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That video and others led to the indictment of half a dozen officers on a variety of corruption charges; four were convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no room in the department for dishonest cops,\" Suhr said when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Greg-Suhr-top-cop-who-rose-through-ranks-sworn-2373512.php\" target=\"_blank\">he was sworn in\u003c/a>, referring to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adachi kept releasing incriminating video footage, prompting Suhr to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20110616122930/http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/05/san-francisco-police-officers-may-carry-cameras-during-arrests\" target=\"_blank\">announce\u003c/a> he wanted to equip officers with body cameras to record searches. That statement -- on May 17, 2011 -- was Suhr's first mention of a plan that eventually became a body camera pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210983530\" 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>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>[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>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated Friday, 5:15 p.m.\u003c/strong>\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\">W\u003c/span>hen Greg Suhr took command of the San Francisco Police Department in April 2011, he had a scandal on his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, had \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/news/2011/03/video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury/\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> that, among other things, caught plainclothes San Francisco police officers in the act of illegally searching a room in a single-resident-occupancy hotel on a gritty part of Sixth Street, just south of Market. That video and others led to the indictment of half a dozen officers on a variety of corruption charges; four were convicted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have no room in the department for dishonest cops,\" Suhr said when \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Greg-Suhr-top-cop-who-rose-through-ranks-sworn-2373512.php\" target=\"_blank\">he was sworn in\u003c/a>, referring to the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Adachi kept releasing incriminating video footage, prompting Suhr to \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20110616122930/http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/05/san-francisco-police-officers-may-carry-cameras-during-arrests\" target=\"_blank\">announce\u003c/a> he wanted to equip officers with body cameras to record searches. That statement -- on May 17, 2011 -- was Suhr's first mention of a plan that eventually became a body camera pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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>For the first time ever, Oakland police recruits are attending San Francisco's police academy. It's a change San Francisco's police chief hopes will foster collaboration between the neighboring cities' police forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It goes a long way to really fostering a regional partnership with another agency,\" San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr told the city's Police Commission Wednesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Oakland is paying for the five recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I believe the relationship that will be formed between these recruits will carry them through their career, \" Suhr said, \"and as they go back to Oakland and ours stay here, we will have a person-to-person relationship ongoing with an agency where we are just a bridge apart.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFPDAcademy/status/609089251867635713\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr's announcement came on the heels of a San Francisco Controller's Office \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/webreports/details3.aspx?id=2141\" target=\"_blank\">report published Wednesday\u003c/a> afternoon that found a significant slip in SFPD's staffing levels, down to about 1,700 sworn field officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controller's report found San Francisco and Oakland are behind several comparable cities in the ratio of police to residents. Specifically, when San Francisco's population nearly doubles during the day, there are about 200 officers for every 100,000 people. In Oakland, the ratio is 164 officers for every 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/2-supes-say-S-F-needs-more-police-officers-to-6319884.php\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a> two city supervisors are calling for SFPD's minimum staffing level to rise to 2,200 from the current 1,971 -- to be paid for from the city's general fund. Supervisors Scott Wiener and Malia Cohen cite a recent jump in property crime cataloged by the Controller's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the Chronicle's Vivan Ho:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The move comes at a time when property crimes are on the rise, according to police figures. The number of property crimes reported in San Francisco increased by 39 percent from 2010 to 2014, with 32,521 reported in 2010 and 45,334 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while officials in many Bay Area cities have linked depleted police forces to the ups and downs of crime rates — including San Jose, Oakland and Vallejo — studies have been mixed on whether more officers means less crime. And police critics say cities around the region are putting too much of their tax revenue into cops.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Wiener and Cohen's \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=3817322&GUID=FB636104-22A0-4C73-A7BE-45EE4BD9D86F\" target=\"_blank\">proposal\u003c/a> will be heard by the city's Land Use and Transportation Committee Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco is planning two more academies over the next two years, designed to accelerate the hiring of 250 officers and bring the department up to its current minimum sworn staff level by Summer of 2017, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=847&page=846\" target=\"_blank\">according to the mayor's office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police officer's aren't cheap. The Controller's Office found SFPD officers are paid an average $174,799 in yearly salary and benefits, the highest pay of any city polled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Police Department did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The department's own 171st academy class just \u003ca href=\"http://sfbay.ca/2015/04/03/thirty-five-academy-grads-join-oakland-police/\" target=\"_blank\">graduated April 3\u003c/a>, bringing 35 new officers to the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the Controller's Office report below:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=268424125 key=key-8XghBmFCf8yjyrZgw3Re mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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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. 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",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. 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. 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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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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>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\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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"content": "\u003cp>In his proposed budget unveiled Monday that includes a $37 million increase for the city's Police Department over the next two years, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has opted not to fund an ongoing probe into a string of law enforcement scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office requested funding for several efforts, including $383,315 to pay for a task force investigating misconduct in the San Francisco police and sheriff's departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We just didn’t get anywhere near the funding that we had hoped for,\" DA spokesman Max Szabo said. \"It’s really concerning that we’re not getting the adequate resources that we need to just function normally.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bulk of the task force's work -- still underway in the DA's trial integrity unit -- is \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\">reviewing\u003c/a> some 3,000 potentially tainted cases involving SFPD officers implicated in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">bigoted text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that came to light in March, Szabo said. The task force is also probing work from the Police Department's crime lab and investigating allegations that sheriff's deputies \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">forced city jail inmates to fight\u003c/a> each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee touted multimillion-dollar allocations in other public safety departments in a speech before the Board of Supervisors Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My budget doubles down on our public safety investments to meet the needs of a growing city and the growing demands of our first responders,\" he said. \"We will through this budget hire 400 additional police officers, 198 firefighters, 55 paramedics, and 36 911 dispatchers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why he didn't budget any funds for the misconduct investigations, Lee said he didn't want to encourage legal battles between city departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I don’t want to see is lawyering up on the public defender's side and the district attorney’s side just to battle against each other,\" Lee said, adding that he didn't believe 3,000 cases need review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think that the DA and the police chief and the Police Commission need to all work closely together,\" he said. \"I do believe there is a number they have to look at, and they can come to an agreement as to what that is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman with the public defender's office said prosecutors and public defenders are collaborating to review the cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he announced the probe, District Attorney George Gascón said his office flagged 10 years of arrests involving officers implicated in the texting scandal and turned up about 1,600 prosecutions. Prosecutors did not file charges in the remaining 1,400 cases. Gascón said it was possibly more important to look at arrests that weren't prosecuted, indicating charges might not have held up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am disappointed that this was not included in the mayor’s budget,\" Supervisor David Campos said. \"I think that members of the Police Department and members of the community deserve that the city allocate the resources needed to get to the bottom of what happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages were made public in a federal court filing on March 13. The city's public defender revealed on March 26 the allegations of forced inmate fighting at a city jail, and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> on March 28 on a breach of protocol at SFPD's crime lab, potentially affecting hundreds more prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our special prosecutions unit, which handles misconduct for the district attorney’s office, was underwater,\" Szabo said, \"and really needed additional resources to become adequately staffed and investigate these varying issues.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said at the time that he would seek additional funding from the city, but what became of the request was unknown until now. The mayor's budget would increase the DA's overall funding by $3.7 million over two years, mostly allocated for mandatory salary and benefit increases. The budget also includes funding for an additional attorney to work on the city's implementation of court-ordered, outpatient mental health treatment, or Laura's Law, and a boost for IT staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requests in other areas, like increased funding for processing untested rape kits and victim services, were denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We requested four additional victims' advocates to serve this growing population,\" Szabo said, citing a 30 percent increase in victim services over the past four years. \"We didn’t get one.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Szabo said the task force's work will continue. \"Unfortunately, it may take a little longer than we'd hoped and anticipated,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Thursday's sentencing of former San Francisco police Officer Reynaldo Vargas marks \"the final chapter in a very sad story\" for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer accepted federal prosecutors' \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/266192616/U-S-v-Reynaldo-Vargas-Government-s-Sentencing-Memorandum\" target=\"_blank\">recommendation\u003c/a> for lighter punishment in exchange for Vargas' cooperation in a federal corruption trial that's sending two of his former colleagues to prison for longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring with his onetime partner, Edmond Robles, and their supervisor, former Sgt. Ian Furminger, to steal property from suspects in 2009. Vargas pleaded guilty last October to charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs, distribution of marijuana, conspiracy to commit theft and theft, before the jury trial of the three officers began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drug charges stemmed from Vargas' decision to give a pound of marijuana to two informants, which he described when he testified for the prosecution in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As wrong as this sounds, it was kind of an altruistic gesture,\" Vargas said on the stand. \"I wanted to give them something to -- something they could use to make some money for themselves,\" Vargas said. \"They were very down on their luck. My intent with it was ultimately it was just going to be destroyed. I thought that was kind of a waste. At least if they had it, they could do something with it. They could obviously sell it -- that was her expertise -- and make some money for themselves to get themselves off the street into a hotel room, eat, that sort of thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann asked the former narcotics officer, \"So your intention -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was to give heroin addicts marijuana to sell on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas answered, \"Yes.\" He went on to testify that Robles and Furminger eventually knew about the transaction, as well as about times he collected money and property from searches of suspects' homes, keeping the proceeds and sharing them with Furminger and Robles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger was convicted in December of two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"9FpI3t7q3A7Kw7HUEIazkGIcCBR7A8yE\"]\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \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\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Thursday's sentencing of former San Francisco police Officer Reynaldo Vargas marks \"the final chapter in a very sad story\" for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer accepted federal prosecutors' \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/266192616/U-S-v-Reynaldo-Vargas-Government-s-Sentencing-Memorandum\" target=\"_blank\">recommendation\u003c/a> for lighter punishment in exchange for Vargas' cooperation in a federal corruption trial that's sending two of his former colleagues to prison for longer terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was sentenced to one year in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring with his onetime partner, Edmond Robles, and their supervisor, former Sgt. Ian Furminger, to steal property from suspects in 2009. Vargas pleaded guilty last October to charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs, distribution of marijuana, conspiracy to commit theft and theft, before the jury trial of the three officers began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drug charges stemmed from Vargas' decision to give a pound of marijuana to two informants, which he described when he testified for the prosecution in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As wrong as this sounds, it was kind of an altruistic gesture,\" Vargas said on the stand. \"I wanted to give them something to -- something they could use to make some money for themselves,\" Vargas said. \"They were very down on their luck. My intent with it was ultimately it was just going to be destroyed. I thought that was kind of a waste. At least if they had it, they could do something with it. They could obviously sell it -- that was her expertise -- and make some money for themselves to get themselves off the street into a hotel room, eat, that sort of thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assistant U.S. Attorney John Hemann asked the former narcotics officer, \"So your intention -- not to put too fine a point on it -- was to give heroin addicts marijuana to sell on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas answered, \"Yes.\" He went on to testify that Robles and Furminger eventually knew about the transaction, as well as about times he collected money and property from searches of suspects' homes, keeping the proceeds and sharing them with Furminger and Robles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furminger was convicted in December of two counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit theft and one count of conspiracy against civil rights. He was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced in February\u003c/a> to three years, five months in prison, a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Officer Edmond Robles was convicted in December of the same charges as Furminger, plus an additional conspiracy to commit theft charge. He was sentenced in March to three years, three months in prison, plus a $25,000 fine and 120 hours community service. Both Furminger and Robles were also sentenced to three years supervised release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both are appealing their convictions to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nFurminger is also at the center of a bigoted text messaging scandal that's resulted in three SFPD officers' resignations. Seven more are facing termination hearings before San Francisco's Police Commission. The officers who may be fired, joined by three who were disciplined by the police chief but kept their jobs, \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\">filed a complaint\u003c/a> May 11 alleging the Police Department had allowed a one-year statute of limitations on discipline to elapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vargas was contrite at his sentencing hearing Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I'm going to go forward, I have to acknowledge everything I've done in the past and accept responsibility for that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors cited several factors in recommending the lighter sentence for Vargas. He was especially useful in pursuing charges against Furminger and Robles, Hemann wrote. The risk of testifying against other officers, while still facing jail time, was also a factor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In addition to the usual risks associated with being a 'snitch' in prison,\" Hemann wrote, \"Vargas faces the risk of retaliation at the hands of law enforcement by virtue of his cooperation against police officers. ... One unique aspect of this case is it is unusual for police officers to agree to cooperate in a prosecution against their fellow officers. It is important that the ultimate sentence imposed on Vargas provide incentive to officers in future cases to cooperate with investigations into police misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer did not impose a $20,000 fine that Hemann requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/206463348\" 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>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday evening, as part of the annual Ride of Silence to honor bicyclists who have been killed on San Francisco streets, he plans to visit the intersection for the first time since Vinson's death.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Charles Vinson was having an \"amazing renaissance\" in his life, discovering the joys of bicycling and composing music, when he was killed by a driver while riding his bicycle in San Francisco nearly three months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson, 66, was fatally struck March 2 on 14th Street at Folsom, an intersection that bicycle advocates have described as confusing and in dire need of safety improvements. It's been identified as a high-injury intersection under Vision Zero, the city's program to end traffic deaths in 10 years.\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/206463348&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/206463348'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, not much was publicly known about Vinson. His longtime partner, Jeff Jones, a bicycle messenger, says Vinson had just finished a weekly ritual, helping his 83-year-old neighbor get groceries at Foods Co., near the same intersection. He returned to his Mission Dolores apartment, \"put on his biking shorts, and never came home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-10532662\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Cycling-Ghost Bike\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15105_JV0A4801-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cstrong>Remembering Fallen Cyclists:\u003c/strong> The annual \u003ca href=\"http://www.rideofsilencesf.org\">Ride of Silence\u003c/a>, to honor cyclists killed and injured on city streets and to advocate for safer streets, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Sports Basement, 1590 Bryant St., San Francisco.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A witness \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/sf-sheriffs-deputy-resecutitates-bicyclist-who-was-struck-by-car/Content?oid=2922107\">told the San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a> that the driver, who stayed at the scene, blew through a red light. But last month Officer Albie Esparza, a Police Department spokesman, said the investigation was closed after it was determined \"the person found to be most responsible/at fault was the bicyclist.\" However, on Monday SFPD Inspector Lori Cadigan, who is handling the investigation, confirmed the case was still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates are watching the case because they say San Francisco police have a history of blaming the victim in collisions involving cyclists. After the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition found security camera video that police had missed as they investigated the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/15/verdict-in-wrongful-death-suit-against-driver-who-killed-bicyclist\" target=\"_blank\">death of cyclist Amelie Le Moullac\u003c/a> in 2013, Police Chief Greg Suhr promised to treat these kinds of cases differently. New protocol requires officers to canvass the area surrounding a collision for video.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esparza said investigators did search for video in Vinson's case, and found some at Foods Co. But he said it was shot from too far away to see anything. Vinson's sister has retained a San Francisco attorney, who would not comment because the investigation is still open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10530512\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10530512 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A ghost bike stands at the intersection where 66-year-old Charles Vinson was killed by a driver March 2.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15107_JV0A4817-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bike advocates say the intersection of 14th and Folsom, which sees a lot of bicycle traffic, is confusing and in need of safety improvements. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Frantic Scene\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was San Francisco Sheriff's Deputy Isaias Zaragoza's first day back to work after three months of recovering from injuries he suffered in a traffic collision in Pacifica, after he tried to help a driver who ran off the road. On March 2, he and his partner were returning from lunch when they noticed a group of people at the intersection of 14th and Folsom streets. They saw a bicycle off to the side, and realized it was a collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who identified herself as an ER nurse, and was getting her car repaired nearby, rushed to Vinson's side, and was about to do chest compressions when Zaragoza arrived. \"She was hysterical. She was asking for help,\" says Zaragoza, adding he was disturbed that some people were taking photos of the frantic scene instead of helping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I told her, 'Let me take over.' I assessed Mr. Vinson and there wasn't a pulse and he wasn't breathing. My training kicked in. Without thinking, we just went to work,\" Zaragoza says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputy's office at the Sheriff's Department's training unit is nearby, and several other deputies alarmed by the commotion responded to the scene. Eventually, Zaragoza's partner took over CPR. Then they heard sirens and the paramedics arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I heard when the medics took over, he did have a pulse. That comforted me,\" Zaragoza says. \"I'm hoping the aid myself and my co-workers gave him at least gave him a fighting chance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff's Department says he later called San Francisco General Hospital to find out Vinson's condition, and learned later through media reports that he had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That just floored me,\" Zaragoza says. \"Hopefully, the family can get some closure out of this, and I'll be right there behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there was a hero that day, Zaragoza says, it was the nurse who rushed to Vinson's side and didn't hesitate to help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532211 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones loves his job as a bicycle messenger. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15103_JV0A4729-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>A Race to the Hospital \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jones says that when he graduated from college in the 1970s, he was \"hell bent\" to be the next David Ogilvy -- the man often credited with creating the modern advertising industry. But after several years, he gave up the office grind to become a bike messenger. At 62, he still loves the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just really enjoy being a bike messenger,\" Jones says. \"I realized many years ago that I'm not in this world to be rich. I'll just live frugally the rest of my life and that's fine with me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was delivering a box to an office tower in the Financial District when he received a call from a number he didn't recognize. It was someone from San Francisco General Hospital, telling him Vinson was in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I went into total shock,\" says Jones. \"I just hopped on my bike and screamed down to SFGH emergency room, and the next two or three hours were surreal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says a doctor informed him that Vinson, who had been wearing a helmet, was in dire condition, unconscious and bleeding internally. He had suffered a traumatic head injury, and doctors performed emergency cranial surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. Jones declined an invitation to be with him, \"because the image of that would have haunted me for eternity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wanted to remember him the way he was two days earlier, which was beautiful, and vivacious,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532212\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532212 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of Charles Vinson in his San Francisco apartment. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15078_JV0A4638-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Renaissance\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones met Vinson through a mutual friend on Thanksgiving of 1997, and discovered they had chemistry. They were together for the next 17 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a very comfortable relationship,\" says Jones, who loved to sit and observe Vinson composing music, one of his main passions. Vinson studied music in his earlier years and had a voracious appetite for classical music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I thought of him as a musical genius, but he never thought of himself as a genius,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although they didn't live together, they spent a lot of time at Vinson's Mission Dolores apartment. \"We were very happy living apart from each other,\" Jones says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says he especially misses the routine of talking to Vinson on the phone every day at 9:30 in the morning and 9:30 at night. \"I just loved hearing his voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vinson was born in West Virginia, and knew he was gay when he was 10 years old, Jones says. But he grew up in a religious family and felt \"pressure to play by the script of his church.\" He married a college classmate and had a son, who is now 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones says Vinson worked for many years for Pacific Bell, which later became AT&T. He retired in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10532214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10532214 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/05/RS15090_JV0A4635-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff Jones and Charles Vinson \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the years, Vinson battled alcoholism and got by on his retirement savings and meager Social Security benefits, with some occasional freelance writing work. He suffered from deep depression and had been resigned “to a life of the sort of slow march to death.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, Jones says, it was like a switch flipped on: Vinson got sober two years ago and began having \"an amazing renaissance in his life.\" He radically changed his diet and lost 30 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The last couple of years his whole personality was really blossoming. He seemed happier. He was really enjoying riding his bike,\" says Jones. \"It was just his cat, his music and his bike riding. Those were the things in his life that mattered to him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every morning, Vinson would get up, have his coffee and then go on a 10- to 15-mile ride. It was always the highlight of his day, Jones says. He alternated routes and regularly passed 14th and Folsom streets as part of his Mission route.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was an experienced rider, and he knew vividly about the inherent dangers of riding anywhere on city streets,\" says Jones. \"He was always talking about all the close calls that he saw of cyclists and motorists.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones has been too grief-stricken to find out the details of the collision, and has avoided that intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know what happened,\" Jones says. \"He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>One of the officers facing termination for sending some of the racist, anti-gay and sexist text messages that have mired the San Francisco Police Department in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">scandal since mid-March\u003c/a> is leading a legal charge to keep his job and those of nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain Daugherty filed a petition and complaint (\u003ca href=\"#petition\">see below\u003c/a>) in San Francisco Superior Court late Monday asking a judge to halt disciplinary proceedings pending before the city's Police Commission. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended that Daugherty and seven other officers be fired, and he recommended that two additional officers face discipline up to and including termination, at the discretion of the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge doesn't dispute that officers sent inappropriate or offensive text messages, but simply that the department waited too long to investigate them and initiate discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are accused of conduct unbecoming an officer, according to the filing. Daugherty was placed on \"indefinite, unpaid\" suspension on May 4 while the city's Police Commission adjudicates his case. The department did not immediately respond to inquiries into whether the other nine officers were also suspended that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr said in early April\u003c/a> that he would discipline four additional officers implicated by text messages that were \"inappropriate,\" but \"not determined to be racist or homophobic\" at the chief's level, which includes punishment up to a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition challenges the city's attempt to discipline all 14 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages, which were made public in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing March 13\u003c/a>, were all recovered from the cellphone of former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> in February to three years and five months in prison.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q8FGbGEEAU8b5p6MITVy04l9TWGUhP2f\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents investigating Furminger and other SFPD plainclothes officers for corruption and illegal searches delivered evidence to SFPD's Internal Affairs Division in December 2012, the petition asserts, and yet the department did not begin a disciplinary investigation until January of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a statute [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 required the department to initiate and complete its investigation into these text messages within one year of their discovery,\" said Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. \"It did not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the nine other officers are represented by attorneys from at least five other firms, and all the officers and their attorneys are coordinating their claims into yesterday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Essentially, we consolidated it for the sake of judicial economy and efficiency,\" she said. \"Everybody has a very high stake in the outcome. Each of their clients are significantly impacted by this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing is both a petition and a lawsuit, Wilkinson said, asking a judge to halt the city's disciplinary proceedings, force the removal of any findings related to the texts from the officers' personnel files and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 for each officer -- plus attorneys' fees and other possible damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of the thousands of text messages obtained from Furminger's cell phone, only a limited, number of sporadic but grossly inappropriate texts were exchanged with DAUGHERTY over a period often-months. DAUGHERTY is deeply ashamed by what he wrote, such texts being unreflective of his strong commitment to exemplary community policing of all San Francisco's diverse citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city attorney's office said the city is aware of the filing but has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-limit issue has been looming for some time. When Suhr addressed pending Police Commission disciplinary hearings at an \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">April 3 \u003c/span>\u003c/span>press conference, he elaborated on when the clock pauses, or “tolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those administrative matters toll, and attorneys usually know that, when there’s a criminal case pending,\" Suhr said. \"As soon as we became aware of this, we took action. And I’m confident, when we go to the commission, that our argument that anything that was involved in this was tolling until after the criminal case was over with. I myself had no knowledge of this, as I was walled off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The section at issue is California Government Code Section 3304(d)(2), part of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct is also the subject of a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution, the time during which the criminal investigation or criminal prosecution is pending shall toll the one-year time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wilkinson said the offensive text messages were not the subject of the criminal investigation against Furminger and five other former SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three arrests that Daugherty participated in have been affected, as the San Francisco's District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">reviews some 3,000 cases\u003c/a> involving all 14 officers over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamara Aparton, spokeswoman for the city's public defender, said Tuesday that two pending prosecutions involving Daugherty and clients represented by deputy public defenders were dismissed in April. Prosecutors dropped one charge involving Daugherty in another, multiple-count case that is otherwise proceeding.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"petition\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nAll three cases involve marijuana sale and possession charges, Aparton said, and all the defendants are white.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has a credibility issue,\" Aparton said of Daugherty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read the filing below:\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=265126082 key=key-JXun6waDik0KTsEdx4qC mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ted Goldberg of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the officers facing termination for sending some of the racist, anti-gay and sexist text messages that have mired the San Francisco Police Department in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">scandal since mid-March\u003c/a> is leading a legal charge to keep his job and those of nine others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain Daugherty filed a petition and complaint (\u003ca href=\"#petition\">see below\u003c/a>) in San Francisco Superior Court late Monday asking a judge to halt disciplinary proceedings pending before the city's Police Commission. San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended that Daugherty and seven other officers be fired, and he recommended that two additional officers face discipline up to and including termination, at the discretion of the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal challenge doesn't dispute that officers sent inappropriate or offensive text messages, but simply that the department waited too long to investigate them and initiate discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are accused of conduct unbecoming an officer, according to the filing. Daugherty was placed on \"indefinite, unpaid\" suspension on May 4 while the city's Police Commission adjudicates his case. The department did not immediately respond to inquiries into whether the other nine officers were also suspended that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">Suhr said in early April\u003c/a> that he would discipline four additional officers implicated by text messages that were \"inappropriate,\" but \"not determined to be racist or homophobic\" at the chief's level, which includes punishment up to a 10-day suspension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition challenges the city's attempt to discipline all 14 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The text messages, which were made public in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/258662847/Government-Opposition-to-Furminger-Motion-for-Bail-Pending-Appeal\" target=\"_blank\">federal court filing March 13\u003c/a>, were all recovered from the cellphone of former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> in February to three years and five months in prison.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents investigating Furminger and other SFPD plainclothes officers for corruption and illegal searches delivered evidence to SFPD's Internal Affairs Division in December 2012, the petition asserts, and yet the department did not begin a disciplinary investigation until January of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a statute [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 required the department to initiate and complete its investigation into these text messages within one year of their discovery,\" said Daugherty's attorney, Alison Berry Wilkinson. \"It did not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilkinson said the nine other officers are represented by attorneys from at least five other firms, and all the officers and their attorneys are coordinating their claims into yesterday's filing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Essentially, we consolidated it for the sake of judicial economy and efficiency,\" she said. \"Everybody has a very high stake in the outcome. Each of their clients are significantly impacted by this action.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filing is both a petition and a lawsuit, Wilkinson said, asking a judge to halt the city's disciplinary proceedings, force the removal of any findings related to the texts from the officers' personnel files and impose a civil penalty of $25,000 for each officer -- plus attorneys' fees and other possible damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the filing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Out of the thousands of text messages obtained from Furminger's cell phone, only a limited, number of sporadic but grossly inappropriate texts were exchanged with DAUGHERTY over a period often-months. DAUGHERTY is deeply ashamed by what he wrote, such texts being unreflective of his strong commitment to exemplary community policing of all San Francisco's diverse citizens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the city attorney's office said the city is aware of the filing but has no comment at this time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-limit issue has been looming for some time. When Suhr addressed pending Police Commission disciplinary hearings at an \u003cspan class=\"aBn\">\u003cspan class=\"aQJ\">April 3 \u003c/span>\u003c/span>press conference, he elaborated on when the clock pauses, or “tolls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Those administrative matters toll, and attorneys usually know that, when there’s a criminal case pending,\" Suhr said. \"As soon as we became aware of this, we took action. And I’m confident, when we go to the commission, that our argument that anything that was involved in this was tolling until after the criminal case was over with. I myself had no knowledge of this, as I was walled off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The section at issue is California Government Code Section 3304(d)(2), part of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the act, omission, or other allegation of misconduct is also the subject of a criminal investigation or criminal prosecution, the time during which the criminal investigation or criminal prosecution is pending shall toll the one-year time period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wilkinson said the offensive text messages were not the subject of the criminal investigation against Furminger and five other former SFPD officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three arrests that Daugherty participated in have been affected, as the San Francisco's District Attorney's Office \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/07/s-f-da-convenes-three-retired-judges-to-probe-police-department\" target=\"_blank\">reviews some 3,000 cases\u003c/a> involving all 14 officers over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamara Aparton, spokeswoman for the city's public defender, said Tuesday that two pending prosecutions involving Daugherty and clients represented by deputy public defenders were dismissed in April. 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I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.’\u003ccite>Dickran Tevrizian\u003cbr>\nRetired U.S. District Court judge\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“If just one individual was wrongly imprisoned, that’s one too many,” Gascón said Thursday. “On the other end, if we have someone that actually committed a crime, but that prosecution is compromised because of the credibility of this individual, we have a guilty person that may be released and continue to present a danger to all of us. The impacts both on liberty and victims are similarly unconscionable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said the number of arrests and prosecutions affected is preliminary. He said judges and other members of a task force he \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/30/under-fire-san-francisco-da-to-probe-multiple-law-enforcement-scandals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a month ago\u003c/a> will prioritize the 70 or so cases involving people currently in custody. The judges are working autonomously on cases affected by the texting scandal and culture of the police department, Gascón said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His task force is also investigating the SFPD’s DNA crime lab and the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allegations\u003c/a> that sheriff’s deputies forced inmates to fight in one of the city’s jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the district attorney said prosecutors have so far dismissed eight pending cases involving officers implicated in the text messaging scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel of retired judges consists of Cruz Reynoso, LaDoris Cordell and Dickran Tevrizian. Reynoso is a former associate justice of the California Supreme Court and vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Cordell was a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge for 19 years and is currently the independent auditor for the San Jose Police Department. Tevrizian was a federal judge in California’s Central District for more than 20 years, retiring in 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police officers have to abide by the constitutional protections that are guaranteed to each and every one of us as citizens or residents of this country,” he said. “I feel very strongly about that, and that’s why I agreed to come aboard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”oLQT5degXnAtqYdXS9DwbnCQNfZ1aXs4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr recommended \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/03/sfpd-suspends-eight-officers-in-text-messaging-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">firing seven officers\u003c/a> who exchanged texts with former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was convicted of federal fraud and conspiracy to violate civil rights charges in December. Furminger was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced\u003c/a> to three years and five months in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All the texts implicating a total of 14 officers were recovered from Furminger’s phone and made public in a court filing opposing his bail request in March. One officer resigned, and Suhr recommended discipline — up to termination — for two more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said that the remaining four officers’ conduct did not rise to the level of the other 10, and he would handle their discipline. In San Francisco, the chief of police can mete out discipline up to a 10-day suspension. Otherwise it is handled by the civilian Police Commission. The 10 cases referred to the commission are pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco leads national conversations on equality and fairness instead of racism, sexism and homophobia,” Gascón said. “However, as recent revelations have shown, we’re not immune from this epidemic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Rev. Arnold Townsend, with the San Francisco NAACP, said statements of surprise over the racist text messages underscore a divided consciousness in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I doubt that there was an African-American in San Francisco that was surprised that we have bias in our police department,” he said. “That’s the amazing disconnect we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rev. Amos Brown, head of the San Francisco NAACP, applauded the appointment of the judges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pull the cover off this cesspool of injustice and the criminalization of black people,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Shame on you. Shame on all of you.’\u003ccite>SFPD Sgt. Yulanda Williams,\u003cbr>\nOfficers for Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Yulanda Williams, president of \u003ca href=\"http://officersforjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Officers for Justice\u003c/a>, was one of at least two black officers mentioned in text messages recovered from former Sgt. Ian Furminger’s cellphone. The texts were released after he was sentenced for federal fraud and conspiracy charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I joined what I thought was San Francisco’s finest,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like that today. It doesn’t feel like that to many of the minority officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to an execrpt of Williams’ comments below. At one point she says the content of the text that mentioned her by name, which used graphic and offensive language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203232933&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said she viewed it as a betrayal that Police Chief Greg Suhr never addressed the scandal with rank-and-file officers, and Mayor Ed Lee never responded to her requests to meet. She said she’d heard rumors that the text messages were going to come out and called Suhr the day before they did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was assured that my members had nothing to worry about and that I had nothing to worry about,” she said. “You don’t do that to your family. You don’t do that to people you love. Because I’m black, I can never be blue enough for you? Shame on you. Shame on all of you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr didn’t attend the conference, but sent newly promoted Cmdr. 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This is a cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conference also heard from Galia Phillips, the assistant federal public defender in San Francisco, who said her office is challenging arrests in joint \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Court-filing-alleges-racial-bias-in-Tenderloin-6174013.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">narcotics sweeps\u003c/a> of San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood conducted by San Francisco police and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents in 2013 and 2014. “Operation Safe Schools” resulted in 37 arrests in San Francisco for drug sales within 1,000 feet of a school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every one of the 37 people that were charged were black,” Galia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said previously that racial bias didn’t factor into those arrests, and that all the defendants were selling drugs near schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Galia’s challenge to the case cites police surveillance video in which an officer disparagingly refers to black males before being reminded by his partner that the camera is rolling, and another instance in which a confidential informant passes up an offer from an Asian dealer to wait for an African-American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our challenge is not focused on whether or not any particular defendant was innocent or guilty,” Galia said. “Our challenge is focused on whether or not the operation is fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"CJCJ\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice report below:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[scribd id=263591967 key=key-b6oYWQgHwwC7dO8DW6lP mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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