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Obituary of Charles Chase Hoffman Jr., 75
Obituary of Charles Chase Hoffman Jr., 75
Charles Chase Hoffman Jr.
In memory of Chuck Hoffman
– Charles Chase Hoffman Jr., or “Chuck,” as he was most commonly known, passed away in San Luis Obispo in the very early morning of Friday, Oct. 28 at the age of 75 with his wife and children by his side.
Born and raised in Tulare he attended Tulare Union High School where among many other activities he was very active in the High School…
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Two days before learning that she would lose her job, Lissa Gilliam spent hundreds of dollars online on baby products.
A 37-year-old expectant mother, Ms. Gilliam had planned to ask local parents in Seattle for used strollers and secondhand onesies in a bid to reduce waste. But as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the area, new items delivered in boxes seemed a safer bet.
She figured she could afford the splurge, earning $50 an hour as a full-time contractor designing educational curriculums for a nonprofit. But then, on April 2, her employer slashed her hours and told her that her contract would end in early May — a few weeks before she is to give birth.
Suddenly, like many others, Ms. Gilliam became hyperaware of her expenses. She and her husband, a high school physics teacher, now take a painful daily tally of their financial priorities: Is that $5 monthly web magazine subscription really necessary? How much does watering the garden cost? When will they need to tap their paltry savings?
“We’re OK for now,” she said. “But the bottom may fall out from under us.”
As millions of Americans lose jobs, take pay cuts, close businesses and absorb family members into their homes, they are being forced to rethink where their money goes. Even before the scramble for new jobs can begin, people are cajoling creditors, looking for gig work or simply cutting back to get through the first few disorienting weeks.
“An economic shock like this could have a long-term impact on people who have traditionally felt like they were being cautious, that they weren’t profligate with their money, but didn’t have to worry about paying for rent or affording food,” said Stephanie Aaronson, the director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. “They might have more debt, which will make it harder to spend in the future, or they might just feel less secure, which could boost savings and potentially dampen the recovery.”
Ms. Gilliam and her husband are waiting for Washington State to make jobless benefits available to contractors through a federal assistance program, and hope to take advantage of a state program for maternity aid once their daughter is born. A $15,000 construction project planned for the rear of their house is on hold. They canceled their gym membership, their Hulu streaming service, multiple newspapers and even the Adobe Acrobat software that Ms. Gilliam uses for design work.
On the whole, Ms. Aaronson said, household finances “were in relatively good condition as of six weeks ago — they were actually pretty healthy.” Now, she said, “a much broader swath of households are experiencing a complete loss of income compared to what we typically see in a recession.”
Before the pandemic, Carol Cruz’s private health insurance plan cost her $840 a month — up from less than $500 four years ago. The bill ate up most of her $1,200 monthly paycheck, exceeding even the $600 monthly payment on the house she shares with her husband and their 17-year-old granddaughter in Tulare, Calif.
On March 29, she was furloughed from her part-time job as a mental health therapist until at least the end of May. Other than the state unemployment benefits she hopes to receive soon, Ms. Cruz, 62, no longer has an income.
So she got on the phone for at least three hours a day, asking for leniency from the health insurance provider, her mortgage lender and the credit union that holds the loan for her husband’s Chevrolet truck. All offered her more flexible terms, including 90-day grace periods and pay-what-you-can options. (Some creditors, she said, were less willing to negotiate.)
The adjustments help keep the bills manageable, Ms. Cruz said. But her grocery costs have doubled, now that the price of eggs has soared and her granddaughter is no longer having free lunches at school.
“I don’t know about my future,” Ms. Cruz said. “I’m not letting myself think about tomorrow, just about whether we have food today and money in the bank.”
But some people, many of whom have never seriously budgeted, are now mapping out strict spending schedules for the next few months.
After being furloughed in mid-March from her bartending and serving job at a Minneapolis concert hall, Krissy Calbert, 26, went from earning $300 in tips some nights to having no income as she waited for government aid.
“It was two weeks of just panic — I was just going off the groceries I already had, trying to ration until money came in,” she said. “You get really creative. You eat little half meals, and you experiment with your seasonings and condiments to try to forget that you’re eating the same thing over and over.”
Earlier this month, Ms. Calbert began receiving a weekly infusion of $1,100 from the state. She is now trying to reschedule when monthly bills are due so she can space out the payments: $600 for rent, $75 for her phone, up to $120 for utilities, $60 for streaming services, $200 for credit cards, plus other expenses.
“I’m trying to get all of my credit card payments into the same week, so I can have a credit card week, a rent week, a phone week,” Ms. Calbert said.
She has switched her grocery shopping from Target to Aldi, where, she said, she can afford to splurge on fresh produce and protein. Without health insurance, she is willing spend an extra $30 or $40 on fruits and vegetables in hopes of keeping her immune system strong, she said.
“I can’t take the risk,” Ms. Calbert said. “A hospital bill right now would ruin me.”
More than half of lower-income adults in the United States say they will struggle to pay bills this month, compared to a quarter of their middle-income counterparts and 11 percent of those in the upper-income tier, according to a survey of nearly 5,000 adults by Pew Research Center. Researchers defined a three-person household earning $37,500 to $112,600 annually as middle-income. Over all, more than half of those who expect a federal stimulus infusion will use most of the money to cover essential expenses, while one in five say they plan to save the funds.
To create a financial buffer, many people are hunting for freelance or part-time work. Searches for work-from-home jobs rose 126 percent in March on FlexJobs, while traffic to the site has boomed 58 percent from a year ago. On Upwork, companies are looking for people to provide tech support for their homebound employees and to draft corporate messages about the coronavirus.
Lonn Dugan, a digital marketing specialist in Sylvania, Ohio, has seen many clients scaling back their promotional efforts, such as one nonprofit that cut its budget by 90 percent after a major annual event was canceled. But another client, an agricultural supply company, commissioned a major website update, while a local mental health group wanted to ramp up its virtual support groups.
The pressure on Mr. Dugan, 60, is intense. His workday is three hours longer than it used to be, between his existing clients and his attempts to drum up new business. He and his wife lost a third of their incomes; neither is eligible for government aid.
“We’re completely overwhelmed by the shortfall. We can afford groceries and maybe the house and car payments, and that’s it,” he said. “But we’re not alone, and we’re focusing on acceptance as opposed to hand-wringing. We’re taking care of necessities, and that’s enough for right now.”
Still, Mr. Dugan admits being stretched thin emotionally. He misses his wife, even though they are in the same house and she no longer needs to make a two-hour round-trip commute to her health care job. But the couple are so busy trying to stay afloat that they have stopped cooking fresh meals and turn instead to frozen dinners and fast food.
“We just don’t have time,” he said. “We’re exhausted at the end of the day.”
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California Voters: Vote YES on Proposition 10--Fairness to Renters paying in excess of 30% of their income on rent.
Make it clear to greedy developers and unscrupulous landlords that the rent is too damn high! We’re counting on grassroots supporters to step up and vote for Proposition 10 on November 6. Your vote and your voice COUNT!
Give the right of city self-determination back to each city government = local control. People on fixed incomes like retirees, veterans, and others require reasonable rents. Median home values have increased by 80% since 2011.
More than half the renters in the state of California spend MORE than 30% of their income on rent (Haas Institute for Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley).
Vote for fairness, or do not be surprised at budding chaos.
Partial list of endorsements follow:
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
State Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin (fmr)
State Senator Ben Allen
State Senator Connie M. Leyva
State Senator Kevin De Leon
State Senator Ricardo Lara
State Assemblymember David Chiu
State Assemblymember Laura Friedman
State Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher
State Assemblymember Mike Davis (fmr)
State Assemblymember Phil Ting
State Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer
State Assemblymember Rob Bonta
State Assemblymember Tony Thurmond
Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin
Berkeley Rent Board Member Igor Tregub
Berkeley Rent Board Member Leah Simon-Weisberg
Beverly Hills Vice Mayor John Mirisch
Culver City Vice Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells
Culver City Councilmember Daniel Lee
El Cerrito Mayor Gabriel Quinto
Emeryville Mayor Ken Bukowski (fmr)
Fontana School Board Member Mary Sandoval
Fowler Mayor Don Cardenas
Highland City Mayor Pro Tem Jesus Chavez
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti
Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu
Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo
Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson
Los Angeles City Councilmember Mike Bonin
Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz
Los Angeles City Councilmember Robert Farrell (fmr)
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis
Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn
Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl
Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member George McKenna
Malibu City Councilmember Lou La Monte
Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel
Mountain View Councilmember Pat Showalter
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf
Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb
Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks
Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan
Redlands City Councilmember Eddie Tejeda
Richmond Vice Mayor Melvin Willis
Richmond City Councilmember Jovanka Beckles
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin (fmr)
San Francisco Supervisor Hillary Ronen
San Francisco Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer
San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim
San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin
San Jose Councilmember Don Rocha
San Jose Councilmember Sergio Jimenez
Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees Vice President Jonathan Abboud
Santa Clara City Councilmember Nassim Nouri
Santa Cruz City Councilmember Chris Krohn
Santa Monica City Councilmember Kevin McKeown
Santa Monica City Councilmember Sue Himmelrich
Santa Monica City Councilmember Tony Vazquez
Santa Monica Rent Board Member Caroline Torosis
Santa Monica Rent Board Member Nicole Phillis
Tulare City Council Member Jose Sigala
Ukiah Mayor Phil Baldwin (fmr)
Vallejo School Board Member Ruscal Cayangyang
West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath
West Hollywood City Councilmember Lauren Meister
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
City of Berkeley
City of Beverly Hills
City of Oakland
City of Palm Springs
City of San Francisco
City of Santa Monica
City of West Hollywood
City of Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Monterey County Board of Supervisors
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Los Angeles Times
Sacramento Bee
ColoradoBlvd.net
The Daily Californian
East Bay Express
Hoy Los Angeles
KnockLA
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Santa Maria Times
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Housing California
Affordable Housing Alliance
Affordable Housing Network of Santa Clara County
Berkeley Student Cooperative
Christian Church Homes
Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO)
East LA Community Corporation
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation
Marty’s Place Affordable Housing Corporation
Mission Economic Development Agency
Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH)
Oakland Community Land Trust
Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing (SCANPH)
Tenderloin Housing Clinic
Thai Community Development Center
TRUST South LA
Venice Community Housing Corporation
Women Organizing Resources Knowledge and Services (WORKS)
TENANT/HOUSING RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
Housing NOW! California
Tenants Together
Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives
Alameda Renters Coalition
Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Arcata Lazy J Homeowners Association
Asian Law Alliance
Berkeley Tenants Union
Beverly Hills Renters Alliance
Bill Sorro Housing Program (BiSHoP)
California Coalition for Rural Housing
Causa Justa / Just Cause
Chinatown Community for Equitable Development
Coalition for Economic Survival
El Comite de Vecinos del Lado Oeste, East Palo Alto
Comite de la Esperanza
De Rose Gardens Tenant Association (DRGTA)
East Bay Housing Organizations
East Palo Alto Council of Tenants Education Fund
Equity Housing Alliance
EveryOne Home
Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California
Gamaliel CA
Glendale Tenants Union
Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League
Homes for All
Homeless Student Advocate Alliance
Housing 4 Sacramento
Housing Long Beach
Housing Rights Committee San Francisco
Hunger Action Coalition Los Angeles
Inquilinos Unidos
Isla Vista Tenants Union
LiBRE (Long Beach Residents Empowered)
Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN)
Los Angeles Tenants Union
Manufactured Housing Action
Mountain View Tenants Coalition
Oakland Tenants Union
Orange County Mobile Home Residents Coalition
Pasadena Tenants Union
People of Color Sustainable Housing Network
People Organized for Westside Renewal (POWER)
Poverty Matters
Property Owners for Fair and Affordable Housing
The Q Foundation
Renters of Moreno Valley
Sacramento Housing Alliance
Sacramento Tenants Union
Sanctuary of Hope
San Diego Tenants United
San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition
San Francisco Tenants Union
Santa Ana Tenants United
Santa Monicans for Renters Rights (SMRR)
Shelter for All Koreatown
Sonoma County Manufactured-Home Owners Association
Sonoma Valley Housing Group
South Pasadena Tenants Union
Strategic Actions for a Just Economy (SAJE)
Students United with Renters
Union de Vecinos
United for Housing Justice (SF)
United Neighbors In Defense Against Displacement (UNIDAD)
Uplift Inglewood
Urban Habitat
TENANT LEGAL SERVICES
Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
BASTA
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
Center for Community Action & Environmental Justice
Centro Legal de la Raza
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Crow & Rose, Tenant Lawyers
East Bay Community Law Center
Eviction Defense Center
Eviction Defense Network
Inner City Law Center – Los Angeles
LA Center for Community Law & Action
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
National Lawyers Guild – Los Angeles
Public Advocates
Public Counsel
Public Interest Law Project
Western Center on Law and Poverty
LABOR & WORKERS RIGHTS
California Labor Federation
AFSCME California People
AFSCME Local 3299
AFT Local 2121
AFT Local 1521
Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice
California Faculty Association
California Federation of Teachers
California Nurses Association
California Teachers Association
Central Coast Alliance United For A Sustainable Economy (CAUSE)
Employee Rights Center San Diego
Humboldt and Del Norte Counties Central Labor Council AFL-CIO
International Union of Painters & Allied Trades Local 510
Jobs with Justice San Francisco
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
Los Angeles Black Worker Center
Oakland Education Association (OEA)
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Painters & Allied Trades 36
Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Retirees
San Bernardino and Riverside Counties Central Labor Council
SEIU California
SEIU Local 1021
SEIU Local 99
SEIU Local 221
SEIU Local 521
SEIU Local 721
SEIU Local 2015
SEIU USWW
UC Student-Workers Union UAW Local 2865
United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America UAW Local 5810
UFCW Local 770
Unite HERE Local 11
Unite HERE Local 2850
Unite HERE Local 2
United Educators of San Francisco
United Taxi Workers of San Diego
United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)
Warehouse Worker Resource Center
POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
California Democratic Party
Green Party of California
Peace and Freedom Party of California
Our Revolution
AAPIs for Civic Empowerment Education Fund
Alhambra Democratic Club
Americans for Democratic Action Southern California
Bernal Heights Democratic Club
Bernie Sanders Brigade
California Progressive Alliance
Chicano Latino Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Democratic Socialists of America
Democratic Socialists of America East Bay
Democratic Socialists of America Los Angeles
Democratic Socialists of America Orange County
Democratic Socialists of America Peninsula
Democratic Socialists of America Pomona Valley
Democratic Socialists of America Sacramento
Democratic Socialists of America San Diego
Democratic Socialists of America San Francisco
Democratic Socialists of America Santa Cruz
Democratic Socialists of America Silicon Valley
Democratic Socialists of America Ventura County
East Area Progressive Dems
El Dorado County Democratic Party
Feel the Bern Democratic Club Los Angeles
Green Party of Santa Clara County
Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club
Humboldt County Democrats
Inland Empire for Our Revolution
International Socialist Organization
Los Angeles County Democratic Party
Napa County Green Party
NorCal4OurRevolution
North Valley Democratic Club
Our Revolution
Our Revolution East Bay
Our Revolution Progressive Los Angeles
Our Revolution Santa Ana
Our Revolution Ventura County
Party for Socialism and Liberation – SF
Peninsula Young Democrats
Progressive Democrats of America California PAC
Progressive Democrats of America San Fernando Valley
Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains
Richmond Progressive Alliance
San Bernardino County Young Democrats
San Diego Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party of CA
San Diego County Peace and Freedom Party
San Francisco Berniecrats
San Francisco County Democratic Party
San Francisco Latino Democratic Club
San Luis Obispo County Democratic Party
San Luis Obispo County Progressives
San Pedro Democratic Club
Santa Monica Democratic Club
Socialist Alternative Los Angeles
Socialist Party of Ventura County
Stonewall Democratic Club
UC Berkeley Young Democratic Socialists of America
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
West Hollywood-Beverly Hills Democratic Club
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ACLU of California
ACLU of Northern California
ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
ACLU of Southern California
Advocates for Black Strategic Alternatives
African American Cultural Center
American Indian Movement Southern California
APGA Tour
API Equality – LA
Black Community Clergy & Labor Alliance
Brotherhood Crusade
CARECEN
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
Committee for Racial Justice
Council on American-Islamic Relations California (CAIR)
Dellums Institute for Social Justice
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute
Institute of the Black World 21st Century
Latino Equality Alliance
Los Angeles Urban League
MLK Coalition of Greater LA
Muslim Public Alliance Council (MPAC)
National Action Network Los Angeles
National Urban League
Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) San Jose
Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Southern California
United Native Americans
Urban League of San Diego County
Youth Justice Coalition
HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS
Access Support Network San Luis Obispo & Monterey Counties
AIDS Healthcare Foundation
APAIT (Special Service for Groups)
Asian Pacific Islander Forward Movement
Black Women for Wellness
Latino Health Access
San Francisco Human Services Network
Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation
St. John’s Well Child & Family Center
Women Organized to Respond to Life-Threatening Diseases (WORLD)
SENIOR ORGANIZATIONS
California Alliance for Retired Americans
Monterey County Area Agency on Aging
Senior and Disability Action
Social Security Works
FAITH INSTITUTIONS & LEADERS
Rev. James Lawson
AME Ministerial Alliance – NorCal
Bend the Arc – Southern California
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Social Justice Committee
California Church IMPACT
Cheryl Ward Ministries
Christian Church Homes
Church Without Walls – Skid Row Los Angeles
Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice – Los Angeles (CLUE)
Congregational Church of Palo Alto
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (COPE)
Congregations Organizing For Renewal (COR)
First AME Church – Los Angeles
Greater Long Beach Interfaith Community Organization (ICO)
Holman United Methodist Church – Los Angeles
Inland Empire African American Pastors
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
Jewish Center for Justice
LA Voice – PICO Affiliate
Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California
McCarty Memorial Christian Church – Los Angeles
Multi-faith ACTION Coalition
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
Oakland Community Organizing – PICO Affiliate (OCO)
PACT: People Acting in Community Together – PICO Affiliate
PICO California
Poor People’s Campaign of California
Sacramento ACT – PICO Affiliate
Sojourner Truth Presbyterian Church
Unitarian Universalist Faith in Action Committee
STATEWIDE, REGIONAL & LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS
ACTICON
Advancement Project California
Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles (ACT-LA)
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE Action)
Allies for Life
All Peoples Community Center
ANSWER SF
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN)
Associated Students of UC Santa Barbara
Block by Block Organizing Network
Brave New Films
California Bicycle Coalition
California Calls
California Environmental Justice Alliance
Californians for Justice
California for Progress
Californians for Safety and Justice
Californian Latinas for Reproductive Justice
California Partnership
California Reinvestment Coalition
Chicano Latino Caucus of San Bernardino County
Chispa
Coalition to Preserve LA
CDTech
Central Hollywood Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles
Committee to Defend Roosevelt
Communities for a New California
Community Coalition
Consumer Watchdog
Courage Campaign
Creating Freedom Movements
Crenshaw Subway Coalition
D5Action
Dolores Huerta Foundation
The East Oakland Collective
East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
Ensuring Opportunity Campaign to End Poverty in Contra Costa County
Environmental Health Coalition
Friends Committee on Legislation of California
The Fund for Santa Barbara
GLIDE Foundation
The Green Scene TV
Ground Game LA
The Hayward Collective
Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles
Hyde Park Organizational Partnership for Empowerment
Indivisible SF
Inland Empire United
Inland Empowerment
InnerCity Struggle
Justice House
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization
Korean Resource Center
LA Forward
Latino Economic Development Center
Latinos United for a New America
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability Central Valley
League of Women Voters of California
League of Women Voters of Los Angeles
Liberty Hill Foundation
Livable California
Los Feliz Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles
Million Voter Project
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Mobilize the Immigrant Vote
Neighbors United – San Francisco
9to5 Los Angeles Chapter
North Bay Organizing Project
Orange County Civic Engagement Table
Organize Sacramento
Pasadenans Organizing for Progress
People for Mobility Justice
Places in the City
PolicyLink
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
Progressive Alliance – San Bernardino County
Progressive Asian Network for Action
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Rampart Village Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles
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Sero Project
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Skid Row Coffee
Sociedad Organizada de Latinas Activas
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SolidarityINFOService
Southeast Asian Community Alliance
South of Market Community Action Network
STAND LA
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University of California Student Association
Urban Tilth
Velveteen Rabbit Project
Wilshire Center Koreatown Neighborhood Council – Los Angeles
Working Partnerships USA
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Finances – The New York Times
Two days before learning that she would lose her job, Lissa Gilliam spent hundreds of dollars online on baby products.
A 37-year-old expectant mother, Ms. Gilliam had planned to ask local parents in Seattle for used strollers and secondhand onesies in a bid to reduce waste. But as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged the area, new items delivered in boxes seemed a safer bet.
She figured she could afford the splurge, earning $50 an hour as a full-time contractor designing educational curriculums for a nonprofit. But then, on April 2, her employer slashed her hours and told her that her contract would end in early May — a few weeks before she is to give birth.
Suddenly, like many others, Ms. Gilliam became hyperaware of her expenses. She and her husband, a high school physics teacher, now take a painful daily tally of their financial priorities: Is that $5 monthly web magazine subscription really necessary? How much does watering the garden cost? When will they need to tap their paltry savings?
“We’re OK for now,” she said. “But the bottom may fall out from under us.”
As millions of Americans lose jobs, take pay cuts, close businesses and absorb family members into their homes, they are being forced to rethink where their money goes. Even before the scramble for new jobs can begin, people are cajoling creditors, looking for gig work or simply cutting back to get through the first few disorienting weeks.
“An economic shock like this could have a long-term impact on people who have traditionally felt like they were being cautious, that they weren’t profligate with their money, but didn’t have to worry about paying for rent or affording food,” said Stephanie Aaronson, the director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution. “They might have more debt, which will make it harder to spend in the future, or they might just feel less secure, which could boost savings and potentially dampen the recovery.”
Ms. Gilliam and her husband are waiting for Washington State to make jobless benefits available to contractors through a federal assistance program, and hope to take advantage of a state program for maternity aid once their daughter is born. A $15,000 construction project planned for the rear of their house is on hold. They canceled their gym membership, their Hulu streaming service, multiple newspapers and even the Adobe Acrobat software that Ms. Gilliam uses for design work.
On the whole, Ms. Aaronson said, household finances “were in relatively good condition as of six weeks ago — they were actually pretty healthy.” Now, she said, “a much broader swath of households are experiencing a complete loss of income compared to what we typically see in a recession.”
Before the pandemic, Carol Cruz’s private health insurance plan cost her $840 a month — up from less than $500 four years ago. The bill ate up most of her $1,200 monthly paycheck, exceeding even the $600 monthly payment on the house she shares with her husband and their 17-year-old granddaughter in Tulare, Calif.
On March 29, she was furloughed from her part-time job as a mental health therapist until at least the end of May. Other than the state unemployment benefits she hopes to receive soon, Ms. Cruz, 62, no longer has an income.
So she got on the phone for at least three hours a day, asking for leniency from the health insurance provider, her mortgage lender and the credit union that holds the loan for her husband’s Chevrolet truck. All offered her more flexible terms, including 90-day grace periods and pay-what-you-can options. (Some creditors, she said, were less willing to negotiate.)
The adjustments help keep the bills manageable, Ms. Cruz said. But her grocery costs have doubled, now that the price of eggs has soared and her granddaughter is no longer having free lunches at school.
“I don’t know about my future,” Ms. Cruz said. “I’m not letting myself think about tomorrow, just about whether we have food today and money in the bank.”
But some people, many of whom have never seriously budgeted, are now mapping out strict spending schedules for the next few months.
After being furloughed in mid-March from her bartending and serving job at a Minneapolis concert hall, Krissy Calbert, 26, went from earning $300 in tips some nights to having no income as she waited for government aid.
“It was two weeks of just panic — I was just going off the groceries I already had, trying to ration until money came in,” she said. “You get really creative. You eat little half meals, and you experiment with your seasonings and condiments to try to forget that you’re eating the same thing over and over.”
Earlier this month, Ms. Calbert began receiving a weekly infusion of $1,100 from the state. She is now trying to reschedule when monthly bills are due so she can space out the payments: $600 for rent, $75 for her phone, up to $120 for utilities, $60 for streaming services, $200 for credit cards, plus other expenses.
“I’m trying to get all of my credit card payments into the same week, so I can have a credit card week, a rent week, a phone week,” Ms. Calbert said.
She has switched her grocery shopping from Target to Aldi, where, she said, she can afford to splurge on fresh produce and protein. Without health insurance, she is willing spend an extra $30 or $40 on fruits and vegetables in hopes of keeping her immune system strong, she said.
“I can’t take the risk,” Ms. Calbert said. “A hospital bill right now would ruin me.”
More than half of lower-income adults in the United States say they will struggle to pay bills this month, compared to a quarter of their middle-income counterparts and 11 percent of those in the upper-income tier, according to a survey of nearly 5,000 adults by Pew Research Center. Researchers defined a three-person household earning $37,500 to $112,600 annually as middle-income. Over all, more than half of those who expect a federal stimulus infusion will use most of the money to cover essential expenses, while one in five say they plan to save the funds.
To create a financial buffer, many people are hunting for freelance or part-time work. Searches for work-from-home jobs rose 126 percent in March on FlexJobs, while traffic to the site has boomed 58 percent from a year ago. On Upwork, companies are looking for people to provide tech support for their homebound employees and to draft corporate messages about the coronavirus.
Lonn Dugan, a digital marketing specialist in Sylvania, Ohio, has seen many clients scaling back their promotional efforts, such as one nonprofit that cut its budget by 90 percent after a major annual event was canceled. But another client, an agricultural supply company, commissioned a major website update, while a local mental health group wanted to ramp up its virtual support groups.
The pressure on Mr. Dugan, 60, is intense. His workday is three hours longer than it used to be, between his existing clients and his attempts to drum up new business. He and his wife lost a third of their incomes; neither is eligible for government aid.
“We’re completely overwhelmed by the shortfall. We can afford groceries and maybe the house and car payments, and that’s it,” he said. “But we’re not alone, and we’re focusing on acceptance as opposed to hand-wringing. We’re taking care of necessities, and that’s enough for right now.”
Still, Mr. Dugan admits being stretched thin emotionally. He misses his wife, even though they are in the same house and she no longer needs to make a two-hour round-trip commute to her health care job. But the couple are so busy trying to stay afloat that they have stopped cooking fresh meals and turn instead to frozen dinners and fast food.
“We just don’t have time,” he said. “We’re exhausted at the end of the day.”
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–The Lady Bearcats kicked off their Central Section move with a tournament at Tulare Union High School. On Friday they faced off against Sunnyside and Mission Oak. The Ladies won both 14-1 and 13-4.
Saturday the Bearcats played Kingsburg in the Semifinal game and won 10-2. In the Championship game, the Bearcats won against Exeter 12-5. The Ladies never trailed during the…
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High school volleyball coach had 3-year sexual affair with student: Cops
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A California high school volleyball coach once known for her championship-winning teams is not scoring well with police after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student over a three-year period.
Angela Webb, a volleyball coach and physical education teacher at Tulare Western High School, was arrested Friday after allegations of the inappropriate relationship between her and an unnamed student surfaced.
The Visalia Times-Delta reported cops received a tip about the affair on June 20. Officers reportedly interviewed the teen — a former student of Webb’s — who confirmed the relationship.
On Friday, a search was conducted on Webb’s residence. The 50-year-old woman was grilled by detectives and subsequently arrested.
No formal charges have been laid.
According to Central Valley Today Webb’s high school career spanned 26 years. She is a well-known volleyball coach in Tulare, Ca., amounting a 93-57-0 record during her five-year tenure.
News of the allegations has shocked area parents.
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“As a mother, it’s devastating to hear especially in my community. It’s shocking,” an unnamed mother told Central Valley Today.
Tulare Police Department spokesperson Lt. Jerod Boatman said there could be other victims.
“Sometimes new names come up which leads to another interview and it could be a domino effect from there,” Boatman said.
Since her arrest, Webb has been placed on a leave of absence from the Tulare Union school district.
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Once upon a time, Visalia had only one high school: Visalia Union High School (VUHS). That period would end in 1950, and the last Pioneer team to play football under the VUHS banner would be in the fall of 1949. The season was epochal for other reasons, as well. It would be the last of the leatherheads. Next season, modern helmets were standard equipment at Mt Whitney High School, the successor Pioneer team. Also, it would see the end of one platoon football. The starting lineup of the 1949 Pioneers, playing offense and defense, probably played a greater percentage of game time than any team to follow. Most of all, the Pioneers of that year would win the CIF Championship of the San Joaquin Valley for the first time. According to Art Paymiller’s research, a 1934 Visalia team tied Hanford for the county championship, but lost the right to play for the San Joaquin Valley Championship on a coin toss. (See The Press page, Delano, item 3.)
The Pioneers of 1949 enthusiastically anticipated the coming of Cal Rossi to coach their football team. The year earlier had proved a deep disappointment. The 1948 team lost ingloriously to Woodlake 7-0 in the opening game, and went on to lose to East Bakersfield and Delano and to tie Porterville. Players returning in 1949 were determined to do better. Many felt strongly they had it in them to win the championship.
It was Rossi’s first coaching job, and he would bring UCLA’s single wing offense with him to Visalia. Most high school teams of the day, including Visalia, were accustomed to using the T-formation, and this change provoked some controversy. After defeating Exeter 40-7, however, opposition to the single wing diminished. VUHS next defeated Hanford 27-6, Porterville 40-6, Wasco 19-7 and Taft 28-6, before facing East Bakersfield in a game still talked about in Visalia.
The game against East Bakersfield received extra-territorial recognition. The Pioneers were trailing 22-7 at half time. No scoring occurred during the third quarter, but in the fourth the Pioneers scored, and the game stood at 22-13. On the ensuing kickoff, East Bakersfield ran the ball back for a touchdown, to make it 28-13. With time running out, the Pioneers were fighting desperately for a comeback. Some friends and family, listening to the game on radio, turned it off and went to bed thinking Visalia had lost. Then came the onslaught of passing by Fran Weddle and catching by Wayne Wooten to make the score Visalia 31 – East Bakersfield 28 (and recognition for the most touchdowns scored within a limited period by a high school team). East Bakersfield tried to score again, but when Harry Hafer intercepted a pass with less than a minute left to play, it was all over, and Visalia remained undefeated.
After that, nothing would stop the Pioneers, not even Delano, who they defeated 7-6 the next week – with the game ending before Joe Hannah could march into the end zone for another Pioneer touchdown after a methodical drive downfield that left the ball within feet of the goal line. The team finished the regular season with a tired win over Tulare 14-0 to win the Tulare-Kern league championship
Merced won the Yosemite League that year, but had a record blemished by a tie with Fresno and a nonleague loss to Taft. The game was on a Saturday afternoon at 2:00 pm in Merced with a crowd of 5,000.
Visalia scored before the first half ended and led 7-0. In the second half, the Pioneers held Merced scoreless after adding another 6 points to win 13-0 and take home the Valley Championship.
East Bakersfield was the only team to score more than 7 points against the Pioneers the entire season. In the aggregate, Pioneers defeated their opponents by a total of 219 to 66.
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The public school system in Exeter consists of: Exeter Union High School (9-12), the Wilson Middle School (6-8), Rocky Hill Elementary (K-5), Lincoln Elementary (K-5) and Kaweah High School. The 1999-2000 enrollment was: grades K-8, 1,936 and grades 9-12, 1101 students.
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St. Francis more than just a passing team
When most observers think about the offensive attack of the St. Francis football team, they point to the passing game under junior quarterback Darius Perrantes.
However, the Golden Knights can run the ball too. It’s one of the key components that has St. Francis (12-1) playing Rancho Verde (11-2) on Friday in the CIF-Southern Section Division 3 championship at home.
St. Francis has rushed for 2,300 yards while averaging six yards per carry. At the forefront of the attack is senior Elijah Washington. Last year, Washington rushed for 582 yards and scored six touchdowns. It’s been a different story this season as the senior has rushed for 1,000 yards (which includes his 226 yard performance with five touchdowns against La Salle) while scoring 16 touchdowns.
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“I’ve been a team player at St. Francis since day one,” Washington said. “I am not surprised on what I do any night. I just love going out there and winning as a team. That the good part about what we are doing.”
It’s a family affair for the Washington family at St. Francis. Elijah’s older brother Zachary played football at the school from 2010-2013 and his father Kyle is currently the head Junior Varsity coach for the football program.
“I watched my brother go through the program – I am all about the program and all about the team,” commented Washington.
It was the 2013 season that made a huge impact on Washington.
“That team might have been the closest team I’ve ever seen at St. Francis,” Washington said. “They lost to Serra in the semifinals. Joe Mudie in the backfield and I learned a lot of stuff from him. He gave me some pointers on how to succeed in high school and I’ve just taken it from there.”
It’s all come full circle for Washington as he mentors his fellow teammate in the backfield, Kevin Armstead. A sophomore transfer from Chaminade, Washington sees a lot of potential in Armstead.
“He’s a great athlete and he’s only a sophomore – he’s got his whole future ahead of him,” Washington said. “Bringing him in, I had to show him the ropes and he had to learn the playbook, -so I taught him a lot about that.”
The long drought is over
The last time St. Francis made a CIF Southern Section football championship game was in 1964. The Golden Knights defeated Claremont 14-0 to repeat as Division AAA champions. One of the members of that team was Terry Terrazone, who is currently the assistant athletic director at St. Francis. He also has served as Athletic Director for the school along with a stint as head football coach.
“In those days, you had to win your league to make the playoffs,” Terrazone said. “The game is so much different than today. It was a more physical game with less throwing.”
Terrazone said the game was all about having a punishing running game and winning the field position battle.
“We did a crossing pulling with our lineman,” Terrazone noted. “A more misdirection type of running attack.”
State playoffs?
If the Golden Knights win on Friday night, they’ll qualify for the CIF State Playoffs. According to Mark Tennis of Cal Hi Sports, he has the Golden Knights projected to play in the Division II-AA regional final against Tulare Union High School. The Tribe just won the CIF Central Section Division 2 championship last week, defeating Dinuba 49-21.
“If Valencia wins in Division 2 and Paraclete wins in Division 5, those two are pretty close to each other so there would be interest in the CIF for that similar to San Clemente and Edison last year,” Tennis explained. “It’s certain St. Francis wouldn’t be higher than CIFSS Division 2 or LA City (Narbonne) or San Diego (Helix or Mission Hills) and probably Paraclete (CIFSS Division 5).
“That’s four teams in front and there you have it with Tulare in next division which is D2-AA. I would think St. Francis would be ahead of CIFSS Division 4 (Downey vs. Cajon) and San Diego Division 2 (Ramona) champion. I would have Tulare with home game (CIF Central Sec D1 team is likely traveling) but they could look at computer ranking and give it to a higher ranked team.”
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The County: partners in crime
How the officers of American law enforcement deadliest district plan to continue policing themselves
The vial of methamphetamine that the police officers found on Amyra Nicholson was small, she said, but their reaction was overwhelming.
Nicholson, who said her pocketbook was scoured “because shes” impounding it too tight while stand in her front yard in Bakersfield, California, to suggest that she was may be necessary to her shower in handcuffs, made to bend over and given an wasteful cavity search.
Nicholsons 14 -year-old daughter was summon and told by the same female polouse to disrobe to complete nakedness for a strip investigation while male detectives stood objecting their handguns, according to a suit from Nicholson that the city eventually colonized for $35,000.
One of the accused officers, Scott Tunnicliffe , no longer works for the Bakersfield police department. Instead, “hes been” placed in charge of scrutinising it.
After decades in which deaths involving patrolmen in the two biggest police departments in Kern County have been investigated merely by the departments themselves, the bureau of the county district attorney has in recent weeks become able to review such incidents if it picks. The DAs office claims to offer a newfound objectivity. Were not part of them, though we work with them, assistant DA Scott Spielman said recently of the local police.
But the link are closer even than previously declared, a Guardian investigation into the law enforcement officers of Kern County, who have killed more parties per capita than in any other US county so far in 2015, has acquired. The receives lend weight to declarations from commentators that police in Kern County are effectively patrolled only by themselves.
Tunnicliffe, the DAs 55 -year-old chief investigator, withdrew as a Bakersfield lieutenant in 2013, and receives a $75,000 -a-year pension for his police work in addition to his salary. Of 26 other sleuths working under him in the DAs office that could be identified, 19 is likewise previously Bakersfield police officers or Kern County sheriffs agents, according to a review of public registers. Three were former officers of other law enforcement agencies.
One of the other four investigators is a director of the Kern Law Enforcement Association, a union that represents the same Kern County sheriffs representatives whose potential lethal shootings would be reviewed by the DAs office.
Another DAs investigator accidentally killed and injured a high school footballer as law enforcement officers in Tulare, California, during a botched drunk-driving apprehend in 1986. Litigations over the shooting were determined for $70,000, according to local reports from the time. The policeman afterward worked for two decades as a Bakersfield police detective before moving to the DAs office in 2012.
District attorney Lisa Green, who declined to be interviewed, said in a statement she would ensure that any reviews of killings by police would be conducted in a fair and professional mode. Green, who has received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from police trade unions and men since 2008, declined to comment on whether her researchers ties to the police could jeopardise this fairness. Tunnicliffe did not respond to questions about his new job or his character in the 2008 incident concerning Nicholson, who has since died.
But the family members of several people killed in recent years by law enforcement officers in Kern County said they were infuriated by the insular investigation process that followed the deaths, and did not trust local authorities to respond even-handedly.
Scott Tunnicliffe Photograph: Kern County District Attorney
If I committed a crime and investigated myself, I would be innocent, pronounced Traci Alderman, whose nephew Jason was shot dead by a Bakersfield police officer in August this year. Aldermans demise is the first officer-involved killing by the city department due to be reviewed by the DAs office. In this town, they hand your grease-gun back and suppose, basically, Go do it again, said his mother, Judy Edens.
Amid indifference from local authorities, five families of people killed by police, together with civil rights activists and attorneys, answered an inquiry into Kern Countys criminal justice system was now required if trust between policemen and regions of official-language minority communities were to be restored. Various cited incquiries launched by federal officials into other agencies across the US mired in their own controversies.
Frankly, I find the US Justice Department should come in, confiscate their computers, and do a thorough investigation of at the least the last 10 times, read Henry Mosier, a lately adjourned public advocate, who in 2010 threw a Kern County prosecution based on a police sting busines into chaos by unveiling that a detective interred unfavourable proof in the wilderness. The metropolitans and the district patrolmen. All of them.
Sgt Brian Holcombe penetrates the Bakersfield police department, which has justified all of its officer-involved killings under its current police chief, Greg Williamson. Picture: Mae Ryan for the Guardian
If a police officer shoots and kills person in Fresno, California, about 100 miles to the north of Bakersfield, government departments own research is coincided automatically with a separate investigation by the district attorney and a review by the citys Independent Police Auditor.
The goal, as in hundreds of other jurisdictions across the US, is to ensure at least the figure of objectivity through exemption from internal love and self-interest. You have two different entities that probe the hitting that are totally outside of our limit, mentioned Fresnos deputy police chief, Pat Farmer. It becomes the public detect theres no chance of us turning a blind eye to something that we perhaps dont want to expose.
Even in Ferguson, Missouri, where local officials were accused of mishandling almost everything about the aftermath of the lethal police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, the citys police chief immediately requested St Louis County police to take over the criminal investigation, in an attempt to avoid compounding allegations regarding a cover-up.
But in Kern County things are done differently.
When either a Bakersfield police officer or Kern County agent shoots a doubt dead, two inquests are provoked. But these are run by colleagues of the officer who opened fire. An investigation by internal affairs gleans manifestation on whether the killing complied with district plan. Detectives meanwhile look for any evidence of potential criminality.
In both departments, acquires are presented to bodies of senior commanders who sit in private. Bakersfields critical occurrence refresh committee is made up of the aide chief of police and four commands. At the sheriffs office, the sheriffs four honcho deputies perform the same character. In an interrogation, Bakersfield police chief Greg Williamson contended his board acted impartially despite their obvious conflict of interest TAGEND
Documents released by Bakersfield in response to a world preserves request showed the members of the commission of police captains frequently signs off on fatal shootings with exclusively a two-line memo to Williamson. Kern County rebuffed various requests for any records relating to its own incident re-examine timber, claiming they were protected by California law.
State legislation dating from the 1970 s, including a law officer greenback of rights, residences such documents under arguably the tightest restrictions on police records in all the US. Applications for personnels documents and disciplinary histories are flatly repudiated on the basis that their freeing would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.
They will work to prevent you from going any knowledge whatsoever, mentioned Don Cook, a veteran attorney who has opposed actions against law enforcement in Kern County over undue implement of police bird-dogs. I have had to fight tooth and nail to get it. Jim De Simone, an attorney who acquired a village for a gentleman mischievously injured during a police commerce stop in 2012, agreed: To get suits resolved, you almost have to be complicit in the protection of officers.
Under an agreement reached between the district attorney and the county two major police departments in July this year, the DAs office may probe an officer-involved killing itself separately if it wishes. It may, however, simply refresh the existing conclusions of investigators who are the colleagues of the polouse who shot and former colleagues of most DAs investigators.
And the DAs office, which has looked into such shootings by the countys smaller departments for years, drops-off to make public details of how extensive their investigations actually are. It agreed to liberation merely a series of two-line decision memos in which it stated that following its evaluation of inquiries it had been determined that the security forces were justified.
This lack of transparency has angered residents whose relatives were killed. Its somewhat frustrating that they are still able to investigate their own and justify their own, pronounced Nicole Ramirez, whose unarmed friend Jorge was fatally shot by a group of officers during a botched bite enterprise while working as a police informant in 2013. In Ferguson they had a magnificent jury. Why cant we get a magnificent jury?
Police merely disclosed Ramirezs brother was working for them, rather than a suppose, after she and their own families obtained the 34 -year-olds text messages from the nighttime he died through an online repository. What if we hadnt? she told. I actually believe we need a third-party bureau here. We need the Department of Justice to come and take over Bakersfield police department.
Kern County sheriffs lieutenant John Swearengin was hastening to assist the pursue of a splendid steal vehicle doubt miles across Bakersfield. But before he got there, he generated international crimes situation of his own.
It was December 2011. The lieutenant had been driving at 80 mph in a 45 mph zone. With his pedal to the metal, according to a sworn deposition, he sped through various intersections. Then his vehicle struck two parties. Chrystal Jolley, 30, and 24 -year-old Daniel Hiler were spanning the road with a motorcycle. Swearengen punched the pair at 64 mph and applied the dampers simply a half second before affect. Both Jolley and Hiler were killed.
The deputy had not initiated his emergency lights or sirens, and later conceded during the deposition that he had no idea how quickly he was walking. Swearengin had also been penalized for good driving in the past.
Whitney Peaker, Hilers fiancee, had been on her acces to fill him. She strolled over to the police front, where a gathering had assembled, anxious to insure what the rucku was about. Then she realised the parent of her two child sons was dead. I exactly went into a commonwealth of shock, she said in an interrogation. I remember, but I dont recollect, because I precisely froze.
Swearengin insisted he was authorised to disregard the regulation of the road even without his alarms on. He said it was his understanding that the department required officers to request permission before returning on sirens and emergency lights, and that he had been contacting for the radio to make this seek when the crash happened.
But both the deposition of a elderly Kern County lieutenant and the departments rulebook on disaster driving, which territory quickens above posted velocity limits are rarely necessary or justifiable denied him.
Swearengin was charged with two offense weighs of vehicular manslaughter and gross negligence. After a reviewer ruled that his prior disciplinary evidence would be inadmissible in tribunal due to the police officer invoice of rights, he agreed to plead guilty to one count of misdemeanour vehicular manslaughter. He was sentenced to 480 hours of community service and fined $470. The city colonized two civil lawsuits over the action for $8.8 m.
Despite this, Swearengin was allowed to return to work, and continues to serve as a deputy sheriff.
John Swearengin Photograph: Youtube
In an interview, Kern County sheriff Donny Youngblood once again quoth the law officer proposal of rights when rejecting to detail how Swearengin was penalized. He pronounced, however, that international sanctions against him were substantial.
His intent was not to do something bad, Youngblood said in justifying his decision to keep Swearengin on the force. His intent was to do something good.
In addition to the ironclad bill of rights, California is one of exclusively six states that absence a regulatory commission well placed to repealed the law enforcement licences of officers who have done wrong, just as a lawyer or physician may be affect from their professing.
As a develop, the state has one of the countrys lowest charges for polouse ends. Those rejected over behavior in the number of jobs are regularly rehired at other government departments that fail to obtain full details of their wrongdoing or take advantage of it to compensate a lower wage, according to professor Roger Goldman of St Louis University, who analyses police licensing laws.
For Whitney Peaker, Swearengins aims were irrelevant. I feel like he shouldve lost his enterprise, she mentioned, as her baby wept. He should have done prison time for it.
He goes home every night to his family. His minors caressed him goodnight, and my sons will never have that.
It would take the death of another civilian, this time a 72 -year-old woman, for the department to insert any major improvement to its driving programmes.
Kern County is a largely rural and republican swath of central California where local populations often supports the actions of law enforcement. Image: Mae Ryan for the Guardian
Nancy Garrett had finished watching the Los Angeles Dodgers thumped the Colorado Rockies in video games that went to additional innings. As she drove back from her sons house in the early hours of the morning in September last year, she extended through an intersection and was struck by deputy Nicholas Clericos patrol car. The man was driving to assist with an arrest at a bar battle and had his light-headeds and alarms triggered. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
An exhaustive California Highway Patrol investigation file into the incident, heard by the Guardian, divulges Clerico was circulating at nearly 85 mph over double the limit when he struck Garretts white Hyundai. Clerico had driven through a red light and applied his restraints precisely 0.02 seconds before the accident. The investigation, which found that Garrett was driving on an expired driving license, concluded Clerico was to blame for the collision.
The investigation likewise reveals that Clerico had been been involved in an on-duty crash before. In December 2012 he gate-crashed while driving his prowl car in Tehachapi while driving at an unsafe accelerate. Just 2 month earlier, he had been involved in another accident while off office. Clerico was found to be at fault for both.
Garretts adult babes, Mark McGowan and Debbie Blanco, are frantic that Clerico was allowed to remain behind the rotation. Lending to their feeling reflects the fact that their babies death appeared simply 1.8 miles down the road from the fatal clang implying Hiler and Jolley, in the same Bakersfield suburb.
Clerico has been charged with misdemeanors vehicular manslaughter but remains on paid administrative leave.
A month after Garretts death, Youngblood announced some improvements. He would foreclose agents “whos” caught hastening from driving to and from work in their patrol vehicles a move contested by the police uniting, who challenged government departments repay patrolmen personal ga payments. He also installed GPS tracking to observe men rapidities, and enforced seatbelt checks.
For Mark McGowan, the new programs are meaningless. My momma is dead, of course its not sufficient. Nothing is going to be enough, he added through rips. Is it enough for the next being? I hope so.
But on 14 July this year, 59 -year-old Larry Maharrey was killed in a conflict with Kern County sheriffs representative Marvin Gomezs patrol car. Police promptly said Maharrey crashed into Gomez. But according to a lately registered civil demand, representative Gomez, who had his illuminations and sirens on as he responded to situations of emergency entitle, turned through a red light and collided with Maharreys motorcycle.
The lethal disintegrate occurred on the same road on which Hiler and Jolley were killed in 2011.
It is little known to the public, and scarcely makes a chime. But Kern County already has a watchdog person that is supposed to investigate and audit all aspects of Kern County government. Confusingly called a splendid jury, this 19 -person panel of voluntaries is responsible more for monitoring municipal authorities than considering criminal indictments.
The jurors have subpoena supremacy and may deport hearings. A four-person law and justice committee within the panel is responsible specific for oversight of all law enforcement agencies in the county and fielding public grievances. Yet annual reports filed by the committee indicate members exposed little interest about the actions of police officers, even as the district became the owner of the nations highest rate of officer-involved deaths.
While I was on the committee, I didnt see anything that would cause me to have to build inquests on things, Mahlon Keel, the 2013 -1 4 the law and the courts chairperson, said in an interrogation. Expected whether he was confident police always used force appropriately, Keel did: I wouldnt want to make a comment either way, simply because I dont know all the facts on any circumstances of the present case. Keel did not recognise the names of people killed in controversial meetings with law enforcement officers in recent years.
Reports from past years show Keels precedes inspected the police departments and noted little needed to change. Recommendations: none, the meetings of the committee spoke of Bakersfield police department in 2013. No response required.
Records show that among the 19 people selected for the 2013 -1 4 magnificent jury, only two had any event in law enforcement. At least 14 of the 19 were lily-white some declined to say yet more than 51% of the countys person is Hispanic, in agreement with the US census bureau. Merely one juror was under the age of 55.
Keel, a retired farm material salesman of 30 years who does not have event in law enforcement, rejected review of the county officers. Parties jump to judgments without having the facts of the case, he read, as evidenced in Ferguson and some other places back east.
City and district managers demo a same deficiency of appetite for more scrutiny of officers. Neither Bakersfield mayor Harvey Hall nor city manager Alan Tandy would observation for this series about their omission of law enforcement.
Councilman Willie Rivera, the only Democrat on Bakersfields seven-person city council, said in an interview that the issue appeared to be of no pastime to other councillors and that he alone had been clearing inquiries about what recurring training officers in the county received to help them address and assess hazardous situations.
There still is a certain amount of disconnect between some of my colleagues and whats really going on in the street, said Rivera. I cant inevitably tell you the rest of the council would be interested in questioning those questions.
Sheriffs agents in the urban city of Wasco are the only officers in Kern County who wear torso cameras. Picture: Mae Ryan for the Guardian
Both Williamson and Youngblood say they support the use of officer person cameras. But Youngblood had recently begun trialling their use in Wasco, a city 30 miles north-west of Bakersfield, where a substation of 18 police police 26,000 residents.
There is no such attempt, nonetheless, at the Bakersfield police department. Williamson said the city manager had declined to provide the money required to apply for a federal gift. He quoth the citys high case overheads as one taken into account in the lack of monies. Others have requested a civil examine members of the board of the type operating in other cities to observe the actions of officers. Youngblood, nonetheless, aggressively repudiated the relevant recommendations TAGEND
Outsiders have, however, combed through Bakersfields traditions before. In 2003, officials in the Department of Justices civil right department opened an investigation into the department, provoked by accusations about discriminatory practices by patrolmen against Latino residents.
While Bakersfield captains eventually trumpeted the finding that no constitutional misdemeanours were discovered, the federal auditors were in fact sharply critical in other respects, according to DoJ reports. Bakersfields plans on the use of force-out were found to be in total disarray and failed to provide any guidance to men on when thrust should be used.
The department was instructed to overhaul government regulation on firearms, pepper spraying, chokeholds, opened fire at moving autoes, and using police puppies to bite people. It was also told to stop officers raising their own weapons to design. We learned that patrolmen in government departments carry artilleries that are not authorized by BPD policy, a senior official said in a 2004 note. Bakersfield rebuffed a DoJ guideline that detectives should have their firearms taken from them after shootings.
Records been demonstrated that in response to the review, Bakersfield bought an off-the-shelf given of regulations from Lexipol, a immediately changing California-based corporation that writes plan journals for police departments and continues up with changes to the laws so chiefs dont have to. Bakersfield now has a standard set of rules about when detectives may film beings.
But the extent to which the brand-new rulers have taken root across the department remains unclear. Under Bakersfields city charter, police are barred from hiring outside nominees except as entry-level rookies. All other vacancies, including the right of the police chief, must be to be completed by advertisements from within the ranks. This remarkable govern means the departments entire executive-level leadership officers at the grade of lieutenant or higher have served inside BPD for more than 10 years and arrived before the reform efforts.
The whole culture must be amended, replied Kathleen Faulkner, a Bakersfield attorney who asked the Justice Department to investigate the first time around. They need to hire different beings, hand-picked parties. They need to look closer into their backgrounds and what kind of parties they are. Their whole education is Be a tough guy, Shoot first, ask questions afterwards, He was contacting for his waistband, We precisely want to go back to our families.
A survey of the departments rank and file be carried forward last year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police found policemen scathing about the effect of this closed process. Notes to a chum system, good ol boy organization, nepotism, cronyism, affections with respect to advertisements and movements were common, said the IACP.
The survey learnt fewer than half of officers did command staff lead by example and that they had confidence in the leadership of this organisation. Another explanation failed to pass majority muster: I can freely express sentiments, concerns and suggestions without suspicion of negative consequences.
When either a Bakersfield police officer or Kern County agent filmed a suspect dead, two asks are provoked. But these are run by colleagues of the polouse who burnt the lethal kill. Image: Mae Ryan for the Guardian
At the end of October this year, Kern County deputies ascertained themselves forced to initiate a manhunt for one of their own.
Deputy Edward Tucker, who had had participated in government departments for 18 times, had been on unpaid leave for 12 months. Tucker, 44, had been arrested twice that week. After he twinkled a handgun at a group of girlfriends in Bakersfield, deputies disclosed methamphetamine and five handguns, two shotguns and an assault rifle in his vehicle. Tucker was charged but posted bail.
Days later, a retired colleague questioned deputies to check on him after he cast a series of suicidal text themes. The officers knew Tucker in a park. Formerly again “hes in” owned for narcotic drugs and firearms, but this time with an explosive explode line as well.
He was arrested and driven to incarcerate in downtown Bakersfield. But as men crowded in paperwork in the carpark, somehow Tucker was able to slip his handcuffs, open the back door of the patrol car and march calmly out of the facility.
He was on the run for two days, considered armed and dangerous, before being pinpointed and arrested at a home in Oildale.
Of course that is embarrassing, answered Youngblood. But this organisation has 1,300 employees and its a crew. One member of that crew does something stupid like that, the rest of the team, they dont get behind them.
Tucker awaits experiment on five trespas accusations, including wilful brutality to a child, and four misdemeanors, including narcotics self-possession. He remains a agent of the Kern County sheriffs department.
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