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Nestled in the mountains of northeast India, Manipur, which borders Myanmar, is about the size of New Hampshire and has a population of 3.7 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of Hangzo’s family members used to live in this region, which is currently engulfed in violent conflict. At least 150 people have died as a result and more than 60,000 were displaced, according to the International Crisis Group. Those displaced include Hangzo’s 86-year-old mother, six of Hangzo’s siblings and several cousins who are now in Delhi, more than 1,500 miles from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence erupted after a local court ruling awarded government benefits to the Meitei, a mostly Hindu community that maintains a majority in the area. The Kuki tribal community, who are mostly Christian and represent the minority faction, protested. That prompted the waves of armed Meitei mobs that are unofficially supported by the state government, according to activists and human rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, which is in charge of India’s central government, has stoked politically motivated policies promoting Hindu majoritarianism, according to Human Rights Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bloodshed is resonating within the large Indian diaspora in the Bay Area. Rallies, hunger strikes and educational Zoom meetings were held to raise awareness of the persecution of the Kuki community in Manipur.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Niang Hangzo, co-founder, North American Manipur Tribal Association\"]‘They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back.’[/pullquote]Hangzo, like most of her family in India, is a member of the Kuki, which is sometimes referred to as Kuki-Zomi or Kuki-Zo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mob burned the church, Hangzo’s family hid in a local hotel. They watched the growing mob outside on the security camera before escaping to an army camp. Hangzo and others convinced them to leave the region by plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back,” said Hangzo, who works as an engineer in the tech industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With luck and help from people Hangzo describes as “angels,” the family made it safely out of the region. Images from the local news channel showed their homes looted and burned. Eleven members are now crowded in a three-bedroom apartment in New Delhi, India’s capital. Despite leaving all their possessions behind, Hangzo said they feel fortunate to have made it out alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the violence broke out in Manipur, Hangzo has dedicated her time to informing people about the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of the founding members of the North American Manipur Tribal Association, a national organization formed to promote awareness of the hill tribes of Manipur in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group wrote letters to President Joe Biden, asking him to raise the issue when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the U.S. at the end of June. NAMTA also coordinated efforts with the Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights, as well as Indian Christian organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not much we can do on our own, but I think the atrocities and the stories from Manipur have shaken people and shaken the conscience of other people,” Hangzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indian communities in the Bay Area held rallies in Oakland, Palo Alto and Fremont after a video showing two Kuki women being assaulted in public went viral in India. Members of the Muslim, Sikh and Dalit communities in the Bay Area also combined efforts to pressure congressional leaders to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stands outdoors in front of a building holding signs while one person speaks into a megaphone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shan Sankaran (left) stands alongside Niang Hangzo (right) at a rally outside of Oakland City Hall on July 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of North American Manipur Tribal Association.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pieter Friedrich and Shan Sankaran protested the treatment of the Kuki with a hunger strike. Friedrich, a human rights advocate, ended his fast after nine days at the request of NAMTA and the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sankaran, a Sunnyvale resident, ended his hunger strike after 10 days. Sankaran said if the central government wanted the crisis under control, they would’ve taken action earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the first incident under this administration,” said Sankaran, recalling how Modi was denied a visa to the U.S. for several years for “severe violations of religious freedom.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Niang Hangzo, co-founder, North American Manipur Tribal Association\"]‘It’s very difficult living in sort of limbo for them and for us. We have become so embroiled in what’s happening out there that that’s become our reality more than what’s going on here.’[/pullquote] Friedrich, who has written extensively on Hindu nationalism, said “what is happening in Manipur is being driven by the Hindutva movement in India,” which is the political ideology that believes in Hindu supremacy and that India’s identity is inseparable from the Hindu religion. Friedrich wants Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) to publicly condemn the violence in Manipur on the House floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve consistently used my position in Congress to defend human rights and admire the activists who work to drive change on these important issues,” Khanna told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he “condemns all violence against civilians or places of worship in Manipur and speaks out on those issues whenever I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hangzo wants to see politicians “raise the humanitarian issue of the ethnic cleansing of the Kuki-Zomi and the genocide that is in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their lands are being seized,” she said of the Kuki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hangzo gets up every morning and routinely checks news and messages to see what happened the night before. Her mother wants to return to Manipur and be among familiar surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult living in sort of limbo for them and for us,” said Hangzo, who plans to go to India in December. “We have become so embroiled in what’s happening out there that that’s become our reality more than what’s going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back,' said Niang Hangzo, co-founder of the North American Manipur Tribal Association.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691259525,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1104},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Activists Raise Awareness of Violence in India’s Manipur State | KQED","description":"'They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back,' said Niang Hangzo, co-founder of the North American Manipur Tribal Association.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957446/bay-area-activists-raise-awareness-of-violence-in-indias-manipur-state","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On May 3, a mob rushed into a tribal area in the Indian state of Manipur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They started screaming ‘Kill Kuki, Kill Kuki’ and started burning our church,” Niang Hangzo, a San José resident who immigrated to the United States in 1990, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hangzo was born and raised in Manipur. Nestled in the mountains of northeast India, Manipur, which borders Myanmar, is about the size of New Hampshire and has a population of 3.7 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty of Hangzo’s family members used to live in this region, which is currently engulfed in violent conflict. At least 150 people have died as a result and more than 60,000 were displaced, according to the International Crisis Group. Those displaced include Hangzo’s 86-year-old mother, six of Hangzo’s siblings and several cousins who are now in Delhi, more than 1,500 miles from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence erupted after a local court ruling awarded government benefits to the Meitei, a mostly Hindu community that maintains a majority in the area. The Kuki tribal community, who are mostly Christian and represent the minority faction, protested. That prompted the waves of armed Meitei mobs that are unofficially supported by the state government, according to activists and human rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, which is in charge of India’s central government, has stoked politically motivated policies promoting Hindu majoritarianism, according to Human Rights Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bloodshed is resonating within the large Indian diaspora in the Bay Area. Rallies, hunger strikes and educational Zoom meetings were held to raise awareness of the persecution of the Kuki community in Manipur.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Niang Hangzo, co-founder, North American Manipur Tribal Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hangzo, like most of her family in India, is a member of the Kuki, which is sometimes referred to as Kuki-Zomi or Kuki-Zo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the mob burned the church, Hangzo’s family hid in a local hotel. They watched the growing mob outside on the security camera before escaping to an army camp. Hangzo and others convinced them to leave the region by plane.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had to run for their lives with just the clothes on their back,” said Hangzo, who works as an engineer in the tech industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With luck and help from people Hangzo describes as “angels,” the family made it safely out of the region. Images from the local news channel showed their homes looted and burned. Eleven members are now crowded in a three-bedroom apartment in New Delhi, India’s capital. Despite leaving all their possessions behind, Hangzo said they feel fortunate to have made it out alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the violence broke out in Manipur, Hangzo has dedicated her time to informing people about the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is one of the founding members of the North American Manipur Tribal Association, a national organization formed to promote awareness of the hill tribes of Manipur in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group wrote letters to President Joe Biden, asking him to raise the issue when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the U.S. at the end of June. NAMTA also coordinated efforts with the Indian American Muslim Council, Hindus for Human Rights, as well as Indian Christian organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not much we can do on our own, but I think the atrocities and the stories from Manipur have shaken people and shaken the conscience of other people,” Hangzo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indian communities in the Bay Area held rallies in Oakland, Palo Alto and Fremont after a video showing two Kuki women being assaulted in public went viral in India. Members of the Muslim, Sikh and Dalit communities in the Bay Area also combined efforts to pressure congressional leaders to take action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1620px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stands outdoors in front of a building holding signs while one person speaks into a megaphone.\" width=\"1620\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED.jpg 1620w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230803-Manipur-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1620px) 100vw, 1620px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shan Sankaran (left) stands alongside Niang Hangzo (right) at a rally outside of Oakland City Hall on July 23, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of North American Manipur Tribal Association.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pieter Friedrich and Shan Sankaran protested the treatment of the Kuki with a hunger strike. Friedrich, a human rights advocate, ended his fast after nine days at the request of NAMTA and the Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Sankaran, a Sunnyvale resident, ended his hunger strike after 10 days. Sankaran said if the central government wanted the crisis under control, they would’ve taken action earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the first incident under this administration,” said Sankaran, recalling how Modi was denied a visa to the U.S. for several years for “severe violations of religious freedom.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It’s very difficult living in sort of limbo for them and for us. We have become so embroiled in what’s happening out there that that’s become our reality more than what’s going on here.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Niang Hangzo, co-founder, North American Manipur Tribal Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Friedrich, who has written extensively on Hindu nationalism, said “what is happening in Manipur is being driven by the Hindutva movement in India,” which is the political ideology that believes in Hindu supremacy and that India’s identity is inseparable from the Hindu religion. Friedrich wants Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) to publicly condemn the violence in Manipur on the House floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve consistently used my position in Congress to defend human rights and admire the activists who work to drive change on these important issues,” Khanna told KQED in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that he “condemns all violence against civilians or places of worship in Manipur and speaks out on those issues whenever I can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hangzo wants to see politicians “raise the humanitarian issue of the ethnic cleansing of the Kuki-Zomi and the genocide that is in progress.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their lands are being seized,” she said of the Kuki.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hangzo gets up every morning and routinely checks news and messages to see what happened the night before. Her mother wants to return to Manipur and be among familiar surroundings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult living in sort of limbo for them and for us,” said Hangzo, who plans to go to India in December. “We have become so embroiled in what’s happening out there that that’s become our reality more than what’s going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11957446/bay-area-activists-raise-awareness-of-violence-in-indias-manipur-state","authors":["11626"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_21077","news_1386","news_32986","news_32985","news_27626","news_31316","news_18436","news_32984","news_28222","news_32987","news_6238","news_18541","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_11957323","label":"news"},"news_11904298":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11904298","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11904298","score":null,"sort":[1644170912000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse","title":"AP Investigation: Dublin Women's Prison Fostered Culture of Abuse","publishDate":1644170912,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoners and workers at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, even have a name for it: “the rape club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation has found a permissive and toxic culture at the Bay Area lockup, enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained internal federal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from incarcerated people, interviewed current and former prison employees and those incarcerated and reviewed thousands of pages of court records from criminal and civil cases involving Dublin prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they detail how incarcerated people's allegations against members of the mostly male staff were ignored or set aside, how prisoners could be sent to solitary confinement for reporting abuse and how officials in charge of preventing and investigating sexual misconduct were themselves accused of abusing incarcerated people or neglecting their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, an incarcerated woman said a man, who was her prison work supervisor, taunted her by remarking “let the games begin” when he assigned her to work with a maintenance foreman she accused of rape. Another worker claimed he wanted to get inmates pregnant. The warden — the man in charge at Dublin — kept nude photos on his government-issued cellphone of a woman he is accused of assaulting.[pullquote]One incarcerated woman said she was 'overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably' after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman said she was “overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably” after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin. Another said she contemplated suicide when her cries for help went unheeded and now suffers from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A culture of misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an incarcerated person is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over those incarcerated, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an incarcerated person can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations at Dublin, which so far have resulted in four arrests, are endemic of a larger problem within the beleaguered Bureau of Prisons. In 2020, the same year some of the women at Dublin complained, there were 422 complaints of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse across the system of 122 prisons and 153,000 incarcerated people. The agency said it substantiated only four of those complaints and that 290 are still being investigated. It would not say whether the allegations were concentrated in women’s prisons or spread throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hotbed of corruption and misconduct, the federal prison system has been plagued by myriad crises in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-5be574b4103a2f5420e0d9da2daf5c9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread criminal activity among employees\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-prisons-government-and-politics-88fff925b1901a36a10581c28d826916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critically low staffing levels\u003c/a> that have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-suicides-business-prisons-government-and-politics-0eba20833af541730b5e71bc4d2efbfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hampered responses to emergencies\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-politics-florida-724ee94ac5ba37b4df33c417f2bf78a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid spread of COVID-19\u003c/a>, a failed response to the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-prison-breaks-business-c1979d6ad6e7b3531968dab0e61eb22d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of escapes\u003c/a>. Last month, the embattled director, Michael Carvajal, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-crime-prisons-arrests-efaf6fd8bbfe78b1124e64c08a5537ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he was resigning\u003c/a>. On Monday, two incarcerated people were killed in a gang clash at a federal penitentiary in Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-prison-fight-federal-lockdown-a0e7b61c5bdc5bbc25a691cc0a6920ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prompting a nationwide lockdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP contacted lawyers for every Dublin prison employee charged with sexual abuse or named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging abuse, and tried reaching the men directly through available phone numbers and email addresses. None responded to interview requests. A government lawyer representing one of the men being sued declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thahesha Jusino, taking over as Dublin’s warden at the end of the month, promised to “work tirelessly to reaffirm the Bureau of Prisons’ zero tolerance for sexual abuse and sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the agency is fully cooperating with the Justice Department’s inspector general on active investigations and noted that a “vast majority” of these cases were referred for investigation by the Bureau of Prisons itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am committed to ensuring the safety of our inmates, staff, and the public,” Jusino said in a statement to the AP. “A culture of misconduct, or actions not representative of the BOP’s Core Values will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department said in a statement that “[z]ero tolerance means exactly that. The Justice Department is committed to both holding accountable any staff who violate their position of trust and to preventing these crimes from happening in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A criminal investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCI Dublin, which is 20 miles east of Oakland, was opened in 1974. It was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman both served time there for their involvement in a college admissions bribery scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 1, it had about 750 incarcerated people, many serving sentences for drug crimes. There are increasingly more women behind bars but they are still a minority — only about 6.5% of the overall federal inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials say the vast majority of Dublin employees are honest and hardworking, and are upset that the allegations and actions of some workers have tarnished the prison’s reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a diversified staff. We have veterans. We have ex-law enforcement. We have good people, and they’re very traumatized,” Dublin union president Ed Canales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people and prison workers who spoke to the AP did not want their names published for fear of retaliation. The AP also does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women made the first internal complaints to staff members about five years ago, court records and internal agency documents show, but it’s not clear whether those complaints ever went anywhere. The women say they were largely ignored, and the abuse continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman who reported a 2017 sexual assault said she was told nothing would be done about her complaint because it was a “he said-she said.” The woman, who is now suing the Bureau of Prisons over her treatment, said she was fired from her prison commissary job as retaliation. When she went to report her firing, she said a Dublin counselor took her abuser’s side, responding: “Child, do you want him to lose his job?” The woman was moved to a different prison a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, another Dublin incarcerated woman sued — first on her own with handwritten papers, then with the backing of a powerful San Francisco law firm — alleging that a maintenance foreman repeatedly raped her and that other workers facilitated the abuse and mocked her for it. When an internal prison investigator finally caught wind of what was happening, the woman said she was the one who got punished with three months in solitary confinement and a transfer to a federal prison in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2020, another incarcerated woman's report that Dublin workers were abusing inmates broke through to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the FBI, triggering a criminal investigation that has led to the arrest of four employees, including former warden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-san-francisco-sexual-abuse-e9b0b3c8bf508bafc66399c95c02a1df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray J. Garcia\u003c/a>, in the past seven months. They each face up to 15 years in prison, though in other recent cases, sentences have ranged from three months to two years. [pullquote size=\"large\"]The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the men are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks in federal court to charges of sexual abuse of a ward. None of the men accused in civil suits has been charged with a crime. Several Dublin workers are under investigation, though it’s not clear whether the men accused in the civil suits are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden, chaplain and others arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former warden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/warden-federal-corrections-institute-dublin-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested last September\u003c/a>, is accused of molesting an incarcerated woman as she tried to push him away. Garcia made her and another incarcerated woman strip naked as he did rounds and took pictures that were found on his personal laptop computer and government-issued cellphone when the FBI raided his office and home last summer, prosecutors said. The abuse ended when the pandemic exploded and women were locked in their cells, they said. Garcia was later promoted; the Bureau of Prisons said it didn’t know about the abuse until later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like, ‘You be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, who was placed on leave after the raid and retired a month after his arrest, is also accused of using his authority to intimidate one of his victims, telling her that he was “close friends” with the person responsible for investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/bureau-prisons-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Klinger\u003c/a>, 36, a Dublin prison recycling technician, is scheduled to plead guilty on Thursday to charges he sexually abused at least two incarcerated people between March and September 2020, including inside a warehouse and in a shipping container on prison grounds while another incarcerated person acted as a lookout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klinger told the women he wanted to marry them and father their children, even proposing to one of them with a diamond ring after she was discharged to a halfway house, prosecutors said. Another prisoner aware of the abuse reported Klinger to the Bureau of Prisons in June 2020, according to the FBI, but he was still allowed to transfer to a federal jail in San Diego months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the move, prosecutors said, Klinger kept contacting one victim through an email address he created with a phony name, sometimes sending lewd messages referencing sexual acts, and messaged the other woman on Snapchat, saying he loved her and was “willing to do anything” for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviewed by investigators in April 2021, Klinger denied any wrongdoing, but said that because of the allegations his life was over and that he was concerned about going to prison and being labeled as a sex offender. He was in handcuffs two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual misconduct of a ward, you can’t come back from that,” Klinger told investigators in the interview, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Russell Bellhouse\u003c/a>, 39, a prison safety administrator, is scheduled to be arraigned this month on charges he sexually abused an incarcerated woman he called his “girlfriend” from February to December 2020. He was placed on leave in March and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested in December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Theodore Highhouse\u003c/a>, 49, a prison chaplain, has already signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty Feb. 23 to charges he put his penis on an incarcerated woman's genitals, mouth and hand and masturbated in front of her in 2018 and 2019, and that he lied to investigators when questioned about the abuse. He was arrested last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden had outsize influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcia, the highest-ranking federal prison official arrested in more than 10 years, had an outsize influence as warden over how Dublin handled employee sexual misconduct. He led staff and inmate training on reporting abuse and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA, and had control over staff discipline, including in cases of sexual abuse. In his prior role as associate warden, he had disciplinary authority over all incarcerated women, but not staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in charge of the legally required “rape elimination” compliance audit, first scheduled for early 2020 but not completed until last September — about the time he was arrested. The Bureau of Prisons blamed the pandemic for the delay and said the audit, Dublin’s first since 2017, is not yet finalized and cannot be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In private, Garcia was flouting measures put in place to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse and later panicked that he would get caught for his own alleged misbehavior, court records show. The woman Garcia is accused of assaulting told investigators that one instance of abuse happened while PREA officials were visiting the prison. Garcia assaulted her in a changing stall designed for PREA-compliant searches, she said.[aside tag=\"prison, jail, incarcerated\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Publicly, Garcia appeared to take a hard line on abuse. In one of his first acts after he was named warden in November 2020, he recommended firing the maintenance foreman William Martinez, accused of rape in the 2019 suit — albeit for what the staff disciplinary process narrowed to a finding of an “appearance of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has denied the allegations and has filed a discrimination complaint against the Bureau of Prisons with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia tasked another official with making a final decision on punishment and that person reduced the penalty to a 15-day suspension, but even that was later overturned. Internal documents obtained by the AP show that prison officials failed to look into the allegations against Martinez for nearly two years and then, after the investigation finished, waited another year to propose discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative judge wrote in June that the prison’s protracted investigation “strains credulity” on a matter as serious as alleged sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge also found that prison officials cherry-picked evidence to bolster their case, only to end up unraveling it. He reversed the suspension and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide back pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Sisak reported from New York.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Balsamo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mikesisak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sisak\u003c/a> and send confidential tips by visiting www.ap.org/tips.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the U.S., incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1644271751,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2415},"headData":{"title":"AP Investigation: Dublin Women's Prison Fostered Culture of Abuse | KQED","description":"Inside one of the only federal women's prisons in the U.S., incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11904298 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11904298","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/02/06/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse/","disqusTitle":"AP Investigation: Dublin Women's Prison Fostered Culture of Abuse","nprByline":"Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak \u003cbr> Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Content warning: This story contains references to rape and sexual assault.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside one of the only federal women’s prisons in the United States, incarcerated women say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and even the warden, and were often threatened or punished when they tried to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prisoners and workers at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, California, even have a name for it: “the rape club.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An Associated Press investigation has found a permissive and toxic culture at the Bay Area lockup, enabling years of sexual misconduct by predatory employees and cover-ups that have largely kept the abuse out of the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP obtained internal federal Bureau of Prisons documents, statements and recordings from incarcerated people, interviewed current and former prison employees and those incarcerated and reviewed thousands of pages of court records from criminal and civil cases involving Dublin prison staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, they detail how incarcerated people's allegations against members of the mostly male staff were ignored or set aside, how prisoners could be sent to solitary confinement for reporting abuse and how officials in charge of preventing and investigating sexual misconduct were themselves accused of abusing incarcerated people or neglecting their concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one instance, an incarcerated woman said a man, who was her prison work supervisor, taunted her by remarking “let the games begin” when he assigned her to work with a maintenance foreman she accused of rape. Another worker claimed he wanted to get inmates pregnant. The warden — the man in charge at Dublin — kept nude photos on his government-issued cellphone of a woman he is accused of assaulting.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"One incarcerated woman said she was 'overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably' after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman said she was “overwhelmed with fear, anxiety, and anger, and cried uncontrollably” after enduring abuse and retaliation at Dublin. Another said she contemplated suicide when her cries for help went unheeded and now suffers from severe anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A culture of misconduct\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>All sexual activity between a prison worker and an incarcerated person is illegal. Correctional employees enjoy substantial power over those incarcerated, controlling every aspect of their lives from mealtime to lights out, and there is no scenario in which an incarcerated person can give consent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations at Dublin, which so far have resulted in four arrests, are endemic of a larger problem within the beleaguered Bureau of Prisons. In 2020, the same year some of the women at Dublin complained, there were 422 complaints of staff-on-inmate sexual abuse across the system of 122 prisons and 153,000 incarcerated people. The agency said it substantiated only four of those complaints and that 290 are still being investigated. It would not say whether the allegations were concentrated in women’s prisons or spread throughout the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hotbed of corruption and misconduct, the federal prison system has been plagued by myriad crises in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/federal-prisons-5be574b4103a2f5420e0d9da2daf5c9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">widespread criminal activity among employees\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-prisons-government-and-politics-88fff925b1901a36a10581c28d826916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">critically low staffing levels\u003c/a> that have \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/only-on-ap-suicides-business-prisons-government-and-politics-0eba20833af541730b5e71bc4d2efbfe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hampered responses to emergencies\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-politics-florida-724ee94ac5ba37b4df33c417f2bf78a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rapid spread of COVID-19\u003c/a>, a failed response to the pandemic and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-prisons-prison-breaks-business-c1979d6ad6e7b3531968dab0e61eb22d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of escapes\u003c/a>. Last month, the embattled director, Michael Carvajal, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-crime-prisons-arrests-efaf6fd8bbfe78b1124e64c08a5537ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced he was resigning\u003c/a>. On Monday, two incarcerated people were killed in a gang clash at a federal penitentiary in Texas, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/texas-prison-fight-federal-lockdown-a0e7b61c5bdc5bbc25a691cc0a6920ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prompting a nationwide lockdown\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The AP contacted lawyers for every Dublin prison employee charged with sexual abuse or named as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging abuse, and tried reaching the men directly through available phone numbers and email addresses. None responded to interview requests. A government lawyer representing one of the men being sued declined comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thahesha Jusino, taking over as Dublin’s warden at the end of the month, promised to “work tirelessly to reaffirm the Bureau of Prisons’ zero tolerance for sexual abuse and sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the agency is fully cooperating with the Justice Department’s inspector general on active investigations and noted that a “vast majority” of these cases were referred for investigation by the Bureau of Prisons itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am committed to ensuring the safety of our inmates, staff, and the public,” Jusino said in a statement to the AP. “A culture of misconduct, or actions not representative of the BOP’s Core Values will not be tolerated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Justice Department said in a statement that “[z]ero tolerance means exactly that. The Justice Department is committed to both holding accountable any staff who violate their position of trust and to preventing these crimes from happening in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A criminal investigation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>FCI Dublin, which is 20 miles east of Oakland, was opened in 1974. It was converted in 2012 to one of six women-only facilities in the federal prison system. Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman both served time there for their involvement in a college admissions bribery scandal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Feb. 1, it had about 750 incarcerated people, many serving sentences for drug crimes. There are increasingly more women behind bars but they are still a minority — only about 6.5% of the overall federal inmate population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials say the vast majority of Dublin employees are honest and hardworking, and are upset that the allegations and actions of some workers have tarnished the prison’s reputation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a diversified staff. We have veterans. We have ex-law enforcement. We have good people, and they’re very traumatized,” Dublin union president Ed Canales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incarcerated people and prison workers who spoke to the AP did not want their names published for fear of retaliation. The AP also does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women made the first internal complaints to staff members about five years ago, court records and internal agency documents show, but it’s not clear whether those complaints ever went anywhere. The women say they were largely ignored, and the abuse continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One incarcerated woman who reported a 2017 sexual assault said she was told nothing would be done about her complaint because it was a “he said-she said.” The woman, who is now suing the Bureau of Prisons over her treatment, said she was fired from her prison commissary job as retaliation. When she went to report her firing, she said a Dublin counselor took her abuser’s side, responding: “Child, do you want him to lose his job?” The woman was moved to a different prison a week later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, another Dublin incarcerated woman sued — first on her own with handwritten papers, then with the backing of a powerful San Francisco law firm — alleging that a maintenance foreman repeatedly raped her and that other workers facilitated the abuse and mocked her for it. When an internal prison investigator finally caught wind of what was happening, the woman said she was the one who got punished with three months in solitary confinement and a transfer to a federal prison in Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in 2020, another incarcerated woman's report that Dublin workers were abusing inmates broke through to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the FBI, triggering a criminal investigation that has led to the arrest of four employees, including former warden \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-san-francisco-sexual-abuse-e9b0b3c8bf508bafc66399c95c02a1df\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray J. Garcia\u003c/a>, in the past seven months. They each face up to 15 years in prison, though in other recent cases, sentences have ranged from three months to two years. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two of the men are expected to plead guilty in the coming weeks in federal court to charges of sexual abuse of a ward. None of the men accused in civil suits has been charged with a crime. Several Dublin workers are under investigation, though it’s not clear whether the men accused in the civil suits are among them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI said Friday that it is continuing to investigate and is looking for anyone who may have been victimized to come forward and speak with agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden, chaplain and others arrested\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The former warden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/warden-federal-corrections-institute-dublin-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested last September\u003c/a>, is accused of molesting an incarcerated woman as she tried to push him away. Garcia made her and another incarcerated woman strip naked as he did rounds and took pictures that were found on his personal laptop computer and government-issued cellphone when the FBI raided his office and home last summer, prosecutors said. The abuse ended when the pandemic exploded and women were locked in their cells, they said. Garcia was later promoted; the Bureau of Prisons said it didn’t know about the abuse until later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re undressing, I’ve already looked,” Garcia, 54, told the FBI in July 2021, according to court records. “I don’t, like, schedule a time like, ‘You be undressed, and I’ll be there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia, who was placed on leave after the raid and retired a month after his arrest, is also accused of using his authority to intimidate one of his victims, telling her that he was “close friends” with the person responsible for investigating staff misconduct and boasting that he could not be fired, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/bureau-prisons-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-ward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ross Klinger\u003c/a>, 36, a Dublin prison recycling technician, is scheduled to plead guilty on Thursday to charges he sexually abused at least two incarcerated people between March and September 2020, including inside a warehouse and in a shipping container on prison grounds while another incarcerated person acted as a lookout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Klinger told the women he wanted to marry them and father their children, even proposing to one of them with a diamond ring after she was discharged to a halfway house, prosecutors said. Another prisoner aware of the abuse reported Klinger to the Bureau of Prisons in June 2020, according to the FBI, but he was still allowed to transfer to a federal jail in San Diego months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the move, prosecutors said, Klinger kept contacting one victim through an email address he created with a phony name, sometimes sending lewd messages referencing sexual acts, and messaged the other woman on Snapchat, saying he loved her and was “willing to do anything” for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interviewed by investigators in April 2021, Klinger denied any wrongdoing, but said that because of the allegations his life was over and that he was concerned about going to prison and being labeled as a sex offender. He was in handcuffs two months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sexual misconduct of a ward, you can’t come back from that,” Klinger told investigators in the interview, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-college-admissions-health-arrests-prisons-3c90285b68758035990cf29d24f3826d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Russell Bellhouse\u003c/a>, 39, a prison safety administrator, is scheduled to be arraigned this month on charges he sexually abused an incarcerated woman he called his “girlfriend” from February to December 2020. He was placed on leave in March and \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/federal-correctional-officer-charged-sexual-abuse-inmate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested in December\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/sexual-abuse-arrests-prisons-1f6def993dee7621a995e1b852dde9c5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Theodore Highhouse\u003c/a>, 49, a prison chaplain, has already signed a plea agreement and is scheduled to plead guilty Feb. 23 to charges he put his penis on an incarcerated woman's genitals, mouth and hand and masturbated in front of her in 2018 and 2019, and that he lied to investigators when questioned about the abuse. He was arrested last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warden had outsize influence\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Garcia, the highest-ranking federal prison official arrested in more than 10 years, had an outsize influence as warden over how Dublin handled employee sexual misconduct. He led staff and inmate training on reporting abuse and complying with the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA, and had control over staff discipline, including in cases of sexual abuse. In his prior role as associate warden, he had disciplinary authority over all incarcerated women, but not staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was also in charge of the legally required “rape elimination” compliance audit, first scheduled for early 2020 but not completed until last September — about the time he was arrested. The Bureau of Prisons blamed the pandemic for the delay and said the audit, Dublin’s first since 2017, is not yet finalized and cannot be made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In private, Garcia was flouting measures put in place to protect incarcerated people from sexual abuse and later panicked that he would get caught for his own alleged misbehavior, court records show. The woman Garcia is accused of assaulting told investigators that one instance of abuse happened while PREA officials were visiting the prison. Garcia assaulted her in a changing stall designed for PREA-compliant searches, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"prison, jail, incarcerated","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Publicly, Garcia appeared to take a hard line on abuse. In one of his first acts after he was named warden in November 2020, he recommended firing the maintenance foreman William Martinez, accused of rape in the 2019 suit — albeit for what the staff disciplinary process narrowed to a finding of an “appearance of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez has denied the allegations and has filed a discrimination complaint against the Bureau of Prisons with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia tasked another official with making a final decision on punishment and that person reduced the penalty to a 15-day suspension, but even that was later overturned. Internal documents obtained by the AP show that prison officials failed to look into the allegations against Martinez for nearly two years and then, after the investigation finished, waited another year to propose discipline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An administrative judge wrote in June that the prison’s protracted investigation “strains credulity” on a matter as serious as alleged sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the judge also found that prison officials cherry-picked evidence to bolster their case, only to end up unraveling it. He reversed the suspension and ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide back pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Michael Sisak reported from New York.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MikeBalsamo1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Balsamo\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/mikesisak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sisak\u003c/a> and send confidential tips by visiting www.ap.org/tips.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse","authors":["byline_news_11904298"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_30639","news_3543","news_28654","news_30638","news_3930","news_4435","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_11904299","label":"news"},"news_11821641":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11821641","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11821641","score":null,"sort":[1590772699000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"twitter-hides-trumps-tweet-about-minneapolis-saying-it-glorifies-violence","title":"Twitter Hides Trump's Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence","publishDate":1590772699,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Twitter has placed a warning on a tweet from President Trump in which the president blamed unrest in Minneapolis on \"thugs\" and said \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter said Trump's post violates its policy about \"glorifying violence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's message on Twitter came during a night of protests and looting in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd, a black man, after he was pinned to the ground for several minutes by a white police officer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump said he would \"send in the National Guard\" to restore order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis,\" Trump said early Friday. \"A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266231100780744704?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter hid the second of those messages with a warning but added that it \"has determined that it may be in the public's interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The official White House Twitter account retweeted the language from the president's hidden post. Twitter placed a warning message on that post, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1266267446979129345?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump responded Friday, saying Twitter was doing \"nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China or the Radical Left Democrat Party.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266326065833824257?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Scavino, a top White House aide who helps manage Trump's Twitter account, lashed out against the social media company using an expletive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter is targeting the president of the United States 24/7, while turning their heads to protest organizers who are planning, plotting, and communicating their next moves daily on this very platform,\" Scavino tweeted. \"Twitter is full of [s***] — more and more people are beginning to get it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's tweets about the situation in Minneapolis and Twitter's response to it bring to a head two major stories that have dominated the news this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" link1=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864732088/minneapolis-seethes-over-george-floyds-death-as-trump-calls-protesters-thugs,Minneapolis Seethes Over George Floyd's Death as Trump Calls Protesters 'THUGS'\" hero=\"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/05/29/gettyimages-1215995069-e1d38d1fac6c62dd6a57a9cd26485bac165d5edb-s1600-c85.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first, a white officer appears to shove Floyd's face into the pavement with his knee for at least seven minutes on Monday evening. Several minutes into the video, Floyd's pleas for help go quiet. Floyd was reported dead later that night. The Minneapolis Police Department swiftly fired the four police officers shown in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/videos/1425398217661280/\">the disturbing video\u003c/a>. The U.S. Justice Department said it has made the investigation into Floyd's death \"a top priority.\" But protesters weren't placated. The 3rd Precinct police building in Minneapolis was set on fire Thursday night. Gov. Tim Walz signed an executive \u003ca href=\"https://mn.gov/governor/assets/EO%2020-64%20Final_tcm1055-433855.pdf\">order \u003c/a>activating the Minnesota National Guard to help restore peace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second story, Twitter fact-checked a tweet by Trump that said mail-in voting leads to fraud, prompting the president to sign an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/\">executive order\u003c/a> Thursday aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies. But legal experts said they doubt the move would have any practical effect on the tech giants. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to this week, Twitter had not fact-checked the president, nor hidden any of his messages on the platform. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Twitter+Hides+Trump%27s+Tweet+About+Minneapolis%2C+Saying+It+Glorifies+Violence&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The president was responding to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. He said he will send in the National Guard, adding: 'When the looting starts, the shooting starts.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1590789721,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":662},"headData":{"title":"Twitter Hides Trump's Tweet About Minneapolis, Saying It Glorifies Violence | KQED","description":"The president was responding to violent protests days after the killing of a black man. 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Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added: \"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. 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Twitter placed a warning message on that post, as well.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1266267446979129345"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Trump responded Friday, saying Twitter was doing \"nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China or the Radical Left Democrat Party.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1266326065833824257"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Scavino, a top White House aide who helps manage Trump's Twitter account, lashed out against the social media company using an expletive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Twitter is targeting the president of the United States 24/7, while turning their heads to protest organizers who are planning, plotting, and communicating their next moves daily on this very platform,\" Scavino tweeted. \"Twitter is full of [s***] — more and more people are beginning to get it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president's tweets about the situation in Minneapolis and Twitter's response to it bring to a head two major stories that have dominated the news this week. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","link1":"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864732088/minneapolis-seethes-over-george-floyds-death-as-trump-calls-protesters-thugs,Minneapolis Seethes Over George Floyd's Death as Trump Calls Protesters 'THUGS'","hero":"https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2020/05/29/gettyimages-1215995069-e1d38d1fac6c62dd6a57a9cd26485bac165d5edb-s1600-c85.jpg"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first, a white officer appears to shove Floyd's face into the pavement with his knee for at least seven minutes on Monday evening. Several minutes into the video, Floyd's pleas for help go quiet. Floyd was reported dead later that night. The Minneapolis Police Department swiftly fired the four police officers shown in \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/darnellareallprettymarie/videos/1425398217661280/\">the disturbing video\u003c/a>. The U.S. Justice Department said it has made the investigation into Floyd's death \"a top priority.\" But protesters weren't placated. The 3rd Precinct police building in Minneapolis was set on fire Thursday night. Gov. 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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Twitter+Hides+Trump%27s+Tweet+About+Minneapolis%2C+Saying+It+Glorifies+Violence&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11821641/twitter-hides-trumps-tweet-about-minneapolis-saying-it-glorifies-violence","authors":["byline_news_11821641"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_1323","news_23960","news_28031","news_346","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_11821642","label":"source_news_11821641"},"news_11735361":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11735361","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11735361","score":null,"sort":[1553691693000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-tijuana-police-grapple-with-worlds-worst-homicide-rate","title":"In Tijuana, Police Grapple With World's Worst Homicide Rate","publishDate":1553691693,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As dusk fell on the steep hills and canyons of Tijuana, a unit of the Baja California State Preventive Police cruised through one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods, in the south-central part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bulletproof vest with a small icon of a skull on the chest, Officer Manuel Martínez drove down a gritty avenue in the first of the unit’s two reinforced pickup trucks. His partner, Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, conferred with a dispatcher over the crackling radio. Then he gestured out the window at the side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conflict zone starts here,” said Rodríguez, on an evening patrol in mid-March. “This whole area: Sánchez Taboada, Reforma, Camino Verde. This is where the killings happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana was declared the\u003ca href=\"http://seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/seguridad/1564-boletin-ranking\"> most violent city in the world\u003c/a> this month, by Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, which lists the Top 50 cities with the highest number of homicides per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fast-growing border city suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.seguridadbc.gob.mx/contenidos/estadisticas2.php\">2,519 homicides in 2018\u003c/a>. That’s 40 percent more than in 2017, which was already a record-breaking year. And it’s almost three times as many killings as in the worst previous spike of violence Tijuana suffered between 2008 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the violence is the drug trade, and the fight for turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, Baja California State Preventive Police']'... that’s the war we have now, where drug dealers are killing each other over street corners.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past dozen years, organized crime groups such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación have \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinmexico.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/180205_TJViolence.pdf\">vied for control of Tijuana\u003c/a>, making alliances with remaining factions of the once-dominant Arellano-Félix Cartel, and then fragmenting, re-forming and battling each other, according to police and criminal justice experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mix now: There are Michoacanos allied with Sinaloenses, and Guadalajaras with Sinaloenses,” said Rodríguez. “They’re fighting with each other and fighting amongst themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11735656 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tijuana Police Drug Trade\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Manuel Martínez searches for the location of a murder in Tijuana on March 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dynamics of Violence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Situated on the border with the United States, Tijuana has always been a prize for smugglers. But in the past decade or so, a new market has emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two lucrative sources,” said Rodríguez, as the truck bounced up a rutted street. “One is to control \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-28-fg-narco-glossary28-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the plaza\u003c/a> (marketplace for drugs), to cross drugs to the United States. And the other is the local market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Professor David Shirk, an expert on criminal justice in Mexico']'When the bosses are fighting each other and the big powerful mafia-type organizations are at war, it's not clear who's in charge at the street level. So you see more low-level criminal actors running around and fighting each other, literally for street corners.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In distressed neighborhoods like Sánchez Taboada, drug dealers can make a fortune selling crystal meth on street corners, out of mom-and-pop convenience stores, and the parking lots behind local bars, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In just one Tijuana neighborhood there are 30 or 40 points of sale, and they produce $30,000 or $40,000 a day. That’s just in one neighborhood, and there are hundreds all over the city,” said Rodríguez. “So that’s the war we have now, where drug dealers are killing each other over street corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez and Martínez have been on the force for about 15 years, long enough to see changes in the dynamics of violence in Tijuana. Back around 2008, the battle between cartels involved sensational brutality, with bodies hanging from bridges, beheadings, kidnappings and heavily armed convoys of cartel foot soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-800x858.jpg\" alt=\"Tijuana Police Drug Trade-Rodriguez\" width=\"800\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-800x858.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1020x1094.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1119x1200.jpg 1119w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1920x2059.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, of the Baja California State Preventive Police, on patrol on March 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, murders are more likely to be committed by a single man with a handgun, who gets away in an inconspicuous Japanese sedan, the officers said. The killing takes place block by block, with rivalries between local cells in neighborhoods like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence got worse in the power vacuum left after Sinaloa crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was extradited to stand trial in the U.S. in January 2017, said Professor David Shirk, an expert on criminal justice in Mexico at the University of San Diego. The strategy of the Mexican and U.S. government to target the top leaders of criminal organizations has led to a breakdown in cartel hierarchy and discipline, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bosses are fighting each other and the big powerful mafia-type organizations are at war, it's not clear who's in charge at the street level,” Shirk said in a recent interview in Tijuana. “So you see more low-level criminal actors running around and fighting each other, literally for street corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unmarked Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets of Tijuana, even elite forces, such as this state police unit, struggle to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Martínez patrolled, a call came in from a dispatcher. Martínez flipped on his lights and siren and raced up a steep, rutted street — in search of a house where a man had been found dead, with a bag over his head and a pool of blood beside his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='us-mexico-border' label='KQED coverage of the U.S.-Mexico border']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At each unmarked intersection, he and Rodríguez debated which way to turn. Finally, Martínez stopped the truck. He couldn’t find the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Didn’t he say there was a little store nearby — or some kind of commercial center?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers called the dispatcher back, and consulted maps on their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Martínez put the truck in gear and, with sirens blaring, he barreled back down the ravine and up another hill. Again, he stopped and consulted with Rodríguez. Finally they ran into a local Tijuana officer who gave them directions to the crime scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a problem we have,” said Martínez, as he drove. “Sometimes the streets aren’t well marked. Or they give us conflicting directions. Or we arrive and the street name has been changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten or 15 minutes after the initial call, Martínez and Rodríguez rolled up to the crime scene. The Tijuana municipal police had gotten there first, so they took charge of the case, securing evidence and interviewing witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state police officers stood sentry, with rifles at the ready. Then they climbed back into their pickup truck and continued on the night’s patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation as part of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/adelante/\">Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This fast-growing border city suffered 2,519 homicides in 2018. That’s 40 percent more than in 2017, which was already a record-breaking year. 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At the core of the violence is the drug trade, and the fight for turf.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11735361 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11735361","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/03/27/in-tijuana-police-grapple-with-worlds-worst-homicide-rate/","disqusTitle":"In Tijuana, Police Grapple With World's Worst Homicide Rate","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/03/HendricksTijuanaCops.mp3","audioTrackLength":190,"path":"/news/11735361/in-tijuana-police-grapple-with-worlds-worst-homicide-rate","audioDuration":190000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As dusk fell on the steep hills and canyons of Tijuana, a unit of the Baja California State Preventive Police cruised through one of the city’s toughest neighborhoods, in the south-central part of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a bulletproof vest with a small icon of a skull on the chest, Officer Manuel Martínez drove down a gritty avenue in the first of the unit’s two reinforced pickup trucks. His partner, Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, conferred with a dispatcher over the crackling radio. Then he gestured out the window at the side streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conflict zone starts here,” said Rodríguez, on an evening patrol in mid-March. “This whole area: Sánchez Taboada, Reforma, Camino Verde. This is where the killings happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tijuana was declared the\u003ca href=\"http://seguridadjusticiaypaz.org.mx/seguridad/1564-boletin-ranking\"> most violent city in the world\u003c/a> this month, by Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, which lists the Top 50 cities with the highest number of homicides per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This fast-growing border city suffered \u003ca href=\"https://www.seguridadbc.gob.mx/contenidos/estadisticas2.php\">2,519 homicides in 2018\u003c/a>. That’s 40 percent more than in 2017, which was already a record-breaking year. And it’s almost three times as many killings as in the worst previous spike of violence Tijuana suffered between 2008 and 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the core of the violence is the drug trade, and the fight for turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'... that’s the war we have now, where drug dealers are killing each other over street corners.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, Baja California State Preventive Police","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past dozen years, organized crime groups such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación have \u003ca href=\"https://justiceinmexico.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/180205_TJViolence.pdf\">vied for control of Tijuana\u003c/a>, making alliances with remaining factions of the once-dominant Arellano-Félix Cartel, and then fragmenting, re-forming and battling each other, according to police and criminal justice experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a mix now: There are Michoacanos allied with Sinaloenses, and Guadalajaras with Sinaloenses,” said Rodríguez. “They’re fighting with each other and fighting amongst themselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11735656 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tijuana Police Drug Trade\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-qut-phone-e1553644308358-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Manuel Martínez searches for the location of a murder in Tijuana on March 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dynamics of Violence\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Situated on the border with the United States, Tijuana has always been a prize for smugglers. But in the past decade or so, a new market has emerged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are two lucrative sources,” said Rodríguez, as the truck bounced up a rutted street. “One is to control \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-28-fg-narco-glossary28-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the plaza\u003c/a> (marketplace for drugs), to cross drugs to the United States. And the other is the local market.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When the bosses are fighting each other and the big powerful mafia-type organizations are at war, it's not clear who's in charge at the street level. So you see more low-level criminal actors running around and fighting each other, literally for street corners.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"small","align":"right","citation":"Professor David Shirk, an expert on criminal justice in Mexico","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In distressed neighborhoods like Sánchez Taboada, drug dealers can make a fortune selling crystal meth on street corners, out of mom-and-pop convenience stores, and the parking lots behind local bars, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In just one Tijuana neighborhood there are 30 or 40 points of sale, and they produce $30,000 or $40,000 a day. That’s just in one neighborhood, and there are hundreds all over the city,” said Rodríguez. “So that’s the war we have now, where drug dealers are killing each other over street corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez and Martínez have been on the force for about 15 years, long enough to see changes in the dynamics of violence in Tijuana. Back around 2008, the battle between cartels involved sensational brutality, with bodies hanging from bridges, beheadings, kidnappings and heavily armed convoys of cartel foot soldiers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11735673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11735673\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-800x858.jpg\" alt=\"Tijuana Police Drug Trade-Rodriguez\" width=\"800\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-800x858.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-160x172.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1020x1094.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1119x1200.jpg 1119w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut-1920x2059.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/RS36204_03262019_Tijuana-Police-Drug-Trade-Rodriguez-qut-qut.jpg 1910w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Officer Alfredo Rodríguez, of the Baja California State Preventive Police, on patrol on March 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nowadays, murders are more likely to be committed by a single man with a handgun, who gets away in an inconspicuous Japanese sedan, the officers said. The killing takes place block by block, with rivalries between local cells in neighborhoods like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The violence got worse in the power vacuum left after Sinaloa crime boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was extradited to stand trial in the U.S. in January 2017, said Professor David Shirk, an expert on criminal justice in Mexico at the University of San Diego. The strategy of the Mexican and U.S. government to target the top leaders of criminal organizations has led to a breakdown in cartel hierarchy and discipline, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the bosses are fighting each other and the big powerful mafia-type organizations are at war, it's not clear who's in charge at the street level,” Shirk said in a recent interview in Tijuana. “So you see more low-level criminal actors running around and fighting each other, literally for street corners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unmarked Streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the streets of Tijuana, even elite forces, such as this state police unit, struggle to keep up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Martínez patrolled, a call came in from a dispatcher. Martínez flipped on his lights and siren and raced up a steep, rutted street — in search of a house where a man had been found dead, with a bag over his head and a pool of blood beside his body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"us-mexico-border","label":"KQED coverage of the U.S.-Mexico border "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At each unmarked intersection, he and Rodríguez debated which way to turn. Finally, Martínez stopped the truck. He couldn’t find the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Didn’t he say there was a little store nearby — or some kind of commercial center?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The officers called the dispatcher back, and consulted maps on their cellphones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Martínez put the truck in gear and, with sirens blaring, he barreled back down the ravine and up another hill. Again, he stopped and consulted with Rodríguez. Finally they ran into a local Tijuana officer who gave them directions to the crime scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a problem we have,” said Martínez, as he drove. “Sometimes the streets aren’t well marked. Or they give us conflicting directions. Or we arrive and the street name has been changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten or 15 minutes after the initial call, Martínez and Rodríguez rolled up to the crime scene. The Tijuana municipal police had gotten there first, so they took charge of the case, securing evidence and interviewing witnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state police officers stood sentry, with rifles at the ready. Then they climbed back into their pickup truck and continued on the night’s patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation as part of its \u003ca href=\"https://www.iwmf.org/programs/adelante/\">Adelante Latin America Reporting Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11735361/in-tijuana-police-grapple-with-worlds-worst-homicide-rate","authors":["259"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_20458","news_17626","news_2587","news_1393","news_2403","news_116","news_24942","news_17041","news_18121","news_21038","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_11735645","label":"news_72"},"news_10491237":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10491237","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10491237","score":null,"sort":[1432954818000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence","title":"Oakland Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence","publishDate":1432954818,"format":"video","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>icole Wiggins knows violence firsthand. When she was pregnant with her son, someone opened fire on a car she was riding in with her baby’s father. He was shot and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got shot as well, twice,\" Wiggins says. \"So I feel like I’m here for a reason. That’s why I think this journey I’m taking is something I’m supposed to be doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506823 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1440x837.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Wiggins' children, Margaret Cooksey (left) and Asim Smith, Jr. (right) at home on the couch. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1440x837.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-800x465.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1180x686.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-960x558.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Wiggins' children, Margaret Cooksey (left) and Asim Smith Jr. (right), at home on the couch. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiggins is now an active parent leader in Oakland schools, trying hard to make sure both her kids go to college. In their East Oakland apartment, Wiggins sits in the living room with her teenagers, Asim Smith Jr. and Margaret Cooksey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asim, 16, is an avid turf dancer. \"I’m looking forward to being either a construction worker or a fashion designer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to be when I grow up is I want to be an OB-GYN,\" says Margaret, 15. \"I love babies, for one. Second of all, I would like to bring a new living being into the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I feel like I’m here for a reason ... this journey I’m taking is something I’m supposed to be doing.'\u003ccite>Nicole Wiggins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wiggins knows achieving those dreams might be hard for her kids. Ever since they were very small, she says, Asim and Margaret have faced a very different reality than kids from wealthy areas of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids have actually seen a dead body,\" says Wiggins. \"One day we were coming home from school, and our street was blocked off. The kids were like, 'Oh my God, look!' Can you imagine being 8 years old and seeing a dead body on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they've gotten older, Wiggins has worried her kids are becoming numb to death. Both teenagers have had friends or schoolmates who have suffered violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 3 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Asim heads into his bedroom and returns with a handful of laminated photos, each dangling from a lanyard. It’s his collection: All people he has known who are now dead, most of them shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my best friends got killed,\" he says. \"His name was Olajuwon. When I heard he got killed, it made me sad, and it made me think about it like, 'That would have been me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year Asim’s friend was shot and killed, their high school, Castlemont, was in the news because of all the shootings nearby. Bullets reportedly flew into the school at one point. Wiggins decided to move her son to Oakland High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506820\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 470px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Asim Smith Jr. keeps a collection of placards to remember those in his life who have passed away. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"470\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asim Smith Jr. keeps a collection of placards to remember those in his life who have passed away. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My concern was safety, just for things that I experienced or seen when I came on campus,\" says Wiggins. \"When I gotta leave work early just to pick my son up, and don’t even trust for him to walk literally a block away to get on the bus, that’s an issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins picked Oakland High partly because she had heard the district's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/aama\">African-American Male Achievement Program\u003c/a> was strong there. Now she volunteers with the program, giving workshops to other parents on advocating for their kids, and helping them get better grades, graduate and go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins believes tackling the problem of violence in the city and its impact in the schools is going to take parents like her working together. But she also wants the district to invest in more school counselors instead of more security officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Resources: Responding to Community Violence\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Some organizations working to prevent violence and help children and youth exposed to chronic violence succeed in school: \u003c/em>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nctsn.org/resources/audiences/school-personnel\">National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources for School Personnel:\u003c/a> Includes a Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://traumaawareschools.org/\">Treatment and Services Adaptation Center:\u003c/a> Promoting trauma-informed school systems that provide prevention and early intervention strategies to create supportive and nurturing school environments\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://traumasensitiveschools.org/\">Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative\u003c/a>: Helping traumatized children learn\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforyouthwellness.org/\">Center for Youth Wellness: \u003c/a>Preventing, screening and healing toxic stress\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://acestoohigh.com/\">ACES Too High\u003c/a>: Research about adverse childhood experiences\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youthalive.org/\">Youth ALIVE!:\u003c/a> Preventing violence and developing youth leaders\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.preventioninstitute.org/\">Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY)\u003c/a>: Preventing violence using a public health approach\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California overall has the \u003ca href=\"www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/home/Ratios10-11.pdf\">worst K-12 student-to-counselor ratio\u003c/a> in the country. The most recent data from 2010-11 shows that ratio to be 1,016-to-1. Oakland has 24 school counselors, placed in about half of its middle and high schools. The district calculates a 679-to-1 student-to-counselor ratio based only on middle-and-high school enrollment. It recently agreed during labor negotiations to bring that ratio down to 600-to-1. The American School Counselor Association recommends a ratio of 250-to-1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Oakland has partnered with Alameda County and social service agencies to add dozens of mental health professionals on-site in the schools. But Wiggins says there still aren't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools need counselors, they need more case management, things of that sort, to deal with kids that are going through trauma,\" says Wiggins. \"You gotta realize that there are a lot of kids that go to school, that either they know a friend or family member that has been killed or shot or murdered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified has actually \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=03b0cdee25104d329e8170a42596ddb2\">mapped out\u003c/a> which schools have more violence and other stress factors in the neighborhood. You can see it: Red dots are the schools in areas with more violence or unemployment, or where it’s tough to find a supermarket selling fresh fruits and vegetables. The green and blue dots are schools with the least stress.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"700\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://ousd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=03b0cdee25104d329e8170a42596ddb2&extent=-122.3192,37.7234,-122.1315,37.8569&zoom=true&scale=true&legend=true&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all children in Oakland go to their neighborhood schools. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/Page/11486\">But living in the neighborhood gives a child priority.\u003c/a> If you look at the maps that show \u003ca href=\"http://www.gistools.org/oakland2014\">where students at each school live\u003c/a>, you can see there is not a lot of mobility between poor and rich neighborhoods. On the stress map, the blue schools are in the hills, and they have much higher proportions of white students than the red and orange schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have [close to] 100 percent students of color and 99 percent free or reduced lunch -- that's ridiculous,\" says Marisa Morales, a third-grade teacher at Community United Elementary School. That statistic on the percentage of students getting subsidized meals is a measure that's widely used to gauge the number of students living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203299859\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't tell me it's not segregated,\" Morales continues. \"You go up to a hills school and you have demographics that don’t come close to what our school looks like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is using its stress map to give the most afflicted schools more money from the state's new \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/publications/local-control-funding-formula-guide\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>. Red schools on the stress map got an additional $95,000 last year. Orange schools like \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/communityunited\">Community United Elementary\u003c/a> got an extra $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community United is hiring two additional interns to provide mental health services next year. Morales says there's a huge need. Like a lot of schools in Oakland, Community United has gotten by until now with one mental health counselor, paid for by Medi-Cal funds coming through the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>ine-year-old Jacqueline Funes was in Morales' class last year, before being shot in her front yard and left paralyzed. Jacqueline’s shooting brought a lot of other trauma to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More videos from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\">Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126156795\" width=\"369\" height=\"211\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Jacqueline Funes' story\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126209798\" width=\"369\" height=\"211\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Marisa Morales and Community United Elementary\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"During our community meetings, it would come up. One of my students said, 'I’ve had three family members pass this year, I’ve gone to three funerals this year.' Another would say, 'I had this family member shot and died,' \" says Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sent crisis counselors after Jacqueline was shot, and Morales made sure each of her students was able to talk about what happened, either one-on-one or in a group. But after that week, the school was back to one counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That counselor only sees students that are on Medi-Cal already,\" says Morales. \"She was not able to open any new cases. Which means, after Jacqueline was shot, none of my students received any further counseling beyond that week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales knows that even with more counselors, there still won't be enough therapy for all the kids who need it. Researchers and advocates point to creating \u003ca href=\"https://traumaawareschools.org/\">\"trauma-sensitive schools,\"\u003c/a> where all the teachers and staff understand the effects of trauma and how to teach children who live with it. Morales says more training for teachers would be ideal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one of my students comes to school crying, because his mom was arrested over the weekend, and he’s afraid he won’t have anybody to go home to, I have nobody else to send that child to,\" says Morales. \"That therapist? With the current structure? She can’t just pop in, and grab him and support him. She can’t give him emergency services. She would have to completely open a new case, which would involve contacting his parent or guardian, who is imprisoned, so it’s sort of a Catch-22.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Briscoe, Alameda County’s health services director, says the county is working to put more counselors in the schools and train teachers and other providers but, he says, even if the district provided top-quality therapy for every Oakland student who needed it, schools alone can’t deal with the roots of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t treat away the things that are causing trauma in poor communities. Access to a therapist doesn't in and of itself reduce homicide rates,\" Briscoe says. \"It doesn't shorten or mitigate the fact that communities of color are living in multigenerational poverty in ways that are new in our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506821\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506821 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Wiggins at an OUSD planning meeting. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Wiggins at an OUSD planning meeting. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How do you change the equation of violence in neighborhoods with high unemployment and low graduation rates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of parents and teachers talk about \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.abcdinstitute.org/docs/kelloggabcd.pdf\">asset-based community development\u003c/a>\" -- investing in a neighborhood’s assets. The idea is to focus on things that tie a community together: for example, family businesses, community gardens and youth organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briscoe believes change can come in unexpected ways. He points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/ems-corps.aspx\">county program that’s training youth\u003c/a> from foster care and juvenile detention to become emergency medical technicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>icole Wiggins agrees that people who live in the community should be agents for change. She says she moved to Oakland when she was young because the African-American community here has strong roots and a history of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like I tell my son, when you graduate and you out there, you doing better, you come back to your community and you help. ’Cause that’s how we help other kids get out of what they call the 'hood, the ghetto, whatever you want to call it,\" she says. \"That’s how we get them kids up out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins knows the best way to do this is to lead by example. It's why she says she will continue organizing other parents to raise their voices and come up with solutions to make their children's schools places where all kids can heal and learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There might be a child out there like I was when I was young,\" says Wiggins. The kind of child, she says, who needs a caring adult to stand up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the last in our three-part \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">\"Books and Bullets''\u003c/a> series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was produced in collaboration with Renaissance Journalism’s \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. With additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"\"My kids have actually seen a dead body... Can you imagine being 8 years old and seeing a dead body?\"","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432958142,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":53,"wordCount":2123},"headData":{"title":"Oakland Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence | KQED","description":""My kids have actually seen a dead body... Can you imagine being 8 years old and seeing a dead body?"","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10491237 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10491237","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/29/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence/","disqusTitle":"Oakland Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence","videoEmbed":"http://vimeo.com/126327233","customPermalink":"2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence/","path":"/news/10491237/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>icole Wiggins knows violence firsthand. When she was pregnant with her son, someone opened fire on a car she was riding in with her baby’s father. He was shot and killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I got shot as well, twice,\" Wiggins says. \"So I feel like I’m here for a reason. That’s why I think this journey I’m taking is something I’m supposed to be doing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506823\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506823 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1440x837.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Wiggins' children, Margaret Cooksey (left) and Asim Smith, Jr. (right) at home on the couch. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"450\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1440x837.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-800x465.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-1180x686.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/kids-on-couch-960x558.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Wiggins' children, Margaret Cooksey (left) and Asim Smith Jr. (right), at home on the couch. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wiggins is now an active parent leader in Oakland schools, trying hard to make sure both her kids go to college. In their East Oakland apartment, Wiggins sits in the living room with her teenagers, Asim Smith Jr. and Margaret Cooksey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asim, 16, is an avid turf dancer. \"I’m looking forward to being either a construction worker or a fashion designer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I want to be when I grow up is I want to be an OB-GYN,\" says Margaret, 15. \"I love babies, for one. Second of all, I would like to bring a new living being into the world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'I feel like I’m here for a reason ... this journey I’m taking is something I’m supposed to be doing.'\u003ccite>Nicole Wiggins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wiggins knows achieving those dreams might be hard for her kids. Ever since they were very small, she says, Asim and Margaret have faced a very different reality than kids from wealthy areas of Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My kids have actually seen a dead body,\" says Wiggins. \"One day we were coming home from school, and our street was blocked off. The kids were like, 'Oh my God, look!' Can you imagine being 8 years old and seeing a dead body on the street?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they've gotten older, Wiggins has worried her kids are becoming numb to death. Both teenagers have had friends or schoolmates who have suffered violent deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 3 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Asim heads into his bedroom and returns with a handful of laminated photos, each dangling from a lanyard. It’s his collection: All people he has known who are now dead, most of them shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"One of my best friends got killed,\" he says. \"His name was Olajuwon. When I heard he got killed, it made me sad, and it made me think about it like, 'That would have been me.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The year Asim’s friend was shot and killed, their high school, Castlemont, was in the news because of all the shootings nearby. Bullets reportedly flew into the school at one point. Wiggins decided to move her son to Oakland High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506820\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 470px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506820\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Asim Smith Jr. keeps a collection of placards to remember those in his life who have passed away. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"470\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/lanyards-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asim Smith Jr. keeps a collection of placards to remember those in his life who have passed away. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"My concern was safety, just for things that I experienced or seen when I came on campus,\" says Wiggins. \"When I gotta leave work early just to pick my son up, and don’t even trust for him to walk literally a block away to get on the bus, that’s an issue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins picked Oakland High partly because she had heard the district's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/aama\">African-American Male Achievement Program\u003c/a> was strong there. Now she volunteers with the program, giving workshops to other parents on advocating for their kids, and helping them get better grades, graduate and go to college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins believes tackling the problem of violence in the city and its impact in the schools is going to take parents like her working together. But she also wants the district to invest in more school counselors instead of more security officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Resources: Responding to Community Violence\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Some organizations working to prevent violence and help children and youth exposed to chronic violence succeed in school: \u003c/em>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nctsn.org/resources/audiences/school-personnel\">National Child Traumatic Stress Network Resources for School Personnel:\u003c/a> Includes a Child Trauma Toolkit for Educators\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://traumaawareschools.org/\">Treatment and Services Adaptation Center:\u003c/a> Promoting trauma-informed school systems that provide prevention and early intervention strategies to create supportive and nurturing school environments\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://traumasensitiveschools.org/\">Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative\u003c/a>: Helping traumatized children learn\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.centerforyouthwellness.org/\">Center for Youth Wellness: \u003c/a>Preventing, screening and healing toxic stress\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://acestoohigh.com/\">ACES Too High\u003c/a>: Research about adverse childhood experiences\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.youthalive.org/\">Youth ALIVE!:\u003c/a> Preventing violence and developing youth leaders\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.preventioninstitute.org/\">Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY)\u003c/a>: Preventing violence using a public health approach\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>California overall has the \u003ca href=\"www.schoolcounselor.org/asca/media/asca/home/Ratios10-11.pdf\">worst K-12 student-to-counselor ratio\u003c/a> in the country. The most recent data from 2010-11 shows that ratio to be 1,016-to-1. Oakland has 24 school counselors, placed in about half of its middle and high schools. The district calculates a 679-to-1 student-to-counselor ratio based only on middle-and-high school enrollment. It recently agreed during labor negotiations to bring that ratio down to 600-to-1. The American School Counselor Association recommends a ratio of 250-to-1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Oakland has partnered with Alameda County and social service agencies to add dozens of mental health professionals on-site in the schools. But Wiggins says there still aren't enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Schools need counselors, they need more case management, things of that sort, to deal with kids that are going through trauma,\" says Wiggins. \"You gotta realize that there are a lot of kids that go to school, that either they know a friend or family member that has been killed or shot or murdered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified has actually \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=03b0cdee25104d329e8170a42596ddb2\">mapped out\u003c/a> which schools have more violence and other stress factors in the neighborhood. You can see it: Red dots are the schools in areas with more violence or unemployment, or where it’s tough to find a supermarket selling fresh fruits and vegetables. The green and blue dots are schools with the least stress.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"700\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http://ousd.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?webmap=03b0cdee25104d329e8170a42596ddb2&extent=-122.3192,37.7234,-122.1315,37.8569&zoom=true&scale=true&legend=true&theme=light\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all children in Oakland go to their neighborhood schools. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/Page/11486\">But living in the neighborhood gives a child priority.\u003c/a> If you look at the maps that show \u003ca href=\"http://www.gistools.org/oakland2014\">where students at each school live\u003c/a>, you can see there is not a lot of mobility between poor and rich neighborhoods. On the stress map, the blue schools are in the hills, and they have much higher proportions of white students than the red and orange schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have [close to] 100 percent students of color and 99 percent free or reduced lunch -- that's ridiculous,\" says Marisa Morales, a third-grade teacher at Community United Elementary School. That statistic on the percentage of students getting subsidized meals is a measure that's widely used to gauge the number of students living in poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203299859&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203299859'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't tell me it's not segregated,\" Morales continues. \"You go up to a hills school and you have demographics that don’t come close to what our school looks like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is using its stress map to give the most afflicted schools more money from the state's new \u003ca href=\"http://edsource.org/publications/local-control-funding-formula-guide\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a>. Red schools on the stress map got an additional $95,000 last year. Orange schools like \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/communityunited\">Community United Elementary\u003c/a> got an extra $50,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community United is hiring two additional interns to provide mental health services next year. Morales says there's a huge need. Like a lot of schools in Oakland, Community United has gotten by until now with one mental health counselor, paid for by Medi-Cal funds coming through the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>ine-year-old Jacqueline Funes was in Morales' class last year, before being shot in her front yard and left paralyzed. Jacqueline’s shooting brought a lot of other trauma to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>More videos from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\">Series\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126156795\" width=\"369\" height=\"211\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Jacqueline Funes' story\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126209798\" width=\"369\" height=\"211\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>Marisa Morales and Community United Elementary\u003c/h4>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"During our community meetings, it would come up. One of my students said, 'I’ve had three family members pass this year, I’ve gone to three funerals this year.' Another would say, 'I had this family member shot and died,' \" says Morales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district sent crisis counselors after Jacqueline was shot, and Morales made sure each of her students was able to talk about what happened, either one-on-one or in a group. But after that week, the school was back to one counselor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That counselor only sees students that are on Medi-Cal already,\" says Morales. \"She was not able to open any new cases. Which means, after Jacqueline was shot, none of my students received any further counseling beyond that week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales knows that even with more counselors, there still won't be enough therapy for all the kids who need it. Researchers and advocates point to creating \u003ca href=\"https://traumaawareschools.org/\">\"trauma-sensitive schools,\"\u003c/a> where all the teachers and staff understand the effects of trauma and how to teach children who live with it. Morales says more training for teachers would be ideal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When one of my students comes to school crying, because his mom was arrested over the weekend, and he’s afraid he won’t have anybody to go home to, I have nobody else to send that child to,\" says Morales. \"That therapist? With the current structure? She can’t just pop in, and grab him and support him. She can’t give him emergency services. She would have to completely open a new case, which would involve contacting his parent or guardian, who is imprisoned, so it’s sort of a Catch-22.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alex Briscoe, Alameda County’s health services director, says the county is working to put more counselors in the schools and train teachers and other providers but, he says, even if the district provided top-quality therapy for every Oakland student who needed it, schools alone can’t deal with the roots of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don’t treat away the things that are causing trauma in poor communities. Access to a therapist doesn't in and of itself reduce homicide rates,\" Briscoe says. \"It doesn't shorten or mitigate the fact that communities of color are living in multigenerational poverty in ways that are new in our culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10506821\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10506821 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Wiggins at an OUSD planning meeting. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/nicole-wiggins-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Wiggins at an OUSD planning meeting. (Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>How do you change the equation of violence in neighborhoods with high unemployment and low graduation rates?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of parents and teachers talk about \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.abcdinstitute.org/docs/kelloggabcd.pdf\">asset-based community development\u003c/a>\" -- investing in a neighborhood’s assets. The idea is to focus on things that tie a community together: for example, family businesses, community gardens and youth organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Briscoe believes change can come in unexpected ways. He points to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.acphd.org/ems-corps.aspx\">county program that’s training youth\u003c/a> from foster care and juvenile detention to become emergency medical technicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">N\u003c/span>icole Wiggins agrees that people who live in the community should be agents for change. She says she moved to Oakland when she was young because the African-American community here has strong roots and a history of organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Like I tell my son, when you graduate and you out there, you doing better, you come back to your community and you help. ’Cause that’s how we help other kids get out of what they call the 'hood, the ghetto, whatever you want to call it,\" she says. \"That’s how we get them kids up out of here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiggins knows the best way to do this is to lead by example. It's why she says she will continue organizing other parents to raise their voices and come up with solutions to make their children's schools places where all kids can heal and learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There might be a child out there like I was when I was young,\" says Wiggins. The kind of child, she says, who needs a caring adult to stand up for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the last in our three-part \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">\"Books and Bullets''\u003c/a> series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was produced in collaboration with Renaissance Journalism’s \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. With additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10491237/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence","authors":["3225"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18031","news_18","news_2998","news_17286","news_150","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_10506820","label":"news_72"},"news_10491230":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10491230","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10491230","score":null,"sort":[1432386014000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students","title":"Violence Causes Ripple Effects for Thousands of Oakland Students","publishDate":1432386014,"format":"image","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>akland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year's Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee would have turned 14 that year. His death hit his middle school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/alliance\">Alliance Academy\u003c/a>, hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, on his birthday, 400 fellow students gathered in a circle on the school blacktop with his family and sang \"Happy Birthday,\" Stevie Wonder-style, to remember him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the middle-schoolers marched around the school and lined up on 98th Avenue. They held up their index fingers and thumbs to make an L, for \"Lee\" and \"love.\" They shouted “L’s up!” Then they pointed their fingers down, shouting, \"Guns down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505717\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505717 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1440x934.jpg\" alt=\"February 2014-- Students of Alliance Academy, including Diamond Allen (far left), marched to remember classmate Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1440x934.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-960x623.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 2014-- Students of Alliance Academy, including Diamond Allen (far left), marched to remember classmate Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diamond Allen, an eighth-grader at the time, helped organize the event. He and Lee had been friends since the first day of sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It used to be Lee, myself, Demond, Romelo and Keishun, always hanging out with each other after school, going to each other's houses, going to play basketball, going to Sunnyside Park, just to hang out and have laughs, going to his house to play video games,\" Diamond says. \"We were like brothers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there is a crisis like this one -- when a student is killed or wounded, or a shooting happens near a campus, or children sidestep dead bodies on the way to school -- often a school district grief counseling team arrives. The week after Lee's death, almost 200 kids had to get therapy. Diamond was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was hard focusing in class, just knowing that Lee was not sitting by me, Lee was not there, it was an empty seat,\" says Diamond. \"I was hurt inside, I was angry, I was sad. So many mixed emotions going on. Just, like, confused, like, why it happened?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505715\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505715 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen shows off pictures of his friend, Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen shows off pictures of his friend, Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11732955\">well documented\u003c/a> that experiencing ongoing violence can make it harder for kids to succeed in school. One study on \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/\">adverse childhood experiences\u003c/a> showed that traumatic incidents in childhood can have long-lasting effects on health and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordinator of \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.k12.ca.us/domain/85\">behavioral health\u003c/a> at the Oakland Unified School District is Barbara McClung. She says the effects of violence on kids like Diamond spill into the classroom and make it hard for kids to learn.\"Difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, feeling hopeless or helpless, being fearful or afraid. ... All those things require a lot of skill at self-regulation in order to sort of suppress that and focus on academic content. And for so many of our students, that is really impossible,\" says McClung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond got his first \"C\" grade after Lee died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>rom 2002 to 2014 -- the time it has taken for a kid in Oakland to go from kindergarten to senior year in high school -- 111 children under 18 have been shot and killed in the city, according to the city's Police Department. The department also reports that 1,280 children were wounded by gunfire from 2004 through 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 2 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those statistics don't capture the number of students who have seen others in their lives -- siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins -- shot, stabbed or beaten. McClung estimates that half the district's 37,000 or so students will need some form of mental health services. That's more than double the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasponline.org/resources/handouts/revisedPDFs/childrenmh.pdf\">national rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because violence is concentrated in certain Oakland neighborhoods, certain schools have more kids traumatized by violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we convene kids at school sites and we sit in circle together and we ask, 'Besides this event, have you ever lost anyone due to violence?' three-quarters of the kids, no matter what grade they’re in -- you know, elementary school kids, middle, high school -- raise their hand. And then they share out how they’ve lost their father, they've lost their uncle, they've lost their brother, they've lost their cousin, they've lost their sister,\" says McClung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505718\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"OUSD estimates that half of all Oakland students will need mental health treatment at some point during their school years. (KQED News)\" width=\"491\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD estimates that half of all Oakland students will need mental health treatment at some point during their school years. (KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The sad truth is that the violence of having someone murdered wasn’t a new experience,\" says Ashlee George, restorative justice coordinator at Alliance Academy. \"A lot of students, and adults, we’ve all gone through it. So when it happens, you almost get numb.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and counselors have the heartbreaking job of trying to heal the unseen wounds of children who are affected by violence against loved ones and to teach them, despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>arisa Morales teaches third grade at Community United Elementary School, in one of the neighborhoods with \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050934.pdf\">the highest incidence of gunfire in the city\u003c/a>. She says you can see the effects in her 8-year-old students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes the tears want to come out, and they feel like ... they don’t even know why,\" Morales says. \"So that will lead to one of my students, just completely unprovoked, just punching another girl in the face. It leads to students trying to read, but not being able to focus on the words, so they just sit there and they stare at a book, and they’re trying so hard, but they can't.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126209798\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has tried to put more mental health professionals in schools that need them the most. These are not the school counselors, nor are they the school psychologists, who tend to focus more on special-ed assessments. These therapists are there specifically for kids' mental health issues. Jasmine Gonzalez leads the team at Diamond’s middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're already coping -- they're so resilient -- they're able to come here to school, though they might not always be able to get through class,\" says Gonzalez. \"I really try to focus on their strengths and then find other ways that they can cope: journaling, taking deep breaths, different coping skills, that they might already be using, but highlighting those things and giving them new skills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote align left\">'Sometimes the tears want to come out ...\u003cbr>\nthey don’t even know why.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Marisa Morales, Third-grade teacher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There is some progress in terms of responding to students' problems. McClung says that in 2000, only a handful of schools in Oakland had a mental health professional on-site. Beginning last year, she says all schools have at least one, though not all are full time. The improvement is due to the district's partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/health/\">Alameda County’s Health Services Agency\u003c/a>, under Alex Briscoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took a lemon, the increasing concentration of poverty in public education, which is the harsh truth, and we turned it into lemonade,\" says Briscoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County took Medi-Cal money and redirected it to put therapists on-site in the public schools. That’s pretty unusual. Other counties have visited Briscoe to figure out the formula for their own students. Briscoe says in six years, the county doubled the number of children from low-income families it’s helping with mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 509px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10505714\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen (right) eats lunch in the cafeteria of his new school, Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen (right) eats lunch in the cafeteria of his new school, Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They stay in school longer, they do better in school, they go to emergency room less. They self-report better self-regulation and capacity,\" says Briscoe. \"[It's] healthy development of children. We know what healthy development is, we know how to support it. It happens in rich communities every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is there are long waitlists for therapists in Oakland public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee Weathersby's school, Alliance Academy, shares a campus with another middle school. In the 2013-14 school year, there were three therapists there, for about 700 students. Clinical case manager Jasmine Gonzalez says each of them saw about 10 to 15 students on a weekly basis, in addition to family outreach and crisis calls. After the first week of grief counseling after Lee died, his friend Diamond Allen never started regular therapy at school. He relied on talks with the school's restorative justice coordinator and his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203149186\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond's father and mother, Jesus and Nicole Rodriguez, have known their own share of violence and trauma. They're doing their best to make life better for their own kids and other kids in Oakland. Not long before Lee's death, Diamond's parents had already decided to move to a different neighborhood. They found one with fewer homicides, one they hope will be safer for his little brothers and sisters. They sent Diamond away to a boarding school for high school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastside.org/\">Eastside College Preparatory Academy\u003c/a> in East Palo Alto. The school is focused on getting first-generation students into college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Diamond's old friends still live over near 98th Avenue. One of them was recently robbed at gunpoint. Diamond's parents still feel connected to those kids. So does Diamond. The family is trying hard to stay in touch with them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505792\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505792\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen, pictured in his dorm room at his new school, Eastside College Preparatory College. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"477\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen, pictured in his dorm room at his new school, Eastside College Preparatory Academy. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Lee's death, Diamond's parents raised money to buy a van to be able to pick all of Diamond's friends up and take them to church or to come spend weekends at their house. They have dreams to one day open a restaurant that can double as a community center where young people can feel safe and build relationships with mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want them to live,\" says Diamond's dad, Jesus Rodriguez. \"I want them to be successful. I want them to reach 18, and further on. I don’t want them to slip through the cracks in society. There’s so many cracks to slip in, it’s almost like they’re walking around on eggshells, just waiting to crack something, you know? I just want them to make it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their kitchen, Diamond's mom, Nicole Rodriguez, pulls up a video on the family's computer. It shows Lee and Diamond and a bunch of their friends, girls and boys, playing leapfrog in a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don’t even look like this anymore,\" says Rodriguez. \"That’s Lee with the red shirt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video, the kids are laughing and clapping. Diamond turns away from the screen. He puts his head down on the kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in his bedroom, he reaches into the closet and pulls out a white T-shirt, covered with scribbles, the kind middle-schoolers give to their friends to write on at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wrote, 'Lee Weathersby. Diamond, I will miss you, brother,'\" he reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain is still there. Diamond's just learning to live with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second story in our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">\"Books and Bullets\" \u003c/a>series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts some kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Renaissance Journalism’s Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. With additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, feeling hopeless or helpless, being fearful or afraid.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432662049,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2025},"headData":{"title":"Violence Causes Ripple Effects for Thousands of Oakland Students | KQED","description":"'Difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, feeling hopeless or helpless, being fearful or afraid.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10491230 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10491230","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/23/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students/","disqusTitle":"Violence Causes Ripple Effects for Thousands of Oakland Students","customPermalink":"2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students/","path":"/news/10491230/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>akland’s first homicide victim of 2014 was a boy named Lee Weathersby III. He was shot on New Year's Eve and died early the next morning. Police say it appears he was not the intended target of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee would have turned 14 that year. His death hit his middle school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/alliance\">Alliance Academy\u003c/a>, hard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two months later, on his birthday, 400 fellow students gathered in a circle on the school blacktop with his family and sang \"Happy Birthday,\" Stevie Wonder-style, to remember him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the middle-schoolers marched around the school and lined up on 98th Avenue. They held up their index fingers and thumbs to make an L, for \"Lee\" and \"love.\" They shouted “L’s up!” Then they pointed their fingers down, shouting, \"Guns down!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505717\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505717 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1440x934.jpg\" alt=\"February 2014-- Students of Alliance Academy, including Diamond Allen (far left), marched to remember classmate Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1440x934.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-400x259.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-800x519.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-1180x765.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/peaceday-960x623.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 2014-- Students of Alliance Academy, including Diamond Allen (far left), marched to remember classmate Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diamond Allen, an eighth-grader at the time, helped organize the event. He and Lee had been friends since the first day of sixth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It used to be Lee, myself, Demond, Romelo and Keishun, always hanging out with each other after school, going to each other's houses, going to play basketball, going to Sunnyside Park, just to hang out and have laughs, going to his house to play video games,\" Diamond says. \"We were like brothers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When there is a crisis like this one -- when a student is killed or wounded, or a shooting happens near a campus, or children sidestep dead bodies on the way to school -- often a school district grief counseling team arrives. The week after Lee's death, almost 200 kids had to get therapy. Diamond was one of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was hard focusing in class, just knowing that Lee was not sitting by me, Lee was not there, it was an empty seat,\" says Diamond. \"I was hurt inside, I was angry, I was sad. So many mixed emotions going on. Just, like, confused, like, why it happened?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505715\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505715 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen shows off pictures of his friend, Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6388-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen shows off pictures of his friend, Lee Weathersby III, who was shot and killed in Oakland. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11732955\">well documented\u003c/a> that experiencing ongoing violence can make it harder for kids to succeed in school. One study on \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/\">adverse childhood experiences\u003c/a> showed that traumatic incidents in childhood can have long-lasting effects on health and development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coordinator of \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.k12.ca.us/domain/85\">behavioral health\u003c/a> at the Oakland Unified School District is Barbara McClung. She says the effects of violence on kids like Diamond spill into the classroom and make it hard for kids to learn.\"Difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, feeling hopeless or helpless, being fearful or afraid. ... All those things require a lot of skill at self-regulation in order to sort of suppress that and focus on academic content. And for so many of our students, that is really impossible,\" says McClung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond got his first \"C\" grade after Lee died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">F\u003c/span>rom 2002 to 2014 -- the time it has taken for a kid in Oakland to go from kindergarten to senior year in high school -- 111 children under 18 have been shot and killed in the city, according to the city's Police Department. The department also reports that 1,280 children were wounded by gunfire from 2004 through 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 2 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Those statistics don't capture the number of students who have seen others in their lives -- siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins -- shot, stabbed or beaten. McClung estimates that half the district's 37,000 or so students will need some form of mental health services. That's more than double the estimated \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasponline.org/resources/handouts/revisedPDFs/childrenmh.pdf\">national rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because violence is concentrated in certain Oakland neighborhoods, certain schools have more kids traumatized by violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we convene kids at school sites and we sit in circle together and we ask, 'Besides this event, have you ever lost anyone due to violence?' three-quarters of the kids, no matter what grade they’re in -- you know, elementary school kids, middle, high school -- raise their hand. And then they share out how they’ve lost their father, they've lost their uncle, they've lost their brother, they've lost their cousin, they've lost their sister,\" says McClung.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505718\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505718\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"OUSD estimates that half of all Oakland students will need mental health treatment at some point during their school years. (KQED News)\" width=\"491\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/mental-health-graphic_web-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OUSD estimates that half of all Oakland students will need mental health treatment at some point during their school years. (KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The sad truth is that the violence of having someone murdered wasn’t a new experience,\" says Ashlee George, restorative justice coordinator at Alliance Academy. \"A lot of students, and adults, we’ve all gone through it. So when it happens, you almost get numb.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers and counselors have the heartbreaking job of trying to heal the unseen wounds of children who are affected by violence against loved ones and to teach them, despite it all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>arisa Morales teaches third grade at Community United Elementary School, in one of the neighborhoods with \u003ca href=\"http://www2.oaklandnet.com/oakca1/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050934.pdf\">the highest incidence of gunfire in the city\u003c/a>. She says you can see the effects in her 8-year-old students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Sometimes the tears want to come out, and they feel like ... they don’t even know why,\" Morales says. \"So that will lead to one of my students, just completely unprovoked, just punching another girl in the face. It leads to students trying to read, but not being able to focus on the words, so they just sit there and they stare at a book, and they’re trying so hard, but they can't.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126209798\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland has tried to put more mental health professionals in schools that need them the most. These are not the school counselors, nor are they the school psychologists, who tend to focus more on special-ed assessments. These therapists are there specifically for kids' mental health issues. Jasmine Gonzalez leads the team at Diamond’s middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're already coping -- they're so resilient -- they're able to come here to school, though they might not always be able to get through class,\" says Gonzalez. \"I really try to focus on their strengths and then find other ways that they can cope: journaling, taking deep breaths, different coping skills, that they might already be using, but highlighting those things and giving them new skills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote align left\">'Sometimes the tears want to come out ...\u003cbr>\nthey don’t even know why.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Marisa Morales, Third-grade teacher\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There is some progress in terms of responding to students' problems. McClung says that in 2000, only a handful of schools in Oakland had a mental health professional on-site. Beginning last year, she says all schools have at least one, though not all are full time. The improvement is due to the district's partnership with \u003ca href=\"http://www.acgov.org/health/\">Alameda County’s Health Services Agency\u003c/a>, under Alex Briscoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We took a lemon, the increasing concentration of poverty in public education, which is the harsh truth, and we turned it into lemonade,\" says Briscoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County took Medi-Cal money and redirected it to put therapists on-site in the public schools. That’s pretty unusual. Other counties have visited Briscoe to figure out the formula for their own students. Briscoe says in six years, the county doubled the number of children from low-income families it’s helping with mental health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505714\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 509px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10505714\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen (right) eats lunch in the cafeteria of his new school, Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"509\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6357-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen (right) eats lunch in the cafeteria of his new school, Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They stay in school longer, they do better in school, they go to emergency room less. They self-report better self-regulation and capacity,\" says Briscoe. \"[It's] healthy development of children. We know what healthy development is, we know how to support it. It happens in rich communities every day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is there are long waitlists for therapists in Oakland public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee Weathersby's school, Alliance Academy, shares a campus with another middle school. In the 2013-14 school year, there were three therapists there, for about 700 students. Clinical case manager Jasmine Gonzalez says each of them saw about 10 to 15 students on a weekly basis, in addition to family outreach and crisis calls. After the first week of grief counseling after Lee died, his friend Diamond Allen never started regular therapy at school. He relied on talks with the school's restorative justice coordinator and his parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203149186&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/203149186'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diamond's father and mother, Jesus and Nicole Rodriguez, have known their own share of violence and trauma. They're doing their best to make life better for their own kids and other kids in Oakland. Not long before Lee's death, Diamond's parents had already decided to move to a different neighborhood. They found one with fewer homicides, one they hope will be safer for his little brothers and sisters. They sent Diamond away to a boarding school for high school, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastside.org/\">Eastside College Preparatory Academy\u003c/a> in East Palo Alto. The school is focused on getting first-generation students into college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Diamond's old friends still live over near 98th Avenue. One of them was recently robbed at gunpoint. Diamond's parents still feel connected to those kids. So does Diamond. The family is trying hard to stay in touch with them all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10505792\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 477px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10505792\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Diamond Allen, pictured in his dorm room at his new school, Eastside College Preparatory College. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"477\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/IMG_6412-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diamond Allen, pictured in his dorm room at his new school, Eastside College Preparatory Academy. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Lee's death, Diamond's parents raised money to buy a van to be able to pick all of Diamond's friends up and take them to church or to come spend weekends at their house. They have dreams to one day open a restaurant that can double as a community center where young people can feel safe and build relationships with mentors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want them to live,\" says Diamond's dad, Jesus Rodriguez. \"I want them to be successful. I want them to reach 18, and further on. I don’t want them to slip through the cracks in society. There’s so many cracks to slip in, it’s almost like they’re walking around on eggshells, just waiting to crack something, you know? I just want them to make it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their kitchen, Diamond's mom, Nicole Rodriguez, pulls up a video on the family's computer. It shows Lee and Diamond and a bunch of their friends, girls and boys, playing leapfrog in a park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They don’t even look like this anymore,\" says Rodriguez. \"That’s Lee with the red shirt.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the video, the kids are laughing and clapping. Diamond turns away from the screen. He puts his head down on the kitchen table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in his bedroom, he reaches into the closet and pulls out a white T-shirt, covered with scribbles, the kind middle-schoolers give to their friends to write on at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He wrote, 'Lee Weathersby. Diamond, I will miss you, brother,'\" he reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain is still there. Diamond's just learning to live with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the second story in our \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">\"Books and Bullets\" \u003c/a>series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts some kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This report was produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Renaissance Journalism’s Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. With additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10491230/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students","authors":["3225"],"programs":["news_72","news_6944"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_18031","news_18","news_17286","news_17041","news_150","news_18029"],"featImg":"news_10505724","label":"news_6944"},"news_10491173":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10491173","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10491173","score":null,"sort":[1431129611000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school","title":"An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School","publishDate":1431129611,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>wo days before her ninth birthday last May, Jacqueline Funes was in her front yard, on 66th Avenue in East Oakland, playing with her little brother, Jonathan. A van stopped just down the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside their home, Jacqueline's mom, Silvia Funes, heard gunfire. Jonathan went racing inside to his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where's Jackie?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Jacqueline lay on the ground. She had been shot in the neck as two assailants from the van opened fire on a man walking nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting not only transformed the lives of Jacqueline and her family, but also those of her friends, her classmates and her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She’ll probably never walk again,\" says Liz Torres, who was Jacqueline's second-grade teacher two years ago at Cox Academy, a charter school in East Oakland. \"She’ll probably never use her hands, be able to take care of herself, hold a book again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres gets teary when she says this. There's something about this shooting she can't get over. For months after the Jacqueline was wounded, Torres found herself stopping by to visit, first in an Oakland hospital and later at her home.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126156795\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne afternoon in December, Jacqueline is lying in bed at home, a colorful blanket pulled up to her chest, when Torres arrives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, almost two months after getting out of the hospital, no one from the Oakland Unified School District has come to Jacqueline's house to help her with her schooling. Torres has been stopping by to bring her books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have you been reading?\" Torres asks her. She wants to make sure that Jacqueline, who's a bookworm, keeps up that habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timidly, Jacqueline answers, \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What?\" Torres teases. \"What have you been reading?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 1 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline smiles and banters right back. “How old are you, Ms. Torres?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Jacqueline speaks softly to Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I dreamed something sad,\" Jacqueline says. \"That I can’t stand up, and then when I wake up, I start crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres leans in closer to hear her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did they have to stop at my house?\" Jacqueline asks. \"Who were those guys, anyway?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know,\" Torres answers. \"It wasn't fair, Jackie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, Jacqueline has been able to move only her head and one arm, but not her fingers. Now, she looks toward the windowsill, where six Disney princess figurines are lined up next to a music box. She asks her teacher to wind it up and open it. They sit still together for a few minutes, listening to a passage from \"The Nutcracker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good I’m alive,\" says Jacqueline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it’s really good you’re alive,\" Torres answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline has lost months of schooling. After she was shot, she went through five and a half months of rehabilitation at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-400x241.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia Funes was frustrated by how long it took the school district to send a teacher for in-home instruction. \" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-1440x868.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silvia Funes was frustrated by how long it took the school district to send a teacher for in-home instruction. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she was released in October, the hospital sent an assessment to the school district. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/eo/hh/hhprogramsummary.asp\">By law, the district had 10 working days to send a teacher\u003c/a> to her home, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/lr/\">15 days to begin assessments\u003c/a> to figure out what she would need to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family waited for two months. During that time, her mom, Silvia Funes, kept asking for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district hadn’t moved at all,\" says Silvia Funes, in her native language, Spanish. \"I think maybe they thought that she was just in recuperation, because they didn’t tell me anything. I went to the school, and they asked if a teacher had come. I said no, no one has come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland district spokesman Troy Flint admits the district took too long and cites several reasons for the delay. He says the hospital did not give the district much advance notice that Jacqueline would be released. Then, he says there was some confusion within the district over whether to send a special education teacher. And on top of that, the district teachers assigned to deliver instruction to students at home had full caseloads in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silvia Funes was frustrated because, without a teacher, Jacqueline was desperately bored at a time when schoolwork could have boosted her spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She can't move her body,\" Funes says. \"But her mind is fine. She can read, she can yell, she can speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-400x241.jpg\" alt=\"Jacquelyn Funes, 9, on her front porch. A bullet hole can be seen in the wall behind her. \" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-800x481.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-1440x866.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-1180x709.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-960x577.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Funes, 9, on her front porch. A bullet hole can be seen in the wall behind her. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">J\u003c/span>acqueline Funes is just one of hundreds of Oakland children whose lives have been drastically altered by violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 7 children under 18 were killed, and 88 children were wounded in shootings in the city, the Police Department says. In the previous nine years, 980 kids in Oakland visited emergency rooms for gunshot wounds, according to data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this kind of trauma inflicts a wide range of psychic wounds on family and friends of those who have been shot. But it also exacts a heavy price on the educational lives of the victims and their schoolmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know how many months Jacqueline is behind. But what about the impact on her little brother in second grade? On her neighbors and classmates? How does the fallout from this cumulative violence manifest itself in schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline's former teacher, Liz Torres, says she's haunted by the hidden costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you provide mental health services to hundreds and hundreds of kids? It’s the undetected ones that I’m worried about,\" Torres says. \"It’s the cousins of Jacqueline, it’s the best friend of Jacqueline, who is now just totally traumatized. It's the kids that just heard about it, and now are susceptible, because they have all this anger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most shootings in Oakland occur in the flatlands of East and West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline attended third grade at \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/communityunited\">Community United Elementary\u003c/a>. The school is in a neighborhood where shootings are so commonplace that it was locked down several times last year. One of the lockdowns this year was particularly bad, says Marisa Morales, Jacqueline's third-grade teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a drive-by. It was a semiautomatic or something. There were multiple shots,\" Morales says. \"At 3 o'clock, we had just dismissed our students. We had students everywhere, and families, and kids, little kids. And everybody was just running, trying to get inside the building, trying to shut all the doors. That was a bad one. Most of the time, the lockdowns are so routine, the kids don’t even blink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202953712&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales says there was a lot of fear and confusion in her classroom after Jacqueline was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students were not really sure what had happened,\" Morales says. \"There were a lot of questions. They thought she might be dead. They didn't really understand what it would mean that she was paralyzed. That was probably the hardest, explaining to them what that meant, that she was alive, but she couldn't move.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in safer neighorhoods just don’t have this burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most of the time, the lockdowns are so routine, the kids don’t even blink.'\u003ccite>Marisa Morales, third-grade teacher in Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nobody knows this better than Jacqueline's second-grade teacher, Liz Torres. She now teaches at \u003ca href=\"http://www.montclairschool.com/\">Montclair Elementary\u003c/a>. It’s a school in the more affluent Oakland hills. The neighborhood doesn't even register on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://ec2-54-235-79-104.compute-1.amazonaws.com/oak/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050934.pdf\">map of shootings\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says students like Jacqueline and her classmates are at a major disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve got so much more work to do than most of my students that walk through my door today at Montclair Elementary, ready to learn, full belly,\" Torres says. \"They didn’t just walk through a place where their mom was scared they might get shot. They didn’t have that experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is acutely aware her students at Montclair are getting an entirely different education from those on 66th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re in the same city. It’s the same tax dollars. It's so inequitable,\" Torres says. \"It's just, the distribution of support and resources is set up for this to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y this spring, Torres had stopped visiting Jacqueline as often as she had last year. It was an emotional strain for her. And she knew that in January, the school district had finally sent a teacher to Jacqueline's home to teach her two hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline’s mom, Silvia Funes, wanted a full day of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504571\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504571\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Jacquelyn Funes was eager to return to her old school, even if it meant she was the only student in a wheelchair.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-1440x1097.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-1180x899.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Funes was eager to return to her old school, even if it meant she was the only student in a wheelchair. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"She doesn’t have schoolwork to do here,\" says Funes. \"That’s what I don’t understand. Why do they give her two hours of class, and count it for a whole day? I know that’s not enough, and it’s not right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland schools spokesman Troy Flint said the two hours of instruction each day allowed the district to compensate for its earlier delays providing a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally one hour a day of home instruction is the standard,\" Flint says. \"... In total now, she’s actually received more instruction in terms of total number of hours than if she’d just been receiving the normal complement all along. We have made up the missed time in terms of instruction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two hours a day motivated Jacqueline to get out of bed. She also had nurses coming every day of the week. She was learning how to operate a wheelchair with her head and play games on an iPad with a pointer she held in her mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silvia Funes says that, more than anything, Jacqueline wanted to return to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She says she wants to go to the same school, because that’s where all her classmates are, and she loves her teacher, and her teacher loves her,\" says Funes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district initially recommended Jacqueline go to a special school with other kids in wheelchairs and staff to help her. Jacqueline didn't care for that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'If I am in a wheelchair and there are no other kids in wheelchairs at my school, I don’t care,' \" says Silvia Funes. \"She doesn’t let anything stop her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funes asked for another meeting to negotiate. And this time, the district agreed to have her return to Community United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>arlier this month, almost a full year after she was shot, Jacqueline was back at school, in the fourth grade. She started by going a few hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10504572\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Beatty, assistive technology professional for Oakland's schools, shows Jacquelyn Funes how to operate a laptop with a sensor mounted on her forehead.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-1440x988.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Beatty, assistive technology professional for Oakland's schools, shows Jacqueline Funes how to operate a laptop with a sensor mounted on her forehead. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other kids and teacher are glad to see her, greeting her joyfully on the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won’t be easy for Jacqueline. She has months of schooling to make up. In class, she sits at a table in the back, her nurse by her side at all times. To do math, the nurse straps a pencil onto the one hand Jacqueline can move, and guides it over the paper to finish equations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in the library, a technology professional sticks a tiny silver circle to her forehead that allows her to turn pages with a cursor on the computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is certain: Jacqueline is determined to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells her mom, \"Once I can move my fingers, I’m going to do whatever it takes to grab a pencil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cp>If you would like to give to the Funes family, you can send a check to:\u003cbr>\n Silvia Funes, c/o Veronica Carrillo, Community United Elementary School, 6701 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94621.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you would like to donate to an Oakland school like the one Jacqueline Funes attends, you can do so through the fiscal sponsor \u003ca href=\"https://osf.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/school-donation\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Public Education Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find \u003ca href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?state=CA&community=1751:3\" target=\"_blank\">Donors Choose\u003c/a> projects started by teachers at Oakland schools for supplies they need for their classrooms here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also give to \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org/main/giving.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Children's Hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first part in our series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts some kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis report was produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Renaissance Journalism’s Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. Additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely produjo un reportaje en español sobre Jacqueline Funes para Radio Bilingüe. Lo puedes leer y escuchar \u003ca href=\"http://radiobilingue.org/ultimas-noticias/nina-de-nueve-anos-paralizada-por-una-bala-perdida-lucha-para-seguir-estudiando/\" target=\"_blank\">aquí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Beyond medical challenges, Oakland girl has faced obstacles, including a slow response from the school district. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"10491173 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10491173","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/05/08/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school/","disqusTitle":"An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School","customPermalink":"2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school/","path":"/news/10491173/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>wo days before her ninth birthday last May, Jacqueline Funes was in her front yard, on 66th Avenue in East Oakland, playing with her little brother, Jonathan. A van stopped just down the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside their home, Jacqueline's mom, Silvia Funes, heard gunfire. Jonathan went racing inside to his mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where's Jackie?\" she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside, Jacqueline lay on the ground. She had been shot in the neck as two assailants from the van opened fire on a man walking nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting not only transformed the lives of Jacqueline and her family, but also those of her friends, her classmates and her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She’ll probably never walk again,\" says Liz Torres, who was Jacqueline's second-grade teacher two years ago at Cox Academy, a charter school in East Oakland. \"She’ll probably never use her hands, be able to take care of herself, hold a book again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres gets teary when she says this. There's something about this shooting she can't get over. For months after the Jacqueline was wounded, Torres found herself stopping by to visit, first in an Oakland hospital and later at her home.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/126156795\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ne afternoon in December, Jacqueline is lying in bed at home, a colorful blanket pulled up to her chest, when Torres arrives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, almost two months after getting out of the hospital, no one from the Oakland Unified School District has come to Jacqueline's house to help her with her schooling. Torres has been stopping by to bring her books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Have you been reading?\" Torres asks her. She wants to make sure that Jacqueline, who's a bookworm, keeps up that habit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timidly, Jacqueline answers, \"Yes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What?\" Torres teases. \"What have you been reading?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignleft\">\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/booksandbullets\" target=\"_blank\">Books and Bullets\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This story is Part 1 in a three-part series.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/28/an-oakland-9-year-old-shot-and-paralyzed-struggles-to-return-to-school\">An Oakland 9-Year-Old, Shot and Paralyzed, Struggles to Return to School\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/29/violence-causes-ripple-effects-for-thousands-of-oakland-students\" target=\"_blank\">Violence Causes Ripple Effect for Thousands of Oakland Students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/30/mom-seeks-to-make-schools-better-for-kids-traumatized-by-violence\" target=\"_blank\">Mom Seeks to Make Schools Better for Kids Traumatized by Violence\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline smiles and banters right back. “How old are you, Ms. Torres?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, Jacqueline speaks softly to Torres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I dreamed something sad,\" Jacqueline says. \"That I can’t stand up, and then when I wake up, I start crying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres leans in closer to hear her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why did they have to stop at my house?\" Jacqueline asks. \"Who were those guys, anyway?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know,\" Torres answers. \"It wasn't fair, Jackie.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the shooting, Jacqueline has been able to move only her head and one arm, but not her fingers. Now, she looks toward the windowsill, where six Disney princess figurines are lined up next to a music box. She asks her teacher to wind it up and open it. They sit still together for a few minutes, listening to a passage from \"The Nutcracker.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Good I’m alive,\" says Jacqueline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, it’s really good you’re alive,\" Torres answers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline has lost months of schooling. After she was shot, she went through five and a half months of rehabilitation at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504566\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-400x241.jpg\" alt=\"Sylvia Funes was frustrated by how long it took the school district to send a teacher for in-home instruction. \" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-800x482.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-1440x868.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-1180x711.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/silvia_-jackies-mom-960x579.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silvia Funes was frustrated by how long it took the school district to send a teacher for in-home instruction. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she was released in October, the hospital sent an assessment to the school district. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/eo/hh/hhprogramsummary.asp\">By law, the district had 10 working days to send a teacher\u003c/a> to her home, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se/lr/\">15 days to begin assessments\u003c/a> to figure out what she would need to go back to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family waited for two months. During that time, her mom, Silvia Funes, kept asking for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The district hadn’t moved at all,\" says Silvia Funes, in her native language, Spanish. \"I think maybe they thought that she was just in recuperation, because they didn’t tell me anything. I went to the school, and they asked if a teacher had come. I said no, no one has come.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland district spokesman Troy Flint admits the district took too long and cites several reasons for the delay. He says the hospital did not give the district much advance notice that Jacqueline would be released. Then, he says there was some confusion within the district over whether to send a special education teacher. And on top of that, the district teachers assigned to deliver instruction to students at home had full caseloads in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silvia Funes was frustrated because, without a teacher, Jacqueline was desperately bored at a time when schoolwork could have boosted her spirits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She can't move her body,\" Funes says. \"But her mind is fine. She can read, she can yell, she can speak.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504565\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504565\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-400x241.jpg\" alt=\"Jacquelyn Funes, 9, on her front porch. A bullet hole can be seen in the wall behind her. \" width=\"400\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-400x241.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-800x481.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-1440x866.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-1180x709.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jackie-and-bullet-960x577.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Funes, 9, on her front porch. A bullet hole can be seen in the wall behind her. \u003ccite>(Adam Grossberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">J\u003c/span>acqueline Funes is just one of hundreds of Oakland children whose lives have been drastically altered by violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, 7 children under 18 were killed, and 88 children were wounded in shootings in the city, the Police Department says. In the previous nine years, 980 kids in Oakland visited emergency rooms for gunshot wounds, according to data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, this kind of trauma inflicts a wide range of psychic wounds on family and friends of those who have been shot. But it also exacts a heavy price on the educational lives of the victims and their schoolmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know how many months Jacqueline is behind. But what about the impact on her little brother in second grade? On her neighbors and classmates? How does the fallout from this cumulative violence manifest itself in schools?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline's former teacher, Liz Torres, says she's haunted by the hidden costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How do you provide mental health services to hundreds and hundreds of kids? It’s the undetected ones that I’m worried about,\" Torres says. \"It’s the cousins of Jacqueline, it’s the best friend of Jacqueline, who is now just totally traumatized. It's the kids that just heard about it, and now are susceptible, because they have all this anger.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most shootings in Oakland occur in the flatlands of East and West Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline attended third grade at \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.k12.ca.us/communityunited\">Community United Elementary\u003c/a>. The school is in a neighborhood where shootings are so commonplace that it was locked down several times last year. One of the lockdowns this year was particularly bad, says Marisa Morales, Jacqueline's third-grade teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was a drive-by. It was a semiautomatic or something. There were multiple shots,\" Morales says. \"At 3 o'clock, we had just dismissed our students. We had students everywhere, and families, and kids, little kids. And everybody was just running, trying to get inside the building, trying to shut all the doors. That was a bad one. Most of the time, the lockdowns are so routine, the kids don’t even blink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/202953712&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morales says there was a lot of fear and confusion in her classroom after Jacqueline was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Students were not really sure what had happened,\" Morales says. \"There were a lot of questions. They thought she might be dead. They didn't really understand what it would mean that she was paralyzed. That was probably the hardest, explaining to them what that meant, that she was alive, but she couldn't move.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in safer neighorhoods just don’t have this burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Most of the time, the lockdowns are so routine, the kids don’t even blink.'\u003ccite>Marisa Morales, third-grade teacher in Oakland\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Nobody knows this better than Jacqueline's second-grade teacher, Liz Torres. She now teaches at \u003ca href=\"http://www.montclairschool.com/\">Montclair Elementary\u003c/a>. It’s a school in the more affluent Oakland hills. The neighborhood doesn't even register on the Police Department's \u003ca href=\"http://ec2-54-235-79-104.compute-1.amazonaws.com/oak/groups/police/documents/webcontent/oak050934.pdf\">map of shootings\u003c/a> in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres says students like Jacqueline and her classmates are at a major disadvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They’ve got so much more work to do than most of my students that walk through my door today at Montclair Elementary, ready to learn, full belly,\" Torres says. \"They didn’t just walk through a place where their mom was scared they might get shot. They didn’t have that experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres is acutely aware her students at Montclair are getting an entirely different education from those on 66th Avenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re in the same city. It’s the same tax dollars. It's so inequitable,\" Torres says. \"It's just, the distribution of support and resources is set up for this to happen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y this spring, Torres had stopped visiting Jacqueline as often as she had last year. It was an emotional strain for her. And she knew that in January, the school district had finally sent a teacher to Jacqueline's home to teach her two hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacqueline’s mom, Silvia Funes, wanted a full day of instruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504571\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10504571\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-400x305.jpg\" alt=\"Jacquelyn Funes was eager to return to her old school, even if it meant she was the only student in a wheelchair.\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-400x305.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-800x609.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-1440x1097.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-1180x899.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles-960x731.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-bubbles.jpg 1791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Funes was eager to return to her old school, even if it meant she was the only student in a wheelchair. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"She doesn’t have schoolwork to do here,\" says Funes. \"That’s what I don’t understand. Why do they give her two hours of class, and count it for a whole day? I know that’s not enough, and it’s not right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland schools spokesman Troy Flint said the two hours of instruction each day allowed the district to compensate for its earlier delays providing a teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Normally one hour a day of home instruction is the standard,\" Flint says. \"... In total now, she’s actually received more instruction in terms of total number of hours than if she’d just been receiving the normal complement all along. We have made up the missed time in terms of instruction.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two hours a day motivated Jacqueline to get out of bed. She also had nurses coming every day of the week. She was learning how to operate a wheelchair with her head and play games on an iPad with a pointer she held in her mouth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silvia Funes says that, more than anything, Jacqueline wanted to return to school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She says she wants to go to the same school, because that’s where all her classmates are, and she loves her teacher, and her teacher loves her,\" says Funes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district initially recommended Jacqueline go to a special school with other kids in wheelchairs and staff to help her. Jacqueline didn't care for that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said, 'If I am in a wheelchair and there are no other kids in wheelchairs at my school, I don’t care,' \" says Silvia Funes. \"She doesn’t let anything stop her.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funes asked for another meeting to negotiate. And this time, the district agreed to have her return to Community United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">E\u003c/span>arlier this month, almost a full year after she was shot, Jacqueline was back at school, in the fourth grade. She started by going a few hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10504572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10504572\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Beatty, assistive technology professional for Oakland's schools, shows Jacquelyn Funes how to operate a laptop with a sensor mounted on her forehead.\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-400x274.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-1440x988.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-1180x810.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/jacqueline-school-960x659.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Beatty, assistive technology professional for Oakland's schools, shows Jacqueline Funes how to operate a laptop with a sensor mounted on her forehead. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other kids and teacher are glad to see her, greeting her joyfully on the playground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It won’t be easy for Jacqueline. She has months of schooling to make up. In class, she sits at a table in the back, her nurse by her side at all times. To do math, the nurse straps a pencil onto the one hand Jacqueline can move, and guides it over the paper to finish equations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, in the library, a technology professional sticks a tiny silver circle to her forehead that allows her to turn pages with a cursor on the computer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is certain: Jacqueline is determined to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She tells her mom, \"Once I can move my fingers, I’m going to do whatever it takes to grab a pencil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cp>If you would like to give to the Funes family, you can send a check to:\u003cbr>\n Silvia Funes, c/o Veronica Carrillo, Community United Elementary School, 6701 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94621.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you would like to donate to an Oakland school like the one Jacqueline Funes attends, you can do so through the fiscal sponsor \u003ca href=\"https://osf.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/school-donation\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Public Education Fund\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can find \u003ca href=\"http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?state=CA&community=1751:3\" target=\"_blank\">Donors Choose\u003c/a> projects started by teachers at Oakland schools for supplies they need for their classrooms here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also give to \u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenshospitaloakland.org/main/giving.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Children's Hospital\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is the first part in our series about how chronic violence in some neighborhoods puts some kids at a disadvantage in school, even before they walk in the door.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis report was produced in collaboration with \u003ca href=\"http://renjournalism.org/educational-opportunity-reporting-project/\">Renaissance Journalism’s Equity Reporting Project: Restoring the Promise of Education\u003c/a>, with funding from the Ford Foundation. Additional help from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Zaidee Stavely produjo un reportaje en español sobre Jacqueline Funes para Radio Bilingüe. 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