Frustrated by the court system, families of homicide victims find solace with each other
SAN FRANCISCO — A group called The Healing Circle provides support for family members who’ve lost loved ones to homicide in San Francisco.
Crime
One year after East Palo Alto shooting, families of murder victims demand justice
EAST PALO ALTO — A year after fatal shootings in East Palo Alto, families and friends marched in the streets, demanding justice.
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How California police departments targeted gay men in sting operations for a century
LONG BEACH — San Carlos-based civil rights attorney Bruce Nickerson estimates that between 40,000 and 50,000 people in California, mainly gay men, have been arrested in illegitimate police decoy operations since 1979, the year the California Supreme Court redefined lewd conduct to include a question of whether an action was highly offensive to an observer.
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’No excuse for it’: More than two years after county recommendation, still no oversight at Santa Clara County Jail
SANTA CLARA COUNTY — More than two years after a Blue Ribbon Commission recommended oversight for the Santa Clara County jails following interviews with hundreds of inmates that painted a picture of widespread abuse, there still is no independent entity examining the jails.
Suspect dead, three injured in YouTube headquarters shooting
SAN BRUNO — A motive for the shooting that left three injured and one suspect dead at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. is not yet known, police say.
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Beyond Zodiac: A 360 video tour of the Bay Area crime scenes
SAN FRANCISCO — Fifty years ago, a murderer caused panic and hysteria in the San Francisco Bay Area. Revisit the sites where confirmed attacks took place.
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Santa Clara County program connects the formerly incarcerated with primary healthcare
SAN JOSE — A clinic aims to provide primary care, psychiatric care, and referral services to the homeless and formerly incarcerated in Santa Clara County.
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From prisoner to programmer: One man turns 28-year sentence into a learning opportunity
Reporter Chisom Oraedu shares the story of a formerly incarcerated man who is changing the course of his life by learning coding skills and launching a new career.
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Where do our guns go?
The U.S. sold more weapons to Saudi Arabia than any other country in the world from 2012 to 2016.
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Anti-Muslim hate crimes in California:
What the data doesn’t tell us
Data that tracks anti-Muslim hate crimes is spotty, making it difficulty to accurately quantify the full scale of these crimes across California and the nation.
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California and capital punishment: Why this blue state keeps voting for the death penalty
Although favor for capital punishment in the U.S. generally aligns with those on the political right, California has now broken from leftist death penalty propositions twice since the death penalty was reinstated in 1978.
Building up East Palo Alto
with the David Lewis Re-entry Program
José Cabrera draws upon on his own tumultuous past with the law to lead East Palo Alto youth towards a bright future and help locals recently on parole and probation brighten theirs.
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