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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130926\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0107-640x439.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco motorcycle police ride in front of about 500 people marching Saturday from San Francisco's Mission District to Bernal Heights Park, where 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family and friends of a 28-year-old San Francisco man shot and killed by police are questioning the official story of the shooting that reverberates with multiple controversies raging in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?q=http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/sfpd-fatal-shooting-bernal-heights&sa=U&ei=Eu84U5bLAvKO2gX_7IDgDA&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNFmwnZkJVgMqB0O7YHSwyuSpLyxfA\" target=\"_blank\">Police Chief Greg Suhr said\u003c/a> Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park as the sun was setting on March 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends say Nieto carried the Taser for his job as a nightclub security guard, and he stopped at his neighborhood park to eat a burrito on his way to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-eviction activists say the shooting spotlights a culture clash in the Mission and other San Francisco neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was a real wake-up call the other day to realize that evictions and gentrification don’t just mean losing your home but really losing your life as well,\" said Erin McElroy with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Anti-Eviction Mapping Project\u003c/a>. She addressed about 500 people filling the streets of the Mission District Saturday before the crowd marched to Bernal Heights Park, where police shot Nieto. \"It’s really sad that we have to be here because we are losing people from this community to gun violence by the police. We are losing people due to evictions, and we are being replaced by people who are scared of us.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130924\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130924 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0067-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catherine Marroquin said evictions and changing demographics in San Francisco's Mission district are related to the fatal police shooting of Alejandro Nieto. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Catherine Marroquin lifted a sign that said \"Gentrification = Police Brutality,\" as she marched through drizzling rain toward the Bernal Heights panoramic view of San Francisco's skyline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. Longtime local shops are being pressured by speculators looking to buy, Arguella said, and if they refuse, they get a lot more attention from authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’ve seen realtors, we’ve seen speculators, we’ve seen individual folks hitting these businesses relentlessly for the last two years,\" he said. \"We’ve seen a pattern of Department of Public Health showing up, the Police Department showing up, different inspectors showing up in an attempt to force them to sell. A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\n\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Police have much more of a presence in the neighborhood now,\" she said, adding the Mission district youth she works with, some City College students, look just like Nieto. \"They're scared for their lives,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erick Arguella represents Mission District business owners with the merchants association \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCsQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcalle24sf.org%2F&ei=du84U7qOIqecyQG_6IDoCw&usg=AFQjCNELzPzMOkxnR-7ogl5Q26I_573OYA&sig2=J6aFEze7FMn1U_lQE0eWkg&bvm=bv.63808443,d.aWc\" target=\"_blank\">Calle 24 SF\u003c/a>. He said Latino ownership of storefronts along 24th Street had dropped to 69 of 130, the lowest ratio in 15 years. 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A lot of times they would have to close if they find some infractions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130923 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0016-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march.\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several dozen San Francisco police officers followed Saturday's march. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The march was flanked by several dozen police officers with riot gear, but there were no confrontations between protesters and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm glad they were here,\" said Nieto's friend, Ben Bac Sierra. He said police should hear the marchers' message: \"We’re at a new stage, we have a very positive momentum. We’re not trying to hurt anyone, we just want the truth. We want justice for Alex.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was well-known in the Mission and Bernal Heights, where he lived. He was active in the fight to keep \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/city-college-of-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">City College of San Francisco\u003c/a> accredited as he studied criminal justice there. He planned to become a probation officer and completed an internship with the city's juvenile probation department about a year ago, said his mentor and city probation officer, Carlos Gonzalez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Knowing that he knew a little bit about criminal justice, knowing that he was an intern with us, it just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,\" Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nieto was a Buddhist and volunteered with Mission District youth organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130927\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130927 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_0295-640x421.jpg\" alt=\"3/29/2014 March for Alejandro Nieto Security 1\" width=\"307\" height=\"202\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Del Villar mourned the death of his co-worker, Alejandro Nieto, on Saturday, March 29. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fellow security guards at El Toro nightclub attended the march Saturday and paid respects to Nieto's father.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He was a real nice guy,\" Luis Del Villar said. \"The first time I met him, he gave me his hand and a hug.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's life was reportedly not without conflict. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Chronicle reports\u003c/a> former friend Arthur Vega filed a restraining order against him after Nieto allegedly shocked him with a stun gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr described elements of a shooting that could point to a \"suicide-by-cop,\" although authorities haven't yet made an official determination on the shooting. Suhr told an angry crowd at a town hall meeting to discuss the shooting last week that Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for \"mental health reasons.\" He said Nieto acting erratically, then drew a Taser when police confronted him in the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They asked Nieto to show his hands, to which he responded, ‘You need to show your hands,’ and then he drew his firearm,” Suhr said, then corrected himself, “the weapon that he drew.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Suhr's remarks on the shooting at a town hall meeting on March 25 are below. Some interruptions have been edited out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Nieto's friends don't buy it. Bac Sierra responded to the possibility of Nieto committing \"suicide-by-cop.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Bac Sierra said gentrification played a role in the shooting of his friend, with new neighbors quick to call police and officers quick to shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"But I don’t really say that with spite -- it’s just they had a different life,\" he said, adding that the diverse crowd that marched Saturday was \"beautiful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Alejandro would love unity,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130929\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 448px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130929 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_9890-640x408.jpg\" alt=\"Mexica dancers Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before.\" width=\"448\" height=\"286\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aztec dancers at Saturday's march for 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto, who was shot and killed by police officers a week before. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Nieto's family, and his many supporters in the Mission and Bernal Heights neighborhoods, are mourning him this week. A public rosary is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday at Driscoll’s Valencia Street Serra Mortuary in the Mission. His funeral is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Saint Kevin Catholic Church in Bernal Heights. Supporters are taking donations for Nieto's family, with more information available on the \"Justice for Alex Nieto\" Facebook page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Meanwhile, police and San Francisco's Office of Citizens Complaints and Police Commission will review the shooting, part of which will likely happen Wednesday in a closed-session meeting. The commission will review the chief's decision to \"return or not return officers to duty following an officer-involved shooting.\" Suhr said involved officers were put on administrative leave after the shooting per police department protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Suhr said officers believed 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto pointed a gun at officers from 75 feet away, but the weapon turned out to be a Taser stun gun. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department brass hosted a grim ritual last night, addressing the neighborhood of a man shot and killed by police just four days before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said 28-year-old Alejandro Nieto pointed a Taser stun gun at officers responding Friday evening to reports of a man with a gun in Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shouts erupted from the crowd of about 300 before Suhr finished speaking. Nieto’s friends and mentors said the City College of San Francisco criminal justice student and aspiring probation officer wouldn’t point a weapon at police. They said he carried a stun gun for his job as a nightclub security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just doesn’t make sense to me that he would be that dumb,” said Deputy San Francisco Probation Officer Carlos Gonzalez, who said he knew Nieto for 10 years and encouraged him as an intern with the probation department. “I think we need to find out more about what happened and get to the bottom of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said police received a call at 7:11 p.m. of a man with a holstered gun. About seven minutes later, witnesses heard many gunshots, all fired by police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A family spokesman said he believes Nieto was shot 14 times, but family members have not yet been allowed to view his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said he would make that information available when he gets it from the medical examiner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Man-killed-by-S-F-police-was-inspiration-but-5344159.php\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed witnesses\u003c/a> who had seen Nieto at the park, including an unnamed person who said Nieto pointed the stun gun at a dog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr said Nieto was prohibited from owning a gun for mental health reasons, which drew a lot of anger from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=wic&group=08001-09000&file=8100-8108\" target=\"_blank\">State law\u003c/a> restricts firearm possession in some cases involving mental health, usually when a threat of violence is communicated to a therapist or an inpatient being treated for mental illness is believed to be a danger to himself or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a fact that Mr. Nieto was prohibited from having a firearm, for reasons that I don’t want to upset anybody about,” Suhr said over shouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> The SFPD’s homicide division and the Office of Citizen Complaints will investigate the shooting. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mission neighborhood leader Roberto Hernandez said bringing up Nieto’s mental health was an attempt to “throw dirt on him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I've been depressed, I don't know what person has never been depressed,” Hernandez said. “That has nothing to do with murdering him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Commission President Thomas Mazzucco said SFPD’s homicide division and the Office of Citizen Complaints will investigate the shooting and bring their findings to the commission, which reviews every officer-involved shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people at the town hall said Nieto was a victim of gentrification in the city’s Mission District, which borders Bernal Heights Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College instructor and family friend Ben Bac Sierra said park-goers were quick to call police and officers were quick to shoot a Latino man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe he was doing anything other than eating his burrito, watching the view,” he said. “There is no way that Alejandro Nieto pointed the Taser at police officers -- insane to believe that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bac Sierra said a civil rights attorney with John Burris’ law office is investigating the case. Nieto’s friends are planning a rally and march for this Saturday, leaving from the Mission Cultural Center at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The affected officers have been suspended without pay, effective immediately; and will remain so until this matter has been adjudicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many concerns my administration inherited from past administrations, this investigation – by far as the public’s trust is everything to us (SFPD) – has been of the gravest concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As I said on the day that I was sworn in as Chief of Police when asked about this ongoing investigation, “There is no place in the San Francisco Police Department – and shouldn’t be in any police department - for a dishonest cop.” Should these officers be proven guilty of any of the charges as alleged, I will seek immediate termination and expect that the Police Commission will agree and act expeditiously to make that happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I am grateful to US Attorney Melinda Haag, former Special Agent in Charge Stephanie Douglas, and current Special Agent in Charge of the FBI David Johnson for their thorough and comprehensive investigation into this matter.\u003cbr>\nAlthough federal authorities have represented that they found no evidence that the conduct of these few officers, as alleged, is an indicator of a larger “systemic concern” within the SFPD, I want to assure the public that policies, procedures, and on-going training to those policies and procedures; along with additional supervision of officers working in plainclothes was put in place during the first weeks of my administration to safeguard against even the suggestion of anything like this happening again.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Next, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who brought the alleged police misconduct to light in 2011:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Today's indictments are confirmation that the constitutional rights of San Franciscans matter. I commend the U.S. Attorney for taking seriously the reports from ordinary citizens who had been humiliated, stolen from and hurt by police officers sworn to protect them. For years, our clients told us their rights were being violated, and for years we raised the issues in front of judges. Ultimately, it took a federal investigation to hold accountable those who would violate the public trust.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, who was police chief when the alleged crimes took place:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I am relieved to know that the officers have been indicted, after I referred the matter to federal authorities. It is extremely disappointing that the officers violated the trust of the community and tarnished the reputation of all the hard working men and women in uniform. As law enforcement, we must all work hard to ensure our agencies operate with the highest integrity and are deserving of the trust the public bestows upon us.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Finally, Martin Halloran, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, who told the Associated Press the indictments were apparently based on the questionable testimony of unreliable informant witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"However, we do understand that these are nonetheless serious charges,\" Halloran said. \"It is important to remember that the accused officers will have their day in court since federal grand juries only hear one side of the story.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, KQED's Mina Kim spoke with Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg, who co-directs Stanford's Criminal Justice Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wouldn't want to view this as an indictment of the whole department,\" Weisberg said. \"I don't know that this would be described as 'deep and systemic' ... One could still describe it as an isolated incident, but it's a really bad isolated incident.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137124146&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong>Federal prosecutors have announced the indictment of six San Francisco police officers, including a former officer, in a case in which police are alleged to have conducted illegal searches and stolen property from residents of single-room-occupancy hotels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separate grand juries brought charges against the officers, including deprivation of rights under color of law, conspiracy against civil rights, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, falsification of records and extortion. Three of the accused officers worked out of the department's Southern Station; three were at the Mission Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Conviction on the most serious charges in the indictments would carry a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The indictments announced today stem from allegations made in 2011 by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He made public \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/11/s-f-public-defender-releases-new-video-of-apparent-police-misconduct/\" target=\"_blank\">a series of videotapes\u003c/a> (including the one embedded at the top of this post) that showed police officers conducting apparently illegal searches, roughing up suspects and stealing property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's disclosures resulted in charges being thrown out against more than 100 defendants charged with drug offenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers named in Thursday's indictments are:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Southern Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Officer Arshad Razzak, 41, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Richard Yick, 37, of San Francisco\u003cbr>\n• Officer Raul Eric Elias, 44, of San Mateo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mission Station Defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>• Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Tuesday, Feb. 25:\u003c/strong> A New York man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971, including one in San Francisco, has been denied parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-member New York state parole panel rejected the application from Herman Bell, 66, who was convicted of murder in the killing of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of San Francisco Police Sgt. John Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You chose ... a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families.'\u003ccite>Parole panel ruling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bell was making his sixth attempt at parole, and cited a wide variety of factors to persuade the board he was ready for release. Bell has earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in prison, has counseled homeless children by mail, and has enjoyed support from some public officials and even from Jones's family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel decided in a ruling released today that despite Bell's attempts at rehabilitation, there is a reasonable probability he would again violate that law and his release \"is incompatible with the welfare of society.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's decision was critical of Bell's statements at a parole hearing last week: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your four-page statement, as well as a significant part of your presentation, focuses on a self-serving explanation of the tumultuous era in which you grew up; it was devoid of any true acceptance of responsibility for your extremely violent and repeated criminal actions, which included acting in concert in armed robbery and the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant [redacted]. Despite having educational opportunities and a supportive family, you chose instead a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families. And while the assassination of Martin Luther King continues to be a national tragedy, you exploited it as an excuse to choose a life of extreme violence and murder. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bell will be eligible for parole again in two years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\" width=\"100\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that the men are even eligible for parole is a bitter pill for San Francisco police. They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. He said Bell’s sentence of 25 years to life contemplates parole after the 2½-decade prison term, and Bell has served 15 more years than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parole board, acting at the request of the police, is turning it into a life sentence without parole, and that’s not right,” he said. “The law is on his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police suspect Bell and Bottom of many other crimes in the city, including the 1970 Park Police Station bombing that killed SFPD Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/8924-sergeant-brian-v-mcdonnell\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McDonnell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't matter whether this happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago,” Delagnes said. “These were vicious killers and they should never be on the streets again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims' families disagree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widow of Piagentini testified against Bell’s release at his parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have denied our two daughters a loving father, our two grandchildren have been denied the love and warmth of their granddad, and I have been denied a husband for our entire lives,” Diane Piagentini said, according to the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “There is no parole for the wonderful man they killed, and there should be no parole for these cold-blooded murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, including Jones' son, believe letting Bell out of prison could help society heal from the violence and racism in the '60s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waverly Jones Jr. wrote a letter to the New York Parole Board, saying that keeping Bell in prison would not ease the pain of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"By releasing them through recognizing the good work of Mr. Bell and Mr. Bottom have done while incarcerated, by recognizing that they have done decades in prison and are different people than they were 35 years ago, you can bring some peace to our family,\" he wrote in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Tuesday, Feb. 25:\u003c/strong> A New York man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971, including one in San Francisco, has been denied parole. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-member New York state parole panel rejected the application from Herman Bell, 66, who was convicted of murder in the killing of New York Police Department Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of San Francisco Police Sgt. John Young.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'You chose ... a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families.'\u003ccite>Parole panel ruling\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bell was making his sixth attempt at parole, and cited a wide variety of factors to persuade the board he was ready for release. Bell has earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in prison, has counseled homeless children by mail, and has enjoyed support from some public officials and even from Jones's family. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the panel decided in a ruling released today that despite Bell's attempts at rehabilitation, there is a reasonable probability he would again violate that law and his release \"is incompatible with the welfare of society.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The panel's decision was critical of Bell's statements at a parole hearing last week: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Your four-page statement, as well as a significant part of your presentation, focuses on a self-serving explanation of the tumultuous era in which you grew up; it was devoid of any true acceptance of responsibility for your extremely violent and repeated criminal actions, which included acting in concert in armed robbery and the killing of a San Francisco police sergeant [redacted]. Despite having educational opportunities and a supportive family, you chose instead a life of extreme violence against those charged with protecting society. Your merciless actions destroyed families. And while the assassination of Martin Luther King continues to be a national tragedy, you exploited it as an excuse to choose a life of extreme violence and murder. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Bell will be eligible for parole again in two years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (published Sunday, Feb. 23):\u003c/strong> A 66-year-old man convicted of killing three police officers in 1971 — two in New York City, one in San Francisco — has another chance at freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman Bell went before a New York parole board last week, the sixth time the former Black Panther Party member has done so, seeking an end to a 25-year-to-life sentence after four decades behind bars. A board spokeswoman said a decision will come on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case of Herman Bell is stirring debate about a recent history of race and violence in the Bay Area, and how society should heal those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cop killers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Anthony Bottom were both convicted of murder in 1975 for shooting New York police Patrolmen \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/7273-patrolman-waverly-m-jones\" target=\"_blank\">Waverly Jones\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/10661-patrolman-joseph-a-piagentini\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Piagentini\u003c/a> to death. In addition, Bell took a plea deal of manslaughter in 2009 for the 1971 killing of San Francisco police Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/14631-sergeant-john-victor-young\" target=\"_blank\">John Young\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'It’d be an insult to every police officer in the country.'\u003ccite>SFPD officer Gary Delagnes\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Bottom pleaded no contest to a conspiracy charge in the Young case that named both men part of the “San Francisco Eight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parole hearings – Bottom’s is coming this summer – are \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">raising questions\u003c/a> about the power of parole boards to effectively lengthen prison sentences. Bell has an exemplary record in prison. He earned a master’s degree behind bars and started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html\" target=\"_blank\">program\u003c/a> to teach urban and rural communities to grow their own organic produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s articulate, he’s intelligent, he’s compassionate,” said Stuart Hanlon, Bell’s San Francisco attorney. “He’s clearly not the person who in the 1970s was a member of the black underground and the Black Panther Party. He’s changed. And so how do you judge him?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The murders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bell and Bottom recently admitted to ambushing the New York patrolmen, Jones and Piagentini, as they responded to a fake 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones was shot in the back of the head and died instantly. Piagentini was shot more than a dozen times and died on his way to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police say Bell and Bottom moved to the Bay Area after the New York ambush. Police suspected the men and six others of setting off a bomb at Stonestown Mall to create a distraction, then fatally shooting Young with a shotgun inside Ingleside Station. A civilian employee was also seriously wounded. Thus, the \"San Francisco Eight\" moniker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Manslaughter in San Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127360\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 100px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-127360\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/police0222.jpg\" alt=\"From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\" width=\"100\" height=\"375\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top to bottom: New York police Patrolman Joseph Piagentini, San Francisco police Sgt. John Young John Young and New York police Patrolman Waverly Jones. (Courtesy the Officer Down Memorial Page)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fact that the men are even eligible for parole is a bitter pill for San Francisco police. They know Bell for his association with a different group, the Black Liberation Army, which carried out militant attacks on police officers, bombings and armed robberies throughout the '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Bell is paroled, “it’d be an insult to every police officer in the country,” retired SFPD officer and former San Francisco Police Officers Association President Gary Delagnes said. “These are people that put their butt out there for you, and when one of them is murdered, it better be taken seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco charges against the eight suspects were dropped in the '70s after the confessions that built the case were found to be the result of torture. Prosecutors brought Bell and Bottom back to San Francisco in 2007 with newly discovered forensic evidence, but ended up giving the two their plea deals, with no additional jail time beyond what they'd already served.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said Young’s murder was a “pointless, outrageous act.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But that doesn’t mean anybody charged with it, with the Panthers, is guilty, and that was the problem we were facing,” he said. “I was not convinced by the evidence, not even close to it. The other lawyers certainly weren’t, and I don’t think the government was because the prosecutors dumped six of the eight people and got voluntary manslaughters for probation on the two who were already doing life sentences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Delagnes said the plea deal was a mistake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of the manslaughter plea, they’re now openly seeking parole in New York, which is a shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092473'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Parole board's authority\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanlon said he doesn’t necessarily expect Bell to get paroled, but he has some hope because of \u003ca href=\"http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F02%2F17%2Fopinion%2Fnew-yorks-broken-parole-system.html&ei=3-8HU8SnGYrdoATM8YLoDQ&usg=AFQjCNFwM-c0CiLXetVImNwrfRAn4Zu2Og&bvm=bv.61725948,d.cGU\" target=\"_blank\">recent criticism\u003c/a> that the New York Parole Board too often denies release based solely on the seriousness of the crime. He said Bell’s sentence of 25 years to life contemplates parole after the 2½-decade prison term, and Bell has served 15 more years than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The parole board, acting at the request of the police, is turning it into a life sentence without parole, and that’s not right,” he said. “The law is on his side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='undefined' height='undefined'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802&visual=true&undefined'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/136092802'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco police suspect Bell and Bottom of many other crimes in the city, including the 1970 Park Police Station bombing that killed SFPD Sgt. \u003ca href=\"http://www.odmp.org/officer/8924-sergeant-brian-v-mcdonnell\" target=\"_blank\">Brian McDonnell\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn't matter whether this happened 30, 40 or 50 years ago,” Delagnes said. “These were vicious killers and they should never be on the streets again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victims' families disagree\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The widow of Piagentini testified against Bell’s release at his parole hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have denied our two daughters a loving father, our two grandchildren have been denied the love and warmth of their granddad, and I have been denied a husband for our entire lives,” Diane Piagentini said, according to the New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. “There is no parole for the wonderful man they killed, and there should be no parole for these cold-blooded murderers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, including Jones' son, believe letting Bell out of prison could help society heal from the violence and racism in the '60s and '70s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waverly Jones Jr. wrote a letter to the New York Parole Board, saying that keeping Bell in prison would not ease the pain of his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Thuy Vu\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: The video below contains profanity and some graphic images.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"single-video\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/8NQle7jWJjc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Last week’s videotaped brawl between San Francisco police officers and residents of the Valencia Gardens public housing complex is sparking a lot more questions than answers. What happened exactly in the critical moments before the altercation, none of which is captured on camera?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police say that when plainclothes officers tried to detain 20-year-old D’Paris Williams for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk near his home in the Mission District neighborhood last Friday, Williams wouldn’t stop. Officers confronted him as he tried to flee into his apartment, police say, and the situation escalated when he tried to resist arrest. The video above, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX2x48l4U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a second one\u003c/a> posted this week, shows what happened after the incident began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s how \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/11/18/video-prompts-cries-of-s-f-police-brutality/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the San Francisco Chronicle described the arrest \u003c/a>later:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“It escalated to a point where (Williams) was trying to resist arrest,” said Officer Gordon Shyy, a department spokesman. The officers “proned him out on the ground, and he still continued to struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams’ sister, Christina Williams, 21, said officers beat her brother needlessly outside their front door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was just coming in the house,” she said in an interview Monday. “And they want to say they’re coming after him for riding a bike on the sidewalk. He had to bring the bike on the sidewalk to come into the house.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Police say five officers were injured in the brawl, which led to a total of four arrests. Those detained included a man who was shoved and punched by a plainclothes officer. The community responded with \u003ca href=\"http://missionlocal.org/2013/11/valencia-gardens-residents-protest-police-action/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Tuesday night protest\u003c/a> of the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119194 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/DJ-7-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Residents of Valencia Gardens Apartments and others protest the arrest of D’Paris Williams. (Photo courtesy of Travis Jensen/www.travisjensenphoto.com)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of Valencia Gardens public housing complex and others protest the arrest of D’Paris Williams.\u003cbr>(Photo courtesy of Travis Jensen/www.travisjensenphoto.com)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Valencia Gardens episode is the latest in a growing string of incidents, including \u003ca href=\"http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=7519130\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the BART police killing of Oscar Grant\u003c/a> and last month’s widely publicized confrontation between New Mexico police officers and a family of six, in which video is playing a crucial role in showing police conduct to a global public. In the Grant case, numerous bystanders recorded the confrontation leading to the fatal shooting. 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She says police behavior is just one side of the coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive force is in the eye of the beholder. We don’t have all the details,” Cordell said. “Why did other people get involved? Did they make threats against the police? Were they hostile?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell thinks every officer should wear a camera. She believes that would help provide an objective record, protecting both the officer and the person who is approached, reducing the inherent problems of “he said, she said” scenarios. Just this week, Palo Alto’s City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_24551145/police-palo-alto-wear-video-cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved\u003c/a> cameras for some of its patrol cars and officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell told me this week, the presence of that constantly unfolding video record has changed policing forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, it’s not just the officers’ accounts anymore, but you have all this video out there,” Judge Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She knows a thing or two about law enforcement controversies. She’s currently San Jose’s\u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/ipa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Independent Police Auditor\u003c/a>, assisting victims of police abuse and misconduct. I called Cordell to get her perspective on the incident in San Francisco. She says police behavior is just one side of the coin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive force is in the eye of the beholder. We don’t have all the details,” Cordell said. “Why did other people get involved? Did they make threats against the police? Were they hostile?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell thinks every officer should wear a camera. She believes that would help provide an objective record, protecting both the officer and the person who is approached, reducing the inherent problems of “he said, she said” scenarios. Just this week, Palo Alto’s City Council \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_24551145/police-palo-alto-wear-video-cameras\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved\u003c/a> cameras for some of its patrol cars and officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As San Francisco Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius noted in an \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/S-F-police-seek-cameras-to-capture-whole-picture-4997404.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article\u003c/a> published Thursday, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wants his officers to wear cameras. In fact, the department will soon begin a pilot program equipping 50 plainclothes officers with small, cigar-shaped video devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/11/newsroom-115x65.jpg\" alt=\"newsroom-115x65\" width=\"115\" height=\"65\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nWe’ll explore this topic further and dig deeper on the issue of relations between police and communities of color on this week’s edition of KQED Newsroom. Both C.W. Nevius and Judge LaDoris Cordell will be guests on the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a> is a weekly news magazine program on television, radio and online. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108651\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/27/108647/amelie-le-moullac/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108651\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108651\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/Amelie-Le-Moullac-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amelie Le Moullac was killed while riding her bicycle on Folsom Street. Photo from Voce Communications via Streetsblog SF \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Voce Communications )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bicycle advocates are accusing the San Francisco Police Department of shoddy evidence-gathering in the case of a bicyclist who was killed by a big-rig driver on a SoMa street earlier this month. 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He reportedly made no mention of \u003ca href=\"http://sf.streetsblog.org/2013/08/16/cbs-5-exacerbates-deadly-confusion-about-bike-lane-right-of-way/\">widespread violations by drivers who turn across bike lanes\u003c/a> instead of merging fully into them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was his “right” to be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFBC Executive Director Leah Shahum, Ernst blamed all three victims who were killed by truck drivers in SoMa and the Mission this year, and refused to leave until she “understood that it was the bicyclist’s fault.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Bike advocates are disturbed that many fatal collisions caused by drivers are written off as “tragic accidents.\"\u003c/strong> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco police wouldn’t comment directly on Ernst’s behavior, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Chuck Nevius \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Discord-growing-between-bicyclists-police-4757178.php\">talked to SFPD brass\u003c/a> who privately “confirmed that not only was he acting on his own, they considered his actions an embarrassment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same day of the event, a staffer from the SFBC decided to canvass the neighborhood for any surveillance video that might have captured the crash. He surveyed five businesses, and found an auto shop that had footage of the collision from a camera pointed directly at the intersection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was so upsetting and distressing to find out is that the police had told us at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition on three separate occasions they looked for video footage and that none could be found,” said Kristin Smith, communications director for the SFBC. “It was in a 15-minute quick check that our staffer was able to find this. It was really just basic police work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith said they found the footage in the nick of time because the auto shop had planned to erase it the next morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attorney for Le Moullac’s family, Micha Star Liberty, said the video confirms her client did not cause the collision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s most important is that it reveals to me that she was a true victim with respect to this collision and did nothing wrong,” said Liberty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters worse, the police initially refused to give Liberty a copy of the police report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crystal clear that the family of Amelie Le Moullac and me as their attorney should be given information contained in the report,” Liberty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only after media calls that police finally indicated they were going to release it\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Police-response-to-cyclist-s-death-offtrack-4762740.php\">, according to Nevius\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>By Monday, the department had changed its tune, probably after the intervention of Police Chief \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=bayarea%2Fnevius&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Greg+Suhr%22\">Greg Suhr\u003c/a>, who responded quickly to a text questioning the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally we do not release accident reports that result in death,\" Suhr replied. \"That said, we're working on getting a copy of the report to the family.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberty said she had been told to expect an e-mail copy of the report that afternoon.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Nevius described the SFPD’s response to the crash as “tone-deaf.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike advocates say they're disturbed that many collisions caused by drivers that end in the deaths of bicyclists \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/bay-area-drivers-who-kill-pedestrians-rarely-face-punishment-analysis-finds-4420\">and pedestrians\u003c/a> are written off as “tragic accidents,\" with no citations or charges except in drunken driving and hit-and-run cases. Some have accused the police of having a bias against bicyclists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard from many of our members that they’ve had unfortunate interactions with the police,” said Smith. “What’s really distressing right now is that this might not be an isolated incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the San Francisco Police Department, Albie Esparza, said he understands the “perception” and “concern” from bike advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know the information that was available to the investigators. We do certainly ask for the public’s help and assistance,” said Esparza. “If this piece of evidence was not retrieved, it is now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) A long-planned police substation along San Francisco's blighted Sixth Street will open some time next month, Mayor Ed Lee said today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim asked Lee about the substation during his monthly voter-mandated question-and-answer session with the city's Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The site, located in Kim's district at 72 Sixth St. between Jessie and Mission streets, has long been slated for the substation but plans stalled early in 2012 when a new state law went into effect ordering the dissolution of local redevelopment agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco's redevelopment agency was overseeing the project, prompting officials to alter their plans and instead pay $775,000 out of the city's general fund for renovations to the building.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The substation had tentatively been set to open Dec. 1 but is now scheduled for opening some time in February with construction ending by the end of this month, Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the revitalization of the city's Central Market area is one of his key policy goals and that the substation will play an important role in that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to make sure this neighborhood is a safe place,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr said the substation will serve as a space for officers to fill out reports and do administrative work without having to go back to a district station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Whatever we can do to keep the officers in the field,\" Suhr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the substation's location almost exactly midway between the department's Southern Station at 850 Bryant St. and Tenderloin Station at 301 Eddy St. will allow officers from both stations to use it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said the space will also be available for use by other city departments and Central Market community ambassadors to help improve the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking forward to cutting the ribbon soon,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>By Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/sfpd-recorded-asian-arrests-chinese/\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73134\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/police-SFPD-Squad-car.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/police-SFPD-Squad-car.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"police SFPD Squad car\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73134\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD squad car. (Photo: Todd Lappin/Flickr) \u003ccite>(Todd Lappin/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Police Department, relying on antiquated computer technology, routinely recorded nearly all Asians who were arrested in the city as “Chinese” until this month, department officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arrest data that included the “Chinese” numbers was released to the public and sent to law enforcement agencies for at least 10 years, contributing to a skewed understanding of who was being arrested by San Francisco police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chinese classifications baffled Asian community leaders who said the lack of statistics about Asian arrests have made it difficult to know where to focus scarce resources and have contributed to a stereotype of most Asian groups as “model minorities” who never commit crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s crazy,” said Eddy Zheng, who does gang outreach for the Community Youth Center, a San Francisco-based organization focused on Asian youth. “It is an injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police Chief Greg Suhr told the San Francisco Police Commission on Sept. 12 that the department would start collecting accurate data for the 18 ethnic categories accepted by the California Department of Justice based on how people who are arrested identify themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone asks somebody, ‘Hey, what ethnicity are you?’ We’ll report that,” Suhr told the commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available, the department reported 760 Chinese, one Japanese and nine Filipino arrests. When the department submitted its arrest data to state authorities, it informed them that the “Chinese” category included Asian arrestees of all ethnicities, Suhr told The Bay Citizen after the meeting. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state Department of Justice, however, did not appear to get the message. It recorded the Asian arrests as Chinese in its annual crime report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the 2010 census, Asians are the largest minority group in San Francisco, comprising a third of the population. Of the city’s Asians, 64 percent are of Chinese descent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo2.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/09/BayCitizenLogo2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-76770\">\u003c/a>“How do we know how many Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese are arrested?” said Rudy Asercion, the executive director of the West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center and a member of the police department’s community outreach group for Asian American and Pacific Islanders. “Right now we have no idea if Filipinos are getting arrested in big numbers or small numbers, or what kind of intervention do we need to do. That’s the thing I’m really sorry about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recording most Asian arrestees as Chinese is just one of the data collection problems the department has faced. The Bay Citizen reported last month that for years the police department had been \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/14/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates-for-latinos-asians/\">misreporting the race and ethnicity of many arrestees\u003c/a>, including classifying all Latinos as “white.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officials have blamed the inaccurate arrest data on a 40-year-old computer system that provides officers with only four categories: white, black, Chinese and other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whoever created that system – just having those four categories – I think that’s racist,” said Zheng of the Community Youth Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misreporting, he said, likely led to a misallocation of city funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In 2010 the SFPD reported 760 Chinese, one Japanese and nine Filipino arrests. When the department submitted its arrest data to state authorities, it informed them that the “Chinese” category included Asian arrestees of all ethnicities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s not only the Chinese who are committing crimes and who are engaged in criminal activities,” he said. “You’re raising the crime rate for the Chinese population and minimizing the other population. Then you don’t necessarily get those resources because they think they don’t have any problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following The Bay Citizen articles, Chief Technology Officer Susan Giffin said the department wrote a computer code to convert all Chinese arrests to Asian in the data sent to Sacramento. She also told the Police Commission that the department would begin tracking and reporting the arrests of Hispanics and 17 other ethnicities, including white, black, Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Suhr issued a departmentwide memo directing all officers to begin recording the race and ethnicity of everyone who is jailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to give a departmental report to this commission with the race reporting and the ethnicity reporting of all 18 ethnicities,” Suhr said. “For the city of San Francisco, this commission will know the race and ethnicity reporting of all the arrest data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s reporting practices have alarmed some city officials and civil rights advocates who view accurate data as a way to track use of police resources and hold the department accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of us were really shocked to learn about this issue considering we are in San Francisco, sort of part of the center of technology in the nation,” Micaela Davis, an attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, told the commission. “To learn that smaller counties in rural California have been reporting proper data and statistics on Hispanics, and we’re not because we don’t have the proper equipment was pretty shocking. I’m glad we’re paying attention to this issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public defender Jeff Adachi applauded the department’s pledge to tally the race and ethnicity of arrestees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a positive development. It should have happened a long time ago,” he said in an interview. “Not having those arrest statistics, very basic information like that, is wrong. It’s outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of the department’s other reporting errors, police officers were not filling in racial and ethnic categories on arrest forms when transferring arrestees to the San Francisco County Jail, interim Sheriff Vicki Hennessy said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It remains unclear what will happen to years of erroneous arrest data. The ACLU of Northern California and the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, have asked the department to fix the old statistics. Both groups relied on the data in concluding that African Americans were arrested at significantly higher rates than other races in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the police department’s computer system is still unable to track more than four categories, which means that criminal justice agencies in the same network, including the public defender’s office, the district attorney’s office and the probation department, will continue receiving incomplete data, city officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department, however, is ahead of the curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Giffin said the ability to begin tracking 18 ethnicities is thanks to a technology upgrade this month at the sheriff’s department, which operates the jail. Every time an individual is booked into the facility, she said, deputies can choose between five racial categories and 18 different ethnicities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s department has agreed to provide the police department with data on the ethnicity of the people it arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good to be able to get info that you need in order to make better decisions,” Sheriff Hennessey said. “It’s a value in understanding who we’re serving and who is in our jails.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. Learn more at www.baycitizen.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>by Shoshana Walter, \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/african-americans-arrested-high-rates/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bay Citizen\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71607\" title=\"BayCitizenLogo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/07/BayCitizenLogo3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"74\">\u003c/a>Although African Americans constitute 6 percent of San Francisco’s population, they are about seven times more likely to be arrested than whites, who represent 41.8 percent of the city’s population, according to an analysis of recently released statistics from the California Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Blacks are seven times more likely to be taken into custody than whites\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The gap between the arrest rates for whites and African Americans in San Francisco is well above state and national averages, a Bay Citizen analysis has found. In California, African Americans are four times more likely to be arrested than whites, and nationwide, about 2.4 times more likely to face arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparity in the arrest rates is likely even larger than reported because the police department has routinely misclassified Latino arrestees as “white.” A recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/policing/story/sf-police-underreport-arrest-rates/\">Bay Citizen investigation\u003c/a> revealed that the department has classified Latino arrestees as white and Asian arrestees as “other” for at least a decade, sending the erroneous statistics to the state Department of Justice and the FBI. Department officials have blamed an outdated computer system that allows officers to only categorize individuals as white, black and other for the incorrect data.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Justice report, 8,198 African Americans and 9,151 whites were arrested in San Francisco in 2010, along with 316 Hispanic adults and nine Hispanic juveniles. About 2,800 arrestees are listed as \"other.\" The Bay Citizen calculated the arrest rates based on the population of each group in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While department officials have admitted that the numbers of Latino and white arrestees are incorrect, they said that the reported statistics on African American arrests are accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Ed Lee recently backed away from a “stop-and-frisk” proposal over concerns that it would unfairly target Latinos and African Americans. He instead unveiled a new plan that would involve flooding police into areas where they predict crimes will occur. 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