The Oakland City Council has approved a proposal by Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new police academies and unfreeze positions within the department.
The Oakland City Council, a longtime leader in the Black Lives Matter movement to cut police funding, reversed course Tuesday and voted to hire more officers as it grapples with aThe proposal by Mayor Libby Schaaf to add two new police academies and unfreeze positions within the department to add 60 new officers passed with six members voting yes, one voting no and one abstention.
Schaaf applauded the vote in a statement, saying that residents “spoke up for a comprehensive approach to public safety — one that includes prevention, intervention and addressing crime’s root causes, as well as an adequately staffed police department.”, to the dismay of police critics who have said officers are ineffective at preventing crime and end up traumatizing residents, especially Black people.
Oakland has had 129 homicides this year, up from 109 last year and 78 in 2019. The deaths include a toddler who was napping in a moving vehicle when he was hit by a stray bullet on an Oakland freeway and a retired police officer who was shot while working as a security guard for a television news crew. Both killings occurred in broad daylight.
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