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She only later realized through quite a bit of therapy. She said, that this was in fact rape because she had told him no many times as he was removing her pants and forcing himself on her. So the third woman, her incidents there were two occurred in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She says that after a night out in which John had been drinking, she allowed him to stay at her apartment in a common area, and she had roommates. She says that when she woke up in her bed, she thought her boyfriend had come home late. And instead, what she found was that Jacomo had allegedly entered her room, gotten naked and into bed with her, and then tried to force himself on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That morning, she managed to get him to snap out of it, apparently, and he quickly left and she tried to rationalize it. Which is, again, when we talk about locking up, out of fear or trying to rationalize someone’s behavior because you feel like maybe this is not indicative of who they are. Over time, she kind of stayed away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then there was a night out with friends later in 2016, in Oakland, in which they went out a group for drinks and dancing and went back to a friend’s house, and she passed out and found out later that her friend actually had to allegedly rescue her from Jacobo, trying to take advantage of her while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And that friend, who’s a commissioner for the Recreation and Parks Department in Oakland, who actually went on record saying that she felt that if she had not come in and stopped it, that she feels like he would have raped her. So those are the the three incidents in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, yeah, has has reporting these to the police led to anything for these women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the women went to police in the months after Sasha Burgo came forward with her public accusations. All of the women told me that they did not necessarily feel supported or believed. You know, it’s common for law enforcement to try to be very frank with the survivors and let them know these are very difficult cases. We need to get a lot of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But the women I spoke with said this isn’t that this was different. And looking at their police reports, they said that there were a lot of things that were left out. One of the women said she provided evidence that was not even mentioned in her police report. There were also not efforts made. They said, to connect them with outside jurisdictional police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That would also have a role in an investigation. The police would counter that argument, and they have been very aggressive in pushing back, saying that they have done everything they can in these cases. However, the women, their story should not be discounted because they have gone through this and they were very brave to come forward and do all of this from the police reports all the way to, telling the story with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how these women say the political machine protected Jon Jacobo. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>In the first part of this episode, we heard about how multiple women accused Jon Jacobo of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. The three women who talked to Josh keen for this story say they were ignored not only by police but also by people who worked with Jon Jacobo, including former San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim, who hired Jacobo back in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The women felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence. Supervisor Jane Kim, who was his former boss and is now the head of the California Working Families Party. She ran for mayor. She ran for a state senate that she brought Jacobo to a political gala just weeks after Sasha Perrigo accused him of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then I was also told by a very legitimate source that Jane Kim was working to hire John, an attorney, to deal with Sasha Perrigo’s accusation. So that’s one example. John Oberlin, the head of TODCO. He actually was grooming John to take over Taco’s financial operations, which would then make him a significant political player in deciding how to fund ballot measures polling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So when they saw these reports and then they saw him doing TV interviews for the Mission Street vendors, and they knew that he was back on these community boards, they felt, you know what, we have to get this story out because that the very least, we want to make sure that our story is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When it comes to folks like Jane Kim, who are accused of not responding adequately to these accusations against John Jacobus. How has she responded? How has she and others? I mean, in the party responded to accusations that they protected Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So I spoke with Jane Kim for this story. It was a very curious response I got from her, because she seemed less concerned with the fact that there were three more women who had disturbing allegations against John, who was a protege of hers, and that they had filed police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she seemed more concerned with the timing of the story, asking me, why is this happening now? Her level of outrage with each answer, and this is just to me, seemed to amplify when she realized the serious nature of what I was asking her. You know, I asked her if she was aware of other allegations against John, and she said, no, no, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, actually, yes, I had heard from the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee that there might be others out there, but she never pursued it. I have not seen any response from her since the story published in that, probably because there were people who said that she went out of her way to protect Jon Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Though she denies that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She did deny it. And she said that she’d never tried to help him find an attorney. You know, when it comes to TODCO, TODCO announced the day the story ran that Jon Jacobo had resigned from his position as a director with the housing organization. They said that they were not aware of the extent of the allegations in my story. Despite having an internal review of his work, even the the nonprofits within the mission that he had coordinated with very muted statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Has Jon Jacobo said anything in response to these accusations in your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>No. Jon Jacobo did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including an email with very detailed questions. And he has not said anything that I have seen since the story published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After Josh’s story came out in mid April, allegations against other figures in San Francisco politics have surfaced. They include Kevin Ortiz, a former staffer for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and Jay Chang, who runs the moderate group neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Josh says these stories, regardless of party, show a pattern of people choosing to protect their political allies first. Why do these political figure. What what stake do they have in protecting someone? I guess like Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, in this kind of it’s a, a deeper, complex question, but it comes down to the way that political tribes protect themselves, that if one of us is accused that we have their back, or if we don’t have their back, we just make sure that we can’t be harmed politically as a result of their alleged improprieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>This is not a partisan issue within the Democratic Party, or even really Democrats and Republicans. There is always going to be this instinct to. Make sure that your click of politics is not harmed, or that you are not personally harmed. And so the the immediate reaction generally is to shut up and and just make sure that, like, let the story go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The media cycles so fast these days that if you can just hunker down for a few days, maybe it’ll blow over. Yeah, but this one has not necessarily blown over. And I think it also just shows that, you know, once you put the lens really on the people hunkering down as well, not just the, accused predator, that a story can maybe have a little bit more impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>As a result of the story, there were two different hearings that were held. One was by the Democratic Party for San Francisco looking into sexual assault and harassment in political spaces. And then there was also a hearing at City Hall called by Supervisor Hillary Ronen to look into a group called sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>Good morning, everyone. First, I really want to thank chair Stephanie and supervisor Mel…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>SHARP Stands for the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention. It’s actually under the umbrella of the Human Rights Commission. And their responsibilities are to advocate for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, and also try and transform the systems in place to address sexual violence in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>In the time that Sharp’s been created in six years, they have had zero meetings with the police department. A captain for the San Francisco Police Department, Alexa O’Brian. She runs the Special Victims Unit. Said that she wasn’t even certain they had had a phone call. Was sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen \u003c/strong>Have you ever met with SHARP and in any way, shape or form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexa O’Brien: \u003c/strong>I think they have been on a call with us. Share. Like a call that I’ve been on with maybe one of my other partners. The case, they might have showed up on a call, but no, I have never met directly or had a meeting with sharp. I’ve never sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Officials, and it’s a small two person team. Seem to have actually not understood the mission. And instead of actually working with victims to better coordinate, with departments and hold these departments accountable if they’re not seen as supportive, they instead, went out and tried to find victims of sexual assault who were not reporting crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Keene: \u003c/strong>The sharp hearing on May 9th was. I would call it a dog and pony show. I think it was completely worthless, if I’m being honest. It was a lot of, elected officials thanking each other for trying to do the job, but failing miserably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, ultimately, what do survivors want? I mean, I feel like the answer is accountability, I guess. But I mean, could there be criminal charges against Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Every every survivor of sexual assault has, you know, their own priorities. And the women in this story are no different in that sense, in which each of them had a different goal for coming forward, where Sasha Perrigo said that she wanted accountability but did not want to go through the criminal justice system. The three women who came forward in my story say no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>We would like to see him charged with crimes. I will add that the story, does end with Sasha Pago, reconsidering whether to press criminal charges. She wasn’t aware of many of the stories that these women told in in our piece. And so when she saw the totality of this, she was aware of other allegations, but nothing to the extent of what was in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she said that she was going to have a conversation with police and, you know, decide whether or not to move forward. And if if Sasha Perrigo were to press criminal charges against John Jacomo, there is a possibility that the allegations in my story could be part of a larger, prosecutorial case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how does all of this ultimately affect. All of us. Josh, right? Like, even if you’re coming to this story for the first time, maybe you’re not plugged in to San Francisco politics. How does this affect the average person?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If you don’t know these people and you don’t vote for these people? It may seem like it’s just like, oh, well, politics is gross and I move on with my day. But my hope is that anyone who reads this story maybe actually says for a second, well, if this is happening to women in power, they are advancing in their careers. And, you know, there’s no way this could happen to them because they’re the people that actually could sound the alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If it’s happening to women like that, then it’s probably happening to women all over. You know, also, if you see behavior, with someone you’re close to and, and there’s some kind of encounter that you know, of, but it’s kind of ambiguous, you know, these are the kind of things that maybe, like, we need to check ourselves and say, okay, maybe, maybe I need to be in more open ear, or I’m more helpful to my friends, family, colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Josh, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Josh Koehn, a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard. We’ll leave you some links to Josh’s reporting on this topic in our show notes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Hey, just a quick warning before we get started here. This episode describes sexual abuse. Please take care while listening. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There’s a whole network of people who make San Francisco politics and government go round, and that network has been shaken up. And it all centers around a community activist named Jon Jacobo, a once rising political star who was being groomed for the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He was very much someone who was climbing up the ranks, up the ladder of politics, and was seen as someone who could be an heir apparent to become supervisor of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Jacobo had been super active in San Francisco’s Mission District and was the director of a powerful affordable housing nonprofit called TODCO. But behind the scenes, women were coming out to accuse Jacobo of rape, sexual abuse and domestic violence. And they say their stories were ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The woman felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the allegations against Jon Jacobo and how his political allies turned a blind eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And the last few years, Jon Jacobo has been a community activist in the Mission District of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Josh Keene is a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>He served as a director for TODCO, which is one of the most powerful affordable housing nonprofits in the Bay area. He did a lot of work around helping community nonprofits in the mission. He served on the board of a group called Chi Venti Quatro. He also was, instrumental in the Latino Task force. This is someone who was deeply connected in San Francisco politics, particularly when it comes to the progressive wing of Democratic politics in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how did people describe Jon Jacobo’s personality?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>John Jacobo was described to me as someone who’s very gregarious, can be quite charming, someone who is very astute politically and knows how to make connections. Whether or not those connections are genuine is up to the person who was meeting with him. I was told by multiple people that John Jacobo is someone who can be a little bit manipulative and use, those political connections to get to the next rung of the ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>He’s this rising political star in San Francisco, this really charismatic guy. And then in 2021, a woman named Sasha Perrigo comes out and accuses John Jacobo of rape. What was she alleging? Exactly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So Sasha Perrigo, in the summer of 2021, published an open letter on Twitter, and it was a seven page document that laid out in very excruciating detail how she felt that Jon Jacobo had raped her in a night in which she had come to his apartment. She had been telling him that, hey, I’m just going to come. We’re going to hang out, you know, maybe have some drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And over the course of the night, she said that he was very aggressive and kept advancing on her until the morning after they were hanging out. She woke up and he forced himself on her, is what she alleged. When Sasha Perego came forward, the document that she published laid out a whole host of allegations, but it also included a rape kit that she took, within the days of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>It sent shockwaves through the whole political community. Not only was this a rising star in politics, but she also worked in the affordable housing space similar to much of Cobo. And so this had layers to it in which people in the housing community, people in the political space, people in Latino politics and the mission, everyone was kind of taken aback by these allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I remember this happening and it really being like a bombshell moment. Did Sasha Perrigo pursue charges against Jacobo after this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Sasha decided that she was not going to press charges with police. She had a lot of distrust of the criminal justice system, particularly in the way that it treats communities of color, but also in the way that it treats victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she felt that there were other forms of accountability that could be obtained by coming forward in the fashion that she did. However, she was very disappointed to see that there were not a lot of steps taken. Jacob did step down from a commissioned post with the city, but he retained his job and many of his political allies came to his defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So in other words, there was a little bit of shock, a little bit of a response, but things sort of just fizzled out from there. It sounds like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. For him, I think it was a chance to step back, I think, where his political aspirations were to probably run for supervisor. 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And I wonder if you could tell me a little bit more about her story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The allegations made by the first woman in our story, they started dating in 2015 and they dated for over three years. Almost immediately, he began to abuse her. She didn’t know what to do, and she kind of fell under a trap and felt like she couldn’t get out. The accusations range from breaking their furniture, breaking through doors to get to her, locking her into their home, choking her multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Threatening to kill her. She she said that he would point a gun at her and talk about killing her and her family, and we also had audio recordings in which he is heard threatening her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And for the other women, what about them wanted their the allegations they made take place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the other two women who are featured in this story, one of them alleged that Jon Jacobo raped her in the winter of 2018. Her allegations are very similar to Sasha Burgos, in which she says that John continued to pester her to come over and see her. She allowed him to come to her apartment. She said, we are not hooking up or anything like that. We can just talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she says that almost immediately after he came to her home, he forced himself on her and she froze. Which is not an uncommon experience for many victims of sexual assault. She only later realized through quite a bit of therapy. She said, that this was in fact rape because she had told him no many times as he was removing her pants and forcing himself on her. So the third woman, her incidents there were two occurred in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She says that after a night out in which John had been drinking, she allowed him to stay at her apartment in a common area, and she had roommates. She says that when she woke up in her bed, she thought her boyfriend had come home late. And instead, what she found was that Jacomo had allegedly entered her room, gotten naked and into bed with her, and then tried to force himself on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That morning, she managed to get him to snap out of it, apparently, and he quickly left and she tried to rationalize it. Which is, again, when we talk about locking up, out of fear or trying to rationalize someone’s behavior because you feel like maybe this is not indicative of who they are. Over time, she kind of stayed away from him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then there was a night out with friends later in 2016, in Oakland, in which they went out a group for drinks and dancing and went back to a friend’s house, and she passed out and found out later that her friend actually had to allegedly rescue her from Jacobo, trying to take advantage of her while she was unconscious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And that friend, who’s a commissioner for the Recreation and Parks Department in Oakland, who actually went on record saying that she felt that if she had not come in and stopped it, that she feels like he would have raped her. So those are the the three incidents in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And I mean, yeah, has has reporting these to the police led to anything for these women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So the women went to police in the months after Sasha Burgo came forward with her public accusations. All of the women told me that they did not necessarily feel supported or believed. You know, it’s common for law enforcement to try to be very frank with the survivors and let them know these are very difficult cases. We need to get a lot of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But the women I spoke with said this isn’t that this was different. And looking at their police reports, they said that there were a lot of things that were left out. One of the women said she provided evidence that was not even mentioned in her police report. There were also not efforts made. They said, to connect them with outside jurisdictional police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>That would also have a role in an investigation. The police would counter that argument, and they have been very aggressive in pushing back, saying that they have done everything they can in these cases. However, the women, their story should not be discounted because they have gone through this and they were very brave to come forward and do all of this from the police reports all the way to, telling the story with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how these women say the political machine protected Jon Jacobo. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>In the first part of this episode, we heard about how multiple women accused Jon Jacobo of sexual abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. The three women who talked to Josh keen for this story say they were ignored not only by police but also by people who worked with Jon Jacobo, including former San Francisco supervisor Jane Kim, who hired Jacobo back in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The women felt like Jon Jacobo did not get held accountable, that his political allies were able to lean on people into silence. Supervisor Jane Kim, who was his former boss and is now the head of the California Working Families Party. She ran for mayor. She ran for a state senate that she brought Jacobo to a political gala just weeks after Sasha Perrigo accused him of rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>But then I was also told by a very legitimate source that Jane Kim was working to hire John, an attorney, to deal with Sasha Perrigo’s accusation. So that’s one example. John Oberlin, the head of TODCO. He actually was grooming John to take over Taco’s financial operations, which would then make him a significant political player in deciding how to fund ballot measures polling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>So when they saw these reports and then they saw him doing TV interviews for the Mission Street vendors, and they knew that he was back on these community boards, they felt, you know what, we have to get this story out because that the very least, we want to make sure that our story is heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When it comes to folks like Jane Kim, who are accused of not responding adequately to these accusations against John Jacobus. How has she responded? How has she and others? I mean, in the party responded to accusations that they protected Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So I spoke with Jane Kim for this story. It was a very curious response I got from her, because she seemed less concerned with the fact that there were three more women who had disturbing allegations against John, who was a protege of hers, and that they had filed police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And she seemed more concerned with the timing of the story, asking me, why is this happening now? Her level of outrage with each answer, and this is just to me, seemed to amplify when she realized the serious nature of what I was asking her. You know, I asked her if she was aware of other allegations against John, and she said, no, no, no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, actually, yes, I had heard from the San Francisco Women’s Political Committee that there might be others out there, but she never pursued it. I have not seen any response from her since the story published in that, probably because there were people who said that she went out of her way to protect Jon Jacobo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Though she denies that right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>She did deny it. And she said that she’d never tried to help him find an attorney. You know, when it comes to TODCO, TODCO announced the day the story ran that Jon Jacobo had resigned from his position as a director with the housing organization. They said that they were not aware of the extent of the allegations in my story. Despite having an internal review of his work, even the the nonprofits within the mission that he had coordinated with very muted statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Has Jon Jacobo said anything in response to these accusations in your story?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>No. Jon Jacobo did not respond to multiple requests for comment, including an email with very detailed questions. And he has not said anything that I have seen since the story published.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>After Josh’s story came out in mid April, allegations against other figures in San Francisco politics have surfaced. They include Kevin Ortiz, a former staffer for Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, and Jay Chang, who runs the moderate group neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Josh says these stories, regardless of party, show a pattern of people choosing to protect their political allies first. Why do these political figure. What what stake do they have in protecting someone? I guess like Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Well, in this kind of it’s a, a deeper, complex question, but it comes down to the way that political tribes protect themselves, that if one of us is accused that we have their back, or if we don’t have their back, we just make sure that we can’t be harmed politically as a result of their alleged improprieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>This is not a partisan issue within the Democratic Party, or even really Democrats and Republicans. There is always going to be this instinct to. Make sure that your click of politics is not harmed, or that you are not personally harmed. And so the the immediate reaction generally is to shut up and and just make sure that, like, let the story go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>The media cycles so fast these days that if you can just hunker down for a few days, maybe it’ll blow over. Yeah, but this one has not necessarily blown over. And I think it also just shows that, you know, once you put the lens really on the people hunkering down as well, not just the, accused predator, that a story can maybe have a little bit more impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>As a result of the story, there were two different hearings that were held. One was by the Democratic Party for San Francisco looking into sexual assault and harassment in political spaces. And then there was also a hearing at City Hall called by Supervisor Hillary Ronen to look into a group called sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen: \u003c/strong>Good morning, everyone. First, I really want to thank chair Stephanie and supervisor Mel…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>SHARP Stands for the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention. It’s actually under the umbrella of the Human Rights Commission. And their responsibilities are to advocate for survivors of sexual harassment and assault, and also try and transform the systems in place to address sexual violence in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>In the time that Sharp’s been created in six years, they have had zero meetings with the police department. A captain for the San Francisco Police Department, Alexa O’Brian. She runs the Special Victims Unit. Said that she wasn’t even certain they had had a phone call. Was sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hillary Ronen \u003c/strong>Have you ever met with SHARP and in any way, shape or form?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alexa O’Brien: \u003c/strong>I think they have been on a call with us. Share. Like a call that I’ve been on with maybe one of my other partners. The case, they might have showed up on a call, but no, I have never met directly or had a meeting with sharp. I’ve never sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Officials, and it’s a small two person team. Seem to have actually not understood the mission. And instead of actually working with victims to better coordinate, with departments and hold these departments accountable if they’re not seen as supportive, they instead, went out and tried to find victims of sexual assault who were not reporting crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Keene: \u003c/strong>The sharp hearing on May 9th was. I would call it a dog and pony show. I think it was completely worthless, if I’m being honest. It was a lot of, elected officials thanking each other for trying to do the job, but failing miserably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, ultimately, what do survivors want? I mean, I feel like the answer is accountability, I guess. But I mean, could there be criminal charges against Jon Jacobo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Every every survivor of sexual assault has, you know, their own priorities. And the women in this story are no different in that sense, in which each of them had a different goal for coming forward, where Sasha Perrigo said that she wanted accountability but did not want to go through the criminal justice system. The three women who came forward in my story say no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>We would like to see him charged with crimes. I will add that the story, does end with Sasha Pago, reconsidering whether to press criminal charges. She wasn’t aware of many of the stories that these women told in in our piece. And so when she saw the totality of this, she was aware of other allegations, but nothing to the extent of what was in the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>And so she said that she was going to have a conversation with police and, you know, decide whether or not to move forward. And if if Sasha Perrigo were to press criminal charges against John Jacomo, there is a possibility that the allegations in my story could be part of a larger, prosecutorial case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, how does all of this ultimately affect. All of us. Josh, right? Like, even if you’re coming to this story for the first time, maybe you’re not plugged in to San Francisco politics. How does this affect the average person?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If you don’t know these people and you don’t vote for these people? It may seem like it’s just like, oh, well, politics is gross and I move on with my day. But my hope is that anyone who reads this story maybe actually says for a second, well, if this is happening to women in power, they are advancing in their careers. And, you know, there’s no way this could happen to them because they’re the people that actually could sound the alarm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>If it’s happening to women like that, then it’s probably happening to women all over. You know, also, if you see behavior, with someone you’re close to and, and there’s some kind of encounter that you know, of, but it’s kind of ambiguous, you know, these are the kind of things that maybe, like, we need to check ourselves and say, okay, maybe, maybe I need to be in more open ear, or I’m more helpful to my friends, family, colleagues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Josh, thank you so much for joining us on the show. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josh Koehn: \u003c/strong>Thanks, Ericka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Josh Koehn, a senior reporter for the San Francisco Standard. We’ll leave you some links to Josh’s reporting on this topic in our show notes. This 45 minute conversation with Josh was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Ellie Prickett-Morgan is our intern, they scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo. Music courtesy of the Audio Network. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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In many ways, it has expanded with no end in sight,” Supervisor Dean Preston, who introduced the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24190172/preston-ceasefire-resolution-draft-12-4.pdf\">three-page resolution last month\u003c/a>, told committee members on Monday. “Any thought or hope that this resolution would become mute has vanished. It is more relevant than ever.”[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"gaza\"]Preston’s resolution, co-sponsored by Supervisor Hillary Ronen, includes a specific reference to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/world/middleeast/israel-music-festival-massacre.html\">Oct. 7 attack on Israel\u003c/a>, in which Hamas fighters killed an estimated 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. 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The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. It’s overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964778\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg\" alt=\"A map of San Francisco's McLaren Park, showing the stretch of Shelley Road that could be permanently closed to cars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1020x824.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-160x129.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1536x1240.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-2048x1654.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1920x1550.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the section of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park that is currently closed to cars and could become a permanent promenade.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, before the Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance the proposal to the full board, Brian Stokle, an urban planner with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, urged supervisors to approve the permanent ban, arguing that doing so would “create a slower and more walkable park street that’s also safer, more accessible and improves mobility and equity.” At a community meeting on the issue earlier this year, he added, attendees expressed overwhelming support for permanently closing the section of road, which on sunny days offers expansive views of the city’s skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokle also noted that an analysis by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that closing the stretch of road, which is part of a loop and doesn’t intersect major roadways, had little measurable impact on neighborhood traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the bid to make the car-free designation permanent has faced little vocal pushback, especially compared to \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2022/11/san-franciso-jfk-drive-cars-bicycles-proposition-j.html\">the fervor of last year’s ultimately unsuccessful effort\u003c/a> to get vehicles back onto Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive. The Board of Supervisors approved that permanent road closure in May 2022 by a vote of 7–4, despite several of its members arguing that doing so was unfair to people with disabilities and the elderly, and one even calling the ban\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/closing-jfk-drive-is-recreational-redlining/article_e62404ef-4e23-54fa-86db-a1a2aa0b0c47.html\"> a form of “recreational redlining”\u003c/a> that disadvantaged communities of color who lived far from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board’s vote hardly settled the issue. A vociferous group of opponents\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/vehicles-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park-and-great-highway\"> sponsored a referendum to reverse the legislation\u003c/a>, only to have supervisors qualify\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/recreational-use-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park\"> a competing ballot measure\u003c/a> to affirm their decision. In November, city voters went on to approve the permanent road closure by a wide margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, a handful of dog walkers — and their sizable canine packs — headed along the car-free section of Shelley Drive, en route to the dog-play area known as “the Field of Dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Amy Brown, one such dog walker who visits the park five days a week, permanently closing the road to cars would be a major safety improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people give treats to a cluster of several dogs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Hunt and Kristen Narita walk their dogs on the car-free stretch of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park on Oct. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for the park. I think we get to use all the trails more,” said Brown, who noted that drivers in the park used to throw garbage out of their windows, and sometimes even used the road to do donuts. And motorcyclists often sped through the park and tore across walking trails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the closure, we’ve seen a lot less of that,” Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while park visitor Maria da Costa said she supports a vehicle-free stretch of road in the park, she questions the location of the promenade. 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The following year, it reopened the northern stretch, but continued to block cars from entering the western section of blacktop — between the Upper Reservoir Parking Lot and Mansell Street — which will become a permanent promenade if the legislation is approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is great and amazing and I think it would vastly improve the park,” said Myrna Melgar, who co-sponsored the legislation, which is backed by Mayor London Breed and appears likely to pass. “I spend a lot of time there because it’s closer to my house than Golden Gate. It’s overdue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964778\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11964778 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg\" alt=\"A map of San Francisco's McLaren Park, showing the stretch of Shelley Road that could be permanently closed to cars.\" width=\"800\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-800x646.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1020x824.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-160x129.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1536x1240.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-2048x1654.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/Shelley-Drive-1920x1550.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map showing the section of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park that is currently closed to cars and could become a permanent promenade.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, before the Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to advance the proposal to the full board, Brian Stokle, an urban planner with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, urged supervisors to approve the permanent ban, arguing that doing so would “create a slower and more walkable park street that’s also safer, more accessible and improves mobility and equity.” At a community meeting on the issue earlier this year, he added, attendees expressed overwhelming support for permanently closing the section of road, which on sunny days offers expansive views of the city’s skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stokle also noted that an analysis by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency found that closing the stretch of road, which is part of a loop and doesn’t intersect major roadways, had little measurable impact on neighborhood traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the bid to make the car-free designation permanent has faced little vocal pushback, especially compared to \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/business/2022/11/san-franciso-jfk-drive-cars-bicycles-proposition-j.html\">the fervor of last year’s ultimately unsuccessful effort\u003c/a> to get vehicles back onto Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive. The Board of Supervisors approved that permanent road closure in May 2022 by a vote of 7–4, despite several of its members arguing that doing so was unfair to people with disabilities and the elderly, and one even calling the ban\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/archives/closing-jfk-drive-is-recreational-redlining/article_e62404ef-4e23-54fa-86db-a1a2aa0b0c47.html\"> a form of “recreational redlining”\u003c/a> that disadvantaged communities of color who lived far from the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the board’s vote hardly settled the issue. A vociferous group of opponents\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/vehicles-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park-and-great-highway\"> sponsored a referendum to reverse the legislation\u003c/a>, only to have supervisors qualify\u003ca href=\"https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/recreational-use-jfk-drive-golden-gate-park\"> a competing ballot measure\u003c/a> to affirm their decision. In November, city voters went on to approve the permanent road closure by a wide margin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent weekday morning, a handful of dog walkers — and their sizable canine packs — headed along the car-free section of Shelley Drive, en route to the dog-play area known as “the Field of Dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Amy Brown, one such dog walker who visits the park five days a week, permanently closing the road to cars would be a major safety improvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11964701\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11964701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Two people give treats to a cluster of several dogs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-McLaren-Park-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Hunt and Kristen Narita walk their dogs on the car-free stretch of Shelley Drive in San Francisco’s McLaren Park on Oct. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s great for the park. 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"content": "\u003cp>Ed Siu is a pro at giving Central Station police captains tours of Chinatown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at this point, the chairman of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cmuasf.org/%E9%97%9C%E6%96%BC-about-us\">Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\u003c/a> thinks he’s given too many.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, district police captains serve as public figures and tacticians for clusters of neighborhoods. Central Station, a six-story gray slab at the edge of North Beach, oversees Chinatown as well as the Financial District, Fisherman’s Wharf, Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill and Russian Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to ensure captains learn the safety needs of Chinatown merchants, Siu will walk them down bustling Stockton Street, jockeying between thick crowds of shoppers to arrive at the door of New Golden Daisy, one of those restaurants with ducks hanging in the window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siu and the captain may amble over to the Sweetheart Florist, \u003ca href=\"https://sweetheartfloristsf.com/collections/blanketofferings\">which also offers traditional Chinese silk blankets\u003c/a>, before going down to Kearny Street, the heart of the neighborhood’s tourist offerings, to Hon’s Wun-Tun House for soup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ed Siu, chairman, Chinatown Merchants United Association of San Francisco\"]‘I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast. They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.’[/pullquote]Siu has led tours for so many new police leaders that he can’t remember all of their names. The expansion of the San Francisco Police Department’s command staff has led to high turnover among captains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mention it to the captains, the turnover is too fast,” said Siu, who has owned a Chinatown travel agency for more than four decades. “They should help us by knowing about Chinatown and the district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not just a Central Station dilemma. Anecdotally, some San Francisco supervisors have long complained of turnover among station police captains, saying that as soon as they’ve got good footing in a neighborhood they’re already out the door, oftentimes by way of promotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight captains have led Central Station in the past 11 years, an average of just over a year per captain. The swelling of SFPD’s leadership has also led to the swelling of salaries and pensions. According to SFPD data, the command staff’s total salary was just over $3 million in 2016, but is projected to grow to $7.5 million by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People cross the street at a city intersection.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-022-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People cross Stockton Street in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who represents neighborhoods served by Central Station, wants to stop the speedy promotions by eliminating four positions in the upper echelons of SFPD, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/leadership\">winnowing its size\u003c/a> and redirecting funds to pay for eight police officers to walk city beats. Peskin’s budget adjustment is set to be considered at a \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/committees\">Board of Supervisors Budget & Appropriations Committee hearing\u003c/a> on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years,” Peskin told KQED. “This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the move sounds like a simple budget cut, it may significantly hamper police reform efforts in San Francisco, Chief Bill Scott said at an August Board of Supervisors meeting. He admitted SFPD had staffing problems, but said the force needs administrative support as it balances the competing demands of reform and public safety concerns in the Tenderloin and surrounding neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘A top-heavy, bloated command staff has grown exponentially in recent years. This is something that I think makes policy sense. It makes economic sense and will lead to better policing in San Francisco.’[/pullquote]One of the more recently minted commander positions, for instance, coordinates the rollout of information to the public when an officer shoots a person. That transparency is a key part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/police-reform/cri-current-status\">U.S. Department of Justice’s reform recommendations to SFPD\u003c/a> in 2016, Scott said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that goes for many of the newer command staff roles, arguing to Peskin that the department can’t just lop off a swath of commanders without consequences to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Decades ago, there were only a handful of people who reported directly to the chief, according to Jim Wunderman, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacouncil.org/staff/jim-wunderman/\">CEO of the Bay Area Council\u003c/a>, a nonprofit representing business interests across the region. Wunderman served in a number of roles in then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein’s administration and as chief of staff for Mayor Frank Jordan, a former chief of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, many police captains stayed at that rank longer, even until retirement. But Wunderman recalled when Feinstein was first urged to expand the command.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dianne’s first reaction to it was pretty negative,” he said. “Why do we want to add more administrative staff? Don’t we want to put more cops out in the stations where crime actually occurs?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Feinstein was convinced. Jordan was promoted in 1978 from lieutenant to a newly created commander position. Three decades later, there are 16 sworn members of SFPD’s command staff: two assistant chiefs, five deputy chiefs and nine commanders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with glasses speaks to someone with long hair inside a store.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-SFPDStaff-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Store owner Tracy Liu (left) speaks with Edward Siu, president of the Chinatown Merchants United Association, at her shop in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 13, 2023. Liu worries about the safety of tourists affecting business at her shop. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wunderman said that when there’s leadership bloat “in any organization, whether it’s business or government for that matter, you end up with a loss of accountability. There’s too many people trying to talk to too many people and nothing gets done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former Central Station captains include David Lazar, who now serves as an assistant chief and Julian Ng, who is now a deputy chief. Paul Yep is commander of the administration bureau and Garret Tom, who was the Central Station captain 10 years ago, is retired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can tell you as a district supervisor for most of the last quarter century that my go-to person on virtually a daily basis is the captain of Central Station,” Peskin said. “And we haven’t had a captain at all for two months, until last week, and had an acting captain for almost two years before that because of the misplaced priorities of the leadership of the department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on San Francsisco Police Department' tag='san-francisco-police-department']And just like station captains, most command staff don’t stay in their roles for long, either. Data shows they don’t spend longer than three years in the positions before they’re promoted or retire. San Francisco’s pension liability for SFPD command staff has grown from under $100,000 a month in 2017 to a monthly cost of nearly $500,000 just this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want a revolving door” of top staff, Peskin said. “A revolving door is pension spiking, and yes, there is some of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lily Lo, the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://bechinatown.com/\">BeChinatown\u003c/a>, a group that helps small businesses in the neighborhood, would like to see funding redirected to beat cops in Chinatown and other neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to have more police patrolling,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Chief Scott’s concerns over implementing hard-won police reforms, retired Judge LaDoris Cordell wonders if some roles could be taken on by less-expensive civilian staff. From 2010-2015, Cordell served as an independent police auditor for San José, a civilian position. That police auditor’s job was to make recommendations to the chief, like creating a new policy on chokeholds. In 2015, she served on the Blue Ribbon Panel that made reform recommendations to SFPD \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10454955/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\">after its racist texting scandal.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While implementing reforms is important, a strong part of creating better bonds between police and Black and brown communities is true community policing, Cordell said. A key recommendation to SFPD by the Department of Justice was to craft a strategic plan for community policing. SFPD’s website shows this goal is still “in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell, retired\"]‘I don’t know that any of these are contradictory. They can all be done. But it’s hard to do it in a system that says your best reward is being promoted and moving up as fast as you can.’[/pullquote]That was also a recommendation of the Blue Ribbon Panel Cordell served on, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdistrictattorney.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/BRP_report.pdf\">noted that community members desired (PDF)\u003c/a> police to serve “long-term assignments in a community to get to know and build trust with residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People “get to know them, then they get to trust them,” Cordell said. “And then, when issues come up regarding crime, they’re willing to go and talk to these officers because the officers have gotten to know them. And that is the key.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cordell, it’s not impossible for a police force to balance promotions and to provide longevity for neighborhoods. 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"content": "\u003cp>An attempt by San Francisco leaders to hold an outdoor question-and-answer session about the city’s drug crisis was thwarted Tuesday afternoon after protesters at United Nations Plaza shouted over Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After retreating to City Hall, Breed and Peskin — who had requested the special off-site location for the full Board of Supervisors meeting to put a spotlight on problems in the area — continued to discuss how the city is addressing ongoing problems with open-air drug dealing, drug use and dangerous street conditions, all of which UN Plaza has come to symbolize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed touted many of the mental health services and programs the city has under her leadership and praised efforts to prioritize treatment over punitive approaches. But she also said accountability has been lacking, and suggested that the city’s public health-based approaches have reached their limits of efficacy in tackling the current crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Force is going to have to be a part of it, whether people like it or not. We’re going to have to do more,” Breed told the Board of Supervisors inside City Hall, in response to a question from Peskin about whether she intended to clear outdoor drug dealing and potentially reignite emergency orders, such as the one she \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">declared in 2021 for the Tenderloin neighborhood\u003c/a>; for 90 days, the order galvanized multiple city departments to address challenges in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the end of the day, we can’t just keep throwing up our hands and think all of a sudden what we are doing is working,” she said. “Compassion is killing people. And we have to push forth some tough love to change what’s happening on the streets of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Breed did not specifically comment on a potential new emergency order, she highlighted the San Francisco Police Department’s new partnership with the California Highway Patrol and the California Army National Guard, or CalGuard — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom at the end of April\u003c/a> — targeting drug trafficking and dealing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t force the state and the feds to come to the table, but finally they are coming to the table in a way that’s not necessarily traditional,” Breed said. “They are invited to work with us even to the point where if they want to oversee the operation … we will follow direction. Whatever it takes. I am willing to humble the city to do whatever is necessary to get to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also asked the board to pass her upcoming budget without any reductions and to “support the arrests for those who are struggling with addiction, especially when they break the law, to get them into drug treatment court and the support they so desperately need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the Tenderloin, compared the approach to tough-on-crime drug policies known collectively as the war on drugs, which began in the ’70s under President Richard Nixon and was greatly expanded in the ’80s under President Ronald Reagan. Black men in particular were vastly overrepresented in the increased arrests during the crack and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What she’s proposing is arresting people for drug use. And that is a key part of the war on drugs, and it does nothing other than get people off the streets temporarily — and then in the end, increased drug use and increased overdoses,” Preston told KQED. “The only thing that this accomplishes is getting people out of sight for a few hours at a very high price to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release, Preston later added: “If the Mayor, Supervisors, and other City leaders care about the Tenderloin, they should make sure the Tenderloin gets the investments the community needs in the budget process, support our $10 million emergency Tenderloin public safety supplemental, deliver the long promised Tenderloin wellness hub without further delay, house people who are unhoused, and make treatment on demand a reality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950525\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950525\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black man stands behind a camera, in a crowd, shouting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65801_010_KQED_LondonBreedQA_05232023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protester shouts during an unusual public Q&A session with San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is currently developing a pilot program to address when someone on the street is “so far under the influence of drugs that they may pose a danger to themselves or others,” according to a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, which could involve enforcing public intoxication laws, will be included in the mayor’s upcoming budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The uncomfortable conversations have to happen. I get that people have an issue that we are getting more aggressive to people with addiction,” Breed told the board. “I’m one of those people. I lost a sister to drug overdose.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while Breed’s sister struggled to access treatment services years ago, Breed said, many more facilities and beds have become available under her leadership, and the wait time for treatment has since dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health and addiction advocates, however, stress that there are still not enough resources to meet the need San Francisco is facing due to fentanyl, an opioid 50 times more potent than heroin that has led to a spike in overdose deaths in the city in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And they point to research that has shown that more incarceration could lead to higher overdose rates among offenders shortly after their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"fentanyl\"]Located in the heart of San Francisco a short walk from City Hall, the historic UN Plaza is flanked by the Orpheum Theater to the west and Market Street to the south. On Wednesdays, it hosts one of the city’s largest farmers markets. But the plaza has also become ground zero for debates over policing the drug use and sales that frequently occur there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 100 people gathered in the plaza Tuesday for the unusual, short-lived Board of Supervisors meeting, which \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/politics/political-theater-mayor-london-breed-drug-crisis-united-nations-plaza-aaron-peskin/\">cost more than $4,000 to stage, according to The San Francisco Standard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One protester allegedly threw a brick toward the speaking area after Supervisor Peskin recessed the outdoor hearing and moved it back to City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other demonstrators held signs and demanded justice for Banko Brown, a 24-year-old Black trans man who was shot and killed by a Walgreens security guard last month. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">District Attorney Brooke Jenkins recently declined to prosecute the guard.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor London Breed needs to step down. 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I am willing to humble the city to do whatever is necessary to get to a better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed also asked the board to pass her upcoming budget without any reductions and to “support the arrests for those who are struggling with addiction, especially when they break the law, to get them into drug treatment court and the support they so desperately need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Dean Preston, whose district includes the Tenderloin, compared the approach to tough-on-crime drug policies known collectively as the war on drugs, which began in the ’70s under President Richard Nixon and was greatly expanded in the ’80s under President Ronald Reagan. Black men in particular were vastly overrepresented in the increased arrests during the crack and heroin epidemics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What she’s proposing is arresting people for drug use. 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If the Biden administration rejects the city’s requests to continue halting transfers, the hospital could be required to resume relocating its more than 550 remaining patients, many of whom are elderly and lower-income, to other skilled nursing facilities as early as Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is entirely possible that on Friday, Feb. 3, hundreds of San Franciscans residing at Laguna Honda will face the trauma of possible relocation again from being discharged,” San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose district includes the hospital, said at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors hearing. “The rigid bureaucracy of the U.S. government has put us into this position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospital officials have said they have no plans to resume transferring patients unless compelled to do so. Twelve of the 57 patients who were initially transferred from the hospital last summer — some of whom had dementia and limited physical and cognitive ability — died within weeks or months of being relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Laguna Honda strongly advocated against these transfers. We warned CMS (the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that the four-month deadline to transfer nearly 700 residents to other facilities was entirely insufficient given the complex nature of our resident population and the lack of available beds at SNFs (skilled nursing facilities) anywhere in the region or the state,” hospital officials said in a public statement earlier this month in response to regulatory citations it received following the deaths of the transferred patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roland Pickens, Laguna Honda’s interim CEO, said he is hopeful the current pause on patient transfers will be extended, allowing the hospital to continue working to address deficiencies cited by state and federal regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tuesday’s hearing, other San Francisco leaders blasted federal officials for so far failing to respond to the city’s extension request, just days before the hospital could be required to resume patient transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy,” Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said. “They [CMS] have done significant harm. They have created a ton of stress and anxiety for hundreds more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 6 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>San Francisco officials are expected to find out this week whether federal regulators will allow the city to continue postponing the transfer of patients out of Laguna Honda Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extension would allow patients and their families to breathe a temporary sigh of relief, just days before the recently decertified hospital could be required to resume relocating its more than 550 remaining charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11920121/sf-officials-outraged-over-laguna-honda-patient-deaths-following-federally-mandated-transfers\">Regulators paused their initial transfer requirement\u003c/a> in July 2022, after reports that some of the 57 patients who had initially been moved from the hospital had died. In total, 12 former patients are confirmed to have died, nearly all of whom had been transferred last year to other skilled nursing facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu is now requesting that the pause on transfers extend until at least May 30, 2023, and the status of the relocation plan is scheduled to be addressed at a Board of Supervisors hearing on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a moral and ethical imperative to not continue the transfers,” said Joseph Urban, a health care consultant whose mother-in-law, Betty Campbell, was a resident at Laguna Honda. “We’re down to the wire again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Campbell’s frail state, Urban and his spouse turned down the hospital’s offer last summer to relocate her. The 86-year-old died recently at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 1866, Laguna Honda is one of the oldest and largest public skilled nursing facilities in the country, treating a wide range of medical conditions including dementia, stroke, mental illness and HIV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the hospital is still licensed, it was decertified last year by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for a series of safety violations. That means it is no longer in good standing with government-provided health care options like Medicare and Medi-Cal, which fund medical costs for the vast majority of its patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Laguna Honda lost certification, CMS required the hospital to create and implement a closure plan, including the transfer of all of its nearly 700 patients, many of them elderly and frail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"laguna-honda-hospital\"]At the same time, the hospital has been working with consultants to prepare for recertification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The focus of this meeting needs to be primarily on how the Board of Supervisors can be a force for protecting the most vulnerable: those who are now residents at Laguna Honda and those of us could need a bed there at any time,” Teresa Palmer, a former Laguna Honda physician and geriatrician, wrote in a letter to the board ahead of its Tuesday hearing. “Administration at Laguna Honda and consultants obviously need more time to ‘turn the ship around.’ In order to prevent death and harm to current and future residents, this time needs to be made available by CMS.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Department of Public Health fined Laguna Honda $36,000 for providing inadequate care to the patients who died after their transfers. Nearly all of those patients, who ranged in age from 63 to 100, were considered severely disabled, including some who were on feeding tubes, living with dementia or nonverbal, the agency’s citations show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The citations also noted that the patients who died were identified as “not discharge ready” because they were frail or otherwise not in a condition to be relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/amp/laguna-honda-hospital-san-francisco-funding-mayor-london-breed-press-conference-healthcare-in-sf/11747735/\">current regulatory crisis facing Laguna Honda\u003c/a> began last spring, when federal regulators decertified the hospital after conducting a series of safety inspections triggered by two nonfatal drug overdoses the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because San Francisco lacks an adequate supply of skilled nursing options, especially for people who rely on government health care plans like Medicare, most of those 57 patients were transferred out of the county. Two of the patients were sent to homeless shelters after discharge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, city leaders responded to the relocation requirement and subsequent deaths by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921717/san-francisco-sues-feds-over-forced-closure-of-laguna-honda-hospital/\">suing the federal government\u003c/a>, arguing that CMS had imposed an arbitrary and unrealistic closure deadline that didn’t give the city enough time to appeal the original infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several months later, however, the city agreed to drop the lawsuit in exchange for federal regulators temporarily halting the transfers and continuing to pay the $18 million in monthly Medicare and Medi-Cal costs for the remaining residents through November 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patricia McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, called out the hurried transfers as a form of abuse and criticized state and federal regulators for pressuring the hospital to carry out the closure plan, despite the severe risk it posed to many patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We call on CMS to stop the Laguna Honda closure before more residents are killed, and the Legislature to investigate CDPH and hold its leaders accountable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Opponents warned the police’s new authority would lead to the further militarization of a police force they believe already lacks adequate accountability and is too aggressive with marginalized communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed dismissed those concerns, emphasizing that she was “very supportive of that decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The robots are] not trained to shoot people. There’s a lot of misinformation about what they actually will do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed insisted they would only be used in the most extreme circumstances and their deployment would require the highest level of authorization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the department has been very responsible in its usage of its various tools that it has,” she said, noting that the robots could be a “lifesaver and a game changer” in the most dangerous situations. “And there’s a lot of oversight necessary to ensure that there is no abuse or no problematic situations that occur.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is that we never have to use it,” Breed added. “But we doubt very seriously it’ll lead to some of the issues that people have expressed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department said it does not have prearmed robots and has no plans to arm robots with guns. But the department could deploy robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient [a] violent, armed, or dangerous suspect” when lives are at stake, SFPD spokesperson Allison Maxie said in a statement.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"sfpd\"]“Robots equipped in this manner would only be used in extreme circumstances to save or prevent further loss of innocent lives,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors amended the proposal Tuesday to specify that officers could use robots only after using alternative force or deescalation tactics, and concluding they would not be able to subdue the suspect through those alternative means. Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or provide eyes in low-visibility situations, the department said, noting they were acquired between 2010 and 2017, and have not once been used to deliver an explosive device.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a new California law that went into effect this year requires police and sheriff’s departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek explicit authorization for their use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored last year by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu when he was still an Assembly member, the law is aimed at giving the public a forum and voice in the local government acquisition and use of military-grade weapons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Connie Chan, who forwarded the proposal to the full board, and on Tuesday voted for it, said she understood concerns over use of force but that “according to state law, we are required to approve the use of these equipments. 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In September, supervisors agreed to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/san-francisco-drug-dealing-fe3835d12bf05c29297b78b5dfbab011\">a trial run allowing police to access in real time private surveillance camera feeds\u003c/a> in certain circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Debate on Tuesday ran more than two hours, with advocates for both sides accusing the other of reckless fearmongering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I find it really shocking that just two years after our nation collectively recognized that police were using unjustified deadly force against people, disproportionally against Black and Brown people, that we’re having a conversation about letting SFPD adopt a policy, and with approval from this body, that would allow them to use robots to kill,” said Supervisor Dean Preston, who voted against the policy, joining Supervisor Hillary Ronen and Board President Shamann Walton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of authorization, said he was troubled by rhetoric painting the police department as untrustworthy and dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there’s larger questions raised when progressives and progressive policies start looking to the public like they are anti-police,” he said. “I think that is bad for progressives. 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"content": "\u003cp>Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is weighing that question this week as they consider a policy proposal that would allow the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to use robots as a deadly force against a suspect.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Paul Scharre, author\"]'For the military, they're used in combat against an enemy and the purpose of that is to kill the enemy. That is not and should not be the purpose for police forces.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new California law became effective this year that requires every municipality in the state to list and define the authorized uses of all military-grade equipment in their local law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original draft of SFPD's policy was silent on the matter of robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Peskin, a member of the city's Board of Supervisors, added a line to SFPD's original draft policy that stated, \"Robots shall not be used as a Use of Force against any person.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD crossed out that sentence with \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11435108&GUID=2BDCB218-6FC9-4D6C-BB88-E8CB9C3AA0D9\">a red line\u003c/a> and returned the draft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their altered proposal outlines that \"robots will only be used as a deadly force option when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers are imminent and outweigh any other force option available to the SFPD.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD currently has 12 functioning robots. They are remote controlled and typically used to gain situational awareness and survey specific areas officers may not be able to reach. They are also used to investigate and defuse potential bombs, or aide in hostage negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says much of the military-grade equipment sold to cities for police departments to use was issued by the federal government, but there's not a lot of regulation surrounding how robots are to be used. \"It would be lovely if the federal government had instructions or guidance. Meanwhile, we are doing our best to get up to speed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. In October, a number of robotics companies – \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostondynamics.com/open-letter-opposing-weaponization-general-purpose-robots\">including Hyundai's Boston Dynamics\u003c/a> – signed an open letter, saying that general purpose robots should not be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Calo is a law and information science professor at the University of Washington and also studies robotics. He says he's long been concerned about the increasing militarization of police forces, but that police units across the country might be attracted to utilizing robots because \"it permits officers to incapacitate a dangerous individual without putting themselves in harm's way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots could also keep suspects safe too, Calo points out. When officers use lethal force at their own discretion, often the justification is that the officer felt unsafe and perceived a threat. But he notes, \"you send robots into a situation and there just isn't any reason to use lethal force because no one is actually endangered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time a robot was reported being used by law enforcement as a deadly force in the United States was in 2016 when the Dallas Police Department used a bomb-disposal robot armed with an explosive device to kill a suspect who had shot and killed five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement to NPR, SFPD public information officer Allison Maxie wrote, \"the SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm.\" Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances. The statement continued, \"No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. The SFPD must be prepared, and have the ability, to respond proportionally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paul Scharre is author of the book \u003cem>Army Of None: Autonomous Weapons And The Future Of War\u003c/em>. He helped create the U.S. policy for autonomous weapons used in war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scharre notes there is an important distinction between how robots are used in the military versus law enforcement. For one, robots used by law enforcement are not autonomous, meaning they are still controlled by a human.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For the military, they're used in combat against an enemy and the purpose of that is to kill the enemy. That is not and should not be the purpose for police forces,\" Scharre says. \"They're there to protect citizens, and there may be situations where they need to use deadly force, but those should be absolutely a last resort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is concerning about SFPD's proposal, Scharre says, is that it doesn't seem to be well thought out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Once you've authorized this kind of use, it can be very hard to walk that back.\" He says that this proposal sets up a false choice between using a robot for deadly force or putting law enforcement officers at risk. Scharre suggests that robots could instead be sent in with a non-lethal weapon to incapacitate a person without endangering officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who studies robotics, Ryan Calo says that the idea of 'killer robots' is a launchpad for a bigger discussion about our relationship to technology and AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to robots being out in the field, Calo thinks about what happens if the technology fails and a robot accidentally kills or injures a person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It becomes very difficult to disentangle who is responsible. Is it the people using the technology? 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They are remote controlled and typically used to gain situational awareness and survey specific areas officers may not be able to reach. They are also used to investigate and defuse potential bombs, or aide in hostage negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin says much of the military-grade equipment sold to cities for police departments to use was issued by the federal government, but there's not a lot of regulation surrounding how robots are to be used. \"It would be lovely if the federal government had instructions or guidance. Meanwhile, we are doing our best to get up to speed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of robots being legally allowed to kill has garnered some controversy. In October, a number of robotics companies – \u003ca href=\"https://www.bostondynamics.com/open-letter-opposing-weaponization-general-purpose-robots\">including Hyundai's Boston Dynamics\u003c/a> – signed an open letter, saying that general purpose robots should not be weaponized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Calo is a law and information science professor at the University of Washington and also studies robotics. He says he's long been concerned about the increasing militarization of police forces, but that police units across the country might be attracted to utilizing robots because \"it permits officers to incapacitate a dangerous individual without putting themselves in harm's way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robots could also keep suspects safe too, Calo points out. When officers use lethal force at their own discretion, often the justification is that the officer felt unsafe and perceived a threat. But he notes, \"you send robots into a situation and there just isn't any reason to use lethal force because no one is actually endangered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first time a robot was reported being used by law enforcement as a deadly force in the United States was in 2016 when the Dallas Police Department used a bomb-disposal robot armed with an explosive device to kill a suspect who had shot and killed five police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email statement to NPR, SFPD public information officer Allison Maxie wrote, \"the SFPD does not own or operate robots outfitted with lethal force options and the Department has no plans to outfit robots with any type of firearm.\" Though robots can potentially be equipped with explosive charges to breach certain structures, they would only be used in extreme circumstances. The statement continued, \"No policy can anticipate every conceivable situation or exceptional circumstance which officers may face. 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"content": "\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joel Engardio, SF supervisor for District 4\"]‘As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese. I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.’[/pullquote]But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jane Kim, former San Francisco supervisor\"]‘What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. Meaning they’re not just going to vote for a candidate because they are aligned from the same community, but they’re also going to be looking very carefully at their agenda as well.’[/pullquote]Notably, Gordon Mar spoke out against recalls, not because of the candidates necessarily, but on principle. That \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/election/article/These-were-the-neighborhoods-that-drove-the-17228393.php\">was out of step\u003c/a> with many voters in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, that emerging moderate vote is not going towards Chinese candidates as a whole. We saw that with Gordon,” Yeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar himself said there was more nuance in that argument: Conservative Chinese voters have always been around. They pushed back on legal cannabis dispensaries on the west side of the city, for instance, and have long organized around Lowell High School. But he acknowledged the recall may have bolstered their political views across the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redistricting may also have played a role in Mar’s loss, Yeung noted, as voting precincts added to District 4 \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2022/04/redistricting-update-task-force-sticks-with-unpopular-map-makes-some-tweaks-before-ending-at-3-a-m/\">during a redistricting process earlier this year\u003c/a> added in neighborhoods that ultimately voted to favor Engardio, \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/november-8-2022-election-results-summary\">who won by just shy of 500 votes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Progressive former Supervisor Jane Kim, now the state director for the California Working Families Party, said she noticed this new emerging Chinese electorate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re also seeing is a greater diversity of perspectives that are now being represented by Chinese and Chinese American voters. 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He gave that as an example of finding a compromise between his values, and his neighborhood’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the reason for Mar’s loss, Kim said the decreasing voice of Asian Americans in San Francisco politics will lead to “an increased call for more representation in the 2024 [election] cycle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Albert Chow, owner of Great Wall Hardware on Taraval Street in District 4 personally endorsed Supervisor Mar. But when asked whether he would be concerned about a lack of Asian leadership in his neighborhood, he struck a favorable tone about Engardio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s Joel’s turn to take the seat as supervisor [of] District 4. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Leland Yee. Fiona Ma. Ed Jew. Carmen Chu. Katy Tang. Gordon Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2001, these six Asian American officials passed the torch to one another, representing San Francisco’s majority-Asian District 4 on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now for the first time in more than 20 years — and the first time since San Francisco began electing supervisors by district, rather than citywide — a non-Asian elected official will represent its electorate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joel Engardio is now supervisor-elect. The incumbent, Mar, conceded the race to Engardio on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Asian community and other communities of color, marginalized communities, it’s extremely important to have representatives that share their lived experience and have the depth of understanding not only of their shared concerns but their hopes and dreams,” Mar said in an interview, Friday. “It’s been a great honor for me to represent District 4, a majority-Asian district, these past four years, as someone who does share that deep connection and experience with working-class Asian American families in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Engardio also represents a number of firsts. He’s the first openly gay legislator to represent District 4, and he’s the first challenger to topple an incumbent elected San Francisco supervisor in a district election.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Mar’s defeat is a cause for concern among some Asian leaders in San Francisco — regardless of their politics. The usual tribalism in this city pits left-leaning progressives against centrist moderates. In that framework, Mar is seen as a progressive and Engardio a moderate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most Asian supervisors in San Francisco have leaned progressive, and often found backing among Asian communities. Yet a moderate-leaning faction of Chinese voters may have found their voice during recent recalls in the city — which could change the calculus of whom Asian voters send to office, no matter their ethnicity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, longtime Asian American leaders see a benefit to having Asian elected officials in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabel Teng, a former supervisor who won her office during citywide elections in the 1990s, noted that Mar’s defeat leaves only one Asian member of the Board of Supervisors — Connie Chan — \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycalifornia\">in a city that’s 37% Asian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also bemoaned the defeat of Ann Hsu, who would have brought an Asian immigrant’s perspective to the school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Asian community is hurting deeply with the defeat of Gordon Mar and Ann Hsu. This is the first time in decades, since my tenure on the [Board of Supervisors], there is one Asian elected on the [board] and Board of Education,” Teng said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engardio says he wants to represent all of his constituents, and is committed to keeping an ear to the needs of Asian communities in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a candidate, I did a lot to do Chinese-language outreach. And many people on my staff and many of my volunteers spoke Mandarin and Cantonese,” Engardio said. “I will do a lot to make sure that we’re communicating with and connecting with every resident in the Sunset.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 4 encompasses the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods, and is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/sfchip/SF_SupervisorialPrintableHealthProfiles/All_Districts_Profile_Data.pdf\">majority Asian (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/Press%20Release%207.20.21-%20Sunset%20Chinese%20Cultural%20District.pdf\">nearly 40% Chinese (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to city data. Those neighborhoods — more than many dense, urban San Francisco locales — resemble a suburban utopia, with single-family homes and higher rates of car driving versus transit use. It’s a slice of the proverbial American dream for families who emigrated here and the generations that came after them. It’s also home to retail corridors with many Asian anchor businesses, like 25th Irving Market, a popular grocery store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man in a blue suit holding a microphone and speaking with protesters behind him in support of gig workers.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59360_IMG_5938-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar, representing District 4, seen here supporting the creation of a statewide union of Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig workers on Oct. 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Chinese community is so interwoven into District 4 that Supervisor Mar helped create the Chinese Cultural District in the Sunset in 2021. During the initial planning process, some of the groups involved with its formation planned a march against anti-Asian hate on the Great Highway in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an example of the types of community activities that could be organized on a regular basis through the Sunset Chinese Cultural District,” Mar said at the time, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Lee, politics lecturer at San Francisco State University, noted that Asian American leaders tend to be more in tune with the needs of that community. And those issues are many: Rising anti-Asian hate stemming from the pandemic, related but separate hate crimes and violence against Asians, and the health of Asian-owned businesses rank among needs Lee says are top of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that is a concern for many people, including leaders in the Asian American community,” he said. “And it puts more pressure on the mayor to — through appointments, should openings come forward — to appoint Asian Americans to the Board of Supervisors so that we have a board that looks like the people of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That lack of representation disproportionately affects the Chinese community in particular, which makes up a majority of District 4, said Malcolm Yeung, director of a prominent Chinatown nonprofit, the Chinatown Community Development Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the Chinese community, this is a blow. You know, it’s decreasing our representation quite significantly,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been an ongoing narrative since the recalls of District Attorney Chesa Boudin and three school board candidates of an “emerging Chinese moderate vote,” Yeung said, a more vocal sector of the Chinese community that leans more centrist in their politics. Notably, with some exceptions, many previously elected San Francisco supervisors who are Asian were progressives: Eric Mar (brother to Gordon), Sandra Fewer, Jane Kim, Norman Yee and Connie Chan, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that newly activated electorate isn’t backing the usual Asian candidates in San Francisco, who have sometimes tacked toward progressive politics.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Most use is voluntary, as it is in San Francisco, although a new ordinance in Houston, Texas, mandates certain businesses — bars, nightclubs and convenience stores — to record outside their premises at all times and share footage with police when requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the new policy comes after years of a tumultuous pandemic in which viral footage of rampant shoplifting and brutal attacks on Asian Americans fueled a sense of unease and lawlessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new rules, police can monitor live for up to 24 hours, but only in emergencies where lives are at stake or in criminal investigations with a captain’s written approval. They can also monitor high-profile events to decide where to deploy officers. Permission must be received from the individual, business or community district for access to their cameras. Only outdoor areas can be monitored.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11841385,news_11899726,news_11747249\"]The trial period will last 15 months, giving supervisors about a year’s worth of data to review before they decide whether to extend the pilot program, tweak it or end it, Peskin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU of Northern California was among more than two dozen groups that called on supervisors to prohibit live surveillance except in emergencies, saying it would disproportionately affect African Americans and other vulnerable communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued San Francisco on behalf of protestors in 2020, claiming \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11841385/sf-police-used-camera-network-to-illegally-spy-on-protestors-new-lawsuit-alleges\">San Francisco police illegally monitored live feeds of protestors\u003c/a> who were marching in the wake of George Floyd’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates argued that police violated a local ordinance requiring the department to gain permission from the Board of Supervisors to monitor live feeds when they accessed a camera network operated by the Union Square Business Improvement District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said police surveillance of public demonstrations can discourage people from exercising their rights to free speech and assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a judge decided in favor of San Francisco. In his ruling, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard Ulmer said the Union Square group gave police access to the cameras for the 2019 Pride Parade, before the ordinance was implemented, and therefore the police were allowed to continue accessing the network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two advocacy groups announced last month that they will appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board President Shamann Walton, who is Black and voted against the legislation, said police already have the tools to request video footage from private citizens and make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the thought process is, ‘Just trust us, just trust the police department.’ But the reality is people have been violating civil liberties since my ancestors were brought here from an entirely, completely different continent,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Breed thanked the board, saying live surveillance would allow the police “to respond to the challenges presented by organized criminal activity, homicides, gun violence,” and even officer misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11899726/sf-mayor-breed-declares-state-of-emergency-in-tenderloin\">In December, the mayor called for a crackdown\u003c/a> on illegal vending and drug dealing in the Tenderloin, one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city with among the highest overdose rates. 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