The mayor of Oakland, California, said the push to defund the city's police went 'too far' after it took off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of Georgia Floyd's murder at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
The mayor of Oakland, California, said the push to defund the city's police went"too far" after it took off in the summer of 2020 in the wake of Georgia Floyd's murder at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
"I think it was a correction to the 'defund' conversation, which I personally think went too far and got convoluted," Schaaf told Politico."I think everyone agrees we need to invest far more into prevention, into the root causes of crime, and particularly into our mental health system, which is completely failing us, both when you look at crime as well as homelessness," Schaaf said.
"It's been particularly heart-wrenching in Oakland because we had just made national headlines for cutting gun violence in half and sustaining those lower rates for five years," Schaaf said about the high homicide rates in 2021."When we saw this surge come up during the pandemic — and, let's also be honest, after George Floyd, after this country just saw its faith in government justice compromised — we were just heartbroken.
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