It will be nice if the rest of Oakland’s city leaders join and acknowledge that 'criminal justice reform' doesn’t need to include hamstringing your own police department, writes ZacharyFaria.
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agreed to form a task force with the goal of cutting the police department’s budget by 50% in two years. They never followed through on it, but, much like Minneapolis leaders committing to abolishing the city’s police department, Oakland city leaders let the defund fervor wash over them. The results were entirely predictable.
Schaaf wants to reverse planned cuts to the department and hire more police officers, a sensible decision. The city has already seen 16in 2022 through Feb. 24, a pace that would once again take the city above 100 homicides this year. But a reversal should never have been necessary. The push to defund police departments was obviously ill-timed and was being pushed by anti-police activists, with the biggest supporters being those who have their own private security.
It will be nice if the rest of Oakland’s city leaders join Schaaf in reality and acknowledge that “criminal justice reform” doesn’t need to include hamstringing your own police department as homicides surge. The fact that they weren’t there already is embarrassing enough.
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