
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RICHMOND - Inside his courtroom, Judge Christopher R. Bowen deals day-in and day-out with the crime in this economically struggling city on the San Francisco bay, but that hasn't clouded his outlook.
The gangs and violence in Richmond are "a small part of the story," said Bowen, seated at a new waterfront restaurant in the converted boiler room of a 1930s Ford motor plant. "There's also so ... (continued)