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The family took him to an emergency room and then to a psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed as bipolar and manic with psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got worse. He refused medications because he believed his illness was a gift from God. He called himself a prophet and said the Lord had commanded him to sacrifice his children. He said he was willing to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Moriarty says she took the kids and moved out. Shortly afterward, on May 25, 2016, Heron Moriarty was arrested after throwing a rock through the front window of his brother’s home and smashing his truck into several cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they arrested him, I was relieved,” Michelle Moriarty says. “I thought, 'He’s going to get the help he needs.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heron Moriarty was jailed in the Vista Detention Facility in northern San Diego County. His wife says she called, faxed and emailed jail staff several times a day to tell them about her husband’s illness and medications. She spoke to a chaplain, she faxed a report from a Psychiatric Emergency Response Team officer who had arrested Heron three weeks earlier and sent him to a hospital for treatment. All told, Michelle Moriarty says she called the Sheriff’s Department 28 times in six days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was telling them I was scared for his life the whole time. And they told me not to worry, that he was in good hands,” Michelle Moriarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the warnings, Heron Moriarty was neither placed on suicide watch nor seen by a psychiatrist. On the sixth day he was there, May 31, jail staff found him dead in his cell, with a T-shirt pulled tight around his neck and another shirt stuffed in his mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband shouldn't have had two shirts to be able to do that to himself,” Michelle Moriarty says. “You know, he should have had paper clothes or no clothes or something after me warning them day after day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or more than two decades, Jason Nishimoto and his family managed his schizophrenia. He worked as a welder refitting plumbing pipes on Navy ships. He loved to write short stories and poems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055348\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11055348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Nishimoto (left) on the beach with family and friends.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Nishimoto (left) on the beach with family and friends. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Nishimoto family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But last year, Nishimoto started experiencing side effects from his psychiatric medications, leaving him depressed and prompting several suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Sept. 24, Nishimoto tried to kill himself by taking a full bottle of an anti-seizure drug. The overdose made him manic. Jason’s brother Adrian took his car keys away and called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason responded by grabbing a garden shovel and threatening Adrian, who tackled him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was like the drunkest man you’ve ever seen,” Adrian Nishimoto says. “So his attempts were not in any way going to hurt me. I was egging him on, to get him to do that so he would stay here. ... I just wanted to keep him in this area until the police showed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, a psychiatric nurse at Vista Detention Facility called Jason’s mother, Rochelle Nishimoto, to ask about his current medications because he was too incoherent to answer her questions. It was the first time the family realized that Jason had been jailed and not hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last thing the psychiatric nurse said was, “Don’t worry, mom, we’ll take care of him,” Rochelle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his fourth night in jail, the evening before he was scheduled to see a psychiatrist, Jason Nishimoto hanged himself with a bedsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They blatantly ignored their own policies,” Rochelle Nishimoto says. “I’m a registered nurse. Any time that we would have a patient or resident that was suicidal, I know what 15-minute watches are, suicidal precautions. Any nursing home, any hospital that does not follow those -- they would be hit with the biggest fine. People would be fired. It would not be tolerated. Period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Rochelle Nishimoto sued the the county and Sheriff’s Department for Jason’s death in federal court for wrongful death and violation of civil rights. She says it’s the only way to prevent more deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be much easier -- less emotional -- for me to let it go. But then this stubborn streak comes up and says, ‘How dare they neglect my son? How dare they?’” she says, pounding her kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board, an independent board, is still investigating Jason Nishimoto’s and Heron Moriarty’s deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the striking aspects of the suicides of Jason Nishimoto and Heron Moriarty is that they occurred after the high number of deaths in San Diego County’s jails had received widespread public attention. They also followed the jails’ adoption of new procedures designed to identify at-risk inmates and stop them from killing themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials, including the medical examiner’s officer, the Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board and county Board of Supervisors declined to be interviewed for this story, referring us to the Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell ultimately responded to numerous requests for comment by telling us the department was “unable to participate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public records requests and local reporting shed light on the Sheriff’s Department’s response to the deaths behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>How Are We Treating Mentally Ill Inmates?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11055440\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/18881_transform.jpg\" alt=\"18881_transform\" width=\"175\" height=\"100\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Deaths in One Jail in One Month\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/16/sonoma-county-accused-of-involuntarily-medicating-inmates/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11055441\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/19453_transform.jpg\" alt=\"19453_transform\" width=\"175\" height=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/16/sonoma-county-accused-of-involuntarily-medicating-inmates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability Agency Blasts Sonoma County Jail’s Treatment of Mentally Ill\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"http://sdcitybeat.com/article-11617-How-many-inmate-deaths-is-too-many.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an investigative series\u003c/a> by Kelly Davis and Dave Maass in the weekly San Diego CityBeat, the jails last year implemented policies to head off suicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those policies are detailed in a training video for jail employees obtained under a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video starts with a straightforward statement of the problem by Dr. Alfred Joshua, San Diego County’s chief medical officer. “Every year,” he says, “we have many inmates who meet the criteria or are at risk for trying to harm themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video points out red flags, including suicidal statements from inmates, suicide attempts in the previous five years “or staff observation that someone is depressed or has emotionally changed their status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inmate's history of suicide attempts is crucial. KQED’s analysis of medical examiner’s reports obtained through public records requests show that of the 28 people who have killed themselves in San Diego County jails since 2010, more than half told either jail staff, family or cellmates what they intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suicidal statements or behavior would classify inmates as being at “high risk” for taking their own lives under the matrix adopted last year. The policy also requires suicidal inmates to be placed in special cells without loose clothing or bedsheets and observed by staff every 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight people have killed themselves since the matrix was adopted in early 2015. Last year, suicides accounted for half of all deaths in San Diego County jails. Statewide, one in four deaths in county jails were from suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Los Angeles County agreed to federal oversight of its jails in an effort to improve the treatment of inmates with mental illness. That year, Los Angeles County only had one suicide, San Diego County had six. Orange County had no suicides and San Bernardino County had one, both of which have larger jail populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[deathTest]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n San Diego, a registered nurse screens inmates for medical and mental health problems during booking. This determines whether an inmate will be placed in a psychiatric unit, a special cell for suicidal inmates, a single cell or in general population. Medication orders are placed, and medical or psychiatric visits scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Heron Moriarty nor Jason Nishimoto was placed on suicide watch or given close examination when they were booked. Jail staff isolated both men, placing them in cells, alone, for up to 23 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry Kupers, an East Bay psychiatrist and expert on the treatment of mentally ill patients in jails and prisons, says it’s common for mentally ill people to be segregated from the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff doesn't mean it as a punitive measure. He's just doing it to protect the inmate. But then you're isolating someone with a serious mental illness, and that's the worst thing for his treatment and his prognosis,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The continuation of medication is also imperative. Jason Nishimoto did not receive any of his medications while in jail, Rochelle Nishimoto says. A psychiatric nurse told Rochelle that Jason’s medication was “too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jails determine what medications they will and won’t give inmates, but Kupers says the institutions’ medication lists are often inadequate for effective treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The newer medications are on patent, and they are more expensive. So the jails don't tend to prescribe them, and it makes a lot of difference what medication you're on,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being taken off some psychiatric medications suddenly is dangerous and can cause suicidal thoughts and medical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Moriarty and Nishimoto also experienced another common problem during their brief stays at the Vista jail. The facility does not have an on-site psychiatrist. Instead, the county uses several psychiatrists who shuttle from jail to jail. This kind of delay to see a psychiatrist is very common in jails throughout California, and dangerous, says Kupers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if someone comes in on a Saturday night and they're very psychotic, and the psychiatrist comes in on Thursday, they will have no psychiatric attention between Saturday night and Thursday, and ... they're going to be very disturbed,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, nearly one-third of the 4,980 or so inmates in San Diego County jails on any given day were receiving some form of mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when inmates receive therapy, it is far from what most people would think of as a normal session. Therapy in most county jails, including San Diego’s, is predominantly conducted through a food slot. Cellmates, guards and others can easily listen in. Experts like Kupers say that this kind of therapy is common -- and inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11055357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Nunez holds a photo of her son Ruben.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Nunez holds a photo of her son Ruben. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\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\">L\u003c/span>ydia Nunez’s son Ruben -- a 46-year-old, homeless schizophrenic -- died in San Diego Central Jail almost exactly a year ago. She says the death tore a huge hole in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said he loved me,” she says. “There was a never a day where he wouldn’t stop saying that. So at this point, I miss him saying that to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Nunez had suffered from severe mental illness his entire adult life, but the path that led to his death in the Central Jail began in March 2014, when he was arrested on felony assault charges for allegedly pitching a rock through a car window. His mental illness was so crippling that he was judged incompetent to stand trial and sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino for treatment. He refused to take psychotropic drugs prescribed by doctors there, so he was medicated involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia was far from Nunez’s only problem, doctors at Patton observed. They noted that he showed signs of psychogenic water intoxication, a complication of a psychiatric condition that made him want to drink massive volumes of water. Unchecked, the condition can be fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Nunez was said to have been “drinking water in dangerous amounts,” doctors at Patton required him to be monitored closely to ensure he didn’t consume excessive amounts. Without that monitoring and other treatment, a Patton doctor wrote, Nunez’s water intake “could easily have killed him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was Nunez’s state immediately before Patton State Hospital sent him to San Diego Central Jail last August to await a court hearing that would determine whether doctors could continue his involuntary medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what Central Jail staff knew about Nunez’s condition when he arrived on Aug. 8, 2015, isn’t clear. What is evident from medical examiner’s documents is that he was placed in a cell with a toilet and sink, meaning he had free access to water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal lawsuit filed in June 2016 on behalf of Lydia Nunez alleges that the jail’s failure to limit Nunez water intake proved fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the morning of Aug. 13, a guard found Nunez vomiting in his cell. A nurse visited shortly afterward to administer Nunez’s regular medications. Then Nunez was left alone. Less than an hour later, he was found unresponsive, covered in vomit and urine. Attempts to revive him failed, and Nunez was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy found he died of complications of water intoxication. How much water would it have taken to kill him? The medical examiner’s report on the death remarked that “the quantity of water necessary for this condition is around 6 liters ingested in a short time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nunez lawsuit alleges that failures by both Patton State Hospital and Central Jail staff led to the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint accuses Patton of failing to send the jail a specific alert about Nunez’s water disorder, a document that should have spelled out strict protocols for monitoring the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055364\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11055364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church-800x1167.jpg\" alt=\"Ruben Nunez sings at a church in National City in 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1167\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church-400x584.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruben Nunez sings at a church in National City in 1990. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Nunez family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that jail staff ignored medical records showing that Nunez was at risk for water intoxication, then failed to act when he showed signs of being in severe distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October 2015 medical examiner’s report on Nunez’s death notes that an investigator had obtained medical records through the San Diego Sheriff’s Department showing that the inmate “had a history of schizophrenia and hyponatremia, which required water restriction.“ (Hyponatremia is a potentially fatal condition marked by critically low sodium levels in the blood. The condition is most often caused by overconsumption of water.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that Nunez’s death is part of a long history characterized by the Sheriff’s Department’s “systemic failure” to provide adequate health care for inmates coupled with a wider failure by the county “to investigate incidents of medical neglect, staff misconduct and deaths in the jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the Moriarty and Nishimoto deaths, the Sheriff’s Department declined to discuss the Nunez case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lydia Nunez, though, the condition of her son as he died -- on the floor of his cell, in jail clothing soaked with vomit and urine -- speaks volumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just didn’t care about this person. This person that was just there, just lying there unconscious,” Lydia Nunez says. “I felt like they just ignored him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the many questions hanging over these deaths and others in the San Diego County jails is whether they've been adequately investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question emerged as a central factor in the case of Bernard Victorianne, a 28-year-old man who died in his county jail cell in September 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victorianne swallowed a baggie of methamphetamine as he was arrested for driving under the influence. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1300788-complaint-final.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the sheriff department said Victorianne \"was in distress for days, screaming and telling staff that his insides were 'on fire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/clerb/docs/findings/2014/0914findings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLERB's inquiry\u003c/a> into Victorianne's death found that correctional and medical staff failed to take basic steps to respond to Victorianne's situation or to investigate his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Yoo, the attorney who sued on behalf of Victorianne's family, said the county has agreed to settle the case for $2.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just the latest in a series of expensive verdicts and settlements arising from inmate deaths. In 2014, a federal jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jan/22/sisson-verdict-jail-death-motion-denied/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awarded $3 million\u003c/a> to the parents of Daniel Sisson, a 21-year-old inmate who died in the Vista Detention Facility in 2011. Sisson was left untreated after he suffered an asthma attack while experiencing drug withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also settled with the family of Tommy Tucker, a schizophrenic inmate who died at the Central Jail in 2009. Jail video shows that Tucker tried to get a cup of water back to his cell during a lockdown. It is unclear whether Tucker heard or understood the guards’ instructions to put the cup down. Jail guards rushed Tucker, using pepper spray, a chokehold and a spit sock to subdue him. Tucker died of asphyxiation during the hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLERB did not investigate Tucker’s death. However, during trial it emerged that sheriff’s deputies reviewed the video together before writing reports about the death or being interviewed as part of the death investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This winter, the review board suggested that the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/watchdog-group-urges-sheriff-to-tweak-new-body-camera-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stop allowing officers to review video footage\u003c/a> before writing incident reports as part of their recommendations around body camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In theory, what should happen is when there’s an unfortunate death there should be a serious investigation. And whatever can be found that led up to the death should be changed. That process is not very active in California,” psychiatrist Terry Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 8 more wrongful death suits against San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It needs to stop right here, now,” Lydia Nunez says. “People are dying in the county jail and nobody’s doing anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://USC%20Annenberg%20School%20for%20Communication%20and%20Journalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nicole West and Alexander Cwalinski contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">H\u003c/span>eron Moriarty did not have long to understand the ins and outs of living with mental illness. Until this past spring, his family knew him as an energetic and religious family man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An electrical contractor, Moriarty often awoke at 2 in the morning to keep up with business. He and his wife, Michelle, met in a church singles group in the late 1990s and had three children. The family was actively involved in their evangelical Christian church, where Moriarty mentored others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055299\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 639px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11055299\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family.jpg\" alt=\"Heron and Michelle Moriarty with their three children in a photo taken before his death.\" width=\"639\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family.jpg 639w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Moriarty-family-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heron and Michelle Moriarty with their three children in a photo taken before his death. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Moriarty family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in April, things changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started acting strangely, and talking in circles and not making any sense,” Michelle Moriarty says. The family took him to an emergency room and then to a psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed as bipolar and manic with psychosis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got worse. He refused medications because he believed his illness was a gift from God. He called himself a prophet and said the Lord had commanded him to sacrifice his children. He said he was willing to do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michelle Moriarty says she took the kids and moved out. Shortly afterward, on May 25, 2016, Heron Moriarty was arrested after throwing a rock through the front window of his brother’s home and smashing his truck into several cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they arrested him, I was relieved,” Michelle Moriarty says. “I thought, 'He’s going to get the help he needs.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heron Moriarty was jailed in the Vista Detention Facility in northern San Diego County. His wife says she called, faxed and emailed jail staff several times a day to tell them about her husband’s illness and medications. She spoke to a chaplain, she faxed a report from a Psychiatric Emergency Response Team officer who had arrested Heron three weeks earlier and sent him to a hospital for treatment. All told, Michelle Moriarty says she called the Sheriff’s Department 28 times in six days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was telling them I was scared for his life the whole time. And they told me not to worry, that he was in good hands,” Michelle Moriarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the warnings, Heron Moriarty was neither placed on suicide watch nor seen by a psychiatrist. On the sixth day he was there, May 31, jail staff found him dead in his cell, with a T-shirt pulled tight around his neck and another shirt stuffed in his mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My husband shouldn't have had two shirts to be able to do that to himself,” Michelle Moriarty says. “You know, he should have had paper clothes or no clothes or something after me warning them day after day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>or more than two decades, Jason Nishimoto and his family managed his schizophrenia. He worked as a welder refitting plumbing pipes on Navy ships. He loved to write short stories and poems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055348\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11055348\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Nishimoto (left) on the beach with family and friends.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nishimoto-beach-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Nishimoto (left) on the beach with family and friends. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Nishimoto family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But last year, Nishimoto started experiencing side effects from his psychiatric medications, leaving him depressed and prompting several suicide attempts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then on Sept. 24, Nishimoto tried to kill himself by taking a full bottle of an anti-seizure drug. The overdose made him manic. Jason’s brother Adrian took his car keys away and called 911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason responded by grabbing a garden shovel and threatening Adrian, who tackled him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was like the drunkest man you’ve ever seen,” Adrian Nishimoto says. “So his attempts were not in any way going to hurt me. I was egging him on, to get him to do that so he would stay here. ... I just wanted to keep him in this area until the police showed up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next morning, a psychiatric nurse at Vista Detention Facility called Jason’s mother, Rochelle Nishimoto, to ask about his current medications because he was too incoherent to answer her questions. It was the first time the family realized that Jason had been jailed and not hospitalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last thing the psychiatric nurse said was, “Don’t worry, mom, we’ll take care of him,” Rochelle says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On his fourth night in jail, the evening before he was scheduled to see a psychiatrist, Jason Nishimoto hanged himself with a bedsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They blatantly ignored their own policies,” Rochelle Nishimoto says. “I’m a registered nurse. Any time that we would have a patient or resident that was suicidal, I know what 15-minute watches are, suicidal precautions. Any nursing home, any hospital that does not follow those -- they would be hit with the biggest fine. People would be fired. It would not be tolerated. Period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Rochelle Nishimoto sued the the county and Sheriff’s Department for Jason’s death in federal court for wrongful death and violation of civil rights. She says it’s the only way to prevent more deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be much easier -- less emotional -- for me to let it go. But then this stubborn streak comes up and says, ‘How dare they neglect my son? How dare they?’” she says, pounding her kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board, an independent board, is still investigating Jason Nishimoto’s and Heron Moriarty’s deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the striking aspects of the suicides of Jason Nishimoto and Heron Moriarty is that they occurred after the high number of deaths in San Diego County’s jails had received widespread public attention. They also followed the jails’ adoption of new procedures designed to identify at-risk inmates and stop them from killing themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials, including the medical examiner’s officer, the Citizens' Law Enforcement Review Board and county Board of Supervisors declined to be interviewed for this story, referring us to the Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Caldwell ultimately responded to numerous requests for comment by telling us the department was “unable to participate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public records requests and local reporting shed light on the Sheriff’s Department’s response to the deaths behind bars.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>How Are We Treating Mentally Ill Inmates?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11055440\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/18881_transform.jpg\" alt=\"18881_transform\" width=\"175\" height=\"100\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/29/two-mentally-ill-inmates-died-one-month-in-santa-clara/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Two Deaths in One Jail in One Month\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/16/sonoma-county-accused-of-involuntarily-medicating-inmates/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11055441\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/19453_transform.jpg\" alt=\"19453_transform\" width=\"175\" height=\"100\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/16/sonoma-county-accused-of-involuntarily-medicating-inmates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disability Agency Blasts Sonoma County Jail’s Treatment of Mentally Ill\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>After \u003ca href=\"http://sdcitybeat.com/article-11617-How-many-inmate-deaths-is-too-many.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an investigative series\u003c/a> by Kelly Davis and Dave Maass in the weekly San Diego CityBeat, the jails last year implemented policies to head off suicides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those policies are detailed in a training video for jail employees obtained under a public records request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video starts with a straightforward statement of the problem by Dr. Alfred Joshua, San Diego County’s chief medical officer. “Every year,” he says, “we have many inmates who meet the criteria or are at risk for trying to harm themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video points out red flags, including suicidal statements from inmates, suicide attempts in the previous five years “or staff observation that someone is depressed or has emotionally changed their status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An inmate's history of suicide attempts is crucial. KQED’s analysis of medical examiner’s reports obtained through public records requests show that of the 28 people who have killed themselves in San Diego County jails since 2010, more than half told either jail staff, family or cellmates what they intended to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suicidal statements or behavior would classify inmates as being at “high risk” for taking their own lives under the matrix adopted last year. The policy also requires suicidal inmates to be placed in special cells without loose clothing or bedsheets and observed by staff every 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least eight people have killed themselves since the matrix was adopted in early 2015. Last year, suicides accounted for half of all deaths in San Diego County jails. Statewide, one in four deaths in county jails were from suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Los Angeles County agreed to federal oversight of its jails in an effort to improve the treatment of inmates with mental illness. That year, Los Angeles County only had one suicide, San Diego County had six. Orange County had no suicides and San Bernardino County had one, both of which have larger jail populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[deathTest]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>n San Diego, a registered nurse screens inmates for medical and mental health problems during booking. This determines whether an inmate will be placed in a psychiatric unit, a special cell for suicidal inmates, a single cell or in general population. Medication orders are placed, and medical or psychiatric visits scheduled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Heron Moriarty nor Jason Nishimoto was placed on suicide watch or given close examination when they were booked. Jail staff isolated both men, placing them in cells, alone, for up to 23 hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Terry Kupers, an East Bay psychiatrist and expert on the treatment of mentally ill patients in jails and prisons, says it’s common for mentally ill people to be segregated from the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The sheriff doesn't mean it as a punitive measure. He's just doing it to protect the inmate. But then you're isolating someone with a serious mental illness, and that's the worst thing for his treatment and his prognosis,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The continuation of medication is also imperative. Jason Nishimoto did not receive any of his medications while in jail, Rochelle Nishimoto says. A psychiatric nurse told Rochelle that Jason’s medication was “too expensive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jails determine what medications they will and won’t give inmates, but Kupers says the institutions’ medication lists are often inadequate for effective treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The newer medications are on patent, and they are more expensive. So the jails don't tend to prescribe them, and it makes a lot of difference what medication you're on,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being taken off some psychiatric medications suddenly is dangerous and can cause suicidal thoughts and medical problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Moriarty and Nishimoto also experienced another common problem during their brief stays at the Vista jail. The facility does not have an on-site psychiatrist. Instead, the county uses several psychiatrists who shuttle from jail to jail. This kind of delay to see a psychiatrist is very common in jails throughout California, and dangerous, says Kupers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So if someone comes in on a Saturday night and they're very psychotic, and the psychiatrist comes in on Thursday, they will have no psychiatric attention between Saturday night and Thursday, and ... they're going to be very disturbed,” Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, nearly one-third of the 4,980 or so inmates in San Diego County jails on any given day were receiving some form of mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even when inmates receive therapy, it is far from what most people would think of as a normal session. Therapy in most county jails, including San Diego’s, is predominantly conducted through a food slot. Cellmates, guards and others can easily listen in. Experts like Kupers say that this kind of therapy is common -- and inadequate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055357\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11055357\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Nunez holds a photo of her son Ruben.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/IMG_2222-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia Nunez holds a photo of her son Ruben. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\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\">L\u003c/span>ydia Nunez’s son Ruben -- a 46-year-old, homeless schizophrenic -- died in San Diego Central Jail almost exactly a year ago. She says the death tore a huge hole in her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He always said he loved me,” she says. “There was a never a day where he wouldn’t stop saying that. So at this point, I miss him saying that to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruben Nunez had suffered from severe mental illness his entire adult life, but the path that led to his death in the Central Jail began in March 2014, when he was arrested on felony assault charges for allegedly pitching a rock through a car window. His mental illness was so crippling that he was judged incompetent to stand trial and sent to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino for treatment. He refused to take psychotropic drugs prescribed by doctors there, so he was medicated involuntarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schizophrenia was far from Nunez’s only problem, doctors at Patton observed. They noted that he showed signs of psychogenic water intoxication, a complication of a psychiatric condition that made him want to drink massive volumes of water. Unchecked, the condition can be fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Nunez was said to have been “drinking water in dangerous amounts,” doctors at Patton required him to be monitored closely to ensure he didn’t consume excessive amounts. Without that monitoring and other treatment, a Patton doctor wrote, Nunez’s water intake “could easily have killed him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was Nunez’s state immediately before Patton State Hospital sent him to San Diego Central Jail last August to await a court hearing that would determine whether doctors could continue his involuntary medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Exactly what Central Jail staff knew about Nunez’s condition when he arrived on Aug. 8, 2015, isn’t clear. What is evident from medical examiner’s documents is that he was placed in a cell with a toilet and sink, meaning he had free access to water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal lawsuit filed in June 2016 on behalf of Lydia Nunez alleges that the jail’s failure to limit Nunez water intake proved fatal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the morning of Aug. 13, a guard found Nunez vomiting in his cell. A nurse visited shortly afterward to administer Nunez’s regular medications. Then Nunez was left alone. Less than an hour later, he was found unresponsive, covered in vomit and urine. Attempts to revive him failed, and Nunez was pronounced dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An autopsy found he died of complications of water intoxication. How much water would it have taken to kill him? The medical examiner’s report on the death remarked that “the quantity of water necessary for this condition is around 6 liters ingested in a short time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Nunez lawsuit alleges that failures by both Patton State Hospital and Central Jail staff led to the death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The complaint accuses Patton of failing to send the jail a specific alert about Nunez’s water disorder, a document that should have spelled out strict protocols for monitoring the condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11055364\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11055364\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church-800x1167.jpg\" alt=\"Ruben Nunez sings at a church in National City in 1990.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1167\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/Nunez-church-400x584.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruben Nunez sings at a church in National City in 1990. \u003ccite>(Courtesy the Nunez family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that jail staff ignored medical records showing that Nunez was at risk for water intoxication, then failed to act when he showed signs of being in severe distress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October 2015 medical examiner’s report on Nunez’s death notes that an investigator had obtained medical records through the San Diego Sheriff’s Department showing that the inmate “had a history of schizophrenia and hyponatremia, which required water restriction.“ (Hyponatremia is a potentially fatal condition marked by critically low sodium levels in the blood. The condition is most often caused by overconsumption of water.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that Nunez’s death is part of a long history characterized by the Sheriff’s Department’s “systemic failure” to provide adequate health care for inmates coupled with a wider failure by the county “to investigate incidents of medical neglect, staff misconduct and deaths in the jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the Moriarty and Nishimoto deaths, the Sheriff’s Department declined to discuss the Nunez case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Lydia Nunez, though, the condition of her son as he died -- on the floor of his cell, in jail clothing soaked with vomit and urine -- speaks volumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They just didn’t care about this person. This person that was just there, just lying there unconscious,” Lydia Nunez says. “I felt like they just ignored him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne of the many questions hanging over these deaths and others in the San Diego County jails is whether they've been adequately investigated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question emerged as a central factor in the case of Bernard Victorianne, a 28-year-old man who died in his county jail cell in September 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victorianne swallowed a baggie of methamphetamine as he was arrested for driving under the influence. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1300788-complaint-final.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrongful death lawsuit\u003c/a> filed against the sheriff department said Victorianne \"was in distress for days, screaming and telling staff that his insides were 'on fire.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/clerb/docs/findings/2014/0914findings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLERB's inquiry\u003c/a> into Victorianne's death found that correctional and medical staff failed to take basic steps to respond to Victorianne's situation or to investigate his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julia Yoo, the attorney who sued on behalf of Victorianne's family, said the county has agreed to settle the case for $2.3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just the latest in a series of expensive verdicts and settlements arising from inmate deaths. In 2014, a federal jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/jan/22/sisson-verdict-jail-death-motion-denied/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">awarded $3 million\u003c/a> to the parents of Daniel Sisson, a 21-year-old inmate who died in the Vista Detention Facility in 2011. Sisson was left untreated after he suffered an asthma attack while experiencing drug withdrawal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also settled with the family of Tommy Tucker, a schizophrenic inmate who died at the Central Jail in 2009. Jail video shows that Tucker tried to get a cup of water back to his cell during a lockdown. It is unclear whether Tucker heard or understood the guards’ instructions to put the cup down. Jail guards rushed Tucker, using pepper spray, a chokehold and a spit sock to subdue him. Tucker died of asphyxiation during the hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CLERB did not investigate Tucker’s death. However, during trial it emerged that sheriff’s deputies reviewed the video together before writing reports about the death or being interviewed as part of the death investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This winter, the review board suggested that the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/watchdog-group-urges-sheriff-to-tweak-new-body-camera-policies/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stop allowing officers to review video footage\u003c/a> before writing incident reports as part of their recommendations around body camera footage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In theory, what should happen is when there’s an unfortunate death there should be a serious investigation. And whatever can be found that led up to the death should be changed. That process is not very active in California,” psychiatrist Terry Kupers says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently about 8 more wrongful death suits against San Diego County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It needs to stop right here, now,” Lydia Nunez says. “People are dying in the county jail and nobody’s doing anything about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the California Data Fellowship, a program of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://USC%20Annenberg%20School%20for%20Communication%20and%20Journalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Smoking, smoking, smoking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273347823\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Escobedo began committing crimes to support his habit. He was sent to prison four times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Escobedo first started using more than 20 years ago, most of the meth in San Diego County came from makeshift labs. Many of them were in East County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methamphetamine on San Diego's streets today is largely produced in \u003ca href=\"http://news.sky.com/story/1515628/inside-mexicos-infamous-meth-super-labs\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican super labs\u003c/a> controlled by drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM.png\" alt=\"The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere, with 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the U.S. every day. \" width=\"770\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM.png 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM-400x230.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM-768x441.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere, with 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the U.S. every day. \u003ccite>( Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of it is smuggled through the San Ysidro border crossing -- the busiest in the western hemisphere -- where an estimated 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians cross every day from Mexico into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sidney Aki, director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a> at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, said his agents have found meth hidden in virtually every part of a vehicle, from the trunk to the battery. They’ve even discovered liquid meth in gas tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And pedestrians?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, Aki recalls, \"had a brassiere formed out of narcotics, and actually used as a brassiere, walking across our border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meth Seizures Up at the Border\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, customs agents seized roughly 2,500 kilos of meth at the San Ysidro border crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, they confiscated more than double that amount -- 5,800 kilos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hit of meth is about a quarter of a gram — 5,800 kilos equals 5.8 million hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how much was confiscated. Nobody knows how much is actually getting in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse is the methamphetamine that’s coming across from Mexico is stronger than ever, and the price on the street is lower than ever. That leads to more meth use and more meth-related problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meth Users Filling Jail Cells\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meth users also are taking up a lot of space in the county's jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1977_19736.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Association of Governments\u003c/a> (SANDAG), of the people arrested and jailed in the county in 2014, 53 percent of the women and 40 percent of the men tested positive for meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that on average, arrestees report that they’ve been using meth for about 16 years,\" Burke said. \"We know that they use it for an average of five days at a time, that they’re using a gram. Many of them smoke it. About one in four report that they’ve injected it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211828\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.42.03-AM.png\" alt=\"*A positive opiate drug test could indicate use of opiates other than heroin, including morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and Codeine. 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Source: 2014 Adult Arrestee Drug Use in the San Diego Region from SANDAG\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Besides U.S. Customs and Border Protection, other law enforcement agencies involved in the fight against meth include the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, the county District Attorney's Office and the U.S. Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/meet-us-attorney\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Duffy\u003c/a>, San Diego's U.S. attorney, said others also need to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to be able to tackle this problem through law enforcement efforts alone,\" Duffy said. \"This is a community problem. This is a health epidemic problem that we all need to come together and put resources towards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drug Court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobedo, the recovering meth addict, has one thing to show for his more than 20 years of using the drug: a rap sheet, which includes charges of assault with a deadly weapon, DUI, hit and run, burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest arrest came in January 2014 when he was on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutor on his case gave him a choice: go back to prison for 12 years or try to kick his habit through the county's Drug Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Escobedo gave \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/portal/page?_pageid=55,1643578&_dad=portal\" target=\"_blank\">Drug Court\u003c/a> a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1USwXcMD0UiVMCJfrlMJbWL2ck2P4SP4\"]In March, Escobedo attended the court's 12-step meeting with other hard-core meth addicts. All of the men had criminal records. As part of the recovery process, they’re encouraged to be brutally honest about their addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My addiction is to heroin and methamphetamine,\" one man with heavily tattooed arms said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus was getting high, my focus was being around people who are getting high,\" another addict said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the men shared their stories, Arturo Molina, the lead substance abuse counselor in the Chula Vista Drug Court, weighed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Drug Court you want to learn how to live life without using drugs,\" he told the men. \"But not only that, OK? Drug Court is like a new way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Stone, the program manager at the Chula Vista court, said it's a different approach to getting people off of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concept of the Drug Court programs is a collaborative, team approach that involves a San Diego Superior Court judge, district attorney, public defender, and case management and treatment team, and law enforcement,\" Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 798px\">\u003ca href=\"Members%20of%20the%20Drug%20Court%20program%20participate%20in%20a%2012-step%20meeting\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Members of the Drug Court program participate in a 12-step meeting.\" width=\"798\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM.png 798w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM-400x219.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM-768x421.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Drug Court program participate in a 12-step meeting. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People convicted of non-violent drug offenses are eligible for Drug Court. There are four of the courts in San Diego County, and more than 1,600 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addicts go through 18 months of hard work and constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re required to go to 12-step meetings five days a week, get individual counseling and get a job. They’re frequently drug tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if they test positive? They go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of their jail stay “depends on how many times it’s happened,\" Stone said. \"Sometimes it’s a weekend. Sometimes it’s three weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they screw up enough times, addicts have to serve their original sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials say 90 percent of Drug Court graduates remain arrest-free two years after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobedo said Drug Court has given him the tools and support to clean up his act. He said there were \"a lot of things I needed to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t be in denial,\" Escobedo says. \"You can’t fight the program. You can’t cheat the program, because you’re not actually cheating the program. You’re cheating yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drug Court Graduation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chula Vista Library auditorium is packed for graduation night for nine Drug Court participants. The court's judge welcomes each graduate to the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd of family members cheered loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-211831\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM-400x223.png\" alt=\"Jose Escobedo speaks at the Drug Court graduation ceremony in Chula Vista. \" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM-400x223.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Escobedo speaks at the Drug Court graduation ceremony in Chula Vista. \u003ccite>(Matthew Bowler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the graduates cried, incredulous that they actually made it through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Escobedo took the stage and talked about success. For the first time since he was a boy he’s gone 18 months completely clean and sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my family here as a witness. I hurt them a lot,\" Escobedo said. \"I plan on staying clean and doing what I gotta do to stay clean, and just keep making them happy. They’re all here: my wife, my kids, ma, my sister Erica, Israel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing remarks, Escobedo talked about a new way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy with everybody who’s in the program. I was able to interact with a lot of people, you know what I mean, and make clean friends,\" he said. \"And it’s something different than going back to the old people, neighborhood, old ways, old ways of thinking. It’s a new way of life, and I plan on staying, and I will be staying clean. And I thank you guys all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid thundering applause, Escobedo walked off the the stage with a big smile on his face.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would just stay drugged out, I mean for weeks, weeks. And I would sleep for a week straight. ... I was smoking drugs. Smoking, smoking, smoking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273347823&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273347823'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Escobedo began committing crimes to support his habit. He was sent to prison four times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Escobedo first started using more than 20 years ago, most of the meth in San Diego County came from makeshift labs. Many of them were in East County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These days, it’s different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methamphetamine on San Diego's streets today is largely produced in \u003ca href=\"http://news.sky.com/story/1515628/inside-mexicos-infamous-meth-super-labs\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican super labs\u003c/a> controlled by drug cartels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211827\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 770px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM.png\" alt=\"The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere, with 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the U.S. every day. \" width=\"770\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM.png 770w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM-400x230.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.29.12-AM-768x441.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere, with 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians crossing from Mexico into the U.S. every day. \u003ccite>( Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A lot of it is smuggled through the San Ysidro border crossing -- the busiest in the western hemisphere -- where an estimated 50,000 vehicles and 25,000 pedestrians cross every day from Mexico into the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sidney Aki, director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection\u003c/a> at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, said his agents have found meth hidden in virtually every part of a vehicle, from the trunk to the battery. They’ve even discovered liquid meth in gas tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And pedestrians?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One woman, Aki recalls, \"had a brassiere formed out of narcotics, and actually used as a brassiere, walking across our border.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meth Seizures Up at the Border\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, customs agents seized roughly 2,500 kilos of meth at the San Ysidro border crossing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, they confiscated more than double that amount -- 5,800 kilos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hit of meth is about a quarter of a gram — 5,800 kilos equals 5.8 million hits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how much was confiscated. Nobody knows how much is actually getting in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's worse is the methamphetamine that’s coming across from Mexico is stronger than ever, and the price on the street is lower than ever. That leads to more meth use and more meth-related problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Meth Users Filling Jail Cells\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meth users also are taking up a lot of space in the county's jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandag.org/uploads/publicationid/publicationid_1977_19736.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Association of Governments\u003c/a> (SANDAG), of the people arrested and jailed in the county in 2014, 53 percent of the women and 40 percent of the men tested positive for meth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find that on average, arrestees report that they’ve been using meth for about 16 years,\" Burke said. \"We know that they use it for an average of five days at a time, that they’re using a gram. Many of them smoke it. About one in four report that they’ve injected it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211828\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.42.03-AM.png\" alt=\"*A positive opiate drug test could indicate use of opiates other than heroin, including morphine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone and Codeine. 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Source: 2014 Adult Arrestee Drug Use in the San Diego Region from SANDAG\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Besides U.S. Customs and Border Protection, other law enforcement agencies involved in the fight against meth include the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, the county District Attorney's Office and the U.S. Justice Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/meet-us-attorney\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Duffy\u003c/a>, San Diego's U.S. attorney, said others also need to step up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to be able to tackle this problem through law enforcement efforts alone,\" Duffy said. \"This is a community problem. This is a health epidemic problem that we all need to come together and put resources towards.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drug Court\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobedo, the recovering meth addict, has one thing to show for his more than 20 years of using the drug: a rap sheet, which includes charges of assault with a deadly weapon, DUI, hit and run, burglary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His latest arrest came in January 2014 when he was on parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecutor on his case gave him a choice: go back to prison for 12 years or try to kick his habit through the county's Drug Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So Escobedo gave \u003ca href=\"http://www.sdcourt.ca.gov/portal/page?_pageid=55,1643578&_dad=portal\" target=\"_blank\">Drug Court\u003c/a> a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>In March, Escobedo attended the court's 12-step meeting with other hard-core meth addicts. All of the men had criminal records. As part of the recovery process, they’re encouraged to be brutally honest about their addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My addiction is to heroin and methamphetamine,\" one man with heavily tattooed arms said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus was getting high, my focus was being around people who are getting high,\" another addict said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the men shared their stories, Arturo Molina, the lead substance abuse counselor in the Chula Vista Drug Court, weighed in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Drug Court you want to learn how to live life without using drugs,\" he told the men. \"But not only that, OK? Drug Court is like a new way of life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Stone, the program manager at the Chula Vista court, said it's a different approach to getting people off of drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concept of the Drug Court programs is a collaborative, team approach that involves a San Diego Superior Court judge, district attorney, public defender, and case management and treatment team, and law enforcement,\" Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 798px\">\u003ca href=\"Members%20of%20the%20Drug%20Court%20program%20participate%20in%20a%2012-step%20meeting\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211830\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM.png\" alt=\"Members of the Drug Court program participate in a 12-step meeting.\" width=\"798\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM.png 798w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM-400x219.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.52.25-AM-768x421.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Drug Court program participate in a 12-step meeting. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>People convicted of non-violent drug offenses are eligible for Drug Court. There are four of the courts in San Diego County, and more than 1,600 nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addicts go through 18 months of hard work and constant supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re required to go to 12-step meetings five days a week, get individual counseling and get a job. They’re frequently drug tested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if they test positive? They go to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The length of their jail stay “depends on how many times it’s happened,\" Stone said. \"Sometimes it’s a weekend. Sometimes it’s three weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If they screw up enough times, addicts have to serve their original sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials say 90 percent of Drug Court graduates remain arrest-free two years after completing the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobedo said Drug Court has given him the tools and support to clean up his act. He said there were \"a lot of things I needed to do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can’t be in denial,\" Escobedo says. \"You can’t fight the program. You can’t cheat the program, because you’re not actually cheating the program. You’re cheating yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Drug Court Graduation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chula Vista Library auditorium is packed for graduation night for nine Drug Court participants. The court's judge welcomes each graduate to the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd of family members cheered loudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211831\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-211831\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM-400x223.png\" alt=\"Jose Escobedo speaks at the Drug Court graduation ceremony in Chula Vista. \" width=\"400\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM-400x223.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-12-at-10.51.51-AM.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Escobedo speaks at the Drug Court graduation ceremony in Chula Vista. \u003ccite>(Matthew Bowler)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the graduates cried, incredulous that they actually made it through the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Escobedo took the stage and talked about success. For the first time since he was a boy he’s gone 18 months completely clean and sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have my family here as a witness. I hurt them a lot,\" Escobedo said. \"I plan on staying clean and doing what I gotta do to stay clean, and just keep making them happy. They’re all here: my wife, my kids, ma, my sister Erica, Israel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his closing remarks, Escobedo talked about a new way of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m happy with everybody who’s in the program. I was able to interact with a lot of people, you know what I mean, and make clean friends,\" he said. \"And it’s something different than going back to the old people, neighborhood, old ways, old ways of thinking. It’s a new way of life, and I plan on staying, and I will be staying clean. And I thank you guys all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:45 pm:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Diego police say they didn’t have enough evidence to prosecute a homeless man who was arrested on suspicion of killing three transients and severely injuring a fourth — including two who were set on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Padgett was released from jail Monday and not charged with any crimes, four days after his arrest gave a sense of relief to the city’s homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. David Nisleit defended the arrest, saying the 36-year-old Padgett resembled a suspect captured on convenience store surveillance video. Police still believe surveillance video shows the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police also took into account that Padgett set a sleeping homeless man on fire in 2010, similar hallmarks to last week’s attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSAN DIEGO — A man who police had identified as the sole suspect in a spate of attacks on homeless men that left three people dead was released from jail Monday and not charged with any crimes, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017485\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-800x823.jpg\" alt=\"Surveillance image of a man San Diego police still describe as a suspect in the killing of three homeless people in the city.\" width=\"800\" height=\"823\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017485\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-800x823.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-400x411.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-1180x1213.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-960x987.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/SDSuspect-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surveillance image of a man San Diego police still describe as a suspect in the killing of three homeless people in the city. \u003ccite>(San Diego Police Department via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anthony Padgett, 36, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/08/san-diego-police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-attacks-on-homeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was arrested Thursday\u003c/a> near a trolley stop in the suburb of Chula Vista on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and arson. He was accused of attacking four homeless men over four days last week, including two who were set on fire. Police said at least three victims were sleeping alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police gave no immediate explanation for why investigators never presented a case to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution. It was unclear if they no longer consider Padgett a suspect or if they ran out of time to build a case. In California, suspects must be charged within 72 hours of their arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the public’s assistance to provide additional tips and leads to help us solve these crimes,” the department said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the arrest last week, San Diego police Capt. David Nisleit said the investigation was in its “very early stages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have probable cause to arrest Mr. Padgett for these crimes. With that said, we have a lot of work still to be done,” Nisleit said at the time. “We still have witnesses we need to interview and locate. We still have evidence that needs to be processed in the crime lab. This all takes some time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, a jury convicted Padgett of lighting a sleeping homeless man on fire in a supermarket parking lot in National City, a San Diego suburb. The victim suffered burns on about 30 percent of his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a three-page handwritten note to a judge in 2010, Padgett blamed the influence of drugs — saying he was “super stoned and intoxicated plus using my prescribed medications” — and that he only intended to scare the victim, who was a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the note, Padgett also calls himself a “homeless citizen,” asks Jesus to forgive his sins and expresses remorse for the victim, saying, “I’ll never be so stupid again.” He said he had been homeless on and off for 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All four victims in last week’s crime spree suffered major trauma to the upper torso, setting the city’s homeless population on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence began July 3, when police found the badly burned remains of Angelo De Nardo between Interstate 5 and some train tracks. The 53-year-old died before his body was set on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, officers responding to a 911 call found Manuel Mason, 61, with life-threatening injuries to his upper torso. A few hours later, police discovered the body of Shawn Longley, 41, who bled from the upper torso and died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dionicio Derek Vahidy, 23, died Sunday at a hospital, four days after he was set on fire downtown. A witness pulled away a burning cloth that the attacker put on him before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s more than the number of people who died from the flu and homicides combined that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273144979\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://nationalrxdrugabusesummit.org/biographies/dr-jonathan-lucas/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jonathan Lucas\u003c/a>, the county's chief deputy medical examiner, said his office sees meth-related deaths almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple of years have actually been records for us,\" Lucas said. \"We’ve seen more methamphetamine-related deaths in the last couple of years than we’ve ever seen in the last 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said meth abuse isn't confined to young people. It's killing people of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, in 2014, our youngest meth-related death was a 17-year-old girl that jumped out of a second-story window while intoxicated with methamphetamine,\" Lucas said. \"Our oldest was a 70-year-old man who had heart disease, but he was intoxicated with methamphetamine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said meth can make underlying health conditions worse. People with heart problems who use the drug, for example, are at even higher risk of dying from a heart attack or a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the high number of meth-related deaths don’t tell the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that come to this office are really just the tip of the iceberg, a small proportion, a small piece of the pie of the methamphetamine problem,\" Lucas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 601px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM.png\" alt=\"The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved.\" width=\"601\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM.png 601w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM-400x227.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved. \u003ccite>(Brooke Ruth/KPBS The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ER Visits Up Dramatically\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, patients with meth-related problems accounted for 3,700 ER visits. That number jumped to more than 10,000 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Danielle Douglas works in the county’s busiest ER, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharp.com/hospitals/grossmont/\">Sharp Grossmont Hospital\u003c/a> in La Mesa. She said the number of meth cases that come through there wears on doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 686px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM.png\" alt=\"Dr. Danielle Douglas is in emergency room physician at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa.\" width=\"686\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM.png 686w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM-400x223.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Danielle Douglas is in emergency room physician at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa. \u003ccite>(Kenny Goldberg/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, yeah, at the end of a shift, and I’m just beat down, and it’s another meth addict?,\" Douglas said. \"And you just kind of want to say, 'What the hell’s going on here?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s going on is the meth that’s being sold on the street is extremely potent and highly addictive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/methamphetamine/what-are-long-term-effects-methamphetamine-abuse\">Long-term meth use\u003c/a> also alters the brain, and can cause severe mood swings, violent behavior and delusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And overdoses and deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s the attraction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high from methamphetamine is incredible, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.methinsideout.com/about/about-UCLA.html\">Tom Freese\u003c/a>, director of training for UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"KqZjdvuYE92XxbkxReZyOI7ekbnln4l6\"]“When it goes inside the brain, it stimulates a release of \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/dopamine\">dopamine\u003c/a>, the feel-good chemical inside the brain, that’s really unparalleled,\" Freese said. \"There’s really no other way, from either natural or chemically induced kind of phenomenon to reach that peak of dopamine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freese said methamphetamine also affects the \u003ca href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232248.php\">serotonin\u003c/a> system, another emotional regulator in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meth also alters a person’s inhibitory control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That ability to say, 'I want to do that, but I’m not gonna do that,' and to put the brakes on a particular activity,\" Freese said. \"That seems to be damaged, as well, as part of that overall prefrontal cortex, or the front part of the brain, that helps us make good decisions from bad decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chasing the first high\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Escobedo of National City started smoking meth when he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, he snorted it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last couple of years have actually been records for us,\" Lucas said. \"We’ve seen more methamphetamine-related deaths in the last couple of years than we’ve ever seen in the last 20 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said meth abuse isn't confined to young people. It's killing people of all ages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, in 2014, our youngest meth-related death was a 17-year-old girl that jumped out of a second-story window while intoxicated with methamphetamine,\" Lucas said. \"Our oldest was a 70-year-old man who had heart disease, but he was intoxicated with methamphetamine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucas said meth can make underlying health conditions worse. People with heart problems who use the drug, for example, are at even higher risk of dying from a heart attack or a stroke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said the high number of meth-related deaths don’t tell the whole story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that come to this office are really just the tip of the iceberg, a small proportion, a small piece of the pie of the methamphetamine problem,\" Lucas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211453\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 601px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211453\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM.png\" alt=\"The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved.\" width=\"601\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM.png 601w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.45.33-AM-400x227.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved. \u003ccite>(Brooke Ruth/KPBS The overdose death numbers do not include drug-related suicides, homicides or other causes of death in which drugs were involved.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ER Visits Up Dramatically\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2011, patients with meth-related problems accounted for 3,700 ER visits. That number jumped to more than 10,000 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Danielle Douglas works in the county’s busiest ER, at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharp.com/hospitals/grossmont/\">Sharp Grossmont Hospital\u003c/a> in La Mesa. She said the number of meth cases that come through there wears on doctors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 686px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM.png\" alt=\"Dr. Danielle Douglas is in emergency room physician at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa.\" width=\"686\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM.png 686w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.28.53-AM-400x223.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Danielle Douglas is in emergency room physician at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa. \u003ccite>(Kenny Goldberg/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, yeah, at the end of a shift, and I’m just beat down, and it’s another meth addict?,\" Douglas said. \"And you just kind of want to say, 'What the hell’s going on here?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s going on is the meth that’s being sold on the street is extremely potent and highly addictive. \u003ca href=\"https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/methamphetamine/what-are-long-term-effects-methamphetamine-abuse\">Long-term meth use\u003c/a> also alters the brain, and can cause severe mood swings, violent behavior and delusions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And overdoses and deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what’s the attraction?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high from methamphetamine is incredible, said \u003ca href=\"http://www.methinsideout.com/about/about-UCLA.html\">Tom Freese\u003c/a>, director of training for UCLA's Integrated Substance Abuse Programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>“When it goes inside the brain, it stimulates a release of \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/dopamine\">dopamine\u003c/a>, the feel-good chemical inside the brain, that’s really unparalleled,\" Freese said. \"There’s really no other way, from either natural or chemically induced kind of phenomenon to reach that peak of dopamine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freese said methamphetamine also affects the \u003ca href=\"http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/232248.php\">serotonin\u003c/a> system, another emotional regulator in the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meth also alters a person’s inhibitory control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That ability to say, 'I want to do that, but I’m not gonna do that,' and to put the brakes on a particular activity,\" Freese said. \"That seems to be damaged, as well, as part of that overall prefrontal cortex, or the front part of the brain, that helps us make good decisions from bad decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chasing the first high\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Escobedo of National City started smoking meth when he was 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later on, he snorted it. But Escobedo said the best high was when he injected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shooting up drugs was like bouncing up and down, like it gave me like 10 times more than with smoking,\" Escobedo said. \"So it was like a new experience, like a new thing that took over my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_211451\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 691px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-211451\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.29.15-AM.png\" alt=\"Jose Escobedo is a recovering methamphetamine addict. \" width=\"691\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.29.15-AM.png 691w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Screen-Shot-2016-07-11-at-10.29.15-AM-400x226.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Escobedo is a recovering methamphetamine addict. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Escobedo was addicted to meth for more than 20 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>SAN DIEGO — A man accused of a spate of attacks on homeless people who were asleep, and in some cases set on fire, was sentenced to prison six years ago for a strikingly similar crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, received a four-year term in 2010 for attacking a man as he slept and setting him on fire, according to a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of both cases. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because police have declined to address the connection publicly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padgett was arrested Thursday about a block from a trolley station in Chula Vista, the San Diego suburb where he was born. He was booked into jail on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and arson in the attacks on four homeless men in San Diego that left two dead and two severely injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities told the Star News of Chula Vista in 2012 that Padgett was homeless and that he set fire to a friend who was sleeping in a supermarket parking lot. The victim suffered burns over nearly 30 percent of his body, according to the newspaper. Prosecutors had sought an eight-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272773519″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Diego police Capt. David Nisleit declined to comment Friday on a connection between the 2012 attack and the four assaults this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They bore similar hallmarks. At least three of the recent victims were sleeping alone and two were set on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All four suffered extensive trauma to the upper torso. Police have declined to elaborate on the nature of the injuries or any weapons used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence began Sunday, when police found the badly burned remains of Angelo De Nardo between Interstate 5 and some train tracks. The 53-year-old died before his body was set on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, officers responding to a 911 call found Manuel Mason, 61, with life-threatening injuries to his upper torso. A few hours later, police discovered the body of Shawn Longley, 41, who bled from the upper torso and died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a 23-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was severely injured after being set on fire downtown, police said. A witness pulled away a burning cloth that the attacker put on the victim before fleeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attacks left San Diego’s homeless population on edge. Many heeded the advice of homeless advocates to sleep in groups and in populated, well-lit areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Shatto normally sleeps under a tarp stretched over two shopping carts but joined other transients in a small camp Wednesday night. He never closed his eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want to wake up on fire,” said Shatto, 51, who has been living in the streets since February 2015, most recently under a freeway bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That's double the amount spent when Faulconer took office in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263482082\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's not a partisan issue,\" Faulconer says. \"It's about getting our city back on track, it's about getting people the neighborhood services they deserve. There's enough partisanship on the national level, that's for sure.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of running a city as a nonpartisan manager or caretaker is not new, and Republican mayors such as Michael Bloomberg have won election in far bluer cities than San Diego. 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In November, voters will likely get to choose whether to raise the city's hotel tax to allow for a bond issue of $1.15 billion (the largest in city history) for a new stadium and convention center. If the measure fails, the Chargers have the option to move to Los Angeles in 2017. Faulconer has yet to take a side on the stadium issue, citing the need for more information about specifics in the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"fJFvYar6v9O4VzW3EYoyKi93c3jM6fq1\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Growing our convention center and our economy is incredibly important to us here in San Diego, and keeping not only great groups like ComicCon but all the other conventions that we have,\" Faulconer says. \"I've said from the very beginning, for me to support something, it has to make sense to me from a fiscal fairness standpoint and to make sure that we have all of the information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's popularity has allowed him to keep lines of conversation open between the team and the city as the process moves forward. The team and the city are meeting weekly as the effort to qualify the stadium measure for the ballot kicks into high gear. 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"content": "\u003cp>For years, one wealthy and mostly white San Diego neighborhood has effectively decided who represents an entire City Council district — a district that’s 50 percent Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kensington neighborhood wields the power in District 9 because the residents there vote. In the last general election, Kensington’s turnout was 30 percentage points higher than in the rest of the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year may be different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the major City Council candidates in the district are Latino. They also either grew up in or now live in City Heights. The neighborhood is less than a mile south of Kensington but is nothing like it — it’s majority Latino, almost half its residents are foreign-born and its voter turnout was under 30 percent in the last general election.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SDDistrict9Map.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920797\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10920797\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SDDistrict9Map-800x565.png\" alt=\"SDDistrict9Map\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SDDistrict9Map.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/SDDistrict9Map-400x283.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nOn a recent afternoon, one of the council candidates, Sarah Saez, was decorating her campaign office in City Heights. Along with the typical red, white and blue posters emblazoned with her name, she also has handwritten notes from supporters, some in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ella apoya a les maestros,” Saez read out loud. It means, “She supports teachers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’d think it makes sense that a candidate in a majority Latino district would have Spanish campaign material, but Saez said it’s actually a departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said campaign consultants urged her to focus on Kensington, where they know people will turn out to vote. That meant the people in other neighborhoods “wouldn’t have a choice, and they just would have thought: Oh, it’s just the next person in line,” Saez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years ago, white incumbent Marti Emerald beat Latino Mateo Camarillo for the council seat. Emerald isn’t running for re-election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Sandoval, a community organizer from City Heights, hopes having candidates with the names Martinez, Flores, Gomez and Saez will draw new voters. The top two vote-getters in the June 7 election will face off in the November general election. No one is expected to win outright in June by getting more than 50 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping it’s going to get our youth excited about being able to see people that look like them running for positions that bring power to this community,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Mohamud Osman, an 18-year-old City Heights resident whose family is from Somalia. He said it means a lot to be able to vote for someone from his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know where we’re coming from instantly,” Osman said. “We wouldn’t have to speak, in a way, because they know where we’re coming from, (being) low income, and how it feels to be in a struggle for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a mile from Osman’s home is a small park in the heart of Kensington with lush green grass and a playground. Council candidate Ricardo Flores grew up in City Heights, but he and his new wife now live in an apartment a block away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920803\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10920803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Ricardo Flores talks in a Kensington park near his home, March 18, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Ricardo Flores talks in a Kensington park near his home, March 18, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For me, Kensington holds a special place in my heart,” he said. As a child, he’d visit Kensington Video, which is still there and is where he began his love of film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores is Emerald’s chief of staff, and she has endorsed him. He moved to Kensington last April, around the same time Emerald announced her retirement. But he said he moved not to reach the neighborhood’s voters, but because it’s a good place to raise children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Flores is Latino, he’s not focusing his campaign on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re building a park, when you’re building a fire station, when you’re repairing a sidewalk, adding streetlights, I think at the end of the day you’re not just appealing to one group, you’re appealing to everybody,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy McDonald, a white 45-year Kensington resident, said she doesn’t care whether her council representative is from her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if we were to discover that whoever is elected would ignore Kensington, there would be a rumpus,” McDonald said. “If we didn’t get police coverage or fire coverage, or lights were out, the people of Kensington know how to make their voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Emerald won the district last time, she campaigned in similar ways across the divergent neighborhoods, said her campaign manager, Xema Jacobson. She’d ask supporters to host coffees and would sit and talk to residents about their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Election Day, Jacobson said, the low-turnout areas needed far more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With active voters, you can go in and identify them and follow up with phone calls, and that’s it,” she said. “With people who don’t vote all the time, you spend a bit more time with them. It’s not just a phone call, but on Election Day you go knock on their door, ask, ‘Do you need a ride? Do you need child care? Do you need something to get you to the polls?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920805\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920805\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10920805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Georgette Gomez sorts campaign fliers in her garage, March 18, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Georgette-Gomez-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Georgette Gomez sorts campaign fliers in her garage, March 18, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Georgette Gomez, the other candidate with enough fundraising and support to have a shot at the District 9 seat, said she’s not changing her message based on the neighborhood where she’s campaigning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s an issue in every neighborhood that people have been working on for over five years, if not longer,” Gomez said. “I don’t know a single neighborhood in District 9 that can say government’s great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s ensuring she knocks on doors in every neighborhood across the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same goes for Saez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re reaching out to people who have never voted. We’re reaching out to people who aren’t even registered,” Saez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it takes time and volunteers to campaign across the district’s diverse neighborhoods, but she is committed to spending time with City Heights voters who have been ignored in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we continue to only reach out to Kensington, it’s eroding our democracy,” Saez said. “These voters become stronger, and the ones we continue to ignore give up on the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that can be counted on in June and November is that Kensington residents will turn out to vote in the District 9 City Council race. What’s still to be determined is whether voters in other parts of the district turn out strong and add their voices to the election results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2016 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">KPBS.org\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. The coverage focuses on major issues and solicits diverse voices on what’s important to the future of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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No one is expected to win outright in June by getting more than 50 percent of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hoping it’s going to get our youth excited about being able to see people that look like them running for positions that bring power to this community,” Sandoval said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s true for Mohamud Osman, an 18-year-old City Heights resident whose family is from Somalia. He said it means a lot to be able to vote for someone from his neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They know where we’re coming from instantly,” Osman said. “We wouldn’t have to speak, in a way, because they know where we’re coming from, (being) low income, and how it feels to be in a struggle for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a mile from Osman’s home is a small park in the heart of Kensington with lush green grass and a playground. Council candidate Ricardo Flores grew up in City Heights, but he and his new wife now live in an apartment a block away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10920803\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10920803\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10920803\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Ricardo Flores talks in a Kensington park near his home, March 18, 2016.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/04/Ricardo-Flores-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Diego City Council District 9 candidate Ricardo Flores talks in a Kensington park near his home, March 18, 2016. \u003ccite>(Nicholas McVicker/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For me, Kensington holds a special place in my heart,” he said. As a child, he’d visit Kensington Video, which is still there and is where he began his love of film.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flores is Emerald’s chief of staff, and she has endorsed him. He moved to Kensington last April, around the same time Emerald announced her retirement. But he said he moved not to reach the neighborhood’s voters, but because it’s a good place to raise children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Flores is Latino, he’s not focusing his campaign on that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re building a park, when you’re building a fire station, when you’re repairing a sidewalk, adding streetlights, I think at the end of the day you’re not just appealing to one group, you’re appealing to everybody,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy McDonald, a white 45-year Kensington resident, said she doesn’t care whether her council representative is from her neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if we were to discover that whoever is elected would ignore Kensington, there would be a rumpus,” McDonald said. “If we didn’t get police coverage or fire coverage, or lights were out, the people of Kensington know how to make their voice heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Emerald won the district last time, she campaigned in similar ways across the divergent neighborhoods, said her campaign manager, Xema Jacobson. She’d ask supporters to host coffees and would sit and talk to residents about their needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Election Day, Jacobson said, the low-turnout areas needed far more attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With active voters, you can go in and identify them and follow up with phone calls, and that’s it,” she said. “With people who don’t vote all the time, you spend a bit more time with them. It’s not just a phone call, but on Election Day you go knock on their door, ask, ‘Do you need a ride? Do you need child care? 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