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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part III of The Bay’s three-part podcast series on policing in Vallejo. Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">part I\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\">part II\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]V[/dropcap]allejo police officers have shot and killed 21 people since 2005, and residents and families of those victims have returned to City Hall repeatedly to say: They’ve had enough. But it’s not just police shootings, which have been driving people to protest in Vallejo since at least 2012. It’s also everyday run-ins with Vallejo police officers that, for years, have added to a sense of mistrust that’s blowing up in City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how did it get this bad?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Year the Money Dried Up\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tensions with police today can be traced back to 2008, when Vallejo became the first city of its size to file for bankruptcy in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That year, the city had some tough choices to make. When the city went bankrupt, police and firefighter salaries, pensions and overtime accounted for 74% of Vallejo’s $80 million general budget, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa645.pdf\">2009 study\u003c/a> by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Hear More on The Bay\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay/,Subscribe to the podcast\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/TheBay_1200x6301.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135954/vallejo-city-manager-responds-to-questions-about-police-shootings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">could no longer afford\u003c/a> its contracts with police and firefighters. Osby Davis, the mayor at the time, said negotiations with the unions reached the 11th hour before the city decided to file for bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had an impact on the entire city, not just the police department,” said Davis, who served as Vallejo mayor for 10 years. The city lost employees as a result. At the police department, staffing for officers went from 126 to 77, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped putting any money into our streets and roads, no money into infrastructure, no raises for any employees,” Davis said. “We were just … in dire straits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citywide, businesses closed and people lost their homes. At the police department, there was an exodus of police officers, which put additional pressures on the ones who stayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to pick up the slack and the duties of others that were no longer present,” said retired VPD Sgt. Brent Garrick, who had several jobs throughout his 30-year career with the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the most dire years, Garrick was juggling more than one job at once. Officers began putting in a lot of overtime, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so you didn’t have a consistency and continuity within the department, and that produced a situation where, you know, I’d kind of describe it as a perfect storm,” he said. “You don’t have a good sense of direction, policy, procedure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769309\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769309\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Vallejo police officers at a City Council meeting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6333.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vallejo police officers at a City Council meeting. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city had less money to send officers to training outside of the department, Garrick said. Before bankruptcy, the department required its officers to attend firearms training upward of six times a year — significantly more than the state standard, he said. But budget cuts meant fewer trips to the range, said Garrick. Officers began to worry that the lack of training was creating a liability for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2011, Officer James Lowell Capoot was shot and killed in the line of duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember hearing some of the conversations: ‘Wow, you know, look what the city is doing to us, man they’re gonna get someone killed,’ ” Garrick said. “And sure enough, in 2011, that came to fruition, and people were really impacted by that and hurt by that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it was a very turbulent time, and almost painful to even think about, because as a result a lot of people feel that, you know, officers were out there on a killing spree, and that was so far from the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Bay's Series on Vallejo Police Shootings\" tag=\"vallejo-police-shootings\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, however, Vallejo experienced the deadliest year of police shootings in the last 14 years. In 2012, the city budgeted for about 85 police officers but Garrick said there were only around 76 cops patrolling the city, an all-time low for the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staffing levels had a direct impact on officers in the field. There were fewer officers to call for backup. Garrick said that put officers in scary situations — often alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can imagine there was a fear factor that was going on,” he said. “Because the reality is you know we don’t know what’s behind that closed door.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the department pointed to skyrocketing crime rates. Crimes did increase, almost 10 percent from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Vallejo, even with its smaller population, still had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">more shootings in 2012\u003c/a> than big Bay Area cities also dealing with high crime rates. That year, Oakland had one fatal officer-involved shooting, and San Francisco had two. In Vallejo, there were six.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo hasn’t had a year of police shootings that bad since then. So what makes this moment — when activists are showing up at City Hall to protest police violence again — different in Vallejo?\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘The Only Way to Not See It Is to Close Your Eyes’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Melissa Nold, an attorney with the Law Offices of John Burris and a Vallejo native, said police body camera and bystander video has changed everything. Nold and her group have represented the families of people shot by Vallejo police in lawsuits against the city and the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s changing because now you have this objective thing,” Nold said. “So I think people are willing to say: You know what, they haven’t been as forthcoming as we would like them to have been in the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769312\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (center) at a Vallejo City Council meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Videos have played critical roles in the public’s response to the police killings of people like Oscar Grant in Oakland, Eric Garner in New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston. They’ve led to a cultural awakening nationwide to the way black and brown people are disproportionately impacted by police violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that awakening is happening in Vallejo with residents. But city leaders aren’t acting quickly enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do you not see the problem? The only way to not see it is to close your eyes,” said Nold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo’s city manager, said the city is conducting risk analyses of its fire and police departments. The city hired the California-based consultant OIR Group to review the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to hear from the OIR Group on their expert observations before I make any statement or come to any conclusions regarding the extent of needed improvements,” Nyhoff wrote in an email to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a June City Council meeting, Nyhoff told councilors that the number of police calls compared to the number of use-of-force incidents in each of the last three years don’t show a use-of-force problem in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, Nyhoff said there were more than 69,000 calls made to Vallejo police. The same year, there were 150 use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those don’t seem like there’s excessive use of force, or a lot of use of force in our community,” he said. “That is such a tiny number when you think of how many times our officers interact with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Shootings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nold said problems with policing in Vallejo are costing the city — and taxpayers — money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo was paying so much in legal settlements related, in part, to cases against its police department that it impacted its relationship with the California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority — an agency that has effectively served as an insurance company for the city for about three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2017, documents from the authority show that Vallejo had become a liability. In a December 2017 meeting, the agency discussed how Vallejo’s losses are “large and disproportionate compared to the other members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyhoff said the Authority planned to charge more for its insurance because of “a lack of risk management oversight and accountability generally.” The city left that group and joined another insurance pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they approve these multimillion-dollar settlements and never ever for one second look in the mirror and go, ‘Hey what’s going on?’ ” said Dan Russo, a criminal defense attorney in Vallejo since 1978. In 2018, one of his clients settled a case against the police department for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we just unlucky? Are we just having a bad run of luck? Or is there some fundamental, basic problem that is more transcendent than a bad apple?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo said city leaders aren’t living up to their obligation and responsibility to hold its police officers accountable — and it’s not just when it comes to police shootings. There have also been allegations of harassment, false arrests, intimidation and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those calls I get every day,” said Melissa Nold, who sees these calls as examples of a department that is afraid of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Garrick, the retired Vallejo police officer, is also a Vallejo native. He said being from the city has served him well in his career, because officers who don’t understand the communities they serve carry around a certain level of fear. By the time Garrick left the department, he said just a few officers had gone to school or grew up in Vallejo, or had families in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that kind of intimacy with the community is a matter of life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just from a psychological perspective, it’s very difficult to kill people that you know,” Nold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for a New Police Chief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou retired in June, and the city is looking for its next chief. The city has held at least one community forum to get input from residents about what they want from their next chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have heard is the public wants a chief who is a good listener, who cares about this community and who is proud to represent the Vallejo Police Department as a leader,” Nyhoff, the city manager, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They also want someone who is a communicator and will get out in the public to talk about tough issues, learn about their problems and bring ideas to the table to collaborate with our community and unite us in the common goals of public safety. They are also looking for accountability from Department leadership and tough — even if unpopular — decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have been showing up to City Hall, making their case for transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Alicia Saddler addressed the City Council, saying she wants to prevent what happened to her brother, Angel Ramos — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2017\u003c/a> — from happening to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bring the right chief in, things can change. And our loved ones can get the justice, and nobody else’s family will have to feel the pain that me and all these other families have to feel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, for example, Nyhoff said there were more than 69,000 calls made to Vallejo police. The same year, there were 150 use-of-force incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those don’t seem like there’s excessive use of force, or a lot of use of force in our community,” he said. “That is such a tiny number when you think of how many times our officers interact with the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Beyond the Shootings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Nold said problems with policing in Vallejo are costing the city — and taxpayers — money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo was paying so much in legal settlements related, in part, to cases against its police department that it impacted its relationship with the California Joint Powers Risk Management Authority — an agency that has effectively served as an insurance company for the city for about three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2017, documents from the authority show that Vallejo had become a liability. In a December 2017 meeting, the agency discussed how Vallejo’s losses are “large and disproportionate compared to the other members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11769308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11769308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6340.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vallejo City Council meets on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyhoff said the Authority planned to charge more for its insurance because of “a lack of risk management oversight and accountability generally.” The city left that group and joined another insurance pool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they approve these multimillion-dollar settlements and never ever for one second look in the mirror and go, ‘Hey what’s going on?’ ” said Dan Russo, a criminal defense attorney in Vallejo since 1978. In 2018, one of his clients settled a case against the police department for $2.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are we just unlucky? Are we just having a bad run of luck? Or is there some fundamental, basic problem that is more transcendent than a bad apple?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Russo said city leaders aren’t living up to their obligation and responsibility to hold its police officers accountable — and it’s not just when it comes to police shootings. There have also been allegations of harassment, false arrests, intimidation and racial profiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those calls I get every day,” said Melissa Nold, who sees these calls as examples of a department that is afraid of its community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brent Garrick, the retired Vallejo police officer, is also a Vallejo native. He said being from the city has served him well in his career, because officers who don’t understand the communities they serve carry around a certain level of fear. By the time Garrick left the department, he said just a few officers had gone to school or grew up in Vallejo, or had families in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nold said that kind of intimacy with the community is a matter of life or death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just from a psychological perspective, it’s very difficult to kill people that you know,” Nold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for a New Police Chief\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou retired in June, and the city is looking for its next chief. The city has held at least one community forum to get input from residents about what they want from their next chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I have heard is the public wants a chief who is a good listener, who cares about this community and who is proud to represent the Vallejo Police Department as a leader,” Nyhoff, the city manager, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They also want someone who is a communicator and will get out in the public to talk about tough issues, learn about their problems and bring ideas to the table to collaborate with our community and unite us in the common goals of public safety. They are also looking for accountability from Department leadership and tough — even if unpopular — decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others have been showing up to City Hall, making their case for transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Alicia Saddler addressed the City Council, saying she wants to prevent what happened to her brother, Angel Ramos — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2017\u003c/a> — from happening to anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you bring the right chief in, things can change. And our loved ones can get the justice, and nobody else’s family will have to feel the pain that me and all these other families have to feel,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part II of The Bay’s three-part podcast series on policing in Vallejo. Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\">part I\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\">part III\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t a quaint little green corner home off a busy street in Vallejo, Angel Ramos' family has opened the door to random strangers mourning his death. In 2017, Vallejo police shot and killed the 21-year-old in the backyard of this house, where his mother still lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So many people around here know him,\" said Alicia Saddler, Ramos' older sister. \"He stopped and talked to everybody.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, Ramos' family has pieced together a much different narrative from the police's story of what happened the night he was killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos' family has gone through what other families of those more recently killed by police in Vallejo are going through now — a frustrating search for information about the killings of their loved ones, and an uphill battle against an institution we're meant to trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Hear More on The Bay\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay/,Subscribe to the podcast\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/TheBay_1200x6301.png\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If [the police] were a regular person that kills somebody, they would be in jail right now awaiting trial,\" Saddler said. \"And here, no matter what, they get found innocent, and the evidence is like right there in your face and it doesn't matter. They still don't get in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jan. 23, 2017\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Solano County District Attorney's Office deemed the shooting of Angel Ramos a lawful shooting by Vallejo police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened at a family gathering the evening of Jan. 23, 2017. Saddler, her kids, two siblings and their partners were there — roughly 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of us didn’t really have a lot of friends,\" Saddler said. \"We just hung out with each other, and that was something we did every weekend, even during the week. We would just hang out, drink, watch movies, and it was never a party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said a family fight had broken out, and her brothers, including Ramos, got involved. Police say they responded to calls from neighbors about a \"disturbance involving a large party of subjects fighting with weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Officer Zachary Jacobsen and Matthew Samida arrived on the scene shortly after 12:30 a.m. and ran over to the backyard fence. Above them, about 15 to 20 meters away, was a second-story wooden porch attached to the back of the house where the fight broke out. The officers announced themselves, and told everyone to break it up. No one listened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember screaming 'please don't shoot,' \" Saddler said. \"I could see my kids standing in the doorway, and I was like crying and screaming for them not to shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Officer Jacobsen had unholstered his service weapon and was watching Ramos. According to the DA’s report, Jacobsen said he saw Angel come rushing toward the other person in the fight, and that he saw Angel kneeling or “hovering” on top of him. Officer Jacobsen said he had an unobstructed view of Angel with a large kitchen knife, making stabbing motions toward the person underneath him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was at that point that I thought the only thing I could do to save this guy’s life was to shoot the man who was trying to stab him,\" Jacobsen told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Ramos four times, once at the base of his neck and three times in the chest, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My 9-year-old seen, he heard the shots, and then saw Angel hit the ground,\" Saddler said. \"He immediately called my mom and he was like, 'Granny, I think the cops just killed Angel cuz I heard gunshots and he dropped to the floor, and there’s a bunch of blood coming from him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police reports show Saddler was taken into custody at the Solano County Jail for resisting arrest and refusing to move out of officers' way after the shooting. It was in jail that she would learn that her brother died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not 'I’m sorry' or nothing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>No Sympathy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family was in shock. Their mom had moved the family from Oakland to Vallejo in 2011 because she worried about street violence. Vallejo, she thought, would be safer, said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things were good, like they didn’t get into no trouble out here,\" she said. \"They were going to school. Once they got older, working. Then, the cops killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release from the day of the shooting, Vallejo police said, \"The 21 year old male was holding a knife and presented himself as an immediate and lethal threat to the victim down on his back. One of the officers recognized the threat to the victim and fired his duty weapon at the suspect to stop the threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"The Bay's Series on Vallejo Police Shootings\" tag=\"vallejo-police-shootings\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family contend that Angel wasn't holding a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the shooting, the family began showing up at Vallejo City Hall demanding answers from the city. They wanted to know the names of the officers who shot Ramos. They wanted to see officer body-camera footage and the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said the family met with then-Police Chief Andrew Bidou on March 20, 2017, in the city attorney’s office to view the body-camera footage. But Saddler said none of the videos show the shooting itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just a whole bunch of nothing, basically,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said police would stop and start the video to highlight certain moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know like, to try and put another narrative in our own head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police declined an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hasn’t seen any footage of the actual shooting. Melissa Nold, the attorney representing the family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Vallejo and Officer Zachary Jacobsen, said that footage mysteriously doesn’t exist. According to Nold, Jacobsen — the only officer who shot Ramos — didn't have his camera on that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family obtained dozens of videos from other officers who responded to the scene before and after the shooting. But none of the officers' lapel cameras captured the actual shooting, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family didn't finish watching the footage in that meeting with the police chief. They were frustrated with how police talked to them. The family got up and walked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother is still dead. You still show somebody some type of sympathy. Like, we just lost our loved one.\" said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What Knife?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alicia and her family have always been skeptical of the Vallejo Police Department's narrative of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that another cop who was there — Officer Jeremy Callinan — told investigators he didn’t see Ramos with a knife. In investigative documents, Callinan described hand motions that looked like a “hammer strike” that led him to believe Ramos had a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though Officer Callinan said he didn’t see a knife, he still believed Ramos had posed a “lethal threat.” He told investigators that if Officer Jacobsen hadn’t shot Ramos, he would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Alicia Saddler\"]'I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel. It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, five knives were recovered from the home. Three of them were gathered from the kitchen. It's unclear from the police report where the other two were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews Vallejo police Detective Rob Greenberg conducted on Feb. 3, 2017, with two firefighters who responded to the scene that night, neither said they saw any weapons near Ramos when they went to attend to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the alleged victim who Ramos was described as attacking with a knife the night of the shooting — Deshon Wilson — is cited in the family’s lawsuit against the city, denying the official police version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purported victim, D.W., steadfastly denies the offical [SIC] version of the events and reports that Angel Ramos was clearly and obviously unarmed when Officer Jacobsen inexplicably opened fire. The CITY’s official versions of the event are belied by the inciden [SIC] scene, physical evidence, placement of Decedent’s injury and physics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Councilmembers at a meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Council members at a meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Activist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo's city manager, wouldn't say whether there is a problem with policing in Vallejo. Nyhoff said many cities are currently struggling with providing police services and that officers in Vallejo are operating with limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has hired the independent California-based OIR Group to assess the police department's police practices and procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been working in local government long enough to know there are lots of complexities and challenges that need to be considered before one concludes reform is required,\" Nyhoff said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like for residents to understand that the City is listening, and also that the City is very pointed on taking steps to address the concerns that have been raised and to continuously improve — not only with the Police Department — but with the organization as a whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler, meanwhile, has taken up the role of an activist — a role she never thought she'd play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel,\" she said. \"It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting of Ramos in 2017, there was the shooting of Ronell Foster in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie McCoy\u003c/a>, who was shot earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family and their supporters have been critical of city leaders for not speaking up about shootings by its police officers. She also said her family has been intimidated by Vallejo police since speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told City Council members at a meeting in June that she'd stopped at the corner of Nebraska and Sonoma streets in Vallejo, when she looked over and saw an officer pointing at her and other officers laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are they laughing because Jacobsen is getting away with murdering my brother?\" she asked council members. \"I wanna know what is so funny?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight to change the narrative around her brother's death has taken a toll on Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has moved out of the house where the shooting happened. After the shooting, she felt guilty facing her mom. She felt like if they’d all just stopped fighting that night, police would have never showed up. On this past April 25, Alicia got a chance to view more police body-camera footage from that night that her lawyers obtained, showing something she hadn't seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I blamed myself like: How come you didn't help him? How could you be that drunk and not know that your brother was hurt?\" she said. \"But in the video that we watched, I was screaming for them to call the ambulance to help my brother. So that was like a big weight off my chest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler won't leave Vallejo, she said, until her brother's case is over. She said she doesn't want the police to feel like they won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If [the police] were a regular person that kills somebody, they would be in jail right now awaiting trial,\" Saddler said. \"And here, no matter what, they get found innocent, and the evidence is like right there in your face and it doesn't matter. They still don't get in trouble.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Jan. 23, 2017\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The Solano County District Attorney's Office deemed the shooting of Angel Ramos a lawful shooting by Vallejo police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It happened at a family gathering the evening of Jan. 23, 2017. Saddler, her kids, two siblings and their partners were there — roughly 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each of us didn’t really have a lot of friends,\" Saddler said. \"We just hung out with each other, and that was something we did every weekend, even during the week. We would just hang out, drink, watch movies, and it was never a party.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said a family fight had broken out, and her brothers, including Ramos, got involved. Police say they responded to calls from neighbors about a \"disturbance involving a large party of subjects fighting with weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Officer Zachary Jacobsen and Matthew Samida arrived on the scene shortly after 12:30 a.m. and ran over to the backyard fence. Above them, about 15 to 20 meters away, was a second-story wooden porch attached to the back of the house where the fight broke out. The officers announced themselves, and told everyone to break it up. No one listened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I remember screaming 'please don't shoot,' \" Saddler said. \"I could see my kids standing in the doorway, and I was like crying and screaming for them not to shoot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Officer Jacobsen had unholstered his service weapon and was watching Ramos. According to the DA’s report, Jacobsen said he saw Angel come rushing toward the other person in the fight, and that he saw Angel kneeling or “hovering” on top of him. Officer Jacobsen said he had an unobstructed view of Angel with a large kitchen knife, making stabbing motions toward the person underneath him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was at that point that I thought the only thing I could do to save this guy’s life was to shoot the man who was trying to stab him,\" Jacobsen told investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He shot Ramos four times, once at the base of his neck and three times in the chest, according to the DA's report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My 9-year-old seen, he heard the shots, and then saw Angel hit the ground,\" Saddler said. \"He immediately called my mom and he was like, 'Granny, I think the cops just killed Angel cuz I heard gunshots and he dropped to the floor, and there’s a bunch of blood coming from him.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police reports show Saddler was taken into custody at the Solano County Jail for resisting arrest and refusing to move out of officers' way after the shooting. It was in jail that she would learn that her brother died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not 'I’m sorry' or nothing,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5414-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler lays out a blanket with photos of her brother, Angel Ramos, and their mother. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>No Sympathy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family was in shock. Their mom had moved the family from Oakland to Vallejo in 2011 because she worried about street violence. Vallejo, she thought, would be safer, said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Things were good, like they didn’t get into no trouble out here,\" she said. \"They were going to school. Once they got older, working. Then, the cops killed my brother.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press release from the day of the shooting, Vallejo police said, \"The 21 year old male was holding a knife and presented himself as an immediate and lethal threat to the victim down on his back. One of the officers recognized the threat to the victim and fired his duty weapon at the suspect to stop the threat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family contend that Angel wasn't holding a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after the shooting, the family began showing up at Vallejo City Hall demanding answers from the city. They wanted to know the names of the officers who shot Ramos. They wanted to see officer body-camera footage and the autopsy report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said the family met with then-Police Chief Andrew Bidou on March 20, 2017, in the city attorney’s office to view the body-camera footage. But Saddler said none of the videos show the shooting itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just a whole bunch of nothing, basically,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler said police would stop and start the video to highlight certain moments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You know like, to try and put another narrative in our own head,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police declined an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family hasn’t seen any footage of the actual shooting. Melissa Nold, the attorney representing the family in a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Vallejo and Officer Zachary Jacobsen, said that footage mysteriously doesn’t exist. According to Nold, Jacobsen — the only officer who shot Ramos — didn't have his camera on that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family obtained dozens of videos from other officers who responded to the scene before and after the shooting. But none of the officers' lapel cameras captured the actual shooting, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler and her family didn't finish watching the footage in that meeting with the police chief. They were frustrated with how police talked to them. The family got up and walked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My brother is still dead. You still show somebody some type of sympathy. Like, we just lost our loved one.\" said Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768694\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_5423.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A remembrance for Angel Ramos outside the home of his mother in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>What Knife?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Alicia and her family have always been skeptical of the Vallejo Police Department's narrative of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason is that another cop who was there — Officer Jeremy Callinan — told investigators he didn’t see Ramos with a knife. In investigative documents, Callinan described hand motions that looked like a “hammer strike” that led him to believe Ramos had a knife when he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even though Officer Callinan said he didn’t see a knife, he still believed Ramos had posed a “lethal threat.” He told investigators that if Officer Jacobsen hadn’t shot Ramos, he would have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, five knives were recovered from the home. Three of them were gathered from the kitchen. It's unclear from the police report where the other two were found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In interviews Vallejo police Detective Rob Greenberg conducted on Feb. 3, 2017, with two firefighters who responded to the scene that night, neither said they saw any weapons near Ramos when they went to attend to his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the alleged victim who Ramos was described as attacking with a knife the night of the shooting — Deshon Wilson — is cited in the family’s lawsuit against the city, denying the official police version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purported victim, D.W., steadfastly denies the offical [SIC] version of the events and reports that Angel Ramos was clearly and obviously unarmed when Officer Jacobsen inexplicably opened fire. The CITY’s official versions of the event are belied by the inciden [SIC] scene, physical evidence, placement of Decedent’s injury and physics.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11768837\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg\" alt=\"Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Councilmembers at a meeting on June 25, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-800x564.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler-1200x846.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Alicia-Saddler.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia Saddler addresses Vallejo City Council members at a meeting on June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Becoming an Activist\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Greg Nyhoff, Vallejo's city manager, wouldn't say whether there is a problem with policing in Vallejo. Nyhoff said many cities are currently struggling with providing police services and that officers in Vallejo are operating with limited resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has hired the independent California-based OIR Group to assess the police department's police practices and procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have been working in local government long enough to know there are lots of complexities and challenges that need to be considered before one concludes reform is required,\" Nyhoff said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would like for residents to understand that the City is listening, and also that the City is very pointed on taking steps to address the concerns that have been raised and to continuously improve — not only with the Police Department — but with the organization as a whole.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler, meanwhile, has taken up the role of an activist — a role she never thought she'd play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can’t just be out here fighting for Angel,\" she said. \"It's these other people now. I just decided it was time to do what I have to do to fight for families.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the shooting of Ramos in 2017, there was the shooting of Ronell Foster in 2018 and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768008/the-life-and-death-of-willie-mccoy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie McCoy\u003c/a>, who was shot earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saddler's family and their supporters have been critical of city leaders for not speaking up about shootings by its police officers. She also said her family has been intimidated by Vallejo police since speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told City Council members at a meeting in June that she'd stopped at the corner of Nebraska and Sonoma streets in Vallejo, when she looked over and saw an officer pointing at her and other officers laughing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are they laughing because Jacobsen is getting away with murdering my brother?\" she asked council members. \"I wanna know what is so funny?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight to change the narrative around her brother's death has taken a toll on Saddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has moved out of the house where the shooting happened. After the shooting, she felt guilty facing her mom. She felt like if they’d all just stopped fighting that night, police would have never showed up. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is part I of The Bay’s three-part podcast series on policing in Vallejo. Here is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11768675/going-against-the-polices-narrative\">part II\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11769266/the-long-storied-history-of-police-community-tension-in-vallejo\">part III\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Willie McCoy became the latest name behind a police accountability movement in Vallejo, he was a rising young rapper who made music that was, in part, about what it meant to him to be a young black man in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, on Feb. 9, six officers fired 55 bullets at McCoy in a Taco Bell parking lot. McCoy appeared to be asleep in his car. He died just before his 21st birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His death is one of about 21 fatal shootings by Vallejo police since 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a reminder of soon as you get close to cracking the stratosphere for a little bit of success, there’s somebody right there to put you back in your place — this is where you belong boy,” said David Harrison, McCoy’s older cousin. “We want to unify the people to say: no more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was killed, McCoy wanted to make music about police brutality, being pulled over by the police, the violence he saw in his community, but also the joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music that he made was just all about the struggle, and trying to identify himself with everyone that walked in the same footsteps as him,” said Damariee Cole, McCoy’s nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a skill, and his skill was music,” Cole said. “He wanted everybody to understand his background and where he came from; his struggle, and letting everybody know that, you know, you can come out of poverty and be something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy grew up in Sacramento and Vallejo. He was in Sacramento until his father died of mesothelioma when he was about 11 years old. He moved to Vallejo to live with his mom. About two months later, she died of breast cancer, said Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a good culture to him you know,” Harrison said. “Willie was raised by the village by all of the family and the whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy’s family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for wrongful death against the city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also joined a chorus of families of people shot by police in Vallejo who show up at City Hall demanding police officers be held accountable by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one watching the watcher,” Harrison said. “There’s no policing the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Shooting\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police received a call at approximately 10:36 p.m. on Feb. 9 from a Taco Bell employee. He was calling about a person in a vehicle unresponsive to car horn honks in the drive thru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police responded to check on the welfare of the driver. When police arrived, they said the driver was unresponsive — with a gun on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768040\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 329px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x1422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-675x1200.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (left) with his cousin Willie McCoy (right) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police would later explain that officers didn’t try to wake McCoy up when they arrived on scene. They requested backup and came up with a plan: One officer would open the door, while another grabbed the handgun. But police said the doors were locked, and the car was in drive. While they worked to block his car with two patrol cars, McCoy started to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver looked at the officers, and the officers began to yell commands to include ‘keep your hands up, show me your hands,’ ” said Sgt. Jeff Tai in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeNg9kOjV0\">a video press release after the shooting\u003c/a>. “The driver suddenly reached down for the firearm, and at this point, six officers fire their duty weapons at the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11:00 p.m. the night of the shooting, Harrison got a call from one of his cousins. Willie had been shot in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and his dad picked up family members in Oakland and Berkeley and headed for the Taco Bell on Admiral Callaghan Lane. There, they saw McCoy’s silver Mercedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison said it took a while to learn whether McCoy was in the car or not. Police weren’t giving them much information and McCoy had a tendency to let people borrow his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and drizzling. Harrison said about eight officers lined up in front of police tape, blocking access to the scene. Harrison and his family faced them. One of his cousins approached an officer who said he could only share one thing with the family: “We can’t tell you anything,” Harrison recalled the officer saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department has, so far, declined requests for a sit-down interview. City officials have said it is difficult to answer case-specific questions, in part because of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t remember how long the family waited before confirming it was McCoy — it felt like an eternity. They sat there until they saw a tow truck come in to pull McCoy’s car away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we seen all the bullets it was confirmed,” Harrison said. “They said the police shot him. And when he said that I looked at my cousin I said ‘Cuz, they executed him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s family began a desperate search for answers: Why was McCoy shot? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the officers involved in McCoy’s death have been involved in police shootings before. Among them was Ryan McMahon, who shot and killed an unarmed black man who was stopped for riding his bike without a light in 2018. Mark Thompson was involved in a police shooting in 2012. The other four officers involved in McCoy’s shooting are Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordan Patzer and Anthony Romero-Cano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All officers have since been deemed able to return to their regular duties, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=15286049&portletInstanceId=349184\">according to the police department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for Answers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, David Harrison and McCoy’s family have been at city council meetings, rallies and anywhere else to tell McCoy’s story and to get information about his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months after the shooting, VPD released all six angles of the shooting from each officer in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=589&v=i5aa_7fDvnE\">a single video\u003c/a>. The clearest view of the inside of the car came from the camera of an officer standing directly in front of the driver’s side window. VPD slowed down that video to show the moment McCoy was purported to have reached for a gun. The video is not clear enough to make out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 986px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11768017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg 986w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison, Willie McCoy’s cousin, speaking at a Vallejo City Council meeting June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t believe the police’s version of events. If police say they shot his cousin because he reached for a gun, he wants proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police narrative was that Willie had a gun on his lap and they feared for their lives, and he reached for the gun and so they had to initially shoot him,” Harrison said. “But after seeing the video, hey look, there’s no gun. I don’t see him pointing a gun at nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2019, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6174135-MCCOY-COMPLAINT.html\">a federal civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city of Vallejo, its city manager, police chief and six officers involved in McCoy’s death. Burris is seeking a federal court to monitor VPD compliance with civil rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Vallejo Police Department’s unconstitutional policing has become so dire and widespread that the City’s residents live in terror of the police department,” the lawsuit states. “Despite being on notice of their well-documented history of violence and terror, the City of Vallejo refuses to acknowledge or remedy their failure to supervise, discipline or retrain their officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happened to the Music\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when Damariee Cole is driving in his car, he puts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7doj95ElY\">a song with McCoy on the track\u003c/a> and cries. He doesn’t always tell other family members, but it hurts. Since McCoy’s death, members of his rap groups have struggled to stay motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Willie was a leader,” he said. “Sometimes we didn’t want to do projects or go to the studio or write rhymes. Willie was always writing when there was no beat. He would be right in his car and he would have a full song already written out with no beat. So, when you lose a leader with somebody that’s given us that extra motivation, you know, it’s hard to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to be around everyone else in the group. It’s a reminder of who’s not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Willie was there, we always was one,” he said. “Now it’s like when we get together, it just reminds us so much of Willie that all of us just doing our own thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison believed McCoy was going to take their family to new heights — he was on a better path in life, studying music at Laney College in Oakland. Just as soon as things were on the up and up, he was killed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison pulls from the strength of his ancestors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768043\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1020x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-160x190.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-800x949.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1012x1200.jpg 1012w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie McCoy \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison and McCoy and their fathers are descendants of slavery and Jim Crow — Mississippi natives — who joined the migration to Oakland and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, this shooting, the police’s narrative, the city’s response to him and his family, or lack thereof, is the same systemic racism his family escaped, manifesting itself in a different form. He has every intention of fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Justice, No Peace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants to see officers prosecuted in Vallejo. He wants a clear message sent to other officers: that there are consequences for killing people. Nationwide, that’s rare. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-cases/index.html\">Rarely do officers face legal consequences for killing people on the job\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McCoy’s family has continued to show up in protest at Vallejo City Hall, demanding city leaders hold its police force accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been an uphill battle; Harrison hasn’t been satisfied with the response from city leaders, including the mayor. Harrison came to protest a Council meeting on June 25, in which councilmembers were scheduled to honor outgoing Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou, who retired in the middle of growing protest against the department. Mayor Bob Sampayan \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/03/13/vallejo-police-chief-andrew-bidou-announces-retirement/\">told the Vallejo Times-Herald\u003c/a> that his retirement had nothing to do with growing criticism of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my family have come to these meetings time and time again,” Harrison told councilmembers in June. “But, I don’t think that it’s really fair that some of these constituents that come here, and they get congratulated on this side; you’ll speak after that and say something. And I was just waiting for one of you guys to say, ‘Hey, I seen what happened and it was horrible.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo councilmembers have declined or not responded to interview requests. City Manager Greg Nyoff did not want to sit for an interview, but responded to a set of questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only begin to imagine how difficult it is to lose a family member in this way,” Nyoff wrote. “Unfortunately, the communications between family members and the City thus far have primarily been during public comment at council meetings, which is not the best venue for productive interactions on an emotionally laden topic such as this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11768275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_9704-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby speaking at a picnic in Oakland honoring Willie McCoy on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyoff invited the families to attend community forums he said the city is planning with the help of the federal Department of Justice’s Community Relations Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day our police officers head out to serve this community with the goal of doing the right thing, doing right by the public and ensuring our residents and our police officers end their day safely,” Nyoff wrote in an email. “Fatal interactions are a tragedy for all involved — though most clearly for the deceased and their loved ones. Each case needs to be reviewed, evaluated and investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie McCoy’s family is not alone in their fight at Vallejo City Hall for police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php\">Ronnell Foster\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Vallejo-police-fatally-shoot-man-during-fight-at-10877000.php\">Angel Ramos\u003c/a>, a young Latino man shot by police in his mom’s backyard in 2017, have been showing up to City Hall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">the worst year for police shootings in Vallejo\u003c/a>, it was the families of victims like 23-year-old Mario Romero. Those families have been putting up this fight for police accountability in Vallejo before anyone recently started paying close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want it to happen to another young African or another young Latino, Harrison said. “Not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Subscribe to The Bay on any of your favorite podcast apps to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before he was killed, McCoy wanted to make music about police brutality, being pulled over by the police, the violence he saw in his community, but also the joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The music that he made was just all about the struggle, and trying to identify himself with everyone that walked in the same footsteps as him,” said Damariee Cole, McCoy’s nephew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody has a skill, and his skill was music,” Cole said. “He wanted everybody to understand his background and where he came from; his struggle, and letting everybody know that, you know, you can come out of poverty and be something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy grew up in Sacramento and Vallejo. He was in Sacramento until his father died of mesothelioma when he was about 11 years old. He moved to Vallejo to live with his mom. About two months later, she died of breast cancer, said Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a good culture to him you know,” Harrison said. “Willie was raised by the village by all of the family and the whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCoy’s family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit for wrongful death against the city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also joined a chorus of families of people shot by police in Vallejo who show up at City Hall demanding police officers be held accountable by city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no one watching the watcher,” Harrison said. “There’s no policing the police.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Shooting\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Vallejo police received a call at approximately 10:36 p.m. on Feb. 9 from a Taco Bell employee. He was calling about a person in a vehicle unresponsive to car horn honks in the drive thru.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo Police responded to check on the welfare of the driver. When police arrived, they said the driver was unresponsive — with a gun on his lap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768040\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 329px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768040\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x1813.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x284.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x1422.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7-675x1200.jpg 675w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison (left) with his cousin Willie McCoy (right) \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Police would later explain that officers didn’t try to wake McCoy up when they arrived on scene. They requested backup and came up with a plan: One officer would open the door, while another grabbed the handgun. But police said the doors were locked, and the car was in drive. While they worked to block his car with two patrol cars, McCoy started to wake up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driver looked at the officers, and the officers began to yell commands to include ‘keep your hands up, show me your hands,’ ” said Sgt. Jeff Tai in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEeNg9kOjV0\">a video press release after the shooting\u003c/a>. “The driver suddenly reached down for the firearm, and at this point, six officers fire their duty weapons at the officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 11:00 p.m. the night of the shooting, Harrison got a call from one of his cousins. Willie had been shot in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison and his dad picked up family members in Oakland and Berkeley and headed for the Taco Bell on Admiral Callaghan Lane. There, they saw McCoy’s silver Mercedes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison said it took a while to learn whether McCoy was in the car or not. Police weren’t giving them much information and McCoy had a tendency to let people borrow his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and drizzling. Harrison said about eight officers lined up in front of police tape, blocking access to the scene. Harrison and his family faced them. One of his cousins approached an officer who said he could only share one thing with the family: “We can’t tell you anything,” Harrison recalled the officer saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo Police Department has, so far, declined requests for a sit-down interview. City officials have said it is difficult to answer case-specific questions, in part because of the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t remember how long the family waited before confirming it was McCoy — it felt like an eternity. They sat there until they saw a tow truck come in to pull McCoy’s car away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we seen all the bullets it was confirmed,” Harrison said. “They said the police shot him. And when he said that I looked at my cousin I said ‘Cuz, they executed him.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s family began a desperate search for answers: Why was McCoy shot? What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least two of the officers involved in McCoy’s death have been involved in police shootings before. Among them was Ryan McMahon, who shot and killed an unarmed black man who was stopped for riding his bike without a light in 2018. Mark Thompson was involved in a police shooting in 2012. The other four officers involved in McCoy’s shooting are Collin Eaton, Bryan Glick, Jordan Patzer and Anthony Romero-Cano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All officers have since been deemed able to return to their regular duties, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofvallejo.net/cms/One.aspx?portalId=13506&pageId=15286049&portletInstanceId=349184\">according to the police department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Search for Answers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, David Harrison and McCoy’s family have been at city council meetings, rallies and anywhere else to tell McCoy’s story and to get information about his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two months after the shooting, VPD released all six angles of the shooting from each officer in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=589&v=i5aa_7fDvnE\">a single video\u003c/a>. The clearest view of the inside of the car came from the camera of an officer standing directly in front of the driver’s side window. VPD slowed down that video to show the moment McCoy was purported to have reached for a gun. The video is not clear enough to make out a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768017\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 986px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11768017\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"986\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1.jpg 986w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_6343-1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Harrison, Willie McCoy’s cousin, speaking at a Vallejo City Council meeting June 25, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison doesn’t believe the police’s version of events. If police say they shot his cousin because he reached for a gun, he wants proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police narrative was that Willie had a gun on his lap and they feared for their lives, and he reached for the gun and so they had to initially shoot him,” Harrison said. “But after seeing the video, hey look, there’s no gun. I don’t see him pointing a gun at nobody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 27, 2019, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6174135-MCCOY-COMPLAINT.html\">a federal civil rights lawsuit\u003c/a> against the city of Vallejo, its city manager, police chief and six officers involved in McCoy’s death. Burris is seeking a federal court to monitor VPD compliance with civil rights law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Vallejo Police Department’s unconstitutional policing has become so dire and widespread that the City’s residents live in terror of the police department,” the lawsuit states. “Despite being on notice of their well-documented history of violence and terror, the City of Vallejo refuses to acknowledge or remedy their failure to supervise, discipline or retrain their officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What Happened to the Music\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sometimes, when Damariee Cole is driving in his car, he puts on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7doj95ElY\">a song with McCoy on the track\u003c/a> and cries. He doesn’t always tell other family members, but it hurts. Since McCoy’s death, members of his rap groups have struggled to stay motivated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Willie was a leader,” he said. “Sometimes we didn’t want to do projects or go to the studio or write rhymes. Willie was always writing when there was no beat. He would be right in his car and he would have a full song already written out with no beat. So, when you lose a leader with somebody that’s given us that extra motivation, you know, it’s hard to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also hard to be around everyone else in the group. It’s a reminder of who’s not there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When Willie was there, we always was one,” he said. “Now it’s like when we get together, it just reminds us so much of Willie that all of us just doing our own thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison believed McCoy was going to take their family to new heights — he was on a better path in life, studying music at Laney College in Oakland. Just as soon as things were on the up and up, he was killed, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Harrison pulls from the strength of his ancestors:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768043\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11768043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1020x1210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-160x190.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-800x949.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9-1012x1200.jpg 1012w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-9.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willie McCoy \u003ccite>(Courtesy of David Harrison)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Harrison and McCoy and their fathers are descendants of slavery and Jim Crow — Mississippi natives — who joined the migration to Oakland and the Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harrison, this shooting, the police’s narrative, the city’s response to him and his family, or lack thereof, is the same systemic racism his family escaped, manifesting itself in a different form. He has every intention of fighting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Justice, No Peace\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Harrison wants to see officers prosecuted in Vallejo. He wants a clear message sent to other officers: that there are consequences for killing people. Nationwide, that’s rare. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/18/us/police-involved-shooting-cases/index.html\">Rarely do officers face legal consequences for killing people on the job\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, McCoy’s family has continued to show up in protest at Vallejo City Hall, demanding city leaders hold its police force accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been an uphill battle; Harrison hasn’t been satisfied with the response from city leaders, including the mayor. Harrison came to protest a Council meeting on June 25, in which councilmembers were scheduled to honor outgoing Vallejo Police Chief Andrew Bidou, who retired in the middle of growing protest against the department. Mayor Bob Sampayan \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2019/03/13/vallejo-police-chief-andrew-bidou-announces-retirement/\">told the Vallejo Times-Herald\u003c/a> that his retirement had nothing to do with growing criticism of the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Me and my family have come to these meetings time and time again,” Harrison told councilmembers in June. “But, I don’t think that it’s really fair that some of these constituents that come here, and they get congratulated on this side; you’ll speak after that and say something. And I was just waiting for one of you guys to say, ‘Hey, I seen what happened and it was horrible.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo councilmembers have declined or not responded to interview requests. City Manager Greg Nyoff did not want to sit for an interview, but responded to a set of questions via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can only begin to imagine how difficult it is to lose a family member in this way,” Nyoff wrote. “Unfortunately, the communications between family members and the City thus far have primarily been during public comment at council meetings, which is not the best venue for productive interactions on an emotionally laden topic such as this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768275\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11768275\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_9704-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oscar Grant’s Uncle Bobby speaking at a picnic in Oakland honoring Willie McCoy on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nyoff invited the families to attend community forums he said the city is planning with the help of the federal Department of Justice’s Community Relations Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day our police officers head out to serve this community with the goal of doing the right thing, doing right by the public and ensuring our residents and our police officers end their day safely,” Nyoff wrote in an email. “Fatal interactions are a tragedy for all involved — though most clearly for the deceased and their loved ones. Each case needs to be reviewed, evaluated and investigated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willie McCoy’s family is not alone in their fight at Vallejo City Hall for police reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The families of \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/otisrtaylorjr/article/Vallejo-cop-wanted-to-educate-a-bicyclist-13830311.php\">Ronnell Foster\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Vallejo-police-fatally-shoot-man-during-fight-at-10877000.php\">Angel Ramos\u003c/a>, a young Latino man shot by police in his mom’s backyard in 2017, have been showing up to City Hall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/135682/amid-a-series-of-vallejo-police-shootings-one-officers-name-stands-out\">the worst year for police shootings in Vallejo\u003c/a>, it was the families of victims like 23-year-old Mario Romero. Those families have been putting up this fight for police accountability in Vallejo before anyone recently started paying close attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want it to happen to another young African or another young Latino, Harrison said. “Not on my watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>This story was reported and produced by KQED’s local news podcast, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a>. Click the “listen” button above to hear the episode. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Now, together with their nephew Quantae Johnson, they’re moving beyond church walls to reach a broader audience with their new album, \u003ca href=\"https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/thesongsofthesoulreviver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live at Rancho Nicasio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/11/SonsoftheSoulRevivers.mp3\" Image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/sonsedit-960x427.jpg\" Title=\"The Sons of the Soul Revivers: Lifting Up Spirits, Outside the Church Walls\" program=\"The California Report\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following is an excerpt from a conversation with Sasha Khokha, host of the California Report Magazine. They joined her in studio to talk religion, family, and what has kept their music full of life after more than 40 years. They also played a little in-studio concert!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>On their name:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Morgan, Jr.: “Our fathers were the Soul Revivers, and the year was 1970. I was around the age of eight, and a cousin of mine, we decided we wanted to form a group and we couldn’t think of a name. 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"content": "\u003cp>Posters in the hallway announce upcoming club meetings and homecoming events. Placards next to lockers note yearly academic achievements. In a nearby basketball gym, banners hang from the ceiling to celebrate the Liberty High Tigers' past championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you won't find any students at this meticulously detailed production set, constructed inside a former Navy recreation center on Mare Island in the Bay Area city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields and buildings abandoned by the Navy in 1996 have been transformed into Film Mare Island, a production facility that hosted the soon-to-be-released second season of \"13 Reasons Why,\" the controversial Netflix show about a teen's suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has been heralded as a successful product of California's expanded film tax credit program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLwZ3VAValw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed by Gov. Jerry Brown \u003c/a>in 2014. The initiative aims to expand production to all corners of the state and to protect an industry at risk of losing film jobs to other countries and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620274 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former naval building on Mare Island in Vallejo is transformed into the set of the Netflix hit \"13 Reasons Why.\" \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as many competing programs have come up short in their goal of creating sustained film production, it seems that the threat of new Tinseltowns sprouting up across the country has diminished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in front of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gloBpyzENg8&t=2613s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in August\u003c/a>, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said the film tax credit investment \"is paying off\" as other states reduce their incentive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the sheer scale of our commitment to the industry, we’re out-competing states like Florida and North Carolina,\" he said. \"Both states have dropped their programs after we overhauled ours here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extension and expansion of California's film and TV tax credit was chaptered in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1839\u003c/a>, which grew the program from $100 million to $330 million annually through 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents argued that the legislation, which received bipartisan support, would stem the tide of thousands of film production jobs \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaving the state\u003c/a> every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The film and TV industry is an indigenous kind of industry, especially in Southern California,\" said Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, who helped write the tax credit bill. \"We were losing our lunch to other places in the country and the world for filming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution offers greater incentives to production companies than the original film tax credit program did and changed a number of features of the earlier program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A budget cap that excluded blockbuster films from receiving credits was eliminated, and the process of selecting films to receive credits was changed from a random lottery to a formula that aims to choose productions most likely to deliver jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Films and TV shows can receive a tax credit covering 20 percent of expenses with added incentives for shows relocating to California. The qualified expenses include wages for cameramen and crew, and money spent on equipment, but not the salaries of actors or directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"rqjy3ZLpNvtZJlhkJ0BNnG0JDPe5QqUY\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the tax credit, the money given back to film studios would go to the state's general fund to help pay for programs like public education and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direct benefits of the program can be challenging to track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weatherford, a fiscal and policy analyst with the Legislative Analyst's Office, says a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3502/First-Film-Tax-Credit-Prog-092916.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study of the first film incentive program \u003c/a>found that many productions that missed out on a tax credit in California ended up relocating to another state or country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the circumstances for each project are so unique that researchers found it impossible to simulate what would have happened to the industry if no tax breaks were given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found that there was some justification to consider having [the tax credits] because of this very aggressive competition from other states,\" Weatherford said, \"but we have no way of knowing what the alternative is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the program say it has delivered on its goal of providing a shot in the arm to one of California's signature industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/CA-Tax-Credit-Progress-Report-09-2017-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> from the California Film Commission concluded that during the program's first two years, the state \"attracted or retained\" 100 projects, which created an estimated $3.7 billion of spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re definitely seeing a resurgence in the level of production all over the state,\" said Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission. \"Our soundstage facilities are pretty much operating at capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators behind the expansion also tout an extra 5 percent credit given to projects filming outside the 30-mile zone around Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the projects taking advantage of the bonus tax credit is \"13 Reasons Why,\" which this summer filmed its second season in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the catalyst for why we're here today,\" said Mark Walter, general manager of Film Mare Island, where the Netflix show and an additional feature film are being shot. \"We would not be here if it wasn’t for that added incentive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620275 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Film Mare Island General Manager Mark Walter, outside his office in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he zips between soundstages and design studios in his golf cart, Walter points to the network of lumber yards, catering companies and hotels that benefit from a production coming to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Film Commission report found that during the production of the first season of \"13 Reasons Why,\" nearly $22 million was spent in Contra Costa, Marin, Solano and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill is doing what it was intended to do,\" said Assemblyman Bocanegra. \"Keep as many jobs as we can in California and to spread it around. Not just in Southern California but throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question that will face lawmakers when the current tax credit program expires in 2020 is whether California's well-established film infrastructure still needs help to stave off competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In an ideal world, we’d be competing on how good our soundstages are,\" said the Legislative Analyst's Office's Weatherford. \"Not because our government is giving away money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, other states are deciding that the tax credits are a race to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/fade-to-black-exploring-policy-enactment-and-termination-through-the-rise-and-fall-of-state-tax-incentives-for-the-motion-picture-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by University of Southern California Assistant Professor Michael Thom found that 11 of the 45 states that once offered film tax credits have ended their programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Louisiana, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2017-06-02/louisianas-film-tax-credit-program-to-continue-with-a-cap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scaled back\u003c/a> investments after seeing little growth in jobs and productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did not help states attract larger shares of the industry,\" Thom said. \"In the long term, most of Hollywood stayed in Hollywood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and New York's inherent advantages (scenery; an established pool of actors, directors and writers; proximity to existing studios) were apparently too difficult to overcome, save for picking off an occasional big-name feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620276 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As California's current film tax credit nears its midway point, lawmakers will consider an expansion amid a field of fewer competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s sort of bizarre to watch California spend more money to retain jobs that there’s no real incentive to leave the state,\" Thom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem de León said he'll consider possible changes to the program, but he doesn't want to take any chances in letting the incentives expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to extend it, and we have to send the signal that we're in this for the long haul,\" de León said. \"We're not out of the woods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may simply prove more politically costly to ditch the tax credits, which de León said many businesses view as \"catnip.\" That metaphor was echoed in Thom's research at USC, which found that the more a state invested in film tax credits, the less likely they were to scale back the incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the investment is made and the industry becomes used to the benefit, \"it's very hard to overcome,\" Thom said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Posters in the hallway announce upcoming club meetings and homecoming events. Placards next to lockers note yearly academic achievements. In a nearby basketball gym, banners hang from the ceiling to celebrate the Liberty High Tigers' past championships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you won't find any students at this meticulously detailed production set, constructed inside a former Navy recreation center on Mare Island in the Bay Area city of Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fields and buildings abandoned by the Navy in 1996 have been transformed into Film Mare Island, a production facility that hosted the soon-to-be-released second season of \"13 Reasons Why,\" the controversial Netflix show about a teen's suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has been heralded as a successful product of California's expanded film tax credit program, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLwZ3VAValw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed by Gov. Jerry Brown \u003c/a>in 2014. The initiative aims to expand production to all corners of the state and to protect an industry at risk of losing film jobs to other countries and states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620274\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620274 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/13RW-e1506912178829-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A former naval building on Mare Island in Vallejo is transformed into the set of the Netflix hit \"13 Reasons Why.\" \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as many competing programs have come up short in their goal of creating sustained film production, it seems that the threat of new Tinseltowns sprouting up across the country has diminished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking in front of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gloBpyzENg8&t=2613s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in August\u003c/a>, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León said the film tax credit investment \"is paying off\" as other states reduce their incentive programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With the sheer scale of our commitment to the industry, we’re out-competing states like Florida and North Carolina,\" he said. \"Both states have dropped their programs after we overhauled ours here in California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extension and expansion of California's film and TV tax credit was chaptered in \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Bill 1839\u003c/a>, which grew the program from $100 million to $330 million annually through 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents argued that the legislation, which received bipartisan support, would stem the tide of thousands of film production jobs \u003ca href=\"http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/view/620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaving the state\u003c/a> every year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The film and TV industry is an indigenous kind of industry, especially in Southern California,\" said Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, who helped write the tax credit bill. \"We were losing our lunch to other places in the country and the world for filming.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The solution offers greater incentives to production companies than the original film tax credit program did and changed a number of features of the earlier program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A budget cap that excluded blockbuster films from receiving credits was eliminated, and the process of selecting films to receive credits was changed from a random lottery to a formula that aims to choose productions most likely to deliver jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Films and TV shows can receive a tax credit covering 20 percent of expenses with added incentives for shows relocating to California. The qualified expenses include wages for cameramen and crew, and money spent on equipment, but not the salaries of actors or directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the tax credit, the money given back to film studios would go to the state's general fund to help pay for programs like public education and Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The direct benefits of the program can be challenging to track.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Weatherford, a fiscal and policy analyst with the Legislative Analyst's Office, says a \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2016/3502/First-Film-Tax-Credit-Prog-092916.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study of the first film incentive program \u003c/a>found that many productions that missed out on a tax credit in California ended up relocating to another state or country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the circumstances for each project are so unique that researchers found it impossible to simulate what would have happened to the industry if no tax breaks were given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We found that there was some justification to consider having [the tax credits] because of this very aggressive competition from other states,\" Weatherford said, \"but we have no way of knowing what the alternative is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backers of the program say it has delivered on its goal of providing a shot in the arm to one of California's signature industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://film.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/CA-Tax-Credit-Progress-Report-09-2017-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent report\u003c/a> from the California Film Commission concluded that during the program's first two years, the state \"attracted or retained\" 100 projects, which created an estimated $3.7 billion of spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re definitely seeing a resurgence in the level of production all over the state,\" said Amy Lemisch, executive director of the California Film Commission. \"Our soundstage facilities are pretty much operating at capacity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators behind the expansion also tout an extra 5 percent credit given to projects filming outside the 30-mile zone around Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the projects taking advantage of the bonus tax credit is \"13 Reasons Why,\" which this summer filmed its second season in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is the catalyst for why we're here today,\" said Mark Walter, general manager of Film Mare Island, where the Netflix show and an additional feature film are being shot. \"We would not be here if it wasn’t for that added incentive.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620275\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620275 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/Mark-Walter-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Film Mare Island General Manager Mark Walter, outside his office in Vallejo. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As he zips between soundstages and design studios in his golf cart, Walter points to the network of lumber yards, catering companies and hotels that benefit from a production coming to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Film Commission report found that during the production of the first season of \"13 Reasons Why,\" nearly $22 million was spent in Contra Costa, Marin, Solano and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The bill is doing what it was intended to do,\" said Assemblyman Bocanegra. \"Keep as many jobs as we can in California and to spread it around. Not just in Southern California but throughout the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question that will face lawmakers when the current tax credit program expires in 2020 is whether California's well-established film infrastructure still needs help to stave off competition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In an ideal world, we’d be competing on how good our soundstages are,\" said the Legislative Analyst's Office's Weatherford. \"Not because our government is giving away money.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, other states are deciding that the tax credits are a race to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://priceschool.usc.edu/fade-to-black-exploring-policy-enactment-and-termination-through-the-rise-and-fall-of-state-tax-incentives-for-the-motion-picture-industry/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by University of Southern California Assistant Professor Michael Thom found that 11 of the 45 states that once offered film tax credits have ended their programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like Louisiana, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/louisiana/articles/2017-06-02/louisianas-film-tax-credit-program-to-continue-with-a-cap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scaled back\u003c/a> investments after seeing little growth in jobs and productions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It did not help states attract larger shares of the industry,\" Thom said. \"In the long term, most of Hollywood stayed in Hollywood.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and New York's inherent advantages (scenery; an established pool of actors, directors and writers; proximity to existing studios) were apparently too difficult to overcome, save for picking off an occasional big-name feature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11620276\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11620276 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/RS24761_20170324_SenatorKevindeLeon_Credit_BertJohnson-1-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Bert Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As California's current film tax credit nears its midway point, lawmakers will consider an expansion amid a field of fewer competitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s sort of bizarre to watch California spend more money to retain jobs that there’s no real incentive to leave the state,\" Thom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tem de León said he'll consider possible changes to the program, but he doesn't want to take any chances in letting the incentives expire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to extend it, and we have to send the signal that we're in this for the long haul,\" de León said. \"We're not out of the woods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may simply prove more politically costly to ditch the tax credits, which de León said many businesses view as \"catnip.\" That metaphor was echoed in Thom's research at USC, which found that the more a state invested in film tax credits, the less likely they were to scale back the incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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