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A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">review of San Francisco police shooting\u003c/a>s by KQED colleagues Alex Emslie and Rachael Bale found that 11 of the 19 people who officers shot and killed between 2005 and 2013 were mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos is among those demanding that the department explain how it handled the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, where was the crisis intervention team?\" Avalos said Wednesday. \"Did they use the crisis intervention team on this arrest? Did they actually follow the procedures? Those are the questions I think that should be in place, and there should be an investigation to see what happened, where things broke down. Because things clearly broke down. This man’s dignity was taken away from him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaBouvier's post on Medium focuses on both that dignity question and on what she describes as the commonplace nature of police abuse:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This isn’t a video of a man getting killed. Some might watch this and think in that general, indemnifying way, that this video is an exceptional case of an isolated case of poor policing. I’d have to disagree — and not respectfully — with you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These incidents are so quotidian, so mundane, that they do not merit a mention in even passing on the local news. Which is to say, this is everyday harassment. Which is to say, that we’ve normalized and habitualized the kind of policing in San Francisco and the rest of America that brutalizes the most vulnerable people, which strips them of their human dignity, the agency to their bodies — to walk with crutches when physically disabled, to have this body unviolated — when in actuality, they are whom the police are especially supposed to be protecting.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'll note in passing that there is no police body-camera video of the Aug. 4 encounter -- because San Francisco police \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/18/the-story-behind-the-sfpd-body-cam-programs-many-delays\" target=\"_blank\">still aren't wearing the devices\u003c/a>. But maybe videos like LaBouvier's -- and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnDSC2QnLWw\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/ccZjGRUEuL0\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/23/video-of-sfpd-officer-trying-to-push-man-off-curb-prompts-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hXVMtEpvwEE\" target=\"_blank\">this one\u003c/a> -- will speed up the process of adopting them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Grace Gatpandan, a San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman, told KQED's Sukey Lewis on Wednesday that LaBouvier's video failed to show the episode in its entirety. To give a more complete picture of what happened, she said, the department is seeking video that shows the events leading up to the sequence that LaBouvier made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In explaining the police response, Gatpandan said that around noon on Aug. 4, officers on patrol near U.N. Plaza -- at Eighth and Market streets -- \"observed a subject who was waving sticks around.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Officers decided to exit their vehicle and contact the person, just due to the fact he possibly demonstrated a danger to other people who were in the vicinity of him,\" Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the officers asked the man to drop the sticks, which LaBouvier and other witnesses say were actually the man's crutches. The man refused and walked away, ventured out into Market Street and told officers he didn't care if he was hit by a vehicle, Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this case, because he has demonstrated that he is a danger to himself and others, he fits the criteria for a mental health detention,\" Gatpandan said. That's a 72-hour hold in a local hospital to conduct a medical and psychiatric evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believed he was in an altered mental state, and so we wanted him to get the medical attention he needed,\" Gatpandan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatpandan said she didn't know whether any of the dozen-plus officers who eventually responded to the scene had received formal crisis intervention training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for such training has been highlighted by a series of high-profile incidents in the past decade. Those include \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/18/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-s-f-cops-in-shooting-of-mentally-ill-woman\" target=\"_blank\">a 2008 case\u003c/a> in which two officers shot a mentally ill woman and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/01/05/video-sf-police-shoot-man-in-wheelchair\" target=\"_blank\">a 2011 episode captured on video\u003c/a> in which officers shot a wheelchair-bound man on a South of Market street after he threw a knife. A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/30/half-of-those-killed-by-san-francisco-police-are-mentally-ill\" target=\"_blank\">review of San Francisco police shooting\u003c/a>s by KQED colleagues Alex Emslie and Rachael Bale found that 11 of the 19 people who officers shot and killed between 2005 and 2013 were mentally ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos is among those demanding that the department explain how it handled the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The question is, where was the crisis intervention team?\" Avalos said Wednesday. \"Did they use the crisis intervention team on this arrest? Did they actually follow the procedures? Those are the questions I think that should be in place, and there should be an investigation to see what happened, where things broke down. Because things clearly broke down. 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"content": "\u003cp>A San Francisco supervisor has proposed legislation, sparked by a recent \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/17/san-francisco-police-plan-crackdown-on-bicyclists-on-popular-routes\" target=\"_blank\">police crackdown\u003c/a>, that would require officers to make ticketing bicyclists who safely roll through stop signs the city's lowest law enforcement priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos, an occasional bike commuter, calls his proposal the right-of-way ordinance. It wouldn't discourage officers from ticketing cyclists who blow through stop signs and violate someone else's right-of-way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can minimize these conflicts if we all take our turn at intersections and avoid being a ‘right-of-way thief,’\" Avalos said. \"Our streets work best when we all follow the golden rule and treat others like we want to be treated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal comes on the heels of a San Francisco police captain's campaign to ticket bicyclists for rolling through stop signs along \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zD7pqWoJNDIc.kJwz-9gxS3sc&hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">The Wiggle\u003c/a>, one of the city's most popular bike routes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates were alarmed by the police's new tactics. The department had pledged to focus on the top five traffic violations by drivers that cause the most deaths and injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last month, hundreds of bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/30/full-compliance-with-the-stop-sign-law-on-bikes-an-effective-spectacle/\" target=\"_blank\">lined The Wiggle to demonstrate\u003c/a> against the stepped-up enforcement of traffic laws, requiring every bike rider to stop at every stop sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Capt. John Sanford \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/park-station-captain-ends-controversial-bicycle-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">announced the crackdown was over\u003c/a> at a Park police station meeting where more than a hundred cyclists turned out to voice their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates point out that a majority of cyclists already safely maneuver through intersections without coming to a complete stop. Many have pushed for adopting the \"Idaho stop\" (this \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/4140910\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> explains it well), but that would require a change in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos is proposing the next best thing: requiring law enforcement to make ticketing bicyclists for riding through stop signs a low priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's become clear that we need to modernize our outdated traffic laws,\" said Noah Budnick, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. He noted Board President London Breed's \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/29/sup-breed-backs-idahos-common-sense-law-let-bikes-yield-at-stop-signs/\" target=\"_blank\">support\u003c/a> for an \"Idaho stop\" law in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Supervisors Breed and Avalos are offering SFPD the kind of clear direction that our police need and deserve in order to keep people who walk, bike and drive safe,\" Budnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police did not respond to multiple requests for a comment on the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney's office is still examining the draft ordinance, but the supervisor hopes to officially introduce it Sept. 8, according to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Avalos' press release, here's what the ordinance would do:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The] ordinance would make it the lowest law enforcement priority in San Francisco to issue citations for bicyclists who safely yield at stop signs. However the ordinance would not discourage officers from citing bicyclists who fail to slow to a safe speed at stop signs or fail to yield to another vehicle or pedestrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also establish the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy:”\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>To promote safety, tolerance, and harmony on our streets, all users of San Francisco streets shall respect others right-of-way and take their turn when navigating intersections.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All users of S.F. streets shall yield to emergency vehicles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All users of S.F. streets shall yield to Muni vehicles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drivers and bicyclists shall always yield to pedestrians and be vigilantly aware of pedestrians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bicyclists shall always yield to others at intersections, but they may slowly proceed without fully stopping at stop signs if the intersection is empty.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last month, hundreds of bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/30/full-compliance-with-the-stop-sign-law-on-bikes-an-effective-spectacle/\" target=\"_blank\">lined The Wiggle to demonstrate\u003c/a> against the stepped-up enforcement of traffic laws, requiring every bike rider to stop at every stop sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Capt. John Sanford \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/park-station-captain-ends-controversial-bicycle-crackdown/\" target=\"_blank\">announced the crackdown was over\u003c/a> at a Park police station meeting where more than a hundred cyclists turned out to voice their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates point out that a majority of cyclists already safely maneuver through intersections without coming to a complete stop. Many have pushed for adopting the \"Idaho stop\" (this \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/4140910\" target=\"_blank\">video\u003c/a> explains it well), but that would require a change in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos is proposing the next best thing: requiring law enforcement to make ticketing bicyclists for riding through stop signs a low priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's become clear that we need to modernize our outdated traffic laws,\" said Noah Budnick, executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. He noted Board President London Breed's \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2015/07/29/sup-breed-backs-idahos-common-sense-law-let-bikes-yield-at-stop-signs/\" target=\"_blank\">support\u003c/a> for an \"Idaho stop\" law in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Supervisors Breed and Avalos are offering SFPD the kind of clear direction that our police need and deserve in order to keep people who walk, bike and drive safe,\" Budnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police did not respond to multiple requests for a comment on the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city attorney's office is still examining the draft ordinance, but the supervisor hopes to officially introduce it Sept. 8, according to his office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Avalos' press release, here's what the ordinance would do:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>[The] ordinance would make it the lowest law enforcement priority in San Francisco to issue citations for bicyclists who safely yield at stop signs. However the ordinance would not discourage officers from citing bicyclists who fail to slow to a safe speed at stop signs or fail to yield to another vehicle or pedestrian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance would also establish the “San Francisco Right-of-Way Policy:”\u003c/p>\n\u003col>\n\u003cli>To promote safety, tolerance, and harmony on our streets, all users of San Francisco streets shall respect others right-of-way and take their turn when navigating intersections.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All users of S.F. streets shall yield to emergency vehicles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All users of S.F. streets shall yield to Muni vehicles.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Drivers and bicyclists shall always yield to pedestrians and be vigilantly aware of pedestrians.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bicyclists shall always yield to others at intersections, but they may slowly proceed without fully stopping at stop signs if the intersection is empty.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ol>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"disqusTitle": "The Forgotten: Two Deaths on the Streets of Potrero Hill",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>onald Trump didn't tweet about the killings of Prince Johnson or Jamar Samuel. Hillary Clinton didn't ask why San Francisco hadn't deported someone to prevent their deaths. California's senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, didn't offer the city any advice after the two black men were shot to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police didn't \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?recordid=1245&page=3763\" target=\"_blank\">flood\u003c/a> the area minutes after they were shot, and no press conferences were called. Witnesses didn't come forward and offer cellphone pictures of the alleged shooter. And the news media didn't go into a frenzy and fuel a game of point-the-finger among politicians and law enforcement officials. Nobody felt compelled to ask \"why?\" or \"what can be done?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'If you look at the location where a lot of these murders are happening, a lot of these are happening in public housing developments. ... It’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel because you know the guy is here. It’s literally just a matter of waiting for an opportunity to do it.'\u003ccite>Toney Chaplin,\u003cbr>\nSFPD commander\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>All that attention was devoted to the tragic fatal shooting of Kate Steinle on July 1, as she walked with her father on Pier 14, on San Francisco's waterfront.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days before that and a short drive south, Prince Johnson, 33, was found bleeding to death from gunshot wounds outside a rowhouse in the Potrero Terrace public housing development. On Independence Day, Jamar Samuel, 26, was gunned down on the same sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men appear to be as different from each other as Pier 14 is from Potrero Terrace, but their close proximity in death to one of the higher-profile San Francisco homicides in recent memory seems to too perfectly illustrate two very different cities -- one in which lives are valued, witnesses cooperate and murders are solved, and another with a different set of rules and expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217762575\" 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>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>otrero Terrace and Annex were \u003ca href=\"http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/12/sfs_earliest_public_housing_projects.php\">built during World War II\u003c/a>, a few years after the federal government allocated funding to San Francisco and other cities for the effort. Connecticut Street curves through the heart of the main section of the developments, and cinderblock rowhouses terrace the steep grade on either side. The location offers a sparkling view of San Francisco Bay and is breezy and cool even on days that are downright hot elsewhere in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based solely on location, the area could be the tourist draw that San Francisco's waterfront offers. But it isn't. Nearby neighborhoods have all the amenities and sport the affluence typically associated with San Francisco, but Potrero Terrace is isolated by its curved streets, a steep ridge to the west and Interstate 280 to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's an industrial pocket to the south, and the tennis courts of the Potrero Hill Recreation Center to the north. Green grass blankets a baseball field there, where young families were gathered on a recent afternoon. But despite nudging right up to the housing development, the rec center doesn't really seem to belong to Potrero Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A redevelopment \u003ca href=\"http://hope-sf.org/potrero.php\">plan\u003c/a> for the projects describes the area this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of San Francisco’s most sought-after locations to live, Potrero Hill features spectacular views, parks, restaurants, shops, and proximity to downtown and freeways. Yet dead-end streets and steep topography mean Potrero Terrace and Annex sit isolated from the Potrero Hill neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat's where Jamar Samuel grew up and where he still spent a lot of his time, although he was living with family in the Bayview. He'd been a happy child, the fourth of Barry and Beatrice Samuel's five children. Friends and family say he was always ready with a joke and couldn't help but wear a wide smile -- his mother called him \"smiley face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grandmother, who called him \"Pooh Bear,\" often brought him to church at St. John's Missionary Baptist on Third Street. Whereas Potrero Terrace seems worlds apart from nearby neighborhoods on Potrero Hill, many people living in the Terrace have close connections to the historically African-American Bayview, about a mile to the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628437\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10628437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg\" alt=\"Jamar Samuel.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamar Samuel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of his mother.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friends and family say Samuel changed when his grandmother died in 2006, when he was 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He became a loner,\" his mother says. \"He was almost 10 years a loner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never really had a job and kept mostly to himself, but he didn't completely lose his jokester streak, friends and family say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people on the Terrace knew him as \"Mar Mar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a good guy,\" says Billy Ray, a Terrace resident who said he often ran into Samuel on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t really say nothing bad about him, but sometimes he could be annoying,\" Ray says. \"But everybody that know Mar Mar would say the same thing. And he had one of those odd laughs. You knew he was coming -- 'Here come Mar Mar' -- cuz you'd hear that laugh a mile away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to seven people who say they knew Samuel. They say he had dabbled in \"the game,\" or drug sales, for a while, but he wasn't scary. His mother said he'd been dating a girl for a few years, but the relationship ended a couple months before he died. As far as anyone knew, he'd quit \"the game.\" One sign of that: For the first time since his grandmother brought him to church in the late '90s, Samuel came back to St. John's Missionary Baptist in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One morning I got to the church, he was out there, he welcomed my kids and I,\" the Rev. Mervin Redmond says. \"It was kind of amazing because he just got in the church, and now he’s doing something, and he talked to several of the men about a change he wanted to make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel also talked to Redmond, who got the impression \"he wanted to change from doing certain things that he had been doing that he knew were negative and destructive, and I took it to mean maybe drugs or the company he was keeping.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel and Redmond had a long phone conversation on Friday, July 3, about Samuel's re-baptism scheduled for Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was good to talk to him,\" Redmond says. \"When I walked away from that conversation, I was like, 'Wow I think he’s serious,' and after that Friday, he said, 'I’ll see you Sunday.' Little did we know ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond's voice trails off, as it did several times when we talked in a meeting room in his church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kind of value moments like that more now,\" he says, \"because that’s the first time that’s happened -- not the first time I’ve seen someone and they passed soon after, but in that fashion. I’ve never talked to somebody and the next day they got murdered. You know that was just, yeah...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police aren't releasing many details of their investigation into Samuel's shooting at about 11 o'clock the night of the Fourth of July. The scene, a sidewalk outside a Terrace rowhouse, now features a shrine with a Winnie the Pooh centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628502\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10628502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shrine on the 1000 block of Connecticut Street, in Potrero Terrace.\" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shrine on the 1000 block of Connecticut Street, in Potrero Terrace. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There have been no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>olice \u003cem>did\u003c/em> make arrests after Prince Johnson was shot on that same patch of concrete June 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My attempts to reach Johnson's family were unsuccessful, but I did find a woman who says she knew him well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, he was a great person,\" says Marie, who gives only her first name. \"I mean everyone encounters certain things in their life, but I don’t think he deserved what happened to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson stood just over 5 feet tall. An attorney who represented him for years said she had once introduced expert testimony that years of child abuse had permanently stunted his growth. When he was in jail, she said, he'd \"level out\" because she would make sure he got the psychiatric medication he needed. But then, \"He'd get out and couldn't keep it together because the support network wasn't there for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ex-prosecutor said Johnson had been brought up on handgun charges under a federal program called Triggerlock, under which repeat violent offenders are targeted for longer federal sentences for illegally possessing handguns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not just like a housing development, this is like, we’re all family here. There’s a lot of people that care, and they’re loving.'\u003ccite>Marie,\u003cbr>\nPotrero Terrace resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to court records, Johnson was arrested in 2005 for threatening a woman with a gun near Haight and Fillmore streets. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison on federal gun charges for the crime in 2009. But the sentence included a unique request from the judge, who wanted Johnson incarcerated at one of two federal prisons with better health services \"for the reason that the defendant requires intensive mental health and psychiatric treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show he served the sentence and ended up back in San Francisco, this time in Potrero Terrace. On June 29, he was out on Connecticut Street. Marie says she had seen her friend moments before when the street erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ran there,\" she says. \"... He was reaching out asking me to help him. He was on the ground and he was reaching his hand out asking me to help him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police made an arrest in connection with Johnson's killing the same night, based on a vehicle description. They served a search warrant the next morning at a home near the shooting and arrested a second suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors did not file murder charges. The first suspect was released the next day. The second, Jabar Hickman, was held on two felony charges, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of ammunition, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. He's due to be arraigned on the gun charges Aug. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco police Cmdr. Toney Chaplin rose through the department working in some of the city's more violent neighborhoods, including public housing. He was recently promoted from heading the department's homicide division to overseeing all investigations. He's aware of the Johnson case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a tough case,\" he said. \"It’s a convoluted case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wouldn't go into details of any open cases, but was willing to discuss in general the kind of cases he's worked. Other police sources said on background that Chaplin could have taken cushier assignments. He's earned some admiration and credibility in and out of the department for turning them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re dealing with a lot of folks, they’re almost held prisoner in those particular neighborhoods,\" Chaplin said, \"and so when they witness something, to come forward, they feel like, 'I’m painting a target on myself, with no means of escape or getting out of here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department offers witness relocation, but \"it's tough to ask somebody to go somewhere when they've never been anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So investigators try to \"work around\" the unwillingness to cooperate, Chaplin said, seeking evidence from surveillance cameras and hoping for a witness to surface. Cameras were recently installed in Potrero Terrace, but many have been shot with paintballs or otherwise disabled, and they don't cover a lot of the angles created by the jutting corners of the rowhouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin confirmed a statistic recently cited by Police Chief Greg Suhr that African-American men have been the victims of about half of the city's 30 or so homicides this year -- although black males make up only about 3 percent of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I haven’t heard anything about these two young boys. I haven’t heard anything about the three young girls that just got shot over on Turner Terrace … You’ve got black boys and Mexican boys and Samoan boys that's dying all over the place. Young kids is getting killed.'\u003ccite>Uzuri Pease-Greene,\u003cbr>\nPotrero Terrace resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers are staggering, and I’m not shocked by any of them,\" Chaplin said. \"It’s been like that for a very, very long time, and if you look at the location where a lot of these murders are happening, a lot of these are happening in public housing developments. And if you think about it, it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel because you know the guy is here. It’s literally just a matter of waiting for an opportunity to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin described a desensitization of society, the news media, neighborhoods and police to sustained violence. He said he had heard the phrase, \"Hey, it's just crooks killing crooks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, how many of those crooks have kids, who haven’t done anything?\" he said. \"How many of them have a mom who is in church every Sunday or works at San Francisco General Hospital as a registered nurse and is a single parent? How many have a brother or sister who's in middle school or high school and are going to be saying tomorrow, 'Hey where’s my older brother?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628506\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10628506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Residents admire a 'Bingo'-themed birthday cake on display at a July 26 barbecue in Potrero Terrace.\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents admire a 'Bingo'-themed birthday cake on display at a July 26 barbecue in Potrero Terrace. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> group of Potrero Terrace residents is holding a Sunday barbecue on Dakota Street on July 26, part of an effort they've made the last few years to prevent violence and support the community's young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people there know Jamar Samuel (\"Oh -- you mean Mar Mar?\"), who grew up there. Fewer know Prince Johnson. There's talk of an incident the previous Friday in which three women in their early 20s had been wounded -- nonfatally -- in what's suspected to have been crossfire on Turner Terrace, in the part of the development called Potrero Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also want to talk about something else -- why they care about each other and the community's positives. Drumsticks and hotdogs sizzle on the grill. Music plays from scratchy speakers. Young boys run back and forth across the street while they gnaw at homemade popsicles in Styrofoam cups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not just like a housing development, this is like, we’re all family here,\" says Prince Johnson's friend, Marie. \"There’s a lot of people that care, and they’re loving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it happens, we barely notice a single pop in the distance and figure it came from a leftover July 4 firecracker. Then come the speeding police cars heading for the corner of Dakota and 25th. A woman shot through the leg is quickly loaded onto a stretcher and whisked away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628511\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10628511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg\" alt=\"Police treat a woman shot in the leg July 26 near Dakota and 25th streets.\" width=\"320\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-1440x878.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-960x586.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police treat a woman shot in the leg July 26 near Dakota and 25th streets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why this is a drama-free zone,\" Uzuri Pease-Greene says of the barbecue. She says the woman who has just been shot had been there earlier with her boyfriend, and they'd been fighting. She'd asked them to leave. \"What if he would have did the shooting right here where all these kids are running around?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>ease-Greene lives on Dakota Street, is married to a co-founder of Community Awareness Resources Entity, the group holding the barbecue, and works for Bridge Housing, a private company slated to redevelop and then manage the development in the coming years. It's part of a massive shift in the city's public housing -- with deteriorating sites formerly identified for rebuilds with local funds under a \u003ca href=\"http://hope-sf.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">program called HOPE SF\u003c/a> now poised to be part of the federal Housing and Urban Development \u003ca href=\"http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/RAD\" target=\"_blank\">Rental Assistance Demonstration\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes are coming. On the bright side, developers say Potrero Terrace will become less isolated and join the greater Potrero Hill community through a street redesign, the units will be rebuilt and mixed with affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All different people will be mixed in together,\" Pease-Greene says, \"and it will slow down a lot of the crime. Crime will never stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people, some with a generational claim to the site, are going to have to relocate. And it remains to be seen whether private management will fare better than the city's Housing Authority. The first phase of Potrero's rebuild is tentatively scheduled to begin next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he people in Potrero Terrace watch the news. They saw the frenzy over the Kate Steinle killing, and they noticed that gunfire and death in their own neighborhood won just passing attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ve had this on the news forever,\" Pease-Greene says of Steinle's shooting. \"I haven’t heard anything about these two young boys. I haven’t heard anything about the three young girls that just got shot over on Turner Terrace. ... You’ve got black boys and brown boys and Samoan boys that's dying all over the place. Young kids is getting killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond, the pastor of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church, says he wasn't surprised that there have been no arrests for Samuel's murder, and that Johnson's killing wasn't charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Far too often, we don't see justice,\" he says. \"That's unfortunate. I think in many cases, people in our community, and I'm talking about African-Americans, we don't ever think there's going to be justice, because we've become accustomed to injustice.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/217762575&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/217762575'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>otrero Terrace and Annex were \u003ca href=\"http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2012/11/12/sfs_earliest_public_housing_projects.php\">built during World War II\u003c/a>, a few years after the federal government allocated funding to San Francisco and other cities for the effort. Connecticut Street curves through the heart of the main section of the developments, and cinderblock rowhouses terrace the steep grade on either side. The location offers a sparkling view of San Francisco Bay and is breezy and cool even on days that are downright hot elsewhere in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based solely on location, the area could be the tourist draw that San Francisco's waterfront offers. But it isn't. Nearby neighborhoods have all the amenities and sport the affluence typically associated with San Francisco, but Potrero Terrace is isolated by its curved streets, a steep ridge to the west and Interstate 280 to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's an industrial pocket to the south, and the tennis courts of the Potrero Hill Recreation Center to the north. Green grass blankets a baseball field there, where young families were gathered on a recent afternoon. But despite nudging right up to the housing development, the rec center doesn't really seem to belong to Potrero Terrace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A redevelopment \u003ca href=\"http://hope-sf.org/potrero.php\">plan\u003c/a> for the projects describes the area this way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of San Francisco’s most sought-after locations to live, Potrero Hill features spectacular views, parks, restaurants, shops, and proximity to downtown and freeways. Yet dead-end streets and steep topography mean Potrero Terrace and Annex sit isolated from the Potrero Hill neighborhood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hat's where Jamar Samuel grew up and where he still spent a lot of his time, although he was living with family in the Bayview. He'd been a happy child, the fourth of Barry and Beatrice Samuel's five children. Friends and family say he was always ready with a joke and couldn't help but wear a wide smile -- his mother called him \"smiley face.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His grandmother, who called him \"Pooh Bear,\" often brought him to church at St. John's Missionary Baptist on Third Street. Whereas Potrero Terrace seems worlds apart from nearby neighborhoods on Potrero Hill, many people living in the Terrace have close connections to the historically African-American Bayview, about a mile to the southeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628437\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10628437\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg\" alt=\"Jamar Samuel.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/Jamar2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jamar Samuel. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of his mother.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Friends and family say Samuel changed when his grandmother died in 2006, when he was 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He became a loner,\" his mother says. \"He was almost 10 years a loner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never really had a job and kept mostly to himself, but he didn't completely lose his jokester streak, friends and family say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people on the Terrace knew him as \"Mar Mar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a good guy,\" says Billy Ray, a Terrace resident who said he often ran into Samuel on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t really say nothing bad about him, but sometimes he could be annoying,\" Ray says. \"But everybody that know Mar Mar would say the same thing. And he had one of those odd laughs. You knew he was coming -- 'Here come Mar Mar' -- cuz you'd hear that laugh a mile away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I talked to seven people who say they knew Samuel. They say he had dabbled in \"the game,\" or drug sales, for a while, but he wasn't scary. His mother said he'd been dating a girl for a few years, but the relationship ended a couple months before he died. As far as anyone knew, he'd quit \"the game.\" One sign of that: For the first time since his grandmother brought him to church in the late '90s, Samuel came back to St. John's Missionary Baptist in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One morning I got to the church, he was out there, he welcomed my kids and I,\" the Rev. Mervin Redmond says. \"It was kind of amazing because he just got in the church, and now he’s doing something, and he talked to several of the men about a change he wanted to make.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel also talked to Redmond, who got the impression \"he wanted to change from doing certain things that he had been doing that he knew were negative and destructive, and I took it to mean maybe drugs or the company he was keeping.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel and Redmond had a long phone conversation on Friday, July 3, about Samuel's re-baptism scheduled for Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was good to talk to him,\" Redmond says. \"When I walked away from that conversation, I was like, 'Wow I think he’s serious,' and after that Friday, he said, 'I’ll see you Sunday.' Little did we know ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond's voice trails off, as it did several times when we talked in a meeting room in his church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kind of value moments like that more now,\" he says, \"because that’s the first time that’s happened -- not the first time I’ve seen someone and they passed soon after, but in that fashion. I’ve never talked to somebody and the next day they got murdered. You know that was just, yeah...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police aren't releasing many details of their investigation into Samuel's shooting at about 11 o'clock the night of the Fourth of July. The scene, a sidewalk outside a Terrace rowhouse, now features a shrine with a Winnie the Pooh centerpiece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628502\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 390px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10628502\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A shrine on the 1000 block of Connecticut Street, in Potrero Terrace.\" width=\"390\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16213_IMG_2307-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shrine on the 1000 block of Connecticut Street, in Potrero Terrace. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There have been no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>olice \u003cem>did\u003c/em> make arrests after Prince Johnson was shot on that same patch of concrete June 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My attempts to reach Johnson's family were unsuccessful, but I did find a woman who says she knew him well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Overall, he was a great person,\" says Marie, who gives only her first name. \"I mean everyone encounters certain things in their life, but I don’t think he deserved what happened to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson stood just over 5 feet tall. An attorney who represented him for years said she had once introduced expert testimony that years of child abuse had permanently stunted his growth. When he was in jail, she said, he'd \"level out\" because she would make sure he got the psychiatric medication he needed. But then, \"He'd get out and couldn't keep it together because the support network wasn't there for him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ex-prosecutor said Johnson had been brought up on handgun charges under a federal program called Triggerlock, under which repeat violent offenders are targeted for longer federal sentences for illegally possessing handguns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This is not just like a housing development, this is like, we’re all family here. There’s a lot of people that care, and they’re loving.'\u003ccite>Marie,\u003cbr>\nPotrero Terrace resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to court records, Johnson was arrested in 2005 for threatening a woman with a gun near Haight and Fillmore streets. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison on federal gun charges for the crime in 2009. But the sentence included a unique request from the judge, who wanted Johnson incarcerated at one of two federal prisons with better health services \"for the reason that the defendant requires intensive mental health and psychiatric treatment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show he served the sentence and ended up back in San Francisco, this time in Potrero Terrace. On June 29, he was out on Connecticut Street. Marie says she had seen her friend moments before when the street erupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I ran there,\" she says. \"... He was reaching out asking me to help him. He was on the ground and he was reaching his hand out asking me to help him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police made an arrest in connection with Johnson's killing the same night, based on a vehicle description. They served a search warrant the next morning at a home near the shooting and arrested a second suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prosecutors did not file murder charges. The first suspect was released the next day. The second, Jabar Hickman, was held on two felony charges, possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of ammunition, according to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. He's due to be arraigned on the gun charges Aug. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>an Francisco police Cmdr. Toney Chaplin rose through the department working in some of the city's more violent neighborhoods, including public housing. He was recently promoted from heading the department's homicide division to overseeing all investigations. He's aware of the Johnson case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s a tough case,\" he said. \"It’s a convoluted case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wouldn't go into details of any open cases, but was willing to discuss in general the kind of cases he's worked. Other police sources said on background that Chaplin could have taken cushier assignments. He's earned some admiration and credibility in and out of the department for turning them down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’re dealing with a lot of folks, they’re almost held prisoner in those particular neighborhoods,\" Chaplin said, \"and so when they witness something, to come forward, they feel like, 'I’m painting a target on myself, with no means of escape or getting out of here.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the department offers witness relocation, but \"it's tough to ask somebody to go somewhere when they've never been anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So investigators try to \"work around\" the unwillingness to cooperate, Chaplin said, seeking evidence from surveillance cameras and hoping for a witness to surface. Cameras were recently installed in Potrero Terrace, but many have been shot with paintballs or otherwise disabled, and they don't cover a lot of the angles created by the jutting corners of the rowhouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin confirmed a statistic recently cited by Police Chief Greg Suhr that African-American men have been the victims of about half of the city's 30 or so homicides this year -- although black males make up only about 3 percent of the city's population.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I haven’t heard anything about these two young boys. I haven’t heard anything about the three young girls that just got shot over on Turner Terrace … You’ve got black boys and Mexican boys and Samoan boys that's dying all over the place. Young kids is getting killed.'\u003ccite>Uzuri Pease-Greene,\u003cbr>\nPotrero Terrace resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"The numbers are staggering, and I’m not shocked by any of them,\" Chaplin said. \"It’s been like that for a very, very long time, and if you look at the location where a lot of these murders are happening, a lot of these are happening in public housing developments. And if you think about it, it’s almost like shooting fish in a barrel because you know the guy is here. It’s literally just a matter of waiting for an opportunity to do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chaplin described a desensitization of society, the news media, neighborhoods and police to sustained violence. He said he had heard the phrase, \"Hey, it's just crooks killing crooks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the end of the day, how many of those crooks have kids, who haven’t done anything?\" he said. \"How many of them have a mom who is in church every Sunday or works at San Francisco General Hospital as a registered nurse and is a single parent? How many have a brother or sister who's in middle school or high school and are going to be saying tomorrow, 'Hey where’s my older brother?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628506\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10628506\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Residents admire a 'Bingo'-themed birthday cake on display at a July 26 barbecue in Potrero Terrace.\" width=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16217_IMG_2312-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents admire a 'Bingo'-themed birthday cake on display at a July 26 barbecue in Potrero Terrace. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span> group of Potrero Terrace residents is holding a Sunday barbecue on Dakota Street on July 26, part of an effort they've made the last few years to prevent violence and support the community's young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people there know Jamar Samuel (\"Oh -- you mean Mar Mar?\"), who grew up there. Fewer know Prince Johnson. There's talk of an incident the previous Friday in which three women in their early 20s had been wounded -- nonfatally -- in what's suspected to have been crossfire on Turner Terrace, in the part of the development called Potrero Annex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also want to talk about something else -- why they care about each other and the community's positives. Drumsticks and hotdogs sizzle on the grill. Music plays from scratchy speakers. Young boys run back and forth across the street while they gnaw at homemade popsicles in Styrofoam cups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not just like a housing development, this is like, we’re all family here,\" says Prince Johnson's friend, Marie. \"There’s a lot of people that care, and they’re loving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it happens, we barely notice a single pop in the distance and figure it came from a leftover July 4 firecracker. Then come the speeding police cars heading for the corner of Dakota and 25th. A woman shot through the leg is quickly loaded onto a stretcher and whisked away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10628511\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10628511\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg\" alt=\"Police treat a woman shot in the leg July 26 near Dakota and 25th streets.\" width=\"320\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-400x244.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-800x488.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-1440x878.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-1180x720.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/08/RS16219_IMG_2314.JPG-alt_301-960x586.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police treat a woman shot in the leg July 26 near Dakota and 25th streets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That's why this is a drama-free zone,\" Uzuri Pease-Greene says of the barbecue. She says the woman who has just been shot had been there earlier with her boyfriend, and they'd been fighting. She'd asked them to leave. \"What if he would have did the shooting right here where all these kids are running around?\" she asks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">P\u003c/span>ease-Greene lives on Dakota Street, is married to a co-founder of Community Awareness Resources Entity, the group holding the barbecue, and works for Bridge Housing, a private company slated to redevelop and then manage the development in the coming years. It's part of a massive shift in the city's public housing -- with deteriorating sites formerly identified for rebuilds with local funds under a \u003ca href=\"http://hope-sf.org/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">program called HOPE SF\u003c/a> now poised to be part of the federal Housing and Urban Development \u003ca href=\"http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/RAD\" target=\"_blank\">Rental Assistance Demonstration\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changes are coming. On the bright side, developers say Potrero Terrace will become less isolated and join the greater Potrero Hill community through a street redesign, the units will be rebuilt and mixed with affordable and market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All different people will be mixed in together,\" Pease-Greene says, \"and it will slow down a lot of the crime. Crime will never stop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people, some with a generational claim to the site, are going to have to relocate. And it remains to be seen whether private management will fare better than the city's Housing Authority. The first phase of Potrero's rebuild is tentatively scheduled to begin next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he people in Potrero Terrace watch the news. They saw the frenzy over the Kate Steinle killing, and they noticed that gunfire and death in their own neighborhood won just passing attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You’ve had this on the news forever,\" Pease-Greene says of Steinle's shooting. \"I haven’t heard anything about these two young boys. I haven’t heard anything about the three young girls that just got shot over on Turner Terrace. ... You’ve got black boys and brown boys and Samoan boys that's dying all over the place. Young kids is getting killed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redmond, the pastor of St. John's Missionary Baptist Church, says he wasn't surprised that there have been no arrests for Samuel's murder, and that Johnson's killing wasn't charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Friday July 31:\u003c/strong> The San Francisco Police Department identified Filimoni Raiyawa, 57, as the hit-and-run suspect who died in custody Thursday morning. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department was seeking Raiyawa for questioning in the severe beating of an elderly man earlier Thursday morning, according to both departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiyawa allegedly rear-ended a BMW at Francisco Street and Richardson Avenue in the city's Marina District after fleeing the scene of the Sonoma County assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD released a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=3763&recordid=1269\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a> on the incident Thursday afternoon:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The suspect of their investigation was wanted in connection with the brutal bludgeoning of a [97-year-old] male who sustained life threatening injuries. He is not expected to survive. The San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Raiyawa’s identity. Raiyawa is the man wanted in connection with the Sonoma County attempted homicide. The minivan involved in the Richardson Drive hit-and-run is the vehicle Raiyawa used to flee from the Sonoma County crime scene.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>A Sonoma County Sheriff's Department official said the department received a report about 5 a.m. Thursday that a resident had suffered a fall, but the victim's injuries were suspicious. Sheriff's deputies determined the victim had been beaten with an unknown object. Raiyawa was the man's caretaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the traffic collision about 5:30 a.m. in San Francisco, the driver of the rear-ended car approached Raiyawa's vehicle, SFPD Police Chief Greg Suhr said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raiyawa was \"seated, transfixed, looking forward, hands on the steering wheel, the airbag had been deployed and he was speaking something about God, God's will, things about God,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He then fled the scene but was located by two SFPD officers three blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said the suspect then struck one of the officers on her head and shoulders, knocking her to the ground and \"nearly unconscious.\" He then struck the other officer, injuring her knees, legs and wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More officers arrived and brought the over-250-pound man to the ground, handcuffing him. Raiyawa stopped breathing while handcuffed, according to the SFPD. Officers and then paramedics performed CPR, but Raiyawa was later pronounced dead at the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both initial responding officers were injured. One was treated for concussion symptoms and the other for a hand injury. Both were released from the hospital Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All responding officers have been reassigned to administrative duties per department protocol. SFPD homicide and internal affairs divisions, the city's district attorney's office and the medical examiner are all investigating the in-custody death, according to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Thursday July 30:\u003c/strong> An altercation between police and a man involved in a traffic collision in San Francisco's Marina District early Thursday morning ended with the in-custody death of the suspect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man, whose name has not been released, allegedly fled the scene at Francisco Street and Richardson Avenue after making incoherent and disturbing statements to another driver involved in the collision, and then following the other driver, Capt. Greg McEachern told reporters this morning. The other driver called 911, and officers responded to the area about 5:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When two officers contacted the suspect three blocks away at Pierce and Lombard streets, he refused to stop, and then fought the police as they tried to take him into custody. The San Francisco \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfpd-investigating-death-of-suspect-during-arrest/\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner interviewed\u003c/a> witnesses at the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>... Willie Gunnari, who lives at Pierce and Lombard streets, told the Examiner he was woken up by screaming female voices. He looked out of a window to see two female officers trying to detain a man who appeared to be at least 6-foot-3 and more than 250 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing they did phased [sic] this guy at all,” Gunnari said. “They were really whacking the shit out of him. I could hear it in their voice, they were scared for their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gunnari said the officers were telling the man to get on the ground, but he wasn’t listening.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Examiner reports several more officers joined in to assist the two responding officers, both of whom were injured in the melee. The suspect, described as a black male, was eventually taken into custody but stopped breathing while being handcuffed. Officers immediately performed CPR, but the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death has not been determined, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Dead-body-probe-on-Lombard-Street-in-S-F-6414831.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate reports\u003c/a> one of the initial responding officers was thrown to the ground and suffered head injuries. 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"content": "\u003cp>The captain of the San Francisco Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://sf-police.org/index.aspx?page=832\">Park Station\u003c/a> is \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/clamping-down-on-cyclists-police-and-bike-riders-clash-over-new-enforcement-near-panhandle/\">planning a crackdown\u003c/a> on bike riders who roll through stop signs on some of the city's most popular bike routes, saying \"protection of life\" is his top priority. But bike advocates say police should focus traffic enforcement on the greatest threat to lives: dangerous behavior by drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments by Capt. 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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department has courted an unusual level of controversy in 2015, and whether he's responding as department head or wrapped up in the scandal himself, Chief Greg Suhr has been at the center of it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From fallout following bigoted text messages exchanged by SFPD officers to controversial fatal police shootings, racial disparities, crime and staffing challenges, Suhr addressed a barrage of issues on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201507130900\" target=\"_blank\">Monday morning's \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the highlights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Stolen Gun\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-police-didn-t-investigate-gun-theft-before-6376393.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> Friday that the department did not investigate the June 27 theft of a gun from a federal Bureau of Land Management ranger's car before the gun was used to fatally shoot \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/07/pier-shooting-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-to-murder-charge\" target=\"_blank\">Kathryn Steinle\u003c/a> on July 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's just not true,\" Suhr said. \"The responding officers did a good investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the case did not go beyond that initial response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it came across the senior investigator's desk for review, he or she decided that that initial investigation was all that there was, and it didn't merit a follow investigation. ... There was an investigation; there just wasn't much to go on,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214606501\" 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>\u003cstrong>Civil Settlement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one involves Suhr himself, and his decision to fire former SFPD internal affairs attorney Kelly O’Haire quickly after he became chief of police in 2011. O'Haire asserted in a lawsuit that she was fired in retaliation for investigating allegations of misconduct against Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/more-details-about-sfpd-chiefs-alleged-history-of-skirting-the-law-come-from-whistleblower-suit/Content?oid=2927752\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner reported\u003c/a> extensively on the lawsuit, until the city and O'Haire agreed to a $725,000 \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-settles-lawsuit-over-alleged-retaliatory-firing-by-police-chief/Content?oid=2927836\" target=\"_blank\">settlement\u003c/a> on April 24. The settlement effectively ended proceedings that would have explored allegations that Suhr lied to the FBI to obtain security clearance and failed to properly report a domestic violence incident involving a friend of his who was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214607285\" 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>\"I was faced with having to close a seven-figure budget gap, actually eight-figure budget gap,\" Suhr said. \"Ms. O'Haire was a middle manager, and one of the positions identified that was, at the time, something we could manage without. I made that decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Suhr said, the settlement revealed \"there was a fact that might have allowed Ms. O'Haire to stay on longer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hopefully this makes things right for Ms. O'Haire as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details from an independent autopsy of the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, shot and killed by plainclothes SFPD officers on Feb. 26, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">appear to contradict\u003c/a> Suhr's narrative of the incident given just two days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\">said on March 2\u003c/a> that two plainclothes officers fired at Amilcar Perez Lopez as he charged at one of them with a knife. The autopsy, released April 24 by an attorney representing Perez Lopez's family, found Perez Lopez was shot six time from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Lopez ... came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired,\" Suhr said. \"And he turned away, which would explain not all the rounds going in the front.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214608287\" 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>\u003cstrong>Textgate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven SFPD officers facing termination for swapping racist, sexist, anti-gay and otherwise offensive \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">text messages\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">convicted ex-Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a> were able to halt disciplinary proceedings by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">petitioning\u003c/a> a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">court ordered\u003c/a> the officers placed back on paid leave while the city and their attorneys litigate how the one-year statute of limitations for disciplining police officers should apply to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr first said that a court order prohibited the department from acting on evidence turned over to the Internal Affairs Division in December 2012 until the federal corruption investigation into Furminger and six other plainclothes SFPD officers was completed -- and that he was \"walled off\" from evidence of the text messages until early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SFPD-says-racist-messages-hidden-by-federal-order-6192940.php\" target=\"_blank\">no such court order\u003c/a> was found to exist, Suhr referenced a federal rule of criminal procedure that keeps parts of criminal grand jury proceedings secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the criminal case was proceeding,\" Suhr said Monday, \"the officers were basically sworn or had an understanding with the U.S. Attorney's Office that whatever came under their information as cooperating investigators in this case, they were not to cross over and tell people on the administrative side, which would have been me or other higher-ups in the Police Department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214610008\" 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>Suhr has cited a provision of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that \"tolls,\" or pauses the statute of limitations, if an officer is the subject of a criminal investigation. But the officers argue the texts in question were incidental to a criminal investigation, not part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've convinced a Superior Court judge to at least hear their case, and the court stayed any disciplinary actions against the officers until the issue is tried. The officers were placed back on paid administrative leave in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theft and Disparity, Death and Staffing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said SFPD's current sworn \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/11/oakland-police-recruits-training-in-s-f-as-both-cities-make-hiring-push\" target=\"_blank\">staffing\u003c/a> -- some 300 officers below the minimum 1,971 defined in the City Charter -- is affecting response times, even for calls about potential violence or crimes in progress, which are the department's highest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes about 45 seconds to a minute longer than it used to even on the A priority calls,\" Suhr said. \"The good news is all those cops are coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department plans to graduate five new police academy classes over the coming year, and three more next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214612413\" 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>Despite the short staff, shootings and homicides have both been halved since 2008, Suhr said, but certain districts in the city -- particularly those with minority communities -- haven't seen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's also sadly a disproportionate amount of violent crime that occurs in these same neighborhoods,\" Suhr said. \"Almost 50 percent of the homicides this year, even though homicides are again lower than what they were dramatically from 2007 and 2008, disproportionately affecting African-American men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factoring the estimate that African-Americans make up about 6 percent of San Francisco's population, Suhr said African-Americans are about eight times more likely to be victims of homicide than other races in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property crimes, which are up throughout the state, are also climbing in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen a significant rise in auto burglaries, to the tune of well over 50 percent, a lot of property crime,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent reports have solidified San Francisco's dubious distinction as having one of the widest racially disparate criminal justice systems in the state, with African-Americans about seven times more likely to be arrested than white people in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a recent tracking effort by the department shows the race of arrested suspects almost always matches the description given by victims or witnesses to the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214611949\" 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>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a lot of people figure officers just go out and arrest who they just feel like arresting and we have this disproportionality, and that's just not the case,\" he said. \"The officers go and talk to, when it comes to victim crimes, who the victim describes as the possible suspect, and the officers talk to those folks.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's just not true,\" Suhr said. \"The responding officers did a good investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the case did not go beyond that initial response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it came across the senior investigator's desk for review, he or she decided that that initial investigation was all that there was, and it didn't merit a follow investigation. ... There was an investigation; there just wasn't much to go on,\" Suhr said.\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/214606501&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/214606501'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Civil Settlement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This one involves Suhr himself, and his decision to fire former SFPD internal affairs attorney Kelly O’Haire quickly after he became chief of police in 2011. O'Haire asserted in a lawsuit that she was fired in retaliation for investigating allegations of misconduct against Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/more-details-about-sfpd-chiefs-alleged-history-of-skirting-the-law-come-from-whistleblower-suit/Content?oid=2927752\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner reported\u003c/a> extensively on the lawsuit, until the city and O'Haire agreed to a $725,000 \u003ca href=\"http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-settles-lawsuit-over-alleged-retaliatory-firing-by-police-chief/Content?oid=2927836\" target=\"_blank\">settlement\u003c/a> on April 24. The settlement effectively ended proceedings that would have explored allegations that Suhr lied to the FBI to obtain security clearance and failed to properly report a domestic violence incident involving a friend of his who was attacked.\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/214607285&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/214607285'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was faced with having to close a seven-figure budget gap, actually eight-figure budget gap,\" Suhr said. \"Ms. O'Haire was a middle manager, and one of the positions identified that was, at the time, something we could manage without. I made that decision.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Suhr said, the settlement revealed \"there was a fact that might have allowed Ms. O'Haire to stay on longer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hopefully this makes things right for Ms. O'Haire as well,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Details from an independent autopsy of the 20-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, shot and killed by plainclothes SFPD officers on Feb. 26, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/24/attorneys-autopsy-contradicts-s-f-police-account-of-mission-district-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">appear to contradict\u003c/a> Suhr's narrative of the incident given just two days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-didn-t-speak-English-6110102.php\" target=\"_blank\">said on March 2\u003c/a> that two plainclothes officers fired at Amilcar Perez Lopez as he charged at one of them with a knife. The autopsy, released April 24 by an attorney representing Perez Lopez's family, found Perez Lopez was shot six time from behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Lopez ... came at the officers with the knife, and then the officers fired,\" Suhr said. \"And he turned away, which would explain not all the rounds going in the front.\"\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/214608287&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/214608287'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Textgate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seven SFPD officers facing termination for swapping racist, sexist, anti-gay and otherwise offensive \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">text messages\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">convicted ex-Sgt. Ian Furminger\u003c/a> were able to halt disciplinary proceedings by \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">petitioning\u003c/a> a Superior Court judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/court-to-hear-sfpd-racist-texting-case-officers-back-on-paid-leave\" target=\"_blank\">court ordered\u003c/a> the officers placed back on paid leave while the city and their attorneys litigate how the one-year statute of limitations for disciplining police officers should apply to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr first said that a court order prohibited the department from acting on evidence turned over to the Internal Affairs Division in December 2012 until the federal corruption investigation into Furminger and six other plainclothes SFPD officers was completed -- and that he was \"walled off\" from evidence of the text messages until early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SFPD-says-racist-messages-hidden-by-federal-order-6192940.php\" target=\"_blank\">no such court order\u003c/a> was found to exist, Suhr referenced a federal rule of criminal procedure that keeps parts of criminal grand jury proceedings secret.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the criminal case was proceeding,\" Suhr said Monday, \"the officers were basically sworn or had an understanding with the U.S. Attorney's Office that whatever came under their information as cooperating investigators in this case, they were not to cross over and tell people on the administrative side, which would have been me or other higher-ups in the Police 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/214610008&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/214610008'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr has cited a provision of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=03001-04000&file=3300-3313\" target=\"_blank\">California Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights\u003c/a> that \"tolls,\" or pauses the statute of limitations, if an officer is the subject of a criminal investigation. But the officers argue the texts in question were incidental to a criminal investigation, not part of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've convinced a Superior Court judge to at least hear their case, and the court stayed any disciplinary actions against the officers until the issue is tried. The officers were placed back on paid administrative leave in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theft and Disparity, Death and Staffing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said SFPD's current sworn \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/11/oakland-police-recruits-training-in-s-f-as-both-cities-make-hiring-push\" target=\"_blank\">staffing\u003c/a> -- some 300 officers below the minimum 1,971 defined in the City Charter -- is affecting response times, even for calls about potential violence or crimes in progress, which are the department's highest priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes about 45 seconds to a minute longer than it used to even on the A priority calls,\" Suhr said. \"The good news is all those cops are coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department plans to graduate five new police academy classes over the coming year, and three more next year.\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/214612413&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/214612413'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the short staff, shootings and homicides have both been halved since 2008, Suhr said, but certain districts in the city -- particularly those with minority communities -- haven't seen it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's also sadly a disproportionate amount of violent crime that occurs in these same neighborhoods,\" Suhr said. \"Almost 50 percent of the homicides this year, even though homicides are again lower than what they were dramatically from 2007 and 2008, disproportionately affecting African-American men.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Factoring the estimate that African-Americans make up about 6 percent of San Francisco's population, Suhr said African-Americans are about eight times more likely to be victims of homicide than other races in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property crimes, which are up throughout the state, are also climbing in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've seen a significant rise in auto burglaries, to the tune of well over 50 percent, a lot of property crime,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent reports have solidified San Francisco's dubious distinction as having one of the widest racially disparate criminal justice systems in the state, with African-Americans about seven times more likely to be arrested than white people in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said a recent tracking effort by the department shows the race of arrested suspects almost always matches the description given by victims or witnesses to the crime.\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/214611949&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/214611949'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nine San Francisco police officers facing various levels of discipline for their involvement in a bigoted \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">text messages\u003c/a> scandal will remain on paid leave while their petition to halt the city's action against them makes its way through San Francisco Superior Court, a judge ordered Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Commission had started preliminary hearings to determine whether the city would be violating a 1-year statute of limitations by punishing the officers, several of whom \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">faced being fired\u003c/a>, according to one of their attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Officer Rain Daugherty and eight others \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/12/s-f-officers-accused-in-text-messaging-scandal-ask-judge-to-stop-firings\" target=\"_blank\">petitioned the court\u003c/a> May 12 to halt the Police Commission proceedings. Their petition argues that the Police Department was in possession of the text messages since late 2012, but did not investigate them until early 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Kenneth Walczak said the court was \"reaching down to a commission and usurping jurisdiction.\" He said the court should have waited until the Police Commission imposed any discipline before hearing the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's the wrong time,\" he argued before Judge Ernest Goldsmith, \"too late to have avoided the Commission's exercise of jurisdiction and too early for the Commission to have imposed discipline.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Examiner \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/case-of-sfpd-officers-in-racist-text-message-scandal-on-hold/\" target=\"_blank\">reported\u003c/a> last week that officers who were suspended had been back on paid leave since May 18, when Goldsmith granted a temporary stay of Police Commission proceedings. He extended that stay Monday until the statute of limitations issue is settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court won't be deciding anything about who sent which text or whether the content of any message betrayed character unfit for that of a police officer. Instead, this case centers on whether the officers can even be disciplined in 2015 for conduct discovered in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city argues the 1-year time limit for police discipline under state law \"tolled,\" or paused, while a federal investigation that uncovered the texts was underway. But the city has yet to produce evidence that police officials were barred from acting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorney Alison Berry Wilkinson, who represents Daugherty, said the Superior Court will give her tools unavailable before the Police Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are dependent upon the Police Department for the information it gathered and is willing to share with us in the Police Commission forum,\" she told reporters outside the courtroom. \"In the Superior Court, we have the access to subpoenas, depositions and other mechanisms that will give us a greater picture of what actually happened than the narrow one the Police Department wants us to see.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said she will seek documentation from the Northern California U.S. Attorney's Office and others in an effort to \"establish the specific date on which the city obtained the text messages at issue, as well as who knew what when and why did they not start the investigation sooner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Ernest Goldsmith also ordered that any filing in the case that could disclose the officers' disciplinary records or other protected personnel information be filed under seal. The judge denied without prejudice -- meaning the issue could be revisited -- the officers' request that court proceedings be closed to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walczak said the secrecy of the court filings could be an inappropriate restriction on freedom of the press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming from the city, that argument held little sway with Goldsmith, who asked, \"This is all about freedom of information? Is that it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One could invoke -- I'm not sure if it's a legal principle, but -- what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander,\" he said from the bench. \"Usually it's the city that's invoking this, that everything is confidential regarding peace officers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written statement, the City Attorney's Office expressed disappointment at \"the unprecedented step of staying and assuming control over a Police Commission disciplinary proceeding, which was already underway.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing date is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 3.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Documents and interviews with top police officials reveal that the department requested a no-bid contract after field-testing only Taser cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After receiving the waiver, another 14 months passed before the department signed a deal with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Suhr and other department leaders made reference to it on multiple occasions, the department never provided a policy governing the use of the cameras to the city's Police Commission. SFPD has cited multiple exemptions in open records law in an effort to keep its draft policy from the public -- including that the document would reveal secret investigative techniques or procedures, and that as a draft, the policy need not be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD recently chose to forego the pilot program and instead proceed with implementing body-worn cameras department-wide,\" the City Attorney's Office wrote in a response to KQED's petition to force the policy's release. \"The documents do not contain factual information, but are policy and planning recommendations that the department never carried out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567237\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10567237 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-400x310.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer in West Valley City Utah presses a button on his Taser Axon Flex controller to start recording. The department bought 190 systems in March.\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-400x310.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-800x621.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-1440x1118.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-1180x916.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-960x745.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police officer in West Valley City Utah presses a button on his Taser Axon Flex controller to start recording. The department bought 190 systems in March. \u003ccite>(George Frey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city attorney determined documents related to the \"abandoned proposed pilot program\" are of limited public interest and exempt from disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department’s handling of the pilot program has raised questions about its commitment to deploying cameras and its relationship with Taser as it prepares to spend millions on new cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Petra DeJesus said she has been contacted by other camera manufacturers asking whether the city would request bids for its next purchase. She said she didn't know about the no-bid contract with Taser until KQED showed her the sole-source waiver. She asked about the department's deal with Taser at last week's Police Commission meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cameras did go out to bid,” Suhr said at that meeting. “Taser won that bid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When DeJesus pressed Suhr on whether the department had received “an exception to go with one vendor” for the pilot program, the police chief said he would “look into that,” but it was his recollection that Taser International “came in low bid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>ocuments obtained by KQED show that Suhr himself requested and received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Justice, which funded the program, in April 2013. He also signed a similar request to the city’s Office of Contract Administration, allowing the department to purchase cameras from Taser without considering other bids. The OCA granted that request in September 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos says he is concerned the purchase could pave the way for a much larger no-bid contract with Taser. Suhr told the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee Wednesday that the next purchase would go out to bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department's deal with Taser included three years of a free subscription to its cloud-based data storage system, Evidence.com. But department leaders continued to raise concerns about the cost of storage for the pilot program after the deal was signed and the cameras were purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/29/410572605/as-police-body-cameras-increase-what-about-all-that-video\" target=\"_blank\">recently reported\u003c/a>, that’s in line with Taser’s shift to a focus on recurring subscription payments rather than one-off equipment sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it will look more like your cable bill,\" equity analyst Glenn Mattson told NPR. \"A lot of times you get a pretty nice deal to get a cable subscription, you know, and then that introductory rate gets raised over time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD’s pilot purchase from Taser is just the most recent chapter in a long effort to secure the department’s business, with a succession of police chiefs in the company’s corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'How do we make certain that we have the most secure, economically feasible way of storing this data? Axon had it. No one else had it at the time.'\u003ccite>Mikail Ali\u003cbr>\nSFPD Deputy Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Taser, best known as the maker of electronic \"stun guns,\" had been angling to get the city's business for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's last four chiefs of police -- Heather Fong, George Gascón, interim Chief Jeff Godown and Suhr -- all tried to win approval from the city's Police Commission to equip officers with the Taser weapons. But public opposition killed the proposal each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve marketed very aggressively to the SFPD,\" former police commissioner Angela Chan said. “At one point, Taser International was even presenting to the Police Commission. Their presentation was clearly a commercial presentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser's executive vice president of global sales said San Francisco is one of only three major U.S. cities that doesn't equip police with the company's stun guns. Josh Isner said winning the pilot body camera contract is a point of pride for the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In San Francisco, we weren’t an incumbent vendor,\" Isner said, \"and we still were awarded the contract there. We really haven’t had any type of relationship with the City of San Francisco, any type of procurement relationship, before interest in the body cams came out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr announced he was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-Chief-Greg-Suhr-drops-stun-gun-plan-4425780.php\" target=\"_blank\">dropping his attempt\u003c/a> to deploy the stun guns in early April 2013. But at the same time, documents obtained through a Public Records Act request show, the chief was pursuing a no-bid contract with Taser to obtain the company’s Axon Flex body cameras and Evidence.com subscription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n April 4, 2013, Suhr wrote a letter to the Justice Department requesting a waiver that would allow the Police Department to use $250,000 from a federal law-enforcement technology grant to buy wearable cameras from Taser without requesting bids from other manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr wrote that the department had begun researching wearable cameras in May 2012 -- a full year after he first publicly suggested SFPD would use them. After reviewing a study by the Modesto Police Department and field testing cameras from Taser and one competitor, Vievu, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that it is in the best interest of the San Francisco Police Department to purchase both the Axon camera systems and Evidence.com evidence managers from Taser International as sole source procurements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567253\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10567253 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-400x455.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recently said he thought Taser had submitted the "low bid" for the department's body camera pilot program. He also said the city would request bids for the pending, much larger purchase.\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-800x910.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-1440x1638.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-1180x1342.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-960x1092.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recently said he thought Taser had submitted the \"low bid\" for the department's body camera pilot program. He also said the city would request bids for the pending, much larger purchase. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An SFPD official said the field testing Suhr referred to consisted of using two camera systems from Taser for about six weeks. Deputy Chief Mikail Ali said the Vievu assessment consisted of little more than looking at the camera since the department lacked the needed computer software and hardware to fully test it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research by the Modesto Police Department, also mentioned by Suhr, appears to have been much more thorough than what the SFPD undertook. In requesting its own waiver for a no-bid contract for 158 Axon Flex cameras in 2012, the Modesto police explained the force had tested cameras from four different makers over a period of 13 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department concluded that Taser's Axon Flex system and its customer service were superior to offerings from competitors, though \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/bc/q4_2012/cms1_186278.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also noted problems with the Taser system. Officers experienced sporadic problems with the system's functioning and lost some evidence, the document says, and some complained that the wires the device uses were too fragile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services approved Suhr's request to spend federal grant money on a no-bid purchase from Taser -- with the caveat that the SFPD should also follow local contract and purchasing laws. The San Francisco Office of Contract Administration granted the department’s sole-source waiver in September 2013, citing the federal government’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y that time, the department was already negotiating with Taser to buy cameras, and Suhr was promising that a pilot body camera program was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents show that the company submitted a quote to the Police Department in June 2013. The heavily discounted total for a camera system and data storage totaled just under $350,000 -- but substantially more than the $250,000 the department was talking about spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, Suhr said the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-cops-will-wear-cameras-to-record-searches-4762701.php\" target=\"_blank\">would begin\u003c/a> equipping 50 plainclothes officers with wearable video cameras “within the next six weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2014, responding to an incident in which plainclothes officers were accused of beating a teenager who had been stopped for riding his bike on the sidewalk in the Valencia Gardens housing project, Suhr said \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\">the pilot program\u003c/a> was just two weeks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Suhr's pledges, documents show the city was nowhere near buying the cameras the chief said it was about to deploy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hrough the early months of 2014, staffers in the Police Department and the city's Office of Contract Administration exchanged emails about the status of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taser International has expressed a willingness to address any concerns we may have with cost, terms and conditions,” SFPD Commander Mikail Ali wrote in a March 17, 2014 email. “They have a [sic] implementation team on standby waiting to come to our city upon execution of an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali, whom Suhr had called his \"gadget guy\" and who has since been promoted to deputy chief, oversaw planning for the pilot program through late 2014. His replacement, Commander Bob Moser, declined multiple interview requests from KQED. The Police Department provided email correspondence addressed to Moser, but no responses or any other documents written by him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After no apparent movement on the purchase, Taser last September came up with a new quote -- for 165 Axon Flex cameras, support equipment, software and three years of free data storage -- that fell within the Police Department's $250,000 budget, though the department would still have to pay out of pocket for staff to administer the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD agreed to that deal, and in December the city paid Taser $249,623.69. The cameras have yet to be deployed, however, as the department and Police Commission continue work on a policy to govern how the devices are to be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy will be crucial as the department weighs the purchase of 1,600 to 1,800 cameras to equip all of its officers. The initial price tag for a camera system is just the beginning of what the city will pay. At a Board of Supervisors hearing last October, Deputy Police Chief Sharon Ferrigno estimated the five-year cost of equipping all officers would be more than $21 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major costs of the program include the cost of storing the massive amount of video the cameras record as well as the new personnel the department will need to handle the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $6 million budget item Mayor Lee announced in April would cover just the first two years of the department-wide body camera program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the mayor's announcement, Suhr declined to say who would supply the cameras the department needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are San Francisco, so we’re going to figure out whether or not we have to go out to bid for cameras or if we can go with the cameras that we were going to use already,” Suhr said. “But we’ll do it right so there’s no question that it wasn’t done right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos, who called the board hearing on the cameras last fall, says whether the department will request bids for the expected camera purchase \"shouldn't even be a question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bidding process provides the opportunity for competition,\" Avalos said, adding that issuing a request for proposals would invite any company that was interested to present their products' capabilities -- and give the city price quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10567258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web-400x600.jpg\" alt='Supervisor John Avalos says he was alarmed to find out the police department was pursuing a no-bid contract for Taser body cameras at the same time the city was debating buying Taser \"stun guns.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor John Avalos says he was alarmed to find out the police department was pursuing a no-bid contract for Taser body cameras at the same time the city was debating buying Taser \"stun guns.\" \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said issuing a bid request is \"standard practice\" and that should be the process followed for this multimillion dollar purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s a huge contract that I would not feel comfortable ever supporting without there being a competitive bid,\" Avalos said. \"But if Taser has created its own relationship and got its foot in the door ... I would be alarmed and definitely would not want to move forward with anything that appears to be a sole-source contract.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the SFPD won't pursue another sole-source contract with Taser, as Suhr indicated Wednesday, that's a decision that was made recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief Ali said June 5 that it was yet to be determined whether the city would open up the bidding process, a decision that would ultimately be up to the city's Office of Contract Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won’t put the cart before the horse,\" he said. \"Those discussions are underway, and we’ll just have to see where they go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Contract Administration did not respond to repeated requests for an interview, nor did that office respond to KQED's Public Records Act request. A representative said the office had given responsive documents to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser Executive Vice President Josh Isner said the decision to sole source or request bids is up to the police department and the city, and Taser is \"happy to compete in either way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a public company, we can’t say too much about ongoing negotiations and forward facing information regarding deals,\" Isner said. \"It’d be a safe assumption to say -- the fact that they already have our product -- we’re certainly hoping to win the business for more of that same product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and other senior commanders have said that Taser's offerings can't be matched by the growing number of competing -- and often cheaper -- systems on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the features the SFPD has cited are cloud storage of the massive amounts of data (which is available from other vendors) and the Taser Evidence.com system's ability to obscure portions of video images to protect the identity of witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said that given the department's limited information technology capabilities, Taser's cloud-based digital storage system made its product the only feasible choice for the city when it was shopping for cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do we make certain that we have the most secure, economically feasible way of storing this data?\" he said. \"Axon had it. No one else had it at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said the department had intended to field test Vievu cameras, but lacked the technology Vievu's product required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did not have that capacity to even test them beyond just looking at them physically,\" he said. \"We just didn’t have the physical capacity to do it because we had no means of storing it on a server in- house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>aser is one of a few leading suppliers of body-worn cameras, but its sales tactics have recently come under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/body-camera-maker-has-financial-ties-to-police-chiefs-2/\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> the company has aggressively courted local police chiefs in an effort to win the same kind of deal the company pursued with San Francisco -- a no-bid contract where the competition never gets a chance to demonstrate its products or quote prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's disclosures recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cities-review-ethics-rules-amid-ties-between-chiefs-taser/\" target=\"_blank\">prompted ethics reviews\u003c/a> in Salt Lake City and Fort Worth, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser has also come under fire for hiring recently retired police chiefs with whom it has done business. The company announced in April it \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/01/us/ap-us-body-cameras-police-chiefs.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">would change\u003c/a> the practice after a New Mexico state audit blasted the hiring of the former police chief of Albuquerque while he was still on the city's payroll. From now on, Taser said, it will wait a year before hiring retired police officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isner confirmed that policy, and said the company has never had any similar relationship with anyone who works or has worked for the SFPD. He said Taser does focus on major cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They represent a large portion of the policing market both in numbers and in thought leadership,\" he said, \"and San Francisco does fall into that category.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser has become a dominant player despite the presence of competitors who say their body camera systems match Taser's in quality while selling for a fraction of Taser's price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Onruang, founder of Los Angeles-based Wolfcom Enterprises, says his firm is constantly outmaneuvered by Taser, often before getting a chance to bid. He said he's hopeful San Francisco will allow Wolfcom to demonstrate its cameras, cloud-based storage system, and quote a price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know how frustrating it is to be the David versus Taser’s Goliath,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Mia Zuckerkandel and Dan Brekke contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was updated Friday, June 19, to include responses from Taser International.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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/210983530&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/210983530'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the four years since then, Suhr has repeatedly promised that the department was very close to outfitting 50 plainclothes officers with the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department didn't actually buy any cameras until December 2014. And the pilot program never launched.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, on April 30, Mayor Ed Lee, with Suhr at his side, announced that the city would spend more than $6 million to buy body cameras for the entire police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline/latest/embed/index.html?source=1ELJT7UV5Z1bjwFB2tCkqDOXWrAGHD80kejShxa2F02s&font=Bevan-PotanoSans&maptype=toner&lang=en&height=650\" width=\"150%\" height=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003caside>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hile other police departments around the country have extensively tested and deployed body cameras since Suhr first announced his plan, the San Francisco Police Department remains several months away from equipping its officers with the devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A KQED investigation found the department spent nine months obtaining a sole-source waiver allowing it to purchase cameras from Taser International, without considering other bids. Documents and interviews with top police officials reveal that the department requested a no-bid contract after field-testing only Taser cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After receiving the waiver, another 14 months passed before the department signed a deal with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although Suhr and other department leaders made reference to it on multiple occasions, the department never provided a policy governing the use of the cameras to the city's Police Commission. SFPD has cited multiple exemptions in open records law in an effort to keep its draft policy from the public -- including that the document would reveal secret investigative techniques or procedures, and that as a draft, the policy need not be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SFPD recently chose to forego the pilot program and instead proceed with implementing body-worn cameras department-wide,\" the City Attorney's Office wrote in a response to KQED's petition to force the policy's release. \"The documents do not contain factual information, but are policy and planning recommendations that the department never carried out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567237\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10567237 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-400x310.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer in West Valley City Utah presses a button on his Taser Axon Flex controller to start recording. The department bought 190 systems in March.\" width=\"400\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-400x310.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-800x621.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-1440x1118.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-1180x916.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut-960x745.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15596_GettyImages-464977016-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A police officer in West Valley City Utah presses a button on his Taser Axon Flex controller to start recording. The department bought 190 systems in March. \u003ccite>(George Frey/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city attorney determined documents related to the \"abandoned proposed pilot program\" are of limited public interest and exempt from disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the department’s handling of the pilot program has raised questions about its commitment to deploying cameras and its relationship with Taser as it prepares to spend millions on new cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commissioner Petra DeJesus said she has been contacted by other camera manufacturers asking whether the city would request bids for its next purchase. She said she didn't know about the no-bid contract with Taser until KQED showed her the sole-source waiver. She asked about the department's deal with Taser at last week's Police Commission meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cameras did go out to bid,” Suhr said at that meeting. “Taser won that bid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When DeJesus pressed Suhr on whether the department had received “an exception to go with one vendor” for the pilot program, the police chief said he would “look into that,” but it was his recollection that Taser International “came in low bid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">D\u003c/span>ocuments obtained by KQED show that Suhr himself requested and received a waiver from the U.S. Department of Justice, which funded the program, in April 2013. He also signed a similar request to the city’s Office of Contract Administration, allowing the department to purchase cameras from Taser without considering other bids. The OCA granted that request in September 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Avalos says he is concerned the purchase could pave the way for a much larger no-bid contract with Taser. Suhr told the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee Wednesday that the next purchase would go out to bid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department's deal with Taser included three years of a free subscription to its cloud-based data storage system, Evidence.com. But department leaders continued to raise concerns about the cost of storage for the pilot program after the deal was signed and the cameras were purchased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As NPR \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/29/410572605/as-police-body-cameras-increase-what-about-all-that-video\" target=\"_blank\">recently reported\u003c/a>, that’s in line with Taser’s shift to a focus on recurring subscription payments rather than one-off equipment sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it will look more like your cable bill,\" equity analyst Glenn Mattson told NPR. \"A lot of times you get a pretty nice deal to get a cable subscription, you know, and then that introductory rate gets raised over time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD’s pilot purchase from Taser is just the most recent chapter in a long effort to secure the department’s business, with a succession of police chiefs in the company’s corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'How do we make certain that we have the most secure, economically feasible way of storing this data? Axon had it. No one else had it at the time.'\u003ccite>Mikail Ali\u003cbr>\nSFPD Deputy Chief\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Taser, best known as the maker of electronic \"stun guns,\" had been angling to get the city's business for more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's last four chiefs of police -- Heather Fong, George Gascón, interim Chief Jeff Godown and Suhr -- all tried to win approval from the city's Police Commission to equip officers with the Taser weapons. But public opposition killed the proposal each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve marketed very aggressively to the SFPD,\" former police commissioner Angela Chan said. “At one point, Taser International was even presenting to the Police Commission. Their presentation was clearly a commercial presentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser's executive vice president of global sales said San Francisco is one of only three major U.S. cities that doesn't equip police with the company's stun guns. Josh Isner said winning the pilot body camera contract is a point of pride for the Taser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In San Francisco, we weren’t an incumbent vendor,\" Isner said, \"and we still were awarded the contract there. We really haven’t had any type of relationship with the City of San Francisco, any type of procurement relationship, before interest in the body cams came out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr announced he was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Police-Chief-Greg-Suhr-drops-stun-gun-plan-4425780.php\" target=\"_blank\">dropping his attempt\u003c/a> to deploy the stun guns in early April 2013. But at the same time, documents obtained through a Public Records Act request show, the chief was pursuing a no-bid contract with Taser to obtain the company’s Axon Flex body cameras and Evidence.com subscription.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>n April 4, 2013, Suhr wrote a letter to the Justice Department requesting a waiver that would allow the Police Department to use $250,000 from a federal law-enforcement technology grant to buy wearable cameras from Taser without requesting bids from other manufacturers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr wrote that the department had begun researching wearable cameras in May 2012 -- a full year after he first publicly suggested SFPD would use them. After reviewing a study by the Modesto Police Department and field testing cameras from Taser and one competitor, Vievu, he wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that it is in the best interest of the San Francisco Police Department to purchase both the Axon camera systems and Evidence.com evidence managers from Taser International as sole source procurements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567253\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10567253 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-400x455.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recently said he thought Taser had submitted the "low bid" for the department's body camera pilot program. He also said the city would request bids for the pending, much larger purchase.\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-800x910.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-1440x1638.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-1180x1342.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285-960x1092.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS4883_010.jpg-alt_285.jpg 1450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recently said he thought Taser had submitted the \"low bid\" for the department's body camera pilot program. He also said the city would request bids for the pending, much larger purchase. \u003ccite>(Deborah Svoboda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An SFPD official said the field testing Suhr referred to consisted of using two camera systems from Taser for about six weeks. Deputy Chief Mikail Ali said the Vievu assessment consisted of little more than looking at the camera since the department lacked the needed computer software and hardware to fully test it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The research by the Modesto Police Department, also mentioned by Suhr, appears to have been much more thorough than what the SFPD undertook. In requesting its own waiver for a no-bid contract for 158 Axon Flex cameras in 2012, the Modesto police explained the force had tested cameras from four different makers over a period of 13 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department concluded that Taser's Axon Flex system and its customer service were superior to offerings from competitors, though \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/bc/q4_2012/cms1_186278.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report\u003c/a> provided to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department also noted problems with the Taser system. Officers experienced sporadic problems with the system's functioning and lost some evidence, the document says, and some complained that the wires the device uses were too fragile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services approved Suhr's request to spend federal grant money on a no-bid purchase from Taser -- with the caveat that the SFPD should also follow local contract and purchasing laws. The San Francisco Office of Contract Administration granted the department’s sole-source waiver in September 2013, citing the federal government’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y that time, the department was already negotiating with Taser to buy cameras, and Suhr was promising that a pilot body camera program was imminent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Documents show that the company submitted a quote to the Police Department in June 2013. The heavily discounted total for a camera system and data storage totaled just under $350,000 -- but substantially more than the $250,000 the department was talking about spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, Suhr said the department \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/S-F-cops-will-wear-cameras-to-record-searches-4762701.php\" target=\"_blank\">would begin\u003c/a> equipping 50 plainclothes officers with wearable video cameras “within the next six weeks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2014, responding to an incident in which plainclothes officers were accused of beating a teenager who had been stopped for riding his bike on the sidewalk in the Valencia Gardens housing project, Suhr said \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\">the pilot program\u003c/a> was just two weeks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite Suhr's pledges, documents show the city was nowhere near buying the cameras the chief said it was about to deploy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>hrough the early months of 2014, staffers in the Police Department and the city's Office of Contract Administration exchanged emails about the status of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taser International has expressed a willingness to address any concerns we may have with cost, terms and conditions,” SFPD Commander Mikail Ali wrote in a March 17, 2014 email. “They have a [sic] implementation team on standby waiting to come to our city upon execution of an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali, whom Suhr had called his \"gadget guy\" and who has since been promoted to deputy chief, oversaw planning for the pilot program through late 2014. His replacement, Commander Bob Moser, declined multiple interview requests from KQED. The Police Department provided email correspondence addressed to Moser, but no responses or any other documents written by him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After no apparent movement on the purchase, Taser last September came up with a new quote -- for 165 Axon Flex cameras, support equipment, software and three years of free data storage -- that fell within the Police Department's $250,000 budget, though the department would still have to pay out of pocket for staff to administer the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD agreed to that deal, and in December the city paid Taser $249,623.69. The cameras have yet to be deployed, however, as the department and Police Commission continue work on a policy to govern how the devices are to be used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That policy will be crucial as the department weighs the purchase of 1,600 to 1,800 cameras to equip all of its officers. The initial price tag for a camera system is just the beginning of what the city will pay. At a Board of Supervisors hearing last October, Deputy Police Chief Sharon Ferrigno estimated the five-year cost of equipping all officers would be more than $21 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major costs of the program include the cost of storing the massive amount of video the cameras record as well as the new personnel the department will need to handle the video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $6 million budget item Mayor Lee announced in April would cover just the first two years of the department-wide body camera program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>t the mayor's announcement, Suhr declined to say who would supply the cameras the department needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are San Francisco, so we’re going to figure out whether or not we have to go out to bid for cameras or if we can go with the cameras that we were going to use already,” Suhr said. “But we’ll do it right so there’s no question that it wasn’t done right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos, who called the board hearing on the cameras last fall, says whether the department will request bids for the expected camera purchase \"shouldn't even be a question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bidding process provides the opportunity for competition,\" Avalos said, adding that issuing a request for proposals would invite any company that was interested to present their products' capabilities -- and give the city price quotes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10567258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10567258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web-400x600.jpg\" alt='Supervisor John Avalos says he was alarmed to find out the police department was pursuing a no-bid contract for Taser body cameras at the same time the city was debating buying Taser \"stun guns.\"' width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS7248_Homelessness_Parks_29oct2013_0045_web.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor John Avalos says he was alarmed to find out the police department was pursuing a no-bid contract for Taser body cameras at the same time the city was debating buying Taser \"stun guns.\" \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said issuing a bid request is \"standard practice\" and that should be the process followed for this multimillion dollar purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s a huge contract that I would not feel comfortable ever supporting without there being a competitive bid,\" Avalos said. \"But if Taser has created its own relationship and got its foot in the door ... I would be alarmed and definitely would not want to move forward with anything that appears to be a sole-source contract.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the SFPD won't pursue another sole-source contract with Taser, as Suhr indicated Wednesday, that's a decision that was made recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Chief Ali said June 5 that it was yet to be determined whether the city would open up the bidding process, a decision that would ultimately be up to the city's Office of Contract Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won’t put the cart before the horse,\" he said. \"Those discussions are underway, and we’ll just have to see where they go.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of Contract Administration did not respond to repeated requests for an interview, nor did that office respond to KQED's Public Records Act request. A representative said the office had given responsive documents to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser Executive Vice President Josh Isner said the decision to sole source or request bids is up to the police department and the city, and Taser is \"happy to compete in either way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a public company, we can’t say too much about ongoing negotiations and forward facing information regarding deals,\" Isner said. \"It’d be a safe assumption to say -- the fact that they already have our product -- we’re certainly hoping to win the business for more of that same product.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr and other senior commanders have said that Taser's offerings can't be matched by the growing number of competing -- and often cheaper -- systems on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the features the SFPD has cited are cloud storage of the massive amounts of data (which is available from other vendors) and the Taser Evidence.com system's ability to obscure portions of video images to protect the identity of witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said that given the department's limited information technology capabilities, Taser's cloud-based digital storage system made its product the only feasible choice for the city when it was shopping for cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do we make certain that we have the most secure, economically feasible way of storing this data?\" he said. \"Axon had it. No one else had it at the time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali said the department had intended to field test Vievu cameras, but lacked the technology Vievu's product required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We did not have that capacity to even test them beyond just looking at them physically,\" he said. \"We just didn’t have the physical capacity to do it because we had no means of storing it on a server in- house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>aser is one of a few leading suppliers of body-worn cameras, but its sales tactics have recently come under scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation earlier this year \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/body-camera-maker-has-financial-ties-to-police-chiefs-2/\" target=\"_blank\">found\u003c/a> the company has aggressively courted local police chiefs in an effort to win the same kind of deal the company pursued with San Francisco -- a no-bid contract where the competition never gets a chance to demonstrate its products or quote prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP's disclosures recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/cities-review-ethics-rules-amid-ties-between-chiefs-taser/\" target=\"_blank\">prompted ethics reviews\u003c/a> in Salt Lake City and Fort Worth, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser has also come under fire for hiring recently retired police chiefs with whom it has done business. The company announced in April it \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/05/01/us/ap-us-body-cameras-police-chiefs.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">would change\u003c/a> the practice after a New Mexico state audit blasted the hiring of the former police chief of Albuquerque while he was still on the city's payroll. From now on, Taser said, it will wait a year before hiring retired police officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isner confirmed that policy, and said the company has never had any similar relationship with anyone who works or has worked for the SFPD. He said Taser does focus on major cities like San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They represent a large portion of the policing market both in numbers and in thought leadership,\" he said, \"and San Francisco does fall into that category.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taser has become a dominant player despite the presence of competitors who say their body camera systems match Taser's in quality while selling for a fraction of Taser's price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peter Onruang, founder of Los Angeles-based Wolfcom Enterprises, says his firm is constantly outmaneuvered by Taser, often before getting a chance to bid. He said he's hopeful San Francisco will allow Wolfcom to demonstrate its cameras, cloud-based storage system, and quote a price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t know how frustrating it is to be the David versus Taser’s Goliath,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Mia Zuckerkandel and Dan Brekke contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department sergeants Martin Bandvik and Tigran Antonian thought they'd find a handgun at the end of a two-month robbery investigation that led them to a house on the 100 block of Nursery Way in South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on June 3, when the sergeants served a search warrant on the house with the San Mateo North County Regional SWAT Team, they found a whole lot more: 22 assault weapons, 12 handguns, two bolt action rifles, two shotguns, hand grenades, bomb making materials, and some 5,000 rounds of ammunition.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'These are the types of guns that Bayview officers seize off the street every day. Where do these guns come from? I think this may be a potential source.'\u003ccite>Bill Braconi, SFPD Lieutenant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We had no idea it was going to be a cache this big,\" Bandvik said. \"It makes me feel very good. We’re on the street every day in the Bayview, and our brothers and sisters in the Bayview Police Station that are out there -- these are guns that they’re not going to have to deal with now on the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bandvik and Antonian started tracking the case on April 22, after the first in a series of four robberies in San Francisco's Bayview, Ingleside and Marina districts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One guy came in with a letterman jacket on and did the robbery,\" Bandvik said of the incident at a Bayview gas station. \"The second guy was in the getaway car. We were able to get some information on that through surveillance video.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, the letterman jacket showed up again, this time at a Walgreens robbery in the Marina. Two more robberies followed back in San Francisco's southeastern neighborhoods, on May 17 and 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 24, \"some very vigilant, sharp-eyed\" Bayview patrol officers spotted 56-year-old Homer Mathews and his letterman jacket on Third Street, Bandvik said, and they arrested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a Northern Station officer contacted Bayview investigators with information tying the getaway vehicle description to a second suspect, 31-year-old Austen Chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10558274\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10558274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr addresses reporters June 10 about a large gun and explosives seizure a week before.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr addresses reporters June 10 about a large gun and explosives seizure a week before. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That’s when we served the search warrant in South San Francisco,\" Bandvik said. \"He was arrested and the weapons were found.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Lt. 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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said the department's focus on seizing weapons has had an impact on violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that that’s a large part of the reason why -- although any homicide is one too many -- homicides are basically half of what they were in the mid-2000s,\" he said. \"Gun violence is also down about 50 percent now from what it was in say 2007, 2008. Certainly getting this kind of firepower off the street -- the potential for this kind of weaponry, I can’t imagine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braconi said assault weapons are often part of \"gun fights that very frequently, all too often ensue in the Bayview.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the types of guns that Bayview officers seize off the street every day,\" he said. \"Where do these guns come from? I think this may be a potential source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10558276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10558276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the weaponry San Francisco Police Department investigators seized after serving a search warrant in South San Francisco June 3.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the weaponry San Francisco Police Department investigators seized after serving a search warrant in South San Francisco June 3. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police said at least one robbery suspect is still on the loose, and their investigation continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mathews and Chin were booked in San Francisco County Jail on felony robbery charges. 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Two more robberies followed back in San Francisco's southeastern neighborhoods, on May 17 and 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 24, \"some very vigilant, sharp-eyed\" Bayview patrol officers spotted 56-year-old Homer Mathews and his letterman jacket on Third Street, Bandvik said, and they arrested him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a Northern Station officer contacted Bayview investigators with information tying the getaway vehicle description to a second suspect, 31-year-old Austen Chin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10558274\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10558274\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr addresses reporters June 10 about a large gun and explosives seizure a week before.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15438_IMG_2058-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr addresses reporters June 10 about a large gun and explosives seizure a week before. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"That’s when we served the search warrant in South San Francisco,\" Bandvik said. \"He was arrested and the weapons were found.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Lt. Bill Braconi said the guns appeared destined for sale in the Bayview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some of the information that we uncovered in the residence indicates that many of these weapons were offered for sale,\" he said, \"and based on information I can’t divulge at this time, it indicates that some of the recipients of these weapons may have been from the Bayview District.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said MK105 rounds, military-grade ammunition, was recovered in the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’re about a 10-inch long shell that’s used in a small cannon,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braconi said police don't yet know the intentions surrounding the military weapons or explosives, but he said there's nothing to indicate a connection to a terrorist plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crime statistics from \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/data?category=Public%20Safety\" target=\"_blank\">SF OpenData\u003c/a> show 169 weapons-related arrests in the Bayview District since this time last year. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said the department's focus on seizing weapons has had an impact on violent crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that that’s a large part of the reason why -- although any homicide is one too many -- homicides are basically half of what they were in the mid-2000s,\" he said. \"Gun violence is also down about 50 percent now from what it was in say 2007, 2008. Certainly getting this kind of firepower off the street -- the potential for this kind of weaponry, I can’t imagine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braconi said assault weapons are often part of \"gun fights that very frequently, all too often ensue in the Bayview.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are the types of guns that Bayview officers seize off the street every day,\" he said. \"Where do these guns come from? I think this may be a potential source.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10558276\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10558276\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the weaponry San Francisco Police Department investigators seized after serving a search warrant in South San Francisco June 3.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS15442_IMG_2040-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the weaponry San Francisco Police Department investigators seized after serving a search warrant in South San Francisco June 3. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police said at least one robbery suspect is still on the loose, and their investigation continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Mathews and Chin were booked in San Francisco County Jail on felony robbery charges. Mathews was booked on robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery; Chin was booked on robbery and kidnapping for the purpose of robbery. The more serious charges stemmed from the fourth robbery, which appeared to involve an unidentified suspect and Chin, but not Mathews, Bandvik said. He said suspects approached grocery store owners in Ingleside outside their store and forced them inside for the robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police are coordinating with the San Mateo County district attorney and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the weapons charges. It has not yet been determined whether Chin and Mathews will be charged federally, Braconi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Tigran Antonian, who worked the case with Bandvik under Braconi's supervision, said he was shocked to find the weapons stash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a good case, good bust,\" he said. \"We’re happy to have all these guns off the street.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 10 a.m. Thursday, June 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10548591\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SFPD-400x271.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10548591 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/SFPD-400x271.jpg\" alt=\"An image from Henry Hotel security camera footage shows SFPD Officer Arthur Madrid inserting a key into the door of room 504. Officer Arshad Razzak is directly to Madrid’s right, and Officer Richard Yick is in the foreground. Madrid’s partner, Robert Forenis, is to his left.\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image from Henry Hotel security camera footage shows SFPD Officer Arthur Madrid inserting a key into the door of Room 504. Officer Arshad Razzak is directly to Madrid’s right, and Officer Richard Yick is in the foreground. Madrid’s partner, Robert Forenis, is to his left. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Public Defender's Office)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Arshad Razzak's sentencing for four federal criminal charges was postponed Tuesday for a year to allow the former San Francisco plainclothes narcotics officer to develop training materials for the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an opportunity to make some good come out of this, both for the SFPD and for Mr. Razzak,\" said Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann at Razzak's sentence status hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hemann said Razzak's contribution to SFPD training for both new recruits and experienced officers could help them \"avoid some of the pitfalls Mr. Razzak found himself in.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/22/jury-weighs-intent-in-federal-trial-of-sfpd-officers-charged-with-conspiracy\" target=\"_blank\">convicted\u003c/a> Razzak, 42, in January of conspiracy against civil rights, deprivation of rights under the color of law, and two counts of falsification of records. He and three other Southern District plainclothes officers conspired to illegally search a room at the Henry Hotel, a single-room-occupancy hotel on San Francisco's Sixth Street, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal criminal charges stemmed from the San Francisco Public Defender's \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2011/03/video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury/\" target=\"_blank\">release of surveillance video\u003c/a> from a Dec. 23, 2010, raid of Room 504 at the Henry Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFwr9lJP35U\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Gonzalez, chief attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's Office, was flummoxed by Razzak's sentencing postponement, and the reason for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Police Department should be capable of training its officers not to violate the law without the help of a convicted police officer who engaged in that conduct,\" he said, adding that the length of the postponement is an insult to the public. \"Entire Hollywood movies get made in a shorter time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Razzak's partner was less-experienced former SFPD Officer Richard Yick, who was acquitted of all charges. Two more plainclothes officers who specialized in auto burglary, Arthur Madrid and Robert Forenis, met Razzak and Yick outside the Henry Hotel to assist in the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid was in the lead of the four officers when they arrived at Room 504, and the video shows him immediately inserting a key into the door. Then all four enter. They found a cache of heroin and needles strewn about the room, and arrested Carlos Hutcherson for possession of approximately 65 grams of heroin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to enter the room, officers would have needed a search warrant, or some set of circumstances that created an exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. Razzak wrote in a police report about the incident that another occupant, Jessica Richmond, consented to a search after she answered a knock at the door. The surveillance video contradicted that account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"MycK79zIhAlmGpcDqL3S2aUgzrFkwXda\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors gave Madrid immunity in exchange for his testimony in the case. Forenis was never charged. Raul Eric Elias was indicted with Razzak and Yick for his involvement in a separate raid called into question by surveillance video. Elias' prosecution has been deferred and could eventually be dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Razzak's defense attorney, Michael Rains, said his client's misdeeds were driven not by motivation for personal gain, but by pressure to satisfy a \"numbers-driven regime driving officers to produce, produce, produce [arrests].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said that's not a consideration afforded to most people facing a prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are criminal defendants being charged with crimes every day that can talk about the pressures that they have,\" he said, \"and I just don’t see anybody proposing that they help make training videos so that regular citizens don’t fall prey to the pressures that are out in society. It’s not convincing to me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains said the SFPD training division was on board with the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any video for training purposes that would educate our Police Department on any topic is certainly beneficial,\" SFPD spokesman Officer Albie Esparza wrote in an email response. \"We never stop learning in life, and enriching our lives/officers/department is a win win for all, including the public by having a better educated police force.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department is \"working closely\" with the U.S. Attorney's office on the next steps for the video's production, Esparza wrote, and SFPD is awaiting further direction from prosecutors and the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains said the training materials would likely focus on something that relates to the trial, \"what the video shows, what the report said, and the disparity between the two.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg said during Razzak's sentence status hearing Tuesday that he agreed with prosecutors and Rains that Razzak's case was very different from another federal corruption trial involving SFPD plainclothes officers convicted of stealing money and property from drug suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though he granted the postponement, Seeborg said it shouldn't \"detract from the fact that a jury did convict in this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Razzak acknowledged, whatever pressures he was under, the conduct was wrong,\" Seeborg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney Hemann said federal sentencing guidelines dictate a prison sentence of 41 to 51 months. 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