BREAKING: The Oakland Police Dept. received $87m from Fed money supposed to go towards COVID relief! During the pandemic, homelessness in Oakland 📈24% rising to 5,000+ people. Yet the city, led by Libby Schaaf, decided to give more $ to cops. There was no public hearing.
Removing unless you can post the source
Screenshots of articles are typically less preferred to links to the article. What is the source?
Source appears to be OP's ass.
The language of this article is also highly emotionally charged and slanted to tell a narrative, rather than merely presenting the facts.
Isn't this more about the Oakland City Council rather than the Mayor?
This has been happening in other cities too.
And that well-sourced article from a major publisher says that Oakland gave only $5m to police
Yet some still cry that defunding the police was the issue for them doing less than nothing.
People must have completely forgot that after 2008 police stopped responding to non-life threatning calls. Police checked out a long time.
Ahhh.... listen dude. It's 2022. It's not that hard to fact check bullshit articles like this .
Oakland corrupt being Oakland corrupt
They need more rocket launchers and tanks so they can fight against the homeless.
Or maybe they need money to hire officers to walk in Chinatown instead of having senior citizens escort other senior citizens
I am fine with that
Welcome to the adult world. Where people exercise their leverage to get paid, rather than hold their hand out and think existence alone entitles you to a blank cheque.
You think Oakland is bad? SF police department has a clearance rate of 8.1%.
Oakland PD has lower clearance rates than San Francisco when it comes to violent crime.
Is it really breaking? Or surprising - and not in a cynical way?
This is the opposite of "what defund the police looks like". This is what it looks like when you constantly increase funding to the police to ridiculous levels without accountability.
I’m not saying where the funds would have been used best, but the guidelines recommend “Use of ARPA funds to cover operating deficits caused by COVID-19 should be considered temporary and additional budget restraint may be necessary to achieve/maintain structural balance in future budgets.” See
if giving more money to cops stopped crime it would have worked by now
This is not breaking news. People that live in the bay area know how crooked the oakland government has always been. Libby shaft has ruined oakland to the point where they lost their biggest sources of revenue. The sports teams. Woke politics have driven oakland further into the dust, and there it will remain.
is Oakland always this bad? Genuine question, I'm a transplant but been here for about 10 years, people've been telling me and I read scary stories about Oakland before I even landed. But is Oakland always like this? I mean it's like right next to SF, you can argue why make it 2 different cities connected by a bridge as opposed to one big city but SF get all the praise and attention, AND all the scorn when things go south, yet Oakland seems to be treated like it's always been like this.
Oakland has traditionally been the shit show city.
That's why all the right-wingers saying "ThIs iS wHaT haPpeNs WhEn yOU DeFuNd tHe PoLiCe" as their comeback or rallying cry are full of crap.
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Lol not sure what the cops can do there unless you assign a cop to every car
And?
Dang Shady Schaaf schaaf-ted her city and the communities of the money. Tsk tsk!!