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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora died nearly three hours later at San Francisco General Hospital. He suffered six gunshot wounds, including one to the left side of his forehead, which advocates and family members have identified as \"the only mortal wound.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Góngora was not running or lunging at the officers when he was shot to death,\" civil rights attorney Adante Pointer said. \"Given the angle of the gunshot wound to his head, and you combine that with the video, it gives you a real clear indication that he was not only not standing when he took that shot, but he was below the angle of the gun. So Mr. Góngora was actually on the ground or going to it when he sustained that fatal injury, and that is clearly excessive and unnecessary.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and other city agencies typically do not comment on cases that are the subject of lawsuits. Police officials did release two batches of partial witness statements and interpretations of witness statements in the days following the shooting, some of which indicate Góngora was moving toward the officers with a knife in his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephanie Grant \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/07/officer-involved-shooting-in-s-f-s-mission-district/\" target=\"_blank\">said the day of the shooting\u003c/a> that she lived in a tent near Góngora's and that he never presented a threat. She reiterated her account Friday.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"He wasn't understanding what they were saying,\" she said, adding that he moved only in reaction to being struck by the beanbag rounds. \"He did nothing wrong at all.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>S. Smith Patrick, a filmmaker, said she was home in her apartment overlooking the street and had a \"completely unobstructed view of everything that happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the downward trajectory of some of the gunshot wounds confirms what she saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was not charging at them as had been stated,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith Patrick commended a recently announced partnership between SFPD and the city's Department of Public Health that will make a team of more than 30 mental health professionals available to respond to incidents involving police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora's death came five months after the fatal police shooting of Mario Woods -- which raised scrutiny of SFPD use of force and officer-involved shooting investigations to an uproar -- and about six weeks before the fatal police shooting of Jessica Williams, which prompted former Police Chief Greg Suhr's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also raised questions about SFPD officers' commitment to changing the way police interact with people potentially in psychiatric crisis, which can quickly turn volatile and make up a majority of fatal police shootings in San Francisco and elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been talking time and distance and de-escalation -- that’s pretty much all I’ve been talking about all of 2016,” Suhr said about a week after Góngora's death. “So there’ll be a lot of questions about tactics on why that didn’t happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Góngora's family portray him as a loving father and husband who had only recently fallen on hard times. They said he had lost his apartment just a few months before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my companion and they have taken him away from me,\" José Góngora Pat said in a written statement. \"My brother needed shelter, food and medical care. I did what I could within my means to help him. Instead of receiving assistance from the city, he was executed by the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite massive reforms underway in the Police Department, a divide over the city's handling of officer-involved shooting investigations appears only to be growing. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Police Commission meetings aren't necessarily known for their civility and have several times in the past year erupted into shouting protests. But there's a general exception: When Paulette Brown stands up to speak, the room goes silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She testified this past Wednesday, like she nearly always does. But this time was a little different. The 10-year anniversary of her son's slaying loomed. Aubrey Abrakasa Jr. died on Aug. 14, 2006, after he was shot at least a dozen times in the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want people to see what I have to remember every day,\" she said as she displayed laminated photographs of her son's dead body. \"My son laying on the gurney, lifeless. Me standing over his casket when he was murdered. I'm still in pain, even though it's 10 years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown isn't always this emotional. She usually displays a list of six names, men she believes murdered her son. And she demands justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this time was a little different.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Those persons who are involved in this thing, at this point, they’re probably thinking we're not going to find them. They’re wrong.'\u003ccite>Jim Spillane,\u003cbr>San Francisco police homicide inspector\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I’m tired of crying,\" she said, describing a recent phone call to the San Francisco police homicide detail. \"But I went into tears, and I didn't think I would. I said I want to see my son's clothes that he wore when they murdered him. I want to see his tennis shoes. I want his stuff back. I have nothing. I have nothing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown's pain exists alongside new, cautious hope. The Police Department recently assigned an experienced, retired homicide investigator to focus on Brown's case. Jim Spillane is part of a special program that allows retired city employees to come back to work part time, a program the department is looking to expand. His work along with another retired homicide inspector augments investigations of the city's 14 full-time detectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aubrey was a good kid doing the right things for the right reasons,\" Spillane said as he joined Brown, acting Police Chief Toney Chaplin and a handful of supporters at Abrakasa's murder scene Friday. \"He just saw something, and he had to take action. He warned some people, he saved their lives, and he forfeited his own as a result.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11049443\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487-800x1107.jpg\" alt=\"A bulletin announces a $250,000 reward for information leading to arrest and prosecution of suspects responsible for the murder of Aubrey Abrakasa Jr.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1107\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11049443\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487-800x1107.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487-400x553.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487-1180x1632.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487-960x1328.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/RS20722_alt_487.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bulletin announces a $250,000 reward for information leading to arrest and prosecution of suspects responsible for the murder of Aubrey Abrakasa Jr. \u003ccite>(SFPD)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chaplin said that on the afternoon he died, the 17-year-old Abrakasa was his way to work as a youth mentor across town in the Bayview District. When he got to the intersection of Grove and Baker streets, he saw people he knew who were part of a street gang, the Central Division Players, and he saw members of a rival gang approaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aubrey saw some people he knew, gave a warning to those folks,\" Chaplin said. \"As the group scattered, the approaching gangsters were so enraged at Aubrey for his warning, they focused their rage on him, shooting him in the back upwards of 12 times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital hours later, Chaplin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrakasa's is one of more than 360 unsolved homicides in San Francisco over the last decade. Police made arrests or otherwise cleared 307 cases in that time period, generating a citywide clearance rate of 46 percent. (Other than through an arrest, crimes can be cleared by \"extraordinary circumstances,\" such as the death of an identified suspect.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national average for homicide clearances, according to \u003ca href=\"https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/clearances/main\" target=\"_blank\">FBI data\u003c/a>, is 64.5 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Suzy Loftus recently asked for a breakdown of killings and clearances by San Francisco ZIP code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Certain parts of San Francisco [that] suffer the most violence then also suffer another injustice,\" Loftus said when she got the numbers. \"They suffer violence and then they don’t see a justice system that delivers any accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not surprisingly,\" she added, \"Bayview is at the top of this list.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bayview saw 139 killings from 2006 to mid-July of this year, and 50 of those cases were cleared, generating a clearance rate of 35.9 percent. The Mission District/Bernal Heights had the second highest number of killings with 97, with 34 cleared and a clearance rate of 35.1 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Capt. Alexa O'Brien heads the Police Department's major crimes division, which oversees the homicide detail. She told the Police Commission that the Bayview's slaying numbers reflect some particularly violent years and that much of that violence has subsided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2006, she said, 24 people were killed in the district. In 2013, there were nine homicides there. So far this year, there's been one, and police made an arrest in that case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My homicide investigators, they are top-notch,\" O'Brien said. \"It doesn’t matter what neighborhood they’re in. ... It doesn’t matter what color the person is or who they are, how old they are, if they were a drug dealer or a drug user, even if they were a murderer themselves, that homicide gets treated exactly like the next homicide because they’re methodical about it. They want to catch the bad guy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When a case goes cold, that can become a tall order. Homicide Inspector Spillane says he'll follow any leads he can generate from Abrakasa's file. He didn't say whether suspects include the list of six names Brown often displays other than they \"may have been in one of the gangs who were involved in this incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's seeking tips, which can be made anonymously, and there's a $250,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of suspects responsible for Abrakasa's killing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But authorities know providing information in murder cases carries a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fear of coming forward in one of these homicides, it’s real.\" O'Brien said. \"These people who have no regard for life, who are murdering people, if someone’s going to give their name up, that person’s life is in jeopardy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spillane said there's always a concern for people's safety, including Brown's. 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When he got to the intersection of Grove and Baker streets, he saw people he knew who were part of a street gang, the Central Division Players, and he saw members of a rival gang approaching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aubrey saw some people he knew, gave a warning to those folks,\" Chaplin said. \"As the group scattered, the approaching gangsters were so enraged at Aubrey for his warning, they focused their rage on him, shooting him in the back upwards of 12 times.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was pronounced dead at San Francisco General Hospital hours later, Chaplin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrakasa's is one of more than 360 unsolved homicides in San Francisco over the last decade. Police made arrests or otherwise cleared 307 cases in that time period, generating a citywide clearance rate of 46 percent. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department and labor union representing its officers have agreed on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/document/320680712/SFPD-Final-Draft-Social-Media-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">policy\u003c/a> governing social media use by city police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed department general order comes following a sexual exploitation scandal involving several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and dozens of law enforcement officers alleged to have had sex with a woman who works in the sex trade and was trafficked as a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/277742139\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many interactions between \"Celeste Guap\" and officers originated on social media, including ones with more than two-dozen current and retired SFPD officers uncovered by a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/14/at-least-2-dozen-sfpd-officers-tied-to-teen-at-center-of-sexual-exploitation/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED investigation\u003c/a>. Guap said via text message that she had sex with three current SFPD officers and \"planned to sleep with a few more.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">identified\u003c/a> one of those officers as Rodger Ponce De Leon. Guap later \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/new-allegations-surface-sfpd-officer-investigated-link-sex-worker/\" target=\"_blank\">told the newspaper\u003c/a> she had sex and shared cocaine with Ponce De Leon before she turned 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department's new policy was in the works since sometime last year -- after a series of racist and homophobic text messages swapped by SFPD officers came to light, and long before the scandal that precipitated resignations of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed/\" target=\"_blank\">three Oakland police chiefs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sexual exploitation scandal centered in Oakland accelerated San Francisco's effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen the situation in Oakland, we saw the situation in our own department through some of the hideous text messages that were being sent back and forth,\" said Gary Delagnes, former president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association. He's currently a political consultant for the union, and he was part of negotiations over the social media policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everybody was kind of on the same page on this one,\" Delagnes said. \"You can’t give the appearance to the public that this is the way we act or the way we think.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes and a Police Department spokesman said the sexual exploitation scandal played no role in development of the policy. Several provisions, however, appear to address it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are prohibited from any use of personal social media to contact or communicate (e.g., “friending”, “following”, messaging, etc.) with witnesses, crime victims, or any person under the age of 18 who members interact with through the course of their official duties with the Department. Such contacts or communications on social media could impair the member’s capacity to perform his or her duties or jeopardize an ongoing investigation or criminal case. All such contacts and communications shall be done through Department authorized methods and channels (e.g., Department email, etc.). These restrictions do not apply to communications with relatives of Department members that members have a relationship with outside the Department.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate University law professor Peter Keane -- who is also a member of the San Francisco Ethics Commission and a former police commissioner -- said the new policy makes it clear that some of the interactions officers had with Guap on Facebook were inappropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The department has addressed that issue in this memo and in regard to the kind of activity that we know of that those police officers were involved in with this young woman,\" Keane said. \"Much of that activity on their part violated provisions of this memo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Current Police Commissioner Victor Hwang also said that section of the policy appears to be in response to Guap's apparent sexual exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This all kind of seems like common sense,\" Hwang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Department representatives noted a balancing act between addressing officers' conduct on social media while respecting officers' First Amendment rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Particularly in a sensitive type of employment like being a police officer,\" Keane said, \"which has so much power and has so many implications for the community at large, the Police Department can as a reasonable condition of employment require you to have a limitation on your First Amendment expression that a regular citizen doesn't have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're in a position of power such as a police officer, you cannot be doing these things on social media, even if it is tongue-in-cheek,\" he said. \"Those days are over. 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"content": "\u003cp>Friday marks an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/resolutions16/r0026-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">official day of remembrance\u003c/a> for an African-American man killed in a hail of bullets fired by San Francisco police officers late last year. The San Francisco Police Officers Association also held its own remembrance ceremony Friday for public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 20 gunshots that killed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> on Dec. 2 as a bus full of bystanders watched, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">some recorded\u003c/a>, started a shock wave that continues to shudder through the mechanisms of the city that oversee police procedure, the people who comprise those systems and the people who want to see them change.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're better than this as humans. We got to take a step back and realize that life is precious.'\u003ccite>Shante Williams,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the dueling days of remembrance highlight a widening divide between law enforcement and communities, especially those of color, in San Francisco and across the nation. Despite \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">significant shifts\u003c/a> in policing philosophy and training, video recordings of potentially criminal police killings continue to surface, and law enforcement officers in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Baton Rouge\u003c/a>, Louisiana, have been killed this month in what some see as retaliatory attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mario Woods Remembrance Day and the POA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Police-groups-opposition-to-Mario-Woods-8402040.php\" target=\"_blank\">day of remembrance\u003c/a> approached, KQED spoke with two black men from very different sides of the issue of violence by and against police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/dramatic-divide-between-cops-protesters-at-s-f-police-commission-meeting&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjO39G--IfOAhUMxWMKHbSXCwgQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHbJt_gJejMTVJXd_GG2Bxz5bv5zg\" target=\"_blank\">Shante Williams\u003c/a> is a veteran SFPD officer who was among more than a dozen officers surrounding Mario Woods the day he was shot, but he wasn't among the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/two-s-f-officers-in-woods-shooting-have-faced-excessive-force-claims/\" target=\"_blank\">five officers\u003c/a> who shot at Woods. Tyson Amir is a teacher for the San Francisco jail's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fivekeyscharter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Keys Charter School\u003c/a>. He knew and mentored Woods into earning his high school diploma after meeting him in the jail, and he's a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/justice4mariowoodscoalition/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice for Mario Woods Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had goals and dreams for himself once he came home,\" Amir said. \"When he got out of prison, he completed his high school diploma. That was an agreement that he made with his mother, and so he had reached that. He had recently gotten a license. He had a new job. So he was really taking strides to become the person that he wanted to become, that his mother wanted him to become. I love that. I respect that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amir saw one of multiple videos of the shooting begin to circulate on social media the night of Dec. 2, he immediately recognized Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-z3eBvPopx/embed/?v=6\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"738\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I witnessed the death of my student,\" he said. \"That's painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pain is something Officer Shante Williams says he understands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I empathize for his family,\" Williams said. \"I'm not a robot; I'm human. There's a life that's gone. There's a mother who's grieving. There are family members that will never have their family member again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are officers who upheld the law to protect those people who were standing behind those officers so they could exercise their First Amendment rights and video record the entire incident. I'm all for that. Those officers put themselves in harm's way, whether people want to look at the entire totality of the circumstances or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing. And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.'\u003ccite>Tyson Amir,\u003cbr>\nFive Keys Charter School educator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Williams started his law enforcement career in East Palo Alto before transferring to the SFPD. His former partner, East Palo Alto Officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.officerrichardmay.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard May\u003c/a>, was fatally shot in the line of duty after he approached a group of men fighting on the evening of Jan. 7, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me it's a huge honor to do the job the way that Rich would have wanted it done,\" Williams said. He had just returned to San Francisco after traveling to a memorial for five Dallas police officers killed in the line of duty when a gunman took aim at officers at a peaceful July 7 protest over the recent, video-recorded deadly police shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge/\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live/\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he's glad his union is calling attention to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It stings, and this is just me, the fact that we're honoring someone who committed a crime,\" he said, \"where we've had officers killed in the line of duty within the past 15 years, and there's no day of remembrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Amir, who has dedicated his career to teaching San Francisco jail inmates, the fact that people may have committed crimes shouldn't dehumanize them. He mentioned depictions of Woods as a \"thug,\" \"gangbanger\" and \"drug dealer.\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"5KaPl3MOkd9Q3N4s22kKi4x9c2P1mqAi\"]\u003cbr>\nThe city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/medical-examiners-report-on-mario-woods-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner found\u003c/a> methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription drugs in Woods' system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that define who you are as a human being?\" Amir asked. \"Why couldn't he have been a high school graduate? He had just obtained his high school diploma. He was going to be graduating in January. Why can't he be referred to as that? It's easier to demonize, belittle, degenerate someone, especially someone that you're willing to pull a trigger on, than to refer to someone in a way that's humane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanity is a common theme for Amir, and it's why he thinks Mario Woods Remembrance Day is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see the statement that was made by the Board of Supervisors as a way to try to affirm his humanity, but it's after the fact,\" Amir said. \"We're doing that after this man has already been put in the dirt. But hopefully it's a sign that in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, in California, we're pushing for that. We're trying to see the humanity in people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that was lost in the hail of bullets that killed Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't treat people like beasts, or worse than that,\" he said. \"That's overkill. That's way too much. That's uncalled for. That's not seeing the humanity and dealing with the situation in the way it should have been dealt with. Mario should be here today. He's not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both days of remembrance are seen by some from opposing perspectives as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired SFPD officer and former POA president Gary Delagnes called the board's resolution that created the day \"a slap in the face\" and \"without a doubt, the most disgusting, idiotic and pathetic legislation I have ever seen in my 35 years of POA involvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD public information officer Carlos Manfredi tweeted Friday about Hayward police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/hayward-police-officer-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Lunger\u003c/a>, who was killed in the line of duty on July 22, 2015. Manfedi included a hashtag, \"TheRealRemembranceDay.\" As of Friday afternoon, he was the only one who had recently used the phrase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficerManfredi/status/756483271324602369\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We hear about this concept of Blue Lives Matter and people pushing back against these other movements that are trying to hold police officers accountable,\" Amir said, \"but when the offenses happen and we don't see any type of thorough investigation or any consequences to these investigations where people are being punished -- you can't just kill people and then hide behind 'I felt threatened for my life.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five officers who fired at Woods have long since returned to duty, but multiple investigations into the shooting are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing,\" Amir said. \"And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Williams and Amir said there's room for common ground in the national struggle over police violence, and both said those conversations need to happen now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're better than this as humans,\" Williams said. \"We got to take a step back and realize that life is precious.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Friday marks an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/resolutions16/r0026-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">official day of remembrance\u003c/a> for an African-American man killed in a hail of bullets fired by San Francisco police officers late last year. The San Francisco Police Officers Association also held its own remembrance ceremony Friday for public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The more than 20 gunshots that killed \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> on Dec. 2 as a bus full of bystanders watched, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/07/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-sfpd-account-of-mario-woods-killing\" target=\"_blank\">some recorded\u003c/a>, started a shock wave that continues to shudder through the mechanisms of the city that oversee police procedure, the people who comprise those systems and the people who want to see them change.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We're better than this as humans. We got to take a step back and realize that life is precious.'\u003ccite>Shante Williams,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco police officer\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But the dueling days of remembrance highlight a widening divide between law enforcement and communities, especially those of color, in San Francisco and across the nation. Despite \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/23/s-f-police-commission-approves-new-use-of-force-rules-union-has-sticking-points/\" target=\"_blank\">significant shifts\u003c/a> in policing philosophy and training, video recordings of potentially criminal police killings continue to surface, and law enforcement officers in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/19/us/baton-rouge-shooting.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Baton Rouge\u003c/a>, Louisiana, have been killed this month in what some see as retaliatory attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mario Woods Remembrance Day and the POA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Police-groups-opposition-to-Mario-Woods-8402040.php\" target=\"_blank\">day of remembrance\u003c/a> approached, KQED spoke with two black men from very different sides of the issue of violence by and against police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/21/dramatic-divide-between-cops-protesters-at-s-f-police-commission-meeting&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjO39G--IfOAhUMxWMKHbSXCwgQFggFMAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHbJt_gJejMTVJXd_GG2Bxz5bv5zg\" target=\"_blank\">Shante Williams\u003c/a> is a veteran SFPD officer who was among more than a dozen officers surrounding Mario Woods the day he was shot, but he wasn't among the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/15/two-s-f-officers-in-woods-shooting-have-faced-excessive-force-claims/\" target=\"_blank\">five officers\u003c/a> who shot at Woods. Tyson Amir is a teacher for the San Francisco jail's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fivekeyscharter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Five Keys Charter School\u003c/a>. He knew and mentored Woods into earning his high school diploma after meeting him in the jail, and he's a member of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/justice4mariowoodscoalition/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice for Mario Woods Coalition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He had goals and dreams for himself once he came home,\" Amir said. \"When he got out of prison, he completed his high school diploma. That was an agreement that he made with his mother, and so he had reached that. He had recently gotten a license. He had a new job. So he was really taking strides to become the person that he wanted to become, that his mother wanted him to become. I love that. I respect that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Amir saw one of multiple videos of the shooting begin to circulate on social media the night of Dec. 2, he immediately recognized Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" id=\"instagram-embed-0\" src=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/-z3eBvPopx/embed/?v=6\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"738\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border: 0px; margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 4px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 0px 0px 1px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 1px 10px 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" width=\"100%\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I witnessed the death of my student,\" he said. \"That's painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That pain is something Officer Shante Williams says he understands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I empathize for his family,\" Williams said. \"I'm not a robot; I'm human. There's a life that's gone. There's a mother who's grieving. There are family members that will never have their family member again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And there are officers who upheld the law to protect those people who were standing behind those officers so they could exercise their First Amendment rights and video record the entire incident. I'm all for that. Those officers put themselves in harm's way, whether people want to look at the entire totality of the circumstances or not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'When it comes to everyday people, we have to be accountable for the things that we're doing. And when it comes to law enforcement agents, they need to be held accountable as well, and there should not be a double standard.'\u003ccite>Tyson Amir,\u003cbr>\nFive Keys Charter School educator\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Williams started his law enforcement career in East Palo Alto before transferring to the SFPD. His former partner, East Palo Alto Officer \u003ca href=\"http://www.officerrichardmay.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard May\u003c/a>, was fatally shot in the line of duty after he approached a group of men fighting on the evening of Jan. 7, 2006.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To me it's a huge honor to do the job the way that Rich would have wanted it done,\" Williams said. He had just returned to San Francisco after traveling to a memorial for five Dallas police officers killed in the line of duty when a gunman took aim at officers at a peaceful July 7 protest over the recent, video-recorded deadly police shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/06/justice-department-to-investigate-fatal-police-shooting-in-baton-rouge/\" target=\"_blank\">Alton Sterling\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/philando-castile-minnesota-police-shooting-facebook-live/\" target=\"_blank\">Philando Castile\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said he's glad his union is calling attention to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It stings, and this is just me, the fact that we're honoring someone who committed a crime,\" he said, \"where we've had officers killed in the line of duty within the past 15 years, and there's no day of remembrance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to Amir, who has dedicated his career to teaching San Francisco jail inmates, the fact that people may have committed crimes shouldn't dehumanize them. He mentioned depictions of Woods as a \"thug,\" \"gangbanger\" and \"drug dealer.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe city \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/11/medical-examiners-report-on-mario-woods-shooting-released/\" target=\"_blank\">medical examiner found\u003c/a> methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription drugs in Woods' system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Does that define who you are as a human being?\" Amir asked. \"Why couldn't he have been a high school graduate? He had just obtained his high school diploma. He was going to be graduating in January. Why can't he be referred to as that? It's easier to demonize, belittle, degenerate someone, especially someone that you're willing to pull a trigger on, than to refer to someone in a way that's humane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humanity is a common theme for Amir, and it's why he thinks Mario Woods Remembrance Day is important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see the statement that was made by the Board of Supervisors as a way to try to affirm his humanity, but it's after the fact,\" Amir said. \"We're doing that after this man has already been put in the dirt. But hopefully it's a sign that in San Francisco, in the Bay Area, in California, we're pushing for that. We're trying to see the humanity in people.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that was lost in the hail of bullets that killed Woods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Don't treat people like beasts, or worse than that,\" he said. \"That's overkill. That's way too much. That's uncalled for. That's not seeing the humanity and dealing with the situation in the way it should have been dealt with. Mario should be here today. He's not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both days of remembrance are seen by some from opposing perspectives as an insult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired SFPD officer and former POA president Gary Delagnes called the board's resolution that created the day \"a slap in the face\" and \"without a doubt, the most disgusting, idiotic and pathetic legislation I have ever seen in my 35 years of POA involvement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD public information officer Carlos Manfredi tweeted Friday about Hayward police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/hayward-police-officer-shot\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Lunger\u003c/a>, who was killed in the line of duty on July 22, 2015. Manfedi included a hashtag, \"TheRealRemembranceDay.\" As of Friday afternoon, he was the only one who had recently used the phrase.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m. Friday, July 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has minimized the extent to which a sexual exploitation crisis rocking several East Bay law enforcement agencies has touched its side of the Bay Bridge, but a KQED analysis of current and former SFPD officers' Facebook accounts shows the 18-year-old woman at the center of the sex abuse scandal was connected to dozens of people affiliated with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273894127\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">revelations that several OPD officers\u003c/a> may have sexually exploited and trafficked a young woman -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> that he may have mishandled an internal investigation -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-reviewing-possible-connection-east-bay-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">headlines blared\u003c/a> that SFPD officers may also have been involved. The woman, who calls herself Celeste Guap, claimed to have had sex with San Francisco officers who knew she worked in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'yow!!!!!' 'love the short shorts,' 'Beautiful!!!!!'\u003ccite>Retired SFPD officer's comments on photos of Celeste Guap.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Guap, who now lives in Richmond and is the daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-in-police-sex-abuse-scandal-reports-sex-with-8335145.php\" target=\"_blank\">cited an\u003c/a> “open investigation to determine if any members have had any inappropriate contact with the victim,” while anonymous SFPD sources \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/news/sfpd-looking-at-possible-links-to-young-victim-in-oakland-police-sex-scandal-/1389158/\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly said\u003c/a> that the investigation focused on officers who had recently transferred across the bay from Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED has learned that at least two dozen current and former SFPD officers -- as well as others affiliated with the department -- were at one time connected to Guap’s Facebook account. The connections point to officers with long careers in the Police Department and to a much more direct connection in the SFPD than just a handful of recent Oakland transfers. Guap's connections include at least three current and 21 retired officers. They include a former police commissioner and a recent member of the board of directors of the police officers' union, the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One retired SFPD officer repeatedly “liked” and commented on some of Guap’s more suggestive Facebook photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“yow!!!!!” the former officer wrote. Other comments he wrote included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“love the short shorts”\u003cbr>\n“Beautiful!!!!!”\u003cbr>\n“WO(W!!!”\u003cbr>\n“Gorgous (sic)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach that retired officer were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is withholding the names of officers quoted in this report at this time because publication of those names could unfairly harm people whose connections may have been incidental and may not indicate wrongdoing. We are using \"Guap's\" pseudonym to protect the identity of someone who may have been sexually exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"uhQAx1tFKzRF3QFpDuqQLqMzQ83r8qjI\"]\u003cbr>\n\"The Police Department at a minimum should look at this Facebook page of hers, which shows this interaction with San Francisco police officers,\" said law professor and city ethics commissioner Peter Keane. He's also a former police commissioner, but not the one with a social media connection to Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane said investigators should interview officers to determine the \"extent of the relationships, if any, there have been between these officers and this woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said the matter is subject to an open internal affairs investigation. He would not say whether that investigation might include a review of officers' social media accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">reported Friday\u003c/a> that Officer Rodger Ponce De Leon is a subject of the department's internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many SFPD officers' Facebook interactions with Guap are inconclusive, and a large group of officers were simply “friends” with her at one point but never interacted beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case raised lots of red flags for me personally,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang wrote in an emailed response, noting that as a public figure, he receives a lot of \"friend requests\" on social media, sometimes \"from individuals with provocative profile pictures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to figure out what's what,\" he wrote. \"All I can say is that the department is honestly looking into this to see if any officer had more than just a Facebook acquaintance with the victim.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many interactions go beyond \"just friends.\" Several officers repeatedly \"liked\" or commented on suggestive photos of Guap, including one recently retired SFPD officer with more than three decades on the force, who agreed to speak to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers, being human, they do make mistakes,\" that former officer said. \"So they may 'friend' somebody who maybe they shouldn’t be friends with. We don’t always make the right decisions. We try to do what’s right, but it doesn’t always turn out that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer, along with many others, started to shed those social media connections with Guap as the crisis grew. A retired female officer broke ties with Guap in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's disturbing that officers' reputations are in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels very violating towards the police,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer had several friendly interactions with Guap on Facebook, suggesting they might know each other outside cyberspace. But she said she only knew Guap on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apparently there’s police involved that they’re dragging in that didn’t even have anything to do with it, except like me, just had a connection on Facebook,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started seeing the level of multi-jurisdictions, people involved and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">police chiefs being fired\u003c/a>, I was like, you know what? Facebook is supposed to be a friendly, interactive social media. It’s not supposed to be bringing me a big problem. So I was like, OK, I don’t need this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has no permanent rules governing officers’ personal use of social media, but they’re in the works. 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The San Francisco Police Officers Association also declined multiple requests to talk about the negotiations and draft policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did provide temporary rules governing officers’ personal use of social media -- a department bulletin issued by former Police Chief Greg Suhr in late 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are expected to be smart, thoughtful, and responsible in all interactions and to maintain the respect, dignity, and professionalism that is consistent with the mission of the SFPD at all times. ... We are here to help people and to serve as role models to children. If you would not want to have a child see and/or read what you are considering posting, transmitting, and/or disseminating, do not post, transmit and/or disseminate it.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\"It’s definitely time for the promulgation of some very definite, specific guidelines of how police should interact on social media,\" former police commissioner Keane said, adding that any contact with Guap now raises serious questions about whether officers are trading confidential law enforcement information, compromising themselves or abusing a position of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those are explosive types of dangers that police officers can get themselves involved in unless they’re more cautious of and aware of some problems like this occurring with their contacts on social media,\" Keane said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The retired officer who \"liked\" several of Guap's suggestive photos said he felt betrayed by the scandal and behavior of officers alleged to have had sex with the teenager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me angry, and I don’t know if it’s a generational thing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m. Friday, July 15\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has minimized the extent to which a sexual exploitation crisis rocking several East Bay law enforcement agencies has touched its side of the Bay Bridge, but a KQED analysis of current and former SFPD officers' Facebook accounts shows the 18-year-old woman at the center of the sex abuse scandal was connected to dozens of people affiliated with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273894127&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273894127'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after former Oakland Police Chief Sean Whent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/09/sean-whent-out-as-oakland-police-chief-reports-say\" target=\"_blank\">suddenly resigned\u003c/a> amid \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/badge-of-dishonor-top-oakland-police-department-officials-looked-away-as-east-bay-cops-sexually-exploited-and-trafficked-a-teenagerdepartmen/Content?oid=4832543\" target=\"_blank\">revelations that several OPD officers\u003c/a> may have sexually exploited and trafficked a young woman -- and \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/the-real-reason-why-oakland-fired-its-police-chief/Content?oid=4826701\" target=\"_blank\">allegations\u003c/a> that he may have mishandled an internal investigation -- \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-reviewing-possible-connection-east-bay-sex-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">headlines blared\u003c/a> that SFPD officers may also have been involved. The woman, who calls herself Celeste Guap, claimed to have had sex with San Francisco officers who knew she worked in the sex trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'yow!!!!!' 'love the short shorts,' 'Beautiful!!!!!'\u003ccite>Retired SFPD officer's comments on photos of Celeste Guap.\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach Guap, who now lives in Richmond and is the daughter of an Oakland police dispatcher, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The connections point to officers with long careers in the Police Department and to a much more direct connection in the SFPD than just a handful of recent Oakland transfers. Guap's connections include at least three current and 21 retired officers. They include a former police commissioner and a recent member of the board of directors of the police officers' union, the Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One retired SFPD officer repeatedly “liked” and commented on some of Guap’s more suggestive Facebook photos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“yow!!!!!” the former officer wrote. Other comments he wrote included:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“love the short shorts”\u003cbr>\n“Beautiful!!!!!”\u003cbr>\n“WO(W!!!”\u003cbr>\n“Gorgous (sic)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach that retired officer were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is withholding the names of officers quoted in this report at this time because publication of those names could unfairly harm people whose connections may have been incidental and may not indicate wrongdoing. We are using \"Guap's\" pseudonym to protect the identity of someone who may have been sexually exploited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\"The Police Department at a minimum should look at this Facebook page of hers, which shows this interaction with San Francisco police officers,\" said law professor and city ethics commissioner Peter Keane. He's also a former police commissioner, but not the one with a social media connection to Guap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keane said investigators should interview officers to determine the \"extent of the relationships, if any, there have been between these officers and this woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said the matter is subject to an open internal affairs investigation. He would not say whether that investigation might include a review of officers' social media accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-police-investigating-second-officer-link-oakland-sex-trafficking-scandal/\" target=\"_blank\">reported Friday\u003c/a> that Officer Rodger Ponce De Leon is a subject of the department's internal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many SFPD officers' Facebook interactions with Guap are inconclusive, and a large group of officers were simply “friends” with her at one point but never interacted beyond that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This case raised lots of red flags for me personally,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang wrote in an emailed response, noting that as a public figure, he receives a lot of \"friend requests\" on social media, sometimes \"from individuals with provocative profile pictures.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's hard to figure out what's what,\" he wrote. \"All I can say is that the department is honestly looking into this to see if any officer had more than just a Facebook acquaintance with the victim.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many interactions go beyond \"just friends.\" Several officers repeatedly \"liked\" or commented on suggestive photos of Guap, including one recently retired SFPD officer with more than three decades on the force, who agreed to speak to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police officers, being human, they do make mistakes,\" that former officer said. \"So they may 'friend' somebody who maybe they shouldn’t be friends with. We don’t always make the right decisions. We try to do what’s right, but it doesn’t always turn out that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer, along with many others, started to shed those social media connections with Guap as the crisis grew. A retired female officer broke ties with Guap in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it's disturbing that officers' reputations are in jeopardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just feels very violating towards the police,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former officer had several friendly interactions with Guap on Facebook, suggesting they might know each other outside cyberspace. But she said she only knew Guap on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Apparently there’s police involved that they’re dragging in that didn’t even have anything to do with it, except like me, just had a connection on Facebook,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once I started seeing the level of multi-jurisdictions, people involved and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/17/a-department-in-crisis-yet-another-oakland-police-chief-removed\" target=\"_blank\">police chiefs being fired\u003c/a>, I was like, you know what? Facebook is supposed to be a friendly, interactive social media. It’s not supposed to be bringing me a big problem. So I was like, OK, I don’t need this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has no permanent rules governing officers’ personal use of social media, but they’re in the works. 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The San Francisco Police Officers Association also declined multiple requests to talk about the negotiations and draft policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department did provide temporary rules governing officers’ personal use of social media -- a department bulletin issued by former Police Chief Greg Suhr in late 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Members are expected to be smart, thoughtful, and responsible in all interactions and to maintain the respect, dignity, and professionalism that is consistent with the mission of the SFPD at all times. ... We are here to help people and to serve as role models to children. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:35 p.m. Monday, July 11\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel appointed to investigate bias in the San Francisco Police Department says it encountered roadblocks throughout its yearlong inquiry, according to a hefty \u003ca href=\"#report\">report\u003c/a> released Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273240281\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">convened last year\u003c/a> by District Attorney George Gascón, said it encountered obstruction from both the department and its rank-and-file officers' union, the San Francisco Police Officers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA. ... The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one.'\u003ccite>LaDoris Cordell,\u003cbr>\nRetired Superior Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"[T]he Panel did not always receive the cooperation it hoped for from the SFPD management and the union that represents most officers, the San Francisco POA,\" the report says, cataloguing a back-and-forth between department command staff and panel attorneys in which former Police Chief Greg Suhr advised that any officer interviews be scheduled through the union, which had its own thoughts on the panel's legitimacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"7toKMJE8WA8H3xjx3T8jkh3ifftCy4YO\"]\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. 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But what could be the biggest change to officer-involved shooting investigations is listed as a finding, not a recommendation: \"Officer-involved shooting investigations conducted by the District Attorney's Office suffer from a lack of independence and an outdated notification system.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón says both issues are currently at play in the district attorney's investigation of the fatal February 2015 police shooting of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>. The district attorney recently told KQED that his office was not properly notified that an officer-involved shooting had occurred, and by the time a district attorney's investigator arrived on scene, Perez Lopez's body had been removed by the city's medical examiner. Gascón called the treatment of the crime scene a \"serious breach of protocol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel report includes a memorandum of understanding drafted by Gascón's office that would make the district attorney's office the \"lead agency on the scene of any officer-involved shooting,\" according to the report. SFPD homicide inspectors currently lead police shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD and the SFDA understand that the public can no longer be expected to trust a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer’s use of deadly or alleged excessive force led by that officer’s employing agency, or by a neighboring or allied police agency,\" the draft MOU says. \"As the chief law enforcement officer for the City and County, the District Attorney bears responsibility for bringing charges against any persons who commit crimes in San Francisco, and pursuing justice for all. Therefore, the office of the San Francisco District Attorney (SFDA) shall be the primary criminal investigative agency for all officer-involved fatal incidents and significant uses of force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various city leaders have been seeking an alternative agency to lead police shooting investigations, but so far, suggestions of a neighboring law enforcement agency or the State Attorney General's Office have not reached agreement, let alone implementation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Commission has moved collaboratively with people from across our City to adopt meaningful reforms for SFPD,\" Commission President Suzy Lofts said via text message. \"That work continues in earnest as we embark on the search for our permanent Chief. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The [Blue Ribbon Panel] has no legal standing or authority to conduct an independent investigation of any organization including the SFPD,\" POA President Martin Halloran wrote in the union's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpoa.org/journal_archives/POAJournal_June2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">June newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloran dismissed a synopsis of the panel's preliminary findings in May as \"a biased, one-sided, and illegitimate work of fiction\" produced by people handpicked by Gascón. On Monday, Halloran called the panel a \"kangaroo court\" and compared the release of its report with the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/07/07/dallas-police-officers-killed-in-reported-sniper-attack\" target=\"_blank\">killing of five police officers\u003c/a> in Dallas last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On Thursday, a sniper in Dallas took aim at police officers and murdered five in cold blood,” Halloran said in a written statement. “Today, George Gascón is taking aim at police officers in San Francisco with half-truths and distortions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's independence from Gascón -- and accusations that his criticism of the SFPD is driven by political ambitions -- was \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/29/s-f-district-attorney-calls-out-mayor-for-lip-service-on-police-reform\" target=\"_blank\">repeatedly questioned by the POA\u003c/a> and, to some degree, by the department. The panel's report says the sustained questions of legitimacy and written responses to scant public testimony offered by current SFPD officers had a chilling effect on its ability to interview more current officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The San Francisco Police Department, for all practical purposes, is really run by the POA,\" said retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell who, along with retired U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian and retired California Supreme Court Judge Cruz Reynoso constituted the panel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The POA leadership sets the tone for the Police Department, and historically, it’s been an ugly one,\" Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón appointed the panel, supported by attorneys from seven Bay Area law firms, several weeks after a batch of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/sfpd-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">racist, homophobic and otherwise bigoted text messages\u003c/a>, swapped among more than a dozen officers, came to light through a federal court filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11017250\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11017250\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/07/Gascon-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers' working groups examined seven different areas of SFPD activity: stops, searches and arrests; discipline; use of force; external oversight of the department; compliance with the legal responsibility to make prosecutors and defense attorneys aware of officer misconduct; crime data; and the culture of the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The working groups' 72 findings and 81 recommendations form the bulk of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It looks like it covers the breadth of issues that we’re interested in,\" Police Commissioner Victor Hwang said. \"It’s the kind of report that I wish we had the ability to generate on our own, if we had more staffing and perhaps a policy analyst working with us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its review of SFPD culture, the panel found \"the SFPD blurs the line between it and the POA. ... Because the department has consistently ceded the ground of discourse to the POA, theirs is the dominant law enforcement voice heard on [reforms].\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThe report adds that \"several witnesses stated that the SFPD and POA functioned like a 'good old boys' club,' making it difficult to impose discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The 'code of silence' -- informal pressure for officers to 'fall in line' and not report observed misconduct -- makes it difficult to identify and respond to bias within the department,\" the report says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel found the Police Department's internal disciplinary process \"opaque\" and the rules governing it outdated. 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Gascón called the treatment of the crime scene a \"serious breach of protocol.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel report includes a memorandum of understanding drafted by Gascón's office that would make the district attorney's office the \"lead agency on the scene of any officer-involved shooting,\" according to the report. SFPD homicide inspectors currently lead police shooting investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The SFPD and the SFDA understand that the public can no longer be expected to trust a criminal investigation of a law enforcement officer’s use of deadly or alleged excessive force led by that officer’s employing agency, or by a neighboring or allied police agency,\" the draft MOU says. \"As the chief law enforcement officer for the City and County, the District Attorney bears responsibility for bringing charges against any persons who commit crimes in San Francisco, and pursuing justice for all. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 4:15 p.m. Thursday, July 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sounds of explosives that prompted the evacuation of two San Francisco General Hospital buildings Thursday afternoon appear to have originated from a powerful, illegal firecracker, according to the city's Police Department:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficerGrace/status/751190232758833153\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the afternoon, an unidentified officer reported over the scanner that he'd come across what appeared to be the \"remnants of a barrel bomb\" on the fifth floor of a hospital building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no suspects at this time, SFPD Capt. Daniel Perea told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post 3:55 p.m. Thursday, July 7:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report of possible shots fired shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday quickly became a coordinated effort by city police, sheriff's deputies and the FBI to clear at least two buildings at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OfficerGrace/status/751163951702913025\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officers initially reported responding to potential shots fired or explosives, according to radio scanner audio. Witnesses reported hearing an explosion, according to the officers on the scanner. About 2:30 p.m., an officer reported: \"Be advised on the fifth floor, it looks like remnants of a barrel bomb, west side.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patients and medical personnel in hospital buildings 80 and 90 were sheltering in place as officers went through both structures, floor by floor. The buildings on the northern edge of the hospital's campus house a family health center, urgent care clinic, psychiatric care and other services, according \u003ca href=\"http://sfghlearn.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/A-Learning-Center-Location-Map.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">to a hospital map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Fire Department broadcast \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sffdpio/status/751174293820547073\" target=\"_blank\">via Twitter\u003c/a> that no injuries had been reported as of about 2:45 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SFPD-Sheriff-Search-SF-General-Hospital-After-Reports-of-Loud-Bang-385918471.html\" target=\"_blank\">unconfirmed reports\u003c/a> that explosive sounds may have been caused by illegal fireworks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/taramoriarty1/status/751176520090066944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Francisco police and news services did not respond to requests to verify the alert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD radio traffic after 3:30 p.m. was mostly concerned with moving patients from different floors of the building.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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