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That month, Borges allegedly started corresponding through letters with 47-year-old Muller, who allegedly confessed to unsolved home invasions in Mountain View and Palo Alto in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller, who is serving a 40-year federal prison sentence for kidnapping Huskins, allegedly wrote to Borges in a signed declaration dated May 6 that he developed the “idea to raid a home and rape a woman” in the fall of 2009 while “in a manic state,” according to police reports prosecutors provided to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian King, Deputy Santa Clara County District Attorney in the sexual assault unit, said Huskins and Quinn’s advocacy for crime victims directly contributed to his office charging Muller with the attacks near Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was because of that collaboration between those Vallejo victims and Chief Borges that new evidence was developed, which led to us retesting the DNA,” King said. “That’s how I like to think about this case: It took a situation that was awful in Vallejo, which gave impetus to an effort to train law enforcement, which then led to a new break in this case, which has led to us being able to file charges and get justice for these victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED this week, Borges thanked the hard work of law enforcement agencies, including the El Dorado District Attorney’s Office, which has jurisdiction over South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect developments in the next several days,” he wrote, declining to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020205\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn (right) walk into a news conference with attorney Doug Rappaport in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2016. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The 2009 attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This week, prosecutors charged Muller with two new felonies — both sexual assault and burglary-related — that carry mandatory life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, the newly filed cases share many details similar to Huskins’ kidnapping, including a suspect dressed in all black entering a woman’s residence, drugging them with Nyquil, and tying up the victims before stating he was going to sexually assault them. In one other case besides Huskins, the attacker gathered bank account numbers, PINs, and email passwords. In both Silicon Valley cases, Muller allegedly gave his victims crime prevention advice, like getting a dog, before leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller lived in Menlo Park in 2009 and \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.atavist.com/a-crime-beyond-belief-vallejo-kidnapping-gone-girl-hoax/\">liked to hike the Stanford Dish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that time, he started to go on prowling expeditions near the Stanford campus,” King said. “As part of that, he formed the idea to break in and rape women in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first incident on Sept. 29, 2009, Muller allegedly broke into a Mountain View home, where a woman in her 30s — who appeared in the Netflix documentary — was drugged, bound and blindfolded with a pair of swim goggles. The man in black assaulting her said he “had to” rape her, but she was able to persuade him not to. That investigation stalled out in 2011, reports show.[aside postID=news_12020062 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366030679039-1020x795.jpg']Police had stopped Muller while he was walking in the area four days prior, telling them he was there past midnight because he was a visiting Stanford professor seeing a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second Silicon Valley case, Muller allegedly committed a similar break-in and attack at a home in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood on Oct. 18, 2009. Bound by Velcro straps, a Stanford student convinced her attacker to stop sexually assaulting her. The victim told police she had attended an event Muller organized at Harvard the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto police named Muller as a suspect in the College Terrace attack five days later. When contacted by police over the phone, Muller allegedly said that “he knew what it was about as he had read the story about the College Terrace incident,” and he would “cooperate with anything” police needed, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muller “abruptly” fled to Utah in November 2009, leaving a note for his then-wife that he was “going completely off the grid” as it was “the least extreme thing” he could do to avoid exposing people “to criminal liability,” according to his 2015 plea agreement with federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller returned to California soon after and, in 2011, was \u003ca href=\"https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/275832\">admitted to the California bar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said police collected a DNA sample from Muller in 2009, but analysis at the time was inconclusive. 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He bound and drugged them before taking Huskins — blindfolded with blacked-out swim goggles — to South Lake Tahoe, where he raped her twice, claiming he was making a blackmail video his associates wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Quinn was interrogated at the Vallejo Police Department for 18 hours, mainly by Det. 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Kenny Park to “burn that bitch” at a press conference where Park said Huskins participated in “an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller sent anonymous emails to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> saying that Huskins’ kidnapping was real and chastised police for not believing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Thomas Johnson speaks to the media about his client Matthew Muller, the suspect in the Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins, following an appearance by Muller before a Superior Court judge in Pleasanton on Sept. 2, 2015. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Muller is arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muller was finally arrested following a June 2015 home invasion in Dublin where a masked suspect broke into a home, but the father of a 22-year-old woman fended him off. The suspect left a cell phone behind, which Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies traced to Muller’s South Lake Tahoe home, where they found evidence from the Vallejo kidnapping, including a single strand of Huskins’ hair on a pair of blacked-out swim goggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Muller was taken into custody, Dublin Police Detective Sgt. Misty Carausu was investigating the source of the yet-to-be-identified blonde hair on the goggles and soon learned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/detective-who-cracked-vallejo-hoax-kidnap-case-is-a-bulldog-police/82047/\">Palo Alto police\u003c/a> that Muller was a suspect in the 2009 attack there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2015, the FBI obtained an arrest warrant for Muller related to Huskins’ kidnapping, saying in an announcement that “Muller may have committed similar crimes elsewhere.” Palo Alto and Mountain View police were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Vallejo-kidnap-suspect-s-journey-from-Harvard-6382969.php\">still looking at Muller for those attacks\u003c/a>, as middle-of-the-night home invasions where victims are restrained and blindfolded are rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huskins and Quinn sued the city of Vallejo in 2016 for defamation, saying “VPD took its cues from Hollywood” by spreading its \u003cem>Gone Girl\u003c/em> theory instead of investigating the crime. The city settled the lawsuit for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/vallejo-kidnapping-defendant-pleads-guilty\">pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge\u003c/a> and was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2017. The Mountain View and Palo Alto attacks were mentioned in his plea agreement with federal prosecutors. So was another home invasion attack in Palo Alto in 2012, but DNA on “bump keys” — or those made to open any door by the same manufacturer — left at the scene “was not related to Muller,” although detectives at the time said “Muller may be responsible for this incident,” according to reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, after being found competent to stand trial, Muller pleaded no-contest in Solano County to charges including rape, robbery, kidnapping and false imprisonment and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/matthew-muller-sentenced-for-raping-woman-he-kidnapped-in-vallejo-case-once-deemed-hoax\">sentenced to 31 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Muller confessed to being involved in the 2009 attacks, Seaside Police’s Borges contacted Palo Alto police, who had the 2009 DNA samples retested, something King said may not have happened if it weren’t for Borges’ relationship with Quinn and Huskins and their training with law enforcement about how to treat victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those trainings were aimed with the goal of making sure what happened to those victims in Vallejo never happens again,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller allegedly wrote to Borges that his willingness to cooperate wasn’t from his newfound remorse or being a born-again Christian “but instead of a common goal of [protecting] victims and strengthening laws for future potential victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borges told Palo Alto police that he believed that Muller would talk with detectives about his past crimes, as he “was remorseful and wants to confess [to] all his past crimes,” according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller was extradited this week from federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, to make his first court appearance on Monday in Santa Clara County, where he is set to remain while facing the new charges. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Quinn and Huskins spoke at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C49S_KevwSV/?hl=en&img_index=1\">training session for police officers\u003c/a> across the state, hosted by Seaside Police Chief Nick Borges, who reached out to the couple after watching the Netflix show. That month, Borges allegedly started corresponding through letters with 47-year-old Muller, who allegedly confessed to unsolved home invasions in Mountain View and Palo Alto in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller, who is serving a 40-year federal prison sentence for kidnapping Huskins, allegedly wrote to Borges in a signed declaration dated May 6 that he developed the “idea to raid a home and rape a woman” in the fall of 2009 while “in a manic state,” according to police reports prosecutors provided to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian King, Deputy Santa Clara County District Attorney in the sexual assault unit, said Huskins and Quinn’s advocacy for crime victims directly contributed to his office charging Muller with the attacks near Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was because of that collaboration between those Vallejo victims and Chief Borges that new evidence was developed, which led to us retesting the DNA,” King said. “That’s how I like to think about this case: It took a situation that was awful in Vallejo, which gave impetus to an effort to train law enforcement, which then led to a new break in this case, which has led to us being able to file charges and get justice for these victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to KQED this week, Borges thanked the hard work of law enforcement agencies, including the El Dorado District Attorney’s Office, which has jurisdiction over South Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expect developments in the next several days,” he wrote, declining to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020205\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1408507029-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn (right) walk into a news conference with attorney Doug Rappaport in San Francisco on Sept. 29, 2016. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The 2009 attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This week, prosecutors charged Muller with two new felonies — both sexual assault and burglary-related — that carry mandatory life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, the newly filed cases share many details similar to Huskins’ kidnapping, including a suspect dressed in all black entering a woman’s residence, drugging them with Nyquil, and tying up the victims before stating he was going to sexually assault them. In one other case besides Huskins, the attacker gathered bank account numbers, PINs, and email passwords. In both Silicon Valley cases, Muller allegedly gave his victims crime prevention advice, like getting a dog, before leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller lived in Menlo Park in 2009 and \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.atavist.com/a-crime-beyond-belief-vallejo-kidnapping-gone-girl-hoax/\">liked to hike the Stanford Dish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that time, he started to go on prowling expeditions near the Stanford campus,” King said. “As part of that, he formed the idea to break in and rape women in the area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first incident on Sept. 29, 2009, Muller allegedly broke into a Mountain View home, where a woman in her 30s — who appeared in the Netflix documentary — was drugged, bound and blindfolded with a pair of swim goggles. The man in black assaulting her said he “had to” rape her, but she was able to persuade him not to. That investigation stalled out in 2011, reports show.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Police had stopped Muller while he was walking in the area four days prior, telling them he was there past midnight because he was a visiting Stanford professor seeing a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second Silicon Valley case, Muller allegedly committed a similar break-in and attack at a home in Palo Alto’s College Terrace neighborhood on Oct. 18, 2009. Bound by Velcro straps, a Stanford student convinced her attacker to stop sexually assaulting her. The victim told police she had attended an event Muller organized at Harvard the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palo Alto police named Muller as a suspect in the College Terrace attack five days later. When contacted by police over the phone, Muller allegedly said that “he knew what it was about as he had read the story about the College Terrace incident,” and he would “cooperate with anything” police needed, according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Muller “abruptly” fled to Utah in November 2009, leaving a note for his then-wife that he was “going completely off the grid” as it was “the least extreme thing” he could do to avoid exposing people “to criminal liability,” according to his 2015 plea agreement with federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller returned to California soon after and, in 2011, was \u003ca href=\"https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/275832\">admitted to the California bar\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King said police collected a DNA sample from Muller in 2009, but analysis at the time was inconclusive. Over the next 15 years, the technology improved and a recent and more sensitive DNA test by the Santa Clara County Crime Laboratory of the Velcro straps used to detain the victim in the Palo Alto case “turned up as a match for Mr. Muller,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The ‘Gone Girl’ kidnapping\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The home invasion, kidnapping and rape of Huskins in 2015 was a strange, detailed plot that involved sending letters to a \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reporter purporting to be “a group of elite criminals who were perfecting their kidnapping-for-ransom tactics” and conducting surveillance on potential victims, according to the Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While several victims in cases Muller has been charged with say they believe there were multiple people involved, authorities found audio files on Muller’s computer of people talking softly to one another, which they believe were played to make it seem like there were more people there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no evidence before us that would lead us to be able to say that there were other people involved,” King said, adding they can’t “say definitively that there were or were not multiple people involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 2015, Muller broke into Quinn’s Mare Island home, where he was asleep with Huskins, and threatened them with a stun gun and a water pistol spray-painted black with a laser pointer attached to it. He bound and drugged them before taking Huskins — blindfolded with blacked-out swim goggles — to South Lake Tahoe, where he raped her twice, claiming he was making a blackmail video his associates wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Quinn was interrogated at the Vallejo Police Department for 18 hours, mainly by Det. Mat Mustard, who told Quinn he didn’t believe his “elaborate” story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a puzzle-maker, and I put a lot of puzzles together,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/what-happened-to-mat-mustard-the-lead-vallejo-detective-in-american-nightmare/\">Mustard told Quinn\u003c/a>, as shown on \u003cem>American Nightmare\u003c/em>. “So now I get out my puzzle pieces, and I start figuring out, ‘Okay, how do I make it so you look like a monster?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the kidnapping, Muller drove Huskins down to her parents’ home in Huntington Beach despite Quinn not paying the $17,000 ransom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huskins didn’t want to speak with Vallejo police. In return, then-Chief Andrew Bidou \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/vallejo-gone-girl-kidnapping-case-denise-huskins-police-misconduct/6339403/\">allegedly told\u003c/a> department spokesperson Lt. Kenny Park to “burn that bitch” at a press conference where Park said Huskins participated in “an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller sent anonymous emails to the \u003cem>Chronicle\u003c/em> saying that Huskins’ kidnapping was real and chastised police for not believing her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1321865676-160x108.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Thomas Johnson speaks to the media about his client Matthew Muller, the suspect in the Vallejo kidnapping of Denise Huskins, following an appearance by Muller before a Superior Court judge in Pleasanton on Sept. 2, 2015. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Muller is arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Muller was finally arrested following a June 2015 home invasion in Dublin where a masked suspect broke into a home, but the father of a 22-year-old woman fended him off. The suspect left a cell phone behind, which Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies traced to Muller’s South Lake Tahoe home, where they found evidence from the Vallejo kidnapping, including a single strand of Huskins’ hair on a pair of blacked-out swim goggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Muller was taken into custody, Dublin Police Detective Sgt. Misty Carausu was investigating the source of the yet-to-be-identified blonde hair on the goggles and soon learned from \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/detective-who-cracked-vallejo-hoax-kidnap-case-is-a-bulldog-police/82047/\">Palo Alto police\u003c/a> that Muller was a suspect in the 2009 attack there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2015, the FBI obtained an arrest warrant for Muller related to Huskins’ kidnapping, saying in an announcement that “Muller may have committed similar crimes elsewhere.” Palo Alto and Mountain View police were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Vallejo-kidnap-suspect-s-journey-from-Harvard-6382969.php\">still looking at Muller for those attacks\u003c/a>, as middle-of-the-night home invasions where victims are restrained and blindfolded are rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huskins and Quinn sued the city of Vallejo in 2016 for defamation, saying “VPD took its cues from Hollywood” by spreading its \u003cem>Gone Girl\u003c/em> theory instead of investigating the crime. The city settled the lawsuit for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/vallejo-kidnapping-defendant-pleads-guilty\">pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge\u003c/a> and was sentenced to 40 years in prison in 2017. The Mountain View and Palo Alto attacks were mentioned in his plea agreement with federal prosecutors. So was another home invasion attack in Palo Alto in 2012, but DNA on “bump keys” — or those made to open any door by the same manufacturer — left at the scene “was not related to Muller,” although detectives at the time said “Muller may be responsible for this incident,” according to reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, after being found competent to stand trial, Muller pleaded no-contest in Solano County to charges including rape, robbery, kidnapping and false imprisonment and was \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/matthew-muller-sentenced-for-raping-woman-he-kidnapped-in-vallejo-case-once-deemed-hoax\">sentenced to 31 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Muller confessed to being involved in the 2009 attacks, Seaside Police’s Borges contacted Palo Alto police, who had the 2009 DNA samples retested, something King said may not have happened if it weren’t for Borges’ relationship with Quinn and Huskins and their training with law enforcement about how to treat victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those trainings were aimed with the goal of making sure what happened to those victims in Vallejo never happens again,” King said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller allegedly wrote to Borges that his willingness to cooperate wasn’t from his newfound remorse or being a born-again Christian “but instead of a common goal of [protecting] victims and strengthening laws for future potential victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borges told Palo Alto police that he believed that Muller would talk with detectives about his past crimes, as he “was remorseful and wants to confess [to] all his past crimes,” according to police reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller was extradited this week from federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, to make his first court appearance on Monday in Santa Clara County, where he is set to remain while facing the new charges. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 2:40 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A man who was convicted of kidnapping and raping a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vallejo\">Vallejo\u003c/a> woman in a case featured in a Netflix documentary series is facing new charges of sexual assault that allegedly took place during two prior Bay Area home invasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six years before former Marine Matthew Muller invaded the home of a Vallejo couple in 2015, he was active in the South Bay, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020066\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 160px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-12020066\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-160x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-160x189.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-800x947.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-1020x1208.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-1297x1536.jpg 1297w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-1729x2048.jpg 1729w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/AP24366032682798-1920x2274.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This June 2015 booking photo released by the Dublin Police Department shows Matthew Muller after he was arrested on robbery and assault charges. \u003ccite>(Dublin Police Department via AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Muller is accused of breaking into the homes of two women in 2009, restraining them and forcing them to drink medication. He threatened to rape the first woman in Mountain View, but she talked him out of assaulting her, prosecutors said. The next month, in Palo Alto, he began to sexually assault the second woman before she convinced him to stop, according to the new charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> District Attorney’s Office said DNA on bindings used during one of the break-ins led to the two new felony charges against Muller. He was arraigned Monday afternoon in Santa Clara County Superior Court on suspicion of committing a sexual assault during a home invasion. He is expected to return to court for a possible plea on Jan. 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller, 47, is currently serving a 40-year prison sentence for kidnapping and sexual assault in the 2015 Vallejo case, which became the subject of the Netflix documentary series \u003cem>American Nightmare\u003c/em>. The series depicted the victim’s bizarre abduction, assault and subsequent release, as well as law enforcement’s initial suspicions that the couple themselves had staged the crime, drawing comparisons to the novel and film \u003cem>Gone Girl\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muller was eventually arrested for both the Vallejo kidnapping and a violent Dublin home invasion and had been serving time at a federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, up until his extradition to Santa Clara County, where he’s expected to remain for the duration of court proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The state commission with the power to remove law enforcement certification will investigate complaints against nine \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/vallejo\">Vallejo\u003c/a> police officers who fatally shot people in cases going back more than a decade after family members of those killed asked for help at a public meeting on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/sites/default/files/Vallejo%20POST%20Complaint.10.11.24.pdf\">49-page complaint\u003c/a> to the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) earlier this week, detailing seven police killings dating from 2012 to 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU and family members want POST to decertify five current Vallejo police officers – Colin Eaton, Jordon Patzer, Bryan Glick, Mark Thompson, and Jarrett Tonn – and four former Vallejo officers: Anthony Romero-Cano, Ryan McMahon, Sean Kenney and Dustin Joseph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the politics in place provide protections for these officers as far as truly giving accountability for their actions,” said Kori McCoy, older brother of Willie McCoy Jr., who six Vallejo police officers shot and killed in 2019. “But what you all can do is protect people in the future from not allowing these officers to relocate and appear in another community when their true agenda is to hurt people. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department was an outlier for police violence and misconduct for several years. Some officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/how-badge-bending-became-a-ritual-among-vallejo-police/\">admitted in court testimony\u003c/a> to bending the tips of their star-shaped badges to commemorate shooting someone. Despite public outcry, few have faced discipline. The State Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-ag-will-review-vallejo-police-department-after-history-fatal-n1226196\">launched a review\u003c/a> of the department just days after the department’s last fatal shooting in June 2020. Attorney General Rob Bonta ended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/state-doj-ends-court-oversight-of-vallejo-police-after-conflict-with-judge/\">DOJ’s oversight of the department\u003c/a> earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-settlement-agreement-vallejo-police-department\">entering into an agreement\u003c/a> with the department over a series of reforms and steps toward accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board chair Joyce Dudley speaks before opening public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s in this 49-page document that we were handed by the ACLU is or will be investigated,” Joyce Dudley, the commission’s chair, told those in attendance Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 2, passed in 2021, POST can start an investigatory process and ultimately suspend or revoke an officer’s certification for \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Decertification\">serious misconduct\u003c/a>, preventing them from working in law enforcement anywhere in the state. To date, no officer whose last agency of employment was in Vallejo has been brought up for POST discipline, \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Peace-Officer-Certification-Actions\">according to POST’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour, family members of those killed by police used the public comment portion of the public meeting to tell commissioners how the loss of their family members has impacted their lives. And they raised ongoing concerns about these officers continuing to patrol the streets of Vallejo and other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley (left) and Michelle Monterrosa, sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2020, give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the families have been on a sustained campaign for accountability, from large-scale protests in Vallejo and on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento, including Sean Monterrosa’s sisters getting arrested while protesting outside the governor’s home. Several elected officials assured them that their concerns would be investigated, but no such investigation has yielded sufficient results for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s internal investigations found officers’ use of deadly force was within policy in all of the cases raised in the ACLU complaint. Reviews by the prosecutors concluded in all cases that officers should not be criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshal Arnwine Jr., a legal policy advocate with the ACLU speaking with the family members, said POST is an administrative body that can determine whether an officer should lose their law enforcement certification in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because someone may have not been criminally liable or not civilly liable, that’s totally separate,” he told KQED. “POST focuses solely on, does this officer’s conduct rise to a level that we could take their badge?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kori McCoy gives Angela Sullivan, the aunt of Ronell Foster, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2018, a hug after giving personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits in response to those officer’s actions have cost the city of Vallejo more than $13 million since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the families have exhausted any other options to demand accountability for officers, including the family of Jeremiah Moore, one of three people shot and killed over five months by then-Vallejo Police Officer Sean Kenney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore, Jeremiah Moore’s parents, said they don’t believe their son pointed a weapon at police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding a picture of Jeremiah before the commission, the Moores said their son had autism, and they want better training for police for people who are neurodivergent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa and Eugene Moore, the parents of Jeremiah Moore, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2012, give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a steady pattern of disregard for human life at the hands of the VPD. All of these officers deserve to be in prison for murder,” Lisa Moore said. “However, we appreciate your thoughtful consideration of this complaint. Our family and those families of other murdered children are hopeful that their pain will be mitigated somewhat by your action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney also shot and killed Anton Barrett Sr. and Mario Romero in 2012, a year when the Vallejo Police Department’s deadly use of force was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">dozens of times higher\u003c/a> than the national average. Anton Barrett Sr. was holding a wallet when Kenney shot him. Mario Romero was killed in his parked car in front of his family’s home. Then-Vallejo police officer Dustin Joseph was also involved in that shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sit here today and all these families and people behind me who have lost so much in the city of Vallejo. They sit on my shoulders. They sit on my heart,” Romero’s sister Kris Kelly told the commission in an emotional testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanearl Touson, the daughter of Kris Kelly, holds a photo of Mario Romero, who was shot and killed by Vallejo police officers in 2012, while Kelly gives personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Vallejo hired Ryan McMahon, a Sausalito police officer who was on a ride-along with Kenney the night he killed Jeremiah Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following February, McMahon shot and killed Ronell Foster during a traffic stop that started because Foster was riding a bike at night without a light. Foster fled, McMahon caught up to him, and in the ensuing struggle, McMahon beat Foster with a flashlight, Tased him and shot him seven times, once in the back of the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decertification is just the start, but Ryan McMahon would be the first one, and the best one for you to start with,” Angela Sullivan, Foster’s aunt, told the commission. “It’d be the easiest case. Murder is murder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison and Kori McCoy, family members of Willie McCoy, who was killed by Vallejo police in 2019, listen as people give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not more than a year later, McMahon, along with five other officers, would fire a total of 55 times at Willie McCoy Jr., who was unresponsive behind the wheel of a car in a Taco Bell drive-thru with a handgun in his lap. McMahon was the only officer disciplined in that shooting, eventually being fired for endangering another officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11964674 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231016-RobBontaVallejoPolice-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That firing was \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/arbitrator-upholds-termination-of-former-vallejo-officer-for-willie-mccoy-shooting/\">eventually sustained in mandatory arbitration\u003c/a>, making it the only successful termination of an officer in Vallejo in recent years. During that time, McMahon was hired by the Broadmoor Police Department in San Mateo County. He later left that job following \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-officer-fired-after-two-fatal-shootings-had-history-of-subpar-police-work-records-show/\">reporting\u003c/a> on the extent of his poor job performance in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo attempted to fire Det. Jarrett Tonn, who shot and killed Sean Monterrosa amid protests and looting after the police murder of George Flyod in Minnesota days earlier. Tonn was fired a year after the shooting, but that decision was reversed in arbitration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since their brother’s killing in 2020, Ashley and Michelle Monterrosa have become advocates for police reform and advocated for SB 2, which created the commission they spoke to Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“None of us want the officers who harmed our loved ones to continue to harm our communities and our families,” Michelle Monterrosa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After each family member spoke, Dudley thanked them, offering words of support. In between testimony, she reached out to Lisa Moore, placing her hand on her arm as a gesture of empathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did feel listened to,” Lisa Moore said. “I believe that they’re taking their mission seriously. This is something that definitely needed to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the politics in place provide protections for these officers as far as truly giving accountability for their actions,” said Kori McCoy, older brother of Willie McCoy Jr., who six Vallejo police officers shot and killed in 2019. “But what you all can do is protect people in the future from not allowing these officers to relocate and appear in another community when their true agenda is to hurt people. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department was an outlier for police violence and misconduct for several years. Some officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/how-badge-bending-became-a-ritual-among-vallejo-police/\">admitted in court testimony\u003c/a> to bending the tips of their star-shaped badges to commemorate shooting someone. Despite public outcry, few have faced discipline. The State Department of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-ag-will-review-vallejo-police-department-after-history-fatal-n1226196\">launched a review\u003c/a> of the department just days after the department’s last fatal shooting in June 2020. Attorney General Rob Bonta ended the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/state-doj-ends-court-oversight-of-vallejo-police-after-conflict-with-judge/\">DOJ’s oversight of the department\u003c/a> earlier this year, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-secures-settlement-agreement-vallejo-police-department\">entering into an agreement\u003c/a> with the department over a series of reforms and steps toward accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-01-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Board chair Joyce Dudley speaks before opening public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything that’s in this 49-page document that we were handed by the ACLU is or will be investigated,” Joyce Dudley, the commission’s chair, told those in attendance Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under SB 2, passed in 2021, POST can start an investigatory process and ultimately suspend or revoke an officer’s certification for \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Decertification\">serious misconduct\u003c/a>, preventing them from working in law enforcement anywhere in the state. To date, no officer whose last agency of employment was in Vallejo has been brought up for POST discipline, \u003ca href=\"https://post.ca.gov/Peace-Officer-Certification-Actions\">according to POST’s website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than an hour, family members of those killed by police used the public comment portion of the public meeting to tell commissioners how the loss of their family members has impacted their lives. And they raised ongoing concerns about these officers continuing to patrol the streets of Vallejo and other California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-44-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley (left) and Michelle Monterrosa, sisters of Sean Monterrosa, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2020, give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of the families have been on a sustained campaign for accountability, from large-scale protests in Vallejo and on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento, including Sean Monterrosa’s sisters getting arrested while protesting outside the governor’s home. Several elected officials assured them that their concerns would be investigated, but no such investigation has yielded sufficient results for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s internal investigations found officers’ use of deadly force was within policy in all of the cases raised in the ACLU complaint. Reviews by the prosecutors concluded in all cases that officers should not be criminally charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marshal Arnwine Jr., a legal policy advocate with the ACLU speaking with the family members, said POST is an administrative body that can determine whether an officer should lose their law enforcement certification in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because someone may have not been criminally liable or not civilly liable, that’s totally separate,” he told KQED. “POST focuses solely on, does this officer’s conduct rise to a level that we could take their badge?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009881\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-32-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kori McCoy gives Angela Sullivan, the aunt of Ronell Foster, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2018, a hug after giving personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits in response to those officer’s actions have cost the city of Vallejo more than $13 million since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the families have exhausted any other options to demand accountability for officers, including the family of Jeremiah Moore, one of three people shot and killed over five months by then-Vallejo Police Officer Sean Kenney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eugene and Lisa Moore, Jeremiah Moore’s parents, said they don’t believe their son pointed a weapon at police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holding a picture of Jeremiah before the commission, the Moores said their son had autism, and they want better training for police for people who are neurodivergent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009879\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009879\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-09-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa and Eugene Moore, the parents of Jeremiah Moore, who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2012, give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is a steady pattern of disregard for human life at the hands of the VPD. All of these officers deserve to be in prison for murder,” Lisa Moore said. “However, we appreciate your thoughtful consideration of this complaint. Our family and those families of other murdered children are hopeful that their pain will be mitigated somewhat by your action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney also shot and killed Anton Barrett Sr. and Mario Romero in 2012, a year when the Vallejo Police Department’s deadly use of force was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">dozens of times higher\u003c/a> than the national average. Anton Barrett Sr. was holding a wallet when Kenney shot him. Mario Romero was killed in his parked car in front of his family’s home. Then-Vallejo police officer Dustin Joseph was also involved in that shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sit here today and all these families and people behind me who have lost so much in the city of Vallejo. They sit on my shoulders. They sit on my heart,” Romero’s sister Kris Kelly told the commission in an emotional testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009884\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-57-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nanearl Touson, the daughter of Kris Kelly, holds a photo of Mario Romero, who was shot and killed by Vallejo police officers in 2012, while Kelly gives personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Vallejo hired Ryan McMahon, a Sausalito police officer who was on a ride-along with Kenney the night he killed Jeremiah Moore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following February, McMahon shot and killed Ronell Foster during a traffic stop that started because Foster was riding a bike at night without a light. Foster fled, McMahon caught up to him, and in the ensuing struggle, McMahon beat Foster with a flashlight, Tased him and shot him seven times, once in the back of the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Decertification is just the start, but Ryan McMahon would be the first one, and the best one for you to start with,” Angela Sullivan, Foster’s aunt, told the commission. “It’d be the easiest case. Murder is murder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241017-VALLEJOPOST-23-BL-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison and Kori McCoy, family members of Willie McCoy, who was killed by Vallejo police in 2019, listen as people give personal testimony during public comment at a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) meeting at the Peace Officer Standards offices in West Sacramento on Oct. 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not more than a year later, McMahon, along with five other officers, would fire a total of 55 times at Willie McCoy Jr., who was unresponsive behind the wheel of a car in a Taco Bell drive-thru with a handgun in his lap. McMahon was the only officer disciplined in that shooting, eventually being fired for endangering another officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>This story was updated on April 30, 2024, at 11:15 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">California Forever\u003c/a> has gathered enough signatures to qualify its measure for the November ballot, representatives for the billionaire-backed company said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which hopes to transform farmland in Eastern Solano County into a dense, walkable city, must first get its plan approved by voters. However, California Forever had to submit just over 13,000 signatures to get on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Solano County Registrar’s Office confirmed with KQED that they had received the signatures early Tuesday morning. The company claims it collected over 20,000 signatures, but the registrar’s office will spend the next five days counting each signature individually to make sure they have enough to qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s announcement marked a turning point in a campaign that’s been controversial from the start. Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972769/not-just-a-crazy-idea-california-forever-releases-ballot-details-for-new-bay-area-city\">revealing the ballot initiative\u003c/a> in mid-January, California Forever didn’t begin collecting signatures until late March due to back-and-forth with the registrar’s office over the ballot language. The company also faced accusations that the firm it hired to gather signatures, PCI Consultants, was misrepresenting the initiative and manipulating voters into signing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Forever has denied those allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Jan Sramek, CEO of California Forever, characterized the speedy signature-gathering effort as an endorsement for the plan itself, noting workers gathered 7,000 more signatures than required.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number reflects the breadth and depth of support for the East Solano plan across Solano County, from all walks of life, all parts of the county who are saying the same thing: Yes,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Paul Mitchell, who heads the political polling organization Redistricting Partners, said signature gathering can be done quickly — if you’re willing to pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These signature firms, when they have the resources to hire staff, don’t fail in collecting signatures,” he said. “The signature-gathering process is very mechanical. So if you have the resources to pay for all those mechanics, you’ll be fine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Secretary of State’s Office did not confirm or deny whether it was investigating any formal complaints against California Forever, a spokesperson at the Solano County Registrar’s Office said at least nine people had emailed the office, complaining about misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vacaville resident Tina Collins said she saw that conduct first-hand in early April from a signature gatherer standing outside a Walmart Supercenter in Dixon. She said the worker handed her several pieces of paper to sign, but she was confused about what she was approving. When she refused to sign the documents, she said the signature gatherer followed her to her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt extremely uncomfortable,” she said. “I haven’t heard much about [California Forever], but from what I’ve heard, I don’t think it’s promising.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='housing']California Forever may have an uphill battle ahead of them as they seek approval from voters, who have been deeply skeptical of the plan since it was unveiled last August. It, along with its parent company, Flannery Associates, were forced to reveal their identities after spending the past six years \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11970694/california-forever-lawsuit-looms-as-solano-county-farmers-fight-back\">discreetly buying about 60,000 acres of land\u003c/a> in the Montezuma Hills. Since going public, California Forever has been met with harsh criticism from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976108/california-forever-faces-resistance-from-federal-lawmakers-and-local-leaders-in-solano-county\">several lawmakers\u003c/a>, affordable housing advocates and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A poll conducted in early March by FM3 Research on behalf of the Greenbelt Alliance, an organization staunchly opposed to the project, found that 60% of people aware of the company’s plan opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despite vocal naysayers, some Solano County voters are supportive. Tyree Carrie lives in Suisun City, a few miles from the proposed new town. He said if it makes it to the November ballot, he’ll vote “Yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel it’s something that’s very necessary,” he said. “There’s a lot of people who are struggling with housing in general, so I think it’s awesome when there are more options available and being able to generate income in an area, as far as giving people work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the myriad of promises California Forever has tied to its proposal, the company said it would bring 15,000 new jobs with higher-than-average pay. A recent \u003ca href=\"https://assets.ctfassets.net/ivxuf0dn6dhw/7d88UkQMImn6Q01yvy1RWM/76e2a1e38c16fc52ab3b758f6caf71b0/CMC_Solano_Analysis.pdf\">study\u003c/a> conducted by Michael Genest, the former California Director of Finance, found a “significant economic gap between Solano County and its neighbors in the Bay Area,” with a 30% gap in average household income between Solano County residents and other Bay Area residents, based on 2022 numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In cities like Fairfield and [others], there’s not a lot of good-paying jobs and not a lot of affordable housing either,” said Niyah Proctor, a Fairfield resident. “The state of California is really expensive, so I feel like we should add more places for people to be able to afford.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To woo more voters like Carrie and Proctor and get its initiative approved, California Forever promised to spend big bucks on its campaign. Just how much won’t be publicly available until the company files its campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern, who served on the first council of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said deep pockets don’t necessarily guarantee a “Yes” vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you spend a lot of money doesn’t mean you’re going to win an election,” he said. “It does mean you’re going to get on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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They were devastated,” Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing Monterrosa’s family, told KQED. “It’s not only disappointing that there hasn’t been sufficient evidence gathered to move forward [with charges], but that it took three years to reach that conclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-issues-report-shooting-death-sean-monterrosa\">statement\u003c/a> released Tuesday, Bonta said there was not enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer did not act in self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sean Monterrosa’s life mattered, and there is nothing that can make up for his death. His loss is and will continue to be felt by his family and the Bay Area community,” said Attorney General Bonta in his decision announcement. “It’s critical that these difficult incidents undergo a transparent, fair, and thorough review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s office said they reviewed dispatch records, 911 calls, surveillance video, witness interviews and an autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Justice investigation, Monterrosa and three others broke into the Walgreens shortly after midnight. While the burglary was happening, Monterrosa exited the store and ran away from the officers toward a black sedan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police body camera footage shows Tonn firing multiple shots from the back of the unmarked truck, one of which fatally struck Monterrosa in the back of the head. 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The DOJ investigated whether tossing the windshield was destruction of evidence but determined that the officers who replaced the window were not connected to the shooting, according to Bonta’s statement Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, an independent analysis of the police response on the night of Monterrosa’s death found that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826613/vallejo-police-release-video-of-deadly-shooting-of-sean-monterrosa\">officers failed to de-escalate\u003c/a> the situation and flouted department policies. Tonn was subsequently fired and then reinstated to the Vallejo Police Department in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While criminal charges won’t be filed, Monterrosa’s family is still pursuing a civil lawsuit against the city and Tonn. The civil case alleges that Tonn violated the Fourth Amendment when he used deadly force on Monterrosa and that practices at Vallejo’s Police Department foster dangerous encounters like the one that killed Monterrosa, Lee said. 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Vallejo had already been engaged with the state on the reforms but had fallen drastically short of meeting its goals and timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s new plan with the city requires an independent auditor to monitor Vallejo’s progress on a long list of changes, including racial disparities in policing, de-escalation techniques and community engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Between 2010 and late 2020, Vallejo police officers killed 19 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city\">the second-highest rate among America’s 100 largest police forces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to mounting public criticism, Bonta now requires the Vallejo Police Department to implement \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11964674/trust-has-been-broken-california-demands-vallejo-police-reforms-citing-major-rights-violations\">sweeping reforms\u003c/a> to how it approaches policing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, the Department of Justice entered a court-mandated agreement with Vallejo to drastically reform its practices and culture around policing. Vallejo had already been engaged with the state on the reforms but had fallen drastically short of meeting its goals and timeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s new plan with the city requires an independent auditor to monitor Vallejo’s progress on a long list of changes, including racial disparities in policing, de-escalation techniques and community engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta is demanding major reforms of the beleaguered Vallejo Police Department, which has been subject to intense criticism in recent years over its high rate of police killings and very\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919385/in-vallejo-investigations-of-police-take-so-long-officers-kill-again-before-reviews-are-done\"> slow, and sometimes incomplete, investigations of those incidents.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta’s Department of Justice on Monday filed a consent decree, which lays out the court-ordered police reforms the city of Vallejo must implement over the next five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At its core, this new agreement is about building and strengthening trust between the Vallejo Police Department and the community it serves,” Bonta said at a press conference on Monday at Vallejo City Hall. “It’s about correcting injustices and enhancing public safety for all people in Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The consent decree comes more than three years after the state DOJ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823146/state-attorney-general-to-review-and-reform-vallejo-police-department-following-fatal-shooting\">initiated a collaborative effort \u003c/a>with the city to “review and reform” policing practices, arguing that “the number and nature of [police killings] raised concerns among members of the community.” Then-Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that action in June 2020, just days after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sean-monterrosa\">high-profile police killing of Sean Monterrosa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11826613]As part of its contract with the state, the city agreed to implement 45 reforms of the department. But when that agreement expired in June 2023, fewer than half of the recommendations had actually gone into effect, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stipulated agreement that Bonta’s office filed in Solano Superior Court on Monday requires an independent auditor to monitor Vallejo’s progress on the outstanding reforms, under the supervision of the court, while also mandating additional changes to its police department. As part of that agreement, the department must address and rectify a slew of alleged shortcomings, including racial disparities in its policing practices, how it trains officers on de-escalation techniques and unlawful uses of force, and the manner in which it engages with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decree also requires that the city change the process of how it handles civilian complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This work and these reforms are more needed and more necessary,” Bonta said, announcing the action just days after \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-16/vallejo-police-officer-punches-woman-in-face-during-arrest-in-viral-video\">a video was made public\u003c/a> of a Vallejo officer punching a female driver in the face during an arrest. “Trust has been broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 2010 and late 2020, Vallejo police officers killed 19 people, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city\">the second-highest rate among America’s 100 largest police forces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state DOJ is additionally expected to file a lawsuit in Solano County Superior Court alleging that Vallejo police officers have routinely violated the constitutional rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect, the local news site \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2023/10/16/state-doj-to-impose-sweeping-reforms-on-vallejo-police/\">Open Vallejo\u003c/a> reported Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta was joined on Monday by Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell and the interim police chief, Jason Ta. Both said they would be cooperating with the state moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police reform consisting of a change in daily culture is not easy,” McConnell said. “As we make these changes, small and large, it will demand the full attention and understanding of the citizens of Vallejo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta also said his office is still looking into the June 2020 police killing of Monterrosa, even though Becerra, his predecessor, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826054/state-attorney-general-wont-investigate-vallejo-polices-fatal-shooting-of-sean-monterrosa\">declined to independently investigate the case\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that incident, Vallejo police officer Jarrett Tonn, sitting in the back seat of an unmarked police vehicle,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826613/vallejo-police-release-video-of-deadly-shooting-of-sean-monterrosa\"> fired a semi-automatic rifle five times through the windshield\u003c/a>, hitting Monterrosa once. The shooting took place as officers were responding to reports of a break-in at a Walgreens during the unrest following the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams said at the time that Monterrosa, a 22-year-old Latino man from San Francisco, dropped to his knees and put his hands above his waist, revealing what Tonn thought was the butt of a handgun, but was actually a hammer in the pocket of his sweatshirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams fired Tonn after an independent investigation. But this summer,\u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-detective-who-killed-sean-monterrosa-to-be-reinstated-with-back-pay/\"> Tonn got his job back\u003c/a> — with back pay — after an arbitrator ruled that the city didn’t follow proper procedure when firing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11919385,news_11768008,news_11768675 label='Related Stories']The city has also faced criticism for its handling of investigations into numerous other police use-of-force cases, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-says-it-inadvertently-destroyed-records-in-five-police-shooting-investigations/\"> “inadvertently” destroying records\u003c/a> related to five shootings and taking so long to conduct investigations that, in some instances, officers killed other people while still under investigation for prior shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another high-profile incident, Vallejo police officer Zachary Jacobsen shot and killed Angel Ramos, 21, in his mother’s backyard in 2017, following a fight that broke out during a family gathering there. Responding to calls from neighbors about a disturbance, Jacobsen said he shot Ramos four times after witnessing him “hovering” above another man while making stabbing motions with a kitchen knife, according to the Solano County district attorney’s report on the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramos’ family \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\">disputed the police narrative of the shooting\u003c/a>, insisting that he did not have a knife and was only punching the man. Ultimately, no knife was found near Ramos’ body. The family filed a wrongful death lawsuit, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-reaches-2-8m-settlement-for-police-killing-of-angel-ramos/\"> last November\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-reaches-2-8m-settlement-for-police-killing-of-angel-ramos/\"> reached a $2.8 million settlement with the city\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in February 2019, another Vallejo police killing \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/us/willie-mccoy-shooting-video.html\">made national headlines \u003c/a>when six officers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">fired 55 bullets at Willie McCoy\u003c/a>, a 20-year-old Black man who had fallen asleep in his car in a Taco Bell parking lot and had just begun to stir as the officers yelled at him to raise his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, reporting from Open Vallejo revealed a years-long tradition among some Vallejo police officers of \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge-tips-to-mark-fatal-shootings/\">bending their badges to mark the fatal shootings they had made\u003c/a>. Former police captain John Whitney told the media outlet that he was forced out of the department after raising concerns about the badge-bending tradition in the wake of McCoy’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, civil rights attorney John Burris, who has sued Vallejo’s police department multiple times for its mistreatment of Black residents, commended Bonta and the city for reaching the consent degree. But he also cautioned that rank-and-file officers, and the police union that represents them, would likely stand in the way of any real reform. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Make no mistake that this is just the beginning; it will take an [unwavering] commitment by city leaders and police leadership to implement the changes,” Burris said. “Change is hard, and the leadership must hold officers accountable; otherwise, the consent decree will not be worth the paper that it is written [on].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/\">Open Vallejo\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around dinner time on Feb. 13, 2018, Ronell Foster was riding his bike on a wide road that runs through the historic downtown of Vallejo, California. The 33-year-old did not own a car, and cycled nearly everywhere he went around his hometown, often flanked by his teenage son and 5-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that night, Foster was riding alone, swerving in and out of traffic lanes without a bike light, and caught the attention of officer Ryan McMahon, who pursued Foster in his car. Foster hit the brakes, and McMahon ordered him to “come over and sit in front of my car,” according to the officer’s deposition in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Foster’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stop messing with me,” Foster responded before taking off on his bike in the opposite direction, McMahon recalled in his deposition testimony. The officer got back in his car and chased him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster soon fell from his bike and ran away. When McMahon continued the chase on foot, Vallejo policy required him to notify the department by radio. But that’s not what he did. Instead, he left his patrol car and followed Foster toward a dark walkway between two houses.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Louis Dekmar, police chief, LaGrange, Georgia, and former civil rights police monitor, US Department of Justice\"]‘This isn’t accepted practice. This isn’t even basement standard practice. Any agency that takes that long is saying that this isn’t a priority.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they ran, McMahon tased the African American man in the back without a warning, although officers are required to give one unless it puts them in danger. The officer later said he did so in part because he saw Foster grabbing his pants, causing him to think Foster had a firearm. Foster, who was unarmed, kept running but fell. As he tried to get up, McMahon pushed him, causing Foster to fall down a small flight of cement stairs, the officer testified in the lawsuit. McMahon then straddled his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage shows Foster lying on the pavement without fighting back when McMahon, standing next to him, fired his Taser once more. Then the officer struck Foster in the head and body with a 13-inch metal flashlight, Foster’s family alleged in court records. As McMahon swung to hit again, Foster caught the flashlight and tried to get up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some facts of the case are disputed, what happened next is not: McMahon shot Foster seven times. Autopsy records show he hit Foster once in the head, four times in the back and twice on the left side of his body, killing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all good,” McMahon said as backup arrived minutes later. “He’s down. He’s down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 678px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919407 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man smiling and wearing a beanie and hoodie.\" width=\"678\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png 678w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM-160x229.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronell Foster \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A diverse waterfront city of 125,000 located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vallejo has garnered \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/willie-mccoy-police-shooting.html\">national attention\u003c/a> in recent years for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city\">rate of police killings\u003c/a>, which far outpaces those of all but two California cities, San Bernardino and South Gate, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/vallejo-police-highest-rate-of-residents-shot-per-capita-in-northern-california-nbc-bay-area-probes-causes/190344/\">a 2019 NBC Bay Area report\u003c/a>. Eight families of people killed by police over the last decade have filed civil suits against Vallejo, which has paid out more than $8.3 million in settlements so far, with three cases ongoing. (The single largest settlement, $5.7 million, went to the Foster family.) In July 2020, Open Vallejo exposed a tradition in which \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge-tips-to-mark-fatal-shootings/\">officers bent their badges to mark their fatal shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Open Vallejo and ProPublica have looked at what happens inside the department after those killings occur, examining more than 15,000 pages of police, forensic and court files related to the city’s 17 fatal police shootings since 2011. Based on records that emerged after dozens of public records requests and two lawsuits filed by Open Vallejo, the news organizations found a pattern of delayed and incomplete investigations, with dire consequences.[aside label=\"Related Posts\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/vallejopolicing, The Fight Against Policing in Vallejo\"]In the Foster case, when top department leadership ultimately reviewed reports and evidence more than a year and a half after Foster was killed, it found McMahon had violated department policies — both by pursuing Foster on foot without notifying the department and without backup and by failing to turn on his body camera before using deadly force. (While McMahon only turned on his body camera after he fired, the camera is designed to automatically capture 30 seconds of preactivation footage.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officer McMahon failed to recognize his safety and the safety of the suspect Ronnell Foster outweighed apprehension for a minor traffic/pedestrian violation,” then-police chief Joseph Allio wrote in a memorandum. Allio ordered that McMahon “attend a 1 to 3-day course on officer safety and tactics focusing on critical incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time that training was ordered, the officer had been involved in the killing of another African American man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to our first-of-its-kind review of Vallejo’s investigations of police killings, six of the department’s 17 fatal shootings between 2011 and 2020 involved an officer using deadly force while still under investigation for a prior killing. In three of those cases, including McMahon’s, department officials noted officers’ initial mistakes in their reports, but not until after their second killing. In all three, the investigation into the second killing also revealed significant tactical errors, like not considering the use of nonlethal weapons. In one case, officials identified the same mistake in two killings involving the same officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigations into police killings were ongoing when the same officers used deadly force again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s reviews of police killings have dragged on for years. Six times since 2011, the incident was still under review when the same officer was involved in another fatal encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-800x598.png\" alt=\"A graph.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1536x1148.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1920x1435.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note: The Vallejo Police Department was unable to produce a final administrative report for the killings of Sherman Peacock and Peter Mestler. The end date for the investigations into those two killings reflects the district attorney’s final review of each case. All officers either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment for this story. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The news organizations also found that the department consistently failed to properly complete essential investigative tasks and took more than a year on average to close its administrative investigations of fatal shootings — methods that experts say are at odds with best practices promoted by the U.S. Department of Justice and used by police agencies around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t accepted practice. This isn’t even basement standard practice,” said Louis Dekmar, the police chief in LaGrange, Georgia, since 1995, and a former civil rights police monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Any agency that takes that long is saying that this isn’t a priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in the Foster case mishandled a crucial piece of evidence, police records show, then took months to request that the crime lab analyze it for fingerprints. Nineteen months passed between the killing and the submission of investigative findings to the police chief. Only then was the chief able to fully assess the case and consider discipline for that shooting. McMahon later testified that he feared for his life and that Foster, holding the flashlight, faced him “in a boxer type stance.” But body camera footage does not support the officer’s claim that Foster was facing him, and an expert for Foster’s family who reviewed enhanced footage and other forensic evidence concluded that Foster had immediately turned away. McMahon remained on the job, and was later fired over his involvement in the killing of another man, during which, a department investigation found, he endangered a fellow officer by shooting from behind him. He did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March phone call, Shawny Williams, Vallejo’s police chief since November 2019, agreed to an interview but declined to schedule it; after we shared our findings with the department in writing, he provided a statement that pointed to recent administrative changes, like implementing a yearly crisis intervention training and requiring officers to use deescalation tactics when possible before engaging with a suspect. Williams also noted proposed reforms to how the department investigates its fatal shootings — some of which mirror recommendations first made to the department by a law enforcement consultant two years ago. Among them: a deadline for officials to produce their findings once all the evidence has been gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams declined to answer questions about any specific cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I cannot comment on critical incidents which occurred prior to my arrival, or on ongoing matters, I can confirm that overall, the VPD continues the process of implementing police reforms,” the chief wrote. “All the above changes are designed to create enhanced internal accountability and will provide a more transparent process for our department and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A remarkable amount of incompetence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there is no universal timeline for internal investigations, guidelines developed for the Department of Justice by a group of local police officials say departments should, at minimum, complete their probes before any statute of limitations on officer discipline expires (one year, in California, with some exceptions). \u003ca href=\"https://cops.usdoj.gov/ric/Publications/cops-p164-pub.pdf\">“It is preferable,” the group wrote, “to conclude investigations within 180 days.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some of the DOJ’s own reviews of police departments across the country, it has pushed for even shorter deadlines when it comes to investigating an officer’s use of force, including fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, for example, the Justice Department mandated that the East Haven Police Department in Connecticut complete deadly force investigations within 60 days and forward a report to the chief, who has 45 days to complete the review. And in 2014, the DOJ required a similar deadline in Albuquerque for reviews of serious uses of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Vallejo, Open Vallejo and ProPublica found that the police department has taken an average of 20 months to review fatal shootings, from the time of a police killing to the date a chief signed off on the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of mistakes drove delays in Vallejo and undermined the integrity of investigations. One core problem: Some witnesses to killings reported long delays before officers took their statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in 2012, after Jaime Alvarado and his wife, Rocio Alvarado, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/three-shootings-in-vallejo\">they witnessed Vallejo police shoot their neighbor Jeremiah Moore\u003c/a>, a young man whose mother said he was on the autism spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had responded to 911 calls about loud noises coming from Moore’s home, including the sound of glass breaking. Although officers and an intoxicated witness later claimed Moore had been armed with a .22-caliber rifle, Jaime Alvarado said Moore was naked and unarmed, with his hands up and shaking from fright, when he was shot and killed by Vallejo officer Sean Kenney. (A forensic analysis could not find Moore’s fingerprints on the rifle, which was recovered in his home, while a later one found small traces of his blood on it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a white man smiling broadly as if laughing, with a goatee, beard, baseball cap, and baggy T-shirt.\" width=\"666\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png 666w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM-160x229.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he tried to approach a Vallejo officer a few hours after he saw the killing through his second-floor window, but was told that “we don’t have time to talk” and to “get inside the house.” No one from the department tried to contact him after that, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not pay attention to me,” Alvarado told Open Vallejo and ProPublica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Alvarado, detectives didn’t take his statement until several months later, after an attorney hired by Moore’s family to sue the city facilitated the interview. Yet there is no record of that interview in Vallejo’s case file, and the department ultimately cleared the officer in the killing. Neither the Moore family attorney nor the police department responded to questions about Alvarado’s account. The Moore family’s lawsuit was settled in 2016 for $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of three investigations among the 17 killings in which Vallejo detectives interviewed one or more eyewitnesses months later or did not interview them at all, despite a county policy that states department officials are responsible for “immediately” securing crime scenes, including identifying and sequestering witnesses in order to obtain their statements. In each of these cases, the witnesses’ accounts directly contradicted claims by police that the victims had been armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was not the only type of delay. In 11 of the 17 cases, investigators did not meet a 30-day goal set by the county to complete their reports. Detectives often took even longer to request analysis on important evidence, such as bullets fired by officers, fingerprinting, DNA samples and weapons allegedly carried by the victims. In six investigations, Vallejo sent requests for evidence testing to a crime lab half a year or more following the killings. In most of those cases, the delayed analyses appear to have hampered the investigations or led to cases being closed by investigators before some forensic reports could be included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11919415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-800x964.png\" alt=\"A graph.\" width=\"800\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-800x964.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-1020x1229.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-160x193.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile.png 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Foster’s case, detectives didn’t seek fingerprint testing of the flashlight that McMahon claimed Foster used as a weapon until eight months after the killing. When they finally made a request, the lab could not find Foster’s fingerprints. Experts say \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233901042_Determination_of_latent_fingerprint_degradation_patterns_-_A_real_fieldwork_study\">long delays can cause biological evidence to degrade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consequences of delayed resolutions of investigations are severe,” the Justice Department wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/925846/download\">investigation of the Chicago Police Department in 2017\u003c/a>, triggered after a white officer fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald. “Memories fade, evidence is lost, and investigators may not be able to locate those crucial witnesses needed to determine whether misconduct has occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Solano County district attorney’s office based their decisions about whether to charge Vallejo police officers primarily on evidence gathered by Vallejo officials. This made some of the detectives’ missteps especially meaningful. For example, in three of the killings from 2012, prosecutors cleared officers before all the evidence in the case had been analyzed by forensic experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either there is a remarkable amount of incompetence or it’s malicious,” said Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and former Florida police officer, about the Vallejo Police Department. “Neither should be acceptable.” Stoughton testified as a national police standards expert for the prosecution in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, the Vallejo police chief, declined to answer specific questions about the numerous delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County’s current district attorney, Krishna Abrams, who took office shortly after the officer involved in the Moore shooting was cleared, also declined to comment on the findings of this investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Abrams wrote in a statement that her office has continued to make it a priority to use best practices for investigating officer-involved fatal incidents. She pointed to rule changes from 2020 that require that future investigations of Vallejo killings involve criminal investigators from other departments in the county. She did not comment, however, on another rule change made that year that removed a 30-day target for detectives to complete their reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>While investigations drag, officers kill again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Vallejo’s investigations dragged on, sometimes for years, officers who had killed patrolled the city’s streets, their mistakes unaddressed. In three cases, department officials flagged officers’ actions only after they were involved in another killing, police records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Sean Kenney killed Anton Barrett in May 2012. Kenney was still under investigation for that shooting when, on the morning of Sept. 2, 2012, he and his partner, Dustin Joseph, pulled up in front of the home of a man named Mario Romero. Romero, who identified as Black, Indigenous and Latino, was sitting in his parked Ford Thunderbird with his brother-in-law, police and court records show. The two white officers claimed that the young men seemed shocked to see them approaching and that Romero’s car was encroaching on the sidewalk, according to the officers’ depositions in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Romero’s family. Kenney also claimed that a similar vehicle had been involved in a shooting the prior month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within seconds and without exchanging a word, Kenney and Joseph exited their vehicle and started firing, according to Joseph’s deposition. Then, Kenney jumped on the hood of the Thunderbird, according to court and police records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers fired 31 rounds in total, striking Romero, a father of one, 30 times in the face, neck, forearms, chest and left side of his body. His brother-in-law was hit once in the pelvis and survived. Officers pulled both men from the car after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919411 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man with longish hair smiling and looking up at the viewer, wearing a Black T-shirt.\" width=\"664\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Romero \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph told detectives that Romero had briefly gotten out of the car and grabbed the butt of a gun in his waistband, though officials never found a firearm. Kenney claimed he recovered a pellet gun wedged between the rear portion of the driver’s seat and the center console. Two weeks after the incident, the officers were sent back to patrol. While police experts said many departments don’t prohibit this, they also said that having officers with open deadly force investigations go out on patrol can be dangerous for officers and community members alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take detectives another eight weeks to interview Romero’s three sisters, eyewitnesses in the case who contradicted the officers’ accounts. They said they never saw Romero with a firearm and that their brother remained inside the car during the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before those interviews happened, though, Kenney had killed again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 21, 2012, the day after Romero’s funeral, Kenney fatally shot Jeremiah Moore, the young man whose neighbor Jamie Alvarado said was unarmed. It was Kenney’s third deadly incident that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, on March 20, 2013, Joseph and two others were involved in the fatal shooting of 42-year-old William Heinze, who had barricaded himself in a house with a firearm during a mental health crisis. It was Joseph’s second deadly incident in just over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a middle-aged white man smiling, with his lips closed so sort of tiredly, with a trim haircut and wearing a black T-shirt.\" width=\"664\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Heinze \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, with investigations into those two killings pending, Joseph received a departmental Life-Saving Medal for a separate event and was promoted to corporal. Kenney, with three open deadly force investigations, was awarded the Medal of Valor for his role in the Moore shooting, according to Kenney’s deposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly two years after the Romero shooting, the department’s Critical Incident Review Board finally issued findings in the administrative probe. The panel is supposed to evaluate whether officers’ use of force was justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2014, it flagged the officers’ tactics during the incident. The board found that Kenney placed himself in a “tactically disadvantageous position with a potentially armed subject” when he jumped on the hood of Romero’s car, and noted officers could have waited at their car for backup, records show. Nevertheless, officials noted, “The board felt that the officers relied upon their past training to successfully endure this dangerous and rapidly evolving incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still recommended additional training, without specifying whether the training was intended for the two officers or the department as a whole. The board then failed to forward its own completed report to supervisors for nearly a year. During that time, the city settled the lawsuit for $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet another year would pass before then-Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou assessed the case for disciplinary, training and policy considerations. Bidou approved the board’s findings, but he did not take further action in the case, the files show. By then, criminal accountability had been ruled out, too. The district attorney had declined to file charges three years earlier. His report noted that Vallejo investigators had interviewed Romero’s sisters long after the incident; the prosecutor suggested that the delay made their statements less credible than the officers’ accounts. He was also missing forensic analyses that would later show that the DNA and fingerprints taken from the pellet gun could not be matched to Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that investigation had been run properly, Kenney would have been off the street and he wouldn’t have killed my son,” asserted Lisa Moore, the mother of Jeremiah Moore, Kenney’s third shooting victim, about Vallejo’s handling of the case. “Four years, that’s a long time to figure out, ‘Oh, we messed up. What did we do wrong so that this doesn’t happen again?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney retired from the Vallejo Police Department in 2018, after the board cleared him in the Moore shooting. He declined to comment for this story. As for Joseph, the Vallejo board ultimately flagged officers’ tactics during his second deadly incident, and recommended training. Joseph, who did not respond to requests for comment, left Vallejo in 2019 to join the nearby Fairfield Police Department, where Fairfield officials said he is currently on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘With this delay, there is no justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The review board’s actions in the Romero case were not an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Made up of two to six ranked officers from within the Vallejo PD, the Critical Incident Review Board reviews an investigation, identifies whether officers violated any policies and makes recommendations to the chief, according to the department’s policy manuals. Our analysis of the 17 cases found that those reviews were consistently delayed. In 11 cases, the panel sent its report up the chain of command more than one year after the incident. And in six of those cases, the board sat on its findings for months before forwarding them, delaying the review of the chief of police, who makes the final decision on discipline, according to the analysis by Open Vallejo and ProPublica. In two cases from 2011 and 2012, the department was unable to show that a final administrative review was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news organizations’ analysis found that the board often cleared officers even when it noted problems with how they had handled a shooting. In fact, the CIRB never determined that any officers had violated department policies, according to the department’s records. Often, it recommended training. But in at least a few of those cases, there is no evidence in training and investigative files that the involved officers completed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two cases in which the chief considered potential discipline, he opened yet another investigation because the board’s probe was insufficient, creating additional delays. All these delays by both the CIRB and the chief matter in part because California law gives departments only one year to impose discipline once officials learn of an incident, though that timeline is paused during a criminal investigation. (That timeframe expired in one of the 17 killings that we reviewed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts said Vallejo’s approach is fundamentally flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the whole purpose of having a disciplinary process in place: to assess quickly whether or not officers have engaged in misconduct and, if they’re a threat to the public, to get them removed from the department and off the streets,” said Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, a former Superior Court judge for the County of Santa Clara. From 2010 to 2015, Cordell served as the independent police auditor for the city of San José, which created the office in 1993 following the beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is happening in Vallejo is quite the opposite: It’s just delay, delay. And with this delay, there is no justice,” Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, the board seemed to miss opportunities to help the department fix practices that contributed to those killings. Despite delays, the CIRB did, in fact, note plenty of problems: officers who didn’t turn on their body cameras, failed to use less lethal options, mismanaged crime scenes or did not wait for backup. But, time and again, the board reports neither called out individual officers for problematic behavior nor recommended policy changes as a result of the failures they repeatedly identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common problem identified by the CIRB in its reviews of killings was that officers acted without sufficient “cover,” meaning they didn’t properly use structures like cars for protection when confronting civilians, amplifying the risk to themselves and others in already-dangerous situations. When officers don’t take cover, “they put themselves in jeopardy — they create jeopardy,” said Dekmar, the former civil rights police monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice. “That results in a use of force that may have been avoided.” Investigators noted cover issues in six of Vallejo’s 17 killings since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It first surfaced in the 2012 case of Marshall Tobin, a 43-year-old Black man who was sitting in his car sobbing over his phone when two officers, both under deadly force investigations for prior killings, approached him. Police had received a call about an armed man in a parking lot. After Tobin emerged from his car, officers tased him and then fired at least 11 rounds at him, killing him. The officers told investigators that after he was tased, Tobin had reached for a gun in his waistband. They did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 670px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man with sort of long hair and facial stubble, wearing a light T-shirt and dark jacket. He is looking straight at the viewer, unsmiling, as if this image is taken from a driver's license photo.\" width=\"670\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png 670w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshall Tobin \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year and a half later, the CIRB found in its review that the officers had approached Tobin on foot, “leaving the cover and concealment of the vehicles.” It recommended additional department training in how to use cover, but it did not officially flag the officers’ behavior or find that they had violated a policy. (Two months after that, one of those two officers, from inside his patrol car, shot at a Latino man fleeing a traffic stop — the officer’s third fatal incident in two years. The board approved of the shooting, and the chief cleared him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the Tobin killing, then-police chief Joseph Kreins, who reviewed seven fatal shootings between 2012 and 2014, did add a clause to the policy manual that “encouraged” officers on vehicle pursuits to “remember the importance of cover, concealment, and safe distance.” But in 2015, despite the board’s findings in the Romero and Tobin shootings, the next chief of police, Andrew Bidou, removed it. Neither Kreins nor Bidou responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue emerged again in 2017, when officers killed Jeffrey Barboa, a father of one who police said was wanted for an armed robbery. Following a high-speed pursuit that ended in a crash, Barboa had approached officers while holding a knife over his head. The officers, standing within 15 feet, did not step back, police records show. As Barboa slowly walked toward the officers, they fired approximately 50 rounds at him, hitting him at least 30 times in the chest, face, neck, arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a middle-aged Latino man with dark hair, unsmiling, wearing a collared shirt and jacket.\" width=\"664\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Barboa \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 28 months after that shooting, in December 2019, the CIRB found in its report that had the officers taken cover or put more distance between themselves and Barboa, they would have created time to communicate with him and “deploy less-lethal alternatives.” “It is this positioning that likely caused the situation to speed up,” the board wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the review board responded as it usually did: It identified no policy violation or specific officer at fault and issued a list of training recommendations with no accompanying plan to implement them. There is no evidence in the department’s reports that Vallejo officials took further action in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this project was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/people/mariam-elba\">Mariam Elba\u003c/a> contributed research. Geoffrey King contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/\">Open Vallejo\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around dinner time on Feb. 13, 2018, Ronell Foster was riding his bike on a wide road that runs through the historic downtown of Vallejo, California. The 33-year-old did not own a car, and cycled nearly everywhere he went around his hometown, often flanked by his teenage son and 5-year-old daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that night, Foster was riding alone, swerving in and out of traffic lanes without a bike light, and caught the attention of officer Ryan McMahon, who pursued Foster in his car. Foster hit the brakes, and McMahon ordered him to “come over and sit in front of my car,” according to the officer’s deposition in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Foster’s family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Stop messing with me,” Foster responded before taking off on his bike in the opposite direction, McMahon recalled in his deposition testimony. The officer got back in his car and chased him down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster soon fell from his bike and ran away. When McMahon continued the chase on foot, Vallejo policy required him to notify the department by radio. But that’s not what he did. Instead, he left his patrol car and followed Foster toward a dark walkway between two houses.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they ran, McMahon tased the African American man in the back without a warning, although officers are required to give one unless it puts them in danger. The officer later said he did so in part because he saw Foster grabbing his pants, causing him to think Foster had a firearm. Foster, who was unarmed, kept running but fell. As he tried to get up, McMahon pushed him, causing Foster to fall down a small flight of cement stairs, the officer testified in the lawsuit. McMahon then straddled his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Body camera footage shows Foster lying on the pavement without fighting back when McMahon, standing next to him, fired his Taser once more. Then the officer struck Foster in the head and body with a 13-inch metal flashlight, Foster’s family alleged in court records. As McMahon swung to hit again, Foster caught the flashlight and tried to get up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some facts of the case are disputed, what happened next is not: McMahon shot Foster seven times. Autopsy records show he hit Foster once in the head, four times in the back and twice on the left side of his body, killing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all good,” McMahon said as backup arrived minutes later. “He’s down. He’s down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 678px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919407 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man smiling and wearing a beanie and hoodie.\" width=\"678\" height=\"970\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM.png 678w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.10-PM-160x229.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronell Foster \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A diverse waterfront city of 125,000 located in the San Francisco Bay Area, Vallejo has garnered \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/us/willie-mccoy-police-shooting.html\">national attention\u003c/a> in recent years for its \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-police-force-ruled-a-city\">rate of police killings\u003c/a>, which far outpaces those of all but two California cities, San Bernardino and South Gate, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/vallejo-police-highest-rate-of-residents-shot-per-capita-in-northern-california-nbc-bay-area-probes-causes/190344/\">a 2019 NBC Bay Area report\u003c/a>. Eight families of people killed by police over the last decade have filed civil suits against Vallejo, which has paid out more than $8.3 million in settlements so far, with three cases ongoing. (The single largest settlement, $5.7 million, went to the Foster family.) In July 2020, Open Vallejo exposed a tradition in which \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge-tips-to-mark-fatal-shootings/\">officers bent their badges to mark their fatal shootings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Open Vallejo and ProPublica have looked at what happens inside the department after those killings occur, examining more than 15,000 pages of police, forensic and court files related to the city’s 17 fatal police shootings since 2011. Based on records that emerged after dozens of public records requests and two lawsuits filed by Open Vallejo, the news organizations found a pattern of delayed and incomplete investigations, with dire consequences.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the Foster case, when top department leadership ultimately reviewed reports and evidence more than a year and a half after Foster was killed, it found McMahon had violated department policies — both by pursuing Foster on foot without notifying the department and without backup and by failing to turn on his body camera before using deadly force. (While McMahon only turned on his body camera after he fired, the camera is designed to automatically capture 30 seconds of preactivation footage.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officer McMahon failed to recognize his safety and the safety of the suspect Ronnell Foster outweighed apprehension for a minor traffic/pedestrian violation,” then-police chief Joseph Allio wrote in a memorandum. Allio ordered that McMahon “attend a 1 to 3-day course on officer safety and tactics focusing on critical incidents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time that training was ordered, the officer had been involved in the killing of another African American man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to our first-of-its-kind review of Vallejo’s investigations of police killings, six of the department’s 17 fatal shootings between 2011 and 2020 involved an officer using deadly force while still under investigation for a prior killing. In three of those cases, including McMahon’s, department officials noted officers’ initial mistakes in their reports, but not until after their second killing. In all three, the investigation into the second killing also revealed significant tactical errors, like not considering the use of nonlethal weapons. In one case, officials identified the same mistake in two killings involving the same officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Investigations into police killings were ongoing when the same officers used deadly force again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Vallejo’s reviews of police killings have dragged on for years. Six times since 2011, the incident was still under review when the same officer was involved in another fatal encounter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11919408\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-800x598.png\" alt=\"A graph.\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-800x598.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1020x762.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1536x1148.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop-1920x1435.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220627-openvallejo-desktop.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Note: The Vallejo Police Department was unable to produce a final administrative report for the killings of Sherman Peacock and Peter Mestler. The end date for the investigations into those two killings reflects the district attorney’s final review of each case. All officers either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment for this story. \u003ccite>(Lucas Waldron/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The news organizations also found that the department consistently failed to properly complete essential investigative tasks and took more than a year on average to close its administrative investigations of fatal shootings — methods that experts say are at odds with best practices promoted by the U.S. Department of Justice and used by police agencies around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t accepted practice. This isn’t even basement standard practice,” said Louis Dekmar, the police chief in LaGrange, Georgia, since 1995, and a former civil rights police monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Any agency that takes that long is saying that this isn’t a priority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in the Foster case mishandled a crucial piece of evidence, police records show, then took months to request that the crime lab analyze it for fingerprints. Nineteen months passed between the killing and the submission of investigative findings to the police chief. Only then was the chief able to fully assess the case and consider discipline for that shooting. McMahon later testified that he feared for his life and that Foster, holding the flashlight, faced him “in a boxer type stance.” But body camera footage does not support the officer’s claim that Foster was facing him, and an expert for Foster’s family who reviewed enhanced footage and other forensic evidence concluded that Foster had immediately turned away. McMahon remained on the job, and was later fired over his involvement in the killing of another man, during which, a department investigation found, he endangered a fellow officer by shooting from behind him. He did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March phone call, Shawny Williams, Vallejo’s police chief since November 2019, agreed to an interview but declined to schedule it; after we shared our findings with the department in writing, he provided a statement that pointed to recent administrative changes, like implementing a yearly crisis intervention training and requiring officers to use deescalation tactics when possible before engaging with a suspect. Williams also noted proposed reforms to how the department investigates its fatal shootings — some of which mirror recommendations first made to the department by a law enforcement consultant two years ago. Among them: a deadline for officials to produce their findings once all the evidence has been gathered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams declined to answer questions about any specific cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I cannot comment on critical incidents which occurred prior to my arrival, or on ongoing matters, I can confirm that overall, the VPD continues the process of implementing police reforms,” the chief wrote. “All the above changes are designed to create enhanced internal accountability and will provide a more transparent process for our department and the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘A remarkable amount of incompetence’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While there is no universal timeline for internal investigations, guidelines developed for the Department of Justice by a group of local police officials say departments should, at minimum, complete their probes before any statute of limitations on officer discipline expires (one year, in California, with some exceptions). \u003ca href=\"https://cops.usdoj.gov/ric/Publications/cops-p164-pub.pdf\">“It is preferable,” the group wrote, “to conclude investigations within 180 days.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some of the DOJ’s own reviews of police departments across the country, it has pushed for even shorter deadlines when it comes to investigating an officer’s use of force, including fatal shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, for example, the Justice Department mandated that the East Haven Police Department in Connecticut complete deadly force investigations within 60 days and forward a report to the chief, who has 45 days to complete the review. And in 2014, the DOJ required a similar deadline in Albuquerque for reviews of serious uses of force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Vallejo, Open Vallejo and ProPublica found that the police department has taken an average of 20 months to review fatal shootings, from the time of a police killing to the date a chief signed off on the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of mistakes drove delays in Vallejo and undermined the integrity of investigations. One core problem: Some witnesses to killings reported long delays before officers took their statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in 2012, after Jaime Alvarado and his wife, Rocio Alvarado, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/three-shootings-in-vallejo\">they witnessed Vallejo police shoot their neighbor Jeremiah Moore\u003c/a>, a young man whose mother said he was on the autism spectrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police had responded to 911 calls about loud noises coming from Moore’s home, including the sound of glass breaking. Although officers and an intoxicated witness later claimed Moore had been armed with a .22-caliber rifle, Jaime Alvarado said Moore was naked and unarmed, with his hands up and shaking from fright, when he was shot and killed by Vallejo officer Sean Kenney. (A forensic analysis could not find Moore’s fingerprints on the rifle, which was recovered in his home, while a later one found small traces of his blood on it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919410 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a white man smiling broadly as if laughing, with a goatee, beard, baseball cap, and baggy T-shirt.\" width=\"666\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM.png 666w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.37-PM-160x229.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Moore \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alvarado said he tried to approach a Vallejo officer a few hours after he saw the killing through his second-floor window, but was told that “we don’t have time to talk” and to “get inside the house.” No one from the department tried to contact him after that, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They would not pay attention to me,” Alvarado told Open Vallejo and ProPublica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Alvarado, detectives didn’t take his statement until several months later, after an attorney hired by Moore’s family to sue the city facilitated the interview. Yet there is no record of that interview in Vallejo’s case file, and the department ultimately cleared the officer in the killing. Neither the Moore family attorney nor the police department responded to questions about Alvarado’s account. The Moore family’s lawsuit was settled in 2016 for $250,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of three investigations among the 17 killings in which Vallejo detectives interviewed one or more eyewitnesses months later or did not interview them at all, despite a county policy that states department officials are responsible for “immediately” securing crime scenes, including identifying and sequestering witnesses in order to obtain their statements. In each of these cases, the witnesses’ accounts directly contradicted claims by police that the victims had been armed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was not the only type of delay. In 11 of the 17 cases, investigators did not meet a 30-day goal set by the county to complete their reports. Detectives often took even longer to request analysis on important evidence, such as bullets fired by officers, fingerprinting, DNA samples and weapons allegedly carried by the victims. In six investigations, Vallejo sent requests for evidence testing to a crime lab half a year or more following the killings. In most of those cases, the delayed analyses appear to have hampered the investigations or led to cases being closed by investigators before some forensic reports could be included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11919415\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-800x964.png\" alt=\"A graph.\" width=\"800\" height=\"964\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-800x964.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-1020x1229.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile-160x193.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/20220701-vallejo-investigative-missteps-mobile.png 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Foster’s case, detectives didn’t seek fingerprint testing of the flashlight that McMahon claimed Foster used as a weapon until eight months after the killing. When they finally made a request, the lab could not find Foster’s fingerprints. Experts say \u003ca href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233901042_Determination_of_latent_fingerprint_degradation_patterns_-_A_real_fieldwork_study\">long delays can cause biological evidence to degrade\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The consequences of delayed resolutions of investigations are severe,” the Justice Department wrote in its \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/925846/download\">investigation of the Chicago Police Department in 2017\u003c/a>, triggered after a white officer fatally shot Black teenager Laquan McDonald. “Memories fade, evidence is lost, and investigators may not be able to locate those crucial witnesses needed to determine whether misconduct has occurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the Solano County district attorney’s office based their decisions about whether to charge Vallejo police officers primarily on evidence gathered by Vallejo officials. This made some of the detectives’ missteps especially meaningful. For example, in three of the killings from 2012, prosecutors cleared officers before all the evidence in the case had been analyzed by forensic experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Either there is a remarkable amount of incompetence or it’s malicious,” said Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law and former Florida police officer, about the Vallejo Police Department. “Neither should be acceptable.” Stoughton testified as a national police standards expert for the prosecution in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of the murder of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, the Vallejo police chief, declined to answer specific questions about the numerous delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solano County’s current district attorney, Krishna Abrams, who took office shortly after the officer involved in the Moore shooting was cleared, also declined to comment on the findings of this investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Abrams wrote in a statement that her office has continued to make it a priority to use best practices for investigating officer-involved fatal incidents. She pointed to rule changes from 2020 that require that future investigations of Vallejo killings involve criminal investigators from other departments in the county. She did not comment, however, on another rule change made that year that removed a 30-day target for detectives to complete their reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>While investigations drag, officers kill again\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Vallejo’s investigations dragged on, sometimes for years, officers who had killed patrolled the city’s streets, their mistakes unaddressed. In three cases, department officials flagged officers’ actions only after they were involved in another killing, police records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Sean Kenney killed Anton Barrett in May 2012. Kenney was still under investigation for that shooting when, on the morning of Sept. 2, 2012, he and his partner, Dustin Joseph, pulled up in front of the home of a man named Mario Romero. Romero, who identified as Black, Indigenous and Latino, was sitting in his parked Ford Thunderbird with his brother-in-law, police and court records show. The two white officers claimed that the young men seemed shocked to see them approaching and that Romero’s car was encroaching on the sidewalk, according to the officers’ depositions in a civil rights lawsuit filed by Romero’s family. Kenney also claimed that a similar vehicle had been involved in a shooting the prior month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within seconds and without exchanging a word, Kenney and Joseph exited their vehicle and started firing, according to Joseph’s deposition. Then, Kenney jumped on the hood of the Thunderbird, according to court and police records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers fired 31 rounds in total, striking Romero, a father of one, 30 times in the face, neck, forearms, chest and left side of his body. His brother-in-law was hit once in the pelvis and survived. Officers pulled both men from the car after the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919411 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man with longish hair smiling and looking up at the viewer, wearing a Black T-shirt.\" width=\"664\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.49-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mario Romero \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joseph told detectives that Romero had briefly gotten out of the car and grabbed the butt of a gun in his waistband, though officials never found a firearm. Kenney claimed he recovered a pellet gun wedged between the rear portion of the driver’s seat and the center console. Two weeks after the incident, the officers were sent back to patrol. While police experts said many departments don’t prohibit this, they also said that having officers with open deadly force investigations go out on patrol can be dangerous for officers and community members alike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would take detectives another eight weeks to interview Romero’s three sisters, eyewitnesses in the case who contradicted the officers’ accounts. They said they never saw Romero with a firearm and that their brother remained inside the car during the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before those interviews happened, though, Kenney had killed again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 21, 2012, the day after Romero’s funeral, Kenney fatally shot Jeremiah Moore, the young man whose neighbor Jamie Alvarado said was unarmed. It was Kenney’s third deadly incident that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, on March 20, 2013, Joseph and two others were involved in the fatal shooting of 42-year-old William Heinze, who had barricaded himself in a house with a firearm during a mental health crisis. It was Joseph’s second deadly incident in just over six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919412 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a middle-aged white man smiling, with his lips closed so sort of tiredly, with a trim haircut and wearing a black T-shirt.\" width=\"664\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.48.57-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Heinze \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2014, with investigations into those two killings pending, Joseph received a departmental Life-Saving Medal for a separate event and was promoted to corporal. Kenney, with three open deadly force investigations, was awarded the Medal of Valor for his role in the Moore shooting, according to Kenney’s deposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly two years after the Romero shooting, the department’s Critical Incident Review Board finally issued findings in the administrative probe. The panel is supposed to evaluate whether officers’ use of force was justified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2014, it flagged the officers’ tactics during the incident. The board found that Kenney placed himself in a “tactically disadvantageous position with a potentially armed subject” when he jumped on the hood of Romero’s car, and noted officers could have waited at their car for backup, records show. Nevertheless, officials noted, “The board felt that the officers relied upon their past training to successfully endure this dangerous and rapidly evolving incident.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It still recommended additional training, without specifying whether the training was intended for the two officers or the department as a whole. The board then failed to forward its own completed report to supervisors for nearly a year. During that time, the city settled the lawsuit for $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet another year would pass before then-Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou assessed the case for disciplinary, training and policy considerations. Bidou approved the board’s findings, but he did not take further action in the case, the files show. By then, criminal accountability had been ruled out, too. The district attorney had declined to file charges three years earlier. His report noted that Vallejo investigators had interviewed Romero’s sisters long after the incident; the prosecutor suggested that the delay made their statements less credible than the officers’ accounts. He was also missing forensic analyses that would later show that the DNA and fingerprints taken from the pellet gun could not be matched to Romero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If that investigation had been run properly, Kenney would have been off the street and he wouldn’t have killed my son,” asserted Lisa Moore, the mother of Jeremiah Moore, Kenney’s third shooting victim, about Vallejo’s handling of the case. “Four years, that’s a long time to figure out, ‘Oh, we messed up. What did we do wrong so that this doesn’t happen again?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenney retired from the Vallejo Police Department in 2018, after the board cleared him in the Moore shooting. He declined to comment for this story. As for Joseph, the Vallejo board ultimately flagged officers’ tactics during his second deadly incident, and recommended training. Joseph, who did not respond to requests for comment, left Vallejo in 2019 to join the nearby Fairfield Police Department, where Fairfield officials said he is currently on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘With this delay, there is no justice’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The review board’s actions in the Romero case were not an anomaly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Made up of two to six ranked officers from within the Vallejo PD, the Critical Incident Review Board reviews an investigation, identifies whether officers violated any policies and makes recommendations to the chief, according to the department’s policy manuals. Our analysis of the 17 cases found that those reviews were consistently delayed. In 11 cases, the panel sent its report up the chain of command more than one year after the incident. And in six of those cases, the board sat on its findings for months before forwarding them, delaying the review of the chief of police, who makes the final decision on discipline, according to the analysis by Open Vallejo and ProPublica. In two cases from 2011 and 2012, the department was unable to show that a final administrative review was completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news organizations’ analysis found that the board often cleared officers even when it noted problems with how they had handled a shooting. In fact, the CIRB never determined that any officers had violated department policies, according to the department’s records. Often, it recommended training. But in at least a few of those cases, there is no evidence in training and investigative files that the involved officers completed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two cases in which the chief considered potential discipline, he opened yet another investigation because the board’s probe was insufficient, creating additional delays. All these delays by both the CIRB and the chief matter in part because California law gives departments only one year to impose discipline once officials learn of an incident, though that timeline is paused during a criminal investigation. (That timeframe expired in one of the 17 killings that we reviewed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts said Vallejo’s approach is fundamentally flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the whole purpose of having a disciplinary process in place: to assess quickly whether or not officers have engaged in misconduct and, if they’re a threat to the public, to get them removed from the department and off the streets,” said Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, a former Superior Court judge for the County of Santa Clara. From 2010 to 2015, Cordell served as the independent police auditor for the city of San José, which created the office in 1993 following the beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is happening in Vallejo is quite the opposite: It’s just delay, delay. And with this delay, there is no justice,” Cordell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, the board seemed to miss opportunities to help the department fix practices that contributed to those killings. Despite delays, the CIRB did, in fact, note plenty of problems: officers who didn’t turn on their body cameras, failed to use less lethal options, mismanaged crime scenes or did not wait for backup. But, time and again, the board reports neither called out individual officers for problematic behavior nor recommended policy changes as a result of the failures they repeatedly identified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most common problem identified by the CIRB in its reviews of killings was that officers acted without sufficient “cover,” meaning they didn’t properly use structures like cars for protection when confronting civilians, amplifying the risk to themselves and others in already-dangerous situations. When officers don’t take cover, “they put themselves in jeopardy — they create jeopardy,” said Dekmar, the former civil rights police monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice. “That results in a use of force that may have been avoided.” Investigators noted cover issues in six of Vallejo’s 17 killings since 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It first surfaced in the 2012 case of Marshall Tobin, a 43-year-old Black man who was sitting in his car sobbing over his phone when two officers, both under deadly force investigations for prior killings, approached him. Police had received a call about an armed man in a parking lot. After Tobin emerged from his car, officers tased him and then fired at least 11 rounds at him, killing him. The officers told investigators that after he was tased, Tobin had reached for a gun in his waistband. They did not respond to requests for comment for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 670px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919413 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a Black man with sort of long hair and facial stubble, wearing a light T-shirt and dark jacket. He is looking straight at the viewer, unsmiling, as if this image is taken from a driver's license photo.\" width=\"670\" height=\"954\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM.png 670w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.06-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marshall Tobin \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A year and a half later, the CIRB found in its review that the officers had approached Tobin on foot, “leaving the cover and concealment of the vehicles.” It recommended additional department training in how to use cover, but it did not officially flag the officers’ behavior or find that they had violated a policy. (Two months after that, one of those two officers, from inside his patrol car, shot at a Latino man fleeing a traffic stop — the officer’s third fatal incident in two years. The board approved of the shooting, and the chief cleared him.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the Tobin killing, then-police chief Joseph Kreins, who reviewed seven fatal shootings between 2012 and 2014, did add a clause to the policy manual that “encouraged” officers on vehicle pursuits to “remember the importance of cover, concealment, and safe distance.” But in 2015, despite the board’s findings in the Romero and Tobin shootings, the next chief of police, Andrew Bidou, removed it. Neither Kreins nor Bidou responded to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue emerged again in 2017, when officers killed Jeffrey Barboa, a father of one who police said was wanted for an armed robbery. Following a high-speed pursuit that ended in a crash, Barboa had approached officers while holding a knife over his head. The officers, standing within 15 feet, did not step back, police records show. As Barboa slowly walked toward the officers, they fired approximately 50 rounds at him, hitting him at least 30 times in the chest, face, neck, arms and legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11919414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 664px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11919414 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white watercolor illustration of a middle-aged Latino man with dark hair, unsmiling, wearing a collared shirt and jacket.\" width=\"664\" height=\"946\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM.png 664w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Screen-Shot-2022-07-12-at-3.49.12-PM-160x228.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Barboa \u003ccite>(Kate Copeland/ProPublica)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 28 months after that shooting, in December 2019, the CIRB found in its report that had the officers taken cover or put more distance between themselves and Barboa, they would have created time to communicate with him and “deploy less-lethal alternatives.” “It is this positioning that likely caused the situation to speed up,” the board wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the review board responded as it usually did: It identified no policy violation or specific officer at fault and issued a list of training recommendations with no accompanying plan to implement them. There is no evidence in the department’s reports that Vallejo officials took further action in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporting for this project was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/people/mariam-elba\">Mariam Elba\u003c/a> contributed research. Geoffrey King contributed reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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