and Liccardo has the support of former San Jose mayors.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[audio mp3=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/WillonSJCrime.mp3\"][/audio]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tough to unite neighborhoods in a city as sprawling, diverse and economically divided as San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of residential crime appears to be doing just that this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose residents are demanding that mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese answer one big question: How do they plan to reduce a relatively high rate of home burglaries and car thefts in the city? And voters are raising it at nearly every neighborhood meeting, debate and town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Residential crime is the issue right below the surface that could be the tipping point in the San Jose mayoral election,” said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University. “Residents have a real sense of insecurity because these crimes are happening in wealthy and poor areas. When crime isn’t insulated, you sometimes see a revolt by voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What’s being done to the people in Evergreen, being done to San Jose, is not fair.'\u003ccite>Brian Tran, Evergreen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once called “America’s safest big city,” San Jose is struggling with crime in neighborhoods that once had a strong police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of emotional threat experienced is a function of the number of burglaries,” said Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and crime expert. “But also the amount of concern about burglary can feed off itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown resident Helen Chapman says she can explain why people are on edge about crime, if you walk around the neighborhood with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron behind there had his car broken into,” she said, gesturing behind her. “Peter next door on that side had his car broken into. I know there have been robberies on the other side [one street over].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta Hanchett Park is an upscale neighborhood filled with a lot of languages, young families and professionals. Chapman, who heads up the neighborhood association, points out that many of the homes are now equipped with security cameras on the outside to record burglaries and car thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see the police presence that we used to see,” she said. “You would be standing out here and you would see a patrol car going around the neighborhood. And now people have just gotten to the point of: Nothing is going to be done about it -- I have to take matters into my own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman herself bought a security camera and now has a pit bull. She says all the crime has put a cloud over the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a car that doesn’t belong in the neighborhood,” she said, “and they’re taking pictures and it might be perfectly OK for that car to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 535px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\" alt=\"(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\" width=\"535\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart-400x281.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rate per 100,000 people. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This didn’t just start. It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. 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Chapman, who heads up the neighborhood association, points out that many of the homes are now equipped with security cameras on the outside to record burglaries and car thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see the police presence that we used to see,” she said. “You would be standing out here and you would see a patrol car going around the neighborhood. And now people have just gotten to the point of: Nothing is going to be done about it -- I have to take matters into my own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman herself bought a security camera and now has a pit bull. She says all the crime has put a cloud over the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a car that doesn’t belong in the neighborhood,” she said, “and they’re taking pictures and it might be perfectly OK for that car to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 535px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\" alt=\"(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\" width=\"535\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart-400x281.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rate per 100,000 people. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This didn’t just start. It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Beth Willon and Joshua Johnson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 546px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/liccardo-cortese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-148933\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/liccardo-cortese.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo, left, and Dave Cortese. \" width=\"546\" height=\"393\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo, left, and Dave Cortese.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">Y\u003c/span>ou would almost think San Jose mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese just like to hang out with each other: In the nearly four months since the June primary election, they've met six times to debate the issues facing the Bay Area's biggest city and their visions for handling them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left !important;font-size: 14pt\">\n\u003caside class=\"right\">\u003cstrong>Listen\u003c/strong> to the San Jose mayoral debate and read the wrap-up \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/san-jose-mayoral-candidates-liccardo-cortese-go-head-to-head-on-city-issues/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/aside>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>One thing's very clear as Cortese, who sits on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors meets Liccardo, a member of the San Jose City Council, for a seventh time Monday night: They differ sharply on what it will take to keep the city safe and financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The key questions in the debate, at eBay and moderated by Joshua Johnson of KQED News with KQED Silicon Valley reporter Rachael Myrow: Should San Jose shift course on \u003ca href=\"http://ballotpedia.org/San_Jose_Pension_Reform,_Measure_B_(June_2012)\" target=\"_blank\">Measure B\u003c/a>, the 2012 City Charter amendment that imposed sweeping changes on public pensions? And what impact has Measure B had on public safety in the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed and his City Council allies championed the measure as a crucial step in reining in out-of-control pension costs. The proposal, which required steep new employee pension contributions among many other provisions, won with a 69 percent \"yes\" vote -- and drew \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3182\" target=\"_blank\">a barrage of lawsuits\u003c/a> from unions and retired city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, a Santa Clara County judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/25342\" target=\"_blank\">struck down key elements\u003c/a> of the measure, including a provision that would allow the city to impose higher pension contributions for current employees and another that would permit suspension of cost-of-living increases for retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates disagree on what to do next. Liccardo, like Reed, supported an appeal of last December's court ruling and said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26372865/Sam-Liccardo:-San-Jose-doesnt-need-to-spend-more-money-to-be-safer\" target=\"_blank\">a Mercury News op-ed\u003c/a> piece earlier last month that \"anyone who suggests we should overturn Measure B to improve safety had better identify a way to pay for those retirement costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese has called for a settlement of the suits and negotiations to bring pension costs under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26626118/San-Jose-mayors-race-heats-up-as-candidates-battle-over-key-police-issue\" target=\"_blank\">Cortese and Liccardo are also at odds \u003c/a>on the impact Measure B has had on the city's Police Department and on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese argues that Measure B led to an exodus from the department, which has lost hundreds of officers over the last several years, many leaving for jurisdictions with better pay and benefits. That, he says, has led to a spike in violent crime. \u003ca href=\"http://cortesecampaign.com/about-dave/on-the-issues/\" target=\"_blank\">His remedy\u003c/a>: fill 140 unstaffed positions in the Police Department, improve neighborhood policing and gang prevention, and establish collaborative crime-fighting efforts with residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says that budget problems caused by rising pensions, not the ballot proposal, led officers to leave the department and that the loss of staff has been minimal since Measure B's passage. He argues that the city has already made progress in reducing violent crime and that the Police Department can improve its performance -- and public safety -- through smart investments in efficiency and technology such as wearable cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He insists the real risk to the Police Department arises from the threat of fiscal instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there are other pressing issues in this race. Perhaps the biggest: affordable housing in a place that \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/02/26/americas-most-overpriced-cities/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes named earlier this year as California's most overpriced city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen for Liccardo to detail a housing impact fee levied on developers of new residential construction. Cortese gives a variation on that theme supporting a fee charged to commercial developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since this debate is taking place at eBay and is hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, you can expect some questions that touch on the technology sector. For instance, how do the candidates plan to stem the tide of tech startups going to the Peninsula and San Francisco instead of San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has promoted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Twitter-tax-break-cost-city-4-2-million-last-year-5573881.php\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a> that persuaded fast-growing firms like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/business/twitter-helps-revive-a-seedy-san-francisco-neighborhood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/square-headquarters/\" target=\"_blank\">Square\u003c/a> to stay in the city. Other established tech companies are choosing to expand on the Peninsula instead of San Jose because, in part, that is where their younger workforce wants to live. Will the candidates have any solutions for making San Jose more appealing to 20-something engineers and scientists?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the divergence on some issues, Liccardo and Dave Cortese personally have a lot in common. Both are Italian-Americans who graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory High School in San Jose and became lawyers. Both are socially progressive Democrats from wealthy, established families.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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