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It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s tough to unite neighborhoods in a city as sprawling, diverse and economically divided as San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the issue of residential crime appears to be doing just that this election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose residents are demanding that mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese answer one big question: How do they plan to reduce a relatively high rate of home burglaries and car thefts in the city? And voters are raising it at nearly every neighborhood meeting, debate and town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Residential crime is the issue right below the surface that could be the tipping point in the San Jose mayoral election,” said Larry Gerston, a political science professor at San Jose State University. “Residents have a real sense of insecurity because these crimes are happening in wealthy and poor areas. When crime isn’t insulated, you sometimes see a revolt by voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What’s being done to the people in Evergreen, being done to San Jose, is not fair.'\u003ccite>Brian Tran, Evergreen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Once called “America’s safest big city,” San Jose is struggling with crime in neighborhoods that once had a strong police presence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of emotional threat experienced is a function of the number of burglaries,” said Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and crime expert. “But also the amount of concern about burglary can feed off itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downtown resident Helen Chapman says she can explain why people are on edge about crime, if you walk around the neighborhood with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Aaron behind there had his car broken into,” she said, gesturing behind her. “Peter next door on that side had his car broken into. I know there have been robberies on the other side [one street over].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shasta Hanchett Park is an upscale neighborhood filled with a lot of languages, young families and professionals. Chapman, who heads up the neighborhood association, points out that many of the homes are now equipped with security cameras on the outside to record burglaries and car thefts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t see the police presence that we used to see,” she said. “You would be standing out here and you would see a patrol car going around the neighborhood. And now people have just gotten to the point of: Nothing is going to be done about it -- I have to take matters into my own hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chapman herself bought a security camera and now has a pit bull. She says all the crime has put a cloud over the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see a car that doesn’t belong in the neighborhood,” she said, “and they’re taking pictures and it might be perfectly OK for that car to be there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 535px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345528\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png\" alt=\"(Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\" width=\"535\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart.png 454w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/column_chart-400x281.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rate per 100,000 people. (Olivia Allen-Price/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This didn’t just start. It’s been going on for about five years. According to official statistics from the San Jose Police Department, the rate of burglaries for every 100,000 San Jose residents has gone up by more than 40 percent since 2009. The rate of auto theft is up 51 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons but the biggest one, residents say, is that there simply aren’t enough police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would like to see good complete law enforcement all across the board,” said David Eggulston, a Willow Glen resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Department has lost about 380 cops over the last five years. The department was at a high point in staffing when the 2008 recession hit, and the force has dwindled steadily ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward Police Chief Diane Urban was on the San Jose police force for 25 years. She says the worst of the cuts hit the force in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will tell you I still have stress, post-traumatic stress, from the week I left,” Urban said. “The day it was announced I was becoming chief in Hayward, we gave about 84 pink slips out to our police officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To cope with the ongoing budget cuts, the department started closing down special units: the violent crime enforcement team and the burglary unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any chief in the country is going to tell you that the No. 1 priority is to staff patrol,” Urban said. “So when you can no longer staff patrol effectively, to have enough men and women on the streets to protect people when they pick up the phone, you have to start closing down units.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10345514\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 488px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10345514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\" width=\"488\" height=\"366\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents of San Jose's Evergreen neighborhood gather at city hall to demand action to reduce crime. (Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, according to a San Jose police spokesman, the department has one burglary detective to serve a city of 1 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no longer detectives to make the follow-up phone calls, dust for fingerprints and talk to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While budget cuts led to the biggest loss of police in San Jose, pension reform has become the flashpoint of the mayoral race. San Jose voters in 2012 approved reforms that changed disability benefits and asked city employees to contribute more to their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some former San Jose police officers say it’s one reason they left the force. Ten of them are now with the Hayward Police Department. George Beattie, who once headed the Police Officers Association in San Jose, said in Hayward he gets better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every officer, including those who came before and after me, says they came for the same reason -- financial security,” said Beattie, now Hayward PD’s personnel and training administrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually, the city lost a small number of officers after pension reform compared with what happened after the recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s really going to change the area if it becomes unsafe. People are not going to want to live here anymore, which is terrible, because it is a wonderful neighborhood.'\u003ccite>Lissa Minkin, Willow Glen neighborhood resident\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mayoral candidates Sam Liccardo and Dave Cortese agree that San Jose needs more police officers. And each is trying to convince voters he’s the one who can make the city safer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violent crime was higher when I came into office in 2007 -- and Dave Cortese was vice mayor -- than it was last year,” Liccardo said at the Santa Clara County Bench/Bar debate last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese shot back: “I think it lacks credibility to say people feel safe in their neighborhood, that we are safer than we were six, seven or eight years ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters like Brian Tran just want officers to show up when they have a problem. And that’s why he was outside the San Jose City Council chambers last week with roughly 100 homeowners from the city’s Evergreen neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran asked how many people had been crime victims, and several dozen raised their hands. Last month, there were 95 reported burglaries in Evergreen. Tran’s house was ransacked in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I’ve lived in the United States for 35 years -- first time I’m speaking out,\" Tran said. “What’s being done to the people in Evergreen, being done to San Jose, is not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tran and other residents want more than rhetoric from the next mayor. They want neighborhood command centers, more police and more patrols -- whether it’s in middle-class Evergreen or affluent Willow Glen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lissa Minkin of Willow Glen says the quality of life in her neighborhood is deteriorating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And we know there are issues with San Jose as a whole in terms of not having enough police coverage,” Minkin said. “So I really want to see that change. Because it’s really going to change the area if it becomes unsafe. People are not going to want to live here anymore, which is terrible, because it is a wonderful neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Neighborhoods, under the proposal, could have applied for funding to install burglar alarms, safety sensor lights and to “offset the costs of private security patrols,” he wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalra said burglaries going “through the roof” prompted him to make the recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think we need to do whatever we can to make our neighborhoods as safe as possible,” Kalra said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Oct. 7 council meeting, council members -- uncomfortable with what they described as a step toward privatization of the police force -- declined to advance Kalra’s recommendation to a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that he’s not saying that’s his preferred method, but I’m not sure our police department wants us — to see us — hire privately police to take over the function of the police department. I do think we need to engage the neighborhoods. So I strongly support the sentiment, but I won’t be supporting the motion,’’ Councilwoman Rose Herrera told the council, according to a transcript of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10344920\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 225px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/San-Jose-Badge-225x300.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10344920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/San-Jose-Badge-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The San Jose Police Department says it has the budget for 1,250 officers, but the current number of sworn-in, deployable officers stands at 894. (Phoebe Barghouty/Peninsula Press)\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Jose Police Department says it has the budget for 1,250 officers, but the current number of sworn-in, deployable officers stands at 894. 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While the police department has the budget for 1,250 officers, the current number of sworn-in, deployable officers stands at 894, a police department spokesman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the facts, they’re not coming, and they’re certainly not coming in the numbers that would allow us to fully restore our burglary unit. Yet the burglaries still happen and the neighborhoods are still clamoring for help,’’ Kalra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rising crime rates and dropping officer numbers have been major points of contention in this year’s mayoral race. The police association has publicly endorsed candidate Dave Cortese in hopes that new city leadership might help alleviate the growing public safety concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby cities like Oakland have a history of working with private security companies. Oakland approved the use of public funds to pay for private armed guards in response to high crime rates in 2009. 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Within minutes came a meme-fest from his own campaign and other supporters in the Democratic party establishment. This is what the California Young Democrats put out:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10342872\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 523px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/GasTankMeme.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10342872\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/10/GasTankMeme.png\" alt=\"Supporters of Mike Honda wasted no time turned this quip from the debate into an Internet meme. 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And what impact has Measure B had on public safety in the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed and his City Council allies championed the measure as a crucial step in reining in out-of-control pension costs. The proposal, which required steep new employee pension contributions among many other provisions, won with a 69 percent \"yes\" vote -- and drew \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/index.aspx?NID=3182\" target=\"_blank\">a barrage of lawsuits\u003c/a> from unions and retired city workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, a Santa Clara County judge \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/25342\" target=\"_blank\">struck down key elements\u003c/a> of the measure, including a provision that would allow the city to impose higher pension contributions for current employees and another that would permit suspension of cost-of-living increases for retirees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates disagree on what to do next. Liccardo, like Reed, supported an appeal of last December's court ruling and said in \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26372865/Sam-Liccardo:-San-Jose-doesnt-need-to-spend-more-money-to-be-safer\" target=\"_blank\">a Mercury News op-ed\u003c/a> piece earlier last month that \"anyone who suggests we should overturn Measure B to improve safety had better identify a way to pay for those retirement costs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese has called for a settlement of the suits and negotiations to bring pension costs under control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26626118/San-Jose-mayors-race-heats-up-as-candidates-battle-over-key-police-issue\" target=\"_blank\">Cortese and Liccardo are also at odds \u003c/a>on the impact Measure B has had on the city's Police Department and on crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cortese argues that Measure B led to an exodus from the department, which has lost hundreds of officers over the last several years, many leaving for jurisdictions with better pay and benefits. That, he says, has led to a spike in violent crime. \u003ca href=\"http://cortesecampaign.com/about-dave/on-the-issues/\" target=\"_blank\">His remedy\u003c/a>: fill 140 unstaffed positions in the Police Department, improve neighborhood policing and gang prevention, and establish collaborative crime-fighting efforts with residents and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo says that budget problems caused by rising pensions, not the ballot proposal, led officers to leave the department and that the loss of staff has been minimal since Measure B's passage. He argues that the city has already made progress in reducing violent crime and that the Police Department can improve its performance -- and public safety -- through smart investments in efficiency and technology such as wearable cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He insists the real risk to the Police Department arises from the threat of fiscal instability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, there are other pressing issues in this race. Perhaps the biggest: affordable housing in a place that \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/02/26/americas-most-overpriced-cities/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes named earlier this year as California's most overpriced city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen for Liccardo to detail a housing impact fee levied on developers of new residential construction. Cortese gives a variation on that theme supporting a fee charged to commercial developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since this debate is taking place at eBay and is hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, you can expect some questions that touch on the technology sector. For instance, how do the candidates plan to stem the tide of tech startups going to the Peninsula and San Francisco instead of San Jose?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has promoted \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Twitter-tax-break-cost-city-4-2-million-last-year-5573881.php\" target=\"_blank\">tax breaks\u003c/a> that persuaded fast-growing firms like \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/02/business/twitter-helps-revive-a-seedy-san-francisco-neighborhood.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://mashable.com/2013/10/11/square-headquarters/\" target=\"_blank\">Square\u003c/a> to stay in the city. Other established tech companies are choosing to expand on the Peninsula instead of San Jose because, in part, that is where their younger workforce wants to live. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_148609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-148609\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg\" alt=\"SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonalds earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-640x370.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514-1028x594.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/payprotest092514.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIU President Mary Kay Henry and fast-food workers occupy a North Oakland McDonald's earlier this month. (Andrew Stelzer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169374791&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days before Christmas last year, dozens of people marched in circles around a Jack in the Box restaurant on Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Give her her job back!” they chanted, protesting the firing of Ilda Amadour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"FhsGHGY6V1vaWSBNVZvGuGOHXne92498\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a good employee. 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With unions on a decades-long downslide, \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Service Employees International Union\u003c/a> President Mary Kay Henry saw a chance to connect with disgruntled workers at companies like McDonald's and Jack in the Box and change the public conversation around stagnant wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What union they become a part of or what membership they have is sort of secondary to the first job, which is to make sure they win $15 and a union,” said Henry. The union has spent a reported $10 million on the campaign, which has spread from New York to Chicago, Detroit and the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If San Francisco and Oakland can raise their minimum wage and there can still be job growth and small business growth, it shows that what the right wing is saying is wrong. This is not a job killer. This is a job creator,” Henry added.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">How a president's remarks and a campaign by fast-food workers has struck a chord in the Bay Area.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Over the last two years, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.seiu1021.org/politics/raise-the-bay/\">“Raise the Bay”\u003c/a> regional effort has recruited and trained dozens of fast-food employees to tell their stories in order to change public perceptions of who they are and what their lives are like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: workers like KFC employee Shonda Roberts, with two daughters in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was probably working (at KFC) six months, and an organizer happened to come in and had a petition there to up the pay — minimum wage $15 — and I signed it [and] went to a meeting,\" Roberts recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then they flew me out to Detroit maybe six months later for a conference. And when I saw 1,500 young adults, all fast-food workers just standing in solidarity, I was hooked. It was like a drug,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Obama mentioned the minimum wage in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/sotu\" target=\"_blank\">2014 State of the Union address\u003c/a>, calling on “every mayor, governor and state legislator in America\" to take on the issue. UC Berkeley economist Ken Jacobs said Obama’s remarks were a coup for ongoing local efforts in Bay Area communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has really changed the debate.” said Jacobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose was ahead of the wave of Bay Area minimum-wage campaigns, with voters approving \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/election2012/2012/09/26/in-san-jose-voters-ponder-raising-minimum-wage-by-25-percent/\" target=\"_blank\">a raise to $10 an hour\u003c/a> (and future increases) in 2012. Earlier this year, both \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/05/06/east-bay-minimum+wage-conversation-spreads/\" target=\"_blank\">Richmond\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/berkeley-minimum-wage/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley\u003c/a> moved to raise minimum wages. And this fall, voters in San Francisco and Oakland will consider ballot initiatives that would raise wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some local chambers of commerce and many business owners have argued against the hefty minimum-wage increases, saying that increased costs for employers will lead to layoffs and hurt workers, not help them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael LeBlanc, founder and principal of \u003ca href=\"http://www.picanrestaurant.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">downtown Oakland's Picán restaurant\u003c/a>, voiced those very concerns when he appeared before the Oakland City Council in July to testify against a campaign to raise the city's minimum wage by more than 35 percent. That proposal, placed on Oakland's November ballot through a petition drive led by a community group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.liftupoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Lift Up Oakland\u003c/a>, would hike minimum pay from $9 to $12.25 an hour, effective next March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the minimum wage increases in the form that Lift Up Oakland has it, I will lose eight or nine people, and I don’t have a choice about that,” LeBlanc told the council as it considered an alternate proposal for a more gradual increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council voted down the alternative, which would have raised wages to $12.25 next October and $13.50 in 2018. Councilman Noel Gallo, one of those who voted against the alternate plan, said the council’s previous lack of action helped fuel the Lift Up Oakland campaign for strong action on a wage hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all dropped the ball,\" he said. \"The individual employees and unions took it upon their own to provide leadership and go do it.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95796\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 344px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Chuck-Reed.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-95796\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Chuck-Reed.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. (Tom Clifton/Flickr)\" width=\"344\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed. (Tom Clifton/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is accusing Assemblyman Paul Fong, running for City Council in District 1, of launching a \"xenophobic and racist\" attack on an opponent's campaign consultant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter made public Tuesday, Reed blasted Fong for a fundraising email his campaign sent earlier this week. The message targeted Victor Ajlouny, who works for Fong's opponent, Charles \"Chappy\" Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a quote from the email by way of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-affairs/2014/09/22/paul-fong-miscue/\">Mercury News columnist Scott Herhold\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Ajlouny is a top Republican consultant and Palestinian activist, who served as a high-ranking member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1990s, and is known for his political attacks.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Herhold goes on to report what Ajlouny's background actually is -- and how Fong's campaign got it wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ajlouny, an American of Palestinian descent who has handled local campaigns for years -- including that of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed — said he had never been a member of the PLO, though he had been a member of the Palestinian delegation to a peace conference in Washington D.C. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Fong’s campaign manager, Dennis Chiu, said he had based the sentence on a Mercury News story from 2009. But that story said only that a high-ranking member of the PLO had asked Ajlouny to serve as an American adviser to Yasser Arafat. \"That was my mistake,\" Chiu said. \"I made the assumption that he was a member of the PLO.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>All of which led to Reed's blast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recent comments from your campaign attempting to invoke anti-Arab sentiments in support of your campaign for City Council are xenophobic and racist and deserve condemnation,\" Reed wrote. He called the message \"an appeal to fear and hate.\" And he also suggested Fong, a member of the Assembly's \u003ca href=\"http://assembly.ca.gov/humanrightsdiversityrace\" target=\"_blank\">Select Committee on Human Rights, Diversity and Race Relations\u003c/a>, should reconsider his candidacy:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Silicon Valley’s strength is built upon our ability to welcome people from all over the world and to focus on what we have in common, rather than our differences. Attacking people because of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or the origins of their ancestors is an unethical act, which would not be tolerated if you were a member of our San José City Council. ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... On July 14th, on behalf of the API Legislative Caucus, you called for a TV show host to resign for xenophobic and racist comments. You should apply the same standards to your own behavior.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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Commissioner of Baseball\u003c/a> — or rather, on a key part of the city’s case that focuses on Major League Baseball’s exemption from federal antitrust law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose officials filed the suit last year in an attempt to force major league owners to let the Oakland A’s relocate to the South Bay. That move has been blocked for five years by the San Francisco Giants, the franchise that holds baseball’s territorial rights to San Jose and the rest of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s action is an appeal of a lower court’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_24290747/judge-dismisses-san-jose-antitrust-claims-against-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissal of most of San Jose’s case\u003c/a>. A three-judge panel will hear about 20 minutes of oral argument from each side. The judges aren’t expected to issue a ruling until sometime this fall, and either side might appeal their decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. 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Grow says the law is not on San Jose’s side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got not only three Supreme Court decisions that are binding precedents, but the 9th Circuit has their own binding precedent from the 1970s, saying that this very same issue, relocation of franchises, is covered by baseball’s antitrust exemption. San Jose has to get out of that and come up with some way to convince the judges on the 9th Circuit to ignore all that and rule in their favor. Whereas Major League Baseball’s case is much cleaner. All they have to do is say, ‘Look, this is what the law is, this is how it applies’ — there really isn’t a lot of discretion for the appellate court to exercise its judgment here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow says the last time that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption came before the Supreme Court was in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there the Supreme Court said, ‘You know, Congress has known about this for 50 years at this point. They’ve thought about acting, they’ve never acted, so it’s not our place to touch it now. That would be unfair to Major League Baseball to reverse this protection that they’ve been relying on for five decades.’ And I think if this case were to get to the Supreme Court level, that’d be the argument — 40 years later, is it even less fair to MLB to act, or is Congress being so negligent that it’s time for the court to step in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow rates San Jose’s chances of succeeding at the 9th Circuit at less than 10 percent, and he thinks the high court would probably decline to hear an appeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the Supreme Court does take the case, then I think that’s a really bad sign for Major League Baseball. I don’t see the court wading into this highly contentious, controversial issue for a fourth time only to issue what is sure to be a highly criticized opinion affirming baseball’s antitrust exemption. So, if the Supreme Court agrees to take the case, San Jose would likely win one way or another, either through a settlement or a judicial decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Grow if San Jose’s argument — that the A’s want to move, and only MLB’s intransigence is stopping them — was damaged when the A’s owners \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/06/Coliseum-board-approves-10-year-deal-with-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 10-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum last week\u003c/a> and said they’re talking with architects and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26287681/approach-architect-oakland-ballpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking at sites for a new ballpark in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it certainly doesn’t help, in part because it casts doubt on San Jose’s standing to bring a suit — since they can’t claim damages for losing a baseball team that they might have never had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, courts have often said unless a team is 100 percent contractually committed to moving, there is no case yet. And that would be the worst possible outcome for San Jose — for the 9th Circuit to rule that there’s no standing here. If the 9th Circuit affirms the dismissal on ‘no standing’ grounds, there’s very, very, very little chance the Supreme Court would review that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that the court won’t be ruling for a few months, I asked Grow what clues might we get from the oral arguments? He cautioned against trying to read too much into questions from the bench:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially here, where the city faces such a strong uphill climb to get over those Supreme Court precedents. The judges will undoubtedly ask some pointed questions of Major League Baseball, because they have to treat both sides a little critically in order to be fair. But if you started to get the sense that at least two of the three judges are willing to disregard precedent — or if they start to suggest the precedents are so outdated that it isn’t binding any more — that’s the type of language that might get San Jose a victory here. It’s much more likely, though, that the judges are critical of San Jose’s case, and that indicates they’re likely to rule for Major League Baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow says the last time that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption came before the Supreme Court was in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And there the Supreme Court said, ‘You know, Congress has known about this for 50 years at this point. They’ve thought about acting, they’ve never acted, so it’s not our place to touch it now. That would be unfair to Major League Baseball to reverse this protection that they’ve been relying on for five decades.’ And I think if this case were to get to the Supreme Court level, that’d be the argument — 40 years later, is it even less fair to MLB to act, or is Congress being so negligent that it’s time for the court to step in?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grow rates San Jose’s chances of succeeding at the 9th Circuit at less than 10 percent, and he thinks the high court would probably decline to hear an appeal:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if the Supreme Court does take the case, then I think that’s a really bad sign for Major League Baseball. I don’t see the court wading into this highly contentious, controversial issue for a fourth time only to issue what is sure to be a highly criticized opinion affirming baseball’s antitrust exemption. So, if the Supreme Court agrees to take the case, San Jose would likely win one way or another, either through a settlement or a judicial decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Grow if San Jose’s argument — that the A’s want to move, and only MLB’s intransigence is stopping them — was damaged when the A’s owners \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/08/06/Coliseum-board-approves-10-year-deal-with-oakland-athletics/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a 10-year lease extension at the Oakland Coliseum last week\u003c/a> and said they’re talking with architects and \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_26287681/approach-architect-oakland-ballpark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking at sites for a new ballpark in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says it certainly doesn’t help, in part because it casts doubt on San Jose’s standing to bring a suit — since they can’t claim damages for losing a baseball team that they might have never had:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, courts have often said unless a team is 100 percent contractually committed to moving, there is no case yet. And that would be the worst possible outcome for San Jose — for the 9th Circuit to rule that there’s no standing here. If the 9th Circuit affirms the dismissal on ‘no standing’ grounds, there’s very, very, very little chance the Supreme Court would review that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that the court won’t be ruling for a few months, I asked Grow what clues might we get from the oral arguments? He cautioned against trying to read too much into questions from the bench:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially here, where the city faces such a strong uphill climb to get over those Supreme Court precedents. The judges will undoubtedly ask some pointed questions of Major League Baseball, because they have to treat both sides a little critically in order to be fair. But if you started to get the sense that at least two of the three judges are willing to disregard precedent — or if they start to suggest the precedents are so outdated that it isn’t binding any more — that’s the type of language that might get San Jose a victory here. It’s much more likely, though, that the judges are critical of San Jose’s case, and that indicates they’re likely to rule for Major League Baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A divided San Jose City Council voted against all of the tax measures Tuesday afternoon. While 10 out of the 11 members said they wanted a quarter-cent sales tax increase, the members could not decide how the money should be spent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Chuck Reed, Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen and council members Sam Liccardo, Rose Herrera, Pete Constant and Johnny Khamis wanted to earmark the estimated $34 million a year from the tax increase to public safety. Council members Ash Kalra, Don Rocha, Xavier Campos and Kansen Chu wanted the money to go to the general fund. Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio voted against both tax proposals. Tax measures need a supermajority, or 8 votes, to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will not have another to chance to put a general tax measure on the ballot until 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two measures meant to soften some provisions of Measure B, the city's controversial 2012 pension reform plan, also did not go through. The initiatives would have allowed police officers to return to the city at their pre-Measure B pension rates, and streamlined the process for injured police and firefighters to go on disability. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A proposition to hold union negotiations in public also stalled. The council directed city staff to continue the meet with unions on employee pensions and public bargaining. Council members unanimously voted against a measure that would have increased the marijuana business tax from 10 percent to 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only measure to go through to the ballot? Allowing the city's retirement boards to hire a CEO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/161734117&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_121868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS2453_NJNeighborWebSJ20111205pensions1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-121868\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS2453_NJNeighborWebSJ20111205pensions1.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose City Hall. (pntphoto/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose City Hall. (pntphoto/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Jose City Council must decide on Tuesday night what measures to place on the November ballot. Potential candidates include a quarter-cent sales tax for public safety and modifications to Measure B, which voters in favor of pension reform passed in 2012. It's still mired, however, in legal disputes between the unions and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales Tax Increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council will debate three potential quarter-cent sales tax measures: a general purpose sales tax, a sales tax dedicated to public safety and a sales tax dedicated to road repair and maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax increase would raise an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33607\" target=\"_blank\">$34 million a year\u003c/a>. San Jose's current sales tax is 8.75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33388\" target=\"_blank\">a poll funded by the City Council\u003c/a>, 67 percent of respondents favored the general sales tax, 71 percent the public safety tax and 65 percent the road repair tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the general sales tax measure has the least support, it's also the easiest to pass. Special-purpose measures need a two-thirds majority while general taxes need only a majority. So, both the public safety and road repair measures would need 67 percent voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're considering a sales tax just for public safety because that's the highest priority for our voters,\" San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said. \"Whether or not it's strong enough to win is always an important question.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilman Sam Liccardo, whom Reed has endorsed, favors the public safety measure, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_26264788/San-Jose:-Council-to-consider-sales-tax-initiative-for-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>. Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese, Liccardo's mayoral rival, favors a general tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Measure B-Related Initiatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure B, enacted by nearly 70 percent of voters in June 2012, required existing city employees to make additional contributions to their pension plans or pay up to 16 percent of their paycheck into a retirement fund. The measure allowed employees to avoid the extra fees by opting into a less generous plan with smaller payouts and later retirement ages. New employees must pay up to 50 percent of their pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/01/95792/\" target=\"_blank\">including the police\u003c/a>, quickly sued, saying that their retirement benefits were previously approved in their labor contracts. Last year, a Superior Court judge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/12/23/121816/San-Jose-Measure-B\" target=\"_blank\">ruled\u003c/a> that San Jose can't cut the pensions just because they've become costly. But city officials \u003cem>can\u003c/em> cut workers' pay instead. The ruling was appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed would like to the case to go the California Supreme Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's important for the people of California to be able to do that and get clarity on the law, so that we're not in this straitjacket of never being able to fix things when we get into fiscal problems,\" Reed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes to Measure B would guarantee a city job to police officers or firefighters who are injured on the job and make it easier for officers who are unable to work for more than a year to qualify for disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a couple of minor changes to what the voters appealed,\" Reed said. \"There's been a lot of confusion about what it takes to qualify for disability retirement in San Jose, so we just wanted to make it real clear that if an officer is injured on the job and can't work, they're going to get a disability retirement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure would give San Jose police officers who left the department the same benefits they had if they return by January 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A third measure would allow public access to employee bargaining negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the changes do not address several of labor's concerns, including the amount workers must pay toward their pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marijuana Tax and Dispensaries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed also wants to increase the marijuana business tax from 10 percent to 15 to 20 percent. The extra money would go into the general fund. New regulations for the city's medical marijuana dispensaries went into effect in June, giving dispensaries a full year to pay for a license and move away from schools, homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of San Jose's dispensary regulations failed to collect enough signatures to get on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mina Kim contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(pntphoto/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose City Hall. (pntphoto/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Jose City Council must decide on Tuesday night what measures to place on the November ballot. Potential candidates include a quarter-cent sales tax for public safety and modifications to Measure B, which voters in favor of pension reform passed in 2012. It's still mired, however, in legal disputes between the unions and the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sales Tax Increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council will debate three potential quarter-cent sales tax measures: a general purpose sales tax, a sales tax dedicated to public safety and a sales tax dedicated to road repair and maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax increase would raise an estimated \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33607\" target=\"_blank\">$34 million a year\u003c/a>. San Jose's current sales tax is 8.75 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/33388\" target=\"_blank\">a poll funded by the City Council\u003c/a>, 67 percent of respondents favored the general sales tax, 71 percent the public safety tax and 65 percent the road repair tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the general sales tax measure has the least support, it's also the easiest to pass. Special-purpose measures need a two-thirds majority while general taxes need only a majority. 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