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"content": "\u003cp>Jose Escobedo got his first taste of methamphetamine when he was 11-years-old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was offered a smoke,\" he says. \"I was just trying to fit in with these guys, and I take the first hit of smoke off some aluminum, and once I did that, it ... took me to another world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Escobedo, that one hit was all it took.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It boosted me up, and I felt ... like I was stronger, faster,\" Escobedo says. \"Then I started hallucinating, seeing things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Escobedo moved in with a dealer. In exchange for running drugs, Escobedo had a non-stop supply of meth at his fingertips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\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>[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. 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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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"content": "\u003cp>San Diego’s El Cajon Boulevard and its four lanes of traffic doesn’t look like much of a border, but it divides two starkly different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head north of it and you’ll quickly leave the liquor stores and ethnic markets behind and move into a neighborhood of single-family homes that become progressively pricier with each passing block. Head south and you’ll be surrounded by apartment buildings, many housing immigrants from Mexico and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/apr/24/how-fall-saigon-made-san-diego-refugee-hub/\">refugees\u003c/a> who have fled civil wars in East Africa and Southeast Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two San Diego neighborhoods, Kensington and Teralta, are directly next to each other but worlds apart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/246565341\" 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>Kensington’s median income is $90,565, while Teralta’s is $21,698, according to \u003ca href=\"http://census.gov/\">U.S. Census data\u003c/a>. In Kensington, 66 percent of the residents are white; in Teralta, 6 percent are white. Zoom a little deeper and 47 percent of Teralta’s diverse residents are foreign born, compared with 12 percent in Kensington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These differences feed into a huge gap in voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"DBzQ5Y7sMqE9wfO4kImAfxyzGv92UYId\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014 general election, 62 percent of registered voters in Kensington cast ballots. One of its precincts had the third-highest turnout in all of San Diego, at 70 percent. The Teralta neighborhood in City Heights had 27 percent voter turnout, and its precincts were among the city’s lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet residents in these divergent neighboring communities will be asked to vote on the same issues this year — from raising San Diego’s minimum wage and possibly the state’s to setting aside funds to fix the region’s crumbling roads. And they will decide together — if they vote — who will represent them \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd9/\">on the City Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is whether low-turnout Teralta will continue to allow high-turnout Kensington to make the political decisions for both of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859534\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10859534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png\" alt=\"news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px\" width=\"800\" height=\"1040\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-768x998.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1440x1872.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1180x1534.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-960x1248.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kensington ‘Embraces’ Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kensington, resident Peter Dennehy likes the community feel of his upper-middle-class neighborhood. He’s lived there for almost nine years, and his mother has been there 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy, who has hosted fundraisers for local political candidates and attended debates at a church five blocks from his home, said voting is a tradition for most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a neighborhood that embraces participation at every level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old is pretty sure he’s never missed an election since he turned 18 and could vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was raised that way,” he said. “I went to vote with my parents, and so that behavior was modeled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kensington has a bustling commercial area with an \u003ca href=\"http://stehlyfarmsmarket.com/\">organic grocery store\u003c/a> and lots of local shops and restaurants. Every afternoon and evening, it’s filled with residents walking to do errands or get dinner, strolling with their dogs or taking their kids to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy said the opportunity to interact with neighbors attracts people to Kensington who want to be involved in their community. It also may help to explain why they get out to vote, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent politicians live there, too. Among them: \u003ca href=\"https://susandavis.house.gov/\">Democratic Rep. Susan Davis\u003c/a> and former Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders, who is often spotted by neighbors on his daily walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Teralta, Embracing a New Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10859538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859538\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10859538 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-400x224.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-960x538.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders. \u003ccite>(Megan Burks/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you travel south from Kensington’s cafes and playground, the homes steadily decrease in value and the shops start to sell liquor, not organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a mile you’ll be in the heart of City Heights’ Teralta neighborhood. Its frenetic center is filled with people from all over the world catching buses to service industry jobs or walking to one of the dozens of Vietnamese and East African supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Mohamud Osman, whose family is from Somalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He turned 18 last year and said he'll be voting for the first time in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is a way for us people to have a voice — and not just voting for presidency (or) laws like legalize this, legalize that,” Osman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s eager to vote for his next City Council member and on quality-of-life issues, including raising the minimum wage. He registered to vote late last year just so he could sign a petition to get the measure on the ballot. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2014/oct/20/city-council-decide-whats-next-san-diego-minimum-w/\">San Diego minimum wage initiative\u003c/a> will be on the June ballot, and a statewide measure could be on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Osman is adamant about having a voice in the election, he represents in part why turnout in his neighborhood dips as low as 14 percent in some elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One-third of Teralta residents aren’t old enough to vote, undercutting its civic power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the community was redistricted to give Latinos a stronger voice on the San Diego City Council. The new lines netted a population that was half Latino. But age \u003ca href=\"http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/city-heights/what-sds-new-political-lines-would-look-like/\">slashed that voting bloc\u003c/a> nearly in half, and the district re-elected Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who is white and a Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s likely Kensington carried much of Emerald’s win. Nearly 90 percent of residents there are above the voting age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Osman’s family is also representative of many households in his neighborhood, in that his mom and siblings are among the nearly half of Teralta residents born outside the United States. Many can’t vote because they’re \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/17/study-sheds-light-mid-citys-unauthorized-and-unins/\">living in the country illegally\u003c/a> or can't afford the $680 processing fee to become U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Osman said most of the immigrants and refugees in Teralta are like his mom -- too busy trying to build a new life to establish that tradition of voting the way Kensington resident Dennehy’s mother did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don't pay attention to a lot of things because we want to know what can we do to have more income,” Osman said. His dad was the sole breadwinner in the family, but he died seven months ago from complications of pneumonia. He worked as a security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, Osman said, it’s discouraging to know that Kensington voters are deciding the elections for Teralta voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes me definitely want to vote less in a sense,” Osman said. “But I can’t. I want to set an example for people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Campaigning Across Neighborhoods\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://tomshepard.com/\">Tom Shepard\u003c/a> is a San Diego political consultant behind many high-profile campaigns for city and county offices. He said Teralta residents shouldn’t be quick to assume candidates for office will skip over their neighborhood to canvass high-turnout Kensington’s manicured streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a realistic concern, but I think one mitigating factor in this election cycle is that we're anticipating a relatively high turnout in the November election as a result of the presidential campaign,” Shepard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if history is any measure — 2008 and 2012 in particular — there will be a significant turnout of voters in City Heights for the November election,” he said. “So candidates that don't have a strategy to connect with those voters in June might find themselves far behind the eight ball when it comes to attracting them come November.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.trilogyprgroup.com/about/xema_jacobson.html\">Xema Jacobson\u003c/a>, who ran Emerald’s successful City Council campaign in 2008, said the key to winning in such divergent communities as Kensington and Teralta is not to ignore the low-turnout area, but just to approach it differently.\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\u003cp>Longtime Kensington resident Jodi Cleesattle said she understands those pressures her Teralta neighbors feel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The poorer you are, certainly the more pressing issues you may have on your mind, to where voting or learning about particular candidates is less of a priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleesattle, 47, said just because a wide spread in demographics exists between her neighborhood and Teralta, that doesn't necessarily mean there's a deep political divide between the two neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want better schools, safe neighborhoods, streets without potholes, all those same kinds of concerns,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 KPBS. To see more election coverage, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.kpbs.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Diego’s El Cajon Boulevard and its four lanes of traffic doesn’t look like much of a border, but it divides two starkly different neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head north of it and you’ll quickly leave the liquor stores and ethnic markets behind and move into a neighborhood of single-family homes that become progressively pricier with each passing block. Head south and you’ll be surrounded by apartment buildings, many housing immigrants from Mexico and \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/apr/24/how-fall-saigon-made-san-diego-refugee-hub/\">refugees\u003c/a> who have fled civil wars in East Africa and Southeast Asia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two San Diego neighborhoods, Kensington and Teralta, are directly next to each other but worlds apart.\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/246565341&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/246565341'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kensington’s median income is $90,565, while Teralta’s is $21,698, according to \u003ca href=\"http://census.gov/\">U.S. Census data\u003c/a>. In Kensington, 66 percent of the residents are white; in Teralta, 6 percent are white. Zoom a little deeper and 47 percent of Teralta’s diverse residents are foreign born, compared with 12 percent in Kensington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These differences feed into a huge gap in voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2014 general election, 62 percent of registered voters in Kensington cast ballots. One of its precincts had the third-highest turnout in all of San Diego, at 70 percent. The Teralta neighborhood in City Heights had 27 percent voter turnout, and its precincts were among the city’s lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet residents in these divergent neighboring communities will be asked to vote on the same issues this year — from raising San Diego’s minimum wage and possibly the state’s to setting aside funds to fix the region’s crumbling roads. And they will decide together — if they vote — who will represent them \u003ca href=\"http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd9/\">on the City Council\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question is whether low-turnout Teralta will continue to allow high-turnout Kensington to make the political decisions for both of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859534\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10859534\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png\" alt=\"news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px\" width=\"800\" height=\"1040\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-800x1040.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-400x520.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-768x998.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1440x1872.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-1180x1534.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/news_kensington_teralta_voters-1920px-960x1248.png 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kensington ‘Embraces’ Voting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Kensington, resident Peter Dennehy likes the community feel of his upper-middle-class neighborhood. He’s lived there for almost nine years, and his mother has been there 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy, who has hosted fundraisers for local political candidates and attended debates at a church five blocks from his home, said voting is a tradition for most of his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a neighborhood that embraces participation at every level,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 50-year-old is pretty sure he’s never missed an election since he turned 18 and could vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I was raised that way,” he said. “I went to vote with my parents, and so that behavior was modeled.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kensington has a bustling commercial area with an \u003ca href=\"http://stehlyfarmsmarket.com/\">organic grocery store\u003c/a> and lots of local shops and restaurants. Every afternoon and evening, it’s filled with residents walking to do errands or get dinner, strolling with their dogs or taking their kids to the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennehy said the opportunity to interact with neighbors attracts people to Kensington who want to be involved in their community. It also may help to explain why they get out to vote, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prominent politicians live there, too. Among them: \u003ca href=\"https://susandavis.house.gov/\">Democratic Rep. Susan Davis\u003c/a> and former Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders, who is often spotted by neighbors on his daily walks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In Teralta, Embracing a New Home\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10859538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10859538\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10859538 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders.\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-400x224.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-1180x662.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends-960x538.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/02/CALIFVOTER3_MohamudFriends.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mohamud Osman and his friends talk about presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' showing in the Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, 2016. All four say they plan to vote for Sanders. \u003ccite>(Megan Burks/KPBS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As you travel south from Kensington’s cafes and playground, the homes steadily decrease in value and the shops start to sell liquor, not organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In less than a mile you’ll be in the heart of City Heights’ Teralta neighborhood. Its frenetic center is filled with people from all over the world catching buses to service industry jobs or walking to one of the dozens of Vietnamese and East African supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them is Mohamud Osman, whose family is from Somalia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He turned 18 last year and said he'll be voting for the first time in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Voting is a way for us people to have a voice — and not just voting for presidency (or) laws like legalize this, legalize that,” Osman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s eager to vote for his next City Council member and on quality-of-life issues, including raising the minimum wage. He registered to vote late last year just so he could sign a petition to get the measure on the ballot. 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