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Richmond currently lacks a separate fire marshal position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles and Martinez want city officials to update the job specifications for fire marshal and look into the staffing levels at the department’s fire prevention division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us on the City Council don’t believe that we’re living in a city where we can afford to have these two huge responsibilities be on the shoulder of one person,” said Beckles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council has no power over such staffing decisions. Beckles said the proposal is aimed at convincing city officials to make changes, but she’s aware that it carries no official weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can state very clearly that this is not something we are comfortable with,” said Beckles, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11655062\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running for a seat in the state Assembly\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Tom Butt is opposed to the proposal. He criticized Beckles’ measure in an emailed newsletter to constituents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She should learn to understand city government first before asking you to move her to state government,” he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor and Beckles recently got into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11664626/a-political-spat-boils-over-in-richmond-with-angry-mayor-walking-out-of-council-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">argument\u003c/a> during a City Council meeting that led Butt to storm out of the proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles and Martinez are members of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, a group that has been involved in strong disputes with the mayor in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt released a letter that City Manager Bill Lindsay wrote to members of the council, urging them to table the item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, let me state that there are important underlying policy issues that are contained in the agenda item put forth by councilmembers Beckles and Martinez,” wrote Lindsay. “Because these issues are important, it is most unfortunate that they have been framed as an unfounded personal attack on the fire chief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay, who is \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/03/08/richmond-city-manager-bill-lindsay-to-retire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepping down\u003c/a> later this year, noted that the City Council has already determined that the fire marshal job should be a stand-alone position and that the city’s human resources department has begun the process of recruiting for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the council could review staffing-level issues as it discusses the city’s upcoming budget. The issue about the city’s scrutiny of Chevron should be addressed separately, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A vote of ‘no confidence’ by the city council, relating to any city employee, undermines the proper administration of the personnel system of rules contemplated by city charter,” wrote Lindsay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheppard declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has said in the past that fire officials were concerned the sound of sirens during the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11650512/investigators-fail-to-find-cause-of-smoky-metal-yard-fire-in-richmond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sims Metal Management fire\u003c/a> would have prompted people to flee their homes when the department wanted them inside because of the toxic smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year there were\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11662610/chevron-flaring-took-place-after-four-steam-boilers-malfunctioned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> three malfunctions\u003c/a> at Chevron in a span of two months. 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Butt called a timeout on the meeting, and when councilmembers returned, he asked for three minutes to \"wrap up\" his observations on the presentation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles denied his request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mayor, I think that you've been incredibly disrespectful to our speakers and our presenters,\" Beckles said. \"And you have insulted them. Particularly, I see you do this behavior all the time with women, particularly women of color.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One thing the chair has the opportunity to do is to wait until everybody else speaks and then have the last word,\" Butt responded. \"And for you guys to deny me that opportunity is incredibly disrespectful. 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The councilwoman took a shot at the mayor on Twitter and predicted he would respond with a blast at the Richmond Progressive Alliance, the coalition of which Beckles is a member. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JovankaBeckles/status/989001257430872064\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Butt published an \u003ca href=\"http://www.tombutt.com/forum/2018/18-4-25.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online forum post\u003c/a> criticizing the progressive group -- though without mentioning the dispute at the council meeting. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked later about his departure from the meeting, Butt told KQED he felt like he was being lectured during the housing presentation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes, I just can't take these RPA people anymore. I needed to get out of there. I don't suffer fools well,\" Butt wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jovanka is particularly insufferable. God help us if she wins AD-15,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckles is one of the 12 candidates running for the 15th Assembly District. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Benicia Mayor Elizabeth Patterson believes the bill is not strong enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's weak in many areas,\" Patterson said in an interview. \"I don't think it's an effective measure to prevent these incidents that are public health threats and traumatizing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fines as proposed are still the cost of doing business,\" Patterson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said air district fines should lead to refinery reforms aimed at preventing repeated malfunctions, and communities affected by incidents that lead to shelter-in-place orders should be compensated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we even considering a bill to increase fines that result in absolutely no guarantee of a change of behavior?\" Patterson asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson says she hopes Dodd includes amendments to the bill that give it more teeth in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patterson's comments came hours before the Benicia City Council was scheduled to vote on a \u003ca href=\"https://legistarweb-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/pdf/162927/Staff_Report_-_Support_of_SB_1144.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resolution\u003c/a> endorsing the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the council decided Tuesday night to postpone the vote, in part, because of the mayor's concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, a longtime critic of the city's Chevron refinery, agrees that the air district fines are currently too small and says the new proposal to increase them does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What Dodd is proposing might help, but it's still way too small,\" Butt said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malfunctions at the Chevron refinery have led to a number of shelter-in-place orders over the years. Typically, such orders can affect thousands of Richmond residents, according to Butt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A shelter-in-place alert is not much different than home detention,\" Butt said. \"It is difficult to place a dollar cost on this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dodd's office has yet to respond to the mayors' criticism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Western State Petroleum Association, which has lobbied against previous efforts to increase refinery fines, is opposed to the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"http://senv.senate.ca.gov/agenda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> state Senate's Environmental Quality Committee\u003c/a> is scheduled to consider the legislation on April 4.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rasheed always knew there was a world beyond Richmond. But he wasn't sure he would live to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Soon as I think outside the box, with attention going outside the box, it’s like shoot, I’m dead,” he said. “You see what I’m saying? Or I’m losing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rasheed, who didn't want his last name published, said that by the time he was 18 he knew more than a dozen people who had been killed or were in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go into survival mode,” he said. “You have to adapt. You don’t want nobody taking your food, you don’t want nobody killing you, you don’t want nobody using you, disrespecting you, so you gonna adapt to your situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2008, Rasheed was hanging out with some friends when city workers offered him an \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/09/26/richmond-anti-crime-program-takes-enemies-on-free-trips-operation-peacemaker-fellowship/\">Operation Peacemaker Fellowship\u003c/a>. The program gives participants training and support to help them stay out of trouble -- and pays them up to $1,000 to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first reaction to the offer: “OK, did the police send you out to us? Are you all trying to basically set us up in some way? That’s how we were thinking at first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After learning more about the fellowship, Rasheed decided to try it. After all, he had a 4-month-old son to support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s [parenthood] going to motivate you to be a better person,” he said. “It did me. 'Cause it was kind of like, it scare you, but then it make you happy at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond's fellowship program was part of a city-backed effort to treat gun violence as a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/history_violence-a.pdf\">public health problem\u003c/a>, not just as a crime issue, according to Mayor Tom Butt. The program began in 2007, when the city's homicide rate was soaring. Now cities around the country are considering similar strategies, using lessons learned from Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know whether it was going to work or not,” said Butt, who was a city councilman in 2007. “But we were sort of desperate, and it was a governmental obligation that we had to address this gun violence issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVone Boggan created the program, after analyzing city crime data. He found that a small percentage of the population committed most of the shootings in the city. By targeting that specific population -- the young men most likely to shoot or get shot -- Boggan believed he could have the greatest impact on reducing gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He convinced city officials to establish an \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/271/Office-of-Neighborhood-Safety\">Office of Neighborhood Safety\u003c/a> and let him run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only agency in the city of Richmond that is engaging the one-percenters — those individuals who are the most lethal young men in our city, who continue to walk our streets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boggan's office employs a number of approaches to reduce crime, of which the fellowship program is just one. But, owing to the stipend it pays participants, that program has received the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/richmond-california-murder-rate-gun-death\">attention\u003c/a>. The stipends, however, are funded by foundation grants, not taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stipend is a gesture of saying you are valuable, your expertise is valuable, your contribution to this work of creating a healthier city is valuable,” Boggan said. “Hell, we should be giving you more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Boggan, the program succeeds because it helps participants forge relationships that aren’t based on fear or hate or grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 658px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10889645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM.png\" alt=\"ONS staff and fellows travel on a trip to Mexico.\" width=\"658\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM.png 658w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM-400x326.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ONS staff and fellows travel on a trip to Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Office of Neighborhood Safety)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rasheed, who completed his fellowship in 2010, calls the program staff “the lost positive fathers of Richmond.\" He said they gave him \"a model of what your mom would want you to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 25-year-old has since moved out of the city, recently earned his commercial driver's license, and is hoping to build a career in trucking. He lovingly described his 7-year-old son as a nerd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reads and knows his math, and like, he’s like a kid. A real kid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdf/ons-process-evaluation.pdf\">National Council on Crime and Delinquency\u003c/a> evaluated the success of the Office of Neighborhood Safety and found that the overwhelming majority of the program's 68 graduates haven't been involved in a shooting. According to its report, 94 percent of fellows are still alive, 84 percent haven’t been injured by a firearm, and 79 percent have not been arrested for any new, firearm-related offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10889647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM.png\" alt=\"NCCD evaluation report on Office of Neighborhood Safety\" width=\"505\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM.png 505w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM-400x304.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCCD evaluation report on Office of Neighborhood Safety\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cities across the country have taken notice of those stats. On March 1, the Council of the District of Columbia voted to establish an \u003ca href=\"http://www.njjn.org/article/d-c--bill-would-shift-focus-of-violent-crime-prevention-to-public-health-based-framework\">Office of Violence Prevention and Health Equity\u003c/a>, modeled after Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety. Toledo, Ohio and Oakland are also considering similar programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boggan, who is stepping down from his post later this month to help other cities implement his ideas, warns there is no quick fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we do here requires that we appreciate and understand the anatomy of who these young men are,” he said. “And that’s work. It’s much more than paying a criminal not to shoot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite the success of the program, gun violence remains a problem in Richmond. 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Now cities around the country are considering similar strategies, using lessons learned from Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t know whether it was going to work or not,” said Butt, who was a city councilman in 2007. “But we were sort of desperate, and it was a governmental obligation that we had to address this gun violence issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeVone Boggan created the program, after analyzing city crime data. He found that a small percentage of the population committed most of the shootings in the city. By targeting that specific population -- the young men most likely to shoot or get shot -- Boggan believed he could have the greatest impact on reducing gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He convinced city officials to establish an \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/271/Office-of-Neighborhood-Safety\">Office of Neighborhood Safety\u003c/a> and let him run it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the only agency in the city of Richmond that is engaging the one-percenters — those individuals who are the most lethal young men in our city, who continue to walk our streets,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boggan's office employs a number of approaches to reduce crime, of which the fellowship program is just one. But, owing to the stipend it pays participants, that program has received the most \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/richmond-california-murder-rate-gun-death\">attention\u003c/a>. The stipends, however, are funded by foundation grants, not taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stipend is a gesture of saying you are valuable, your expertise is valuable, your contribution to this work of creating a healthier city is valuable,” Boggan said. “Hell, we should be giving you more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Boggan, the program succeeds because it helps participants forge relationships that aren’t based on fear or hate or grief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 658px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10889645\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM.png\" alt=\"ONS staff and fellows travel on a trip to Mexico.\" width=\"658\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM.png 658w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.43.32-PM-400x326.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">ONS staff and fellows travel on a trip to Mexico. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Office of Neighborhood Safety)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rasheed, who completed his fellowship in 2010, calls the program staff “the lost positive fathers of Richmond.\" He said they gave him \"a model of what your mom would want you to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 25-year-old has since moved out of the city, recently earned his commercial driver's license, and is hoping to build a career in trucking. He lovingly described his 7-year-old son as a nerd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He reads and knows his math, and like, he’s like a kid. A real kid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdf/ons-process-evaluation.pdf\">National Council on Crime and Delinquency\u003c/a> evaluated the success of the Office of Neighborhood Safety and found that the overwhelming majority of the program's 68 graduates haven't been involved in a shooting. According to its report, 94 percent of fellows are still alive, 84 percent haven’t been injured by a firearm, and 79 percent have not been arrested for any new, firearm-related offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10889647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 505px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10889647\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM.png\" alt=\"NCCD evaluation report on Office of Neighborhood Safety\" width=\"505\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM.png 505w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-08-at-1.49.58-PM-400x304.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCCD evaluation report on Office of Neighborhood Safety\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cities across the country have taken notice of those stats. On March 1, the Council of the District of Columbia voted to establish an \u003ca href=\"http://www.njjn.org/article/d-c--bill-would-shift-focus-of-violent-crime-prevention-to-public-health-based-framework\">Office of Violence Prevention and Health Equity\u003c/a>, modeled after Richmond’s Office of Neighborhood Safety. Toledo, Ohio and Oakland are also considering similar programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boggan, who is stepping down from his post later this month to help other cities implement his ideas, warns there is no quick fix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we do here requires that we appreciate and understand the anatomy of who these young men are,” he said. “And that’s work. It’s much more than paying a criminal not to shoot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite the success of the program, gun violence remains a problem in Richmond. 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While the new job doesn’t come with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tucsonaz.gov/sirepub/cache/2/pxuglon2gvlcr4lsyd2gtkli/730470211172015105038229.PDF\">raise\u003c/a>, it does come with new challenges: leading a large police force in a border city more than \u003ca href=\"http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/04/0477000.html\" target=\"_blank\">five times\u003c/a> the size of Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Tucson \u003ca href=\"https://www.tucsonaz.gov/gov/meeting-schedules-and-agendas\" target=\"_blank\">City Council\u003c/a> voted unanimously Tuesday evening to accept the city manager’s recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond city leaders say they'll miss a chief they credit with slashing Richmond’s murder rate and improving community-police relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We wish him the best,” Mayor Tom Butt said. “He has changed the culture in our Police Department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Magnus came to Richmond in 2006 from Fargo, North Dakota, the department had a reputation for corruption and violence stretching back to the \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2010/03/26/inner-unrest/\">1980s\u003c/a>. And many in the city doubted whether this gay white cop would be able to make a dent in Richmond’s sky-high murder rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Magnus has received \u003ca href=\"http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/05/14/richmond-police-chief\" target=\"_blank\">national attention\u003c/a> for his focus on community-police relationships. He put officers back on beats and asked his department to deal with quality-of-life issues that affect neighborhoods, like blight and illegal dumping. Magnus also implemented a number of cutting-edge police technologies, such as \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2014/09/27/shotspotter-helps-rpd-respond-to-gunfire/\">ShotSpotter\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/1023/Crime-Analysis\">COMPSTAT\u003c/a> and body cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results have been dramatic. The number of homicides in the city of about 105,000 fell from 49 in 2007 and 2009 to 11 in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some residents fear Magnus’ exit will mean a return to higher crime levels, many agree with Janis Mara, who took to Richmond’s community Facebook page, “TherealRICH,” to wish the chief well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still realize that the mature thing to do is to congratulate our beloved Chief - which I do, with all my heart,” she posted. “But I am so very sad and will miss this exemplary chief who did so very much for our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it hasn’t always been a smooth ride for Magnus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, seven black officers filed a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/02/10/richmond-racial-bias-trial-pits-police-chief-vs-black-officers\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the chief that alleged racism and unfair promotion practices. Ultimately, a jury \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2012/04/10/updated-jury-exonerates-richmond-police-chief-chris-magnus\">rejected\u003c/a> the allegations. This April, when a lawsuit was filed against Magnus for sexual harassment, city officials and police officers swiftly came to his \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2015/04/09/richmond-officials-stand-behind-chief-magnus-in-latest-flap\">defense.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Magnus again made \u003ca href=\"http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/white-cop-embraced-blacklivesmatter-saving-richmond-97346\">headlines\u003c/a> when he held up a sign reading “#BlackLivesMatter” at a protest in Richmond. The photograph went viral -- and controversy erupted. The department's Police Officers Association \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Richmond-cops-slam-chief-for-holding-Black-lives-5953636.php\">accused\u003c/a> the chief of political speech while in uniform. But Magnus didn’t back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea that black lives matter is something that I would think we should all be able to agree upon,” Magnus told \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmCtKYFhILQ&feature=youtu.be&list=UUeJiVbzZaX4YrelPgn9lF0A\">KPIX\u003c/a> at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Richmond has seen an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/13/crime-spike-in-richmond-a-challenge-for-community-policing\">uptick\u003c/a> both in armed robberies and homicides, but many in the community trust the path that Magnus has set the department on. 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