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"content": "\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267141814\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"RDXWXzCNh9gS825TpkA3nxzUIcjFNY8O\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the OCC's part, it has received complaints and has opened investigations into the high-profile police shootings of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/04/how-a-witness-to-fatal-s-f-police-shooting-of-amilcar-perez-lopez-came-forward\" target=\"_blank\">Amilcar Perez Lopez\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/04/08/sfpd-investigators-selectively-release-witness-statements-on-police-shooting\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Gongora\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/s-f-police-shoot-kill-woman-after-confrontation-in-bayview\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Williams\u003c/a>. The office's findings in those cases will likely be heavily scrutinized -- if the public can find them.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/scrutiny-officer-involved-shootings-may-increase/\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in January\u003c/a> that the city's \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/occ/\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Citizen Complaints\u003c/a> should investigate all officer-involved shootings, the local policing landscape looked very different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But upheaval had already begun, sparked by the fatal police shooting last Dec. 2 of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/mario-woods\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Woods\u003c/a> in the Bayview District. Cohen was barraged by angry comments from her constituents there.\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/267141814&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/267141814'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The one thing that I heard consistently is that there is no police accountability,” Cohen said, “or even perception of police accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments, or reprimands, and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.'\u003ccite>Barbara Attard,\u003cbr>\nPolice accountability consultant\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says she started drafting the measure that would become \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov.org/elections/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/OCC%20Legal%20Text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition D\u003c/a> after finding the Office of Citizen Complaints wasn’t immediately investigating the Woods shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s responsibilities are outlined in San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"http://charter.sanfranciscocode.org/IV/4.127/\" target=\"_blank\">City Charter\u003c/a>, which means changing them is up to the city’s voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Enter Prop. D\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen’s measure is simple. If Proposition D is approved by voters, OCC investigators would automatically investigate all officer-involved shootings for violations of department policy. Investigators could recommend discipline as well as changes in policy or officer training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civilian oversight investigations would thus become a permanent piece of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/288238790/SFPD-OIS-Investigations-Process\" target=\"_blank\">multiple probes following a death\u003c/a> or serious injury at the hands of city police officers. The measure wouldn't affect other inquiries that follow officer-involved shootings, including investigations by SFPD’s homicide and internal affairs units and a separate criminal investigation by the district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s no organized opposition to expanding the role of the OCC, and in anticipation of Prop. D's passage, Mayor Ed Lee's proposed budget includes $1.8 million to hire five new civilian investigators and upgrade training and equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC's executive director, Joyce Hicks, says the measure would allow her investigators to begin their work at the scene of a shooting, instead of waiting days, weeks or months to receive a complaint and then play catch-up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"Ex\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10974383\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RS19642_IMG_5161-qut-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OCC Executive Director Joyce Hicks peruses binders filled with complaint summary reports. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigator would immediately begin canvassing the area where the shooting occurred, looking for witnesses,” she said. “Sometimes there are witnesses who feel comfortable speaking to OCC investigators but don’t feel comfortable talking to law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Picture\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D would likely quadruple the number of incidents investigated by the OCC. Cohen notes that of the 35 police shootings that might have triggered an OCC inquiry in the past five years, the office has looked into just eight -- the only ones in which someone filed a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of opposition to expanding the number of OCC investigations, some critics question whether \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-polices-toothless-watchdog-sfpd-office-of-citizen-complaints-ed-lee-greg-suhr-joyce-hicks-mario-woods-alex-nieto-police/Content?oid=4548631&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\">the agency has any teeth\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OCC investigates hundreds of complaints a year, and some of them are very serious cases,” said police accountability consultant Barbara Attard, who has worked for the OCC as well as civilian oversight offices in Berkeley and San Jose. “But there’s been very little real discipline meted out. Most of the complaints result in admonishments or reprimands and maybe retraining. With that low level of discipline, officers are not being held accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC’s officer-involved shooting investigations follow a similar pattern. A KQED review of the six completed investigations (two are still pending) between December 2010 and January 2016 shows no \"sustained\" complaints -- meaning the office found no fault on the part of officers involved and recommended no discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's office found officers were legally justified to use deadly force in five of those incidents. The DA's office did not investigate the 2010 shooting of Vinh Bui, according to a spokesman, because District Attorney George Gascón had recently been appointed to the post after serving as police chief and there could have been a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>S.F. Police Shooting Investigations\u003c/h3>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Office of Citizen Complaints\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314413335/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Joshua-Smith?secret_password=jWFBg5kNG9a8VIhCSEbt\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314488644/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Kenneth-Harding?secret_password=4YUGAJyfmA95RwKH8sag\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489250/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Pralith-Pralourng?secret_password=6wSpwmhKRnMDQ7eYPOuG\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314489739/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Police-Shooting-of-Brian-Cooper?secret_password=akbZpABvTJU2ZVUagI71\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314490313/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Alejandro-Nieto?secret_password=uLGGznfTZffKCPTFMzNU\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>DA's Office/News Sources\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-police-killing-of-mentally-ill-man-exposes-6797077.php\" target=\"_blank\">Vinh Bui\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/318-65%20Buena%20Vista.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Smith\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/323-3rd%20%26%20Newcomb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Harding\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/299-Washington%20%26%20Davis%20St._Redacted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pralith Pralourng\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/321-15%20Dakota.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Cooper\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://sfdistrictattorney.org/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documents/305-Bernal%20Hill%20Park.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Nieto\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the criticism comes from a misunderstanding of the OCC's authority and the case law governing police use of force. But, she says, as SFPD's \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscopolice.org/use-force-documents\" target=\"_blank\">use of force policies\u003c/a> change to emphasize de-escalation and other alternatives to firearms, the OCC's findings in future cases could also change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'Lawful but awful' is no longer acceptable to the American public,\" she said. \"... The public is demanding greater transparency, greater explanations as to why law enforcement conducts itself in the way it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The OCC plays a major role in changing police practices, Hicks says. The office's policy attorney was part of a broad group that debated and tweaked new rules for body cameras and use of force. And she says the office's \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/314412742/S-F-OCC-Investigation-Fatal-Police-Shooting-of-Bui-Vinh?secret_password=LELjlAZBGuBT55RAsxbJ\" target=\"_blank\">investigation\u003c/a> into the December 2010 police killing of Vinh Bui found policy and training failures and recommended enhancing training for encounters with mentally ill suspects and the department's tactical reviews of shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Challenges to Transparency\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. D won't change one of the major challenges in bringing transparency to the OCC's work, says police accountability consultant Attard, because of the strong privacy protections for police officers embodied in state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When all of your work remains confidential, I think it's hard for the public to really know what you're doing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following legal advice from city attorney's office, Hicks says, the OCC's summaries of police shooting cases are stripped of the names of officers, the names of those injured or killed and even the date and location of incidents. The investigative summaries are virtually buried in monthly OCC reports of all its recently closed case, documents that run to more than 100 pages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California is one of the few states that has complete confidentiality around police misconduct cases,\" Attard said, \"and we're way overdue to change that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attard, Hicks and Supervisor Cohen all supported a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/19/new-state-bill-would-open-police-misconduct-serious-use-of-force-files\" target=\"_blank\">bill\u003c/a> by San Francisco state Sen. Mark Leno that would have eased restrictions on public access to sustained findings of police misconduct. The measure \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-california-police-misconduct-r-1464384312-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently died\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hicks says the OCC is as transparent as the law currently allows, but Attard says the agency could do more to push for stronger discipline and transparency. She says attention may shift toward the office following the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/05/19/suhr-resigns-after-series-of-fatal-officer-involved-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">May 19 resignation\u003c/a> of Police Chief Greg Suhr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now that he's no longer here, I think we need to look to the OCC and the Police Commission for their role in accountability and ensure that they're holding officers and the police chief accountable when there should be serious discipline,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'A Baby Step'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Cohen, Proposition D is just one \"baby step\" in a series of bigger changes she wants to bring to San Francisco policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465493&GUID=2B16E0C9-22B7-4AB1-965A-B4FC6EBFF9A7\" target=\"_blank\">second City Charter amendment\u003c/a> that would change the OCC's name to the Independent Police Oversight Department. The measure would also grant the agency authority over its own budget instead of making it subject to Police Commission oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=4465501&GUID=11974C06-B4BB-4388-A3AF-451E7C0955AA\" target=\"_blank\">Yet another charter amendment\u003c/a> Cohen proposes would create an independent bureau in the district attorney's office that would be the \"primary agency to investigate criminal conduct arising out of critical incidents in the city involving officer-involved use of force.\" That role that now rests with SFPD homicide investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cohen is seeking to put both those proposals before voters this November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Yes, San Francisco Mission District BART patrons, the escalator at the 16th Street station's beloved Burger King Plaza is back in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might seem like a stretch to call it a miracle. But at one point in the closure, which has lasted off and on since last Christmas, someone edited a sign at the escalator to read, \"This unit will be out of service until The Rapture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cue choirs of angels: The fancy mechanical stairs that usually convey commuters down to the gate level from the station's northeast plaza are moving again. (Friday at midday, they were going up; the usual up escalator, to the station's southwest plaza, is also out of commission and awaiting \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/stations/escalators\" target=\"_blank\">major repairs\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10969899\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10969899\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-400x500.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1920x2399.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-1180x1475.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/25525330540_e6a5284505_o-1-960x1200.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Refuse accumulated on broken escalator at BART's 16th Street Station, March 2016. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In my experience, 16th and Mission BART is the transit system's dirtiest station. And the Burger King Plaza entrance, which serves as the rambunctious outdoor living room for the neighborhood's homeless, SRO residents and many who appear to be in desperate need of some combination of medical care and psychiatric help, is the filthiest part of the station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's common to encounter a potpourri of garbage, discarded clothing, fallen palm fronds and pigeon poop while entering and leaving the station through the BK Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, after watching the refuse pile up for a few weeks after the plaza escalator broke, I took a picture and sent it to a member of the BART board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a frequent patron of 16th Street BART, I recognize there are huge challenges to maintain a clean and orderly environment at the station,\" I wrote. \"But the conditions there often seem to bespeak outright neglect. ... I guess the underlying questions after saying all that are: What does BART have to do to improve conditions at the station? And what will it take to prompt BART to take that action?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Diary of Disrepair\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost provided this account of the mechanical problems that have beset the 16th/Mission station's Burger King Plaza (or east side) escalator since last December:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The east side unit went out of service on 12/23/15 for a water intrusion issue that caused an electrical short.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The sump pump was ordered and replaced. The crew started troubleshooting the electrical short and while troubleshooting they identified the escalator was running erratically with excessive play in the drive system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After further troubleshooting, the cause for the excessive play was a result of a bull gear pillar block failure (pillar blocks are the components that mount the bull gear to the truss of the escalator).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately, material needed to make such a heavy repair was assessed and a great deal of research went into ordering this material due to equipment obsolescence. The pillar blocks need to be specially fabricated, as well as the bearings, race, seals and end caps. (This took 10 weeks to receive material.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once material was received, our crews went right to work dismantling the upper end of the escalator to gain access and replace the faulty components.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The escalator was returned to service on 5/9/16 and unfortunately, did not have enough run in time for proper calibration following the heavy repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On 5/10/16 the Unit was removed from service to make the necessary adjustments and indexing needed after such a large repair and major component replacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After a thorough recalibration and all indexing was accomplished, on 5/23/16 the escalator was returned to service.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I didn't hear back from the board member. But when I was exiting the station about three hours after sending the note, a cleanup crew was on the scene. So maybe the board member actually read the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that email clearly didn't have any impact on the escalator, which has remained frozen in place week after week. What's been ailing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constant accumulation of refuse probably doesn't help. And the conditions certainly don't make life any easier for the technicians brought in to work on the equipment. Earlier this week, San Francisco's KPIX \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/some-bart-workers-make-almost-3-times-their-salaries-in-overtime-pay/\" target=\"_blank\">aired a report\u003c/a> on BART worker overtime. KPIX says it asked BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost why the agency didn't hire more escalator technicians, for instance, instead of paying huge amounts of overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are actually having a hard time recruiting,\" Trost is quoted as saying. \"The conditions aren’t very glamorous, working 24 hours a day on our stinky old escalators. We don’t have a lot of people chomping at the bits for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of the escalators is an issue, too. The systems at 16th and Mission and three other stations (24th/Mission, Montgomery and Embarcadero) were manufactured by a German outfit named Orenstein and Koppel. Shortly after selling the escalators to BART, the firm went belly up. So now BART is stuck trying to find parts for escalators that are nearly 20 years old and whose manufacturer is no longer in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible to muddle through, and that's what BART is doing. Last month, it awarded a $2.9 million contract for limited part replacement and renovation of the escalators at the four stations served by O&K systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost provided a detailed account of the troubles afflicting the Burger King Plaza escalator, starting last December (see box above). The real show-stopper was something called a \"bull gear pillar block failure.\" The bull gear is the main gear moving the stairs; the pillar block connects the bull gear to the truss, or escalator framework. (Here's \u003ca href=\"http://precisionescalator.com/virtual-escalator/\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive schematic\u003c/a> that purports to show how all this stuff works in the ideal, non-16th Street world.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After diagnosing the problem, BART had to wait for months while parts were fabricated. Earlier this week, everything was installed and the escalator was running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, you can ride the stairs at Burger King Plaza. The escalator across the way, at the southwest plaza, is awaiting installation of a new handrail. 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And what will it take to prompt BART to take that action?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch4>Diary of Disrepair\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost provided this account of the mechanical problems that have beset the 16th/Mission station's Burger King Plaza (or east side) escalator since last December:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The east side unit went out of service on 12/23/15 for a water intrusion issue that caused an electrical short.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The sump pump was ordered and replaced. The crew started troubleshooting the electrical short and while troubleshooting they identified the escalator was running erratically with excessive play in the drive system.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After further troubleshooting, the cause for the excessive play was a result of a bull gear pillar block failure (pillar blocks are the components that mount the bull gear to the truss of the escalator).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Immediately, material needed to make such a heavy repair was assessed and a great deal of research went into ordering this material due to equipment obsolescence. The pillar blocks need to be specially fabricated, as well as the bearings, race, seals and end caps. (This took 10 weeks to receive material.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Once material was received, our crews went right to work dismantling the upper end of the escalator to gain access and replace the faulty components.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The escalator was returned to service on 5/9/16 and unfortunately, did not have enough run in time for proper calibration following the heavy repair.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>On 5/10/16 the Unit was removed from service to make the necessary adjustments and indexing needed after such a large repair and major component replacement.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After a thorough recalibration and all indexing was accomplished, on 5/23/16 the escalator was returned to service.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I didn't hear back from the board member. But when I was exiting the station about three hours after sending the note, a cleanup crew was on the scene. So maybe the board member actually read the message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that email clearly didn't have any impact on the escalator, which has remained frozen in place week after week. What's been ailing it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The constant accumulation of refuse probably doesn't help. And the conditions certainly don't make life any easier for the technicians brought in to work on the equipment. Earlier this week, San Francisco's KPIX \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/some-bart-workers-make-almost-3-times-their-salaries-in-overtime-pay/\" target=\"_blank\">aired a report\u003c/a> on BART worker overtime. KPIX says it asked BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost why the agency didn't hire more escalator technicians, for instance, instead of paying huge amounts of overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are actually having a hard time recruiting,\" Trost is quoted as saying. \"The conditions aren’t very glamorous, working 24 hours a day on our stinky old escalators. We don’t have a lot of people chomping at the bits for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The age of the escalators is an issue, too. The systems at 16th and Mission and three other stations (24th/Mission, Montgomery and Embarcadero) were manufactured by a German outfit named Orenstein and Koppel. Shortly after selling the escalators to BART, the firm went belly up. So now BART is stuck trying to find parts for escalators that are nearly 20 years old and whose manufacturer is no longer in business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's possible to muddle through, and that's what BART is doing. Last month, it awarded a $2.9 million contract for limited part replacement and renovation of the escalators at the four stations served by O&K systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trost provided a detailed account of the troubles afflicting the Burger King Plaza escalator, starting last December (see box above). The real show-stopper was something called a \"bull gear pillar block failure.\" The bull gear is the main gear moving the stairs; the pillar block connects the bull gear to the truss, or escalator framework. (Here's \u003ca href=\"http://precisionescalator.com/virtual-escalator/\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive schematic\u003c/a> that purports to show how all this stuff works in the ideal, non-16th Street world.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After diagnosing the problem, BART had to wait for months while parts were fabricated. Earlier this week, everything was installed and the escalator was running again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So for now, you can ride the stairs at Burger King Plaza. The escalator across the way, at the southwest plaza, is awaiting installation of a new handrail. That work is supposed to be done the first week of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The thick surgical scars running up and down George Arthur’s arms, chest and neck tell a story of pain, tragedy and incredible survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am programmed to survive,\" George tells me in one of the many conversations we’ve had over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George learned some of his survival skills during a brief stint in the military. But his real test has been on the streets. For the past 25 years or so he’s lived in flophouses, shelters, parks, sometimes on the sidewalk. He's survived drug overdoses, brutal fights and a dramatic suicide attempt that's claimed the lives of more than 1,500 other people: a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/265149628\" 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>At one time, military veterans like George made up as much as half the homeless population in some American cities. But in recent years there’s been surprising progress and the number of vets living in shelters and on the streets has dropped by as much as 50 percent. Are there clues here for solving our broader homeless crisis? Maybe. But one thing is clear to me. The push to help vets is radically changing the lives of people like George Arthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. Since 2011, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno and San Francisco have all seen steady declines in the number of military veterans living on the streets or in shelters by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans in the last five years, compared to other homeless subpopulations, have received a great deal of resources,” said Leon Winston, chief operating officer at Swords to Plowshares, the group that operates the Veterans Commons facility, just south of Market Street. \"It’s been a bit of an embarrassment of riches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\" width=\"800\" height=\"825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-400x412.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-1180x1216.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-960x990.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Charlie Berman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a coda to this story, I gathered recently at the offices of Citywide Case Management with George Arthur, Charlie Berman and Joel Daniel Phillips. Phillips brought along his portrait of George, mounted in a heavy frame. In the drawing, George is dressed in a T-shirt, sweatshirt and surf shorts, and is staring straight at the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s kind of my look,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George was seeing the portrait for the first time and took a very close look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me wonder what it is that is in his/my mind. It’s really expressive work. There's no question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he liked it. But he had a concern -- what was he to do with the drawing? It was too large to carry around on the streets. I reminded George that he now has an apartment \u003cem>with walls\u003c/em>. He could hang the portrait there. And that’s what he did, and that’s where it is today. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The thick surgical scars running up and down George Arthur’s arms, chest and neck tell a story of pain, tragedy and incredible survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am programmed to survive,\" George tells me in one of the many conversations we’ve had over the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George learned some of his survival skills during a brief stint in the military. But his real test has been on the streets. For the past 25 years or so he’s lived in flophouses, shelters, parks, sometimes on the sidewalk. He's survived drug overdoses, brutal fights and a dramatic suicide attempt that's claimed the lives of more than 1,500 other people: a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge.\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/265149628&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/265149628'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, military veterans like George made up as much as half the homeless population in some American cities. But in recent years there’s been surprising progress and the number of vets living in shelters and on the streets has dropped by as much as 50 percent. Are there clues here for solving our broader homeless crisis? Maybe. But one thing is clear to me. The push to help vets is radically changing the lives of people like George Arthur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met George for the first time four years ago, not on the streets but behind bars. I was touring a San Francisco jail facility where officers were showing off a special section for incarcerated military veterans, part of a program called COVER. It was something the Sheriff’s Department was proud of -- a relatively peaceful place without a lot of the violence and racial tension endemic to most California lockups.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>When I entered the cell area, inmates were hanging out in the day room working on an art project. George approached me and in a soft voice said he wanted to talk. He told me he'd been in and out of jail and prison for drugs and petty theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The revolving door,\" he said with a timid smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>George is about 6 feet tall, with short brown hair, a craggy face and deep-set eyes. His body is sinewy and crooked and got me thinking about a statue that’s about to topple over. I noticed he was walking stiffly and seemed to be in pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I literally have enough metal on the inside of my skin, holding my bones together, that I shouldn’t be breathing,\" he told me. \"I shouldn’t even be walking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked George what he needed most, he said it's obvious: a safe place to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you don't have housing -- you know, literally being out on the streets -- it's a lot easier on the streets if you are on dope,\" George said. \"You know, it just is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1528\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962464\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-800x1528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-400x764.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-1180x2254.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgePortrait-960x1834.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips drew this charcoal and graphite portrait of George Arthur. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joel Daniel Phillips)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>George was right. After he got out of jail he went back to the streets and back to drugs. It was kind of strange because I kept bumping into George. I’d see him passing by KQED on his way to San Francisco General Hospital. Or in front of Trader Joe's on Bryant Street. Or near my son's school on Nob Hill. Sometimes he was in a daze and didn't recognize me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he started showing up near my house in the Lower Haight. On Sundays he’d grab a free breakfast at a nearby church and sit on a bench to watch the dogs playing in Duboce Park. One morning I found him lounging in the sun with his shirt off, reading a paperback (Plato's \"Republic\"), nibbling on a bagel and smiling at a small white terrier named Pepper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George recognized me and I joined him on the bench. He talked about trying to get housing at a newly opened facility for homeless vets called Veterans Commons. But there seemed to be obstacles. His mood darkened as he talked about the daily struggles of life on the street, especially the challenge of staying safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Often times I feel as though I'm in combat,\" he said. \"Or in a combat environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was two years ago, about the time George got a new caseworker named Charlie Berman. He's a social worker at Citywide Case Management, a program that provides services to San Francisco's homeless and mentally ill. By the time Berman was assigned the case, George had racked up more than 200 visits to treatment programs and the emergency room. He was belligerent. Sometimes violent. Berman explained to me that George had multiple brain injuries that made it hard to remember people and events and to put things together to make good decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. 'Killing myself, killing the developed me... That’s what I was doing.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"George is someone who's been through a lot,\" he said. \"He's a survivor.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first met George I assumed his injuries happened in combat. But it turns out he was never in combat because his time in the military was very brief. George joined the Marines back in the late 1980s, hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps in the military. But he flunked out of basic training due to a shoulder injury and allegations of drug use prior to enlisting. It's a failure that still haunts George today. He was living in Chicago at the time. He got married and had a son who died just a few days after birth. So George came West to escape his grief. But in San Francisco his marriage fell apart and he got deeper and deeper into drugs -- weed, meth, cocaine. He got into brutal fights and had a bad motorcycle accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George looks back on these years as a slow-motion suicide. \"Killing myself, killing the developed me,\" he says. \"That’s what I was doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeply troubled, George decided to end his life. He remembers hopping the bus to San Francisco’s Presidio -- the former Army base. He drank a bottle of scotch and made his way up to the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a copy of the Coast Guard report from that day, March 9, 2008. It describes officers rushing to the center of the bridge to save a man who was hanging by his hands from a railing. That man was George. The officers tried to talk him back but he let go and plunged more than 200 feet into the water. A Coast Guard boat had been alerted and the crew quickly pulled him out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few people have survived a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge. Even fewer were ever able to walk again. George's recovery was brutal -- he spent months immobilized in a hospital. His case wasn't picked up by the media. I could find no record of it on the Internet, and other survivors I spoke with have never heard of George. But over the years he’s shared his story with therapists, caseworkers and people he meets on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962455\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962455\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-800x702.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-400x351.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-1180x1036.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/JoelDanielPhillips-960x843.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Joel Daniel Phillips creates iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Shaun Robert)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One day about a year ago an artist named Joel Daniel Phillips was taking photographs at Sixth and Mission streets, images he uses to create iconic, life-size drawings of people living on the streets. He met George and they ended up talking for nearly an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me the basic synopsis of his story and I was totally astounded,\" Phillips said. \"There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to. People that we walk by and refuse to make eye contact with, even. There are so many stories that aren't told that are just as compelling or even more compelling because they're overlooked.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Phillips snapped a couple of photos and from those images drew a portrait of George that's part of a larger series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, George didn’t know about the growing push to get veterans off the streets, the billions of dollars the Obama administration was pumping into housing and support programs. In San Francisco, officials created a registry to prioritize the most urgent cases. But when it came to getting George housing, some people thought he wasn't ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't sober and since he barely served in the military he didn't qualify for most VA benefits. But George made it onto the veterans' registry anyway. And after being homeless for nearly 25 years, he got his own apartment at Veterans Commons a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962452\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco.\" width=\"800\" height=\"810\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962452\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-800x810.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-400x405.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-1180x1195.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-960x972.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgesApartment-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur enters his new apartment in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Alexander Cwalinski/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Charlie Berman helped George move in, he recalls it was deeply emotional for both men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"George has such a pattern in his life of things not working out that for him actually to get what he wants, what he hoped for, is a big deal,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George now had a place to live in one of America's most expensive cities. But Berman is the first to admit that arriving from the streets to a new apartment is a major challenge. I saw that close-up when I joined him on a check-in visit a few weeks after George got his new place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we entered the studio apartment, George was in a fog and told us he was stoned. Clothes, paper and food were scattered around the room. We sat at a small kitchen table and chatted, and then Berman helped George pick things up. By the time we left, George was feeling better. Berman noted the obvious: Housing is not a cure-all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are these very tangible benefits for George that we can see,\" he told me. \"He's not going to the hospital as much. He's making our appointments for the first time ever on time. It’s amazing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'There are so many people who are, essentially, social dark matter. Who, for a variety of reasons, we don't know how to respond to.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And at the same time George continues to struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Something that I've talked to him about is certain behaviors like saving things you find on the ground. Or being aggressive and fighting with people as a way to defend yourself are really functional and make a lot of sense when you're living on the street, but just don't translate well into being housed,” Berman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Focusing resources on long-term homeless vets like George is paying off around California. Since 2011, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno and San Francisco have all seen steady declines in the number of military veterans living on the streets or in shelters by as much as 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Veterans in the last five years, compared to other homeless subpopulations, have received a great deal of resources,” said Leon Winston, chief operating officer at Swords to Plowshares, the group that operates the Veterans Commons facility, just south of Market Street. \"It’s been a bit of an embarrassment of riches.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10962458\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg\" alt=\"George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\" width=\"800\" height=\"825\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10962458\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-800x825.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-400x412.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-1180x1216.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-960x990.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/GeorgeWithPortrait-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Arthur poses with reporter Michael Montgomery (L) and artist Joel Daniel Phillips (R), who holds the portrait he drew of George.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Charlie Berman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a coda to this story, I gathered recently at the offices of Citywide Case Management with George Arthur, Charlie Berman and Joel Daniel Phillips. Phillips brought along his portrait of George, mounted in a heavy frame. In the drawing, George is dressed in a T-shirt, sweatshirt and surf shorts, and is staring straight at the viewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s kind of my look,\" he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>George was seeing the portrait for the first time and took a very close look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It makes me wonder what it is that is in his/my mind. It’s really expressive work. There's no question,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told me he liked it. But he had a concern -- what was he to do with the drawing? It was too large to carry around on the streets. I reminded George that he now has an apartment \u003cem>with walls\u003c/em>. He could hang the portrait there. And that’s what he did, and that’s where it is today. At George’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It's a rainy Saturday, and high school teacher Elizabeth de Rham is trudging through the Mission District with about a dozen ninth- and 10th-graders from\u003ca href=\"https://international-sfusd-ca.schoolloop.com/\"> International High School\u003c/a>, a small public school in San Francisco for recent immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do you guys want to explain what is Prop. C?\" de Rham asks a teenage girl who is handing an information card to a young man on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The new way for people that have no money to pay the rent,\" the girl says haltingly as she switches off her native Spanish to practice her English. \"Affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'd love some information,\" the young man replies. \"Thank you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/264900737\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission District is widely known as one of the hot spots of San Francisco's housing crisis -- a place where luxury condominiums and boutique retail stores are rapidly crowding out taquerias and laundromats, not to mention low-income families. Many of de Rham's students live here and in other immigrant enclaves like Chinatown. When a recent civics lessons turned to local politics, de Rham says her students were eager to learn about and support\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/05/13/san-franciscos-prop-c-would-require-more-affordable-housing/\"> Proposition C.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. C can be a bit tricky to explain, but here are the basics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has a charter -- basically the city's constitution. It requires that developers of mid- to large-size housing projects set aside 12 percent of their units for below-market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Supervisor Jane Kim, who co-authored Proposition C with Supervisor Aaron Peskin, says the 12 percent rate is far too low to help the city build the many thousands of affordable units it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We think that developers can do double what they've done previously,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rTe6S3IIBMWtkxqldag6UI2dtrkvbOkk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C would raise the on-site rate for affordable housing to 25 percent. And for the first time ever, some of that housing would be set aside specifically for middle-income residents such as teachers, police officers and government workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another big shift, which some say could lead to some political infighting down the road: Under Proposition C, any future changes to the affordable housing requirements would no longer need the approval of voters. That's because the measure removes the city's inclusionary housing regulations from the charter and hands them over to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The full board and Mayor Ed Lee are backing Proposition C. Still, it took a lot of negotiating to get developers and trade unions to quiet down their opposition. A last-minute compromise exempts projects already in the pipeline from the 25 percent rate. Economists will also have to produce periodic reports on the policy to show whether it's stifling development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So that bought them all off. The developers abandoned us,\" says Sonja Trauss, founder of the pro-development SF Bay Area Renters' Federation. Her group believes San Francisco should be building as much housing as it can with as few barriers as possible. Trauss thinks Proposition C is bound to backfire by stifling future development.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We could have had a lot more houses coming on the market and a lot more competition, but we're missing that opportunity.'\u003ccite>Sonja Trauss, SF Bay Area Renters' Federation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"We could have had a lot more houses coming on the market and a lot more competition, but we're missing that opportunity,\" Trauss says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People like teacher Elizabeth de Rham and her ninth and tenth-graders may have the most to gain -- or lose -- from San Francisco's housing policies. De Rham says she's been priced out of the city and most of her students say their families are stressed about housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That includes Giovanni Rodriguez, 16, from El Salvador, who lives in the Mission. He says his landlord is raising the rent, and his dad says it looks like they'll move to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I like the Mission,\" he tells me, his broad smile fading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It will be up to voters to decide June 7 whether Proposition C is the right solution for these students -- and the rest of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Up at the summit of Yerba Buena Island, at the top of a lone tower, sits the Signal Room. It’s a treasure hidden in plain sight that boasts incredible views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built in 1944, the tower was originally used for signal operations by the Navy. Since January of last year, the signal tower \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/20/welcome-to-the-signal-room-secret-venue-for-san-franciscos-arts-underground\">has housed a secret speakeasy and cabaret\u003c/a> run by Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez. Next month the tower is scheduled to be demolished to make way for open space known, fittingly enough, as Hilltop Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to stop them from tearing it down,\" says Ashton-Gonzalez. \"The Signal Room made me fall back in love with the Bay Area again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built a small community around the tower, organizing secret performances and concerts. Amid a tech boom that has displaced many artists, some saw this speakeasy as evidence that counterculture can still thrive in the Bay Area. That said, Ashton-Gonzalez wasn’t the first to use the tower as a drinking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10957412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The bar up in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar up in the Signal Room. (Skye McKee)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the tower was retired from signal operations, it was turned into an officers' club. For years, the place was known as the Tower Club, a place where military personnel would go to drink and be merry. The bar shut down after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the building was condemned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although planning for Hilltop Park has been underway since 2005, Ashton-Gonzalez found out about the fate planned for the signal tower only last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957406 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg\" alt=\"A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-400x166.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1920x796.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1180x489.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-960x398.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I actually felt energized by history, honestly. They used to call it ‘the tower that talks,' \" Ashton-Gonzalez says. \"... I felt I needed to double down and bring as many people up to the Signal Room as I could, to share it with as many people as possible. I wanted this little cabaret to stand for something bigger for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Ashton-Gonzalez looked into using environmental law to save the tower, claiming historical significance. But the argument for historical preservation became more difficult when it was revealed that the tower was younger than he previously believed. He didn’t realize that a tower built in 1917 was replaced by a remarkably similar one in 1944. But Ashton-Gonzalez is still trying to find ways to save the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"1IYO4j18jrlBfpIzaO1VbO5sRbUvGZGp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Beck, director of the city's Treasure Island Development Authority, says he can't recommend saving the tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The merit of the building lies in being able to go up into the tower,\" he says. \"But, if you want it to be publicly accessible, then you’d have to install an elevator. That would be a significant structural investment. You’d end up with little space for the actual observation deck and it would hinder the views. It wouldn’t be the space that it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck adds he can't endorse Ashton-Gonzalez's transformation of the tower into the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s signs posted on the structure advising against trespassing,\" Beck said. \"[Ashton-Gonzalez’s] use has been a trespass. He’s taken the facility for a private use and it’s not a replicable or sustainable use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957409 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"“Sailors Signaling Other Sailors” a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1180x788.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Sailors Signaling Other Sailors,' a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room. \u003ccite>(Yesenia Lara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kheay Loke, the senior development manager at Wilson Meany, the co-developer with Lennar and Stockbridge on the hilltop project, says the open space at the island's summit is designed to provide better public access to the site's special views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a really nice series of parks with trails connecting them, Loke says. \"So people can enjoy the great view of the bay and surrounding hills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957411 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The view from the Signal Room, facing west towards the Golden Gate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the Signal Room, facing west toward the Golden Gate. \u003ccite>(Skye McKee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Hilltop Park project has a budget of $4 million and is set to be completed sometime in 2018. Downhill from the park, developers plan to build 200 to 300 townhouses. To make way for the homes and parks, about 60 existing units are slated for demolition beginning next month. There is no set demolition date for the Signal Room, but Loke doesn’t believe plans will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saving the tower isn’t compatible with the current plan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loke knows about Ashton-Gonzalez, but isn't thrilled by what he's been doing at the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m aware that someone has been trying to save the building,\" he says. \"It’s been a nuisance and annoyance. He has never officially contacted, but we do try to listen to the opinions out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s met employees of one developer, Lennar, at social events and hopes these informal connections will help rescue the tower. He won’t disclose names, but he says he’s also brought a number of San Francisco city officials up into the tower in hopes of saving it. However, these efforts have been cut short after the developers installed gates and padlocks around the entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957407 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Paul Hayes\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An art installation in the Signal Room by Paul Hayes. \u003ccite>(Paul Hayes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those officials have been members of the city's Arts Commission, Ashton-Gonzalez says. He hopes to turn the building into an architectural sculpture if it can’t be maintained as a publicly accessible building. Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s talked to a local artist, \u003ca href=\"http://www.metaphorm.org/\">Brian Goggin\u003c/a>, about turning it into an installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arts Commission declined comment on the tower. Although there are plans to build \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/21/city-plans-to-transform-treasure-island-with-50-million-for-public-art/\">sculpture gardens \u003c/a>elsewhere on Yerba Buena Island, it looks as if the tower will be gone long before sculptures and artists are selected.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Up at the summit of Yerba Buena Island, at the top of a lone tower, sits the Signal Room. It’s a treasure hidden in plain sight that boasts incredible views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Built in 1944, the tower was originally used for signal operations by the Navy. Since January of last year, the signal tower \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/20/welcome-to-the-signal-room-secret-venue-for-san-franciscos-arts-underground\">has housed a secret speakeasy and cabaret\u003c/a> run by Eugene Ashton-Gonzalez. Next month the tower is scheduled to be demolished to make way for open space known, fittingly enough, as Hilltop Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to stop them from tearing it down,\" says Ashton-Gonzalez. \"The Signal Room made me fall back in love with the Bay Area again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s built a small community around the tower, organizing secret performances and concerts. Amid a tech boom that has displaced many artists, some saw this speakeasy as evidence that counterculture can still thrive in the Bay Area. That said, Ashton-Gonzalez wasn’t the first to use the tower as a drinking spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957412\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10957412\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The bar up in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-Bar.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bar up in the Signal Room. (Skye McKee)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the tower was retired from signal operations, it was turned into an officers' club. For years, the place was known as the Tower Club, a place where military personnel would go to drink and be merry. The bar shut down after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and the building was condemned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although planning for Hilltop Park has been underway since 2005, Ashton-Gonzalez found out about the fate planned for the signal tower only last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957406\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957406 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg\" alt=\"A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\" width=\"800\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-800x332.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-400x166.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1920x796.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-1180x489.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/image6-960x398.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rendering of Hilltop Park on Yerba Buena Island.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I actually felt energized by history, honestly. They used to call it ‘the tower that talks,' \" Ashton-Gonzalez says. \"... I felt I needed to double down and bring as many people up to the Signal Room as I could, to share it with as many people as possible. I wanted this little cabaret to stand for something bigger for San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Ashton-Gonzalez looked into using environmental law to save the tower, claiming historical significance. But the argument for historical preservation became more difficult when it was revealed that the tower was younger than he previously believed. He didn’t realize that a tower built in 1917 was replaced by a remarkably similar one in 1944. But Ashton-Gonzalez is still trying to find ways to save the structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Beck, director of the city's Treasure Island Development Authority, says he can't recommend saving the tower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The merit of the building lies in being able to go up into the tower,\" he says. \"But, if you want it to be publicly accessible, then you’d have to install an elevator. That would be a significant structural investment. You’d end up with little space for the actual observation deck and it would hinder the views. It wouldn’t be the space that it is today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beck adds he can't endorse Ashton-Gonzalez's transformation of the tower into the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There’s signs posted on the structure advising against trespassing,\" Beck said. \"[Ashton-Gonzalez’s] use has been a trespass. He’s taken the facility for a private use and it’s not a replicable or sustainable use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957409\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957409 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg\" alt=\"“Sailors Signaling Other Sailors” a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-800x534.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1920x1282.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-1180x788.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara-960x641.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Yesenia-Lara.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">'Sailors Signaling Other Sailors,' a performance by Torreya Cummings held in the Signal Room. \u003ccite>(Yesenia Lara)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kheay Loke, the senior development manager at Wilson Meany, the co-developer with Lennar and Stockbridge on the hilltop project, says the open space at the island's summit is designed to provide better public access to the site's special views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It will be a really nice series of parks with trails connecting them, Loke says. \"So people can enjoy the great view of the bay and surrounding hills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957411\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957411 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"The view from the Signal Room, facing west towards the Golden Gate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-400x267.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-1180x786.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee-960x640.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Skye-McKee.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from the Signal Room, facing west toward the Golden Gate. \u003ccite>(Skye McKee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Hilltop Park project has a budget of $4 million and is set to be completed sometime in 2018. Downhill from the park, developers plan to build 200 to 300 townhouses. To make way for the homes and parks, about 60 existing units are slated for demolition beginning next month. There is no set demolition date for the Signal Room, but Loke doesn’t believe plans will change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Saving the tower isn’t compatible with the current plan,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loke knows about Ashton-Gonzalez, but isn't thrilled by what he's been doing at the Signal Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’m aware that someone has been trying to save the building,\" he says. \"It’s been a nuisance and annoyance. He has never officially contacted, but we do try to listen to the opinions out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s met employees of one developer, Lennar, at social events and hopes these informal connections will help rescue the tower. He won’t disclose names, but he says he’s also brought a number of San Francisco city officials up into the tower in hopes of saving it. However, these efforts have been cut short after the developers installed gates and padlocks around the entrances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10957407\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10957407 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg\" alt=\"Paul Hayes\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-400x225.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-1180x664.jpeg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes-960x540.jpeg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Paul-Hayes.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An art installation in the Signal Room by Paul Hayes. \u003ccite>(Paul Hayes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among those officials have been members of the city's Arts Commission, Ashton-Gonzalez says. He hopes to turn the building into an architectural sculpture if it can’t be maintained as a publicly accessible building. Ashton-Gonzalez says he’s talked to a local artist, \u003ca href=\"http://www.metaphorm.org/\">Brian Goggin\u003c/a>, about turning it into an installation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arts Commission declined comment on the tower. Although there are plans to build \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/07/21/city-plans-to-transform-treasure-island-with-50-million-for-public-art/\">sculpture gardens \u003c/a>elsewhere on Yerba Buena Island, it looks as if the tower will be gone long before sculptures and artists are selected.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is on a campaign to show that the city’s latest tools to combat homeless — its Navigation Centers — are producing results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last month, Lee has popped up for photo ops at these new shelters and the supportive housing units that go along with them. Behind the scenes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=904\">the city's homeless czar, Sam Dodge\u003c/a>, has been gathering data to build the case another way -- with numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met Dodge at the old Civic Center Hotel on 12th Street at Market. He showed me a small room he thinks will save many people's lives. It was nothing special -- just a well-used hotel room with a new coat of paint.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cstrong>Homelessness is a complex issue. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more >>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/sf-homeless-project\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-800x240.jpg\" alt=\"sfproject3\" width=\"800\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11004769\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/sfproject3-400x120.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This hotel has been converted into the city’s second Navigation Center. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/22/san-francisco-hopes-new-homeless-shelter-impresses-tech-sector\">The first is near the 16th Street BART Station\u003c/a> in the Mission, and the city is currently planning a third.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At these new shelters the homeless can come for a few months to sign up for benefits and get on a path to housing. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/03/24/navigating-a-path-from-homelessness-to-housing-in-san-francisco\">The city is buying up other old hotels\u003c/a> to accommodate the homeless coming out of these shelters. “Absent this kind of intensive intervention,” Dodge says, “they are going to die on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Absent this kind of intensive intervention, they are going to die on the street.' \u003ccite>Sam Dodge,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco homeless czar\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high for Dodge, who last October became the director of the city's Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement. The city is spending $241 million a year on homelessness, and Mayor Lee is counting on Dodge to make the Navigation Centers successful and to show voters the city can tackle an issue that has plagued it for decades. Everyone, Dodge says, is watching.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an open experiment that a lot of the city has been following in the past year,\" he says. In order to prove the experiment is working, Dodge is gathering hard data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it is tracking what happens to every person passing through a Navigation Center. Dodge says 80 percent or so of the clients, about 430 people, have moved into housing or in with family. He says that success rate has helped him convince the city to expand the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a way to really tell the story about how we can use supportive housing to solve the homeless crisis,” Dodge says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is convinced. 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"content": "\u003cp>Last year, Carlos Valiente found himself in a place he had never been before: San Francisco’s county jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh man, it was crazy in there,” Valiente said. “They were dragging this one person out of his cell, 'cause he started screaming. He was banging his head on the walls. I was like, man, I am not trying to stay here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262327143\" 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>Valiente was arrested on a number of charges, for which his bail was set at $70,000. As a construction worker making $14 an hour, he couldn't afford to bail himself out. 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Some are there because the crime with which they are charged is so grievous that they don’t qualify for bail. But many are locked up because they can’t afford to pay bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now in San Francisco, if you’re arrested for a crime, your pretrial freedom depends solely on how much money you have,” said Phil Telfeyan, co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, \u003ca href=\"http://equaljusticeunderlaw.org/\">Equal Justice Under Law\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit. “So people who are wealthy can purchase their freedom. People who are poor have to sit in jail pending trial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10944777\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10944777 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Non-profit Equal Justice Under Law is Suing San Francisco saying the county's money bail system is unconstitutional. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/05/Federalcourthous-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nonprofit Equal Justice Under Law is suing San Francisco, saying the county's money bail system is unconstitutional.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At a January hearing in the case, bail agents from across the country showed up to defend their $2 billion industry. Among them was reality TV star Beth Chapman, wife of Duane Chapman. The husband-and-wife team star in “\u003ca href=\"http://www.dogthebountyhunter.com/\">Dog the Bounty Hunter\u003c/a>” and another series, “Dog and Beth: On the Hunt.” They travel around the world helping bail bond agents apprehend defendants who have skipped bail. She argued there is a reason defendants are in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not poor, he broke the law, probably stole your identity,” she said. “He probably robbed your trashcan and got all your checks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jeffrey Clayton, policy director for the American Bail Coalition, the commercial bail industry is saving taxpayers money, because bail agents are administering a pretrial release system, at no cost to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then the issue is, it’s a policy judgment of whether we want to use a state program or a private entity,” Clayton said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is little evidence showing how well or poorly the current system works. Courts don't track how often people who have bailed out fail to show up — or get out and commit another crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, poor defendants pay a high price as a result of the current system. 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